Thursday, February 16, 2023

Does Treasury Now Own the Federal Reserve Bank?



                                                                Federal Reserve Bank [formerly]        


The following is an edited extract of a post by Joe Lange, a fellow "Conspiracy Theorist" who has excellent insight into a variety of issues of interest to me - and to you.  I recommend you tune in to his blog site for in-depth revelations.  I've taken the liberty of adding comments and links to topics and terms which may be unfamiliar to the average reader since this could be categorized as Econ 102+; I've also added graphics and references to better explain the processes that Lange covers in his blog.

I recommend reading Lange's original blog, as well as his supplementary material since it is all relevant to the financial restructuring ongoing now.

[My grasp of this issue dates back to 1981-83 when I was assigned (as a DCI Fellow) to the US State Department (INR)/Treasury Department, briefing Secretaries Haig and Schultz on International Financial issues which posed a threat to international economic stability; my assessments were frequently included in the Presidential Daily Brief; George Schulz had previously been Treasury Secretary, and introduced me to Intelligence portals by which I could monitor the International banking community on a daily basis - tracking any and all financial movements.  In my position, I could move freely between the State Department (INR) and Treasury for access to global finances to brief both Shulz and President Reagan.]


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The Rothschilds are no longer the puppet masters of  the most powerful Central Bank in the world!

The Rothschilds controlled the entire global financial system for generations. They created the Federal Reserve Bank to be the most powerful Central Bank on the planet in order to control every government in every country.  (They also gained control of the Bank of England by "lending" England funds to bail it out of bankruptcy after WW1.

By controlling the money supply of every nation, the Rothschilds made the entire population of the world debt-slaves, as every government borrowed money from Rothschild-controlled central banks in order to finance everything, up to and including wars, the Rothschild's most profitable venture.

As far back as the Napoleonic Wars, where they manipulated the English Pound Sterling Bonds by causing a panic sell and buyback, thus giving them full control of the Bank of England while also putting the English Empire into massive debt.  



The Rothschilds have financed both sides of all wars. 


In fact, the Rothschilds even funded both sides of WW1 and WW2 before establishing the US dollar as the Global Reserve Currency.

How did they do it?

The Rothschilds established a gold standard again for global currencies, which had fallen apart during WW1, as countries hoarded their gold rather than fulfilling their contractual obligations to each other. After WW2, the United States held the largest gold reserves, paving the way for the standard to come.




Touted as a way to create a global gold standard for currencies, the Bretton Woods Agreement pegged the US Dollar to a gold standard, making it the world’s reserve currency.

At this moment, the Federal Reserve Bank became the most powerful bank on the planet!



The Rothschilds thus controlled the world’s currency which gave them control of everything.

1) How do you free the World of the strangle-hold the Rothschilds have over the entire global financial system?

2) How do you bring down the whole corrupt global debt system so you can replace it?


You bankrupt the system!


As a famous saying goes,

“When you owe the bank $300,000 and can’t pay it back, you are in trouble. But when you owe the bank $300 million and can’t pay it back, then the bank is in trouble.”

The world is drowning in debt. $300Trillion of debt, to be precise.

None of it can be paid back, which is why the WEF [World Economic Forum] is desperate for a global reset, allowing them to confiscate all the assets. 

All of OUR assets.

But, as we know, Trump is always ten steps ahead of them.


Bloomberg explains:

The Fed will finance a special purpose vehicle (SPV) for each acronym to conduct these operations. The Treasury, using the Exchange Stabilization Fund, will make an equity investment in each SPV and be in a “first loss” position. 

                                    What does this mean? 

In essence, the Treasury, not the Fed, is buying all these securities and backstopping of loans; the Fed is acting as banker and providing financing. The Fed hired BlackRock Inc. to purchase these securities and handle the administration of the SPVs on behalf of the owner, the Treasury.

                    In other words, 

the federal government is nationalizing large swaths of the financial markets. The Fed is providing the money to do it. 

     BlackRock will be doing the trades.

This scheme essentially merged the Fed and Treasury into one organization.                         So, your new Fed chairman became Donald J. Trump.

The Exchange Stabilization Fund was a fund set up in 1934, and most people didn’t know existed. It was completely controlled by the Treasury and the President, exempt from Congressional approval. It was originally set up as a means of intervening in currency markets to benefit the US economy, but has since become a loan program for other countries’ Central Banks when they are in distress. Think of it as a permanent bail-out option for global Central banks.

Instead of bailing out Central Banks, Trump used this fund to bail out American companies that were struggling to survive during the Plandemic, and forced the Federal Reserve to finance all of it.

The Federal Reserve and the US Treasury are now working for the American people, not the Central Banks.

With the Federal Reserve Note (US dollar) being the world’s reserve currency, and with countries forced to purchase oil in dollars, the Rothschilds and their global debt system are now hanging on the edge of a cliff. They no longer control the Fed or the dollar.

Remember how Q told us to "think mirror"?

                From Q post 1953:

Think MIRROR. Know your enemy. 

