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If you go down in the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise
If you go down in the woods today, you’d better go in disguise
For every oligarch there ever was
Will gather there for certain because
Today’s the day the oligarchs have their picnic.
Every oligarch who’s been good is sure of a treat today
There’s lots of marvelous things to eat and wonderful games to play
Beneath the trees where nobody sees
They’ll hide and seek as long as they please
That’s the way the oligarchs have their picnic.
There’s not much difference, politically speaking, between the teddy bears of the old song, the oligarchs who believe they have just put Donald Trump in power, and the oligarchs who believe they have been keeping Vladimir Putin in power since 1999. They all want the same “treat today, marvellous things to eat, and wonderful games to play”.
In a word, money in billion-dollar tranches. And because they believe this, they have told Trump and Putin that once they get to the picnic they have planned on the Ukraine battlefield, they are bound to be able to agree on what they want to do together.
Of course, it will be in secret “beneath the trees where nobody sees”.
Between 1911 and 1915, during World War I, Robert Michels, an Italian sociologist, explained how commonplace this was. He not only described the inevitability that oligarchs would come to dominate the governments and opposition organisations on both sides of that war; this he called the “iron law of oligarchy”. He also reported that the war itself would accelerate the process by which this oligarch domination on both sides would dictate the outcome to suit the common interests of them both.
“Never is the power of the state greater,” Michels wrote, “and never are the forces of political parties of opposition less effective, than at the outbreak of war. This deplorable war, come like a storm in the night, when everyone, wearied with the labours of the day, was plunged in well-deserved slumber, rages all over the world with unprecedented violence, and with such a lack of respect for human life and of regard for the eternal creations of art as to endanger the very cornerstones of a civilization dating from more than a thousand years.”
The oligarch assembly at the Trump inauguration, January 20, 2025. For more on Michels’ iron law of oligarchy applied to Russia, read this.
Today we are at roughly the same point, but oligarchs think in commercial terms, not social or ethical ones. For the oligarchs, the point on both sides is that the sanctions war over the past three years has created the largest gap between true asset value and trade value which exists in the global market today – this is the gap between the pre-war bankable value of Russian commodities, resources, and corporate assets and their discounted price under sanctions. To the oligarchs on both sides, the point is how to make money out of closing this gap through the end-of-war negotiations.
A handful of Russian sources who are close enough to the Russian oligarchs was asked to predict what the end-of-war terms are likely to be that the Russian and American oligarchs will press their presidents to agree to. Here are the terms they are predicting.
- Oil and gas. The Russians believe no agreement for relaxing the current sanctions is likely because the US oligarchs have convinced Trump to use the sanctions to raise the price, profitability, and international market share of US oil and gas. Trump’s latest threat is the evidence. “I’m going to do Russia, whose Economy is failing, and President Putin, a very big FAVOR,” Trump declared on January 22. “Settle now, and STOP this ridiculous War! IT’S ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE. If we don’t make a “deal,” and soon, I have no other choice but to put high levels of Taxes, Tariffs, and Sanctions on anything being sold by Russia to the United States, and various other participating countries.” One Russian source believes that last phrase of Trump’s means he will target the principal beneficiaries of the current discount trade in Russian oil and gas – China and India. Trump’s objective, the Russian sources believe, will be to keep the oil price from rising above $80 per barrel or falling below $60. “This will backfire”, an oil industry source adds. “[Prime Minister Narendra] Modi is aiming to make India a petroleum superpower. The US sanctions war is helping him achieve this. There is no way Trump will have of preventing it.”
- Boeing aircraft. Over the past five years the Boeing Corporation has lost almost half its market capitalization. Safety, management, logistical, and other factors have also been losing the company’s international aircraft market share and leading to speculation of an asset break-up.
A Russian source believes that a relaxation of the sanctions on Russian operation of its Boeing air fleet would be the type of rescue Boeing needs. It is comparable, the source reminds, to the attempt to save General Motors in bankruptcy by selling its Opel division to Oleg Deripaska’s Russian Machines group – a deal Hillary Clinton stopped in 2009.
