The Backstory: Poland Conundrum
Today, I want to talk about the proverbial cookie jar.
Yep, the cookie jar that sat on the kitchen counter that your mother always said, don't touch. Well, I don't know about you, but when I was young, I loved the cookie jar. Yes, I would sneak a few cookies here and there, and then I would cover up my naughty escapades by rearranging the cookies. So it looked like there were more cookies in the cookie jar than there really were.
One day, my mother noticed that almost all the cookies were gone. So she called all of us kids. There were four of us. She called us all into the kitchen, lined us up, and she asked, "Who ate the cookies?" Of course, we all shook our heads. No, not me. And she says, "No one ate the cookies?" And we all shook our heads, "No, No." Again my mom asked. Finally, I spoke up and blamed my brother. Pointing the finger, yes, my brother did it! Sadly, he got a spanking for something I did! I am not exactly sure if I ever confessed that I ate the cookies, but I felt so horrible about my brother getting a spanking that it curtailed my sneaky cookie-eating escapades.
So why do I want to talk to you about the cookie jar?
Because yesterday (November 15, 2022), two Russian (or Ukrainian) missiles landed in Poland. Yes there's a war going on in Ukraine between Russia and Ukraine; how could a little misstep with Poland be a big deal? First, it happened while the U.S. Democratic Party gets caught in this incredible crypto situation with FTX. Billions of dollars disappeared overnight. To make matters worse, we learned that Ukraine was involved in pouring U.S.war money into this crypto account along with big machers from the Democratic Party. Yes, prominent Democrats invested millions, if not billions, into this crypto platform. All of which was being funneled to help the Democratic Party win elections. Sounds just like another day in the corrupt world of Washington. However, that is all smoke and mirrors to "the backstory."
The real story begins back in 2008, just before President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton entered the Whitehouse. At that time, Obama was campaigning to improve Russian relations in 2008. Few realized what this meant for the Eastern bloc of Europe—the countries that were under Soviet control during the Cold War. So, when Russia invaded Georgia in 2008, the United States immediately deployed U.S. Warships into the Black Sea, recalled Georgian troops from Iraq, and froze bilateral relations with Russia. He then went one step further to protect the Eastern bloc with plans to build installations that housed missile defense interceptors which Poland and the Czech Republic agreed to host. These interceptors would protect the Eastern Bloc, which would include Ukraine. It would protect these countries from a Russian invasion.
However, after Hillary Clinton's appointment as Secretary of State, her first assignment was to follow through on Obama's vision for Russian revival. Hence, in March 2009, she met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Six months later, the U.S. Canceled the deployment of the interceptors to Poland and the Czech Republic, leaving them without the economic or security benefits that the United States promised. This was a very big betrayal on the part of the United States government, one that Poland nor the Czech Republic has forgotten.
Now, on the other hand, Vladimir Putin perceived this move as a buttering up to Russia and subsequent concessions for the U.S. He saw it as it was, American betrayal. Notably, he had already given Poland and the Czech Republic a tongue-lashing for siding with America. And now that they were humiliated by the world sovereign, Putin's expansionist agenda could move forward. Crimea, the Middle East, Georgia, and Ukraine were now pawns for the taking. The only superpower holding Russia in check took a bribe. What was the bribe? Do you remember the Uranium One deal? You may or may not. Well, let me tell you about it. So it was another deal that was brokered behind the scenes under the guise of Obama's Russian reset, which gave Russia 20% of US uranium assets, 20%, folks.
Now, Peter Schweitzer writes about this in his book, The Clinton Cash.
