Battle of the Ages

Ed.'s note: Sounds biblical doesn't it? "Battle of the ages." President Trump, before circumstances get out of hand, maybe you should take up Bashar al Assad and Vladimir Putin's invitation to visit them in Damascus? Perhaps get their side of the story considering it is always inevitably Israel's side of the story. We were waiting for some good analysis of what just happened in Russia under Vladimir Putin. All the west sees is a power grab but this has nothing to do with a "power grab." Will have to wait and see what happens when the list of names is revealed as to who will be leading Russia's new government. The thinking is that Vladimir Putin did this, which has been done before in Russian history, to prepare for the "battle of the ages": Zionist-Anglo sphere from preventing Eurasian integration. This is about removing what are called the  "Atlantic integrationists" inside Russia to secure Russia's full sovereignty. And now that Russia is claiming full sovereignty, it looks as though the US is going to be forced to revamp their spy satellites picking up intelligence over Russia. Russia is developing the technology to jam those spy satellites. Ever wonder why they announce this kind of technological update in the first place? Don't for a minute think the US is going to say to China, Russia and India: "Okay sure, you can have Eurasia and we'll take South America."

GLOBAL WAR ON HUMANITY: AMERICA'S UNCEASING PURSUIT OF HEGEMONY

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Source: The Saker

Could this (finally!) be the end for the Atlantic Integrationists?

January 17, 2020 | 10 Comments

[This analysis was written for the Unz Review]

By now we all have heard the news, the entire Russian government has resigned and a new Prime Minister, Mikhail Mishustin, has been appointed. And we also know that the Internet has exploded with all sorts of speculations about what this all could mean.

Alas, until we know who will be included in the new government, there is very little we can really say. I mean, yes, in theory, we could hold our breath and expect Glaziev appointed to a top position in the so-called "economic block" of the government, but how do we know that it will not be Kudrin instead?!

We don't.

One thing we do know for sure is what Putin announced in his speech. You can read the full text here for yourself, but here are two things I want to single out:

1. Putin has announced a major effort to deal with the (still appalling) poverty suffered by many Russians

2. Putin has announced a major effort to truly re-sovereignize Russia

In the first case, Putin has proposed a number of major government programs to deal with the appalling poverty many Russians still live in including a much beefed up maternity capital (which will also deal with the demographic issue), reduced mortgage rates, free healthy hot meals in schools, etc.

In the second case, Putin announced the following:

"Russia can be and can remain Russia only as a sovereign state. Our nation's sovereignty must be unconditional. We have done a great deal to achieve this. We restored our state's unity. We have overcome the situation when certain powers in the government were essentially usurped by oligarch clans. Russia has returned to international politics as a country whose opinion cannot be ignored."

and

"I suggest formalizing at the constitutional level the obligatory requirements for those who hold positions of critical significance for national security and sovereignty."

At the very least, this is a very good sign. As I have suggested many times, the slogan of "restore full sovereignty" can be a battle cry for both Russian and US American patriots. And we also all know who will be absolutely appalled by all this talk of "sovereignty", don't we?

And yet.

I feel like I have to caution everybody and remind you all that the problem in Russia (and in the USA) is not so much one of personalities, but one of a bad system first and foremost. I won’t touch upon the US side of this problem, but let me quickly spell out what has happened in Russia over the past decades. Today's Russia is a product of several factors:

1. The unreformable Soviet Union of the 1980s which turned into a "cake" of sorts for the Soviet "Nomenklatura" which, when it realized that it would lose control of the country, decided to break up the Soviet Union into 15 different countries (including quite a few totally fictional ones) and re-branded itself from "defenders of the Party and the USSR" into "fervent nationalists". That was just about as fake a rebranding as ever but there was nothing the majority of the people (who wanted to maintained the Soviet Union) could do about it.

2. Then came the horrors of the 1990s during which Russia (and the rest of the newly minted republics) were drowned into an orgy of lawlessness, violence, corruption and total, absolute, subservience to the AngloZionist Empire.

3. Finally, during the 2000s we saw a period of shared power between the Atlantic Integrationists lead by Medvedev and the Eurasian Sovereignist lead by Putin. This was an uneasy partnership in which the Atlantic Integrationists were in control of the "economic block" while the Eurasian Sovereignists were tasked with Russia's foreign affairs and defense.

As their name suggests, the Atlantic Integrationists want to integrate Russia (and themselves!) into the AngloZionist sphere of control while the Eurasian Sovereignists want a truly sovereign Russia. Now just imagine what that first group felt when they heard Putin declare:

I suggest formalizing at the constitutional level the obligatory requirements for those who hold positions of critical significance for national security and sovereignty. More precisely, the heads of the constituent entities, members of the Federation Council, State Duma deputies, the prime minister and his/her deputies, federal ministers, heads of federal agencies and judges should have no foreign citizenship or residence permit or any other document that allows them to live permanently in a foreign state. The goal and mission of state service is to serve the people, and those who enter this path must know that by doing this they inseparably connect their lives with Russia and the Russian people without any assumptions and allowances. Requirements must be even stricter for presidential candidates. I suggest formalizing a requirement under which presidential candidates must have had permanent residence in Russia for at least 25 years and no foreign citizenship or residence permit and not only during the election campaign but at any time before it too.

This is clearly a death sentence passed on the supreme hope of the Atlantic Integrationists who from now on won’t be able to integrate Russia or even themselves (by means of passports, bank accounts or real estate) into the AngloZionist elites. There is now even a joke running on the Runet (Russian Internet):

13:00 – Путин заявил, что госслужащие должны быть только гражданами России

16:30 – Правительство в полном составе ушло в отставку

translation:

1:00pm – Putin says that civil servants should only have a Russian citizenship

4:30pm – the full Government resigns

And while there is an element of hyperbole here, there is also much truth too!

Still, we always need to remember that in Russian history the internal enemy was always much more dangerous to the leader of Russia than any foreign enemies. In our case, not only will these Atlantic Integrationists resist any and all forms of true sovereignization of Russia, they will be backed by a very powerful and rich Russian political class which make millions by robbing Russia blind in the 1990s, they are also supported by every single western government and the real "deep state" leaders of the AngloZionist Empire.

Please go to The Saker to read the entire article.
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Ed.'s note: As we have been outlining one post after another is how events involving China in the Middle East is all about China's B&RI, as China goes from one country to the next securing contracts for infrastructure construction and resources. The gangland style hit on General Soleimani is looking to be just that: a hit to push China out of the Middle East. China and Iraq have worked out trade agreements benefitting bth Iraq and China to the exclusion of the US. And just like any mafia that is having its turf encroached on, will do a hit on a competing gang.

How a Hidden Parliamentary Session Revealed Trump's True Motives in Iraq

Iraq and China to sign massive financing deal


Even though this happened in 2011, there are some interesting connections here to the downing of Ukrainian Aircraft FLT 752 in Iran:

Wikileaks Stratfor email: Israel behind blast that killed 36 IRGC troops at Iranian missile base in 2011


More:

Soleimani fallout continues to produce diplomatic dividends for Russia

Battle of the Ages to stop Eurasian integration

The Atlantic Council

Pompeo Says Gangland-Style Hit on Soleimani Was "Restoration of Deterrence"

Unintended Consequences: Did Trump Just Give the Middle East to China and Russia?


US wants Syrian oil and will take it by force of necessary:

US military dispatches over 70 trucks to oil-rich eastern Syria: Report