The passing of one of the most revered Rabbis of our generation went by almost unnoticed!

 The other week, the drummer of a band called The Foo Fighters died. I knew of the band because I'm very into music of all kinds. Didn't know who the drummer was though. I doubt that too many people did. But that news went around the world quickly. Within a day of his passing, hundreds of millions of people heard the news. To some, his passing was upsetting. To be honest, it meant nothing to me. I'm not happy when a good person dies. I assume that he was but I really have no idea, nor do I plan to invest any time on finding out. 

A few days later a scandal broke out on the Academy Awards. I'd be shocked if you didn't already hear about actor Will Smith smacking actor/comic Chris Rock on stage in front of the whole world. Chris made a joke in bad taste (something they all do sooner or later) about Will's bald headed wife who suffers from alopecia (a disease where women lose their hair).  It was vile to watch. The video was replayed millions of times all over the internet and on TV. It wouldn't surprise me if the number of people who watched it or know about the incident, is in the billions. 

I don't know what kind of serious impact the drummer of Foo Fighters, Will Smith, Chris Rock or the Academy Awards has on humanity but I suspect that's it's close to zero. 

On the other hand, a couple of weeks ago someone passed away who had a huge impact on humanity, especially the Jewish World.  His name: Rav Chaim Kanievsky.  Did you hear about that?  Unless you are part of the orthodox Jewish community, I'd be surprised if you did. 

I thought as a blogger and a Jewish activist who seeks to inform the world on important issues, I'd make a point to talk about him. For all of us who care about keeping the Jewish religion alive, this was devastating news! Since I don't know a lot about him, my sister who used to live in the religious city called Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv, where the rabbi once humbly lived and who she and her family had sought advice and blessings from over the years, wrote the following about him:

Amidst the clamour of the world, the passing of one of the most revered Rabbis of our generation went by almost unnoticed by most of us. Harav Chaim Kanievsky, passed  away on Purim 2022.  The funeral was attended by  approximately 600,000 people.

Rav Chaim was incredibly knowledgeable in Jewish learning.

From a young age he invested his energies in Torah study.

Each year, he studied and reviewed the entire Jewish Bible, the Babalonian and Jerusalem Talmud, Midrashim, the entire code of Jewish law as written by Maimonides, and the Shulchan Aruch.

All of this he learned together with numerous commentaries on all of the above writings.

In fact this year, he completed his yearly cycle of learning, right before his passing, at the age of 94.

He had all these books essentially stored  in his memory, verbatim.

He was one of the few human beings in our times who was able to master such a vast amount of Torah knowledge.

He was also extremely pure in all of his ways.

For the last 35 years, people from all over the world streamed to his door daily, seeking his advice and blessings.

From his purity of mind, knowledge of Torah and closeness to Hashem, he merited what is called "ruach hakodesh":

the ability to see and foresee what is beyond the grasp of most people.

A famous example was in the Gulf War of 1991, when Iraq was bombing Israel and threatening to send war heads of poison gas.  The Israeli government handed out gas masks to every citizen.

Rav Kanievsky promised that there would be no use for the gas masks, other than for Purim costumes.

The amazing fact is that there were no gas attacks and that the war ended abruptly on Purim, so as he predicted regarding the use of the masks...

Another story regarding Harav's "ruach hakodesh" was told over by Rabbi Chanania Cholak, the well-known founder of Ezer Mitzion.  This enormous charity organization provides medical services, equipment, counselling and meals to thousands of sick people and their families, without charge or for a nominal fee.  On one occasion, Rabbi Cholak asked Rav Chaim to bless a long list of ailing people with a speedy recovery.  The Rav blessed all but 4 names on the list.  Very surprised, Rav Cholak investigated the enigma, and discovered that these 4 people had already died.

There are countless stories of this type.

These two can easily be validated.

Harav Yaakov Yisrael Lugasi explains that Rav Chaim was not just a "wonder worker."  Rather his ability to "work wonders" stemmed from his great faith in Hashem, and belief that nothing is beyond Hashem's power.  