In an article called, One Year of Silence on Hillary Clinton's Uranium Deal he said,
Things got worse for the Clintons a few days later when two New York Times Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporters Joe Becker and Mike MacIntyre …, did their own digging. What they found confirmed what I had reported. They ran a 3000-word front-page article in the paper confirming that: Bill and Hillary Clinton helped a Canadian financier named Frank Giustra, and a small Canadian company obtain a lucrative uranium mining concession from the dictator of Kazakhstan.; The same Canadian company, renamed Uranium One, bought uranium concessions in the United States; The Russian government came calling and sought to buy that Canadian company for a price that would mean big profits for the Canadian investors; For the Russians to buy that Canadian company, it would require the approval of the Obama administration, including Hillary's State Department, because uranium is a strategically important commodity; Nine shareholders in Uranium One just happened to provide more than 145 million in donations to the Clinton Foundation in the run up to State Department approval; Some of the donations included those from the chairman of Uranium One, Ian Teller, were kept secret, even though the Clintons promised to disclose all donations. Hillary's State Department approved the deal. The Russian government now owns 20% of US uranium assets.
So, in short, here was what you might call a radioactive scandal. It included secret donations, the Russian government, foreign financiers, more than 145 million dollars, and Bill and Hillary Clinton. And, it all emerged in 2018 because of the Mueller probe. However, the questions still remains, “Why hasn't Hillary Clinton indicted?”
Instead, what we saw was, not just the pointing of the finger towards President Trump, but the whole creation of the Russian dossier to hide their escapades with Russia.
Concerning Clinton’s bribery, RealClearPolitics wrote,
If foreign governments, including adversarial ones like Russia, paid the Clinton Foundation huge sums of money, they assure themselves favorable treatment. (Mr. Clinton received 500,000 from a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was pursuing the purchase of Uranium One, a uranium mining company.)
And then there was the post agreement interview with Rosatom’s chief executive, Sergei Kiriyenko, who told Putin, “Few could have imagined in the past that we would own 20% of US reserves.”
Rosatom is Russia's Atomic Energy Corporation. It has regional centers in Western, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Central Asia. East and Southeast Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. The Indian Times reported the following. According to South Asia CEO Alexey Pimenov the worldwide creation of a regional center’s network was due to the expansion of Rosatom’s global presence and a long-term development strategy, according to which the purpose of the company for the next ten years was to increase the portfolio of foreign orders up to 150 billion. Rosatom opened a regional centre in Mumbai, India.
So, while the end of the Cold War was supposed to bring nuclear arms depreciation between the U.S. and Russia, and while the Obama administration was actively depreciating the nuclear arms capabilities of the United States to create “a safer non-nuclear world,” Russia was busy building its nuclear presence throughout the world. And let’s not forget that Iran too is building its arsenal. But then again, we should have expected such because under the Obama administration, because, “we the United States, was leading from behind.” And yes, all the while, the Clintons seemed to be at the top of the Hill in the nuclear business.
There's a lot more I can say about the bribes and the blind judgment that was experienced during the Obama Clinton era. However, I want to turn back to Poland and the fact that missiles landed in Poland yesterday.
Now, as you can already see, the United States was positioned to prevent this under the Bush administration. This prevention was completely removed under the Obama administration, and it has been pandered since. Fundamentally, there has been no actionable presence from the United States to protect the Eastern bloc apart from NATO, even though the missile fell in NATO's territory.
If we consider the backstory, there is no doubt that Russian war of expansion executed upon Ukraine and missiles landing in Poland, are the fault of bad judgment and bad policy caused by U.S. bribery.
Bribery perverts a judgment.
Consider in the book of wisdom, Mishlei 6:35. It says, “He will not regard any ransom. Neither will he rest content, though thou you give him many gifts.”
For the U.S. Russia is not going to be appeased because we give gifts, right? A gift is really a precious stone in the eyes of him that has it. He turns it wheresoever he will. When a gift is used rightly, it causes a nation or an individual to prosper. However, for a wicked man or woman that give or receive bribes, he ways of judgment are perverted.
Hence, we understand that perverse judgment begins by having a heart that is willing to appease “something or someone” for money—you’re willing to give and take bribes to accomplish your goal.
So here we have it— the backstory. This is what we don't want future leaders to do. Knowing the backstory allows you to exercise better judgment, and it allows you to speak up on issues.
So, the moral of this story is: keep your hands out of the cookie jar and don't get caught!