        "Every battle is won before it's ever fought." Knowledge is POWER. — Q

Remember when Trump first became President?

The Rothschilds controlled the Federal Reserve, and they quickly started jacking up interest rates on Trump’s administration in order to crash the market in an effort to stave off his chances of re-election.

But Trump used his bully pulpit to bash the Fed at the time for raising rates when all other Central Banks in the world were cutting theirs. He then started filling all the Fed governors vacancies, giving him total control.

Think Mirror


What has Powell and the Fed done since Biden became president?

They’ve raised interest rates faster and more aggressively than anybody expected, which has nearly crashed the market. The market is likely going to go down further still, and that we may be entering a recession [while Biden is president, earning him the blame].

Trump is master of the boomerang!

Crashing the market on Biden and the democrats to help destroy the Democrat Party was one benefit of the Fed raising rates to battle inflation, but not the biggest benefit.

What was?

When the Fed raised rates aggressively, it drove up the value of the dollar that every central bank was required to use in order to buy oil for their economies. Every central bank in the world was instantly put in financial trouble because their currencies were losing value against the dollar. In fact, three central banks have recently needed an emergency bailout because of this.

The dollar is actually the global debt system’s Achilles Heel.

Thus, these Central Banks—along with many countries, especially the BRICS alliance—have been buying record amounts of gold.

This has all been part of the plan from the beginning.

Q shared this very important post:

"As I have said many times, this is not talking about the Federal Reserve.

It doesn’t say, ‘Gold shall destroy THE Fed.’

                            It says:  "Gold shall destroy F. E. D."

That’s an acronym for the

Foreign Exchange Department for COMMERCIAL BANKS.


The Rothschilds engineered the US getting rid of the gold standard in 1971, which made the global reserve currency a Fiat currency backed by nothing. At that moment, the Rothschilds had full control of the printing of currency and issuance of debt. Our debt has done nothing but grow ever since, now sitting at almost $37 trillion and counting.  

[Ed Note:  To be clear, the Gold Standard ended in 1933 by edict of President Franklin Roosevelt (D) reinforced by President Johnson (D) to fund the Vietnam War and his massive welfare programs, and finally, officially, by President Nixon (R), in 1971.]


Debt Clock


The rest of the world is also drowning in debt.

None of this debt was ever going to be paid back. You can’t keep borrowing forever and only make minimal interest payments. At some point, the interest payments become too high and you default. We were inevitably going to reach the point of bankruptcy!

The question is, WHO is going to go bankrupt?

Is the United States going to go bankrupt like Germany did after World War 1, or, more recently, Venezuela?

Or is the global Central Bank debt system going to go bankrupt?

There are several significant stories of which many people are unaware. They reveal not only who is winning this war, but they also predict the future.  

Story One

Swedish Krona [Crown]
The Swedish Central Bank lost 81 billion Krona 
[almost US$8 billion] in 2022 due primarily to higher Market interest rates.

Reuters reported "The un-realised loss is mainly due to globally rising market interest rates, which has reduced the market value of the Riksbank's assets".  Globally rising market interest rates have reduced the market value of the bank’s assets.

That resulted from Trump’s Federal Reserve Bank aggressively increasing interest rates and thus the value of the US dollar. It crushes the value of Central Bank assets.

 Story Two

The Swiss Central Bank posted it’s largest loss in its history.

Swiss Franc

Switzerland’s government and other private shareholders won’t be receiving their annual payout from the Swiss National Bank, as preliminary results show the central bank underwent a loss equivalent to $143 billion in 2022— more than five times the last such record loss, and the biggest in its history 

Hermina Paull


The cracks are beginning to show in the global debt system.

The Rothschilds no longer control the Fed or the US dollar, and the exchange rates AGAINST that dollar are causing them heavy losses. They are used to being able to manipulate the US dollar anytime they wanted to, but now they can only react to what the Fed is doing.

There are three reasons for the strength of the dollar over the last few years:

Elements: "The rapid raising of interest rates by the Federal Reserve Bank and tightening of their balance sheet has resulted in US dollars becoming a more scarce and more valuable yield-bearing asset. As interest rates have risen, so have yields for savings accounts and fixed-income securities like US treasuries, making them a more attractive alternative for investors.  Simultaneously, falling equity prices (especially in the technology sector) only further incentivized investors to pull out of riskier equity markets into the safety of the dollar.

    "Compared to many other global economies, the US economy has remained resilient with the fewest risks on its horizon. Europe continues to face an ongoing energy crunch with the Russia-Ukraine conflict nearby, while China’s zero-COVID policies have hampered China’s manufacturing sector and other industries"



So, now the Rothschilds’ Central Bank debt system is competing with the US Federal Reserve Bank rather than controlling it.

[And don't overlook the

  World Economic Forum]




But there’s a much larger problem out there for the Central Banks that not many people are discussing.

Foreign Exchange Swaps


The Foreign Exchange Market (FOREX) is the largest market in the world, with US$Trillions traded daily. 

