 And now I start with a serious subject. Actually, even from a libertarian point of view, my teacher and mentor, Mary Rosberg, said, yes, we have thousands of issues. But the most important issue is peace and war that overrides everything else. That is life and death. All the other ones you can somehow deal with. And I will, because of that start, talking about the war in the Ukraine in libertarian perspective. There are obviously other perspectives, but I think these other perspectives are wrong perspectives. Again, that is all satire, of course. My speech year, last year in Bodrum, was on Germany and also touched on Germany's role in the ongoing war between Russia and the Ukraine. Well, actually we have to say the war between Russia on the one hand and the United States as a boss of NATO and its various European vessel states. And in particular, of course, Germany and the Ukrainians on the other hand, the Ukraine being, so to speak, the proxy of the United States using the Ukraine as a dispensable tool as the useful idiots. And this war or this speech has not gone over too well with supposedly libertarian folks from formerly East Bloc countries. We had always plenty of people from Poland and the Baltic countries at this conference, and it is disappointing that they decided not to come back. Maybe they come back next time again. I do not know. We have very few, no, actually only two people who come from the former eastern Soviet-dominated countries. But I do not regard at all what I said last year on the subject or find any serious fault with my analysis that I presented there to the contrary, if anything, later events, in particular the destruction of Nord Stream, the Nord Stream pipeline by the United States or anybody in close cooperation with the United States has, of course, strengthened my conviction that what I said last time was by and large correct. You remember that nobody seems to be investigating this Nord Stream pipeline in great detail. They even try to blame the Russians, even though every normal amateur detective would say who has a motive to do this sort of thing. What motive could the Russians possibly have to blow up this pipe that they also could have turned off at any time in order to have more negotiable, not more negotiating room instead of blowing it up. So in my view, that seems to be perfectly clear either the United States or somebody in close cooperation with the United States did this sort of thing. But nobody in Western Europe seems to seriously pursue an investigation into this matter, which was a matter of the biggest industrial terrorism that has ever occurred in the post-world war to a European scenery. And the other thing that came out in the meantime were speeches by Merkel and by Hollande, by Macron and Zelensky that the Minsk agreement that had been negotiated between Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France, some other countries that provided some sort of solution to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine by granting autonomy to some of the eastern provinces in the Ukraine, that the Minsk agreement had not been meant seriously by Merkel and all of her followers but was only planned in order to give the Ukraine more time in order to be weaponized, armed to the hilt and prepare for a war against Russia. They admitted this sort of thing. The somewhat indignant reaction by the typical Eastern European but also by many Western European libertarians of my speech on the topic presented here in last year has in my view little, if anything to do with erroneous explanations or faulty analysis of the horrifying events still going on before our very eyes in the Ukraine then but it is owed instead to their very own superficial or fake understanding of libertarianism and the requirement of libertarian or generally revisionist historical research judgment evaluation. In fact, it is a result of nationalist, collectivist and status sentiments overtaking and trumping all calm and sober libertarian thought and analysis in the face of war. But maybe and I think I'm pretty sure that it is that way states resort to war precisely for that reason that is that people tend to lose their mind in war times. Now the claims made by my various critics that I just don't sufficiently know Putin or the Russians or the Ukrainians or the Poles or the Lithuanians even the Germans and the Americans and their various particular history typically appears little more than regurgitations of some official national or nationalistic and invariably status schoolbook history and historical narratives as it is taught and promoted everywhere all times and in all countries. In all countries history is written by some specific people. I only late in my life discovered for instance that after World War II every school textbook that was used in German schools had to be okay by the occupying forces the Americans and the British. And of course there was no way that there would be a history reported in these official textbooks that was not in line with what the Americans thought the whole thing was all about. And I think this is basically the case in every single country. There are of course in every single country revisionist historians historians who have different views but they don't write the textbooks that are used in schools. In schools you learn your official history and the official history in Germany was the official history as told by the American victors. Every German schoolbook had to be licensed. Every newspaper was allowed to reopen after World War II had to be licensed by the Americans. So this type of history you get then sometimes