He tells over the following anecdote.

An American family with minimal means moved to Israel.  They purchased a small apartment, and eventually needed to expand.  They found a rennovator who agreed to take on the job and asked for their hard-earned savings in advance.  In the guise of generousity he took from them only 119,000 shekels out of the 120,000 they had saved. 

Now he proceeded to break down the walls as a preparation for the enlargement.

But from then on, he never returned, and the American searched for him in vain.

This American came to Rav Chaim to seek advice.  What was he to do?

Rav Caim, proclaimed:

You have been left with 1,000 shekels.

You will rennovate your apartment on a budget of 1,000 shekels.

An so it came to pass that one day  the American received a knock on the door.

A man inquired, "I have seen your apartment standing unfinished for a while.  Why?"

The American explained his plight.  The man offered:

"I will make a deal with you.

I am a rennovator by profession, but I am new in this neighborhood.  I am willing to rennovate your home for 1,000 shekels on condition that you bring me publicity.

And so it was that the rennovator invested 160,000 shekels from his own pocket in a most beautiful rennovation,

for a mere fee of 1,0000 shekels.

For Rav Chaim, this was no wonder.

Hashem can do anything.

May we all take inspiration from this great man.

What a beautiful tribute to the Rav!  BTW, do you know the significance of the 600,000 people who attended his funeral is?  It's the same number of Jews who received the Torah at Mount Sinai!

To Rav Chaim Kanievsky and others like him, Torah study was life. In an age where sadly so many Jews have lost their way and worse, look down on religious leaders like him, it's high time that we give them the respect and honour they deserve!

10 Reasons Why Zelensky is No Hero

I cringe every time I hear him being called that. Here they are, in no particular order:

1. A few days ago Putin offered Zelensky a way to stop the war immediately. 

    These are the 4 conditions: 

    Zelensky must agree that Crimea is part of Russia. De facto, it already is. Putin took it over when Obama was in charge.

    Zelensky must consider Ukraine to be neutral (ie. not part of NATO or demand to be). It isn't and wasn't invited to be a member (other than by loony VP Harris who invited them informally on her recent visit - talk about irresponsible escalation). NATO recognized years ago that because Ukraine is so corrupt, it couldn't be relied on to be a trusted NATO member.

    Zelensky must agree that 2 Russian controlled areas, Donetsk and Luhansk become independent states. Like Crimea these areas are almost completely inhabited by ethnic Russians. As such they have been attacked for years by Ukrainians.

    Ukraine must cease military action. Obviously if Russia stops attacking them, they should stop fighting back. 

Do you see a problem with these 4 conditions? I don't. If Zelensky wants to save Ukrainian lives immediately and end this war, he should agree to it. He could also add his own condition:

    NATO and Russia agree to rebuild the damage to Ukraine immediately. I'm sure Putin and NATO would agree to this. It would give Putin a way to save face.

But Zelensky (the hero) declined the offer! He was probably told to decline it by his puppet masters. 

2. Zelensky made a deal with the devil. He agreed to be the puppet of nefarious people including but not limited to:  corrupt oligarchs, WEF leaders like Klaus Schwab, George Soros who profits over wars, powerful rich and corrupt people like Bill Gates, the Clintons, the Bidens, Mark Zuckerberg and the neo Nazi nationalists who control his parliament. In exchange he gets paid well and gets instant fame. Not bad for a comedic actor who pretended to play piano with his penis for laughs not too many years ago. 

Here he is dancing in high heels. Clearly a man of many talents.

3. He is dangerously coercing us in the West to support a NATO (American led) no fly zone over Ukraine to stop any Russian aircraft from flying over Ukraine. This could easily spark WWIII! All it would take is a US jet to confront a Russian jet and blow each other up. This is his most dangerous act to date!

4. He encourages neo Nazi groups to be formally accepted into his government. Although small in number so far, they have undue influence. Recall the Nazi party in the early days in Germany? They too were a small percentage of German society and of the government. But look what they managed to do.