- Real estate. Russian oligarchs like Roman Abramovich and Oleg Deripaska own palatial real estate in the US in Manhattan, Washington, DC, as well as in resort areas of Colorado and Florida. Relaxing sanctions to allow these individuals to recover their access to their US properties, or allow them to sell their real estate for convertible cash, is the type of deal Trump and his family are believed to favour. The prospect that such a conversion will generate a large profit margin for Trump-connected buyers is a lawful bribe.
- Re-dollarization. In his campaign speech to the Economic Club of New York last September, Trump argued that the sanctions war was bad for the US dollar because it will “ultimately kill the dollar and kill everything the dollar represents. We have to continue to have that be the world currency…I think that if we lose the dollar as the world currency, I think that would be the equivalent of losing a war. That would make us a third world country…you’re losing Iran; you’re losing Russia. China is out there trying to get their currency to be the dominant one…I want to use sanctions as little as possible.” Russian sources therefore expect a relaxation of the exclusion of Russia from the SWIFT payment system and other measures to boost the influence of the Russian Central Bank and its governor, Elvira Nabiullina, in Kremlin decision-making.
- Free skies. Overflight of Russia and other air route limitations were largely self-imposed by US, European and allied state airlines which then triggered retaliation by Rosaviatsiya, the Federal Air Transport Agency. The effect has been cost pressures on the western airlines and loss of market share. Trump is likely to claim credit for opening the skies by lifting US restrictions and pressing the European Union to do the same.
- The Dubai hub, the Cyprus shutdown. The Biden Administration forced the shutdown of the tax evasion structures of the Russian oligarchs in Cyprus, and triggered their relocation to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), particularly Dubai. A source acknowledges: “they use the SWIFT system and everything they do is totally transparent to the Americans. The last three sanctions lists have so many UAE entities that we have to expect they share all the financial flow information the Americans demand. However, unlike the Cypriots, the Emiratis are not hitting at the Russians. Cyprus has been different in several ways. The Cypriots actively laundered money for the oligarchs through transfer pricing and other schemes for 25 years. They have been the primary offshore centre for Russian capital outflow without any real service to trade. By contrast, Dubai services trade and is more than an offshore centre for capital transfer — far more. The Cypriots sold passports to the oligarchs and pocketed a lot of money. The UAE has not done that. Under the US pressure, Cypriots sold all their Russians out and turned into one of the nastiest of the anti-Russian states in the EU. Trump may press on Dubai to follow suit, but he won’t succeed. The UAE will preserve its role – it is replacing Cyprus, London, even Antwerp for the diamond trade. This is because it is the perfect hub for the Russians to invest in their shipping, insurance, and trade settlement systems with India and China.
How will the bears pay for their picnic?
With memecoins and cryptocurrencies, a Moscow source adds. “I believe Trump will be very nice to the Emiratis, and to the Saudis as well. The likes of Justin Sun – he’s the brain and operator behind Donald and Melania Trump’s cryptocurrency schemes — and of Pavel Durov of Telegram protect the core of their businesses in UAE, and those are businesses Trump and his family are already profiting from. It’s where they may eventually accumulate their wealth. The Trump oligarchs and the Putin oligarchs, too.
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in other news: Although Dugin was never Putin’s brain – that was just MSM propaganda – the impossible has happened – Putin has become Dugin’s brain [1]!
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Excerpt from [1]: The continual intoxication of the alternate media with lies about the brave hero Putin and his struggle with globalism surpasses all the bounds of common sense. And propagandists like Pepe Escobar, Douglas Macgregor, Scott Ritter, and Alexander Dugin are all seeking to mislead the millions of people who have become understandably disgusted with American imperialism, with NATO, and with Russia, the EU and other globalist organizations―misleading them by inculcating the myth of a rebel Kremlin and the legend of an anti-System BRICS.