you hear them from my critics. Children's history about their own country. Some of these people even accused me of insufficient understanding of the Soviet system and the history of the former Soviet Union notwithstanding the fact that I have actually extensively written on this very subject and the horrors of socialism. And on a more personal note my motherly grandparents were expropriated by the Soviets in 1946 because they were major land owners and my grandfather was killed by them in a forced labor camp. So you can imagine that there was not exactly a love parade in our family pro-Russia or something like this. Now that being said what then was the central ceaseless of my speech that I gave last year and why and in what regard does the rejection of my analysis by many supposed or presumed Libertarians especially from Eastern Europe indicate a deficient understanding of Libertarian principles on their part. Now first and foremost states are not productive enterprises rather states are criminal gangs protection rackets or mafias with large taxing or otherwise ripping of productive people to their own advantage and the advantage of their members friends and supporters. And states have to be recognized as that and with a fundamental understanding with this fundamental understanding of the nature of states which is of course a sobering inside if you have this sobering inside under your belt much mental fog and confusion is cleared up immediately. Gang wars then wars between states typically involving some territorial issues are always wars conducted by rival gang leaders with other people's money machines and manpower just think of taxation and compulsory conscription. The cost of war whether conducted in an offensive or in a defensive mode then is socialized other people pay the cost of war while the prospective gains are privatized and that of course makes war more likely private people have to pay come up with a cost of war of fighting other people out of their own resources. States go to war because they have other people finding them making war far more likely than any private conflict is ever and this makes them not only more likely but it makes them also more lengthy of course now in a nutshell the scenario currently unfolding in the Ukraine is this. There is a Zelensky gang that has deliberately and continually provoked the much bigger next door Putin gang and it has been closely encouraged and supported in its provocations by the leaders of the world's biggest if far away gang that is the US gang the Biden gang assisted of course by its NATO vessels and the associated gang leaders in Europe and all of them the United States in particular and of course European allies they view the Russians the Putin gang as the enemy as one of the only two remaining stumbling blocks on the way toward global hegemony and world domination as its very own explicitly and repeatedly stated ultimate goal. I should emphasize this the American leadership of the United States especially the so-called neocons have as admitted as an explicit goal that it is their goal to create some sort of world government and a world central bank with the US dollar as a world dominating reserve currency that is their explicitly stated goal at some point then in January 2022 the Putin gang did what it had repeatedly warned it would do if Zelenskiy and his gang were to continue with certain explicitly stated provocations there were killings going on in eastern Ukraine by western Ukrainians who opposed the Russian speaking eastern provinces from trying to reach some status of autonomy the Zelenskiy gang propped up by the mighty but far away Biden gang defied these warnings and the Putin gang consequently invaded and occupied territories previously controlled and claimed as its own turf by the Zelenskiy gang now standing alone based solely on their own relative powers and resources in terms of population size military strength and economic where whistle the Putin gang would have quickly long ago defeated the Zelenskiy gang and installed another Putin gang friendly associate gang leadership in the Ukraine that was the status that existed before too there were some gang leaders in the Ukraine that tried to be somewhat neutral also showed a certain friendliness to Russia after all Russia was their mighty neighbor Zelenskiy and installing another Putin friendly gang would not have been a big deal I assume that the war still drags on instead and has in the meantime cost hundreds of thousands of lives millions of refugees and mass destruction all of this is solely the result of the massive financial logistic and military aid continuing to flow to Zelenskiy and his gang from the Biden gang its subordinate minor league gangs and gang leaders in Germany, France, Britain and so on the Zelenskiy gang would be long broke if it had not been bailed out and is still being kept on life support by the US NATO Gangster Association the US NATO gang does the funding does the actual fighting the shooting and the killing in a joint war against the Putin gang the US NATO gang pays for the war against the Putin gang essentially in the form of money that it can ultimately print up and Zelenskiy and his gang do the nasty and dirty job that is they pay for the war in the form of conscripted lives from the outset of the war males from age 18 to age 60 were prohibited from leaving the territory except of course for special gang leadership friends and family the oligarchs in Ukraine could of course go to the west in the meantime the compulsory conscription in the Ukraine has gone so far that they pick up kids from the street and people