So who uses Foreign Exchange Swaps? [Elements]:

  • Corporations
  • Financial institutions
  • Central Banks

"To understand Forex Swaps is to look at the role of Currency Risk.  The US dollar in 2022 was on a tear. But, when this happens, it hurts company earnings that generate revenue across borders. That’s because they earn revenue in foreign currencies (which likely declined in value against the dollar) but end up converting earnings to US dollars.

"To reduce currency risk, market participants buy Forex Swaps where two parties agree to exchange one currency for another. This helps protect the company from unfavorable foreign exchange rates.

"However, due to accounting rules, Forex swaps are often unrecorded on balance sheets, and as a result are quite opaque.

        Accounting rules allow FOREX swaps to not be recorded on balance sheets?

A market that trades Trillions of dollars daily and is not required to be on the balance sheet is a massive bubble. Think about how dangerous this is to a global debt system based on a Fiat currency backed by nothing?

Gold will destroy F.E.D.!


Foreign Exchange Department

What does the Foreign Exchange Department specifically do?

Bizfluent:

The main function of a foreign exchange department is to make money for the bank by speculating on whether a particular currency will rise or fall against another. Banks compete fiercely with each other using experienced market traders and millions of dollars or currency equivalents are exchanged daily.

Each bank has direct links to the main foreign exchange market in the country via dedicated phone lines and computers. The departments contain an array of screens providing constantly updated statistical and analytical data. Complex programs attempt to predict the future movement of currencies and instant decisions, as to whether to buy or sell a currency, can result in a bank making or losing substantial sums in seconds.

These Foreign Exchange Departments speculate daily on currencies and can lose huge amounts of money in mere seconds. This is a huge risk made much greater with the Rothschilds no longer controlling the Fed and losing their ability to manipulate the US dollar.

[ED NOTE:  I met a Bank of America FOREX trader who spent all his time traveling internationally speculating on overnight currency exchange rates.  He advised that even a marginally small change in exchange rates might be worth US$Millions in overnight fluctuations.  So, FOREX is a major game changer in this process.]


So how big is this hidden dollar debt?

Elements explains:

US$65 trillion in unrecorded dollar debt circulates across the global financial system in non-US and Shadow Banks. 

                    To put that in perspective, current [2023] global GDP sits at $104 trillion.

World Bank
GDP by Country [2014]

[ED Note:  When I (SpookdBlog] worked at the State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research [INR], I would brief Secretary Schultz weekly on financial "instability" in regions across the globe.

    Schultz had previously been Secretary of the Treasury, and cautioned me on using World Bank/IMF figures since they were blatantly false.  However, the rule of thumb became that these figures were acceptable solely for comparison purposes.

     

Notably, NY Fed President Tim Geithner transferred US$15 Trillion to China in 2008, doubling China's GDP in one year, creating China's "Economic Miracle" (Wikipedia denies this event occured - oddly portraying pedestrian GDP figures that differ greatly from those in 2008-2010 and since)).  0bama appointed Geithner to be the Secretary of Treasury in 2009, ending the criminal investigation of this illegal cash transfer.  At the end of Geithner's term as Secretary of Treasury, he was hired by the CCP as China's Economic Advisor, which he now manages from his "global" consulting firm Warburg Pincus,!  

Notably, Geithner now excludes from his resume that he attended secondary school and college in China, and is fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese; it would not be a stretch to presume he has been guiding Xi in his negotiations with Trump.] 



This US dollar debt is in the form of foreign-exchange swaps, which exploded over the last decade due to years of Monetary Easing and ultra-low interest rates, as investors searched for higher yields. 

Today, unrecorded debt from these foreign-exchange swaps is worth more than double the dollar debt officially recorded on balance sheets across these institutions.

This hidden dollar debt is a ticking time bomb.

Now, as interest rates have been rising, Forex swaps have increased amid higher market volatility as investors look to hedge currency risk. 

This appears in both non-US banks and non-US shadow banks, which  are unregulated financial intermediaries!

Overall, the value of unrecorded debt is staggering. An estimated $39 trillion is held by non-US banks along with $26 trillion in overseas shadow banks around the world

(This is unrecorded debt in unregulated financial intermediaries)

Is the US dollar the Achilles Heel of the whole global Central Bank Debt System?

The Rothschild puppet masters used the dollar and the Federal Reserve as a weapon against the world since the end of WW2.

(You'll be pleased to know, that has now come to an end!)

And then came Trump!

Recall the history of Trump before he was President; recall also that he was condemned because he filed for bankruptcy several times. He didn’t file for personal bankruptcy, but rather for Chapter  11 [Business Reorganization] for several of his businesses, and each emerged stronger, with all debts paid.

Trump, a master of business, understands the value of bankruptcy laws.  As a result, Trump is always well ahead of his competitors, and the banks.


How did Trump defeat the Rothschilds and gain control of the Federal Reserve Bank?

It started when Trump was first elected. The POTUS appoints the Board of Governors to the Federal Reserve Bank. There are seven total governors on the Board, and when Trump was elected, there were already two vacancies that Obama had left for Hillary Clinton—his presumed successor—to fill.

‘They never thought Hillary would lose.’