Excerpt from [1]: In 2022, when the Russian special military intervention began in Ukraine, we hoped that the Putin administration had finally decided to permanently get out from under the control of the globalists. But I soon discovered that the Kremlin was unable to wage a victorious war. Instead, the regime in Moscow eliminated―by assassination or by imprisonment―patriots who criticized the losing policy of those responsible for the deployment of the SMO. I was critical of this policy, yet Dugin was determined to praise and applaud all the aberrant and defeat-inducing decisions of the Kremlin.
Excerpt from [1]: Recently, when Russia betrayed Syria … , and when the entire Russian military operation there turned out to be bankrupt, Dugin exclaimed: “We will yet return to Syria!”. In the version of reality accepted by the Moscow professor, anyone except Putin can be guilty of such failures.
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[1] A Drop of Skepticism in the Ocean of Optimism | Iurie Rosca | 2025-01
https://iurierosca.substack.com/p/a-drop-of-skepticism-in-the-ocean
[2] Substack Archive | Iurie Rosca (anti-NWO, anti-Putin)
https://iurierosca.substack.com/archive?sort=new
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[Comment re Helmer’s article at xymphora.blogspot.com]
Re Helmer’s piece. Chabadist Russia is owed for the Syria betrayal. Funny that Helmer doesn’t mention it, but that’s journalism under Putin. Russia’s Chabadist (and anti-Rothschild) oligarchs will keep their control of the economy and will be the biggest beneficiaries of repricing of commodities. Trump’s peace with the Rothschilds will show up in the dollar recovering its pre-sanctions role. And with the conclusive control over the Golan that Jew-run Russia has enabled, the Rothschilds should be pacified. Oilprice.com once upon a time published a piece, long-since scrubbed, stating that the Golan seam of petroleum (Rothschild-owned) was by far the deepest in the world – fourteen kilometres is what my ancient brain remembers – and was probably bigger than the whole Saudi reserve.
The US sanctions on Russia, remind me of the missteps taken by the confederacy. Refusing the sell cotton to the English Manchester based milners. Also Napoleon’s Continental System trying to ban Russia from buying from British shippers.
Russia never refuses to sell or buy. Only bumbling Pompous windbags refuse to sell and buy goods.
Are you saying Chabad is anti-Rothschild? Can you expand on this? Thanks.
Who is to say it is not a prelude to an invasion?
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All this talk of a settlement. Pah.
Death or Glory!
The only way to enforce sanctions on Russia is to fucking well occupy Moscow.
Not a single Jew, Palestinian was killed by the nazis.
Its the Christian scum which use the WORD “Jews” in different ways, but always for to mass murder, preferably for to commit Genocide.
In Ukraine, death by mass suicide seems as sure as for the nazi Germans, financed by family Bush, another constellation of scum. as the infantile and insane oligarchs ruling “US” today.
Only idiots think of Ukraine as a independent Country, its in a war because its forced and fouled to it, as Korea and Vietnam.
Get out of Europe, fucking “US” scum !
Footage of the bombing raid on Ryazan.
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Some kind of oil facility.
. . . the principal beneficiaries of the current discount trade in Russian oil and gas – China and India . . .
Did the author ever hear of Marc Rich? The chief beneficiary of sanctions are the Jewish oligarchs. An entire department of the Treasury, OFAC, exists at American taxpayers’ expense to kill anyone attempting to disrupt the Jews’ control of, in just one instance, the diamond trade—according to Wayne Madsen, who also mentions that the language heard at OFAC is Hebrew and the decor Israeli. China and India are the chief beneficiaries of black market oil? Sure, of course.
Censchwarzship
Whitney Webb is the real thing.
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That’s the way things had worked out. When, in 1994, the same year he passed on, the “Messiah” of Chabad Rabbi Menachem Schneerson gave his talk about getting Ukraine and Russia to destroy one another he probably had not factored in that a Jew, crypto-halachic Putin, would, through the intercession of Chabadist oligarch Abramovich, become, in the words of the Sanhedrin, the king of Russia.
