Journalist Anthony Rubin of Muckcracker catches US government employees and contractors trafficking children at the US border. if there was ever any doubt in your mind that the United States is the number one trafficker of children, it will be put to rest after you watch this video.
We are talking about tens of thousands of children that are being put into massive concentration camps and empty Walmarts all across the state of Texas! Now you can understand why you’re not seeing any children accompanying the men across the border, they’re being taken by the US homeland Security officials.
This is as evil as it gets folks. The American government and the alphabet agencies are nothing more than mob like criminals. They are essentially a legalized mafia in action. We know that they’ve been trafficking illicit drugs for decades and now they’re trafficking children en mass!
And people wonder why God‘s wrath is coming for America. Unreal.
Dr. Patrick William Slater is a 60-year-old neurotologist. A few years ago, he had a full-time medical practice in Austin and enjoyed hunting and fishing in the mountains during his downtime.
Then, in October 2021, Dr. Slater came down with cerebellar ataxia, a disease affecting movement. He couldn’t eat or go to the bathroom without help.
While his ataxia could be managed using drugs, it wasn’t always effective against his biggest complaint: unprecedented panic attacks.
Almost every night, Dr. Slater would experience panic attacks that left him in “abject terror.” He thought about killing himself many times, he told The Epoch Times.
No one could provide a satisfactory answer about why he had developed these symptoms. Nothing abnormal showed up on his laboratory reports, and his neurologists and psychiatrists dismissed his symptoms as anxiety.
But Dr. Slater is convinced that the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines are the culprit.
Dr. Slater was suspicious when the symptoms first appeared within about two weeks of getting the second dose of the COVID shot. The second—and worse—wave of career-ending symptoms had coincided with his third shot.
After taking the booster, “there was no question in my mind,” Dr. Slater said.
Increase in Unusual Psychiatric Illness
Beginning in late 2020 with the COVID vaccine rollout, some doctors have seen an increase in unusual psychiatric illnesses.
Psychiatrist Dr. Amanda McDonald noticed a wave of psychiatric destabilization among her stable patients. They experienced flare-ups, often manifesting with worsened or new psychiatric symptoms.
symptoms.
“I couldn’t figure out why,” Dr. McDonald told The Epoch Times. “My patients typically stay stable.” But many stable patients were suddenly arriving at her office with insomnia, depression, and anxiety “without any sort of rhyme or reason.”
She increased some patients’ medication doses or added new drugs to their regimen, but it had little effect.
A recurring pattern Dr. McDonald sees is atypical panic attacks, which can feel like having a heart attack. Brought on with no apparent trigger, symptoms typically escalate as the evening progresses and climax at night. A typical panic attack can occur anytime throughout the day but often has triggers, and it is easy to treat if patients can avoid these triggers.
After spending over a year following her patients, Dr. McDonald realized that COVID-19 vaccines may be linked to their psychiatric illnesses.
“I already had an existing patient population when the pandemic hit that I knew very well. What I saw was manifestations in that patient population,” Dr. McDonald added.
Dr. Diane Counce, neurologist and neuroradiologist, observed an increase in severe anxiety and worsened mood.
“People also talk about how their personality has changed,” she told The Epoch Times. In cases where a family member has brought in a patient, “[The family] will say, ‘they’re just different.'”
Nurse practitioner Scott Marsland, who has treated hundreds of long-COVID and vaccine-injured patients at the Leading Edge Clinic, added that debilitating anxiety, depression, and insomnia are among the most common symptoms he has seen. However, some patients have also developed hallucinations and suicidality.
The Evidence
Unlike myocarditis, no conclusive proof exists that COVID-19 vaccinations cause psychiatric illness. A multitude of studies, however, have linked COVID-19 vaccines with psychiatric symptoms, including depression, anxiety, panic attacks, psychosis, and suicidality.
The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is a self-reporting database co-managed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), used to surveil for early warning signs of potential adverse reactions. VAERS has documented over 9,400 and 1,600 cases of anxiety and depression, respectively, in relation to the COVID-19 vaccines. The vaccines comprise, respectively, over 60 percent and up to 50 percent of all anxiety and depression reports on VAERS.
