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Orlov: Statecraft or Witchcraft?
What has the US State Department been doing in Ukraine? It has been busy, and has succeeded in pushing the hapless nation, left destitute by 22 years of freedom and democracy oligarchy, to the brink of civil war. (Keep in mind, Russia came close to collapsing altogether by just nine years of freedom and democracy oligarchy.
Instead of offering you a rational and reasoned (and boring) geopolitical analysis, allow me to temporarily leave the modern world behind and retreat into the mindset of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth rock. Why don’t we have us a good old-fasioned witch-hunt! After all, the people who have been pushing Ukraine in the direction of civil war while risking a nuclear confrontation with Russia are clearly doing the Devil’s work, and so that makes them witches, correct? To find out who these witches are, we have to become expert witch-sniffers. (It’s easy; you’ll see.) Then we can make effigies of them and burn them at the stake. (No actual witches will be harmed in the process, of course.)
There are three witches, the story goes, three weird sisters. “Fair is foul, and foul is fair,” the weird sisters croak in unison, as they hover through the fog and filthy air. Eventually they settle down around the steaming cauldron:
First Witch
Round about the cauldron go;
In the poison’d entrails throw.
Toad, that under cold stone
Days and nights has thirty-one
Swelter’d venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i’ the charmed pot.ALL
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.Second Witch
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg and owlet’s wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.ALL
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.Third Witch
Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
Witches’ mummy, maw and gulf
Of the ravin’d salt-sea shark,
Root of hemlock digg’d i’ the dark,
Liver of blaspheming Jew,
Gall of goat, and slips of yew
Silver’d in the moon’s eclipse,
Nose of Turk and Tartar’s lips,
Finger of birth-strangled babe
Ditch-deliver’d by a drab,
Make the gruel thick and slab:
Add thereto a tiger’s chaudron,
For the ingredients of our cauldron.ALL
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.Second Witch
Cool it with a baboon’s blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.
And then the three witches reach into the bubbling cauldron, and out of the rancid muck they mould a figure.
They hold it up, cristen it “Yatsenyuk,” place a crown on its head, and pronounce it Prime Minister of Ukraine.
And here is Yatsenyuk in real life; see the uncanny resemblance?
Who might these three witches in real life. The first, of course, is Victoria Nuland of the US State Department.
She is the one who, in a now famous leaked telephone conversation, dictated that Yatsenyuk should head up the Kiev junta. She also dropped an f-bomb on the EU. She bragged publicly about the $5 billion of taxpayer money she dumped into the steaming cauldron of Ukrainian politics, from which Yatsenyuk and the rest of the junta eventually emerged.
The second witch is Hillary Clinton, who appointed Nuland. I hope that this choice is uncontroversial. By the way, she compared Putin to Hitler, and this alone tells us that her mind has snapped.
And the third witch? Samantha Power, the US Ambassador to the UN, perhaps?
She once called Clinton a “monster,” but later apologized, perhaps realizing that she herself is a monster. She certainly behaves like one. One one recent occasion she accosted Russia’s UN Ambassador, spraying him with saliva while screeching like a woman possessed. One of the funnier things she spewed forth: she is insulted by Russia’s nuclear deterrent. (What else might she find insulting? The tilt of the Earth’s axis, maybe?) She had to be taken by the elbow and escorted to her seat.
Witch-sniffing is easy, you see. Witches are hard to spot while they are casting their spell, but as soon as they realize that their spell is broken they begin to look very, very ugly. All of that demonic energy rises to the surface for all to see. A witch whose spell has been broken is invariably a hissing, screeching, spitting witch.
Mind you, not everyone involved is a witch. President Obama, for instance, is just a claymation figure that reads from a teleprompter, while the Secretary of State John Kerry was at some point replaced with a cardboard cut-out of himself, and, sadly, nobody even noticed. Nor are all the witches female; it’s a gender-neutral pursuit.