The Harvard boys under Larry Summers had already transferred the wealth of the Russian people into the hands of Jewish oligarchs who mostly, with Putin, quite liked the setup with the Russian state as their nest-egg. The ones who didn’t, most prominently the biggest one Khodorkovsky, were with Rothschild.
The Schneerson project had two parts. The emptying of Ukraine, particularly of its young men, and its takeover by Jews as their restored Khazaria. That’s proceeding on schedule, a joint achievement of Putin and his fellow-Chabadist Zelensky. But the second part, to break Russia up into six statelets for easy Rothschild digestion, came a-cropper. Khodorkovsky and the other Rothschild-oligarchs were destroyed by Putin, but the riches of the Chabadists were consolidated under a strong state. The leading Chabadist rabbi, Berel Lazar, was made Chief Rabbi, and Jewish affairs now come under Chabad.
In the era of Schneerson’s lecture the top of the Jewish pyramid was securely in Rothschild hands. Putin and the Chabadist oligarchs upset that order, insisting on protecting their turf. Over a decade later, in the presidential campaign year of 2016 crypto-Jew Donald Trump, long a close Rothschild associate – his casino had been bailed out by the Rothschild bank way back in the mid-80s and Ivanka had been dating Lord Rothschild’s son Nat – further disturbed Rothschild rule by going against the rules for candidates and bringing up immigration. Ivanka had already married into a Chabadist family, and Trump and Putin were already associated through their Chabadist links. Trump tried to patch things up with the Rothschilds, pledging through repeated recitation of the Snake poem to betray the rubes who trusted him. He delivered on that pledge in spades. But they were not pacified. It looks like Jeffrey Epstein was despatched to bring Trump down in disgrace, which is why Trump had to get Barr to take down this ex-best-friend. Anyway, Trump was seen as an enemy by the Rothschilds and Chabad was his refuge. It was touching to see Trump in November at the Moshiach’s graveside in religious Jew gear with a rabbi taking him through the recitation.
Only lately have relations between Trump and the Rothschilds improved, with Trump being allowed to win the election.
Judea (the distributed Jewish nation) has made a big move with the destruction and gobbling of Syria. Putin’s treasonous betrayal of Syria, Iran and Hezbollah seems to indicate that the parts of the satanic tribe have come to a mutual understanding, and the Russian Chabadists have protected their holdings, but at the expense of the state that serves them. This consolidates the Rothschilds’ hold on the oil of Golan, said by oilprice.com in a now-scrubbed article to rival the Saudi reserves. Iran has been done away with as a threat, and the process of gobbling can go on at its own pace. A united Judea – whose Golem is the West – can now take on China.
https://historyreviewed.best/index.php/photos-article-evil-jew-messiah-mendel-schneerson-on-his-plans-for-destroying-ukraine-and-russia/
http://www.renegadetribune.com/rabbi-david-eliezrie-talks-about-how-jews-run-russia-and-ukraine/
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/the-happy-go-lucky-jewish-group-that-connects-trump-and-putin-215007/
http://www.twf.org/News/Y2019/0711-TrumpRothschild.html
This is no doubt way off. For what it’s worth, Times of Israel said most oil seams are 20 to 30 metres deep, but this one is 350.
Didn’t Vlad straighten up most of his Jew Oligarchs?
Not at all. Only the Rothschild toadies. Most of the Jew oligarchs are still very much in place.
Thanks for posting the views of Iurie Rosca. A key element missing from his sincere and insightful observations is acknowledgement of the centrality of the Jewish Problem.
With Dugin, too, whose article Rosca is criticising, this key element, of which Dugin is of course doubtless aware, is missing. But in Dugin this would be a criminal lapse. That apart, Dugin’s idea of the American “deep state” is hopelessly shapeless. First, it is Jewish. And second, it has two major divisions: Money First (‘Rothschild’) and Israel First. Biden was the first, but seriously conflicted. Trump is the second – the Snake with a MAGA hat.