Page | i Publishing Information. Saker Analytics, LLC 1000 N. West Street Suite 1200 #1588 Wilmington, DE USA 19801 Copyright © 2017 Page | ii 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 Page | iii 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 Page | iv 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 Page | v 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 Page | vi 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 Page | vii 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 Page | viii Afterword by Cynthia McKinney .................................................................................. 541 Page | ix 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: Page | x