Other less common adverse reactions include 1,500 reports of panic attacks (over 80 percent of VAERS reports), over 1,100 cases of hallucinations (over 65 percent), and 975 cases of irritability (10 percent).
Psychiatric adverse reactions reported to VAERS after COVID-19 vaccination. (The Epoch Times)
Some researchers argue that the rare and fatal cases reported on VAERS may be a sign the system is being abused. In contrast, others believe they suggest a potential link to the vaccine and are worth investigating.
Psychosis
Psychosis includes both hallucinations and paranoia. Acute episodes after taking the shots have been reported in case studies.
In Brazil, a previously healthy woman in her late 30s developed refractory psychosis within 24 hours of getting the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. She was aggressive, had disorganized thoughts, and believed she was being persecuted in the hospital.
Doctors treated her with antipsychotics and mood stabilizers, but four months of hospitalization later, only her behavior had improved. Her psychosis remained
In Taiwan, a 15-year-old boy was sent to the hospital with agitation and uncontrollable limb stretching and screaming two days after his second Pfizer shot.
He exhibited bizarre behaviors in the hospital, including sitting up and lying down frequently with mannerisms like praying in the bed. He was prescribed antipsychotics, but the behavior persisted for over a month after discharge.
Doctors then put him on a steroid regimen. Steroids are anti-inflammatory and can help calm an overactive immune system. The boy’s symptoms improved.
In India, a 17-year-old girl who received an inactive COVID-19 vaccine developed psychosis within 48 hours. She became restless and suspicious, talked to herself, and had insomnia for a month.
abnormalities, and all her lab tests came back normal, including a COVID-19 test. Two weeks after being given psychoactive drugs, her symptoms resolved.
Symptoms onset shortly after vaccination, exclusion of other likely causes, and absence of genetic predisposition “indicate the psychiatric adverse event may be related to the vaccine,” researchers from All India Institute of Medical Sciences and District Hospital wrote in the case report.
Cases of psychosis lasting several days, weeks, and months have also been reported in the literature.
Screenshots of reports on psychotic adverse events in a Brazilian woman (L), an Indian girl (C), and a Taiwanese boy. (Screenshots via The Epoch Times)
Suicides and Suicidality
According to React19, a nonprofit advocacy group supporting people with postvaccine symptoms, suicide is a present risk for people with vaccine injuries. However, often, it is hard to determine whether people become suicidal due to their injuries becoming too unbearable or due to a primarily physiological reaction to the vaccine.
The CDC’s review of deaths reported after Pfizer vaccines found 14 deaths among vaccinated teenagers, two of whom died by suicide, with reasons unknown.
A study on 250 dental staff in Pakistan found that nearly 12 percent reported suicidal thoughts for a few days after vaccination. Around 1 percent had thoughts of suicide every day.
Individual case studies identified a Turkish man in his late 50s with no prior mental illness who arrived at the emergency department due to an attempted suicide within three days after taking a second shot. He was irritable, insomniac, and talking to himself.
A Japanese man’s case was vividly detailed by doctors from Wakayama Medical University (pdf).
He experienced fatigue after the first booster shot and, upon his fourth shot, developed a mild headache and a floating sensation.
Four days after vaccination, however, he became highly talkative with grandiose delusions, “saying that he had won 2 billion yen in horse racing. He also presented with emotional instability, such as crying when saying ‘Everyone would be happy.'”
The neurologist he saw found no neurological disorders, such as possible encephalitis, nor signs of infection. Over a week after vaccination, he jumped from the second floor of his house and was returned to the hospital by ambulance.
Suicide cases have been rising in the United States since the pandemic. In 2020, the CDC reported up to 46,000 suicides (pdf). This number increased to over 48,000 in 2021, and in 2022, nearly 50,000 people died by suicide. While pandemic restrictions like lockdowns and long COVID have been linked with suicides, no studies currently link increasing suicide rates with the COVID-19 vaccine.