5. Zelensky pressures Israel to provide Ukraine with military aid. And did so publicly (I'm disappointed in Israel)! 

Israel has to deal with constant existential threats from her neighbours. Iran has military bases in nearby Syria that Israel bombs from time to time with its jets. The Russian military are there too to help instruct the Iranians and Syrians how to use their high tech equipment. But Israel and Russia have a tacit agreement that when Israel bombs these military installations, the Russians will let them know where they are and in effect gives Israel a green light to go ahead. Should Israel accede to Zelensky's demand to provide military aid, Russia will without a doubt stop the green light in Syria and elsewhere. Israel would then be in serious trouble! Zelensky certainly doesn't give a damn about Israel despite him being a 'Jewish hero'. BTW not that I care, but his wife is not Jewish, never converted and his son was baptized. As I said in my earlier blog, he is a Jewish as Bernie Sanders. (ie. only when it's convenient)

6.  Ukraine's voting record in the UN regarding Israel, stinks! Under Zelensky's leadership they have voted for resolutions (created by terror nations that are Israel's enemies) to condemn Israel twice and abstained once. As far as I'm aware, they have never once voted against any such resolution that condemns Israel. Again so much for the Jewish hero. 

7. Zelensky is using Jewish refugees in Ukraine as bartering tools (hostages if you will). He will either trade them for military equipment form Israel or perhaps insist that for every one Jew, 10 non-Jews must be taken by Israel as well. Although I have no proof for this yet, what other reason can be given for Israel's record so far on bringing home about 1500 refugees of which only 10% are Jews?

If I'm wrong here and it was Israel alone who demanded to take all refugees regardless of religion on 'moral' grounds' then we have a bigger problem with the current Israeli government. The tiny state of Israel who is under constant existential threat was created as a home for the Jewish people! As per the Balfour Declaration and Israel's own Declaration of Independence, it is clearly defined as a Jewish State. There are hundreds of countries in the world today but only 1 Jewish country. It's destiny depends on its Jewishness. Some of my own Christian friends have asked me why Israel is doing this. Even they understand that it would dilute the Jewish population within Israel. I have no problem saying this to anyone who considers me immoral for taking this stance. The last time a large number of illegal immigrants snuck into Israel from Eritrea, they were granted safe haven. They were housed near the bus terminal in Tel Aviv. Since then, that area has become a no go zone due the high crime rate there.

I find it disturbingly ironic that during the Holocaust not one country wanted to take in any Jews from Europe who were being slaughtered horrifically in large numbers. Yet today Israel is expected to take in non-Jews from a country with blood on its hands for helping to murder millions of Jews!

8. Zelensky is pushing for people from all over the world and his own citizens to join in the fight. As a civilian you will get (if you're lucky) one hour training and a rifle and off you go! To die that is. Some people call that heroic. I call that beyond irresponsible.

9. Ukraine has a vile antisemitic past. They were some of the worst, sadistic murderers on the planet, not only of Jews, but Russians, Gypsies and others. Knowing this (and he does), Zelensky still took the bait to become the president of this cursed state. 

10. Currently Zelensky continues to award his officials the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky! His claim to fame was the murder of tens of thousands of Jews in the mid 1600's. He wanted to eradicate the Jews. In  Ukraine today Bohdan is still considered a hero and there are many statues of him around the country. His picture used to be on their currency. (It still may be)

Can the war in Ukraine spark a world war?

The Russians are certainly using their nuclear arsenal as a threat to us in the West and we should take it seriously. Personally I highly doubt that Putin would really consider launching nukes and precipitate a nuclear world war. He isn't an Iranian mullah.  But do you want to take the chance that they are only bluffing? I don’t. Certainly not over neo Nazi Ukraine. 

