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How to have peace in Ukraine

The path to peace in the Ukraine war is not as difficult as it may seem. The path to war really began in the Clinton era when NATO broke its word and began to expand into Eastern Europe. The US had given assurances to Soviet president Gorbachev that NATO would not move “one inch east.” In exchange, the Soviet Union agreed to let itself fall apart in 1991 and to begin westernizing itself with a democratic form of government.

In addition, millions of ethnic Russians suddenly found themselves to be citizens of other countries, cut off from Mother Russia itself.

The Soviet Republics were then given their independence, and Russia was reinstated as a nation. But presidents Clinton and Bush Jr violated the agreement, and in 2008 they began to talk about adding Ukraine to NATO. This alarmed the Russians, because this would put nuclear missiles within a five-minute range to Moscow itself. In case of any apparent NATO attack, Russia would have only a few minutes to determine if the attack was real or a mistake. That is not much time, and this would put the whole world in great danger of an accidental nuclear war.

Next, the US State Department gave Victoria Nuland a $5 billion budget to overthrow the Ukrainian president in 2014. It succeeded, and immediately the new US-dominated government began a persecution of its Russian citizens. The Russian language was officially banned, and over time, Russian political parties were also banned. The Russian Ukrainian church came under persecution.

The Russian citizens of Ukraine were alarmed, especially in the eastern portion where they constituted the majority of the population. Three of the eastern provinces broke away and declared their independence. Russia brokered the Minsk agreement in 2015, guaranteed by Russia and Europe, but the Ukrainian government laid siege to the eastern provinces, and the agreement fell apart. (Year later, German chancellor Merkel admitted in a news conference that they never intended to abide by the agreement that they had signed, but that they used it to buy time to arm Ukraine against Russia.)

A second agreement was drawn up, Minsk 2, but this quickly fell apart as well. For the next eight years, the West armed and trained the Ukrainian army, which became the most powerful army in Europe. Europe and the US government refused to abandon its plan to bring Ukraine into NATO, and Russia recognized this as an existential threat.

The War

Finally, in February 2022, when the Ukrainians amassed a 50,000-man army to lay siege to the Donetsk Republic, Russia finally had no choice but to step in to save the ethnic Russians from extinction and/or slavery. That is how the war began. The West touted this as “an unprovoked invasion,” but Russia had, in fact, been very patient for eight years.

Crimea then held a referendum and overwhelmingly voted to become part of Russia. Russia complied, largely to save its naval base in the Black Sea. The West denounced this vote as being illegitimate, of course, but there is no doubt that the local ethnic Russian population wanted to become part of Russia. So Russia annexed the Crimea.

A month into the war, another peace agreement was initialed in Turkey, leaving the breakaway republics in Ukraine but giving them a degree of autonomy. Boris Johnson was sent by the UK to Kiev to demand that president Zelensky renounce the agreement in exchange for unlimited military backing. Zelensky obeyed, and this ensured that the war would continue.

The breakaway republics then held a referendum in September 2022, voting overwhelmingly to petition Russia to allow them to become part of Russia. Russia complied under the rule that gives people the right of self-determination.

So how do they establish peace? Russia has declared from the outset of the war that it has these objectives: (1) that Ukraine remain neutral and not become part of NATO; (2) that Ukraine recognize the eastern provinces (and Crimea) as part of Russia; (3) that Ukraine be demilitarized so as not to remain a threat to Russia; (4) that Ukraine adopt a “de-nazification” program to rid itself of the powerful Nazi faction, along with its Azov brigades.

These conditions are non-negotiable, as far as Russia is concerned—except, perhaps the fourth condition, which it might be able to set aside. After all, if Ukraine wants to be a Nazi regime, perhaps they have that right, as long as they pose no military threat to Russia.

The Sanctions

I used to give more credit to the intellect of US experts, but I now see them as pretty stupid. By imposing sanctions on Russia, they thought they could cause economic chaos that could be exploited to overthrow president Putin. But this backfired. When Russia was no longer allowed to import western goods, they began to produce those goods themselves. When Russia was no longer allowed to export cheap oil and gas to Europe, it was the Europeans who suffered.

The result was that oil prices skyrocketed, and Russia found new markets in Asia. Russia began running financial surpluses, which allowed them to support the war effort without increasing their national debt. At the same time, Russia began to reindustrialize at a rapid pace—so much so that their economy heated up too fast. Companies borrowed money from the banks to produce all the things that they could no longer buy from the West.

This creation of new money brought about some inflation, not because too much money was being created, but because they were reindustrializing too rapidly. Meanwhile, Germany was being deinsdustrialized, because their industry had to pay so much more for their energy, which the US was selling them for four times the price.

Now the economy of Europe is being reduced, while Russia’s economy is expanding at the rate of 4.1% (in 2024). The western sanctions, imposed by the brilliant minds of US politicians, has done Russia a big favor while also destroying Europe’s economy. This is discussed here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iKFptuqVaM

God Hardened Pharaoh’s Heart

God has been known to harden the hearts of those that He intends to destroy. We see this most clearly in the case of Pharaoh in his conflict with Moses. God could have made it easy for the Israelites to leave, but He did not. Egypt, after all, was on a Cursed Time pattern (414 years), and so they were slated for destruction at that time. (See my book, Secrets of Time.)

It appears to me that God is now doing the same thing with Mystery Babylon and its western government officials. It would be easy to stop the war and the economic madness, just by guaranteeing that Ukraine will never join NATO. But no, that would be too logical. It is God’s intent to overthrow modern Babylon, using the kings from the east (Revelation 16:12).

So we who live in Babylon ought to brace ourselves for a certain amount of chaos in the near future. Most of all, let us keep in mind that this chaos is not designed to judge us but to set us free from our Babylonian masters in the same way that the Persian King Cyrus was sent to set free the people of Judah in 537 B.C. Prepare for the chaos in whatever way you can, but more importantly, prepare to leave Babylon and to reconstruct the Kingdom, New Jerusalem. This is not merely a war half way around the world. It is a global shift and a new era of peace for the next thousand years.