There are even some Russian witches: Gary Kasparov, for instance. He is in the Putin=Hitler camp, but, paradoxically, also a poster-child for Russian freedoms, being able to come to the US, openly talk about overthrowing the Russian government, and then fly back to Russia without any problems. If an American were to do the same, he would be charged with terrorism and left to rot in indefinite detention. There is also the wannabe politician Alexei Navalny, who recently committed political suicide by doing the Putin=Hitler thing—on Ukrainian state television, no less.
How was the spell broken? Nothing stings quite as well as a resounding defeat on the international stage. Those who thought they were in control have just suffered a major defeat. On Ukraine so far, it’s Russia 1, US Oligarchy 0: Crimea is once again Russian, the transfer of sovereignty happened peacefully and in accordance with the internationally recognized principle of self-determination, and this defeat is so embarrassing that nobody even wants to talk about Crimea any more. It’s a done deal.
More defeats follow, as the boomerang effect of sanctions imposed on Russia. The US will not be able to withdraw from Afghanistan via the safe northern route that runs through Russia; instead, the endless convoys will have to run the gauntlet through Pakistan where the locals, incensed by endless drone attacks on their weddings and funerals, will do their best to blow them up. The US will not be able to launch military satellites, because the Atlas V rockets won’t fly without the Russian-built RD-180 engines, for which there is no replacement. Nor is it likely that, as things escalate, US astronauts will still be able to get up to the International Space Station, since that requires a trip on the Russian Soyuz.
Not that the Russians have a lot of time for this nonsense. They are busy negotiating deals, like the oil barter deal with Iran which neatly circumvents the sanctions; like the long-term natural gas supply deal with China; and quite a few others. For example, Russia and China agreed to build a canal through Nicaragua, which will supplant the Pentagon-controlled Panama canal. Nicaragua will also get a GLONASS ground station (Russian-Indian replacement for the Pentagon-controlled GPS system), plus a Russian military base, to make sure that the US doesn’t decide that it can do something about any of this. Nearby, Russia forgave $90 billion of Soviet-era Cuban debt, reestablishing close relations between Russia and Cuba and opening up Cuba to large-scale Russian investment. Russian companies will be developing Cuba’s offshore oil and gas fields.
No doubt, the US would love to counter these moves, but it can’t because it doesn’t have the talent. Most of the experienced, professional diplomats quit in disgust during Bush Jr.’s reign, when they were forced to continually lie to the whole world about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now the diplomatic corps is loaded with incompetents whose only credentials are that they raised lots of money for Obama’s election campaigns. At the next changing of the guard they will be replaced with the next crop of amateurs. It is little wonder that they are losing.
But these people are unaccustomed to being defeated, and defeat makes them livid and hysterical, and then they go and wax apoplectic in public, yelling and screeching and spraying saliva. You can tell that their minds have snapped when they start comparing everyone to Adolf Hitler. And you can see it all right on television. Meanwhile, the vast majority of the population in the US is perplexed. Except for the Lost Plane Channel formerly known as CNN, commentators on all the major news channels, even the super-blockheaded Fox News, are wondering aloud: “What the hell are we doing in Ukraine?” Well, we are trying to safeguard the interests of the Rockefellers and the Rothchilds, to be sure, but how does knowing that help you?
“How well is that going?” you might ask. Well by now all of eastern and southern Ukraine is in open revolt against the US-appointed junta in Kiev. The neo-Nazi “Right Sector” initially supported the junta and helped with the putsch that overthrew the democratically elected government. But then one of the “Right Sector” leaders, Sashko Bily got shot, most likely for opposing a plan to import a trainload of nuclear waste from the EU and dump it on the ground near Chernobyl. That train is still stuck on the Ukrainian border. Now the junta leaders are shaking in their boots because the “Right Sector” could stage another coup, this time against them.
How does the US react? It sends CIA Director Brennan to Kiev. Brenner orders the junta to attack their own citizens in the east, in an “anti-terrorist” operation.
“Kill them! Kill them all!” says Brenner, but Ukrainian soldiers refuse to fire on their own people and defect in droves.
