The King in Yellow

I wear no mask

“Camilla: You, sir, should unmask.

Stranger: Indeed?

Cassilda: Indeed it's time. We all have laid aside disguise but you.

Stranger: I wear no mask.

Camilla: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!

The King in Yellow, Act I, Scene 2.”

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8492/8492-h/8492-h.htm

The true face of the Ukrainian Nazi regime has been known to followers of this conflict for a long time, but of late, even the TV-addled masses have observed the gilded media mask slip.

Ukrainian losses in the grinding war have been catastrophic. Catastrophic. There can be no ‘official’ tally at this time. The sober estimates provided by the Russian Ministry of Defense are probably understated, while the claims of Ukraine and its sponsors are utterly worthless. Leaks from the Ukrainian front-line speak of units of fresh recruits being annihilated within days of arriving at the front, not even seeing the Russians. A claimed intercepted communication from the Ukrainian general staff spoke of 190,000 dead and more than 300,000 permanently incapacitated. Zelensky vehemently denied these numbers, claiming 9000 Ukrainian dead, having killed 70,000 Russians. Some western cheerleaders claim Russian casualties are well over 100,000. These numbers are simply ludicrous. A fantasy. Why not claim a million?

Vladimir Putin just authorized an uplift in the size of the armed forces of the Russian Federation from 1,902,758 to 2,039,758. That’s a little over 130,000 people overall. It’s important to note these numbers are total, including supporting personnel in all roles, so we’re not talking about front-line troops here. Hardly a sign of crisis.

Despite the slow but steady progress of the Russian Forces, western media and politicians continue to repeat the mantra of Russian defeat, of stalemate, of Ukrainian counter-offensives that are shortly to turn the tide of victory. All that is required to secure that final victory is another $10 billion, another shipment of ‘wunderwaffen’, more ammunition, more sanctions…….more……

“Steiner!!”

It’s a fantasy with real world consequences - for other people. For the Ukrainian’s its just more useless deaths. Just this week a train filled with hundreds of conscripts being shipped to the front was intercepted with an Iskander missile, virtually wiping them out to a man. Catastrophic losses. An entire generation of young Ukrainians are being shoveled into the rich black earth, for what? For a lie.

If it were a civilian train, with civilian casualties, the media would be broadcasting the images non-stop. There has been no atrocity porn this time because it was a military target. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/08/ukraine-previously-cited-high-casualty-rates-now-it-is-now-lowballing-its-numbers.html#more

Actually, that’s only partially true. Since the coup in 2014, Ukraine has become the money laundering capital of western finance. No sooner had the Ukro-Nazi’s stormed the Winter Palace than the country’s gold reserves disappeared into the hold of a US military aircraft, never to be seen again. Trillions of dollars in international aid and World Bank loans have been laundered through Ukrainian banks and disappeared offshore. Plum contracts and board seats were dolled out to the worthless scions of US Democratic Party politicians.

The money laundering opportunity that war presents has only escalated the free-for-all, with billions - probably trillions now - of aid dollars being funneled away into offshore accounts. Billions in weapons - often obsolete and useless relics of the Soviet era - are being bought up in the Third World and sold by middle-men at astronomical mark ups. The governments and politicians in the west are actively involved in this scheme. European citizens face a catastrophic winter this year, while their politicians pocket their nations tax revenues and illegal arms trade profits “to save Ukraine.” The mantra everywhere is that ‘we [meaning you plebs] face hard times ahead, but it’s worth it.’ It certainly is worth it for the political class who expect to suffer no inconveniences for their greed and irresponsibility.

But there are cracks opening up everywhere. The pro-western, pro-sanction Bulgarian government was kicked to the curb in recent elections. Draghi in Italy resigned - getting out before the shit really hits the fan. The mercenary power-monger, Boris Johnson of the UK was thrown out by his own party. The Tory’s are now choosing between two milquetoast non-entities who will continue the same self-destructive policies. The useless Scholz in Germany is facing a no-confidence vote as the powerful German industry lobby turns its anger against him. Hungary and Serbia are almost the only two European nations standing up for national sovereignty and sanity. I’m sure there are active plans against them and their leaders.

I’ll take a pause here to recommend a very good article by Karl Sanchez, published in VK (an archive copy is here for those not on VK https://archive.ph/iV0SP Sanchez indentifies the Ukrainian operation as a last ditch effort of the plundering nations (led by the US) to seize total economic control of the world. As more of the world slips out of their grasp as the world breaks into multipolar spheres, they are turning on each other and their own citizens. The monster must be fed.

Saturn devouring his children, Francisco Goya. 1819-1823

Both Marx and Lenin observed that finance capitalism is built on a system of diminishing returns and will inevitably consume itself. Russia observed this obvious weakness and allowed the west to accelerate its own destruction.

“The policy choice by the Outlaw US Empire to use Ukrainians as an anti-Russia force and to support them until they're totally spent while the Empire continued its plundering opened up a unique opportunity for Russian strategy--Russia would oblige the Outlaw US Empire's policy by ensuring NATO would bleed itself dry of its arms and munitions in supporting Ukraine while Russia went about demilitarizing all Ukraine had to start with plus all that's being sent. And then there were the sanctions, which Russia knew might hurt some but would become a very sharp weapon against the sanctioners that would generate chaos and possibly split the EU/NATO enemy organizations once and for all that would create a blank slate for a new Eurasian security arrangement fashioned mostly by China and itself. The result shows Russia gaining strength while NATO weakens daily to the point where NATO nations will be too poor to finance rearming themselves in the face of vast societal upheaval caused by their policy choices. Talk about Hybrid War!”

