Yesterday Russia attacked a Panamanian flagged ship which was docked in Odessa. During normal times the sinking of a ship flagged with a member of the Rio Pact would be front page news and would make people question whether the United States was about to go to war to protect a country we have mutually sworn to protect. Remember it was the sinking of US merchant ships which brought the United States into the Barbary Wars, War of 1812, and World War I. The precedence for sinking of ships leading to all out war is throughout history.
But instead its being overrun by news that Trump’s cabinet leaked their plans to attack Houthis in Yemen to the editor of the Atlantic.
On top of this, Ukraine clearly demonstrated that given the right materials they have all the strategy needed to win the war and take back their country this year.
If that wasn’t enough, Israel has resumed their bombing of civilians in Gaza.
All of this has happened in the last three days.
This is not new for the Trump administration. Fill the news with one important story after another and it becomes too much for most people to follow, and they disengage. Any one of these deserves to be front page news on every newspaper in the world. By keeping everyone distracted between stories it becomes difficult to see the common thread uniting these stories.
The most obvious thread is the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, which is the main story behind all of these. The first and third stories obviously relate to it.
The second story is related in how it also is about using military force to eliminate threats to global shipping, no different from the Barbary Wars. The Houthis are an ally of Russia, and taking out western ships is part of their war strategy in destabilizing the democratic world. Israel’s place regarding Russian money laundering is complicated, as I have described in previous posts where I’ve gone into depth.
Keeping Netanyahu in power in Israel is critical for Russia’s economy, otherwise they lose the Israeli backdoor for financing. The way this works is by keeping enough Israelis scared of Hamas by continuing the endless war in Gaza to keep Netanyahu in power is paramount to their strategy. Hamas must continue to exist to scare Israelis so they vote for Netanyahu to ensure there can never be a democratic solution to the war. Hamas after all was created as a counterweight to the PLO according to Israeli scholars and advisors.
So the key player in all of these stories is Vladimir Putin. Putin is the reason why the war in Ukraine began in 2014. He has discovered that attacking merchant vessels is now de facto legal. In order to maintain his economy, he needs to keep China from abandoning him, so Trump’s sabre rattling with China is critical for Putin’s existence. He must also maintain his connections to Israel as long as possible to give them a backdoor to Europe and the United States with minimal oversight. For this he must keep Netanyahu in power so Hamas cannot be destroyed, otherwise the whole system falls apart.
Russia must keep pushing for a ceasefire because the Israeli and Chinese back doors are not big enough to keep the Russian economy afloat as they keep losing young men which is devastating to their economy.
All of this however appears as chaos to the untrained eye meaning most people are unable to keep focused on any one thread long enough to see that it all comes back to Putin.
The solution then becomes obvious. Support Ukraine to victory, destroy the Russian government, and the instability around the world created by Russia in Iran, Syria, Yemen, Israel, North Korea, and more countries will cease.
Slava Ukraine for a peaceful world.