 Zelensky is an actor and he’s continuing to act well. As I said in my previous post  Leon's: The World is Upside Down  , he is a puppet, no different from my PM in Canada, Justin Trudeau (a former drama teacher) and from Joe Biden (one of the most corrupt American presidents ever) and sad to say many other state leaders. Putin is a brutal thug, that we know and we could have easily stopped him by providing energy to Europe and ourselves. I keep hearing how the Russian economy is suffering right now but I don’t buy it. How can they be when they continue to sell oil and tons of it on the world market at record high prices? As I'm writing this the US is buying approximately 670,000 barrels a day from Russia! 

Biden and NATO leaders could have de-escalated the Russian invasion by promising (out loud) to Russia that Ukraine would never be admitted into NATO. Putin was demanding that concession for months or even years. The world leaders certainly knew that Ukraine was so corrupt that they couldn’t be relied on to be a trusted member of NATO. So despite the fact that most NATO members like the US were never planning on inviting Ukraine to join NATO and despite the fact that that was one of Putin’s primary complaints, NATO and Biden refused to make that announcement. Would it have averted this war? Who knows, but it would have cost them nothing to make that announcement!

That’s because the real puppet masters are Soros, Schwab, Gates, Zuckerberg and other billionaires along with many nefarious state leaders from China, Iran and other states who are in charge of the Great Reset, want a war and are de facto in charge.  Soros in particular wants a world war so he can profit from it. He learned that trick from his father. That's what happens when you have a vacuum in leadership. Like him or not, President Trump kept them in check. The many vile terror states were scared of then President Trump. That's a good thing. Our allies could trust him and they did. Another good thing. He helped to balance the real nefarious world players and my proof is that he was the first president in modern US history to keep America out of wars. The world was a much safer place for 4 years during Trump's presidency. 

When Obama was president, Russia invaded Crimea and no one said boo. North Korea was firing test missiles regularly. China was ever looming and getting stronger. Iran was partying it up with the cash and other incentives that Obama and his administration enabled. I never thought I'd say this but the Biden administration is even worse! Look where we are today. For no apparent reason Biden in his first few days as president cancelled the joint Canadian Keystone pipeline that would have brought tons of gas to the US and beyond. Hundreds of thousands of Canadians and Americans would have benefited immediately. With well paid jobs and low energy prices. It would have had a ripple effect across the world too. 

The silly girls like the dangerous Squad in the US and other Democrats and virtue signallers throughout the planet (recall little Greta Thunberg's plea for windmills and other pretty things?) demanded the Green New Deal where we stop eating beef, stop producing oil, gas, coal and nuclear energy? Biden, the puppet, of course acquiesced to their insane demands immediately! Now we (America, China and many other European states) are buying Russian oil and paying top dollar for it too (China gets a discount). I ask you: How does that help us clean up the planet? Short answer: It does not! All these fools and regular ignorant people who have swallowed that kool aid, now have blood on their hands, along with Putin and the other puppet masters. 

Predictably we will be shown horrific videos of Ukrainian civilians killed by the thousands as the Russians stop being ’nice’ in their previous IDF style attacks. If Zelensky was truly a hero he might have considered giving himself up in exchange for averting a war. Instead he is pleading for us in the west to establish a no fly zone over Ukraine and sending in more weapons in the hopes of starting WWIII with Russia. I can assure you that if an American anti-aircraft artillery or missile shot down a Russian jet, that could easily spark a world war with Russia. And with Biden in charge we’d lose! China would come to Russia’s aid and we’d all be finished. US generals would be concerned about providing better conditions for transvestite US soldiers while our enemies would be aiming at American nuclear missile sites. World wars spark easily like so many forest fires. Recall WWI!