in the age of 60 will be drafted into the war as a result there are about almost 700,000 deserters Ukrainian deserters living in Germany and the Ukraine demands that Germany and other European countries where these deserters have gone back to the Ukraine and have said if they don't deliver them back to the Ukraine now later on if they have won the war which they expect of course still to do if they want the war and these people want to return to the Ukraine they will be punished for their desertion which means these people will of course not go back there but will stay in Europe and stay on the dole as most of them do up to this day anyhow now how in view of this constellation is a libertarian to position himself now the answer I gave last year still holds today I think faced with interstate war that is wars between rival gangs sustained by taxation, confiscation and conscription a libertarian should stay neutral for a libertarian living outside the actual war zone from the perspective of a German or an American for instance neutrality means that you do not give active support to either one of the warring gangs you do not financially or otherwise aid the Zelensky gang or the Putin gang and you strictly oppose that your own national ruling gang whether in Germany or in the United States uses its that is German or American taxes confiscations, public goods and funds to prop up the Zelensky or the Putin gang or a libertarian would also oppose the use of any and all so-called public goods or funds for the free accommodation of refugees from the war zone because to do all this would be a positive contribution toward the cessation of the mass shooting and killing and the ultimate goal of peace in contrast to do otherwise that is to donate personal funds to the Zelensky gang or the Putin gang or to encourage your own domestic gang leadership to send public funds to one of the warring parties or else to help the Zelensky gang or the Putin gang reduce its own cost of war by providing free accommodation for all of the gang's runaway refugees in other countries ruled by other protection racketeers and with other people's public funds all of this is unbecoming of a libertarian and would rather qualify you as some variant of war monger whether knowingly or unknowingly now the number of Ukrainian refugees in western Europe is about 5 million that might be even higher in the meantime having them fed and housed by public funds in the west the Zelensky gang has successfully externalized a significant part of the cost of its war onto some other non-combatant population and the war accordingly will be lengthened on the other hand the public accommodation of Ukrainian refugees in Russia those are about 3 million people who emigrated to went to Russia instead is to increase the cost of war for Putin because he somehow has to his gang somehow has to support these 3 million people that were previously living someplace else and that would as far as he is concerned tend to shorten the war now to wit, all these strictures that I just mentioned that is the libertarian neutrality vis-a-vis rival gangs warring somewhere away from home does not exclude various private initiatives and interventions a libertarian with his own means may engage in humanitarian and charitable efforts in support of Ukrainian war Russian refugees for instance he is allowed with his own means to help people escape the country so as to evade conscription and war private party and on his own account every libertarian would be allowed to transfer funds and materials to private parties residing in the war zone indeed at the urging of private owners in the war territory and at his own risk a libertarian may even relocate there and help such owner directly in the safeguarding and protection of his private property from confiscation, depredation and destruction in the ongoing war whether from the defensive or from the offensive side now I did not consider the matter from the other inside perspective before but for a libertarian residing within the war territory that is within Ukraine the position vis-à-vis the two fighting domestic and foreign gangs should be likewise a neutral one staying neutral under war conditions however is a far more difficult thing to do during war your life and property is threatened from two sides it may conscript you or have you killed it may requisition or confiscate your property or even have it destroyed and it may freeze your accounts or in the name of national defense or else the Putin gang may come and capture you and kill you and conquer your property or destroy it or in the name of national liberation as a libertarian what are you to do and what are you not to do in this unenviable horrible situation but briefly you should stay away from both warring parties as far and as long as the circumstances allow as a libertarian you do not volunteer your resources your manpower or your ingenuity to either one of these dangerous warring parties and gang mandates to the contrary think of conscription are evaded if at all possible your personal interest in the protection of your own life property and well-being is something very different from the interest of the domestic or foreign gang leadership in the protection or liberation of its national turf indeed both interests may be completely contrary and bound to clash the protection by the Zelensky gang of its territory against the Putin gang's invasion for instance may and indeed does in many cases involve the confiscation of predation, depreciation and devaluation or even the destruction of people's life and property collective security and national defense