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Comment by Willem Post on February 6, 2023 at 2:16pm

Ukraine War, a Move by the US/EU to Preserve Hegemony and Prevent a Multi-Polar World

 

The war in Ukraine is not just about Ukraine and Russia, with the US/EU acting as benevolent supporters of Ukraine. The US and its NATO allies are deeply involved in the conflict. Ukraine is merely a proxy for US/EU hegemony planners. The war is part of a geo-political confrontation between the US/EU and Russia/China, that are pushing to create a multi-polar world, no longer under the US/EU hegemony.

 

Weakening, Regime Change, Breaking Up Russia

The US State/Defense/Intel Departments likely viewed Russia as having too much resources for so few people. These Departments have been trying to break up Russia to a suitable size by means of:

 

1) Undermining Russian society with foreign-financed NGOs for "spreading Freedom, Democracy and Civil Society", while Yeltsin was Russia’s President. The NGOs were outlawed by Putin.

2) Using opponents of the Russian government, such as Navalny, to: 1) spread "dirt" provided by the US surveillance system, and 2) organize nationwide protests in Russia. 

3) Moving NATO infrastructures from East Germany to Russian borders, from 1991 to the present, to drive Russia from East Europe

4) A coup d’etat in Ukraine (major exporter of grains and seeds) in 2014 (successful)

5) A coup d’etat in Belarus (major exporter of potash fertilizers) in 2021 (unsuccessful)

6) A coup d’etat in Kazakhstan (exporter of oil, gas, coal, etc.) in 2022 (unsuccessful)

 

The U.S. wants to:

 

1) Have regime change in Russia,

2) Divide up Russia in small, easily controlled provinces,

3) Provide energy/resource-starved Europe low-cost access to "former-Russia" resources.

4) Have control of the increasingly ice-free shipping lanes from northern Norway to Alaska

5) Have control of the coal, oil, gas, etc., on the Siberian side of the Asian Continental shelf

 

Weakening China

As a side benefit, these measures would weaken China, which greatly benefits from low-cost, friendly, access to Russia’s resources. China would be cut-off from these "former-Russia" resources, and from the northern shipping lanes, and from advanced computer chip making

 

Setting the Stage to Weaken Russia

The US-led NATO was financing/arming/training/advising the Ukraine armed forces, after the illegal Kiev coup d’etat in 2014, which ousted a democratically elected President.

Those Kiev armed forces were mostly arrayed on the western side of the defense line in Donbas area, in East Ukraine, starting in 2014.

 

Genocide of Russian-Speaking People

From behind that line, the Ukraine army's AZOV/NAZI battalions used long-range artillery, and nightly raids, in the eastern part of the Donbas, to kill about 14,000, plus injure many more, by 2022, as part of a planned harassment-genocide of Russian-speaking people, who distrusted, and wanted no part of, Kiev's new government, installed with approval of the US.

 

Very little of the genocide was reported by the Western Media in the US and Europe, even though UN on-site observers filed weekly reports for 8 years!!!

 

Minsk Accords

Russia was trying to get the Minsk Accords implemented, but were obstructed by Ukraine, France and Germany, etc., because they and others, were using the Minsk Accords as a tool to deceive and delay, while financing/arming/training/advising Ukraine, for the better part of 8 years, as recently admitted by Merkel, former Chancellor of Germany, during an interview.

 

Russia finally had enough provocation, especially after significantly increased bombardments of the eastern Donbas by the Ukraine army in January/February, 2022.

 

Peace Talks Nixed by US/UK

Naftali Bennett, the Prime Minister of Israel just after the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, 2022, said, the West “blocked” a ceasefire he was helping to broker early in the war.

Bennett said, “there was a good chance of reaching a ceasefire” before the Western powers “curbed” negotiations in a wide-ranging interview uploaded to YouTube.

 

Full-Scale War with Russia? 

Washington hotheads and some extremist Russia-hating countries (Poland, the Baltics, etc.) are advocating a full-blown war against Russia, and the devastation and breakup of the Russian Federation, as well as the destruction of millions of lives in Russia and Ukraine.

Are they thinking there would not be tens of millions of dead in European countries?

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/macgregor-time-its-different

 

Poor, Corrupt, Ukraine a Victim of US/EU/NATO Ambitions

The US aims to transform Ukraine into a powerful military state, to weaken/exhaust, a heavily sanctioned Russia, by means of:

 

1) A coup d’etat in Ukraine in 2014,

2) NATO financing/arming/training/advising Ukraine’s armed forces,

3) Promising Ukraine to get “their lands back”, i.e., four Ukraine provinces in the east, and Crimea, all populated with Russian-speaking people, who overwhelmingly voted by more than 90%, to rejoin Russia. All of these areas had been part of the Russia Empire and USSR, for hundreds of years until 1991

4) Deluding the Ukraine people, with promises, to be cannon fodder “for as long as it takes”

 

Agenda of EU Countries

EU countries, etc., provide weapons in an antiseptic way, i.e., not getting their hands dirty, none of their people gets injured/killed, no damage in their countries. 

