Up to now, we haven't heard Vladimir Putin putting it exactly like this:
These days, every time I hear the name CUBA or Mexico I find myself comparing the Cuba crisis of 1962 with the current crisis that's being manufactured and fomented and hyped up around Ukraine. The same people who are saying that everybody's free to choose their alliances would still not want Russia to set up military bases in Cuba or Mexico or Canada, or even little Grenada....
"peacefully as a non-aligned nation". exactly. Like Sweden...
Eleven years ago, as we travelled by train through Estonia to a seaside resort that was once the summer residence of the Czar of Russia ( we were in Estonia to celebrate someone's birthday) what we saw on the roadside looked like the relics of failed Soviet efforts to industrialize that Baltic state. So it was not equal development of all the states in the former USSR. I visited the synagogue in Tallinn and was asked by the rabbi there, " Do you know the difference between Estonia now and Estonia as a member of the USSR?" Being an honest fellow, I told him, " I don't know." He smiled and replied, " Under the Soviets it was Marx & Engels, now it's Marks & Spencers!"
Since this MAD (mutual assured destruction) situation cannot persist forever, one would have thought that if there could be a moratorium of an agreed x number of years during which Ukraine and the remaining remnants of the former Warsaw Pact countries should not join NATO then that would signal the end of the crisis.
Far away from all the problems in Africa, here's some light-hearted diversion to ease the stress and the tension that's starting to mount over here:
(Some years ago the idea of Israel joining NATO was being floated (in the media) the centre of gravity to that ideology being the "One for all and all for one" motto – therefore, ye unfriendly Arabs & Iran beware: An attack on a/one NATO member is an attack on all NATO members including Uncle Sam who could thereby send in some of his biggest Armageddon bombers to cause total nuclear annihilation…
Apart from being Russia- friendly, I wonder what Islamic NATO member Turkiye with the largest land army and an air force that is second to none thinks about all this...
As things are now, Israel cannot compete in the Middle East Football league championship - not even for the FIFA world cup - the official reason given by the OIC countries is "lack of security."
They say that they cannot guarantee the safety of the Israeli players, the safety of the Israeli players cannot be guaranteed on or off the football stadium. Just imagine the psychological state of mind of the Israeli football squad having to face Iran for the return match in Imam Khomeini Revolutionary Football Stadium in Teheran. A total of how many red and yellow cards would be dealt? For the first match between Israel and Iraq in Tel Aviv, the Iraqi team would have been reduced to eight men (three red cards) and the Israeli team also reduced to eight men, after the collisions. Who in the Iraqi team would want to return to Baghdad to face the firing squad for losing to the Zionist enemy?)
Our officially neutral Sweden (not a member of NATO) is busy showing some deep political sympathies for Ukraine and it would seem that Sweden is sometimes a willing lapdog for Uncle Sam, hence in a leaked diplomatic telegram Carl Bildt was described as " a medium sized dog with big dog attitude". Right now, all the talk is about a Russian invasion of Ukraine which if at all would have to happen this winter - not a few months later, and if and when it does happen , there's the ever present danger that some silly military or other could deliberately or mistakenly fire a missile into Russia proper , maybe a missile aimed at the Kremlin , and then the ensuing war would be fought in Europe and not in the United States. It will all start to get interesting by then, when North Korea fires their first hypersonic ballistic missile, over the Atlantic, and that's when Biko & Co over there in Virginia will wake up and start smelling the coffee, begin to understand and to know that you are not so far away after all…
For those of us who are superstitious, believe in prophecy etc. this is most serious:
Anton Johansson : The Fate of Nations
https://docplayer.net/56763589-Anton-johanson-prophecies-of-world-war-i-and-iii.html
The Prophecies of Anton Johansson about a third World War
On Monday, 31 January 2022 at 23:18:54 UTC+1 biko...@yahoo.com wrote:Ukraine should get help with development projects, not weapons. Instead of banning Russian, a language that is spoken by a sizable part of the population, fund the teaching of all languages. With renewable energy, Ukraine could be industrialized peacefully as a non-aligned nationBiko
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