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DAVOS, May 24 (Reuters) - Billionaire financier George Soros said on Tuesday that Russia's invasion of Ukraine may have been the beginning of World War Three so the best way to preserve free civilisation was for the West to defeat President Vladimir Putin's forces.
Soros, 91, a legendary hedge fund manager who earned fame by betting against the pound in 1992, cast the Ukraine war as part of a broader struggle between open societies and closed societies such as China and Russia which were in the ascent.
"The invasion may have been the beginning of the Third World War and our civilization may not survive it," Soros told Davos, according to a text of his speech released by his office.
"The best and perhaps only way to preserve our civilization is to defeat Putin as soon as possible. That's the bottom line."
originally posted by: Guyfriday
And just like that, "The End is Near".
From: Yahoonews, because I wasn't going to spend hours finding it at Reuters.
DAVOS, May 24 (Reuters) - Billionaire financier George Soros said on Tuesday that Russia's invasion of Ukraine may have been the beginning of World War Three so the best way to preserve free civilisation was for the West to defeat President Vladimir Putin's forces.
Soros, 91, a legendary hedge fund manager who earned fame by betting against the pound in 1992, cast the Ukraine war as part of a broader struggle between open societies and closed societies such as China and Russia which were in the ascent.
"The invasion may have been the beginning of the Third World War and our civilization may not survive it," Soros told Davos, according to a text of his speech released by his office.
"The best and perhaps only way to preserve our civilization is to defeat Putin as soon as possible. That's the bottom line."
You know which side is losing badly when the people who operate the puppets have to come out of the shadows and tell you what they fear most. So is Putin the threat or is a free and open Ukraine? I think we know the answer to this one given that Russia turn Ukraine into a glass bowl if it wanted to, but Soros and friends can't wash a sock of cash without places to do it in.
originally posted by: RelSciHistItSufi
a reply to: XtheMadnessNow
XtMN, re Capgemini Headquarters next to Arc de Triomphe, I suggest that the group's founder Serge Kampf is worth a deep dive:
7) A biography was written entitled Serge Kampf, the most secret of the great French bosses
Biographie Tristan Gaston-Breton, Serge Kampf le plus secret des grands patrons français, Tallandier, 2014 (ISBN 979-10-210-0839-7 et 979-10-210-0861-8)
originally posted by: Caled
Here is a picture of Soros at Davos today:
Bigger:
This...doesn't exactly shout billionaire puppet master in a luxurious accommodation in front of a horde of his loyal fans. It kind of shouts lonely guy in a room at the Holiday Inn under some cheap lights with one guy taking a picture with some cheap wine and a crappy bread roll in front of him.
The wine bottle appears open, but there is no wine residue in the glasses.
originally posted by: Guyfriday
And just like that, "The End is Near".
From: Yahoonews, because I wasn't going to spend hours finding it at Reuters.
DAVOS, May 24 (Reuters) - Billionaire financier George Soros said on Tuesday that Russia's invasion of Ukraine may have been the beginning of World War Three so the best way to preserve free civilisation was for the West to defeat President Vladimir Putin's forces.
Soros, 91, a legendary hedge fund manager who earned fame by betting against the pound in 1992, cast the Ukraine war as part of a broader struggle between open societies and closed societies such as China and Russia which were in the ascent.
"The invasion may have been the beginning of the Third World War and our civilization may not survive it," Soros told Davos, according to a text of his speech released by his office.
"The best and perhaps only way to preserve our civilization is to defeat Putin as soon as possible. That's the bottom line."
You know which side is losing badly when the people who operate the puppets have to come out of the shadows and tell you what they fear most. So is Putin the threat or is a free and open Ukraine? I think we know the answer to this one given that Russia turn Ukraine into a glass bowl if it wanted to, but Soros and friends can't wash a sock of cash without places to do it in.
originally posted by: Guyfriday
I'm betting that if this shooting doesn't get the public to "worry", then the next shooting will be at a church. Watch this group is so predictable.