Karl Sanchez

For this reason, Russia shrugs at continued western intervention. Send more weapons. Send more ammunition. Spend more money. It will come and we will destroy it. Eventually there will be no more Ukrainians to be killed and the war will move somewhere else. Time IS on Russia’s side.

The Arsonist

In accordance with the RAND paper “Overextending and Unbalancing Russia”, the US and its allies have attempted to light spot fires on Russia’s borders to distract it. Tensions were escalated in Syria, but quickly stomped out. The US attempted to restart the conflict with Iran, but then retreated when the Imams pushed back. The Baltic state(lets) and Finland declared their intention to impose a military blockade in the Gulf of Finland, but quietly let the matter slide after ‘words’ were exchanged with Russia. The US threatened India with sanctions, but were sent on their way. An attempt to fan the terrorist flames in Afghanistan failed and the Taliban regime increased its cooperation with Russia to suppress the US-backed ISIS remnants. French colonial forces were thrown out of Mali and replaced with Russian-backed security forces. The visit by deep-state money-laundering bagman Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan degenerated into the clown show all expected it to be. Another great US triumph of ‘de-plomacy.’

US deep state planners assume that each of these adventures ‘cost’ the Russians. Unfortunately all the costs boomeranged onto them. Every farcical misadventure is being watched by the rest of the world and conclusions are being drawn, alliances are being reorganized and the ‘plundering nations’ grip on the rest of the world is slipping ever faster through their fingers.

The Mask is Off

Meanwhile, back in Ukraine, people still need to be shoveled into the furnace. Even the most cynical monsters among them understand that very shortly the line will break and there will be a rapid collapse. The desperation of Zelensky ‘Glory to the Heroes’ and his backers is now palpable and even his cheerleaders are feeling uneasy. Demands that all Russians be banned from travel to Europe sent a shimmer of disquiet around the west. “Discrimination” has problematic implications and no politician wants to be associated with such a move.

To desperate violence then! Ukrainian forces turned their American manned HIMARS wunderwaffen on the Antonovski bridge in Kherson and then - shockingly - on the nuclear power plant in Zaporozyhe, ludicrously claiming that the Russians, who have occupied the plant since March, were shelling themselves in order to create a nuclear catastrophe. This plan, which must have been agreed with the US, was a cynical attempt to use nuclear blackmail to get ‘peace keepers’ into the front-line and freeze the conflict before a complete Ukrainian collapse. The war must be prolonged! Russia rightly refused and called for international inspectors to visit the plant, something the US immediately vetoed - again exposing US hypocrisy. For those with a memory, this is simply a repeat of the Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 atrocity, performed by the Ukrainians at the instigation of the US paymasters to salvage the unsalvageable.

Following the Zaporozyhe debacle, a number of Russian troops in the region tested positive to botulinum poisoning. Samples are being analyzed. I’m sure there is nothing to see here, not in a country where there are dozens of US sponsored biological weapons labs. The Russians probably did it to themselves.

In Sevastopol there were a number of incidents of local terrorist activity, setting fire to arms depots and dropping grenades on the naval headquarters from small drones. It was little more than a nuisance but a sign of things to come.

The US has a love affair with terrorists, from the South American death squads, to the Chechen Islamists, to ISIS and now the Ukrainian Nazis, so it was only matter of time before the war moved from formal peer-peer warfare to terrorism. Darya Dugin, daughter of Russian conservative philosopher and pundit, Alexander Dugin, was assassinated by a car bomb on 20 August 2022. The intended target was probably Alexander Dugin, whom lazy western pundits and politicians credit with influence of Russian president Vladimir Putin. The Ukrainians and their sponsors immediately went on a media campaign to both distance themselves from the murder (again, those Russians are murdering themselves) and justify it.

The Ukrainian ambassador to Kazakhstan, Pyotr Vrublevsky, went on the record to channel the Nazi propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, stating, “We are trying to kill as many [Russians] as possible. The more Russians we kill now, the fewer our children will have to.” Kazakh authorities censured him over his remarks.

The Ukrainian ambassador to the Vatican Andrey Yurash, in response to a message of sympathy from the Pope to Dugan’s family, tweeted “Today’s speech of Pope was disappointing & made me think about many things: can’t speak in Same categories about Аggressor & Victim, Rapist and Raped; how Possible To Mention 1of ideologists of 🇷🇺 Imperialism As innocent victim? She was Killed By russians As Sacred Victim & is Now On Shield of War”.

The western public may be discomforted by these acts of despicable violence, but the political classes aren’t. For them it is de-rigueur and besides, their bought and paid for media mouthpieces will obfuscate and suppress unappealing facts, leaving the citizens safely ensconced in their bubble…. for a short while. “Winter is Coming.”

As Bismark observed, the Russians will always demand their pound of flesh and the Ukrainian elite and their western sponsors should worry. In one of Putin’s drolly witty comments in the lead up to the Ukrainian operation he wondered aloud, “what happened to the Chechen [terrorist] leaders?” Well, they’re all in the ground. They and their sponsors.

Arrangements are well advanced on the public war crimes trials shortly to start in Mariupol and the survivors of Azov will be the star witnesses in the dock. The Ukrainians, with US help, tried to kill as many of them as they could with a HIMARs missile strike on the prison where they were being held. Not the whole prison mind you - just the wing with the Azov prisoners. It will be a shit show.

There really is something mentally ill with the current generation, who love to document every moment of their lives on Tik Tok, Facebook or whatever. It’s no different with these Nazis. Every one has a phone filled with photos and videos and social media posts of their atrocities. All of this has been scooped up by the Russians and the true horror will soon be there for all to see.

The crimes go right to the top, higher than Zelensky, the actor. They go right the way up. The western elites hope that the manufactured energy and food crises they are imposing on their people will keep them distracted and demoralized enough to ignore all that stuff over there, probably Russian propaganda. I doubt it.