Overlap With Cognitive Impairments
Psychiatric symptoms can also overlap with cognitive impairments like reduced memory. Dementia, for example, can manifest symptoms like depression.
Dr. McDonald treated a vaccinated patient who developed dementia-like depression. The patient, despite being in her 90s, was highly independent and lived by herself. After getting the booster, she was diagnosed with dementia and placed in a nursing home.
Taking ivermectin reversed her symptoms.
Neurologists like Dr. Suzanne Gazda, however, are concerned about untreated cases. “There are so many people that don’t even realize that they’re injured.”
Dr. Gazda has an integrative practice that treats thousands of patients with neurodegenerative diseases, and many report symptoms of cognitive decline with psychiatric symptoms.
Dr. Counce also has several vaccinated patients who developed brain atrophy. One patient had hippocampal atrophy with symptoms of memory loss and personality changes.
Possible Causes
But how exactly can vaccines lead to a person’s change of mental status and personality?
According to doctors who treat both postvaccine and post-COVID conditions, the two syndromes are quite similar in their symptoms.
Both the COVID-19 virus and the vaccines expose patients to the viral spike protein, which could cause inflammation. Depression is the disease best known for correlating with inflammation, though bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and anxiety are also linked.
mRNA technology has long been studied, and pre-2020 researchclearly shows that mRNA vaccines are highly inflammatory, holistic psychiatrist Dr. Aruna Tummala told The Epoch Times.
Dr. McDonald has found that anti-inflammatory drugs and therapeutics, such as ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, and hyperbaric oxygen therapy, often help patients stabilize their moods.
She prescribed ivermectin for her psychiatric patients who were destabilized after taking the vaccines and saw significant improvement.
As a doctor who treated hundreds of vaccine-injured and long-COVID patients, one day, she herself developed long COVID after infection. She woke up with unexplainable negative thoughts. “I put myself in a hyperbaric machine,” she recalled, and 10 minutes after, “my mood symptoms had disappeared.”
Blood clotting, a common harm caused by spike protein, reduces the oxygenation of tissues and renders them unable to function at optimum levels, forcing them to age.
Blood clotting in the brain can cause cognitive impairments and symptoms of anxiety, depression, and psychosis as neurons become stressed and damaged.
Dr. Counce had one patient who reported anxiety, erectile dysfunction, and visual impairment. Upon taking medication for his erectile dysfunction (vasodilator drugs that increase blood volume), his visual problems improved. Realizing that the patient had microclotting, Dr. Counce put him on aspirin and nattokinase and saw positive effects.
Spike protein can also directly harm the brain, possibly leading to a disturbance in brain activity and psychiatric problems.
It can also infiltrate immune cells, causing them to release histamine. Histamine can enter the brain and inflame and irritate the nerves.
Neuroinflammation has been linked to suicidality, and a type of anti-histamine medication has also been linked to reduced suicide.
Mr. Marsland has a postvaccine patient who only had physical symptoms. One day, the patient suddenly became suicidal.
After a painstaking conversation, Mr. Marsland figured out that the only change the patient made was switching from black tea to pu-erh tea.
“Pu-erh has incredibly high histamine content,” Mr. Marsland explained. “So he stopped drinking it, and guess what, within two days, he was back to baseline.”
Infections with certain viruses have also been linked with mental impairment. The COVID-19 virus and its spike protein have been shown to reactivate ancient viral genes in our bodies.
These genes are called human endogenous retroviruses, also known as HERVs, said Dr. Adonis Sfera, a psychiatrist at Patton State Hospital. HERVs are a family of viruses within the human genome.
Spike protein can also reactivate the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). EBV infections are similarly linked with psychosis.
COVID-19 vaccines have also been shown to damage the gut microbiome, possibly leading to psychiatric symptoms since many of our neurotransmitters are produced in the gut.
