West’s Dependence on Russia Oil and Gas accelerated after Georgia and Crimea Invasions
Russia’s attempt to annex the entire Ukraine centres on president Putin’s determination to appease his own population by containing food prices. Ukraine has the world’s highest concentration of black soil and it is the major repository of Europe’s arable production.
President Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was precipitated by increasing indications that Ukraine would secede entirely from the Moscow sphere of influence and into the hands of the Washington concensus.
Western disinformation has created an impression that president Putin launched his invasion because he is a power-crazed tyrant.
Yet it was the West which in such recent times consistently if indirectly signalled to Moscow that the time was right to retake Russia’s one time exclusively owned foodstore, Ukraine.
United States inspired ideologies empowered Russia in the invasion of Ukraine. The campaign against fossil fuels created the energy shortages in the United States itself and in Europe that gave Russia the sinews of war.
This was in the form of its energy exports revenues notably to the United States itself and also Germany.
Incredibly, Europe’s reliance on Russian oil and gas grew to an even greater dependence after Russia’s invasions of Georgia and Crimea.
These invoked embargoes which created food shortages.
These shortages still further accelerated the proportion of Russian household incomes devoted to buying food which rose to 50 percent. This is around five times as much as the proportion spent in most Western nations
The hesitancy about exiling Russia from international banking money clearances has much to do with maintaining Europe and the United States current and continuing dependence on Russian oil and gas.
Germany where anti fossil fuel ideologies first became transformed into a political movement led the way in Europe where almost half its energy requirements derive from Russia.
As a one-time Communist Party enforcer president Putin understands how prone the western intelligentsia is to its own ideologies.
Few doubt that the high profile calamities attendant upon the evacuation of Kabul operation were due to a diverting preoccupation at the time within the military of implementing the White House’s new race theories.
Moscow correctly saw that the United States singularity of purpose had become dissipated through the political need to adhere to voter-friendly ideologies.
Former United States senator-turned-broadcaster Scott Brown commented on this whole attitude at the outset of the invasion of the Ukraine.
He noted an atmosphere of “dilly dallying” in the highest places characterised by president Biden departing for a vacation at his Wilmington, Delaware, home.
This corresponded with the situation during the Kabul evacuation when it later became evident that key people in Britain and the United States were on holiday at the time.
Canada and New Zealand see fade out in projecting cherished idealism
The anti-government protest convoy that in succession jammed the parliamentary centres of Canada and New Zealand also jammed the resonance from these two capitals of a globe girdling priority on defeating race-based social justice and imposed victimhood.
How was it that these two ultra-progressive governments were hosts to the turning point in public protests in which class imperatives replaced cultural motivation?
Neither of the left leaning governments the one in Wellington and the one in Ottawa could ascribe the convoy action to a cultural conflict. The acid test came in Wellington where in a cat-barks-at-dog display university students lodged formal protest against convoy participants for blockading their access to their own Victoria University.
The convoy action smeared the reputations of Canada prime minister Justin Trudeau who was forced to expel the protesters by invoking extreme wartime emergency measures.
New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern whose motto is “Be Kind,” found herself subject to unparalleled personal invective while touring the nation’s South Island, usually a place of tranquillity in any public debate in anything at all.
One answer for the about face might be that the culture wars are considered to sap the sinew of a real war.
For example there is now a solid body of evidence that the United States high command was in fact so preoccupied by identitarian issues, notably critical race theory, that it was diverted from the operational reality of the evacuation of Kabul.
On the climate front we find that Russia has much of Europe in an energy supply stranglehold which came about as EU nations used net zero and other such slogans as an excuse not to invest in their own energy sources.
Similarly climatism in the form of the massively promoted COP26 in Glasgow became an inconclusive sideshow in spite of its heavyweight proponent British premier Boris Johnson, a climate convert through marriage, investing so much political capital in it.
These elements became compounded when John Kerry the United States special envoy on climate remonstrated against Russia’s imminent invasion of Ukraine on the grounds of its negative effect on emissions.
A dutiful mainstream media already terrified to probe into the pandemic’s origins now deliberately failed to see that the invasion followed in the immediate aftermath of the Beijing Winter Olympics, a keystone of China’s own internal propaganda even if it failed to grasp the imagination of the rest of the world.
The convoys attracted from the two leaders a certain undergraduate pique. In full graduate flight Justin Trudeau described his occupiers as misogynists and racists and science-deniers as a 'fringe minority' who 'hold unacceptable views,' and as 'a few people shouting and waving swastikas reinforcing this with accusations 'antisemitism, Islamophobia, anti-Black racism, homophobia, and transphobia'.
Labour prime minister Jacinda Ardern was much milder and her sternest word was “disgraceful” and this was only employed after agitators among the occupiers had in short order dealt police hospital-grade injuries, caused a motor vehicle to be driven threateningly into law enforcement, and cast offensive matter.
This series of events was reported by Al Jazeera, an important globalist trends indicator, and this severely damaged Miss Ardern’s ambition of presenting New Zealand as the ultimate global model for social justice.