Next, the US sends in their secret weapon, VP Joe Biden.
“Kill them! Kill them all!” says Biden, with similar results. What is the US to do? I think that only one choice remains: send in Senator John McCain.
If there is anyone who can scare the Ukrainians into fighting a fratricidal war, it’s McCain. But what if that too fails?
Well, then the people in eastern and southern Ukraine may get their way. They are just some Russians—millions of them—who got stuck on the wrong side of the Russian border for over two decades. They aren’t sure about everything—such as whether they want to join Russia. (They probably do simply because the pay is so much better on the Russian side.) But they are sure about one thing: they don’t want to live under a foreign occupation run by a US-appointed junta for the benefit of a bunch of oligarchs.
And I bet neither would you. Maybe you can’t help yourselves, the US not being a democracy and all, but maybe you can still do something to help the Ukrainians, by subjecting these warmongering witches to public ridicule. This ought to degrade their effectiveness by a notch or two. As I said, witch-hunting is easy. All you have to do is turn on the TV and see who else today is hissing, screeching, pounding the table, spewing vitriole and dropping the name “Hitler” gratuitously. Then you can go, get a bonfire permit, and burn them in effigy. That automatically makes for good visuals. All you have to do is add some interviews and commentary, and next thing you know you got yourself your own very popular witch-hunting Youtube channel!
25 Comments on "Orlov: Statecraft or Witchcraft?"
J-Gav on Sun, 4th May 2014 5:48 pm
I’ve noticed that it’s very hard to convince people, even intelligent people, that it was the West and not Russia That launched the New Cold War. So I get blasted as a Putin supporter …
As I’ve stated here more than once, Putin is a corrupt, thuggish, nationalistic freak. But he is orders of magnitude better for Russia than Yeltsin, because he collected taxes to run the State. That had gone out of fashion under Yeltsin, as a side note for those who’d forgotten (or never knew anything) about what life was like under those oligarchs.
The West should do all it can to bring Russia into the fold rather than demonizing it. The present course is a recipe for disaster.
Makati1 on Sun, 4th May 2014 9:16 pm
J-Gav, the American sheeple have been fully indoctrinated into believing everything that spews out of the MSM and their favorite bought puppet politician.
There is no hope for them, although the 34th state has demanded a Constitutional Convention to add a ‘balance the budget amendment and to revise the rest as required.
Summer is heating up nicely.
Plantagenet on Sun, 4th May 2014 10:11 pm
Orlov has flipped out. All he is doing is spouting Russian propaganda.
GregT on Sun, 4th May 2014 11:36 pm
Plant,
You’re on quite the roll tonight, might be time to talk with your doctor and get those meds adjusted. No need to continue to be delusional.
DC on Mon, 5th May 2014 12:00 am
J, if you dont mind me asking, why, and for who exactly, do you feel its necessary to slag President Putin in such a manner? Thuggish, freak? A little over the top dont you think? How does his ‘nationalism’ harm you, or me or anyone else for that matter? Saying hes ‘better than Yeltsin’ is really damning him with faint praise. A drunken fool and a puppet of washington, all to happy to sell the country off to zionist oligarchs for pennies on the dollar? Someone who made an already bad situation immeasurably worse and very nearly brought Russia to utter ruin. An inanimate carbon rod would have be an improvement over Yeltsin and I think its fair to say, Pres. Putin is slightly more capable than either him or an inanimate rod.
‘Putin supporter’ is not a four letter word. Support him if hes right, and criticize when he is not-thats fair.