Histamine release (L), blood clotting (C), and HERV reactivation are three possible causes of psychiatric disorders after COVID-19 vaccination. (Shutterstock)
The Bigger Problem
While patients with vaccine-related psychiatric illnesses can often be treated, what’s concerning is that some vaccine-injured patients are diagnosed as mentally ill even though they aren’t.
Many patients develop physiological symptoms after vaccination. When they went to doctors for help, some were not taken seriously and dismissed as being anxious or stressed, said Mr. Marsland.
Nicole Sclafani, a former charge nurse at an emergency department, developed visual problems and chronic muscle pains three months after taking her primary vaccine doses. Her symptoms were exacerbated after she contracted COVID-19, and she said that neurologists, rheumatologists, and even her gastroenterologist prescribed her antidepressants.
“I’ve even had a neurologist say, ‘I would be doing you a disservice if I didn’t tell you that all of your symptoms are from stress,'” Ms. Sclafani told The Epoch Times.
When she first saw doctors, she told them she considered vaccine reaction to be a possible cause. She has since given up telling them this.
“Almost every doctor, if I said it was the vaccine, you could see their face … I was a nurse, I know that look,” Ms. Sclafani said.
(Left) Nicole Sclafani sits on the lawn with her daughter in a photo taken in the summer of 2020. (Right) Nicole Sclafani holds up a medication prescribed to treat her postvaccine symptoms. (Courtesy of Nicole Sclafani)
Vaccine injuries manifest as a constellation of uncommon symptoms, and some doctors are reluctant to recognize these as related to the vaccine. So rather than looking at the underlying pathology, doctors often write off their patients’ symptoms as psychosomatic. Some are given a functional neurological disorder diagnosis and prescribed psychiatric medications instead.
Functional neurological disorder is poorly defined, according to psychiatrist Dr. Cristian Ciora, who is trained in psychoanalysis.
It mainly refers to a state in which the brain becomes so overloaded with stress that it converts mental symptoms into physical ones.
“It shouldn’t be a wastebasket diagnosis. You have to have some kind of proof that the mind produces those things, and that’s not easy,” he said.
Moreover, the vaccine-injured tend to report more side effects to psychiatric drugs than others, Dr. Ciora has noticed from talking to patients.
Studies show the lipid nanoparticles carried in the mRNA vaccines interact with psychotropic drugs. Some drugs may persist longer in the patient, and a normal dose may become toxic.
Some psychiatric medications like lithium and fluvoxamine have anti-inflammatory properties and may be neuroprotective. However, many are potentially harmful. This includes the most widely prescribed antidepressant, escitalopram, with one study showing that it can change the architecture of a previously functional brain.
Paranoia in a Paranoia-Inducing World
Some vaccine-injured patients become anxious before seeing doctors, and some find it difficult to trust them.
After more and more doctors prescribed her antidepressants, Ms. Sclafani became paranoid about their medical decisions.
Despite her low sodium levels, doctors prescribed her selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) or serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs)—which could be dangerous as they lower sodium levels. She told the doctors about her medical condition, but they did not seem to listen.
“I am afraid that the doctor didn’t care enough, listen enough, pay attention enough,” Ms. Sclafani said. “The example about the sodium, if you were paying attention, you never would have prescribed [those drugs]. So that’s where I leave the office. I go fill the prescription, and then I never take the medication. From a psychiatric point of view, that might constitute paranoia, but I think it’s validated.”
Vaccine-injured people, especially those who took the vaccine out of goodwill, may experience both a breakdown of their worldview and of themselves, said Dr. Ciora.
He uses the iconic scene from the movie “The Matrix” as an analogy.
Neo, the main character, takes a red pill and discovers that he has been living in a machine-generated reality for his entire life. This becomes too much to handle, and he vomits.
vomits.
For the vaccine-injured, the people they once trusted—health officials and government leaders—now dismiss their lived realities.
“If everyone says you’re wrong while telling you things you know to be false, you don’t know what to trust,” Dr. Ciora said.
And, you don’t know who’s crazy and who’s sane, he added.
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Thank you once again and here is a war with Russia update.
