No False Flag Here

If there were an Opposition, then it would be cleaning up with a call for public ownership of the energy supply as a matter of national security. All-of-the-above energy independence, achieved by harnessing the power of the State, is not a new cause to some of us, and we warmly welcome converts, belated though they are. It is, however, a long-term project. It could not be done in a year.

Imagine that the war in Ukraine had been won and lost by, say, September or October. Our people would not then tolerate a winter without a deal to keep them warm and lit, because they just wouldn't. Or imagine that the war continued until next spring or even later. Our people would certainly not tolerate a second such winter. There would be unrest of a kind and on a scale that had not been seen in Great Britain in living memory.

We must deal with the side that had won, while we got on with rebuilding ourselves into a situation where we needed no such deal with anyone. It has long stuck in the craw to have to do such a deal with Russia, but those of us who have said so have hitherto been marginalised by a Conservative Party that was financially dependent on Vladimir Putin's circle, and by a Parliamentary Labour Party that was controlled by a close associate of the newly sanctioned Oleg Deripaska.

The conviction of Jeffrey Epstein did not bring down Peter Mandelson, and with him Keir Starmer, although of course it should have done. There is no reason to expect that the sanctioning of Deripaska will do so, although of course it should. Meanwhile, and although I cannot see how giving anyone a peerage might in itself pose a security risk, Evgeny Lebedev was a major backer of Remain, financially and otherwise. Rather more Remain voters were consumers of The Independent, the Evening Standard, and London Live than Leave voters were viewers of RT. As I predicted well over a fortnight ago, "And after RT, then they would come for GB News."

On the other side, in 2013 Pavlo Lapshyn murdered 82-year-old Mohammed Saleem in Birmingham, before putting bombs outside three mosques in this country. Lapshyn belonged, and presumably still does belong, to the Wotanjugend, which is closely allied to the Azov Battalion, being led by its "political ideologist", Alexey Levkin. Lapshyn's was among the names inscribed on the weapons that were used by Brenton Tarrant in the 2019 Christchurch mosque attacks. In August 2020, Lapshyn pleaded guilty to a count of preparing an explosive substance in his cell.

Mind you, Lapshyn has been away a while now. These days, Levkin and his ilk are bringing in IS fighters from Syria. The potential Russian importation of Assadists is in response to that. More broadly, there is the prospect of forces from, in particular, Eritrea and the 25 African countries that either formally abstained or did not vote when the UN General Assembly condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine. From none of those is there any talk of sending troops to fight alongside Svoboda, Pravy Sektor, National Corps, C14, the Azov Battalion, the Aidar Battalion, the Donbas Battalion, the Dnipro-1 Battalion, the Dnipro-2 Battalion, and all the rest of them.

For that, since Tony Blair is sniffing about again, he ought to inaugurate the War Corps. The War Corps might have captured Damascus for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi or for Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, each of whom has managed to be killed in the "moderate rebel" stronghold of Idlib; anyone would think that those rebels were not so moderate after all. And not least by the bombing of hospitals that such forces have never been above from Yugoslavia to Afghanistan, the War Corps may yet win it for those who at the very least laid claim to everywhere that was no less Ukrainian than the Donbas, never mind Crimea, and who in any case held that "the mission of Ukraine is to lead the White Races of the world in a final crusade for their survival against the Semite-led Untermenschen".

It is either that, or the victory of Putin's base among the Russian masses, military-industrial complex, and conservative intelligentsia, which holds that a largely Ukrainian and part-Ukrainian Soviet nomenklatura, or oligarchy if you will, created a fake entity in the form of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, adding insult to injury by giving it Crimea. The line was crossed when Ukraine became independent, and Victoria Nuland has now confirmed out loud the existence of American biolabs there. What purpose might those labs serve? Why would the Americans fear that they might fall into Russian hands? There is only one possible answer to that. To obfuscate it, our intelligence is being insulted with talk of "false flags", and of Russian chemical weapons attacks in Syria and even Salisbury, where Novichok proved itself a very expensive way of failing to kill people.

We have no dog in this fight, as we have no dog in most fights. For all the offensive references to "people who look like us", Britain is noted for its globally unique superdiversity: people from every inhabited territory on earth, ethnic diversity down to every village, and a huge and exponentially increasing mixed-race population in the society that accepts mixed-race people and couples more than anywhere else. That probably includes your own family. Unless you are at least 80, then you cannot properly remember pre-Windrush Britain. Everyone on earth "looks like us". That is what makes Britain Britain.

And Britain must be kept in heat and light. Equally and similarly repugnant though they are, we are going to have to deal with whichever side had won this war, while we harnessed the power of the State to rebuild our all-of-the-above energy independence. And not only from Russia. If Roman Abramovich is unfit to control a Premier League football club, then what about the House of Saud, which has today executed 81 men in one day?