that is are actually incompatible with and indeed contrary to private security and private defense there's something entirely different as a libertarian living and locked up in Zelensky gang land and faced with an invading Putin gang that has in store for you another collective security deal you try to stay equidistant from both parties you avoid provoking either side and you listen and are always open to talks with both sides moreover wherever you happen to reside at your home base you concentrate on the provision of your own personal, private and local rather than any national or collective security and in so far as possible you promote the decentralization of decision making that is you advocate making the decision of when and how to conduct war and increasingly local and ultimately private matter so as to delimit and to reduce the cost of war as a matter of fact the population of the Ukraine is anything but homogeneous a large part in the east because all the way to Odessa was culturally Russian with local and regional decision making many places in these regions would have peacefully surrendered to Putin's gang and thus been spared the ravages of war rather than being defended by Zelensky and his gang and having everything destroyed in the course of it one gang rule would have been replaced by another both gangs rank similarly high in the corruption department both Russia and Ukraine are extremely corrupt places they rank very closely in any type of ranking that you can see everyone around there is used to corruption anyhow the change would not have been utterly dramatic yet Putin Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the disintegration of the Soviet Empire in 1991 has actually far outperformed the Ukraine economically if you look at GDP per capita of all formerly parts, former parts of the Soviet Union or of the Warsaw Pact countries no country performed worse than the Ukraine indicating the level of corruption Russian GDP per capita is three or four times as high as it is in Ukraine Ukrainian GDP per capita is lower than Bulgaria which is the lowest country in the European Union ranks even below Albania so when people present the views that Ukraine is a western country and glorious example that should be imitated is just BS there is nothing to it whatsoever so Russia has performed more successfully this does not mean that it is a great place or anything like this but it is more productive and wealthier on the average than is the Ukraine so why not for some of these people that speak Russian why not opt for Russia as many would have done other regions or localities may have negotiated a truce or worked out some sort of neutral position in between the rival gangs and so avoided the bloodshed and the destruction that is actually going on still others may have fought the invading Putin gang with other weapons and by different means for instance by peaceful resistance that none of this has happened or is happening that there is no decentralization in the command structure and there are accordingly no regional or local peace initiatives compromises or arrangements that would bring about a progressing peace de-limitation of the territorial size of the actual combat zone is entirely due to the ongoing financial and material support that the US NATO gang leadership is sending directly to Zelensky and his gang now before this background where from a libertarian point of view lies the errors and the deviations from a methodological individualism and the retreat to the methodological wholism or collectivism that alleged libertarians in particular from Eastern Europe commit with their various criticisms and complaints against the analysis that I presented for one it would be a fundamental error for a libertarian living in the Ukraine for instance to ask for more support for the Ukraine from Germany, America, Britain and so on because strictly speaking there is no such thing as Ukraine, Germany or America but rather there are gangs or protection records running the Ukraine running Germany and running in America and there are Ukrainian, German and American people running in the territories run by these gangs so to ask for the gangs running America or Germany for instance to send money or material to the Ukraine is unlibertarian from the get go because neither of these gangs is the legitimate owner of whatever they are sending to the Ukraine and it would be an even greater error if any of such help went directly to the gang running the Ukraine rather than the Ukrainian people a Ukrainian libertarian should not criticize the lack of German or American support but ask for less and of a different sort than what the Ukraine has actually been getting because much public support for the Ukraine comes in the form of propaganda spread uniformly and continuously all throughout Germany, America and so on by the US NATO gang alliance in close cooperation with its subservient paid or subsidized associates and friends in the mainstream media what is their propaganda message that you hear about Western Europe and the United States the propaganda message is the events in the Ukraine are not a regional gang war that is of no concern to us but they are the titanic clash of good versus evil the good Ukraine, all Ukrainians is raped by evil Russia by all Russians any German or American support given to the Ukraine is support for the good and any slacking of such support is support of evil collectivism grounded in ideological righteousness is substituted here for and presented as sober analysis now any libertarian should see through this charade immediately the Ukraine as much as