Here’s NATO and US troops in Moldova 🇲🇩 and it’s dated 2 days ago. This was a scheduled exercise and it doesn’t seem to show thousands of troops but rather hundreds.
Meanwhile as I reported the other day Russia is saying that NAT9 is now directly involved, not only with their intel and guidance but also with tank crews, snipers, special forces and more. More info as I get it but I am of the belief there’s been a lot more build up of NATO troops than we think.
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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is preparing to expand its controversial facial recognition program to around 430 airports over the next “several years” after finding “extremely promising” results from its pilot program, an agency spokesperson tells Fast Company. The expansion comes amid allegations by rights advocates that the agency is improperlycoercing travelers to participate.
According to a TSA assessment of a pilot program that’s now under way at 25 airports, the agency has determined that its facial matching algorithms are 97% effective “across demographics, including dark skin tones,” says TSA press secretary Robert Langston, adding that the agency would not be publicly releasing the final results of the tests, which span two years of data.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) says there are reasons to be concerned about facial recognition software being used by government agencies that go beyond its efficacy among different demographic groups. EPIC says the US has no overarching laws when it comes to its use of facial recognition tech, putting travelers’ civil rights and privacy at risk.
Eventually, the TSA would like biometric recognition to be mandatory. During a South by Southwest (SXSW) fireside chat earlier this year, TSA Administrator David Pekoske said it would eventually be required across the board, citing effectiveness and efficiency. He also said “in our own testing, we show no statistically-significant variation across demographic groups,” going on to say the TSA wants to be as transparent as it can about the program. However, the agency told Fast Company it will not release the results of its two years pilot testing publicly.
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Editors Note: This is an excellent view of how the PREP ACT works as you’ll see it in action in this blog post. The PREP act is what gives FEMA, HHS, DOD and other executive branch agencies legal immunity against criminal and civil liability for any damage caused by the “emergency protocols” aka the jabs. They CAN’T admit to wrongdoing or they’ll lose said immunity and then they can be prosecuted. This is why top FDA officials resigned when the jabs came out, they didn’t want to participate in a mass murder experiment. Johnny
There is a faction among “health freedom” community that still believe that the FDA/HHS simply haven’t seen the data, are too busy and preoccupied, and they are not intentionally lying and pushing poison onto the public, but just confused and need to really look at the data! The latest example of this is #plasmidgate related drama. Dr. Buckhaults is one of the scientists who replicated Kevin McKernan’s finding of DNA plasmids in Pfizer and Moderna vials. There are 5-6 labs so far that have done the replication tests and found the same results – this is as “gold standard” as it gets in science. (Peer review does not include replication of the results, and so about 90% of peer reviewed studies are unreliable as science).
The analyses of Pfizer and Moderna vials show that the DNA found was not only hugely over the allowable limits for this process related impurity (up to ~100 times), but also contained undisclosed genetic components such as SV40 promoter that just so happens is a nuclear targeting component for transfection of human cells! After finding and confirming this, Dr. Buckhaults started backpedaling. His rationale – Pfizer was in a hurry and grabbed something off the shelf that had SV40 without realizing what they are doing! This is not a valid excuse. I would love to be able to just grab things off the shelf without validation when commercially producing new drugs or devices. No actually, I don’t, because I don’t want to kill people. But if one wanted to…. Hm.
The problem with this position is that by excusing the FDA as “just busy or incompetent” does nothing to help stop this crime and help the victims. It only delays any resolution of this horror, and while everyone is pulled back and trying to find a non-captured journal to publish a peer reviewed study, the state governors are free to pursue their quarantine camp dreams and the federal government is gleefully signing our rights away to the WHO slavery and endless biodefense racket. Let’s make another excess mortality graph, shall we? Let’s try to rationalize the clearly criminal behavior with another peer reviewed paper! This time it will really convince them!