Yes, again he is no saint, but hes not the one exporting subversion, war and terror like his amerikan counterparts. Likewise, corrupt? Corruption in post collapse Russia was off-the charts, under his leadership, corruption was at least reigned in. No its not ‘gone’ by any stretch, but its certainly reduced greatly. And even if one can make the ‘corrupt'(which is a doubious proposition to begin with) label stick. what of it? His alleged ‘corruption’ does not impact any of us in any way. The corruption and greed of ‘our’ oligarchs, is whats pushing us towards war and environmental ruin. Not Mr Putin. He has tried to stop war, not incite it, those are not actions of a ‘corrupt’ leader. Corrupt leaders welcome war, or dont do much to stop them, hoping to profit from them and bring ruin to ‘enemies’. Mr Putin actions clearly shows he values stability and diplomacy over conflict. A corrupt leader goes out of his\her way to create conflict.
No one should ever have to justify *respecting* him, but unwarranted hyperbole is exactly what the MSM is pushing out by the megaton atm. It doesnt help.
MKohnen on Mon, 5th May 2014 12:08 am
Well, Plant, I guess that means that the US has FOX, CNN, CBC, BBC, WSJ, NYT, etc., etc., to spew out it’s obvious propaganda. Russia has RT and Orlov 🙂
MKohnen on Mon, 5th May 2014 3:44 am
DC,
Corrupt leaders accept the Nobel Prize for peace, then make a mockery of it and all who have received it in the past by going around the world trying to start wars. If that certain “leader” had any ethics whatsoever, he would at least hand back the Nobel and tell them to give it to someone who is in some way deserving of it. Hey, wait a minute, when Obama was trying to start a bombing campaign in Syria that would have killed scores of civilians, wasn’t it Putin who intervened, found a solution, and saved at the very least thousands of lives?
Maybe Obama should give the prize to Putin?
J-Gav on Mon, 5th May 2014 5:13 am
You’re righty, DC, “freak” is probably going too far. He is, nevertheless, a thuggish kleptocrat, but then maybe you have to be in order to get into his position of power and hold on to it for so long ….
Davy, Hermann, MO on Mon, 5th May 2014 6:28 am
Thank God for individuals like Gav on this board! Well put Gav and in a short and decisive way. Then we have the Deec show complaining about balance and reasonableness so we should listen to his unbalanced nausea. BS, DEEC on the justifications of Puut. He is a master of all the nasty things Orlov brought up about the “poor example of a human” US politician that frankly I am embarrassed to be associated with by association. Puut is the master of all that these hapless Americans would love to be and can’t because the DC mafia is hard wired in a dead end of American superpower thinking. Further these American so called politicians are plainly not intelligent. They got to where they are by a corrupt system of patronage and revolving doors. They read teleprompt speeches by some wonk just out of journalism school spewing the US mafia Oligarch line. Yet, Puut got to power the old fashion way by toughness, power, and resources. He is a swindler for sure of the Russian people as we know he may be the richest man in the world. Genuinely a Deec and Mak type to be sure. I used to like Orlov but he is now on my PPI list. His unbalanced positions are pure emotions and his true orientation are towards mother Russia and that dead end corrupt system dream of the new USSR. Orlovs political propaganda ideologue positions through this whole Ukraine affair is another nausea for me. To be sure the Russian have been at it in Ukraine. To be sure the annexation of Crimea is not acceptable through international Law. BTW I agree Crimea should be mother Russia but don’t tickle me like it was a lawful transition. Puut-in makes me sick when the old guy goes out for the camera to act tough. Give it a rest Puut, your old, balding, short, and no beauty. Puut is going to see his waterloo in Ukraine. If Puut plays his cards wrong he will have grabbed onto a tar baby of commitment and a drain on Russian treasure and occupy Russian foreign policy for years. It will amaze me if the Cabal of fools in Washington succeed here with ensnaring Puut in their trap. If, Putt avoids using his forces and waits this out my respect for him will multiply. He can come out of this looking good with the west paying the bill along with the Crimea prize. My respect will be for all Gav describes because he is still a snake. Puut is a master manipulator and thief on the highest scale but I admire him from a political point of view as being the “Big” snake among lessor snakes. It is a sad testimony of world affairs these days when one only has snakes to admire.
