Saturday 15 February 2025
Ukraine and Palestine.
Ukraine
Well, quite an eventful week in world politics and let’s start with Ukraine.
As I postulated way back at the start of this conflict, the US/NATO would fight Russia until the last Ukrainian, and more or less that is what has happened.
Ukraine has run out of soldiers to fight this unnecessary war and in figuring out the unnecessary part, you need to go back to where it started. No not the 24 February 2022 but back to the events in Maiden square and the insurrection set up by the US CIA in 2014.
I won’t go over all the history, but I have covered all that in blogs around about the time when Russia moved into the Russian-speaking Donbas area, to protect the population that the mainly Nazi Azzov brigade had oppressed.
Ok, so, let’s get back to where we are and that is that finally, and I hate to say this, thanks to Donald Trump, some realism is being projected into this debacle.
Now when I say “thanks to Donald Trump” let me qualify this seemingly, flattering accolade. Yes, the war was unnecessary and yes it is good to see it concluding, but Daft Donald is not doing this out of a sense of altruism, no he is looking for the deal of the century by requiring Ukraine to grant the rights to 50% of their rare earth mineral deposits.
If you ever want to find the reasons for either the start of a conflict or the ending of a conflict then just follow the money.
OK, and if ever anyone wants to see who started this and who will benefit from it, then it is there in plain sight, the US and just to prove it Vance has just told the naughty Europeans that they will have nothing to do with any negotiations for a settlement.
So to sum up, the US has shafted the economies of Europe, by crazy sanctions on Russia, especially oil and gas. The US has enriched itself by supplying the replacement gas and oil at four times the price that Russia was supplying it. Europe has supplied Ukraine with an abundance of weapons, which it will never be paid for and now that peace is a probability, Uncle Sam will take over negotiations, which will include further enrichment for the US in rare earth minerals.
My god, is it possible to construct more of an example of the sheer stupidity that Europe has been displaying?
Palestine
Ok so now Palestine, which has to be the most horrific display of abject cruelty to fellow human beings ever displayed by a single country and that Country is Israel.
Again I have covered the origins of this going back to the invention of Israel in 1948 and before that to the Jewish terrorist organisations such as Irgin and Stern Gang. Run by future Israeli politicians. One of which was in fact the first prime minister of the newly formed country of Israel David Ben Gurion, who famously ( in his previous occupation which was a terrorist) said “ I have a holiday in my heart every time a British soldier is slaughtered”
So back to the last week which kicked off with Dopey Donald saying that he wanted to own the Gaza Strip and turn it into a millionaire’s playground. The only problem was, that an inconvenient two million Palestinians were living there in an Israeli-inspired hell. The massive oil and gas reserves off the coast of Gaza might have had something to do with Trump’s muddled thinking. No problem to our Donald, he would simply and illegally ethnically cleanse them to Egypt and Jordan. Oh dear.
He had no sooner blurted out that nonsense than he came away with, “If all hostages were not released by 12 am on Saturday(today) then all hell would break out” Leaving the occupants of Gaza wondering exactly what his definition of hell was, after enduring almost one hundred thousand deaths in one and a half years in the genocide that Israel was carrying out.
Hamas’ response was not capitulation but a threat to stop the release of any of the hostages unless Israel ceased their violations of the ceasefire.
One thing Trump should have learned this week is that you can only bully countries that have something to lose, like Canada, Mexico, the UK, the 27 Countries in the EU et etc, but you can’t bully a country that has nothing left to lose apart from their integrity, and that is what happened.
Israel relented and allowed supplies, to once again reach Gaza and today as agreed according to the very tenuous ceasefire in place three Hamas hostages were released by Hammas and almost 400 Israeli hostages were realized by Israel.
Ok So that was the week in a nutshell and Trump has sent his suit to the cleaners to clean off all the egg that dripped from his sun lamp-altered face.
So time for a pint in Mennies, have a good weekend all.
And remember: Never be afraid to say what you honestly feel is the right thing to say.
And never be afraid to listen to what someone else believes is the right thing to say.
Invariably, the right thing is somewhere in between.
Bob Costello 