Worse still there were intimations from these same proclaimed anti vaccination agitators that the new agribusiness lobby Groundswell would be following in the footsteps of their own convoy.
Miss Ardern is similarly determined to present New Zealand as the ultimate example of global climate conformity .
Faced with having vast tracts of high productivity grazing land forested over in order to reach pre-determined carbon dioxide targets Groundswell has taken careful note of the way in which the convey camp around Parliament has focussed the minds of politicians and public.
Typically Groundswell has taken over from the more genteel Federated Farmers which is still content to discuss with Miss Ardern’s government the various fractions of a decimal involved in the nation’s supposed contribution to world emissions.
Ottawa police chief Peter Slole resigned after criticism that he had failed to act decisively against the convoy crowd.
His counterparts in Wellington have been similarly criticised. Yet they know as does everyone else in any position of constituted authority at all that whatever happens or does not happen there can be no martyrs.
This concept was perfected by the police during the anti apartheid Springbok riots and it holds true today. Bones cannot be broken.
Canada and New Zealand Premiers Hyped expectations and Over-Promised
Justin Trudeau and Jacinda Ardern are the Commonwealth’s joint viceroys of virtue signalling. Yet a protest convoy from prime Minister Trudeau’s Ottawa fetched up a world away in prime minister Ardern’s Wellington causing it to become paralysed also.
How could these two leaders, the most accomplished and demonstrative cultural warriors, have become so effectively targeted by a protest that began in the bailiwick of one, and then ground to a disruptive halt in the capital of the other, Wellington?
At the height of their powers both these leaders could have appeared on a balcony and through the force of their mere presence have quieted the throng by intoning words to the effect that they felt its pain.
The soothed and hitherto unruly gathering thus implored would have quietly dispersed absolved and purified.
Mr Trudeau is often described as the “wizard of woke,” yet so serious was the threat in his capital, Ottawa, that he had to be spirited away to a place of safety.
The convoy protest conducted as it was on a widely dispersed global axis has introduced a new appraisal of the mechanics of the culture wars as a political instrument.
The Ottawa-Wellington mob scenes represent the clearest indication yet that the exponents of virtue signalling must be seen in themselves to be flawless, the personification of perfection.
In Wellington for example the demonstrators were drawn from precisely the same demographic that Miss Ardern pledges to protect and enhance.
At first Jacinda Ardern’s handling of the pandemic dramatically boosted her standing. Government health agencies successfully cauterised early outbreaks by what was described as cluster management.
Ever the politician Miss Ardern fed what became in the mainstream media an attitude toward her of unrestrained mystical reverence. One that was unsustainable.
She introduced each official broadcast clinician medical briefing with a demonstrably political and long winded monologue in which New Zealand’s progress in containing the pandemic was compared with the more sluggish performance of the rest of the world.
For Justin Trudeau the unravelling of the seamless cloak of perfection picked up speed after the release of a series of photographs showing him in fancy dress black and white minstrel mode. The hysterical reaction to this within Canada baffled the rest of the world.
After all he was a former drama teacher known to have an extensive repertoire of national costumes the better to demonstrate his own willingness to blend with ethnic communities and their aspirations.
Both countries share an underlying separatism made manifest by an emphasis on dual languages.
Both countries share a dominant issue in placating and appeasing separatist fissures. Both nations share the pandemic the containment regulations surrounding which provided the convoy movement its face value purpose.
There were lockdowns. Yet still the virus twisting and turning in its mutations defied orderly and methodical standard medical practice. Miss Ardern now rationed her podium exposure.
In both Ottawa and Wellington the motorised insurgents clamour to be recognised as victims of the government imposed measures to contain and eliminate the virus.
The premiers of both countries decline to “engage” with them. Both premiers can be described as socialists. Usually the insurgents would be the exact group category that the two premiers would wish to “engage” with in order to flaunt their common touch.
The two prime ministers share something else. Canada and New Zealand have the most biddable, the least excitable populations in the Anglosphere if not the world.
For Miss Ardern the most worrisome element of the horde surrounding and blockading parliament buildings is this. A media as recently two years ago in a state of thrall under her tutelage seems now to be conceding that the protesting throng might just have a point.
Both premiers became dazzled if not blinded by the way in which in foreign media they were consistently portrayed as secular saints.
Foolishly they failed to understand that this sanctification is in pursuit of the highbrow media’s own requirement to lock in and expand its own privileged audience as much as it is to enshrine any colonial prime ministerial save the worldliness.
The Ottawa and Wellington experiences shed a new light on what until even a few weeks even days ago was viewed institutionally as the unchallengeable formula for political pre-eminence which was to follow the approved globalist rule book of Reset.
We can now start to see that this formula works only if its proponents are themselves viewed as all seeing and all-knowing practitioners of stately virtue. Avatars of human perfection in other words.
As it is both these prime ministerial fallen angels, doctrinaires of diversity, have about them now the aura of being all too human.
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