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Biden: Willing to Start World War III, Russia-China: “We dare you.”

The mainstream media is purposefully sidestepping what could well be the biggest story in a generation. President Joe Biden has said that he, as Commander in Chief of the United States Armed Forces, has a “sacred obligation” to “defend every square inch” of NATO territory even if it means starting World War III.

It must be made clear that Ukraine is not a member of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a thirty-nation treaty group. NATO has repeatedly stated that Ukraine has not met the requirements for membership. The majority of countries surrounding Ukraine are NATO members.

Biden told the group, “We’re going to stand together with our allies in Europe and send an unmistakable message that we will that we will defend every inch of NATO territory. If they [Russia] moves once–granted if we respond–it is World War III, but we have a sacred obligation on NATO territory.”

Biden’s remarks were made Friday in Philadelphia at a meeting of the Democratic Party Caucus.  He also cautioned that providing direct military aid to Ukraine could spark a World War.

Biden’s threat of war squares with statements made on Monday by the acting U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Kristina Kvien.

“We’re trying everything we can to make sure it doesn’t lead to World War III,” Kristina Kvien told NPR. “But ultimately … that depends on the actions of President Putin,” she said. “We have sent extra troops to Poland and other NATO allies that border Ukraine to make sure that they have the security they need. … If Russia takes one step, one inch into NATO territory, NATO will be prepared to respond.”

Background: NATO is a 30-country alliance that has been supplying assistance to Ukraine in the form of money, weapons and sanctions against Russia, however, it has not deployed troops to Ukraine because Ukraine is not a member of the alliance. Instead, NATO forces are at the ready to defend nation members should Russia escalate its aggression and attack alliance countries.

NATO was initially formed after WWII to deter the expansion of the Soviet Union and curb any strong nationalist military movements in Europe, as the world saw during the Second World War with the Nazi Party.

Nevertheless, the U.S. continues to send record amounts of military aid to NATO countries surrounding Ukraine, as well as Ukraine itself. Earlier in the week Biden confirmed that 12,000 U.S. troops were on Russia’s border with Latvia, Estonia, Romania and Lithuania. Biden has also authorized an additional $200 million in military equipment for Ukraine, this following a record $350 million on February 26.

What we are witnessing is proxy war against Russia. To think Russian leader Vladimir Putin is not a bit more than agitated by this audacious taunt by Biden is nonsense.

Should anyone be surprised if Putin were to respond to these threats in kind?  If Putin gets to the point where he feels Russia has nothing left to lose, then he is more likely to order destructive attacks against the United States. These could initially include cyber attacks that would take down critical infrastructure.

Enter the new Russia-China agreement to defend one another:

There’s another critical element the media is avoiding. It should have been breaking news. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was preceded by a long meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping on February 4, the beginning of the Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations and the Beijing Winter Olympic Games. Following the meeting, the two men released a 5,400-word document announcing a close partnership between their two countries. They declared China and Russia hold a “no limits” partnership, backing each other over standoffs on Ukraine and Taiwan with a promise to collaborate more against the West.

Without naming the U.S., they criticized attempts by “certain states” to establish global dominion, incite confrontation, and impose their own standards of democracy.

Regarding this Russian-Chinese partnership, the never-to-be-trusted globalist George Soros says this: “We can only hope that Putin and Xi will be removed from power before they can destroy our civilization.”

Removed from power? How? By free and fair elections–ha! Removed by coups? Gimme a break. A War? To do that you’d need the American public willing to back Joe Biden.
However, George Soros seems to be pushing for a war! As a champion of the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset, Soros surely knows a massive war could bring about a one-world order and a top down socialist economy leaving the rich at very tippy top and the rest of us either dead or simply drones with meager cradle-to-grave benefits including free Netflix, Starbucks, and Uber rides.

So now examine the propaganda coming from the left and their media partners. Let’s start with gas prices. California Congressman Mike Thompson says, “The prices you’re seeing at the pump are the result of two things: rapid shifts in supply and demand caused by COVID-19 and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”

Likewise, Vice President Kamala Harris blamed Russia on these miserable gas prices, which impact the entire global economy. She contends such pain at the pump is the “price to pay for democracy.”

Is this really about democracy?  No, this is a propaganda ploy. The drumbeat to gin up favor to stop Putin at all costs is rising.

The headlines lecture us of pain at the pump. Inflation. Supply chain breakdowns. Humanitarian desolation in Ukraine. Russia making threats against us. Putin is a madman who needs to be removed from office, even assassinated if necessary, they say.

Listen, I’m no fan of Vlad, but sending our boys to Eastern Europe to fight another war? I believe this is the bloody desire of what the Bible (Ephesians 6:12) refers to as the rulers, the powers, and the world forces of this darkness.

All the while, nothing is being said about Russia’s big boy partner, China.

If this war, or “conflict” as the politicians always prefer to say, becomes a wider conflict in Europe the effects would spread across the globe, stressing the geopolitical, economic, and institutional foundations of the international order the United States has fashioned and underwritten since the end of the Second World War. It would test the resilience of the U.S. global system of alliances, the international financial system, global energy markets, arms control regimes, and global institutions in the face of ever more violent great power competition.

By the way, I have friends in Nigeria who are paying the equivalent of over $10 per gallon and are waiting five hour in line to pump it into their measly little Toyota. A lot like my friends in Nigeria are currently witnessing, no region of the world would be spared, although developments on the Eurasian supercontinent, the other locus of world power and economic might outside North America, would bear the gravest consequences for U.S. interests.

And who would be smiling? The likes of Klaus Schwab at the World Economic Forum, and Soros, and Gates, and the cabal patiently pushing for their Great Global Reset, which includes the Democratic Party and the mainstream media.

A mega-reset in which the population is culled and they become the masters, with the remaining few the peons.

