Ukraine is a laboratory to test new weaponry, but it is done with a huge human cost

Ukraine has become a testing ground for new weapons, but it is done with a huge human cost

What was a country has become a huge testing ground for weapon makers to test their new arsenals. So I do understand why those interested in transforming Ukraine into a place to try new weapons are not interested in any kind of peace as peace will deprive weapon makers from the opportunity to see what their weapons can do for real on the battlefield.

I believe that those making money by making weapons could not care less about human lives as long as they keep making money. I also believe that many politicians and leaders mention peace because they feel that it makes them look good. In reality, they could not care less about peace. 

Take everything EU leaders say with a pinch of salt. In private, they are rubbing their hands with glee thinking about profits. This is really the business of war. Nowadays, when other branches of economic activity are faltering, war is seen as an opportunity to money and for this reason so called leaders are more than willing to sacrifice entire generations on the battlefield. Europe is governed by butchers who could not care less about their own fellow citizens because they see ordinary people as expendable.

UK Money Laundering networks- More than a billion Pound via small shops in UK

 

More than a billion Pound money laundering scheme using Vape shops, hairdresser shops, barber shops, and a wide range of small firms like corner shops. 

Given the costs of running a company in the United Kingdom, I have always wondered how many so called small shops manage to survive given operational costs that would not be justified given the revenues that the said companies can get. Remarkably many would be making losses every single day. Now, researchers seem to have found that the said companies that on average remain open for up to 6 months have unsuspected sources of income.

The six months cycle allows those using the said companies for money laundering to move under the radar, before the state has had the time to have a look at what is actually going on. More than a billion Pound is a sizeable number, monies that could be used by drug Cartels and other criminal organizations, including terrorist networks. British borders are not just porous. They are wide open. You could pay and maintain a small army with that amount of money, an army that could demolish Britain from within.

Britain is a Paradise for those wanting to acquire all kinds of weaponry. It is not a matter of lack of supply. If you have got buying power, you will certainly be a very satisfied customer, able to bring down Britain to its knees. While politicians are used to focus on geopolitics and external enemies, something is going on inside Britain. The number of illegal migrants coming from certain countries are mainly males of fighting age, combined with a vast supply of resources, including weaponry, is the stuff nightmares are made of. 

Governments in Britain are more interested in protecting "the rights of illegal migrants" than in making sure that Britain is not destroyed from within.  Such levels of carelessness indicate how corrupt and how inept UK politicians have become. 

Ukraine: Time to start translating what politicians actually mean before we cross the point of no return

Politicians hide their real intentions by making statements that sound appealing but point the world in the wrong direction.

Words like equality, fairness, and many others like them can be used to hide the intention to carry out criminal activities. 'We cannot afford it' - translation: we can afford it, but we simply don't want to pay for it. 'That is impossible', 'we wouldn't do that'. Expressions like these are very much part of the armoury of conmen. 'Trust me', 'read my lips'. Wasn't George Bush Sr as President that told Americans that there would not be more taxes. 

As a politician told me after he made a very strong statement to the media, 'that is only for the media'. He had no real intention of doing what he announced. In essence, if you don't trust politicians you are surely on the right track. Deception after deception, billions of US Dollars were 'lost in Iraq' and are being 'lost in Ukraine'. They tell you that nobody knows where the monies went, that there is no accountability, that we are going to continue investigating until we find the truth. Lies upon lies and no real intention of telling you what actually happened or who got the monies. In essence, they do know where the monies went, but they don't want to tell you where the monies went because telling you where the monies went would reveal something unpalatable, something criminal.

As President Ronald Reagan could not get the monies to support the Contras in Nicaragua, the CIA put in motion a plan that would involve soaking the US with narcotics produced by the Cartels. The Contras had no real intention of fighting against the Sandinistas. They just used the opportunity given to them to make money. The Contras got the weapons and exchanged the weapons for drugs produced by the Cartels and used the secrecy to distribute drugs in the USA making huge profits. After many years and after the killing of a journalist that revealed what was really going on, the CIA was forced to come clean and reveal that the CIA had been involved in criminal activities to support an ill conceived plan that was bound to fail because it was based on false assumptions. If you follow what the media published in those days, you understand that media colluded with politicians in desastrous adventure that fuelled drug consumption and criminal activities in the USA.

