“The idea that we’re going to send in offensive equipment and have planes and tanks and trains going in with American pilots and American crews, just understand … that’s called World War III, okay? Let’s get it straight here, guys.” Biden added that “we will not fight the third world war in Ukraine.”

~ Joe Biden from two speeches in early March 2022

Proposition: People who oppose winding down the Ukraine conflict by totally withdrawing US support want to start World War III.

In case you think that’s a provocative or harsh statement, I agree that no one consciously wants to start World War III. However, there are many who want the entire West, led by the United States, to try to defeat Russia militarily.

That would start World War III. You can’t defeat a nuclear power if they believe that you are threatening their existence. This is the reason why great powers have nuclear weapons.

One of the main problems with understanding the Ukraine conflict, is that for the past 35 years there have been a growing number of neoliberal globalists and neoconservative interventionists who have contributed to the causes of war. They don’t want to fight Russia directly, but to use proxies and if there is a military response to these provocations, use sanctions to collapse the Russian economy. The end goal is to open up Russia’s vast natural resources worth about $75 trillion to Western control. From there, the stated purpose is to “pivot toward China” to accomplish the same objectives.

There is a bigger picture, the US “Forever War.”

The “forever war” is a series of conflicts in the past 35 years led by the United States after it emerged as as a unipolar hyperpower in 1991. These conflicts have gone on needlessly never achieving their objectives when most of the world has otherwise settled into a period of relative peace.

As Donald Trump recently said, “In the end, the so-called ‘nation-builders’ wrecked far more nations than they built — and the interventionists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand themselves.”

The forever war has become a self-licking ice cream cone. The neoliberals imagined that they won the Cold War and that we have reached the end of history. They imagine threats and contribute to the causes of wars that fund the money interests and the military industry, and it becomes a self-perpetuating cycle.

If we support politicians who always vote to fund wars, then we’re part of the cause. I hear this from people all the time. They have very strong opinions about who is right and who is wrong in these conflicts, as though they happen in a vacuum, without US influence. And then when pressed they say that they oppose sending their tax money to perpetuate the war. But then they continue to vote for funding foreign wars, hence the self-licking ice cream cone.

But you can’t be against the forever war and take a side and vote for the politicians who fund that side.

Root causes emanating from Western globalism certainly exist in the Ukraine conflict. To not admit that is dishonest. You don’t have to agree with Russia’s reaction to NATO enlargement. You don’t have to agree with their political system. And you don’t have to agree that causation equals justification for the invasion of February 2022.

Of course, anyone with a heart should be horrified by the killing. But the causes need to be addressed first.

You can be angry, shocked and horrified about the invasion of Ukraine and say it’s unjustified. But you shouldn’t deny that it was intentionally provoked by neoliberal Western globalists and egged on by their evil twin cousins, the neoconservative warmongers.

And now we even have many “elected” Western leaders (with military industry money) who are both incompetent and stupid, who keep saying that the Ukraine war is winnable and that we should just throw everything into it regardless of the consequences of escalation. They’re empty suits. They are the mouthpieces for the elites that control them.

The problematic irony here, is that there was never any plan to defeat Russia militarily. Even Joe Biden said that. He said In his trademark whisper, “That’s called World War III, okay? Let’s get it straight here, guys … we will not fight the third world war in Ukraine.”

The plan was always for a hybrid war — to crush the Russian economy and to force regime change — to isolate Russia geopolitically — to launch a massive media information campaign to portray Putin as a dictator of a hopelessly backwards and oppressed nation. Get Putin out of power and replace him with a Western client president. Then China could be dealt with as well. But they were mistaken because they don’t understand Russia. They don’t understand the system, culture or society. They see everything from a Western Liberal lens.

The truth is that Russia is a great power economically, politically and militarily. Putin has many friends in the Global South who admire his leadership. His popularity in Russia is huge, above 70%, but his popularity in Kazakhstan, Armenia, Moldova, Serbia and Vietnam is in the high 80 percentile range. Russia is also supported by long term partners India and China and numerous other emerging economies. The idea that Russia is isolated is a fantasy. Instead Western sanctions have hurt the European economy the most and our belligerent attitude has greatly harmed the United State’s reputation almost everywhere outside the West.

