MadVlad Episode VIII

Vlad’s Last Stand?

Could this be the icing on the cake or metaphorically Vlad's Last Stand. Technically by 2024 his reign will end ~ Job Done? Presently its the last time he can be nominated for the presidency? Though we’re all well aware of previous shenanigans, so is this it? Will he see it out to everlasting glory or follow in the footsteps of all-American Hero George Armstrong Custer?

   Years ago a showbiz agent; who gave me a start, in the game. Explained it to me this way: ‘there comes a time, when we all have to go. You are best placed to do it; when you’re riding the crest of the wave. There’s but a tiny window of opportunity; so if you don’t carpe diem, to soldier on until you’re no good for 'owt much'. You could well get the heave-oh; when you least, expect it.

Tell us you’re gonna stand; hollered the workers at Nizny Novgorod in 2017 and with approval ratings nudging (80%), Vlad - with arms aloft 'succumbed'. Saying; he couldn’t find a better place or better moment; to reveal his hand, for his latest power grab. But that’s history now; dating back to the turn of the century. But with hands aloft; it appeared to me, more like a surrender than an acceptance.

So is this the equivalent; of another Battle of Bull Run, at the Little Bighorn or Vlad’s Last Stand? Monitoring Vlad’s recent career; seems there could be, an over-riding inconsistency here. That originates in attempts to revive the economic fortunes of the former Soviet Empire; with a scope and practice, reminiscent of the infamous KGB.

 

He must by now have realised; following this final outrageous act of hegemony, that his star is no longer in the ascendancy. He’s doomed to eternal damnation; though it could be said; the blame cannot be entirely laid, at his doorstep. The expansionist ambitions of the EU elite; must take its share of the ‘blame-game’ as they pushed inexorably, towards Russia’s western border.

 

It’s incredible the leader of Britain’s UK Independence Party; never latched onto this aspect, of EU policy. But then it is in no way in his interest; to draw international attention, to matters of this nature. For disassociation from the EU due to a British withdrawal; sees the end of UKIP's, raison d’etre. If indeed; the party he ‘led', ever had one. Though his prime objective; uniquely revolved, around filling his boots. To clip clop off into the sunset with the bounty. (So; maybe there’s another blog in here, somewhere?)

This apart it could be a tragedy of epic repercussions; for the new Russia, for Vlad too. It could bring about his downfall; before the present 'seven year itch', draws to a conclusion. In the face of the flight from Russia; of 1,5 million educated professionals, seeking prosperity and fulfilment in the West. I’m sure the Russian people per se; will be as appalled that this is happening, as the rest of the civilised world. Make no mistake; it is entirely the result of incompetence on the part of Russian supporting separatists. In this battle for the hearts and minds; of disaffected Soviet sympathisers, in the border regions of the Ukraine. A supposedly independent democratic state.

The abiding question however; is why can’t we in the free world, organise a code of conduct, which enables people of disparate sympathies to live together in harmony. For the greater good, of civilisation at large. Nothing ever comes from force of arms; other than heartache for innocents and in the end, it all gets settled around a table. The other aspect of these warlike situations that prevail across the world; is the impact of religious practice and the avowed hatred, it spawns. Who is to say what's right and who’s wrong? Inherently reasons for disagreement; manifest themselves in many ways, as the endgame develops and often turn out to be, quite trivial?

Surely it is not beyond the wit of man; to conjure up agreements, that suit all parties if they can only abandon this business of creating mayhem for anyone, who disagrees with their ideas. Compulsion; is the ‘mother of all forces for evil, in the world’. It could be ended at a stroke if the leaders of the entire world; can be made to see common sense. By relegating religion to what and where it should be! A belief; for those who wish to live that way, without any rights to impose it on others. Outlawing the brainwashing of children; from the point of conception and leaving religions, where they belong, in the churches, tabernacles and mosques.

There maybe many things we do not like; about this, but it should in no way mean we have to make individual points, by force of arms. I will write no more on this subject and hopefully; await the day when commonsense can prevail, across the entire Planet Earth. That we learn can learn to live; in peace and harmony, to the common good of all mankind, not forgetting the ladies!

Amen.

P.S: as a final rejoinder; to all who seek the truth in defiance of blind faith, I append herewith a recent dialogue of reasons why Christianity. May not be everything to all people at the website: godisimaginary.com

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Daz.