The war in Ukraine is making some people extremely wealthy because the war is being used as an excuse to extort money and the whole affair is nothing more than a gigantic criminal network. Much of what was supposed to be sent to Ukraine has already ended in the hands of international criminal networks.

Western stupidity with the expansion of NATO towards the East caused the conflict in Ukraine

 

NATO expansion towards the East caused the conflict in Ukraine. President Reagan promised Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would not get closer to the borders and NATO has done exactly the opposite of what was promised to Mikhail Gorbachev.

The reason Ukraine was not incorporated into the European Union was the gigantic levels of corruption existing in Ukraine that bankrupted Ukraine, not allowing Ukraine to pay for the energy that it needed. 

This led to scandal after scandal that completely destabilized Ukraine and led to internal insecurity with gangs of armed men terrorising ethnic Russians in Ukraine and after a decade of abuses committed against ethnic Russians, including announcements about banning Russian language that incidentally is widely spoken in Ukraine including by those who hate Russians, it came the point when the Russian Federation run out of patience and intervened to protect ethnic Russians.

Fuelling the conflict with weapons and money that will not be accounted for and cannot be accounted for, the main beneficiaries of the conflict will be international criminal organizations as weapons and money are already going out of Ukraine and falling into the hands of the said criminal organizations. As there are conflicts across Middle East, Africa and Latin America, there is a fertile ground for market expansion of the weapons trade.

The War in Afghanistan lasted about 20 years at an incalculable cost. Will the War in Ukraine go the same way?

 

The events in the USA on September 11th, 2001 were a long way from the date when the War in Afghanistan came to an end.

After the initial interest in the conflict, people simply forgot about it and continued living their lives as usual as if nothing was happening. 

At the end, public interest was renewed and it turned into a subject of national and international debates trying to discern what was actually achieved or not achieved. Soonafterwards, it ceased to be a fashinable subject to talk about. 

Now, we have the conflict in Ukraine, a conflict that actually started several years ago, before open hostilities. The question that arises is if the conflict in Ukraine will not go on very much like the War in Afghanistan. Is there a real interest to put an end to the conflict or is there an agenda to keep it going indefinitely? The USA has invested more than 64 billion US Dollars and like it happened in both Iraq and in Afghanistan, untraceable amounts of money went somewhere, but there is little accountability. The same happens with war materials that some say are already in the hands of international gangs. We must remember what happened to weaponry and war materials in Afghanistan and before that in Nicaragua. The Contras and drugtrafficking cartels were in business exchanging weapons for drugs that ended up being sold in the USA.

With the veil of secrecy that accompanies any war, money laundering, arms trafficking and illegal earnings are part of the deal because everything becomes an issue of National Security. 

Contradictory Messages: Weapons? Bad thing? Good thing?

Contradictory messages create serious problems

When German Chancellor Olaf Scholz made the announcement that Germany is ready to invest billions of Euros to beef up its Armed Forces, he forgot to emphasize that thousands upon thousands of Germany will be expected to be trained to use war weapons in combat.

For many generations since World War Two, the German peoples were showered with messages of guilt because of the events of 70 or so years ago. For many generations, Germans were told how bad going to war was. Trying to change all that because of what is happening in Europe nowadays is a dangerous gamble that might reawake what many have tried to forget and have tried to make others forget.

In the USA, Americans grow up with messages about bearing arms and this is the subject of a major debate nowadays. But now let's look at the facts. America needs people trained and ready to bear arms because it has military bases in practically every corner of the world and is simultaneously involved in conflicts around the world both directly and indirectly. If at any point in time you are going to ask your people to go to war, you cannot tell them that they cannot bear arms or be used to bear arms.

