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Cruising Economist's avatar

Russia clearly has no interest in attacking Western Europe, or anyone else. Many are unaware that Russia tried for years to avoid the conflict in Ukraine even after DC orchestrated a coup in 2014 installing ethnically hateful authoritarians in Kiev who proceeded to slaughter Ukrainians who were ethnic Russians, notably initially in Odessa. Russia tried to reach a peaceful resolution through the Minsk Agreements, which were just a fraudulent ploy on the part of DC and EU to buy more time to militarize Ukraine and threaten Russia. Make no mistake, it is the mentally diseased control freaks in DC who fomented this war and they are doing so to try and harm Russia because Russia won't bend a knee to them. They don't care one bit about Ukraine or the Ukrainian people. Sociopaths and psychopaths don't care about people, only power. Ukraine never had any prospect of prevailing in a war with Russia DC is just using them as a battering ram and the country is being destroyed in the process.

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Politico Phil's avatar

And allowed to continue to their megalomaniacal goals will destroy most of Europe and put even the US at risk.

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Thomas A Braun RPh's avatar

I was 10 years old and I remember that day forever since old man Janaki hoisted a case of milk on his shoulder and Adolf Langto hoisted a case of whiskey on his shoulder and they met halfway between their homes and we celebrated victory in Europe on a street corner and hundreds of people came out of their homes to enjoy and celebrate The end of World War II in Europe! George Patton didn’t like the idea of Germany being divided up and he was overruled!

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B.dillon's avatar

Overruled and murdered.

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Thomas A Braun RPh's avatar

Yep! His grave is in Europe at an American Military cemetery that is immaculately maintained! Buried with his men. A true patriot!

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Dave Scrimshaw's avatar

Yes - I knew a relative of his driver that said it was covered up.

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Randall Stoehr's avatar

Some moments in time forever forged as game changing ethics.

Some things we just can't un-see.

There is real a life lesson in that learned memory.

The individual becomes part of collective historical as a participant.

No longer just a mere casual observer.

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exexpat's avatar

As a German that turned "World Citizen" decades ago i look back at Germany's History and find that my folks have learned nothing from History. WWI they got punched into starvation, WWII the second War against Russia got them a bloody eye and ruined cities but as obedient Germans are they're now heading for WWIII with a ex Black Rock German CEO at the Helm. This guy is now in bed with his worst enemy the socialists which means Germans can look forward for a new Election sooner than later.

After Germany lost it's sovereinity in 1945 and never got it back with average 35000 US Troops occupying Germany even after Re Unification after the Wall came down these incapable people accepted and not even mumbled a word when the Nordstream 2 Pipeline was sabotaged after Biden announced it with than German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (the red idiot) stood next to him in Washington. They're equally obedient when all German and communal flags at their city halls got withdrawn to make place for Israeli, Ukrainian and LGBT Flags. Everyone who critizised was quickly labeled a Antisemite, Mysoginist and Putin Supporter.

They're now working to outright ban the only Opposition Party that gained over 25 pct after found the "Totschlag Argument" i.e.the Killer Argument that they are right wing extremists while in reality they're simply Nationalists that try to get their country back to NORMAL.

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pretty-red, old guy's avatar

interesting.

Good posting, Herr exexpat.

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Phillip Rosslee's avatar

The so-called **"Devil’s Agreement"** between **Germany and Soviet Russia in 1922** refers to the **Treaty of Rapallo**, signed on **April 16, 1922**, and its **secret military cooperation protocols** that followed. Though not officially called a "Devil’s Agreement," the term has been used by historians to describe the clandestine and morally questionable **military collaboration** between two pariah states of the post-World War I order.

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🔹 Context

* **Germany** had been defeated in **World War I** and was bound by the **Treaty of Versailles** (1919), which **forbade it from rearming** or developing new military technologies.

* **Soviet Russia** (later the USSR), isolated after the **Bolshevik Revolution**, was similarly shunned by Western powers.

* Both nations were diplomatically and economically isolated and **found mutual interest in cooperation**.

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🔹 Treaty of Rapallo (1922)

* Signed by German Foreign Minister **Walther Rathenau** and Soviet diplomat **Georgy Chicherin** in **Rapallo, Italy**.

* Publicly, the treaty **re-established diplomatic and economic relations** and **renounced territorial and financial claims** from WWI.

* Secretly, it **paved the way for military collaboration**, violating the Treaty of Versailles.

