By Timothy D. Naegele[1]
• Vladimir Putin’s thugs booby-trapping Ukrainian corpses that are lying in the streets, which their loved ones cannot retrieve, out of fear that they too will die.[2]
• Women being raped, which the Russians have done again and again, as their Soviet ancestors did when they entered Berlin in World War II—an estimated 2 million victims, the largest mass rape in history.[3]
• Ukrainian babies being killed, or joining others as orphans.
• Putin is a KGB-trained killer, who is every bit as ruthless as Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin.[4]
This is the reality of Putin’s attempted conquest of Ukraine. Yet, Joe Biden and the West levy sanctions that are inadequate, and arm the courageous Ukrainians with weapons that are not enough to win. They view the war “through rose-colored glasses,” according to one female Ukrainian politician. They seek to mollify growing public opinion that Putin’s forces must be defeated, humiliated and sent back to Mother Russia in body bags.
When I left the United States Senate, I concluded that the Democrats were “evil” but smart, while the Republicans were “Neanderthals” and dumb.[5] Aside from Biden being brain dead, or cascading toward that end, and Kamala Harris being a pathetic, embarrassing, tragic joke[6], their Administration’s policies keep getting worse with each passing day. Their goal seems to be to destroy the United States; and their collective policies are moving our great nation rapidly in that direction.
The question has been asked already whether we will have a country when they leave office in January of 2025.[7] It was not asked rhetorically or in jest, but in all seriousness. Like it or not, we are in a global war with Putin and Russia, and Xi Jinping and China; and they seem to be winning. It doesn’t have to be that way. The Ukrainians must be given anything and everything that they need to win. In a very real sense, they are our surrogates, and the surrogates of NATO countries—and of the Taiwanese, who may be next.
It has been reported that public opinion in Russia favors Putin by more than 80 percent—what has been described as his “skyrocketing popularity.”[8] He is winning the public relations war. Our ally India is trading with him. Israel has curried favor with him for years, yet it depends on American aid. Biden has effectively shut down our oil and gas spigots, which drives up domestic prices. Inflation is rampant. Our southern border is wide open. And chaos reigns here at home, after China’s Coronavirus pandemic has devastated us . . . while the Democrats and corporate Leftists like those at Disney focus on the rights of transsexuals and other freaks of nature.[9]
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[1] Timothy D. Naegele was counsel to the United States Senate’s Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and chief of staff to Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal recipient and former U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass). See, e.g., Timothy D. Naegele Resume-21-8-6 and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/accomplishments/ He has an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), as well as two law degrees from the School of Law (Boalt Hall), University of California, Berkeley, and from Georgetown University. He served as a Captain in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency at the Pentagon, where he received the Joint Service Commendation Medal (see, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commendation_Medal#Joint_Service). Mr. Naegele is an Independent politically; and he is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Law, and Who’s Who in Finance and Business. He has written extensively over the years (see, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/articles/ and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/articles/), and studied photography with Ansel Adams. He can be contacted directly at tdnaegele.associates@gmail.com
[2] See https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10678637/Russian-forces-pullout-slow-noticeable-northern-Ukraine-President-Zelensky-says.html (“Volodymyr Zelensky condemns Russia for booby-trapping corpses and abandoned homes as they retreat from the north – a day after scores of executed civilians were found on ‘highway of death'”) and https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10679301/Pictured-Columns-Russian-vehicles-line-highways-Kyiv-tank-graveyards.html (“Ukraine takes back ‘whole Kyiv region’: Columns of Russian armoured vehicles line the highways in ‘tank graveyards’ as advancing Ukrainians find civilians shot with their hands tied behind their backs”); see also https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10679093/There-no-outcome-victory-Defiant-Zelensky-says-Ukraine-NEVER-concede.html (“‘There is no outcome other than victory!’ Defiant Zelensky says that Ukraine will NEVER concede Crimea or any other territory and his people will not accept anything less than the defeat of invading Russia”)
[3] See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2010/02/06/the-silent-voices-of-stalin%E2%80%99s-soviet-holocaust-and-mao%E2%80%99s-chinese-holocaust/ (“The Silent Voices Of Stalin’s Soviet Holocaust And Mao’s Chinese Holocaust”)
[4] See, e.g., https://www.westernjournal.com/putin-signs-order-gas-cut-off-unless-world-leaders-meet-demand/ (“Putin Signs the Order: Gas to Be Cut Off Unless World Leaders Meet His Demand”) and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/russias-putin-is-a-killer/ (“Russia’s Putin Is A Killer”)
[5] See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2022/03/27/the-search-for-sanity-amidst-so-much-insanity/ (“The Search For Sanity Amidst So Much Insanity”)
The Democrats have been smart enough to rig elections, going back to the election of John F. Kennedy; and the Republicans have been too stupid to stop them. And yes, lots of us began as Democrats, but will never vote for another one.