Stanley Fischer
8th Governor Bank of Israel
  
Trump then got three more resignations, including some that look like they may have been forced by Trump himself, such as Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer, who stepped down in 2017.

Fischer was an Israeli American economist who served as the 20th Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2017. [Fischer previously served as the eighth governor of the Bank of Israel from 2005 to 2013.]

     [An Israeli financier appointed to the US Federal Reserve Bank?]  

 Mr Fischer's history included linkage to the Rothschild empire, which was linked to Rockefeller's Bellagio Group, linked to the Group of 30, found its way to Las Vegas, where the Bellagio Hotel became the site of the mass shooting.  

                                        What was the linkage of that incident to the Fed -  and International Finance? 

So, two vacancies and three early resignations allowed Trump to appoint five of the seven governors to the board of the Federal Reserve.


Trump then appointed Jerome Powell, already on the Board of Governors, to the position of chairman, replacing Obama appointee Janet Yellen, who then became US Secretary of Treasury.  Powell was doing well to stabilize the FED, but then seemed more interested in a personal interaction with Wall Street, increasing his personal wealth to an estimated $55 Million. 
(not bad for a guy whose salary is $190,000 per year]

Although Trump promoted Powell to FED Chair, he is now unhappy with Powell for not easing the Interest Rates to allow the Economy to expand.

Promoting Powell freed up another vacant position on the board of governors, which gave Trump six out of seven total positions and near full control of the Federal Reserve.

Ed Note:

Now, political wags would say that all this Trump maneuvering was for naught since we subsequently suffered under the Biden Administration - and several of Trump's appointees were replaced.


Arthur Roberts
Exposed during Interview
with Boris Johnson
 
But,Biden was rumored to have died during his "faux inauguration" and replaced by Hollywood stunt actor, Arthur Roberts, and later, by a robot capable of a rapid fire speech lasting one hour and 40 minutes without a sip of water or a shift of body weight, may not actually have been in office?  (Interestingly, Biden's top aides  are now being investigated in the "AutoPen Scandal".




Rumors continue that Trump orchestrated key elements of the government from behind the scenes, allowing all the democrat scandals to be fully exposed and play out, thus evealing the full corruption of the Biden family and of the democrat [and RINO] Congress.

WikiLeaks reportedly released a massive number of previously damning documents hidden by the Deep State for decades.  Within those documents, you'll find much evidence of unimaginable criminality, and financial manipulation supporting all that you've now read.

(More scandal are now emerging, such as the P Diddy and Epstein horrors)


According to Zerohedge [November 2019]:

    The Fed announced that in a previously unannounced meeting not on the official White House calendar, Fed Chairman Powell met with Trump and Mnuchin at the White House  "to discuss the economy, growth, employment and inflation", marking the second face-to-face meeting between the world's two most powerful people amid Trump's relentless criticism of the Central Bank. As a reminder, Powell had dinner with the President in February and the two have spoken by telephone since.An unannounced meeting that also wasn’t on the White House schedule?

Coincidence?

Several face-to-face talks, dinner together and phone calls? 

Nothing to see here, folks!

They talked about inflation?

[Today, we're unsure if the "battle" between Powell and Trump is real, or a bit of created drama to promote a change in Interest rates and silence Wall Street critics)


Interesting, considering inflation was unleashed during the Biden Administration AFTER Trump left office and it has now helped trigger the collapse of the central banks debt system.

How’s that for timing?

So with Trump having appointed all but one member of the board of governors over the Federal Reserve and the chairman he appointed cozying up to him, should it have been a surprise when this huge news hit?

Trump Rolls the Fed Into the Treasury
(What's the Future)

This was a massive story back in March 2020, before Trump’s presumed imminent re-election, but it wasn’t talked about much in the media—aside from some of the financial media—and almost nobody knows about it.

I believe Trump used the plandemic which the enemy launched on the world as the excuse he needed to roll the Federal Reserve into the US Treasury, which the President controls as part of the Executive Branch.  (That news has yet to be confirmed by our News Media]

In essence, the all powerful Federal Reserve Bank [FRB], is now subordinate to the US Secretary of the Treasury, who will replace the powers of the FRB, with a Treasury staff element [much like the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency].  

[Yellen would soon be replaced as Treasury Secretary; her replacement was predicted to be Brian Moynihan [currently CEO of the Bank of America (BofA was the bank selected to redeem the Trump Gold-Backed currency. Moynihan was removed from consideration after the BofA came under fire for highly questionable mortgage issues)

[Since this blogpost was originally written, Yellen has been replaced by Trump appointee     Scott Bessent.]

What's Next?

With the FED suborned to Treasury, our fiat Federal Reserve note currency will be replaced by Treasury certificates (much like the US currency of the 1930s..

Fiat Federal Reserve Note 
                                 [Backed by Nothing]                                    

                             with Treasury Certificates redeemable in gold or silver 

Treasury Certificate


        Our currency system will revert to that which existed prior to the FDR debacle. 

Specifically, the US Treasury Certificates will be redeemable in Gold or Silver, and the US dollar will once again be the most valuable, and stable currency in the world.

