UKRAINE, WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON?

Putin is old-time KGB so very much authoritarian to the core. Once he was installed in power, everything quickly became "my way or the highway," except, in his case, the "highway" meant dead! He's murdered 17 journalists so far and countless others... Like most in high office, he lives in a bubble. I seriously doubt that he has a cell phone or a personal computer etc. he knows only what his advisors tell him...and, bringing bad news to a guy like him isn't healthy. His frame of reference is based in the 1960-70's so, very much out of touch with current culture and thought.

Ukraine isn't working out according to plan but, I doubt he's getting accurate reports from the guys in Kremlin or in the field. For example, in Ukraine there are IED's on every road, vacant homes and wood piles are booby-trapped. Thousands of mines have been placed and snipers are taking out Russian officers and men every day. Wells are poisoned and supply depots destroyed. Stinger and Javelin missiles are knocking out helios, aircraft and armored vehicles (tanks) every day. The Ukrainians are fighting on home ground which, in the general understanding of warfare, gives them a 6 to 1 advantage. As the inferior force, they employ hit and run rear-guard tactics - an overall strategy difficult for a superior force to counter...

None of this (or very little) is shown on the hundreds of hours of TV war coverage. We see instead, gaping smoking holes in buildings and hear of (and see) civilian casualties but, very little of actual war-fighting is filmed or, what is isn't being shared or given to the networks. The Ukrainian military doesn't (as yet) imbed journalists as we frequently and stupidly did and do. When figures like "ten thousand dead Russians" are heard, it's not un-realistic to assume that they may about right considering the scope of the war as we describe it above. At the start of the conflict, the Ukrainians had some 200,000 in the armed forces which included their air force. Today, that number is over 250,000 with Europeans and many (thousands) of civilian volunteers joining up.

To see bombed out buildings, as appear every hour on every station, is frighteningly reminiscent of Germany and London in WWII. That such is happening today is unbelievable, shocking and monstrously grotesque. That we are so appalled and enormously enraged at Putin for causing such a totally unprovoked, pointless, bizarre and insane conflict probably somewhat surprises him and the Russian government. I'm certain the Ukrainian resistance surprises them even more!

In a sick kind of way, it is only the enormous capacity to bring universal death with the release of atomic bombs that keeps Putin safe from the just wrath of furious nations. Mutual assured destruction is a powerful tool of restraint in a hugely divided and very angry world. However, the civilized powers are finding many other tools to express their disgust anger and hatred.

Russia economically today is naught but a "gas station" as far as world business goes and what he's selling is being increasingly turned off. Russia's wealthy and the Russian government are being squeezed and shut out of civil society. Their western accounts have been frozen and their homes, businesses, yachts and private aircraft seized. Russia has lost access to the western banking system and credit cards. Russian airlines are banned from all western countries. The Russian currency has lost half its value and is falling further. Imports are being cut and the Russian people will and are feeling greater effects. The result of the above is to isolate Russia and hold them up as an evil pariah nation. European courts are gathering evidence of "war crimes" and will hold the Russian politicians and military officers accountable.

Of course, millions of younger more culturally advanced and educated Russians are as appalled and disgusted by Putin's ugly and naked aggression as we are. The FSB and police goons are beating and jailing them by the hundreds for protesting against "fearless leader." Their bravery and courage does not go unnoticed or unappreciated.

We have heard from some sources that the Ukrainian government is a Soros and globalist, Nazi creation and corrupt to the core. Interestingly, the president is Jewish which we would suppose might be a problem for the Nazis? We are also told that many laboratories were making horrible diseases for the NWO to use against humanity. Since we all know that Biden and many other world class evil criminals are and were deeply involved in the Ukraine, these stories carry some credence.

However true all that may be, absolutely nothing lessens the terrible truth of what Putin is doing in murdering many thousands of civilians while destroying their homes and cities with his irresponsible mad bombing and shelling. Since the war began, over a million refugees have fled Ukraine and many more are hiding in cold basements and shelters with power food and water in short supply or absent altogether. In this war, Russia is acting in the most evil, wrong and satanic way possible. It is this truth that by far outweighs and eclipses the stories of or realities of Ukrainian corruption.

By way of mitigation and to add to balance, let me say that every government in every country worldwide has and has had its share of corruption. Government exists only by taking power and money from the people. No government has ever once earned a legitimate profit and never will. It is the nature of all government to coerce and confiscate. Indeed, there is no other way as no one will willingly hand-over their hard-earned money to a scumbag bureaucrat. Having worked in Government, I learned that not one dime has ever left DC that did not and does not have a kick-back attached for the political class.

For example, the ten billion Biden and company are currently asking for to give to Ukraine won't go to Ukraine. It will instead go to American arms manufacturers who will provide war materials that will be sent to the Ukraine. From experience, I can tell you that about 25% of the total will be funneled in a thousand ways into the campaign coffers and pockets of politicians. $2.5 billion will be hacked up and deposited into the pockets and accounts of dozens of biden   cronies such that no one will ever be able to follow or even find the money or prove malfeasance. That, my friends, is an obscene level of corruption making whatever went or goes on in the Ukraine pale into insignificance. Why else do you think that anyone would spend millions to win a government office for a job that pays only thousands on a W2?

Robert J. Firth

Boca Raton Fl

2/6/2022