There is an even bigger picture, the shift to the “Multipolar World”

I’ve been to Russia 10 times and Ukraine 10 times. I spent many months out of my life there in the 1990s and 2000s. I understand the opposing points of view regarding Ukrainian nationalism fairly well by listening to Ukrainians themselves over the past 34 years.

I understand too that both nations are as Winston Churchill famously said, “a riddle wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” Both nations are cut from the same cloth in that on the surface they resemble Western nations, but deep down there is the complex Slavic soul that defies simple analysis according to Western pundits’ soundbites. The “Russia-whisperers” in our State Department and intelligence agencies who pretend to be experts are great pretenders. They don’t see that in engaging Russia in a military contest, the West is fighting tar baby. Even a non-nuclear land war with Russia would be a quagmire from which they would never escape. All the major powers among the Western nations have learned this the hard way over the past 200 years — France, Britain, Germany — and yet they never learn.

Yet what is happening right now on the world stage is an even bigger picture. In the same way that God judged fascism and communism in the 20th century, He’s now judging Western Liberalism.

In the summer of 1989, before communism collapsed, I wrote an article saying that the Soviet Union would break up into at least 15 separate republics. As far as I know, I am the only person to predict that in print (together with a big map of what I thought it might have looked like). Of course, this happened in December of 1991. And ever since that time, I’ve been saying that we are going to see something similar happen in the West as well.

See: The September 1989 issue of The Forerunner

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Mark my words. If I alone was right in 1989, then many more people see a coming collapse of the Western Liberal International Order (LIO).

In America, we have had Liberalism as our political system for almost 250 years, which can be defined as the religion of “egalitarian humanism.” It began as a system that imitated Christianity. Classical liberalism (which includes libertarianism and old school conservatism) was mostly compatible with Christianity. When I was a boy, we had the Liberal democratic system, one party was on the left, the other on the right. However, Liberalism, like communism and fascism, is a religion that became an anti-Christian cult.

Liberalism collapsed some time ago. Now this political ideology has become a simulacrum, a cheap imitation that continues a grotesque caricature, a clown show. Sometime in the 1990s, Western neo-liberal globalism became Liberalism’s replacement. Yes, there are still some differences between the two major political parties, but they are always united on funding the war machine. No matter who we vote for we always get John McCain. But that paradigm is now collapsing too. Our Western political leaders are like cats who have taken over a dinner table. They are clawing onto the tablecloth trying to be not swept off the table. As the plates, silverware and dishes get pulled down into a crashing mess, they create as much mayhem as possible. It’s a very dangerous time. And yes, World War III and a nuclear holocaust is a possibility unless these demented puppets are voted out by the people.

If it’s not done soon, it’s going to become more and more difficult for us to do without violence because the globalists also control the elections through money and various other means. They have already outlawed several conservative European parties labeling them “far right” and “fascist.” They have tried to assassinate leaders — unsuccessfully maybe due to their incompetence — and have arrested others, bought elections, sponsored color revolutions, and conducted coups. It’s not inconceivable that they could start WWIII as a last gambit to stay in power a while longer.

Many MAGA Republicans think that Trump can solve the problem, and in many ways he has the right ideas. He’s a peacemaker. But he’s also surrounded himself with a cabinet full of neocons. They all need to be fired, not simply demoted, but fired. And at least 80% of the Republican Congress and Senate is populated by neocons. They need to be voted out in the coming primaries in one year from now. Will we do it? Or will we continue to vote for more war that will destroy us economically or faster through nuclear fallout? I am hopeful and believe revolution is coming. The Europeans will also do their part, but it will take more time. As of right now, the only consistent leader opposing the globalists is a member of the Calvinist Reformed Church of Hungary. Coincidence?

Meanwhile in America, there is a Puritan Storm Rising.