Politicians across the so called Western World must stop sending contradictory messages because contradictory messages will cost lives. If you are going to be asked to go to war, bearing arms and knowing how to deal with weapons is a very good thing indeed.

We need consistency. When we talk about budgets there is always talk about increasing funding for education, health and transport and development project. President Donald Trump's criticism of NATO partners was about NATO countries 'not spending enough in defense and expecting the USA both to pay for defense and to provide manpower to fight wars'. Producing a bigger war machine will not be popular with environmentalists. Heavy industries needed for the war effort and the infrastructure involved will consume vast amounts of energy that will come mainly from fossil fuels.

During a television debate in the process to select a new Conservative Party Leader and Prime Minister, candidates were asked about their environmental credentials. They had to come with the usual politically correct answers. Instead of telling the truth, they had to produce the same politically correct answers that never reflect reality. They needed to tell members of the public what they thought members of the public wanted to hear. To sum up, they had to lie in front of television cameras to appease environmentalists and pseudo environmentalists.

The reality is that we need vast amounts of cheap energy wherever and whenever we can get it. Expensive energy produces inflation that destroys incomes. If you want more for your money, you need cheaper energy in vast amounts. Quite a few people ignore the link between cheap energy and prices or simply pretend that the link does not exist. The same goes for readiness for war. You don't create and have trained Armed Forces overnight. It takes years. People need to be used to bear weapons. They need to know how to use weapons. Pacifist nonsense will get you killed. So you have got to make a choice. If politicians keep issuing threats, sooner that later there will be a major conflict. There are two choices: they can continue issuing threats and invest in the war machinery or they can stop issuing threats and prepare themselves for a diplomatic solution. Once again, we need consistency. 

     

Ukraine Crisis or Oil and Gas Casino?

 

Ukraine Crisis or Oil and Gas Casino

While most people and the mass media seem fixed on events linked to a mythological invasion, what is happening to oil and gas shares around the world?

 

There are all kinds of headlines linked to events in Ukraine, but what is the reality of it all? Who is really making truckloads of money speculating in international markets? With the Covid pandemic and the loss of economic activity, oil and gas prices went down as demand went down. Then suddenly, economic activity started to pick up and oil and gas prices went up again. 

 

British newspapers were mentioned that should there be shortages of oil and gas, Britain would be receiving gas from.... Australia? You only have to look at mapamundi to see that there is a lot more than meets the eye. Container ships bringing American fracking gas across the Atlantic? Container ships bringing in gas all the way from Australia? As some environmental activists complain about air traffic including the use of private jets, has anybody stopped to think about the footprint of ships carrying vast amounts of gas and oil across vast oceans of the world? At what cost? Suddenly, you can forget about environmental targets because what we are listening about has nothing to do environmental targets and a lot do with geopolitical objectives and speculation in world markets.

 

India and China were a lot more honest when it comes to energy needs and energy sources. Yes, they will not phase out their production of coal - just to give an example - and they will continue building up coal energy plants. Undoubtedly, any talk about shortages and especially shortages due to geopolitical situations will benefit certain investors. War in Europe? How much money can we make out of it?

 

Recently, a very expensive jet fighter went down in Asia. There were the usual comments about the best American technology falling into Chinese hands because the jet crash on 'unfriendly waters'. How much did the aircraft cost? Who cares? There will be another aircraft to replace the one that crashed, and monies will be made by certain 'investors' that would like to have another war, another massive war, because wars are money making machines. They could not care less about human lives lost or ruined.

 

In more than one way, those who invest in wars are exactly what the drug cartels are about: quick riches regardless of the thousands upon thousands of lives lost or ruined. This is the business of war.

 

The fat cats will continue increasing their fortunes. Their helpers like the authorities of NATO will see their bank accounts grow and grow and they will continue making inflammatory speeches because the more inflammatory their speeches are a major war is ever closer.