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🔹 Secret Military Cooperation

Starting shortly after 1922, Germany and the Soviet Union cooperated secretly in the following ways:

1. **Weapons Development and Testing**

* Germany set up **military training and weapons testing facilities** in the Soviet Union, including:

* **Tank training grounds** at **Kama** near Kazan

* **Aircraft testing center** at **Lipetsk**

* **Chemical weapons research** at **Tomka** near Volsk

2. **German Army Training**

* German officers trained in the USSR, away from the eyes of the Versailles enforcers.

* Soviet officers also benefited from German military expertise.

3. **Production of Forbidden Weapons**

* Germany could **develop tanks, aircraft, and chemical weapons**, which were banned under Versailles.

* The USSR gained **access to advanced German military technology**.

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🔹 Why It Was Controversial

* It **undermined the Versailles Treaty** and **deceived the Allied powers**.

* It contributed to **Germany’s rearmament** and **Soviet military modernization**.

* Seen as a "devil's bargain" because **two authoritarian regimes** collaborated to secretly **rebuild their military strength**.

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🔹 Outcome

* The cooperation continued until **1933**, when Hitler came to power and **ended military ties** with the Soviet Union.

* Ironically, Germany and the USSR would later sign another "devil's pact" — the **Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact** in **1939**, dividing Eastern Europe.

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Joe Warren's avatar

To the American Left, Russia committed the unforgivable sin of dumping communism (Government Almighty) and embracing Christianity (God Almighty) again. My Mom lived among the intelligentsia in NYC in the 30s and 40s. Their sloppy wet love affair with Stalin was embarrassing. Incidentally, many of them thought Hitler was also really cool, until his break with Stalin. Nazism was just a slightly different flavor of Government Almighty.

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Cruising Economist's avatar

Indeed, the political spectrum runs from liberty to tyranny not some ill defined left to right. Fascists and communists are both very much the same, way out on the tyranny end. Of course they hate each other because authoritarians hate nothing more than competing authoritarians.

We must understand tyrants are mentally diseased (sociopaths, psychopaths, etc.). Don't make the mistake of attributing healthy human motivations to them.

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Dave Scrimshaw's avatar

The left-right illusion was dreamed up from the French Revolution, where parties gathering about a table who were monarchists sat to the right of center and the Jacobins to the left.

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Chiadrum's avatar

I mentioned to my radical, whack a doodle lefty sister that it’s not my fault that she idolizes the government. She was aghast. She has no idea that every opinion that she has on every subject is government sponsored nonsense. Imagine being so convinced that you are the “good person” on the “right side of history” and you have never had an original thought in your life.

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Dave Scrimshaw's avatar

There really are no new thoughts --- Ecclesiastes 1:9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.

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SaHiB's avatar

Careful. Hilkiah changed the meaning of Shaddai (h7706) from "breasted" (implying cornocupia), to "spoiler" or "devil" (Deu 32:17). Pretty blatant!

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George Chyz's avatar

The key decisions are made by psychopathic banksters who finance and profit from war. They see healthy sane human beings as pieces in their sadistic chess game that they're playing with hopes of achieving world domination. The news and historians fail to investigate that mostly hidden level of reality. Above that, in the astral realm demonic deities like Satan, Lucifer, or what ever demonic deity possesses control of the mad men available to move their chaotic plan froward.

The most deeply hidden goal is to sort out who will follow their inner divine spirit residing in their heart conscientiously, for those are the one's who will inherit the earth when the wicked are removed. In other words, it's a divisive process that separates the meek/righteous who inherit the earth from the wicked who are removed to the astral afterlife playground that includes hell.

I hope that helps to clear up all the confusion.

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exexpat's avatar

Good Point: The key decisions are made by psychopathic banksters who finance and profit from war " So who represents the psychopathic banksters and are the true owners of the US Government aswell as UK, City of London, Germany and France and not to forget the EU Central Hegemon that wants to create the United States of Europe so all decisionmaking and laws will be concentrated in the devils hand ? Satan Yahoo !

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SaHiB's avatar
2dEdited

Satan is God's prosecutor. Perhaps you mean Samael. (And "divine" means slanderous - h1681 דִבָּה. Just ask the Zoroastrians about "daeva"!)

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Dave Scrimshaw's avatar

Precisely where (source) do you get this stuff from?

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SaHiB's avatar
1dEdited

Whence? ("From where" is grammatically meaningless.) Eclectic: Strong's Concordance, Zoroastrianism, Jewish Mysticism.