[Now,  

$Billions in neatly packed plastic
there are some unforeseen negative consequences of this change-over, but the negatives are solely for criminal and hostile foreign elements.  Converting the Federal Reserve Notes to the Treasury Certificates will be reasonably easy. 

Large ($Billions) amounts, such as those found bundled in plastic wrap in cartel warehouses, will not be convertible since the origin of the currency will be impossible to verify.]


An alternate currently being discussed is a BitCoin equivalent, much more difficult to counterfeit, particularly if it contains a digital chip.  We'll have to wait and see.

[We'll discuss those issues in a future blog post.]

What you should know about Ukraine


I am republishing this post, created by Mike Whitney and published in its entirety to ensure it receives the broadest viewership possible.  As many of you are aware, I have commented repeatedly on this bogus "war", which serves the purposes of Russia protecting its citizens residing in Ukraine from the Ukrainian Nazis, as well as ending the Money Laundering operations via Ukraine to supply leftist US [and International] politicians with massive funding.

The secondary purpose of this bogus war is to continue the funding and protection of the ongoing Human Trafficking being facilitated by NATO organizations - the object of a number of European police organizations - blocked by "national security" barriers erected by NATO commanders.

Whitney's analysis and assessment will provide you with a more comprehensive understanding of the actual events taking place in Ukraine. [As the former Editor of the Black Book at the Pentagon, I found it worth while to present background and alternate explanations of complex events in order to quietly remove the trigger fingers from the massive war machines available to the US and NATO militaries.

  

Mike Whitney: Setting The Record Straight - Stuff You Should Know About Ukraine


Authored by Mike Whitney

On February 16, 2022, a full week before Putin sent combat troops into Ukraine, the Ukrainian Army began the heavy bombardment of the area (in east Ukraine) occupied by mainly ethnic Russians. 

Officials from the Observer Mission of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) were located in the vicinity at the time and kept a record of the shelling as it took place. What the OSCE discovered was that the bombardment dramatically intensified as the week went on until it reached a peak on February 19, when a total of 2,026 artillery strikes were recorded.   Keep in mind, the Ukrainian Army was, in fact, shelling civilian areas along the Line of Contact that were occupied by other Ukrainians.  We want to emphasize that the officials from the OSCE were operating in their professional capacity gathering first-hand evidence of shelling in the area. What their data shows is that Ukrainian Forces were bombing and killing their own people. This has all been documented and has not been challenged.

So, the question we must all ask ourselves is this: Is the bombardment and slaughter of one’s own people an ‘act of war’?



We think it is. 

And if we are right, then we must logically assume that the war began before the Russian invasion (which was launched a full week later) We must also assume that Russia’s alleged “unprovoked aggression” was not unprovoked at all but was the appropriate humanitarian response to the deliberate killing of civilians. In order to argue that the Russian invasion was ‘not provoked’, we would have to say that firing over 4,000 artillery shells into towns and neighborhoods where women and children live, is not a provocation? Who will defend that point of view?

No one, because it’s absurd. The killing of civilians in the Donbas was a clear provocation, a provocation that was aimed at goading Russia into a war. And –as we said earlier– the OSCE had monitors on the ground who provided full documentation of the shelling as it took place, which is as close to ironclad, eyewitness testimony as you’re going to get.

This, of course, is a major break with the “official narrative” which identifies Russia as the perpetrator of hostilities. But, as we’ve shown, that simply isn’t the case. The official narrative is wrong. Even so, it might not surprise you to know that most of the mainstream media completely omitted any coverage of the OSCE’s fact-finding activities in east Ukraine. The one exception to was Reuters that published a deliberately opaque account published on February 18 titled “Russia voices alarm over sharp increase of Donbass shelling”. Here’s an excerpt:

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov voiced alarm on Friday over a sharp increase in shelling in eastern Ukraine and accused the OSCE special monitoring mission of glossing over what he said were Ukrainian violations of the peace process….

Washington and its allies have raised fears that the upsurge in violence in the Donbass could form part of a Russian pretext to invade Ukraine. Tensions are already high over a Russian military buildup to the north, east and south of Ukraine.

“We are very concerned by the reports of recent days – yesterday and the day before there was a sharp increase in shelling using weapons that are prohibited under the Minsk agreements,” Lavrov said, referring to peace accords aimed at ending the conflict. “So far we are seeing the special monitoring mission is doing its best to smooth over all questions that point to the blame of Ukraine’s armed forces,” he told a news conference.

Ukraine’s military on Friday denied violating the Minsk peace process and accused Moscow of waging an information war to say that Kyiv was shelling civilians, allegations it said were lies and designed to provoke it.” (Russia voices alarm over sharp increase of Donbass shelling, Reuters)

Notice the clever way that Reuters frames its coverage so that the claims of the Ukrainian military are given as much credibility as the claims of the Russian Foreign Minister. What Reuters fails to point out is that the OSCE’s report verifies Lavrov’s version of events while disproving the claims of the Ukrainians. It is the job of a journalist to make the distinction between fact and fiction but, once again, we see how agenda-driven news is not meant to inform but to mislead.

