It seems to me that Omicron has shown us starkly how this crisis will end. The sudden emergence of a super mild variant with the transmissibility of the common cold, has taken policy setters completely by surprise, but at street level, nobody is remotely scared of a virus that gives you, at worst a snotty nose and a sore throat. As Omicron takes charge and becomes endemic, no amount of fear mongering has been enough to dispel the general mood of 'so what?' which is how most people feel, and so the CoronaVirus crisis will now surely dissipate in a flood of apathy.
And It will not be replaced in our fears by the Great Reset, since much more pressing matters than that are afoot, in the new year , the world's attention will switch to happenings in the Ukraine. America and its lapdog, the UK is keen to integrate White Russia into the EU so that it forms a bulwark between Russia and the West, Russia will not let that occur, no way no how. So next summer will be dominated by a showdown between Russia and NATO, which Russia could win since it holds the strong card. Without Russian energy, the West in Europe is finished. Perhaps it suits the UK's interests to let the EU fail, and allow Russia to retain the Ukraine, they already have Crimea.Russia remains the largest country in the world because they put themselves first, as we should.Should we help stop the EU's eastward expansion? I think we should if it prevents world war 3.
With Corona Virus rapidly fading as an issue, we in the UK should be asking, do we prefer the EU or Russia. What would be better for us? If we like our nice warm gas central heating, I suggest Russia is our best bet. And if we prefer the cold semi-democratic austerity of Greta Thunberg and the great reset , we should cleave to the West. So we are fast approaching a make-you-mind-up moment. If we back Putin, we scupper the Gretas and the EU at the same time…. this part of the puzzle has the potential to start world war 3 and destroy all the assumptions we have ever made about the modern post war world.
Its seems the number of subjects you seem to know little or nothing about is almost endless.
The Ukrainians are not "White Russians". Learn your Civil War history. The Russians in the Donbas were shipped in after Stalin had deliberately starved to death millions of Ukrainians in the Holodomor. Little different from the Russians shipped into the Baltics after WW2 after the Russians had murdered several hundred thousand Latvians, Estonians and Lithuanians. Quite separate from the people the Germans had murdered.
UK natural gas mostly comes from Norway. Courtesy of the Norwegian Trench.
Its the Germans who deliberately shutdown their nuclear power stations and allowed Russian Gazprom oligarchs to buy the SPD's. We never did find out what was in Merkles Statsi file which the Russians shipped out in 1989. Given the barely concealed contempt Putin has always treated Merkle with she must have as good a Statsi file as her father. Who by all accounts very actively worked for the Statsi.
WW3? That's so 1980's The Day After fantasy. As was that film for that matter. The current Russian strategy is a single "Demonstration of Will" detonation. They even identified the target back in 2016 and the unit in Kaliningrad who will do the honors. With a Iskander with a dialed down yield. When you hear of an unexplained very large explosion in the vicinity of Redzikowo in Poland you will know something very serious has just kicked off.
But you are correct about one thing. The world of February 2020 is gone for good. The current ruling class no matter how catastrophically incompetent they have proved themselves to be will try to cling to power no matter how much they destroy. Before they are finally removed from power. One way or another.
The EU is screwed totally. Think Yugoslavia 1988. The UK will muddle through. As it always does. System M and all that. And the radical Democrats in the US will prove to be as toothless as the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold were in 1933. Although this time the Republic will be saved from those who are trying to destroy it. Because the good guys have all the guns and know how to use them. About 80 million of them.
And 2022? If you thought 2021 and 2020 was bad you aint seen nothing yet. Less Bachman, Turner Overdrive, more Al Johnson. The world has just changed. Utterly. And what comes next is going to be very nasty. Just like the 1970's or 1930's.
Roll on either 1973 or 1933. Better hope its 1973...