MadVlad Episode VI

Capital Flight

Phew: estimates of Capital Flight in the region US$ Zillions, are fleeing from the grasping tentacles of Russia’s Treasury? No wonder Vlad’s had cause to pause and rein in his rhetoric; though it doesn’t seem to have filtered down to his, boots on the ground. Suffice to say he can carry-on telling the world, "nowt to do with me pal."

There can be no doubt that Capital flight legal or illegal; as the case maybe, depending on the circumstances. Contributes massively to economic chaos and although Vlad has stated categorically that he's unconcerned by the prospect. Something must have transpired; to bring about a volte-face, on aspects of the situation he has created in Ukraine.

It is probably true; that liability for many of the problem areas that exist today. Rest at the feet; of whoever created these tit for tat situations we see today in the first place. From 'Big Brother Joe' to Putin dictators and presidents actually transferred whole tracts of virgin territory without due respect; to indigenous rights or the ethnic mixes within, which were inevitably bound to fester, as they stored up problems for the future.

In the endgame it all comes home to roost; either by way of history repeating itself, In anticipation that memories fade or via a new slant on reasons why. To create the conditions which produce a fog of concealment. Whilst the underlying fundamental reasons remain intact and thereby hangs a 'tail'.

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Dazzoir

MadVlad Episode V

Spirit of 2015

Is it a frightened Russian President running for cover, an astute politician playing cat and mouse with a lame duck US president or a chancer on the make? Take your pick but either way, they're both trapped in a political soup of their own making. President Obama is in hock to the ideology of appeasement and indecision. While President Putin is enraptured; by his very own KGB charisma, though in a way they're both trying to wind back the clock. To what in their separate and misguided ways, they regard as better times.

Both have surrendered to expedience in the face of indecision. Mr Putin because his grip on power is tenuous to say the least after rigging the electoral system, whilst President Obama is jealously guarding the legacy of a star on the wane due to diminishing expectations and Is out to salvage what little is left of his tattered reputation.

The pair of them lack real statesmanship, and they do so by avoiding the true purpose of great office and taking the easy option. Though it's hard to see how Mr Putin might survive re-election if Capital Flight wrecks the CIS economic prospects. In the end its economics wot does for 'em, as surely as it did for the USSR.

Overall it's the fact that banking worldwide has been dragged into disrepute in America by the antics of the Wall Street Casino, and in Russia by the antics of the Oligarchs. Transforming the Russian economy by privatisation was never going to be a smooth transition and wresting control of the Banks in the free world is all but impossible without a radical re-vamp of their M.O.

Maybe something to value money against gold was doomed; when they demonetarised silver. So maybe that’s the answer with States and countries turning to debt-free loans. With stricter limits on Fractional Reserve Banking and real time accounting based on real time profit with a fair day's pay for a fair day's output.

Time for the world to recognise you cannot get a pint from a half pint pot and the 5  small fishes and 5 small loaves tale is a myth. The fill yer boots and clip clop off into the sunset mentality has to be ended for all time. It should have ended with the Plunder of the Spanish Main but it appears we learn little from history and continue to make the same old mistakes in the same old way, indeed as Arthur Wellesley pointed out:- They came at us in the same old way and we beat 'em off in the same old way.

Spirit of Waterloo needs to be re-invented in a brand new way. fit for purpose in this so-called Modern Age.of new Beginnings 

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Dazzoir

MadVlad Episode IV

Rebirth of Empire

It's possible Vlad has ambitions in respect of re-establishing the Soviet Empire, as he adopts what can only be described as gradualism, the mantra embraced by socialist regime-change aficionados and pseudo-dictators across the globe.

What else can explain the subduction of legal constraints, to terms of office or unmarked, armed incursions in the name of securing the interests of particular interest groupings. By priming fellow travellers; in the midst of a sovereign territory, to canvass a rigged referenda.

It could have direct links to the muscle-bound bareback, stripped to the waist, horse back rough-riding. The tough guy image with pecs exposed - for worldwide speculation. This is the kind of arrogant or blinkered behaviour the free nations of Europe endured in the period 1933/45.

But to think you can get you by in the 21st Century dressing it up with shades of grey, must rank as a gross miscalculation. Maybe South Ossetia was a 'dummy-run' of sorts, to refine the tactics. But such tactics, appear to be more reminiscent of the copy one might read in the pages of former dictators.