[6] See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2020/08/08/biden-is-brain-dead/ (“Biden Is Brain Dead”) and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2020/08/11/brain-dead-joe-biden-has-picked-willie-browns-ho-as-our-next-president/ (“Brain Dead Joe Biden Has Picked Willie Brown’s Ho As Our Next President”)
[7] See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2022/03/27/the-search-for-sanity-amidst-so-much-insanity/ (“The Search For Sanity Amidst So Much Insanity”)
[8] See, e.g., https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/01/world/europe/russia-putin-support-ukraine.html (“Shaken at First, Many Russians Now Rally Behind Putin’s Invasion”)
[9] See, e.g., https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10679783/Families-speak-having-swear-Disney-swing-left-woke-policies.html (“Disney boycott: Furious families are swearing off the entertainment conglomerate as they accuse it of ‘surrendering to the woke mob’ and ‘indoctrinating their children'”)
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See https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10678709/China-launched-huge-cyber-attack-Ukraine-days-Russia-invaded-Kyiv-intelligence-claims.html (“China ‘launched huge cyber-attack’ on Ukraine’s military and nuclear infrastructure days before Russia invaded, Kyiv intelligence claims”)
The evil alliance.
See also https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-04-02/zelenksy-warns-of-mines-in-wake-of-russian-retreat-in-northern-ukraine (“Ukraine claims it has control over Kyiv, surroundings as Russians plant mines, push deeper east”)
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THE BALL IS NOW ROLLING (Downhill)
Sad but true. Keep in-mind that everything we are experiencing is based upon Joe Biden’s Domestic and Foreign (Trade) Policies, which are the Cause. The symptoms are inflation and increasingly, global war. These economic consequences can NOT easily be reversed by the next president in 2025 if at all, especially the Wars. Civil Unrest is coming back to the homeland soon, as well. Things are going to be very dicey in the near future in America.
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Yes, Craig, tragically so . . . or that’s what appears to be ahead.
See also https://apnews.com/article/business-moon-jae-in-kim-yo-jong-south-korea-north-korea-969792db0f11306ece138e5574058364 (“Kim’s sister enraged by Seoul’s preemptive strike comments”)
This front too. She may rule North Korea in the future.
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WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER ?
Yes, I can see it now. A future revamped Empress for Russia in the likeness of Catherine I ( Catherine the Great ), Kim Yo-jong for North Korea, and lastly, our very own (President Kamala) Harris. You could even come-up with a name for this possible new breed of world leader: The 3 Primadonnas or Divas.
( Three men who temporarily share power or 3 countries allied in war also are known as triumvirates). 3 is an unnatural number in life or in politics and is always transitory as a result to the most stable of all numbers in politics: ONE. Cat-fights a com’in?
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Putin must pay with his life NOW. Otherwise, the carnage will not stop.
See https://nypost.com/2022/04/02/ukrainian-town-littered-with-civilians-bodies-mayor-says/ (“Streets of Kyiv suburb ‘littered’ with bodies, 280 buried in mass grave”) and https://www.news.com.au/world/europe/vladimir-putins-next-move-revealed-amid-russian-retreat-from-kyiv/news-story/7de4b1f0402ba55a514067948c917be3 (“Reason for Russian retreat revealed as Ukraine prepares for new attacks”)
Will Putin launch tactical nukes, in an attempt to decapitate Ukraine’s leadership, including President Zelenskyy and the Klitschko brothers?
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TWO SIDES TO EVERY DISPUTE- PROPAGANDA BY ALL in WAR
I sure would not put it past OUR puppet leader of Ukraine, President Zelenskyy from alleging a Russian chemical weapon attack on his troops (False Flag). Recall the former duly elected President of Ukraine was forced out by a CIA instigated “Color Revolution” back in 2014 by then President Obama and his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. ( Same M.O. in Libya). A continuation of an old Neocon theme of “Regime Change”. This trend did not start yesterday, far from it.
Actor, and former comedian Zelenskyv was installed at that time (NOT elected by Ukrainian residents). Remember too that soon after this incident and the Olympics in 2014, Putin first entered Crimea for Phase I. Its all been previously planned-out ( He wants NATO out and a neutral Ukraine). President Obama’s response to Putin back then was: “If you go into Crimea, you will certainly regret it”. Obama was a serial liar and bluffer. Putin remains undaunted.
I think mentally slow Romanians and Poles will soon be removing their artillery and missile positions from their border areas. Otherwise, guess who might be “invaded” next after Ukraine is secured and neutral, as Putin originally stated he wanted at the U.N. War is what happens when no negotiations occurred for years.