Germany or America is made up of a gang running and controlling some territory on the one hand and the people residing in this territory on the other the Zelensky gang is not the same thing as the Ukrainian people a Ukrainian libertarian cannot possibly support handing his domestic gang leadership even more power than it already has a tremendous amount of it but that is precisely what he is getting as a result of the US NATO gang propaganda and the elevation of the Ukraine to the world historic battleground of the fight between good and evil as a result of this moral uplifting the Zelensky gang is to become increasingly aggressive and oppressive to see its own people I mentioned before that the draft in the meantime includes children and people older than me a regional conflict is construed and portrayed as a global crusade necessitating a universal call to increased militancy, belligerence arms and armament to prevent this progressing slide toward totalitarian gang rule a Ukrainian libertarian should counter the US NATO propaganda with the truth rather than stay silent he should to the extent that such a thing is still possible and I must say that all opposition parties in Ukraine have been outlawed as some of the opponents have been killed and eliminated they are not doing anything else that Russians do too I'm not defending here I'm not criticizing only the Ukraine, I know that in Russia the same things are happening with enemies of the war but we should be aware of the fact that this goes on in the Ukraine just as well rather than stay silent Ukrainian libertarians should to the extent that is still possible let it be known to the outside world that the Zelensky gang is by no means good and noble but through and through corrupt and increasingly totalitarian and as such does not deserve any support whatsoever in the very same way and for the very same reason that the Putin gang does not deserve and does in fact not receive any support moreover he should recognize and let it be known that the greatest harm done to the Ukrainian people in terms of death and destruction is the result of the all inclusive support coming from the US American gang the world's most powerful gang of all without this support the Zelensky gang and the rival neighboring Putin gang would have long ago reached an armistice and come to some compromise peace which could have saved many lives and much of real estate but the US gang is in this endeavor not for the sake of the Ukraine or the promotion of the good of course but rather it is in it in the pursuit of its own ultimate goal of global hegemony and the supremacy of the US paper dollar as global reserve currency and the war in the Ukraine then is actually a war between the US gang and the Putin gang with the Ukraine and the Zelensky gang filling merely an instrumental role that is as a means a maneuverable man mass if you want toward the end of defeating the evil Putin gang. Now the Putin gang is one of the only two major stumbling blocks remaining on the way toward global hegemony next to China of course. However the Putin gang is heavily armed and the US gang also an atomic power it cannot be brought down by military means without the risk of self destruction. It can only be defeated economically by driving it into bankruptcy and economic ruin the Ukraine war and the various economic sanctions directed against Putin Russia are supposed to be precisely this to weaken and ultimately bankrupt the Putin gang economically and financially and if this requires mass killings and the mass destruction of Ukrainians and the Ukraine so be it the ultimate goal of defeating the evil Putin gang justifies such means for the US gang bankrupting the Putin gang is worth sacrificing all of the Ukraine if necessary and raising the specter of a World War 3 importantly then a libertarian in the Ukraine would have to warn about and advise against any support coming in particular from the US gang and to expose such support as still that it is and more generally he would strictly oppose the simplistic world view espoused by many so-called liberals from territories formally until only 30 years ago part of the Soviet Union or the Soviet Empire and the Warsaw Pact such as the Baltic countries or Poland for instance in their view Russia and the Russians are the collective enemy plain and simple and America and the Americans are seen as a collective saviour for a libertarian any such simplistic and collectivistic world view is out of the question because he recognizes the fundamental distinction between the people on the one hand and the ruling gang or the state on the other and he recognizes its distinction holds and should be made and applied everywhere in America with a Biden gang no less than in Russia with a Putin gang and what happens about private support then or more precisely of private to private support is there any reason for a Ukrainian libertarian to complain about a lack of such support from Germans and Americans and so forth now first off such support surely exists quite a few Germans for instance accepted Ukrainian refugees into their private homes and maintained them there at their own expense some such private support might even have been crowded out by such public support offered by Germany's ruling gang that is there might have been even more private support force coming if the ruling gang had not essentially preempted and arrogated the role and function of primary giver and charitable giving to itself yet in any case without public support from the ruling gang based solely on the level of private charitable activity the number of Ukrainians currently