The takeover of Crimea on the back of a barely disguised and bogus attempt to skewer public opinion, is no longer the way of the world. Bare-faced disregard for accepted norms, cannot be tolerated by the rest of the world where freedom reigns and the democratic will of the majority prevails.

The kind of carry-on in Crimea owes more to the Communist era of despots, gulags & political dictat. It's a world Vlad the Lad, with his KGB background is obviously well acquainted with. But to impose it in such an obvious way in 21st century AD, with total disregard, for accepted democratic rules, smacks of hubris that is unacceptable, by any measure of civilised behaviour.

Surely such bully-boy tactics cannot be tolerated, if the Free World is to retain any shred of self-respect. Such behaviour has to be a gross miscalculation, as the bastions of freedom and democracy, rally to ratchet up the moral pressure and pour derision on such tactical blundering.

'Fait accompli' delivered with hubris, in the face of worldwide disapprobation cannot be allowed to stand, in any part of the world. If sovereign territorial rights under international law, are to reign supreme.

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Dazzoir.

MadVlad Episode III

So there you have it, variety is the spice of life

All is revealed as President Putin’s divorce is finalised. Poor old Vlad the Lad, is in the throes of a midlife crisis. Lyudmila has been expunged from the record books and removed from his website, or as Dimitry Peskov Mr Putin’s spokesman put it – edited out.

  ‘No man can be an island unto himself’. Nor can he be fully-functioning without the will of a good woman. So now no doubt, there’s a vacancy, a trade-off so to speak or in insurance jargon ‘New for Old’. So the world waits with baited breath for a glimpse into the life of Lyudmila’s replacement Alina.

But on a more realistic note this might go someway to explaining Vlad’s erratic behaviour of late. The flexing of his pecs, as he rides bareback on the vast rolling wasteland of the Steppes. Could it be that was to impress the rest of the world or more likely Alina? It could however help to explain the reasons, behind Mr Putin’s necessity to divert attention from the dissidents, on the domestic scene – the men who would be king.

This bareback gimmick however, turned out to be a policy decision with unforeseen consequences, for it certainly impressed ‘the Nigel’. Apart from the others he had to sideline with gagging orders and incarceration, like Mr Khordorkovsky and other political opponents who emerge from time to time, with political ambition, only to be ruthlessly suppressed.

In actuality Vlad the Lad is little different to dictators he shares his continent with. In addition, the vindictive way he uses energy resources to threaten neighbours if they dare to query his motives, is yesteryear stuff. I do not think however that this behaviour presages a return to Cold War or Iron Curtains for these instruments of control have no place in the modern world.

Since the advent of the Arab Spring and the deposing of democratically elected leaders which seems to have taken-off, alongside mass-movements to remove certain leaders of a dictatorial persuasion. A new world order is on the agenda, though at the nub of all this, lies the real evil at loose in the world, militant religious doctrine. There can be no justification whatsoever for blowing people to bits with explosives in a bid to impose radical religious-based ideas of life and living. Better to jack up the cost of living eh, to cover the ante-post bet for continuum?

In our 21st century world, surely the guiding principles should be Freedom, Choice and Opportunity, without any fear of intimidation. For there is a ground swell of popular opinion, as religious practice diminishes worldwide and brain-washing from birth, by inculcating religious principles into a babe in arms, has to be seen for what it is.

Watch this space I’ll be back! Unless I finish up jumping up and down to keep warm, on the premise North Sea gas might run out, before we get fracking on any kind of scale?

Yours Truly

Dazzoir 

MadVlad Episode II

MARCH 22ND, 2014 11:54

You can bet yer life, there’s more to come

The takeover of Crimea was just a taster of things to come – revival of the Soviet Dream. The ‘invasion’ of Crimea was a dip your toe in the water kinda thing. Purely to test any probability the wider world might wish to intervene.

What is happening is a tried and tested Fabian Socialist practice known as Gradualism. Though the Yanks would more likely know it as ‘toe in the door’. The tactics they rely on to close a deal when their tried and tested sales tactics fail. If you ever spent time living and working in the USA, you would know all about that.

But over there, it’s more likely limited to the antics of vacuum cleaner specialists, and multi-level marketing addicts.

It might however, help to throw a bit of light on things, should you decide to spend a bit of time watching the Keiser Report on Moscow’s RTV. This Russian Rolling News Channel is effectively Comrade Putin’s propaganda tool, with his pet sidekick Max Keiser, as the organ-grinder poking fun at Uncle Sam.