Did you ever read the biblical book of Job?

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Dave Scrimshaw's avatar

Yes - several sermons from it. I make one source for a foundation: God's Word in written form and in the flesh.

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SaHiB's avatar

What's that? Can't be the Bible exclusively or overall, as Hilkiah (Saint Plunder, who made a pretense of being, or at least speaking for, YHWH) and his acolytes wrote (Deuteronomy, and the Book of Joshua - battle plans for naïve young Josiah - specifically), and revised much of the OT, and much of their spew even entered the NT, some even in red letters. And of course, the Book of Mormon accepts it without question. But if you source Jesus the Curator directly, then great! (Well, he ain't in the normal sense of "flesh" since the change in the Tomb, though he did eat fish and honeycomb.)

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Dave Scrimshaw's avatar

Zoroastrianism has nothing to do with Christ.

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George Chyz's avatar

The deities who rule the Earth are all demonic and that includes Yahweh. Conversely, the inner god found in our hearts is aligned with love, cooperation, peace and prosperity. The universal covenant is to follow the intuition and conscience that emerges from within. Turning away from that inner God leads to wickedness. King David explains in Psalm 37, "30 The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice. 31 The law of his God is in his heart; his steps do not slip."

Ultimately there is One formless consciousness. I accidentally experienced being the One via samadhi 3 times. On one of those enlightening experiences I remembered why the One created the universe, earth, life and humanity. It's so sensible, after exploring all sorts of thoughts feelings and experiences as One, the idea to find out how it feels to meet a mysterious other became the One's goal. The Judea, Christian and Muslim scriptures fail to offer any reason for creation, an idea that came before the beginning. In Hinduism there are statements about this reason and the necessity of individuality to accomplish the goal of meeting mysterious others. Also, back in 1990 a personal student of Rudolph Steiner, Dr. Dr. Ernst Katz, shared a cosmology he had received directly from Steiner in the early 1920s. That cosmology provided details and fit with what I received while in my most amazing samadhi experience.

There's so much to share about all of this so I wrote 2 books to share it in 2 different ways. First, in a textbook sort of way and then a longer version sharing the personal experiences and miracles that encouraged me to believe.

Being a scientist, I provide compelling scientific evidence supporting the theory that something exhibiting divine(knowing the future) wisdom resides within our hearts. All of my books are available free as PDF downloads or they can be purchased from Amazon as paperbacks.

"The Magnificent Soul: The Art of Living in a World Founded on Consciousness" (331 pages) is available here:

https://www.soulcovenant.org/magnificent-soul

"Heart Consciousness: An MIT Scientist’s Deep Dive into the Esoteric Void to Retrieve a Simple Truth of Everything" (543 pages) is available here:

https://www.soulcovenant.org/heart-consciousness

Based on what I learned it appears that we are involved in a culling that will leave the people who are appropriate for exploring the full blossoming of love on Earth as inheritors. Everyone else will be removed to the astral realm which includes Heavenly and Hellish regions or layers to fulfill the desires of those who ascend or descend.

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SaHiB's avatar

Hilkiah's Jehovah (H1942/1943), anyhow. Actual name is "Ehyeh" (אהיה - h1961).

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Larry Woods's avatar

Great article, but "...Stalin and Churchill agreed to leave Poland and the rest of Eastern Europe more or less under Russian control..." needs correction. The arrogant, feckless Roosevelt sidelined Churchill and took the lead in tossing Poland to Stalin. One 1945 Yalta account of the Polish discussions: ...Roosevelt and (sometimes) Churchill couched their main plea to Stalin in terms of petty politicians asking favors. At that level Stalin inevitably bested them.

“There are six or seven million Poles in the U.S.,” began Roosevelt. “. . . It would make it easier for me at home if the Soviet government would give something to Poland.” Stalin could not have cared less how Roosevelt’s popularity rating fared in Buffalo’s Sixth Ward...". From 1955 Time archives - "The Yalta Story: Poland"

Another factor was the presence of at least two Soviet agents in Roosevelt's inner circle - Alger Hiss and Harry Hopkins.

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John Leake's avatar

I meant to write Roosevelt, was a bit tired when I wrote the essay.

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CB's avatar

Ron Unz, in his current articles on Joseph McCarthy, writes that Hiss and Hopkins were far from alone as Soviet agents inside the Roosevelt Administration. Interesting that Democrats (and Americans in general) never get tired of smearing their opponents as Hitlers while completely ignoring the mammoth crimes of their good friend Uncle Joe Stalin.

