Dear KAG: 20220126 Open Thread

All the good new camel images belong to Getty. Yeah, not using their stuff.

With that in mind, shall we gander at the professional tea leaf readers when it comes to Ukraine and Russia?

On Monday, this appeared in the comments on the daily.

Dave has a point, and his mentioning of the American Thinker article that General Flynn highlighted is significant.

General Flynn An interesting perspective:

“Fully one-third of Russia’s GDP is from its oil and gas production.  Polish and Ukrainian natural resource extraction is minuscule.  If the 144 million Russians had to share their oil and gas income with the 44 million Ukrainians, their GDP per capita would fall near 20% from $11,000 to close to $9,000.  By comparison, U.S. GDP per capita was $63,544 in 2020.

The Russians don’t have the spare funds to invade Ukraine and fix up Ukrainian roads and pay their pensions.  The Russian Army developed a nice new tank, the T-14, but can’t afford to build more than a handful.  The Russian Air Force developed a new fighter, the Su-57, but can pay for only a token number of them.  Russian irredentism, if there is any, has to wait for a much, much higher oil price.  Meanwhile, the adults in the room should be conferring on the China threat.”

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/01/one_reason_russia_wont_invade_ukraine.html

All of it adds up to the very real possibility that the whole Russia/Ukraine thing is a smokescreen.

Anytime the [DS] needs to create a distraction or gin up more money, we in the west end up in a war no one wants.

And now the push is on to provoke Putin into a war that’s going to put a crimp in his petroleum profits when the Russian military is not really as strong as reported?

Who is running the [DS] these days?

It’s like the brain trust is gone.

Oh, wait….

David Rockefeller, (1915-2017)

Zbigniew Brzezinski, (1928-2017)

and a few others also died during President Trump’s first year in office.

Don’t forget.

These people are stupid.

Q

Are you kidding me?

Have a good day y’all.

(I don’t remember who brought this to a daily in the comments, but thanks.)

And, of course, the obligatory George Carlin:

Per the Boss:

In honor of our trucker friends in Canada, we have a double feature of movie theme songs.

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And one of the great documentaries of the south in the 1970s. If you watch this on YT, read the subtitles. They’re better than Jerry Reed’s lyrics.

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MARK 4:1-20

1Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea; and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land. 2And he taught them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them: 3“Listen! A sower went out to sow. 4And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it. 5Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it had not much soil, and immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil; 6and when the sun rose it was scorched, and since it had no root it withered away. 7Other seed fell among thorns and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain. 8And other seeds fell into good soil and brought forth grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.” 9And he said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.” 10And when he was alone, those who were about him with the twelve asked him concerning the parables. 11And he said to them, “To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables; 12so that they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand; lest they should turn again, and be forgiven.” 13And he said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables? 14The sower sows the word. 15And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown; when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word which is sown in them. 16And these in like manner are the ones sown upon rocky ground, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy; 17and they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away. 18And others are the ones sown among thorns; they are those who hear the word, 19but the cares of the world, and the delight in riches, and the desire for other things, enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. 20But those that were sown upon the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.”

“Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace. Peace will be the last word of history” – St. Pope John Paul II

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And…members of the QTree who no longer participate for one reason or another.

It is quite clear, as per Wolf’s message from July, that we are under spiritual attack. Building up a robust arsenal of prayer and discipline is a must in fighting the enemy and his minions.

In that spirit, the Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel from Tuesday’s threads, and the Breastplate of St. Patrick, not to mention the Litany of Humility are favorites recommended by exorcists in spiritual warfare.