But to get back to my initial point, about where this re-birth of the Soviet Union is planned to go next. It is Ukraine of course and all the good comrade needs to do, is gobble-up the bit in-between, from Crimea to his western borders. This next turkey-trot should be a shoe-in, ’Easy-peasy’, he’s tested the water and as the Ukraine authorities had no alternative but to capitulate, short of declaring outright war to protect their sovereign territory, it has worked for now.

Why does he need to do this? Well Ukraine is a vital part of the equation, for Comrade Putin’s modern day version of the Soviet Union, it is effectively the Bread-Basket of Russia. Its vast fertile plains keep the food chain supplied for a resurgent Soviet Union. So whilst he failed to control it, playing ‘Jiggery-pokey’ with energy supplies, Comrade Putin does not have a full hand for his version of Soviet inspired – stud-poker.

Oh! He’s mastered the ‘Trigger style’ deadpan of course and he now appears anxious to take up the cudgels with ‘Trigger’s broom’ for a clean sweep. But with one clear distinction, he stands liable to upset one of his biggest trading partners, our EU Konig makers.

The very people, who made a mockery of the UK’s attempt to participate in the ERM money snake. Back in the late ’80s to early ’90s. Following Chancellor Lawson’s ill-fated attempt to shadow the German currency at Dm3.00 to £1.00 sterling, when they refused to support Chancellor Lamont’s attempt to stay in the ERM.

There it rests - Hand in Hand with a Brussels/Strasbourg Elite putative ‘Meisters of the Universe’ seeking dominance, in the shape of a European Federal Superstate. The EU’s area commanders or gauleiters if you’re deutsches sprechen, are now out to promote their dominance in a modern day version of the 4th Reich. Using EU Presidents and Commissioners, as their puppets to trumpet the message.

So there you have it, a realtime exposé/appraisal of what lies behind the Comrade Putin power grab and why he needs to do it. There can be little doubt it’s to divert attention from the real purpose behind this strategy and his shaky position at home. And as for our ‘Meisters’ of the Universe’ in Berlin’s Chancellery dependent on exports for their way of life, there is everything to play for in soft pedalling on Comrade Putin.

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MadVlad Episode l

  Or how the Mighty Fail 

In the West we know full well what the mighty Russian Bear is capable of, so if Vlad the Lad’s posturing over the Crimean Peninsular is not to demonstrate his chutzpah, what is it about? If the Russian speaking Ukrainians don’t like the politics there, he could offer them sanctuary in Russia, he’s certainly not short of space. I’ve no idea how Russia came to have bases on the ;Crimean Peninsular. Though it probably it happened in Soviet times; for the Soviets ruled, almost as long as the Tories have ruled the UK.

   We all know how Vlad likes to come-on with the macho image, as shown by his bareback riding antics and besides this he’s not without opponents inside his own domain. We know this because of recent moves to silence them, by denying contact channels to the outside world. via the internet for one.

   So could it be the opportunity to adopt scare-mongering tactics with the West diverts attention from his domestic squabbles, and what attracts him to this situation. Opting to psyche out the world’s press corps with his infamous deadpan technique is one way to avoid the obvious, I guess. 

   Though maybe a few lessons from Trigger; the acknowledged master of deadpan, before he passed away a while back, would have prepared him better for this role. More so than he seemed able to muster on RT these days.

    So there you have it, for he must know deep down that he’ll get no kudos from trying to hold people who depend on Russia for energy, to ransom. In the end it will get him nowhere, in addition to which, he’ll not to be there forever.

    More than likely, his posturing is for domestic consumption. Russia is a vast country with diverse interests, and you cannot change hearts and minds in this way. You might change a few hearts and maybe a few minds, but never the twain shall meet. You can’t legislate against attitudes of mind, even if you back it up with Gulags.

    In some ways Vlad the Lad is harking back to Soviet days, something he well understands from his time with the KGB. Though when it comes to diplomacy, it looks like he’s not taken too many lessons onboard, and there’s still someway to go.

   So if he's the Bogeyman.Uncle Sam has lacked, since the fall of Communism –  Iran with its bid for nuclear capability and Iraq were never in the same league as the Soviets. Though whether Vlad the Lad fits the bill on this one, I guess we’ll have to wait and see. In the end, as always however – economics are the downfall, ask Monsieur Macron Le Presidente