accommodated in Germany or Poland for instance would certainly be far smaller than it actually is and this number would have dwindled still further the longer the war dragged on and the higher accordingly the cost of hospitality for a German Polish citizen to host Ukrainians recall that less Ukrainians housed and fed by other people means that the cost of war for Zelenski and his gang is increased and the prospect of peace negotiations are a correspondingly advanced improved yet it appears quite normal that people are more charitable when confronted with the immediate results of an emergency such as a war an earthquake or a tornado especially if such emergency happens close by and it also appears quite normal that a donor's willingness to do charity wears increasingly sin the longer the duration and onlingering of the emergency with no back to normal being inside so there's nothing to complain about this type of behavior either apart from this why should a German or an American and so forth care about the Ukraine or even actively support the Ukraine with his own private funds unless of course he had family, friends or business relations or associates there in which case everyone whether in Germany or America was free to give whatever support he wanted to give to his Ukrainian connections any lack of private support here is solely the result of the war which renders all of Ukrainian business more risky and depresses the overall level of production trade and investment to increase such support flowing into Ukraine the war must be ended because business requires peace there is nothing wrong or unusual here either and what to expect of Germans Americans and so forth without any Ukrainian or Russian ties which is the overwhelming majority of all Germans and Americans they do not know any Ukrainians and they are not personally invested in the Ukraine if they care about the events in the Ukraine at all and many do not care one way or another then the best of outcomes a Ukrainian libertarian could hope for is a widespread public call for peace and a return to normal business as usual unfortunately however that is not the support a Ukrainian libertarian is getting and in this regard he would have a valid point of complaint against the West the support he is actually receiving is in the form of foreign, German or American or British public opinion even Germans, Americans and so forth without any personal or commercial investment in the Ukraine may still have an opinion about what is going on there and they may give public expression to this opinion and their preferred outcome of current events and while this is nothing but words public opinion still whether in Germany or in America can still have a profound effect not just at home but also abroad also in what happens in the Ukraine itself now public opinion in Germany and in America and most European countries regarding the Ukraine is by no means uniform of course there are many opinions floating around but throughout all lands controlled by the US NATO gang alliance one opinion dominates and overshadows all others the already mentioned opinion about the fight between good and evil taking place in the Ukraine this interpretation allows the Ukrainians to claim victimhood and to relish in the role of victim while at the same time clamoring for and even demanding help and assistance from everyone and everywhere Zelensky and his gang championed this interpretation of course and they act accordingly impertinent I would cannot call that behavior of Zelensky anything else but impertinent a libertarian must impose this interpretation and resist this temptation that it entails to always fear as a victim however although small in numbers and relegated to the fringes of public discourse there are also voices in Germany and American public opinion for instance that a Ukrainian libertarian could find inspiring and supportive of his own pursuits voices with which to align and to which to lend additional support he should draw inspiration from and align himself to voices that call for immediate peace talks with the Putin gang and in particular also with Putin himself after all he is the leader of the gang and the majority as it is and that insist on distinguishing strictly between Putin and his gang on the one hand and Russia and Russian people on the other he should seriously consider voices that advocate regional secession as a way to bring about peace this would reduce the territorial size of the Ukraine and as such naturally but why defend a territory whose residents do not wish to be defended why carry war to places that prefer to stay out of it only a collectivist or a nationalist could possibly oppose this option of secession moreover he should seriously consider even the possibility of regional surrender as a viable peace there may be regions whose inhabitants do not care whether they are ruled by the Putin or the Zelensky gang or who even prefer the Putin gang and who are willing to peacefully surrender in order to be spared the ravages of war why not must we wage war against such people as traitors or Russian collaborators I feel to see it now indeed if Germany for instance were invaded today by any one of its nine neighboring countries and any of the gangs presently running let's say Austria, Denmark the Netherlands or France for instance was trying to oust and replace the German government I for one couldn't care less given the intellectual and moral caliber of the present German government or rather given the breathtaking lack of intellectual and moral competence or qualification of these leaders remember this is all satire it is