The Essential Saker II

569 Pages·2017·2.392 MB·English

by  Andrei Raevsky

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Publishing Information.

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Dedication

To Ron Unz and Amarynth for making this book possible, to
Herb for being a wonderful IT “guru”, to Walter and Alena for
standing by me in the darkest hour, to Sheikh Imran Hosein and
his wife for their immense kindness, to the many Muslims who
gave me their support and friendship and, of course, to the
wonderful Saker Community.

With gratitude we thank our contributors and volunteers;
Dalibor for art, ‘the 100th Monkey’ for manuscript editing, and
Todd for setup assistance.

The printing of this book was made possible by the kind
generosity of Gottfried Pflugbeil

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Contents

Publishing Information. ..................................................................................................... ii
Dedication ............................................................................................................................ iii
Contents ................................................................................................................................iv
About the Author..................................................................................................................x
Foreword by Alexander Mercouris ................................................................................ xiii
Forward by Catherine Austin Fitts................................................................................. xiv
Preface ................................................................................................................................ xix
TheSaker.is Blog & The Worldwide Saker Community ............................................ xxii
New Initiatives ........................................................................................................... xxiii
The Essential Saker: Book II - Section 1 ............................................................................1
A Tale of Two World Orders ..............................................................................................1
Europe in Free Fall................................................................................................................6
The 28-member EU makes no economic sense .......................................................... 6
The EU is on the verge of a social and cultural collapse ............................................ 7
The EU is just a colony of the United States unable to defend her own interests
....................................................................................................................................................11
The EU is in a deep political crisis ..............................................................................12
The Moral Yardstick of the Ukrainian War (Saker Rant) ............................................14
First I bash some Russians ...........................................................................................14
Next, I bash a few American Leftists ..........................................................................18
And, in conclusion, I address the “noble Europeans”! ............................................21
The new face of Europe ................................................................................................22
The moral yardstick of the Ukrainian war ................................................................22
Putin and Israel – A Complex and Multi-Layered Relationship .................................24
A Few Disjointed Thoughts on the Events in Cologne .................................................40
Israel vs Iran: Israel Loses *Big* Time .............................................................................47
Putin's Biggest Failure ........................................................................................................54
Why I Use the Term ‘AngloZionist’, and Why It’s Important ....................................62
Could Russia Still Become an Ally of the West? ............................................................77
The Writing is on the Wall for the European Union ....................................................84
Saker Rant about a Stolen Europe ....................................................................................91
The EU’s “Suicide by Reality Denial” ........................................................................... 102
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The Controversy about Stalin – A “Basket” of Preliminary Considerations .......... 110
A Negative View of Christianity and Religion in General ......................................... 129
The three "levels of religious satisfaction"............................................................... 130
Religion as a basis for ethical values ........................................................................ 131
Religion as a form of national self-definition ......................................................... 132
Religion as an ideological tool of statecraft ............................................................ 134
The modern "ecumenism" of pseudo-religions ..................................................... 141
The ethos of YOLO and DILLIGAF ........................................................................ 149
Conclusion – what religion is not ............................................................................ 151
Counter-Propaganda, Russian Style ............................................................................. 154
In Syria, Russia Defends Civilization – ........................................................................ 162
the West Sides with Barbarism ...................................................................................... 162
Debunking popular clichés about modern warfare .................................................... 165
“What would a war between Russia and the USA look like?” ............................. 165
Cliché No 1: The US military has a huge conventional advantage over Russia 166
Cliché No 2: An attacker needs a 3:1 or even 4:1 advantage over the defender 167
Cliché No 3: High technology wins the day ........................................................... 168
Cliché No 4: Big military budgets win the day ....................................................... 171
Cliché No 5: Big military alliances help win wars ................................................. 172
Cliché No 6: Forward deployment gives a major advantage ............................... 174
Cliché No 7: The US and NATO are protecting East European countries ........ 175
Conclusion .................................................................................................................. 178
How Russia is preparing for WWIII ............................................................................. 182