Quote: Larry C. Johnson, A Son of a New Revolution

 

The point we are trying to make is simple: The war in Ukraine was not launched by a tyrannical Russian leader (Putin) bent on rebuilding the Soviet Empire. That narrative is a fraud that was cobbled together by NeoCon spin-meisters trying to build public support for a war with Russia. The facts I am presenting here can be identified on a map where the actual explosions took place and were then recorded by officials whose job was to fulfill that very task. Can you see the difference between the two? In one case, the storyline rests on speculation, conjecture and psychobabble; while in the other, the storyline is linked to actual events that took place on the ground and were catalogued by trained professionals in the field. In which version of events do you have more confidence?

Bottom line: Russia did not start the war in Ukraine. That is a fake narrative. The responsibility lies with the Ukrainian Army and their leaders in Kiev.

And here’s something else that is typically excluded in the media’s selective coverage. Before Putin sent his tanks across the border into Ukraine, he invoked United Nations Article 51 which provides a legal justification for military intervention. Of course, the United States has done this numerous times to provide a fig leaf of legitimacy to its numerous military interventions. But, in this case, you can see where the so-called Responsibility To Protect (R2P) could actually be justified, after all, by most estimates, the Ukrainian army has killed over 14,000 ethnic Russians since the US-backed coup 8 years ago. If ever there was a situation in which a defensive military operation could be justified, this was it. But that still doesn’t fully explain why Putin invoked UN Article 51. For that, we turn to former weapons inspector Scott Ritter, who explained it like this:

Russian President Vladimir Putin, citing Article 51 as his authority, ordered what he called a 'special military operation'….
under Article 51, there can be no doubt as to the legitimacy of Russia’s contention that the Russian-speaking population of the Donbass had been subjected to a brutal eight-year-long bombardment that had killed thousands of people.… Moreover, Russia claims to have documentary proof that the Ukrainian Army was preparing for a massive military incursion into the Donbass which was pre-empted by the Russian-led 'special military operation.' [OSCE figures show an increase of government shelling of the area in the days before Russia moved in.]

..The bottom line is that Russia has set forth a cognizable claim under the doctrine of anticipatory collective self-defense, devised originally by the US and NATO, as it applies to Article 51 which is predicated on fact, not fiction.

While it might be in vogue for people, organizations, and governments in the West to embrace the knee-jerk conclusion that Russia’s military intervention constitutes a wanton violation of the United Nations Charter and, as such, constitutes an illegal war of aggression, the uncomfortable truth is that, of all the claims made regarding the legality of pre-emption under Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, Russia’s justification for invading Ukraine is on solid legal ground. (“Russia, Ukraine & the Law of War: Crime of Aggression”, Consortium News)

Here’s a bit more background from an article by foreign policy analyst Danial Kovalik:

"One must begin this discussion by accepting the fact that there was already a war happening in Ukraine for the eight years preceding the Russian military incursion in February 2022. And, this war by the government in Kiev… claimed the lives of around 14,000 people, many of them children, and displaced around 1.5 million more … The government in Kiev, and especially its neo-Nazi battalions, carried out attacks against these peoples … precisely because of their ethnicity." 

While the UN Charter prohibits unilateral acts of war, it also provides, in Article 51, that 'nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defense… ' And this right of self-defense has been interpreted to permit countries to respond, not only to actual armed attacks, but also to the threat of imminent attack.

In light of the above, it is my assessment.. that Russia had a right to act in its own self-defense by intervening in Ukraine, which had become a proxy of the US and NATO for an assault – not only on Russian ethnics within Ukraine – but also upon Russia itself. (“Why Russia’s intervention in Ukraine is legal under international law”, RT)

So, has anyone in the western media reported on the fact that Putin invoked UN Article 51 before he launched the Special Military Operation?

No, they haven’t, because to do so, would be an admission that Putin’s military operation complies with international law. Instead, the media continues to spread the fiction that ‘Hitler-Putin is trying to rebuild the Soviet empire’, a claim for which there is not a scintilla of evidence. Keep in mind, Putin’s operation does not involve the toppling of a foreign government to install a Moscow-backed stooge, or the arming and training a foreign military that will be used as proxies to fight a geopolitical rival, or the stuffing a country with state-of-the-art weaponry to achieve his own narrow strategic objectives, or perpetrating terrorist acts of industrial sabotage (Nord-Stream 2) to prevent the economic integration of Asia and Europe. No, Putin hasn’t engaged in any of these things. But Washington certainly has, because Washington isn’t constrained by international law. In Washington’s eyes, international law is merely an inconvenience that is dismissively shrugged off whenever unilateral action is required. But Putin is not nearly as cavalier about such matters, in fact, he has a long history of playing by the rules because he believes the rules help to strengthen everyone’s security. And, he’s right; they do.

And that’s why he invoked Article 51 before he sent the troops to help the people in the Donbas. He felt he had a moral obligation to lend them his assistance but wanted his actions to comply with international law. We think he achieved both.