What a good deal, if Russia would only co-operate by collapsing soon to get control of:

1) The low-cost coal, oil and gas and other minerals

2) The vast agricultural areas of Russia to export the crops.

 

Russia Dealing with Sanctions

However, Russian gas, oil, coal, and other resources, and products and services, have increasingly found their ways into the global markets via India, China, Brazil, Turkey, Africa, etc., within one year, despite US/EU sanctions imposed on Russia.

 

Comment by Willem Post on February 1, 2023 at 11:14am

Wind and Solar are Molly-Coddled up to Their Armpits

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Grossly Excessive Financial Incentives: About 45 to 50% of the “wind, all-in LCOE” (levelized cost of energy) of wind turbine projects consists of various financial in incentives. I have the 20-y spreadsheets.

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If no financial incentives, Owners would have to sell their electricity at almost 2 times the price, c/kWh, they now receive, which would be very bad PR optics for wind.

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THE FINANCIAL INCENTIVES ARE THE REASON MANY $BILLIONS OF $DOLLARS ARE MADE AVAILABLE BY RICH PEOPLE WHO ARE PROFITING FROM LUCRATIVE TAX-SHELTERS, SUCH AS WARREN BUFFETT, WHILE LEGALLY SCREWING ALL OTHERS, ALL IN THE NAME OF THE HOLY GRAIL, "SAVING THE PLANET"

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Wind Output is Variable 99 to 100% of the Time: I looked at the hour-to-hour wind output in New England (ISO-NE website) for an entire year, 8766 hours.
I was bleary eyed.
I found there ALWAYS was some wind output. It was NEVER zero.

Wind output is variable about almost 100% of the time 

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Counteracting Variable Wind Output: What makes wind a grid disturber, or very expensive, or very uneconomical (take your pick) is the VARIABLE output, because OTHER generators (likely gas-fired power plants) HAVE to counteract the output variations, UP TO NEAR ZERO wind output, 24/7/365, year after year.

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By exporting excess electricity, such as to Quebec, via HV DC lines, NE generators will do less counteracting, but Quebec generators will do more counteracting; there is no free lunch in the real world. 

 

Cost of Counteracting Wind Output: The counteracting costs imposed on the other generators will be an addition to the “all-in LCOE” of the other generators. 

Depending on grid conditions/topography, that cost addition is less than 5% at up to 5% annual wind penetration, about 5% at about 10% wind penetration, and about 10% at 15% wind penetration, etc.

 

That cost addition becomes very large at high levels of wind penetration, because more and more of the other generators will be operating less economically, due to:

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1) Ramping up/down, at about 75% of rated output, to counteract, on a minute-by-minute basis, the increasing wind outputs 
2) Being on hot, synchronous standby, and cold standby 
3) Having much more high-fuel-consuming start/stops 
4) Having much more wear and tear.

5) Producing less electricity, due to operating at a lesser capacity factor, with wind on the grid

NOTE: The more wind and solar on the grid, the larger the electricity quantities that need to be counteracted, and the greater the cost of that service.

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Ignoring the Money and Environmental Impacts?  The public not looking at the wind project spreadsheets and not being made aware of wind's lifetime adverse environmental consequences, is exactly what "rich folks with tax-shelters and their protectors" want.

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Over the decades, they have set up a PR structure to lie and cheat every-which-way to get their projects approved, built and paid for in Europe and the US.

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In that manner, wind is ARTIFICIALLY made to LOOK economically and socially, palatable to the kept-ignorant/deluded/brainwashed ratepayers and taxpayers.

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The PR ideal is to make “skunk-wind" perceived as a “low-maintenance, perfumed beauty at a garden party”.

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To sum up, wind gets:
 
1) Various federal and state financial incentives,
2) Plus, free electric grid expansion/augmentation,
3) Plus, free backup/standby power plant services
4) Plus, free grid management services
5) Plus, free hazardous waste disposal during project life, and at end of life,
6) Plus, free legalized killing of bats and birds, including bald eagles, and whales,
7) Plus, free legalized ruining of the fishing industry,
8) Plus, free sickening of people and animals with infrasound, which is felt, but not heard,
9) Plus, free visual blight all over the place

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There would be no wind, solar and battery systems without the huge, politics-inspired, financial incentives .

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Thank heavens, ISO-NE has, till now, adequate backup/standby plants, plus adequate natural gas and fuel oil storage capacity near power plants, to INSTANTLY COUNTERACT the ups and downs of wind and solar, 24/7/365, year after year. 

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