Fortunately, I’ve read the last book of the Bible, Revelation. No matter how hellacious things may become, for those who have bowed their lives to Jesus, it all works out just fine.

 

 

 

 

Putin, Biden, Ukraine, Rumors of War, and Prophecy

It’s been nearly 31 years since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. President Putin once described that event as “the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the 20th Century.” He remains deeply resentful of how the Cold War ended: with Moscow losing territory, influence and empire.

“What was the break-up of the USSR? It was the break-up of historical Russia,” Putin said in a 2021 state TV documentary. “We lost 40% of our territory… much of what had been accumulated over 1,000 years was lost.”

The Kremlin also resents NATO’s post-Cold War enlargement to the east. Moscow accuses the West of breaking verbal promises that the alliance would not expand into Eastern Europe and the former Soviet space. Nato insists no such promises were given.

Also, because Ukraine is not a NATO member, NATO’s member countries have no responsibility to protect her.

This is a very complex situation that, if not handled properly, could turn into a bloody mess.

Can Russia undo what is done? It sure appears to be trying.

Meantime, I contend Joe Biden is using this political conflict for political advantages in the US. His poll numbers are down and the democrats are headed into midterm elections that do not look good for the party. Saber rattling is good for Joe and the dems.  Makes them look “tough.”

Or so they say.

In December, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov unveiled draft security agreements that Moscow wants America to sign. They would provide a legally binding guarantee that NATO will give up military activity in Eastern Europe and Ukraine.

The proposals would appear to prohibit NATO deployments to countries that joined the alliance after 1997. Russia is also demanding an end to NATO enlargement attempts in former Soviet territory.

Keep in mind significant swaths of eastern Ukraine, two regions specifically, are essentially populated by Russians. Up until 2014 Ukraine had a President, Viktor Yanukovych, who was pro-Russia but he was booted from office. When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014, pro-Russian rebels backed by President Putin seized parts of the east and they have stood up to Ukraine’s army ever since. Russian troops have been going in and out of this region for eight years. There was an international Minsk peace accord but the conflict continues and so Russia’s leader says he is sending in troops into two rebel-held areas.

This past weekend, the Russian parliament requested to President Putin that he recognize the independence of two regions in Ukraine. One is called the People’s Republic of Luhansk. The other is the People’s Republic of Donetsk. Vladimir Putin agreed to recognize their independence and then moved in “peacekeepers.”

Now the big question for Ukraine is, how much farther is Russia going to go?

Meantime, President Biden signed an fairly worthless executive order preventing Americans from doing business in Luhansk or Donetsk. What Americans were doing business there or how much business was being done, if any, is probably insignificant.  But that’s basically all the administration has done that we are aware of.

I’ve been thinking about this a lot. One of the principals in The Art of War is know your enemy. Putin is a dedicated Russian patriot. He’s also a godless communist. At the least this is all about empire-building. Putin is spreading Russian influence in a very imperial way, just like Russia did during the time of the czar.

As for China, they must be watching events very closely. They want to see what the United States does to support and help Ukraine. China has their eye on Taiwan and they want to try to make their assessment on what a U.S. response to Chinese aggression to Taiwan might be.

As for Bible prophecy, one commentator, Hal Lindsey, say this in his article from February 3, “Rumors of War:”

One of the most famous and detailed prophecies in the Bible concerns an invasion of Israel by a confederation of nations. Chapters 38 and 39 of Ezekiel give the details, including a specific list of the nations involved. The first two verses say, “And the word of the Lord came to me saying, ‘Son of man, set your face toward Gog of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him.’”

It’s obvious from that passage and others that Gog is not a nation, but a national leader. The word “Gog” means “high,” “top guy,” or “supreme.” The first-century Jewish historian, Josephus, wrote that, “Magog is called the Scythians by the Greeks.” The Greeks used the word “Scythia” to refer to the region north and east of the Black Sea. Today, that includes, not just Russia, but also Ukraine.

The Scythians also ruled the area east of the Caspian Sea that is today occupied by Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. Each of these nations were once part of the Soviet Union. Vladimir Putin seems intent on bringing them back into the sphere of Russian control. Also, each of these nations is predominantly Muslim, which may also contribute to their desire to one day join a coalition of nations against Israel.

But the first step in Putin’s plan centers on Ukraine. In area, it is Europe’s second largest nation. It gained its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. At that time, Ukraine possessed one-third of the Soviets’ nuclear armaments. With 1,900 warheads, Ukraine then held the third largest nuclear arsenal in the world. In 1994, Russia, Britain, and the United States signed the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances. They promised to ensure Ukraine’s security if it gave up its large nuclear arsenal.

The sad and horrible lesson to every other nation in the world is that if you have nukes, don’t give them up ever — no matter what. Today, if Ukraine still had its nuclear weapons, Russia would not be threatening. It’s as simple as that. Promises from Britain and the United States were not worth the paper they were printed on.

The other protector of Ukrainian security was to be that benevolent nation known as Russia. Now, it all seems like a cruel joke. In 2014, Russia stole Crimea from Ukraine. That gave the Russian military better access to the Black Sea. Today, Russia’s goal in invading Ukraine does not seem to be an annexation of the country, but a move to place a puppet government there.

In all this, remember that no matter what their nations do, people can still turn to Christ. Iran is another key part of that Ezekiel 38 coalition. And Iran is experiencing a tremendous number of people turning to Jesus. Prophecy tells us what some nations will do, but that does not predetermine the actions of individuals within those nations.

Whatever Putin’s motivations may really be, one thing stands out: his actions seem to fit into Bible prophecy. It appears that at some point in the future, Ukraine will again come under Russian control.

Meantime, we haven’t even discussed other relevant activities taking place in Iran…

 

 

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