Here’s something else you will never see in the western media. You’ll never see the actual text of Putin’s security demands that were made a full two months before the war broke out. And, the reason you won’t see them, is because his demands were legitimate, reasonable and necessary. Putin wanted basic assurances that NATO was not planning to put its bases, armies and missile sites on Russia’s border. In other words, he was doing the same thing that all responsible leaders do to defend the safety and security of their own people.


Here are a few critical excerpts from the text of Putin’s proposal to the US and NATO:

Article 1

The Parties shall cooperate on the basis of principles of indivisible, equal and undiminished security and to these ends:

shall not undertake actions nor participate in or support activities that affect the security of the other Party;
shall not implement security measures adopted by each Party individually or in the framework of an international organization, military alliance or coalition that could undermine core security interests of the other Party.


Article 3

The Parties shall not use the territories of other States with a view to preparing or carrying out an armed attack against the other Party or other actions affecting core security interests of the other Party.

Article 4

The United States of America shall undertake to prevent further eastward expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and deny accession to the Alliance to the States of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

The United States of America shall not establish military bases in the territory of the States of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics that are not members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, use their infrastructure for any military activities or develop bilateral military cooperation with them.

Article 5

The Parties shall refrain from deploying their armed forces and armaments, including in the framework of international organizations, military alliances or coalitions, in the areas where such deployment could be perceived by the other Party as a threat to its national security, with the exception of such deployment within the national territories of the Parties.

The Parties shall refrain from flying heavy bombers equipped for nuclear or non-nuclear armaments or deploying surface warships of any type, including in the framework of international organizations, military alliances or coalitions, in the areas outside national airspace and national territorial waters respectively, from where they can attack targets in the territory of the other Party.

The Parties shall maintain dialogue and cooperate to improve mechanisms to prevent dangerous military activities on and over the high seas, including agreeing on the maximum approach distance between warships and aircraft.

Article 6

The Parties shall undertake not to deploy ground-launched intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles outside their national territories, as well as in the areas of their national territories, from which such weapons can attack targets in the national territory of the other Party.

Article 7

The Parties shall refrain from deploying nuclear weapons outside their national territories and return such weapons already deployed outside their national territories at the time of the entry into force of the Treaty to their national territories. The Parties shall eliminate all existing infrastructure for deployment of nuclear weapons outside their national territories.

The Parties shall not train military and civilian personnel from non-nuclear countries to use nuclear weapons. The Parties shall not conduct exercises or training for general-purpose forces, that include scenarios involving the use of nuclear weapons.” (“To Make Sense of War”, Israel Shamir, Unz Review)

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out what Putin was worried about. He was worried about NATO expansion and, in particular, the emergence of a hostile military alliance backed by Washington-groomed Nazis occupying territory on his western flank. Was that unreasonable of him? Should he have embraced these US-backed Russophobes and allowed them to place their missiles on his border? Would that have been the prudent thing to do?

So, what can we deduce from Putin’s list of demands?

First, we can deduce that he is not trying to reconstruct the Soviet empire as the MSM relentlessly insists. The list focuses exclusively on security-related demands, nothing else.

Second, it proves that the war could have easily been avoided had Zelensky simply maintained the status quo and formally announced that Ukraine would remain neutral. In fact, Zelensky actually agreed to neutrality in negotiations with Moscow in March, but Washington prevented the Ukrainian president from going through with the deal which means that the Biden administration is largely responsible for the ongoing conflict. (RT published an article stating clearly that an agreement had been reached between Russia and Ukraine in March but the deal was intentionally scuttled by the US and UK. Washington wanted a war.)

Third, it shows that Putin is a reasonable leader whose demands should have been eagerly accepted. Was it unreasonable of Putin to ask that “The Parties shall refrain from deploying their armed forces and… military alliances.. in the areas where such deployment could be perceived by the other Party as a threat to its national security”? Was it unreasonable for him the ask that “The Parties shall eliminate all existing infrastructure for deployment of nuclear weapons outside their national territories”?

Where exactly are the “unreasonable demands” that Putin supposedly made?

There aren’t any.
Putin made no demands that the US wouldn’t have made if ‘the shoe was on the other foot.’

Fourth, it proves that the war is not a struggle for Ukrainian liberation or democracy. That’s hogwash. It is a war that is aimed at “weakening” Russia and eventually removing Putin from power. Those are the overriding goals. What that means is that Ukrainian soldiers are not dying for their country, they are dying for an elitist dream to expand NATO, crush Russia, encircle China, and extend US hegemony for another century. Ukraine is merely the battlefield on which the Great Power struggle is being fought.

There are number points we are trying to make in this article:

1) Who started the war?
Answer– Ukraine started the war

2) Was the Russian invasion a violation of international law?
Answer– No, the Russian invasion should be approved under United Nations Article 51

3) Could the war have been avoided if Ukraine declared neutrality and met Putin’s reasonable demands?
Answer– Yes, the war could have been avoided

4) The last point deals with the Minsk Treaty and how the dishonesty of western leaders is going to effect the final settlement in Ukraine. I am convinced that neither Washington nor the NATO allies have any idea of how severely international relations have been decimated by the Minsk betrayal. In a world where legally binding agreements can be breezily discarded in the name of political expediency, the only way to settle disputes is through brute force. Did anyone in Germany, France or Washington think about this before they acted? (But, first, some background on Minsk.)