difficult to imagine how matters could possibly get worse under foreign rule and bring some benefits or improvements who knows yet in any case as for myself any such invasion would be no reason for me to get out the gun and go to war faced with superior force and centrally concerned with the protection of everything mine and dear to me I would peacefully surrender to any Austrian, Dutch, Danish or Swiss invaders rather than fight them in a collective war of Germany against Austria, Denmark, Switzerland or whatever it is and in doing so I would not become a traitor to my country or a collaborator of a foreign power rather with my surrender it is German life and German property which otherwise might have been destroyed or expropriated that are actually saved and preserved I would do something good for my country last but not least a libertarian whether in the Ukraine or elsewhere in the former East Bloc countries should take account and draw advice from various dissident western voices on matters of geopolitics they point out that the US interests and the European, particularly the EU interests in the Ukraine conflict not only in Ukraine but elsewhere also and that these interests are by no means identical the various ruling gangs in Europe still submit to the supreme command of the US gang but it becomes increasingly obvious that Europe must pay a much higher price for the war than the US that is the war strengthens US economic power vis-à-vis and relative to European and in particular to German economic powers this does not make for a stable alliance especially not if it is discovered that the deliberate destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline that was a terrorist attack on the energy supply of all of Europe was planned and executed by the US gang or in close cooperation with it the alliance may well break up eventually as a result of such conflicting interests and of such evidence and the erstwhile European vessels may dare to pursue their various own interests eventually however this tendency is further strengthened by the fact that the role of the US dollar as a global reserve currency has come under increasing attack as a result of the US NATO gang alliance sanctions against Putin Russia the international trust in the safety of US dollars and dollar deposits has been severely shattered and in reaction Putin Russia and the China are in preparations to establish an alternative currency backed by a basket of commodities including gold but not as would be immediately instilled trust backed by gold alone I am somewhat skeptical that they will manage to get this plan through because no government likes to give up control over the money supply would they would have to do if they have even the tiniest tying back to a gold standard but nonetheless that the role of the US dollar as an international reserve dollar is definitely in decline and with the role of the US dollar as international reserve currency diminishing much of the economic power that the US gang seemingly had before now turns out to be an illusion and simply evaporates there is simply less money left over than for the US gang to throw around and exercise and use this economic weight around in foreign places finally Americans especially from Eastern Europe are reminded to recognize some elementary facts about world geography and the geographical distribution of manpower and economic resources based on this data a close cooperation between Europe and especially of Germany and Russia is and has been for a long time eminently sensible from an economic point of view for the various ruling gangs as well as the subjects in those countries and regardless of the final outcome of the current violent conflagrations in the Ukraine the geoeconomic constellation and incentive structure will not have significantly changed hence not concerning US opposition it can be expected that the economic relationship between Europe that is the EU in particular and Germany in particular on the one hand and Putin or post-Putin Russia on the other hand will eventually in the not too distant future be normalized again a Ukrainian or Polish libertarian then is called upon to develop a vision regarding the role of a post-war Ukraine or post-war Poland within this largely intractable constellation of geographic and economic data and incentives and this vision I venture to say should be that of a neutral Ukraine or neutral Poland that is of an Eastern European Switzerland independent outside of both NATO and the EU and yet wealthier as a neutral country wealthier than any and all of its neighbors this is what was possible at the very beginning of these conflagrations all that was asked for from the Americans in the western countries was Ukraine should stay neutral autonomy some sort of autonomy should be given to the Eastern provinces that speak predominantly Russian and then the whole thing would have been over at the beginning at the very beginning of the war this solution was in the making and wasn't prevented by intervention by the Americans and in particular also by Boris Johnson who played a particular evil role in commanding basically the Ukraine no peace talks like this you have to go on with the war I'm sure that at the end of this the Ukraine will have suffered tremendously hundreds of thousands of people will be dead and what they will get in the end is far less than what they could have had at the very beginning if they simply had ignored the advice the pressure coming from the United States and from Britain in particular now the whole thing will have badly and it all could have been avoided thank you very much