Our foreign policy for the past 20 years with Russia has been just Hate Russia and Hate Putin. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has said this about our policy towards Russia: “We have no real policy, but rather just Hate Putin. This is an alibi for not having a foreign policy towards Russia” all along.
Putin wants all of his border areas to be demilitarized and as far as Ukraine and especially Donbass, deNazified, as well. Ukrainian Nazi’s killed local Jews and others during WWII. Getting rid of them are understandable national political goals. Ours are, on the other hand, designed to provoke a two theater world war (China AND Russia).
The Democrats and President Joe Biden want a major power war. Therefore, a military draft will eventually become a political necessity, probably within the next 5 years. Since the Reagan Presidency, our military size is down from a peak of 2.1 Million men in-uniform to only about 1.1 Million “Woke” soldiers. However, we are not near ready enough today. Consequently, our DoD has recently been involved in “Turf War” with the Neocons over at the State Department. The military read Sec. of State Blinken the “riot act” recently: NO WAR.
Hillary Clinton, as was the late Senator John McCain, were both Neocons. Ditto with former National Security advisor sic.”warmonger”, John Bolton, as well. Trump got tired of Bolton’s statements and consistent advocacy for war and eventually, fired him. The American Neocons are all for war, just for you to fight- sure not them. As in all wars the world over, “the people” in all nations generally go with the flow willingly and follow their leaders regardless of the type of government ( Field Marshall Herman Goering, 1945)
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Thank you, Craig, for your comments.
First, as I have stated many times here, I have followed the Soviet Union’s “trajectory” since I was an undergraduate in college. It was a “house of cards,” certainly economically, which was destined to implode.
Second, Russia today is an even smaller house of cards, which would implode too if its energy revenues were not propping it up. Cut them off, and it’s history.
Third, I have followed Vladimir Putin’s rise to power as a KGB-trained killer, which is all he knows. Cut off the head of the snake, and it dies.
Fourth, the “Neocons” pushed us into the tragic Iraq War — on behalf of their state sponsor Israel — in which 5,000 Americans died and many more were maimed, and trillions of dollars were wasted, for nothing. If they could push us into a war with Iran, they would do so in a nanosecond.
Fifth, we would not need the Middle East at all if we were truly energy independent. The whole region could go up in smoke.
Sixth, as you may recall, I spent two years in the Pentagon as an Army officer assigned to the DIA, before working in the U.S. Senate. The State Department has been considered to be a useless “joke” by many in Washington. John Kerry just underscored that fact.
Seventh, the Biden-Harris presidency is a continuation of the Obama presidency, but even worse. . . if that’s possible.
Eighth, I care about Ukraine because of its courageous people: men, women and children. And because of my hatred for Putin, who should be consigned to an unmarked grave like Hitler. Zelenskyy has been leading the country; and I salute him and the Klitschko brothers, among so many others.
Lastly, Putin’s Russians are animals. They are the inheritors of Stalin’s thugs who overran Berlin, and raped an estimated 2 million German women. One of my secretaries was a young girl there. All she would say is that she had seen things that no human being should ever see.
See, e.g., https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10681529/Boris-Johnson-condemns-Russias-despicable-attacks-Ukrainians-Bucha-Irpin.html (“‘It’s not a battlefield, it’s a crime scene’: Putin’s fleeing troops leave behind 410 bodies amid evidence of civilian executions, rapes and mass graves in worst European atrocity since Balkan Wars as Europe’s leaders call for international probe”)
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FOX News Interviews Ukrainian President Zelensky – Edits Out Him Responding to Nazi Azov Battalion Atrocities “They Are What They Are”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/fox-news-interviews-ukrainian-president-zelensky-edits-responding-azov-battalion-atrocities/
NOTE: Russian POWs are being tortured as illustrated by one of the favorite tactics of their Ukrainian captors, which is to shoot the prisoners in their knee caps. Many have been murdered, all of these atrocities are in violation of international law.
I agree with Craig. If a “chemical attack” occurs, it will be a false flag operation, staged by Ukraine … or by others that have an interest in expanding this war by provoking a “response” from the USA, or NATO. In any crime, motive plays a key roll in determining guilt; there is absolutely nothing to gain by the Russians to mount such an attack, and in contrast, everything to lose.
I agree as well that the USA was very much active in the revolt in 2014 that led to the overthrow of the Russian friendly government, only to be replaced by an American puppet government that immediately turned hostile against Russia. America has a very long and sordid history of conducting coups all over the world. IMO, we are beginning to reap what we have sown.
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Thank you, Ray, as always.
First, war is hell. Whether it was our war against Hitler’s thugs, or against Imperial Japan, or in Korea or Vietnam, or in Afghanistan and Iraq. There is nothing sweet or nice about it.