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Jason's avatar

Regrettably, a significant portion of our history has recently been edited, and manipulated by the ruling establishment that wields control over various influential domains such as the media, banking, big Pharma, the judicial system, and especially Hollywood.

During my youth, I avidly delved into the study of history, finding it utterly captivating, and in the process, I had the privilege of meeting numerous esteemed historians, with whom I forged lifelong connections. However, 25 years ago, I witnessed firsthand how historians became the initial targets of cancel culture, as their lectures, which aimed to shed light on truth, were unjustly deemed as taboo, veering into the realm of so-called "hate speech."

Sadly, a significant portion of the younger generation will never truly grasp the authentic chronicles of our past. Instead, they are subjected to a distorted rendition that breeds self-derision, robbing them of the profound richness inherent in our historical legacy and depriving them of the capacity to embrace a genuine sense of pride in their ancestors.

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pretty-red, old guy's avatar

I recall as a teenager schooled in small town Illinois hating the US history course I was forced to take-- teacher was a moron, course a rehash of history already taken and learned in Catholic grade school-- while at the same time, begrudging the fact that none of the history covered the most famous recent world war my father fought in. . .

Only was it many years later that I had gathered enough interest to TRULY understand the gravity of history in pre-WWII Germany and Russia and appreciate my charmed life in the good ole USA.

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Jillian Stirling's avatar

Well said, John

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Kane Wright's avatar

Wow you don't have a clue what really happened obviously. Have you not taken 2 minutes to look past the lies they have fed us all. The Russians killed 100000000 Christians and muslims 60 million before the war with Germany. Yet Noone ever hears of the holodomor. Wonder why? To keep speaking years old propoganda as fact. People do know the truth eventually it will be universally recognized .Just like all the other bs pushed in our face as fact nothing bit lies ro hide the true enemies of humanity only they are not the ones blamed but the evidence is overwhelming after a cursory glance past fairy tale ba we have been told. Do me a favor find out who's goal was to defend Christianity and western culture..they sued for peace 9 times during the war and had people from 100 countries joined the ss. After seeing 60 million people get.murdered next door and you see your neighbor look your way . There's 1 country the last 70 tears there been shot rated imprisoned made 2nd class citizens with no rights to even vote

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Franklin T. Fiedler's avatar

Kane Wright - I suggest you have someone other than yourself proof read your comments before posting. This one, for example, due to apparent spelling errors, typos, and poor punctuation, renders your message almost meaningless. I wouldn't bother to criticise it if I thought your perspective lacked merit.

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Kane Wright's avatar

Well said yes my grammar is terrible I'm not a texter. My phone misspells everything I try to put in and I was likely working which is 6 days a week 14 to 16 hrs installing internet. If I have time I will go back and fix it. I should hire a proofreader but who has enough to get by these days. This lie we have lived under destroyed western culture once America betrayed it's fellow Christians and fell for the lies. Nothing we have been taught has the slightest grain of truth and news is lies about previous lies spinning more bs for the commies to get us ready for the camps in America

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pretty-red, old guy's avatar

I will second that.

Likely, he is thumb punching his iPhone.

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Quill Cross's avatar

Well done, John. Outstanding. Much appreciated.

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annademo's avatar

Another bad decision among Churchill, Stalin and FDR was to repatriate millions of Cossacks back to the Soviet Union, a country most of them either fled very early in the post Revolutionary period (before it became the Soviet Union) or never lived in at all. Millions of them were put to death upon their arrival in the Soviet Union. What a horrible stain on Churchill and FDR.

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David Kukkee's avatar

I appreciate this timely and well conceived article, John Leake. Well done. Lest we forget. Thank you.

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BertPE's avatar

And I shall think of my grandfather, Bert Sr., who served 28 days in the Meuse-Argonne battle as a runner (messenger), with nothing but a .45 on his hip between embattled positions.

https://www.army.mil/article/212491/final_allied_offensive_of_world_war_i_decided_fate_of_europe

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DawnieR's avatar

I love Russia/Russians!

GOD BLESS RUSSIA!

(and TO HELL with the Uki-NAZIS!)

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albert venezio's avatar

Thank you John - so very True! The Unconditional Surender stupidity led to the death of millions of people - but please look into who really forced this on Churchill and FDR.

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pretty-red, old guy's avatar

a hint, at least!

come on Man!

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