No Russian
262: Has World War III Already Started?
Crypto update tomorrow.
Today we talk about the attacks in Russia last week.
Friday was a particularly tumultuous day for geopolitics and for Russia. It was also a nerve racking day for those of us tracking global affairs — as we may see an escalation in Ukraine and other regions as a result of what transpired.
Several gunmen in camouflage opened fire at a popular concert venue on the outskirts of Moscow on Friday night known as the Russian authorities reported approximately 60 people killed and more than 100 wounded, making it the deadliest attack in the capital region in over a decade.
Critics and trolls of my online presence like to mock the fact that I have a no frills realist world view.
I don’t care who is upset or offended by the content I put out — I only care about getting people the truth and staying true to who I am as an individual — information is vital for people to form their own conclusions regardless of how “upsetting” or “offensive” it is.
Embodying this approach has had consequences on Instagram and in other platforms online. I don’t need to bore you with the details of mass censorship and reach throttling online — you should be familiar post Twitter Files and congressional hearings that have proven how expansive the efforts are to ensure nothing that goes counter to the official narrative is.
It’s everywhere nowadays. Why? Because the narrative is crumbling. The veil is being lifted rapidly, forcing people to see the world for what it is. Forcing people to see what those that rule over us are actually trying to achieve. Forcing them to see that everything is barely held together — society, order, and peace.
So many prefer to obsess over celebrities, or status topics, or how their sports team is doing, or which club everyone’s headed to for the night, or which bureaucratic hell hole company they can squirrel into to get a new fancy title.
I couldn’t care less. I used to. Until I realized during covid just how rigged the game is. I saw how powerful propaganda and lies were and how eagerly people ate it up when faced with a little uncertainty and fear. In the new age of technocrats and monopolies between central governments and intelligence agencies — every single narrative you see is being manipulated and leveraged to consolidate money and power.
I choose to focus on the now. On the real. I refuse to accept the Tele-tubby globalist world view that’s made so many in my generation impossibly soft and daft — they’ve been brainwashed to the point of adopting world views and personal dogmas that directly counter what is good and right. The majority have completely lost their ability to think freely and critically about the world around them. They demonize those of us who are willing to go against the grain.
They think warnings of World War III and imminent societal collapse in the West are fanfare or doom porn.
“THAT COULD NEVER HAPPEN!”
They think pointing out geopolitical threats, troubling social trends, and the truth about uncomfortable topics is controversial or extremist. They love the lies. The comfort. The ignorance and the moral superiority woke virtue and culture gives them.
What they fail to realize is that the times we live in are entirely unprecedented — we’ve been spoiled for many years with decadence and luxury in the West, particularly within the United States.
If you’re a millennial or Gen Zer from an above average family you really haven’t seen any form of true hardship or adversity (with the exception of personal issues, family issues, or emotional issues). Conflict and true crisis are not things people are familiar with. Mot of our lives have been straightforward — middle school, high school, college, and white collar jobs.
The United States as a whole, as I pointed out in my last post has been insulated in large part from all worldly conflict — with the exception of 9/11 and Pearl Harbor. Violence is a foreign concept. Only recently with the surge in crime, crisis at the border, and media dump of the Hamas attack and war in Ukraine have people had their eyes opened as to how primal and brutal the world really is when systems collapse or fail.
We have lived good lives so far — free of physical violence, wars, and severe unrest on our own soil, but with the way things seem to be drifting that could not be the case in the coming months and years. The worst problem many people have is choosing what they’re going to order on Seamless or choosing which college they want to get into that their parents are paying for.
But the threat level at the moment is high — on the homefront and across the globe. Just this week:
5 Militants killed over 100 people in Moscow
Recall of Retirees messages sent out to US military retirees
Russia has declared it is now in a state of war
Russian air assets are being mobilized
Putin has announced Deploying Western forces in Ukraine may spark World War III
Gunmen stormed a police station in Yerevan, Armenia yesterday, detonating grenades according to local media
Russian cruise missile struck the largest dam and energy facilities in Ukraine
Ukrainian drone strikes are targeting Russian refineries deep in Russia
"China is ready to intervene militarily anywhere if the US or NATO decide to attack Russia" according to China's Ministry of Defense
Today’s post is to bring everyone up to speed on just how fragile the world stage is right now.
The truth is — we may already be in WWIII. There may not be one seismic event that kicks it all off — it may be a string of events that lead to a true escalation in which the West cannot escape.
If you’re not as educated as you’d like to be on what’s happened the last few weeks, if you have doubts about the severity of what’s going on globally, or you want to form your own opinion on what happens next today’s post is for you.
Americans are already being impacted by what’s going on economically and soon we may be affected physically as well.
There’s a high chance that the US election is significantly impacted by the consequences of what took place last week in Russia in more than one way. There are tell tale signs that the world superpowers are preparing for a large scale conflict.
Every American and citizen of the free world should be watching what’s happening and deciding for themselves who is just and who is pushing us closer and closer to a new age of warfare. One in which the stakes have never been higher.
I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.
Maya Lin