Mark on Mon, 5th May 2014 1:27 pm
If we could go back to the 1930’s, I bet some of you would probably support Hitler invading Czecoslovakia and Poland if it was against the interests of the “Western Oligarchy” or whatever.
J-Gav on Mon, 5th May 2014 4:14 pm
Back to you DC on the ‘thuggish’ charge I advanced. You are aware, I suppose, of Alexander Litvinenko’s polonium demise – and the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya (Russia figuring third in the last study I read regarding danger for journalists, just behind Algeria and Iraq).
Shall I then also mention the clearly false flag bombings (not all but obviously at least two) which killed a number of Russian citizens just when Putin needed to beef up support for his policies? To suppose that these events had no connection to the upper echelons of Russian power would be totally disingenuous. I’m no Russia-basher – their people are as deserving of a chance for a decent life as anybody else – but please, do your homework before drawing conclusions.
Harquebus on Mon, 5th May 2014 5:20 pm
There is no difference between Obama and Putin. If they not are ignorant of oil depletion and over population then, they are just deceivers.
Davey on Mon, 5th May 2014 5:34 pm
Yea GAV, we have to give Puut credit where credit is due. Lol seriously the guy is the master of Machiavellian mischief. He puts the Americans to shame. So in this comparison hands up to Puut. But let us not call Puut a good leader he is just good at BAD. Yet a country like Russia needed some hardass but he may take it too far with this Ukraine situation. Time will tell!
Ricardo on Mon, 5th May 2014 10:46 pm
Greg: you should stop asking people to take meds, maybe you aré the one in need of medication, you rat commie.
radon1 on Tue, 6th May 2014 5:09 am
“To be sure the annexation of Crimea is not acceptable through international Law.”
How do you know, Davy. Not saying that you are necessarily wrong, but how do you know. Are you an international judge or something.
Black Sea legislation is such a can of worms. For example, under the terms of a peace treaty between Russia and Turkey made ages ago but still effective today, Crimea should have never been under Ukraine jurisdiction anyway. Because as per the treaty, Turkey is supposed to gain control over Crimea in case Russia loses this control.
Davy, Hermann, MO on Tue, 6th May 2014 5:48 am
Radon, in my humble arrogance, meaning I accept your criticism, the process was not per accepted book rules per my limited knowledge of those rules. So, I may be dead ass wrong and talking out my ass as usual. I find is you sound right and forceful enough some people will listen. But, reality rules and it appears with the Ukraine thing humming and buzzing no one is concerned with Crimea anymore. But you know it will be thrown in Russia’s face in the future especially by the US inept leadership cabal. I firmly believe Crimea is Russia. There were many distortions from the USSR days and Crimea was one. It appears some of Ukraine is more distortions but in the Eastern Ukraine you have lots of Ukrainians so the issue becomes more clouded.
Makati1 on Tue, 6th May 2014 5:57 am
Back in the USSR:
“… Some commentators have predicted that China’s reign as the world’s largest economy would not last long. This may be true. While China has made great strides since adopting free-market reforms in the 1970s, China is still run by an authoritarian government whose economic policies distort the market in order to benefit state-favored industries. These state-favored businesses are often controlled by politically-powerful individuals.
What many of these commentators fail to notice is that the American government pursues many of the same flawed policies as the Chinese. For example, because of the increase in regulations, subsidies, and bailouts, many American businesses are putting more resources into manipulating the political process than producing goods and services desired by consumers. Many big businesses even lobby Congress and the federal bureaucracy for new regulations on their industries. They do this because big business can more easily absorb the costs of complying with the new regulations that force their smaller competitors out of business.
China is regularly criticized by American protectionists for subsidizing its export industries. However, the US government does the same thing via programs such as the Export-Import Bank. China is also criticized for manipulating the value of its currency to make its exports more attractive to foreign consumers. This may well be true, but China is hardly unique in this respect. Throughout its history, the Federal Reserve has manipulated both the domestic and international economy, often working in partnership with foreign central banks. …”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-05/ron-paul-why-we%E2%80%99re-no-longer-number-one
Davy, Hermann, MO on Tue, 6th May 2014 6:08 am
Mak, read this and weep because your glowing China is rotten at the core. No arguments on you US power points.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-04/beijings-tepid-efforts-slow-credit-boom-are-springing-giant-leaks
J-Gav on Tue, 6th May 2014 11:04 am
Well, Davy and Makati, I confess I don’t quite know what to make of your China tiff here.