The West’s actions: ..................................................................................................... 182
The Russian reaction .................................................................................................. 185
The re-creation of the First Guards Tank Army ................................................... 186
The deployment of the Iskander-M operational-tactical missile system ........... 187
The deployment of the Sarmat ICBM ..................................................................... 188
The deployment of the Status-6 strategic torpedo ................................................ 189
Evaluation: ................................................................................................................... 190
Led by Poland, the European “House Negroes” Compete for the Darwin Awards198
False flags fluttering in the Empire’s hot air ................................................................ 205
Assessing the Russian military as an instrument of power ....................................... 213
Russia is not the Soviet Union .................................................................................. 214
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The Russian armed forces are relatively small ....................................................... 215
The Russians are *not* coming ................................................................................ 217
The true “reach” of the Russian armed forces ........................................................ 218
The real meaning of A2AD ....................................................................................... 222
The Ukraine is located well inside Russkie-land ................................................... 224
Conclusion: Russia ain’t the Soviet Union and it ain’t the USA ......................... 225
Conclusion .................................................................................................................. 229
The case for the breakup of the Ukraine ...................................................................... 231
Somalia on the EU ...................................................................................................... 232
The Russians ain’t coming (yet again) .................................................................... 234
The main problem ...................................................................................................... 236
Small is beautiful......................................................................................................... 237
Problems, caveats, and risks ..................................................................................... 238
The Ancient Spiritual Roots of Russophobia .............................................................. 240
Introduction ................................................................................................................ 240
A 2000-year-old dispute ............................................................................................ 241
A 1000-year-old dispute ............................................................................................ 244
The feared and hated witness ................................................................................... 247
The modern dispute ................................................................................................... 248
Conclusion .................................................................................................................. 250
2016: the year of Russia’s triumph ................................................................................ 252
The Ukraine; score 5/5 .............................................................................................. 253
The Donbass; score 3/5 .............................................................................................. 254
Crimea; score 5/5 ........................................................................................................ 254
The United States; score 5/5 ..................................................................................... 255
NATO; score 4/5 ......................................................................................................... 258
The EU; score 5/5 ....................................................................................................... 259
The Russian economy; score 3/5 .............................................................................. 260
The Russian public opinion; score 4/5 .................................................................... 261
Russian Russophobes; score 4/5 ............................................................................... 262
Syria; score 5/5 ............................................................................................................ 264
The Russophobic hysteria in the West; score 3/5 .................................................. 266
Terrorism; score 4/5 ................................................................................................... 269
Conclusion .................................................................................................................. 271
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The Best Armed Forces on the Planet? ......................................................................... 273
US vs. Iran – A War of Apples vs. Oranges ................................................................. 285
The Neocons and the “Deep State” Have Neutered Trump; It’s Over Folks! ......... 298
The Empire Should Be Placed On Suicide Watch ...................................................... 303
Searching for Russia ........................................................................................................ 314
How to Bring Down the Elephant in the Room .......................................................... 325
A painful, but necessary, clarification: .................................................................... 325
First, terminology: ...................................................................................................... 326
Making sense of the crazies ....................................................................................... 330
Syria .............................................................................................................................. 330
Russia ........................................................................................................................... 331
Making sense of Trump ............................................................................................. 333
Living with ZOG :-) ................................................................................................... 334
Houston, we got a problem ....................................................................................... 336
And did I mention that the DPRK has nukes? ....................................................... 338
So what does that have to do with the ZOG and the Ziocons? ............................ 339
