The Conundrum of A Phony, Dangerous War

The shock, anger and utter ruthlessness of the Russian-Ukraine war that erupted on 24 February 2022 viewed from a totally human, non-political perspective has simmered into our psyche like a conundrum that we have to learn to live with for the past half year.

The war is a conundrum on 3 levels: 

(1) NATO and the Russian bear: the war could have been avoided or de-escalated months before it erupted at the Ukraine-Russia border. This was a matter of strategic negotiation which the American and European leaders should have done smartly given that their economies have just recovered from a global pandemic-related recession. 

Instead, the Americans decided to escalate the situation by insisting on Ukraine's sovereign right to join NATO (which, of course, is their right as with any nation, but remember, NATO is a military alliance).

(2) Historian experts are divided while media coverage is mostly one-sided: The second conundrum is that historians are still debating on who is ultimately responsible for the conflict. I reckon the pro-NATO to pro-Russia ratio is 3-to-1 while the media's bias is more extreme at 5-to-1. 

So on the one hand, you have historians like Mearsheimer who blames NATO and the US for triggering the war based on his theory of great powers. On the other hand, economic historians like Adam Tooze are saying that Putin has to be defeated by a NATO-aided Ukraine but he admits he is unsure at what cost. 

The implicit rationale for this view is that the cost of an expansionist Russia with Tsarist ambitions is way more costly than the cost of a European war against Russia. 

To me, this thinking just doesnt make any sense when these historians cant envision a probable outcome and the cost of reaching it. Most supporters of NATO's defense aid to Ukraine repeat the warning that Europe has to learn the lesson of appeasement to Hitler when he wanted to annex the Sudentenland in Czechoslovakia in 1938.

(3) The economic costs for the world do not justify any ideological or geopolitical gains: Countries ranging from the more energy self-sufficient America to the hyperinflated poorer countries like Sri Lanka and Turkey have been impacted by this war with prices of oil, natural gas, wheat, edible oils, barley surging between 20%-100% for the year to date.

The direct cost of this proxy war between America and Russia may be relatively paltry for American taxpayers. The US$40 billion of American aid to Ukraine represents only 0.6% of U.S. fiscal spending but it is as much as 20% of Ukraine's GDP).  

For the rest of the world, this war between two major commodity producing nations is immensely costly as it is has unleashed historic levels of global inflation. A  severe world recession looms ahead for the second time since 2020.

To the man-in-the-street like us who are paying higher prices for food and energy for our families, why should we care who are the Ukrainians or what conflict they are engaged in for that matter? 

I have a strong conviction that this war with the risk of escalating into World War 3, poses a great danger to all. We are dealing with a hidden enemy bent on creating a new world order after wrecking havoc on the current world order. 

And the real enemy is neither Putin nor Biden, though these are unsavory characters themselves. Rather, it is a core group of powerful global players whose agenda is power, control and illegitimate wealth. 

In other words, the existential threat we are facing is both economic and psychological. For months, we were  bombarded with the narrative that liberal democracies are under threat and are therefore morally obliged to defend Ukraine against a communist tyrant.

The narrative looks convincing until we see that Ukraine politics and elections have been subject to American and European interventions for years. What NATO has done since its Budapest declaration in 2008 is akin to breeding tigers at the border of a bear’s habitat.

But the media isn’t reporting this war and its historical evolution with any semblance of independence. It is as if there is an unspoken agenda to shape how we perceive global events. We are in an information war with media handlers seeking to mould our perceptions and desentisize us to present and future crises. 

So to answer the question of how to resolve this conundrum, we have to ask ourselves how do we see and hear the daily news that comes to us from across the world.

If we take the prophetic view that the global events of the past 3 years: the pandemic, the shut-down-enforced recession, the excessive money transfers and the proxy war against Putin are events that are engineered by a few powerful men and women over the years, then the conundrum is easier to understand as we gain a whole new perspective.

Far from being a conspiracy theorist (an overused term), I have read so many analyses that may seem rational and accurate but fails to resonate with my intuition about human nature in this crisis. 

However, there is one source material that is totally out-of-the-box for intellectuals, and that is the prophetic.

Whether we believe in prophetic revelations from God or any oracle, it is useful to see through the eyes of someone like Veronika West who wrote this in her blog, His Kingdom Prophecy on March 8, 2022:

“Ukraine, Russia, WW3 and Media Deception"

“A Prophetic Riddle received on the USA date: 3/6/22…. and the UK date: 6/3/22.

“Watch and Listen! Tick, tock, tick, tock, go the hands of the clock.

Look to Me! Look to Me! I say, look to Me, for they shall say, “Surely its the beginning of World War 3!”

But I say, open your eyes and see, for the one they call Zelensky, he is no hero and no champion of The Truth.

For he’s nothing more than a political pawn on a globalist chess board and puppet on a string — a traitor to his country and a Judas to his friends. He thinks he has the world hoodwinked to his deceitful and demonic deeds.

But watch! For in the midst of a great shaking, I shall expose and uncover their secret deals and diabolical plans, and I shall strip them naked for the world to see — lights, camera, action — and the curtain will lift and the Puppet Master’s plans will suddenly have to move and shift.

And oh! How they will scatter like cockroaches in the dark. “It’s Putin! It’s Putin!” they all will shout, “He’s to blame for the suffering and the beginning of this Third World War fight!”

But nay I say, “This has been strategically and carefully planned by high ranking politicians hidden in plain sight, for the hungry Bear has now been provoked, by the corrupt hands of those who dared to prod and to poke.

And so watch, as the political dominoes begin to fall, as one by one, they will come into the light, and like a mad feeding frenzy. the media will shout, “This is surely all truth and not false or fake!”

But watch! For just like the boy who again cried wolf (ref), so gone are the days of believing what they say and walking in blind faith, as the eyes of all Nations finally receive clear sight.

And with a loud roar, they will rise from a very deep sleep, and begin to push back the global elites, and so with WW3 now knocking on the Door, will NATO Nations open up for more?

And like a wild cat let loose from a sack, once the Door is wide open — there is no going back!

For greater turmoil and trouble will certainly ensue, as Nations rise against Nations with an appetite for murder and more bloodshed.

So, watch and pray and do not say, “That this is that…,” for many things are not as they seem. So, listen and pay attention and you will learn, to look and to learn.

For I AM The Answer to all that you need. So, fear not My Beloved when they talk of a World War Three, for there is a place of safe Refuge and Peace, which can only be found by resting in Me!””

Having read this, I am inclined to recall the title of Shakespeare's play All's well that ends well. It is my conviction and prayer that the nefarious players who lead the nations vying for a place in a new world order will be defeated this time round. And a World War will be averted with the intervention of the swift hand of God. 

At our front door, we are visited by two different strangers: one is the war-mongering wolf and the other is a peaceful shepherd who would save his single lost sheep at all costs. Which one will we, the world, invite into our homes?