Both the U.S. and China blow huge bubbles in more than one part of their economies, both carefully hide the smellier aspects of reality in their countries, corruption runs rampant at various levels of both their administrations …
Frankly, I don’t see a single country in the world deserving of ‘hegemon’ status today. Do you?
Northwest Resident on Tue, 6th May 2014 11:26 am
J-Gav — I get the impression that Davy is mildly annoyed at the fact that Makati seems to think that China is a rising economic star with a bright future and the power within its hands to single-handedly bring America’s economy to its knees at their slightest whim, while at the same time portraying America as an ultimately corrupt, evil, degenerate and loathsome nation of people deserving of the most painful and horrific death possible. If you haven’t noticed, Makati1 regularly predicts and seems to positively savor the prospect of civil war and deadly riot in America, while at the same time, in his tiny nation of destitute natives, the many millions of $$$ from American tax payers and individual donors and charities is ALL that holds off massive starvation and pandemic. Makati1 is consumed by hatred, his perspective is skewed extremely by that deeply ingrained hatred, and whatever bitter experiences he has had to endure in life, he obviously blames on America and Americans. That annoys Davy, and it annoys me. America has problems, China has bigger problems, but we’re all sinking together — Makati1 doesn’t seem to want to recognize that fact.
Davey on Tue, 6th May 2014 12:44 pm
Thanks n/r for the understanding.
gav the age of hegemony is over with the usurpation off all nations in the global systems We can live together or die together
Boat on Tue, 6th May 2014 2:27 pm
The idea we are sinking isn’t the problem. Humans have just become to good at trade at the expense of the earth. At some point there will be a pay back but it’s hard to predict when and how it will happen. But human growth is alive and well till we hit that tipping point. More humans alive, healthier, living longer and burning energy is supposed to be a dream. So why sing the praises about the better quality of life for millions of humans each year instead of trying to string together the most amount of negative words in a row to describe the collapse of mankind. LOL Sorry, I just had to do that.
Northwest Resident on Tue, 6th May 2014 2:39 pm
“So why [not] sing the praises about the better quality of life for millions of humans each year instead of trying to string together the most amount of negative words in a row to describe the collapse of mankind.”
Boat, if you knew for a fact that a major storm was going to strike your area with 150 mph winds, floods and lightening storms next week, you’d be talking about it, thinking about it, strategizing how to deal with it and in fact you would probably think about it a lot. You would not be singing the praises for “better quality of life” for millions of humans.
So, don’t be surprised if those of us who perceive that a major economic/societal crash is heading our way spend time thinking about it, discussing it, speculating on it and otherwise thinking about it.
Admittedly, there are MANY who do not see that major economic/societal crash coming. And there is quite a bit of disagreement on just how beneficial “human growth” (population increase, increased consumption, etc…) is. I do not know what better quality of life for millions of humans you are referring to — perhaps some of those people in Africa who are getting access to electricity and automobiles for the first time, just exactly what the world needs.
Finally, please point out which post on this article has attempted to “string together the most amount of negative words in a row to describe the collapse of mankind.” I don’t see that anywhere, but maybe you do.
Davey on Tue, 6th May 2014 4:12 pm
Boat, the very simple version of our doomer story is all roads are leading to food insecurity, widespread hunger, and large regional famines. We are at a crossroads and food is the key to man’s future. We are very close to the above scenario because of all the other issues discussed here. It is food that will be the final undoing of this complex global society. It may be another trigger but the weak link for all Humans is food!
ffkling on Tue, 6th May 2014 4:29 pm
Makati1-
Just copy and paste.