Second, the victors don’t play by rules; war crimes tribunals are time-consuming “witch hunts” by the victors, at best; and the rules of the Geneva Convention are ignored, at the very least. International “rules” are written by the victors.
Third, I know essentially nothing about the Azov group, other than a quick scan of Wiki and the following article about its savagery.
See
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10684031/Woman-tortured-raped-Russian-troops-burned-SWASTIKA-corpse-Ukrainian-MP-claims.html (“Woman ‘was tortured and raped by Russian troops who burned a SWASTIKA on to the skin of her corpse’, Ukrainian MP claims”)
I do know of Putin’s crimes, most of which have been truly unspeakable. To my way of thinking, he cannot be terminated fast enough.
Fourth, Putin is a professionally-trained killer. That and power are all he knows. He must be put down like a rabid animal.
Fifth, “regime change” is what our intelligence agencies know and do. Are mistakes made? Do they cost lives? Of course that’s true. But to reach conclusions, we would have to analyze each one of them.
Sixth, like Hitler and Stalin and Mao, Putin is a blight on mankind. Nothing justifies what he has done or is doing — or his existence.
Seventh, at this critical juncture in American history, we don’t have a President or Vice President. Kamala Harris is waiting for Biden to croak.
See, e.g., https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10681745/President-says-lady-Jill-Biden-VP-latest-gaffe.html (“Oh, Joe! President says first lady Jill Biden was Obama’s vice president – a job he held for EIGHT years – in latest blunder during ceremony to commission Navy’s newest nuclear submarine”)
Eighth, the world is witnessing genocide, like that perpetrated by Hitler’s Nazis.
See, e.g., https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10681529/Boris-Johnson-condemns-Russias-despicable-attacks-Ukrainians-Bucha-Irpin.html (“‘It’s not a battlefield, it’s a crime scene’: Putin’s fleeing troops leave behind 410 bodies amid evidence of civilian executions, rapes and mass graves in worst European atrocity since Balkan Wars as Europe’s leaders call for international probe”)
Lastly, in many ways, Putin has patterned his regime after Hitler and not Stalin. Stalin was crude and uncouth; whereas, Hitler began as an artist, and was responsible for some of the greatest propaganda in history.
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Tim,
In your opinion, is Ukraine worth risking Nuclear War with Russia?
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Good question, Ray.
My sense is that the choice may not be ours. Having left Afghanistan in humiliation and disarray, both Putin and Xi Jinping knew exactly what they were dealing with: brain dead Biden . . . and of course Kamala Harris too.
If you and/or I were in their shoes, and were chess masters as they are, we would know that Ukraine and Taiwan were ours, if no mistakes were made.
Their “axis of evil” would be victorious; it would be simply a function of time. Yes, Putin and the world underestimated the courage and will of the Ukrainian people, and how tenaciously they would fight.
Will Putin “double down” and attempt to decapitate Ukraine’s leadership (e.g., with tactical nukes), including Zelenskyy? My guess is yes, but I hope not because if Putin kills Zelenskyy and others, he will be a global pariah; and his fate may be sealed. He will have an enormous price on his head.
At that point, he may be boxed in, and feel he has no choice except to launch nukes. But whom would he strike? Us? NATO countries? Non-NATO neighbors? Again, the choice would be his, not ours . . . unless we totally capitulated and went on bended knees like Chamberlain did at Munich.
And how would Xi Jinping react? Having been given “manna from Heaven,” China would move on Taiwan and elsewhere, so I believe.
Lastly, Zelenskyy is solidifying his position as a global superstar. If Putin kills him, the world may clamor for Putin’s head on a platter. He would be stupid not to know this.
See, e.g., https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10682607/Were-going-keeping-peoples-names-mouths-Trevor-Noah-mocks-Smith-Grammys.html (“‘Tell the truth about this war’: Zelensky makes surprise Grammys appearance and tells the audience via video link of Russian atrocities as evidence of genocide is revealed in Ukraine”); see also https://www.the-sun.com/news/5045167/ukraine-mayor-executed-russians-shallow-grave/ (“Ukraine mayor ‘executed by Russian troops alongside husband & son and dumped in shallow grave’”) and https://metro.co.uk/2022/04/04/ukraine-war-horrifying-picture-shows-swastika-on-corpse-of-rape-victim-16402227/ (“Ukraine war: Horrifying picture shows swastika on corpse of rape victim”) and https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10683603/EXCLUSIVE-Ukrainians-fled-war-torn-cities-reveal-horrifying-sex-attacks-witnessed.html (“‘The Russians were animals. A girl aged 15 was raped along with her mother’: Ukrainians who managed to flee war-torn cities reveal horrifying sex attacks and murders they witnessed”)
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