Then they'll sleep around in my name, murder their children, 55 and [they'll …] evil and […] the realms, bringing the generations and presenting them to Saklas.
originally posted by: Guyfriday
So, this was ten days ago after the Buffalo shooting:
originally posted by: Guyfriday
I'm betting that if this shooting doesn't get the public to "worry", then the next shooting will be at a church. Watch this group is so predictable.
Then we had that Church shooting, and now we have a school shooting. Funny how these events are happening at the same time that Hillary and the Trotskyist groups are falling down. I guess once again they will stop at nothing to try and shut down those news stories from getting headlines.
Now after hearing Biden talking, it sounds like he's going to go after firearms again. This speech of his targeted gun groups specifically, So I'm willing to bet that someone is going to attack one of the NRA heads or go after people with NRA Stickers on their vehicles. Watch and see that their play book has been played out.
I'm surprised that the mysterious "Qannon" hasn't been blamed for this yet.
Just to reflect back on my last postings:
Qan non when ran through the G-Translates it says in Azerbaijani, "Blood Bread". Wasn't it Pelosi that demanded that she get the "Eucharist"? The tradition of wine and bread equating to Flesh and Blood.
I posted that in the Gospel of Judas, Jesus says: Taken from here
Then they'll sleep around in my name, murder their children, 55 and [they'll …] evil and […] the realms, bringing the generations and presenting them to Saklas.
I bet this shooter will be linked back to Qannon. Just wait and see.
originally posted by: crankyoldman
This was never about "taking our guns" otherwise it would have happened. This was about using the guns, the abortions, the voting, the healthcare as methods of mind control and manipulation. That's why it never ends, it works like a charm.
Or, they are beyond incompetent.
Both are not mutually exclusive.
originally posted by: Guyfriday
originally posted by: crankyoldman
This was never about "taking our guns" otherwise it would have happened. This was about using the guns, the abortions, the voting, the healthcare as methods of mind control and manipulation. That's why it never ends, it works like a charm.
Or, they are beyond incompetent.
Both are not mutually exclusive.
Yep, this has never been about the guns themselves. It's always about preventing us from fighting back against them, but as you pointed out they can just fear people into submission. I personally think that this school shooting was nothing but a sacrifice, and because of that I worry about what Biden will demand for his Eucharist? How many will die for Biden.
The former US secretary of state and architect of the Cold War rapprochement between the US and China told a gathering in Davos that it would be fatal for the West to get swept up in the mood of the moment and forget the proper place of Russia in the European balance of power.
Dr Kissinger said the war must not be allowed to drag on for much longer, and came close to calling on the West to bully Ukraine into accepting negotiations on terms that fall very far short of its current war aims.
“Negotiations need to begin in the next two months before it creates upheavals and tensions that will not be easily overcome. Ideally, the dividing line should be a return to the status quo ante. Pursuing the war beyond that point would not be about the freedom of Ukraine, but a new war against Russia itself,” he said.
President Volodymyr Zelensky delivered his usual tour de force in a video address to the forum, saying “this is the year when we learn whether brute force will rule the world”. If it does, he added with his trademark touch, there will be no point in any more World Economic Forums in Davos.
India’s energy minister Shri Hardeep Puri brushed aside suggestions that his country should stop buying Russian oil. “The Europeans buy more Russian energy in an afternoon than we do in a quarter,” he said in Davos.
The Telegraph
Western strategic thinkers who had warned of the Ukrainian conflict (a compilation by @RnaudBertrand)
1. George Kennan, America’s foreign policy strategist, the architect of the U.S. cold war strategy. As early as 1998 he warned that NATO expansion was a “tragic mistake” that ought to ultimately provoke a “bad reaction from Russia”.
2. Kissinger, in 2014, He warned that “to Russia, Ukraine can never be just a foreign country” and that the West therefore needs a policy that is aimed at “reconciliation”.
He was also adamant that “Ukraine should not join NATO”
3. John Mearsheimer – arguably the leading geopolitical scholar in the US today – in 2015: “The West is leading Ukraine down the primrose path and the end result is that Ukraine is going to get wrecked […] What we’re doing is in fact encouraging that outcome.”