Where do we go from here? ...................................................................................... 341
Why Voting for Trump was the Right Thing to Do (7 Reasons) ............................ 349
The Future of Islam in Western Europe....................................................................... 354
The Essential Saker: Book II, Section 2 ......................................................................... 363
Russia and Islam, Part One: Introduction and Definitions ....................................... 363
Russia and Islam, Part Two: Russian Orthodoxy........................................................ 368
Russia and Islam, Part Three: Internal Russian Politics ............................................ 377
Russia and Islam, Part Four: “Islam” as a Threat ........................................................ 382
Russia and Islam, Part Five: “Islam” as an Ally ........................................................... 394
Russia and Islam, Part Six: the Kremlin ....................................................................... 400
Russia and Islam, Part Seven: the Weatherman’s Cop Out ....................................... 415
Russia version one: ..................................................................................................... 416
Russia number two: .................................................................................................... 418
What does that mean for Muslims in Russia and abroad? ................................... 420
The main paradox ...................................................................................................... 421
Personalizing ideas ..................................................................................................... 422
Russia and Islam, Part Eight: Working Together, a basic “How-to” ....................... 424
The fundamentally misguided yet typical approach: ............................................ 425
Irreconcilable theological differences between Christianity and Islam ............. 425
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Christians and Muslims – friends or foes? What does history show? ............... 427
So where do we go from here? .................................................................................. 429
The common ground – ethics: ................................................................................. 430
What does the post-Christian and secular West stand for today? ...................... 430
A perfect opportunity – the Russian Constitution ................................................ 432
Conclusion .................................................................................................................. 435
Special words to any naysayers ................................................................................. 437
Russia and Islam, Part Nine: Connecting the Dots and Discerning the Future ..... 440
First, a few key dots: ................................................................................................... 440
1) The Russian intervention in Syria ....................................................................... 440
2) How Russia transformed Turkey from an enemy to a potential ally ............. 442
3) Russia and the “Chechen model” as a unique case in the Muslim world ...... 444
Now an attempt at discerning the future ................................................................ 447
The struggle for the future of Islam ......................................................................... 453
Russia’s “Civilizational Choice” ..................................................................................... 456
The Fighting Imam of Donbass (MUST SEE!) ........................................................... 464
Ramzan Kadyrov Offers Putin His Own *Personal* Volunteer Chechen Special
Force ............................................................................................................................................. 465
The video: .................................................................................................................... 466
Transcript of Kadyrov’s words: ................................................................................ 466
A Muslim Police Officer Dies a Hero’s Death and Receives Russia’s Highest
Honorary Title “Hero of Russia” ............................................................................................. 469
The video: .................................................................................................................... 470
The Essential Saker: Book II, Section III ...................................................................... 471
Charlie Hebdo .................................................................................................................. 471
I am NOT Charlie ............................................................................................................ 471
Charlie Hebdo for the Darwin Awards ................................................................... 471
“Spitting in people’s souls”........................................................................................ 472
In the Charlie Hebdo Psyop Double Standards, Logical Fallacies and Crass
Ignorance are Everywhere ......................................................................................................... 475
In Search of Russia – Guns & Butter Interview ............................................... 483
Trump and Putin - Setting the Record Straight – Guns & Butter Interview .......... 512
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Afterword by Cynthia McKinney .................................................................................. 541

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About the Author

The Saker (the pen name chosen by Andrei Raevsky) is the
founder of the Saker Community of Blogs, the only such
international and multi-lingual community of blogs. It now
features:
7 blogs (Main, French, Russian, Oceanian, Latin American,
Italian, Serbian) written in
7 languages (English, Russian, French, Spanish, Italian,
Serbian and Portuguese) on
4 continents (North and South America, Europe, Asia,
Oceania) with
4 YouTube Channels (Main, Oceania, French, Italian).

The main blog alone gets well over two million page views per
month.

The six further daughter blogs representing an astoundingly
large area of our world were born from the initial Saker Blog. This
grassroots organic development grew out of an existential
comment:

“What society had done to me – made me
completely powerless – it has also done to you.
And just the way it had made me feel like a single
lonely nutcase, it made you feel like you were the
only one. I most sincerely believe that the real
reason for the success of this blog, its global
community, its vibrant discussions and the
amazing outpouring of kindness towards me are in
the following simple fact:
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