By A. Dru Kristenev ——Bio and Archives--July 15, 2023
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War material provided to Ukraine to keep the war with Russia alive has been mostly ending up in one of two places... either destroyed by better-armed Russian military or sold on the black market to terror groups.
No wonder European leaders are decrying the gift of cluster bombs to Ukraine. The warheads have been condemned for the potential to indiscriminately slaughter troops and civilians by inflicting horrendous bodily damage. Because the dozens of “bomblets” that each projectile carries fly in all directions, the destruction is widespread from the point of impact.
For these reasons, the munitions have been banned from use in battle by the Convention on Cluster Munitions treaty, an agreement to which the United States, Russia and Ukraine are not signers. Because of the 120-plus countries that have declared cluster munitions to be inhumane, the use in battle is basically categorized as a war crime, even to the point that previous Biden administration press secretary, Jen Psaki, declared Russia’s use of them to be so in 2022.
According to Reuters, the use of cluster bombs has been evident in conflict and terror incidents from Western Europe, Israel and Morocco to subsaharan Africa.
The fact that cluster bombs have found their way into the hands of terror groups in the past initiates contention regarding Europe’s disapproval, in particular, that Ukraine not be supplied with the controversial weapons.
Arms delivered to Ukraine over the last year have reappeared in other countries, apparently resold on the black market to paramilitary and terror organizations, the profits likely staying in the hands of Ukrainian agents. Corruption among Ukrainian officials (Zelenskyy is no choirboy) has been rampant for decades and has not been checked by so-called anti-corruption agencies. Zelenskyy’s attempt to gain higher ground by tossing his former patron Igor Kolomoisky under the bus only added to the charade.
Arms originating from the United States and Europe meant for Ukraine have been traced to the Lake Chad basin, the Nigerian President Buhari warned in December 2022, raising alarms.
A year ago, the EU created the “EU Support Hub for Internal Security and Border Management” to track arms smuggling from Ukraine to organized crime gangs in Europe. And, for the duration of the Ukraine-Russia conflict, Israel has abstained from selling arms to Ukraine for the logical reason that they could make their way to Iran that supplies anti-Israel terror groups Hamas, Hezbollah and others.
What if there’s another agenda behind the continual flow of arms and funds to Ukraine, mainly from the United States. With the possibility that anti-personnel cluster bombs could be detoured to crime and terror gangs (as the EU and Interpol are convinced), increased violence in the streets of Western Europe is a given.
Most recently, France has been set afire by unassimilated migrants that have self-segregated into suburban communities where police have been unable to enforce the law – No-Go zones. Were immensely destructive arms to be added to the rage seething in breakaway migrant European neighborhoods, how eager would be international organizations – UN, WHO, WEF, for instance – to offer their “solutions” to the violence?
Already, these treaty and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) believe they are “stakeholders” in global society despite representing a mere fraction of a fraction of the world’s population. That hasn’t stopped them from funding massive incursions of illegal migrants to Europe and the United States whose cultures are, in many cases, anathema to the faith and cultural traditions the newcomers bring with them.
Disrupting the civility of western society by fomenting violence among displaced migrants is a walkaway plan for the cadre of power-hungry organizations to implement digital IDs, currency and surveillance of individuals’ interactions--economic, social, medical and religious--claiming it will provide safety and security.
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This is the path down which every despot has traveled through ancient history but certainly within recent memory. The Chinese Communist Party template would have been the envy of every self-appointed savior going back to Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Chavez, Castro or Mao. Currently it is the partner of social media tyrants running Blackrock, Vanguard, Google and Meta, and traders with economic stranglers Soros, Gates, Bezos, Schwab and the master subsidy recipient, Musk.
Government officials are transitory but no less corrupt as Biden and his administration demonstrates. Insiders working to dismantle the West in favor of short-lived financial gains are too many to locate, operating as they are on every level of finance, education, governance, healthcare and religion.
Biden providing cluster bombs to Ukraine isn’t generosity or even good citizenship on the global scale. It is another scheme to generate deeper disaffection and anguish among self-isolating enclaves, encouraging victimhood that erupts into violence. The more alienation is sown and “victims” fed devices of destruction, the more likely will social order dissolve, allowing imperial force to eliminate individual freedom. Evidence of this policy is already haunting the streets of San Francisco, Portland, Los Angeles and European hubs.
The agenda isn’t new and it’s not hidden. The problem is whether individuals are noticing, not just in the United States. The battle lines of criminal and terrorist cells are being drawn in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and further abroad.
We are the last stronghold and our walls are already breached.
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Former newspaper publisher, A. Dru Kristenev, grew up in the publishing industry working every angle of a paper, from ad composition and sales, to personnel management, copy writing, and overseeing all editorial content. During her tenure as a news professional, Kristenev traveled internationally as a representative of the paper and, on separate occasions, non-profit organizations. Since 2007, Kristenev has authored five fact-filled political suspense novels, the Baron Series, and two non-fiction books, all available on Amazon. Carrying an M.S. degree and having taught at premier northwest universities, she is the trustee of Scribes’ College of Journalism, which mission is to train a new generation of journalists in biblical standards of reporting. More information about the college and how to support it can be obtained by contacting Kristenev at cw.o@earthlink.net.
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