4. Jack F. Matlock Jr., US Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987-1991, warning in 1997 that NATO expansion was “the most profound strategic blunder, [encouraging] a chain of events that could produce the most serious security threat […] since the Soviet Union collapsed”
5. Clinton’s defense secretary William Perry explained, in his memoir, that to him NATO enlargement is the cause of “the rupture in relations with Russia” and that in 1996 he was so opposed to it that “in the strength of my conviction, I considered resigning”.
6. Stephen Cohen, a famed scholar of Russian studies, warning in 2014 that “if we move NATO forces toward Russia’s borders […] it’s obviously gonna militarize the situation [and] Russia will not back off, this is existential”
7. CIA director Bill Burns in 2008: “Ukrainian entry into NATO is the brightest of all redlines for [Russia]” and “I have yet to find anyone who views Ukraine in NATO as anything other than a direct challenge to Russian interests”. (He was then Ambassador to Moscow in 2008 when he wrote this memo). He is now director of the CIA. ‘08 memo ‘Nyet Means Nyet: Russia’s NATO Enlargement Redlines’
8. Russian-American journalist Vladimir Pozner, in 2018, stated that: NATO expansion in Ukraine is unacceptable to the Russian, that there has to be a compromise where “Ukraine, guaranteed, will not become a member of NATO.”
9. Malcolm Fraser, 22nd prime minister of Australia, warned in 2014 that “the move east [by NATO is] provocative, unwise and a very clear signal to Russia”. He adds that this leads to a “difficult and extraordinarily dangerous problem”.
10. Paul Keating, former Australian PM, in 1997: expanding NATO is “an error which may rank in the end with the strategic miscalculations which prevented Germany from taking its full place in the international system [in early 20th]”
11. Former US defense secretary Bob Gates in his 2015 memoirs: “Moving so quickly [to expand NATO] was a mistake. […] Trying to bring Georgia and Ukraine into NATO was truly overreaching [and] an especially monumental provocation”
12. Pat Buchanan, in his 1999 book A Republic, Not an Empire: “By moving NATO onto Russia’s front porch, we have scheduled a twenty-first-century confrontation.”
13. In 1997, a group of individuals including Robert McNamara, Bill Bradley & Gary Hart wrote a letter to Bill Clinton warning the “US led effort to expand NATO is a policy error of historic proportions” and would “foster instability” in Europe. Today it’s fringe, traitorous position.
14. Pat Buchanan, in his 1999 book A Republic, Not an Empire: “By moving NATO onto Russia’s front porch, we have scheduled a twenty-first-century confrontation.”
15. Dmitriy Trenin expressed concern that Ukraine was, in the LT, the most potentially destabilizing factor in US-Russian relations, given the level of emotion & neuralgia triggered by its quest for NATO membership.
16. Sir Roderic Lyne, former British ambassador to Russia, warned a year ago that “[pushing] Ukraine into NATO […] is stupid on every level.” He adds “if you want to start a war with Russia, that’s the best way of doing it.”
17. Even last year, famous economist Jeffrey Sachs, writing a column in the FT warning that “NATO enlargement is utterly misguided and risky. True friends of Ukraine, and of global peace, should be calling for a US and NATO compromise with Russia.”
18. Fiona Hill: ”We warned [George Bush] that Mr. Putin would view steps to bring Ukraine and Georgia closer to NATO as a provocative move that would likely provoke pre-emptive Russian military action. But ultimately, our warnings weren’t heeded.”
19. Aleksandr Dugin, in 1997, had predicted everything that Putin has done, in his book “Foundation of Geopolitics.”
EVERYBODY knew that trying to rope Ukraine into NATO was crossing Russia’s red line, but now people would like to hold up Russia as a villain. After having done everything to teeter on the redline. And this happened only AFTER Biden came to power.
Ukraine: A Criminal Comedy of Suicidal Errors