The aim of the Minsk agreement was to end the fighting between the Ukrainian army and ethnic Russians in the Donbas region of Ukraine. It was the responsibility of the four participants in the treaty– Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine– to ensure that both sides followed the terms of the deal. But in December, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in an interview with a German magazine, that there was never any intention of implementing the deal, instead, the plan was to use the time to make Ukraine stronger in order to prepare for a war with Russia. So, clearly, from the very beginning, the United States intended to provoke a war with Russia.

On September 5, 2014, Germany, France, Ukraine and Russia all signed Minsk, but the treaty failed and the fighting resumed. On February 12, 2015, Minsk 2 was signed, but that failed, as well. Please, watch this short segment on You Tube by Amit Sengupta who gives a brief rundown of Minsk and its implications: (I transcribed the piece myself and any mistakes are mine.)

(11:40 minute) “In 2015, Germany and France were supposed to play a neutral role.They were supposed to make Ukraine and Russia follow the rules. But they didn’t do that, and the reason they didn’t do that is what Angela Merkel revealed in her interview on December 7. Merkel said, “The 2014 Minsk agreement was an attempt to give time to Ukraine. It also gave time to become stronger as can be seen today. The Ukraine of 2014 and 2015 is not the modern Ukraine.” 

Basically, all three partners of the Minsk Agreement lied and betrayed Russia. Even Putin said, “One day Russia will have to reach an agreement with Ukraine, but Germany and France betrayed Russia, and now they are helping Ukraine with weapons.”… It is a shame that western political leaders engage in negotiations that they do not intend to honor or enforce…(Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has admitted the same as Merkel and Hollande)….Now even Putin has acknowledged that it was a mistake to agree to the Minsk Accords. 

He even said that the Donbas problem should have been resolved by force-of-arms at the time. (2015) Russia waited 8 years to recognize Donbas’s independence, and then launched a full-scale attack this year. But then Putin was under the impression that the Minsk Accords–guaranteed by Germany and France and endorsed unanimously by the UN Security Council including the United States– would resolve the crisis and would give the Donbas autonomy while remaining part of Ukraine. Germany and France were supposed to make sure the Minsk accords were implemented from 2015 to 2022. The collective west always knew that war was the only solution. They never wanted peace, they just played along in the name of Minsk agreement. So, you can see, it is a diplomatic “win” for the west……

France and Germany appeased Russia with the Minsk agreement and gave false hopes of a peaceful settlement. But, in reality, they were buying time for Ukraine to build its military. There was never a diplomatic solution; the collective west –which includes the United States, NATO, the European Union and the G-7– fooled Russia into believing there was a diplomatic solution to the Donbas conflict (but) instead, they were preparing Ukraine for a full-fledged war against Russia. 

So, either way, this war was meant to happen. There was never a diplomatic solution…. This is what Angela Merkel wanted to convey: “The Cold War never ended”. She was the German Chancellor when the coup took place in Ukraine in 2014 and the Minsk Accords were signed. Therefore her contribution to this duplicitous game along with Germany, France, Ukraine and US– has led to this war. And she very well knows it. But, either way, it is not going to end well for Germany or France whose economies have been badly hurt. Ukraine has been completely destroyed. It has become the Afghanistan of Europe. It is the western political leaders that are guilty of the murder of Ukraine.

Since 2014, the Ukrainian government has been launching military attacks against Russian-speaking Ukrainian civilians in the Donbas region. Thousands of Russian speaking civilians have been killed. Russia should have taken back the territory in 2014 along with Crimea. But, then, Russia fell into the trap of the western countries’ Minsk Agreement. … It is not Russia that started this war, it is the United States that started this war. Ukraine is just a pawn that is supported by the US and the other european governments. And, it is a pity that the Ukrainian government serves the interests of the United States and not the Ukrainian people.” (“Angela Merkel’s revelation about Minsk Agreements | Russia Ukraine war“, Amit Sengupta, You Tube)

There’s no way to overstate the importance of the Minsk betrayal or the impact it’s going to have on the final settlement in Ukraine. When trust is lost, nations can only ensure their security through brute force. What that means is that Russia must expand its perimeter as far as is necessary to ensure that it will remain beyond the enemy’s range of fire. (Putin, Lavrov and Medvedev have already indicated that they plan to do just that.) Second, the new perimeter must be permanently fortified with combat troops and lethal weaponry that are kept on hairtrigger alert. When treaties become vehicles for political opportunism, then nations must accept a permanent state of war. This is the world that Merkel, Hollande, Poroshenko and the US created by opting to use ‘the cornerstone of international relations’ (Treaties) to advance their own narrow warmongering objectives.

We just wonder if anyone in Washington realizes whet the fu** they’ve done?