My friend Dr. Lindsay provided the notes below of a recent phone conversation with one of the high-ranking FDA staff. I added links for references. This conversation did happen, and it reads like a parody, but I assure you it was real:
FDA and other Global Regulatory Agencies: Oh that.. yes we think it’s just contamination in each of these separate labs across the globe with SV40 .. .. artifact.. besides, we’ve seen no peer reviewed studies to support such a claim. DNA plasmids in these shots have not been proven to be significantly above regulatory standards.. by peer review…
Note: cGMP violations DO NOT need to be proven by peer review, because they do not belong to the realm of science but rather to the realm of law enforcement. When adulterated heparin arrived in the US from China, the FDA did not require peer reviewed studies to prove it. Several lab tests are highly sufficient evidence of adulteration and no manufacturing control.
Mr. FDA: …and anyway.. we have done experiments with lots of other naked plasmids in milligram quantities in neonate mice and we didn’t get any cancers in these mice models not appropriate to answer the specific question, not in peer reviewed studies but of course we at the FDA etc.. are above peer review anyway.. what we say is good enough. Also, we “feel” neonatal mice are a good model for a competent human immune system and of course a good surrogate to study human promoters and other human specific sequences and their risk for integration into the human genome.. which we never studied.. ahem. Well you know those primate experiments are expensive anyway and they are already likely contaminated from other experiments and likely already harbor SV40 so there is that. Nothing like the real thing eh? The best study model of course is humans and we have that. No children have died from these shots you know.
Note: VAERS death and injury reports in children (under-reported by ~40-100 times):
Mr. FDA continues:
Cancers from these shots in humans? No, we haven’t seen any signals of this in the peer reviewed literature that we would infer are causal.. well you know that there are so many causes of cancer it would be hard to find a “true” signal anyway. VAERS? Oh well now that’s just anti vaxxes clogging up the database.. what you say over 80 percent are medical professionals reporting? No.. no.. we told them they would lose their license on this one.. not possible. No one who wants a paycheck takes that kind of risk. Hey.. when is lunch? Antibiotic resistance? Well that’s only to one class of antibiotics .. tuberculosis you say? This is “probably” not significant. Oh, did we test “those” plasmids or “those” COVID shots? No! Of course not! they are proprietary— owned by the manufacturers— we can’t do that- not allowed! The naked versus LNP packaged DNA plasmids.. well others have looked at this, just not in “that way”… the integration way.. for these shots .. but don’t worry, we asked Pfizer and Moderna and they said it’s not there, no integration and not an issue. Do we have the studies? No! That’s proprietary, but, you can see them in 75 years. Thank you, have a good day!
You get the idea.
Since my readers are fully educated on the wonders of the PREP Act, I invite you to spot the instances when Mr. FDA is using it. If you spotted those instances in every single word that came out of his mouth, you are correct! You can clearly see why Mr. FDA’s narrative is so laser focused on denying any data or evidence that violates the sanctity of the HHS narrative and his liability shield. If that includes denying that the sky is blue and the sun rises in the East, he will absolutely do that. Do you think another piece of “data and science” will change his position? Remember, that changing his position will only lead to loss of his liability protection extended to him from the “sovereign” US government on condition of following orders. There is no data at all required to deploy the covid “countermeasures” onto the targets (people), only “maybe effective” opinion of the HHS Secretary. There are also no stopping criteria. Therefore, there is NO DATA IN THE UNIVERSE that can compel these criminals (including this particular snake from the FDA) to stop deploying poisons onto the public.
I am not against gathering data, but I am very much against “experts” pulling everyone back from stating the obvious truth because “we just need one more study and one more definitive experiment”.
Lucas Leiroz, journalist, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, geopolitical consultant.
It seems clear that the West wants to remove Vladimir Zelensky – and is apparently trying to do so in a “democratic” way. According to media reports, Western officials are pressuring Ukrainian authorities to hold presidential elections next year, ignoring the fact that the country is under martial law. This makes it clear that there is a “rush” on the part of NATO to put in power in Kiev a more “efficient” leader than the current president.
The information was published by the Washington Post on September 24. According to the newspaper, many relevant Western politicians are involved in “negotiations” with their Ukrainian counterparts to hold elections despite the conflict. On the American political scenario, both Republicans and Democrats seem united on this agenda, which shows how the issue is becoming a kind of “priority” for all pro-war American politicians.
The main rhetoric used by those supporting the elections is the supposed “need” for Kiev to prove its “commitment to democracy”. Until now, one of the main arguments for systematically sending weapons to Ukraine has precisely been the narrative that Ukrainians are “defenders of democracy”, while Russia is a kind of “dictatorship” or “autocracy”. It is believed in the West that if Ukraine loses there could be a global “anti-democratic wave”, with countries going through de-democratization processes and becoming authoritarian regimes.
Obviously, this narrative is false, weak and increasingly unpopular. The conflict in Ukraine has nothing to do with a clash between “democracies and dictatorships”, but with Moscow’s need to protect the people of Donbass and neutralize NATO’s influence in the Russian strategic environment. Furthermore, neo-Nazi Ukraine is obviously not a democracy, and Western public opinion is gradually understanding this. With so many images, videos and reports showing authoritarian and illegal practices such as forced recruitment, murder of civilians and torture of prisoners, it already seems clear that the so-called “Ukrainian democracy” is nothing more than mere war propaganda.
So, faced with this problem, there is a “task” to be accomplished by Ukrainians: to appear democratic to Western citizens again. Only in this way will it be possible to legitimize the sending of weapons and money to Kiev, despite all the negative consequences that this military aid brings to Western taxpayers – such as economic, social crisis and inflation. For the West, the easiest way for Kiev to appear democratic is to hold elections.
Obviously, the electoral process in times of war is an extremely complicated thing to do. Tens of thousands of Ukrainians are on the front lines, while millions of other citizens have fled the country. Many civilians live close to the areas where hostilities are taking place, in addition to the fact that Ukraine considers as its territories many regions that have already been liberated and pacified by Russian troops. In practice, elections cannot really be “fair” and “democratic” – but what really matters is that they appear to be.
“Holding free and fair elections in wartime is virtually impossible and also ill-advised, according to Ukrainian officials, election experts and democracy advocates. Roughly one-fifth of Ukraine’s territory is now occupied by Russian forces. Millions of Ukrainians are displaced and many are living outside the country. Tens of thousands of soldiers are deployed to the front. The pressure to hold elections, despite such obstacles, highlights the constant demand by some in the West that Ukraine prove its commitment to democracy”, the article reads, adding that, despite risks, “Kyiv officials also cannot dismiss the idea of holding elections out of hand and risk alienating key political players in the West, who are demanding elections and are crucial for Ukraine to maintain international financial and military assistance.”
However, it would be naive to think that this Western pressure is only due to this “democratic” reason. The news must be analyzed also taking into account recent reports about Zelensky’s unpopularity and the growing rejection of the Ukrainian president among Western leaders. Zelensky is no longer seen as a “hero” or a “great leader”, but as an inconvenient, weak and inefficient public figure, who was unable to achieve any success in his so-called “counteroffensive”, despite having massive numbers of NATO-provided heavy weapons.
As revealed in recently leaked Pentagon documents, American officials believe that Zelensky is “exhausting his political capacity rapidly.” So, for Western officials, the best way to solve this problem is to hold elections and help another candidate to win – which will allow “renewing” the public image of the regime, thus legitimizing the continuation of the war efforts against Russia. This is the real reason why there is so much interest in elections.
In todays video we cover WW3 rumors including news of a Active Duty German tank crew caught fighting the Russians and the Death of Free speech onilne as the EU passes it’s Digital Services Act. If you think “oh it won’t affect me in the USA” think again.
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The sides involved in the Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh conflict have fortunately reached a temporary ceasefire agreement. But the crisis seems far from over. Being governed by a pro-NATO junta, Armenia will have many problems in the near future, both in Artsakh and in its own territory, since evidently the West’s intention is to increase chaos in the region as much as possible.
There is no doubt that Nikol Pashinyan’s irresponsible and unpopular government is to blame for the recent escalations in the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Having come to power through a pro-Western color revolution, Pashinyan has strived since 2018 to make Yerevan a NATO proxy state in the Caucasus, exponentially increasing ties between Armenia and countries such as the US and France while creating frictions with Russia.
Unable to achieve any real guarantee of security from his Western partners and adopting a hostile behavior towards Russia, Pashinyan led Armenia to absolute strategic weakness at a time of new high tensions with Azerbaijan, culminating in the attacks that occurred between 19 and 20 September during Baku’s so-called “anti-terrorist operation”. Cowardly, Pashinyan made it clear that he would not participate in the conflict, almost forcing the Armenians of Artsakh to surrender in order to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe.
More than 120,000 Armenians are now fearing their future in the face of Azerbaijani aggression, without being able to count on their partners in Yerevan to help in the crisis. In practice, Pashinyan “handed over” the lives of his compatriots to an enemy country, putting his own people at risk and showing a lack of concern for the safety of ethnic Armenians. All this to continue following the government’s number one goal, which is to please Western “allies”.
It must be remembered that Pashinyan’s Western “friends” made a real trap for Armenia by mediating the so-called “Prague agreements“. At the time, Yerevan recognized Azerbaijani sovereignty, which was mistakenly seen by the mainstream media as a “step towards peace”. The problem is that the agreement did not establish any real conditions to resolve the dispute over Artsakh, therefore serving to further legitimize Baku’s interest in the region. With Armenia recognizing Azerbaijani territorial integrity, the country was left without any justification to prevent further Azerbaijani aggressions against the ethnic Armenians of Artsakh.
In practice, Pashinyan legitimized Turkish-Azerbaijani expansionism in Nagorno-Karabakh and “authorized” the beginning of ethnic cleansing, abandoning more than 120,000 Armenians. This was the Western intention when promoting such an “agreement”, whose terms, instead of achieving peace, legitimized even more conflicts. This obviously serves Western interests, since in the face of new hostilities, Yerevan, unable to intervene, tends to request help from NATO – exactly as the Armenian Ambassador in Washington did – thus allowing Western troops to arrive in the region. In this scenario, Baku would certainly also request international help, calling the Turks. In the end, the Caucasus would become a NATO zone of influence and the Russian presence in the region would be minimized or even terminated.
Of course, all of this became clear recently, leading to a wave of mass protests and criticism against Pashinyan. In addition, the “Civil Contract” party received the lowest number of votes in five years in the last Council of Elders elections, being supported by only 32% of voters. There is evidently a crisis of legitimacy, and it is possible that the end of the Pashinyan era is a matter of time.
The main problem, however, is that Pashinyan is not an isolated agent. He is just one of the members of the pro-NATO junta that rules today’s Armenia. In addition to him, there are other politicians similarly willing to make Yerevan subordinate to Western plans. For example, the Secretary of the Security Council, Armen Grigoryan, who many analysts see as someone with the possibility of growing politically and becoming the new prime minister, is an even more pro-Western politician than Pashinyan.
Linked to the Soros Foundations, Grigoryan openly says that he will promote Armenia’s integration into NATO, advancing the policies started by Pashinyan. Furthermore, Grigoryan is already notorious for his pro-Western militancy, having even been accused of leaking confidential documents from the CSTO to NATO, which shows his high level of subservience to foreign interests.
So, unfortunately, there is no good expectation about the future of Armenia. The country would need to undergo a radical political change to reverse the catastrophic effects of the 2018 coup. If this does not happen, Yerevan will continue to be governed by pro-Western politicians, and the only point of divergence between them will be on how to be even more obedient to NATO.
Pashinyan increasingly seems to understand that he will be replaced by someone more “competent.” Not surprisingly, there are rumors that his wife recently started looking for estate in Switzerland and his son is already living in Canada. Unlike the Armenian people of Artsakh, Pashinyan will be able to leave the country with his family, not seeing firsthand the catastrophe he created for his own people.
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