Zelensky is also urging every Ukrainian to make molotov cocktails and to fight (women and children included). He won't let men of fighting age leave the country. He is forcing them to fight. Many of them have no military training. Some people might call this heroic. I call it irresponsible. The hundreds of thousands of neo Nazi militias are thrilled to take on the Russians. They have been killing ethnic Russians in Ukraine for years and now they get to fight the Russian military. In so doing they are endagering innocent Ukrainian civilians. Now we hear about the scary hit of Europe's largest nuclear reactor in Ukraine. If the Russians shelled it and they probably did (although who the hell really knows), Putin needs to die. But so do the reckless crazed neo Nazis who hopefully will also die in battle but who also encouraged many ill trained Ukrainian civilians to take up arms. Despite all the msm's rhetoric about how the Ukrainians are holding off the Russians, they will be squashed by the Russians. They are simply not in their league militarily. They are in their league as far as being corrupt however and probably more so. Also as I stated they are definitely more antisemitic. Let’s not forget a very big and important historical fact that is almost always over looked. Without Russia we’d be speaking German right now (if we’d even be alive). Hello, recall WWII? Between 20 and 27 million Russians died fighting the Nazis. We can't forget that little fact.

 

This one photo swayed the world to appease the arabs and import millions of unvetted Muslim migrants into western nations.

The videos and photo images that we will be bombarded with on TV are urged on by the puppet masters in the hopes to get our emotions stirred up and to draw up more support for Ukraine and for us to help them fight. It also acts as a diversion from real issues that we should be focused on, like WEF, China, Iran, North Korea and other serious issues that the US and other Western democracies should be dealing with. As I'm writing this, Iran is feverishly building up its nuclear arsenal because no one is watching them. All it takes is an image of a dead baby killed by a Russian and people start to act dangerously and irrationally. Do you recall the image above of a drowned toddler  on a beach in Turkey that sparked world outrage and in many cases guess who was to blame? Israel of course. 

Some have called me a supporter of Putin or worse, a supporter of Communism. Of course they couldn't be more wrong. I have written many articles about communist Russia. My mother survived the war in a gulag in Siberia and I remember all of her painful stories and speak of them often. Sadly so many of our young generation in the West has no conception of what Communism really is. Their extreme ignorance is dangerous for the future and the future is now.  I oppose dictatorships wherever they exist with all of my heart. I am urging people to think independently.  I have learned one thing for sure in the last few decades. It's that when a narrative is pushed by the mainstream media and our governments, I tend to believe the opposite. Or at the very least be suspect of it. Here is an excellent article on Ukraine and how we should be looking at things: Understanding Ukraine's Nazism I really urge you to read it. If you prefer to watch videos, here is another excellent clip, so worth watching: Was Putin's attempt to de-nazify Ukraine bogus? Perhaps after you do it will give you the knowledge and strength to push back against the mainstream media's constant demands to escalate this war and pull at your heartstrings for actions that could get us all in serious trouble. I  urge us all to help the decent Ukrainians (not the neo Nazis) by supplying them food, water, blankets, medicines and when possible help them get out of the country. But be careful who you donate to. Most of the money and other supplies we send does not get to the intended citizens. Remember that Ukraine is extremely corrupt! Urging them on to fight and calling them heroes is in my opinion not helping them or us. We need to take a big breath and calm down. Let's not jump into this please!

Why are so many Idolizing Zelensky and Ukraine?

If my dear mother, a Holocaust survivor, was alive, she would have this to say about Ukraine: 'Loz em brennan' (let them burn).

To help understand her statement, you might recall one of the most terrible events in WWII, known as Babi Yar. It's a deep ravine in the main city, Kiev in Ukraine. In 1941 in the period of just 2 days, almost 34,000 Jews were murdered there! Think about that number. And it was all done by men shooting at innocent civilians. A very personal way to commit mass murder. That was nothing like carpet bombing a city from the air.  As far as we know, that extreme murder rate had never been achieved until then. Of course the Nazis organized the killing. But it was the Ukrainians who actually did the killing. You see, the Ukrainians had such a blood lust for killing Jews that even the Nazis had to stop them. The Germans were in love with organized killing and documenting every 'perfect' thing they did. So when the Ukrainians were running around trying to murder every Jew they saw, the Nazis intervened and instructed them on how to do it efficiently and more organized.

Since then the Germans have laws (serious laws) against joining any neo-Nazi party. They have also paid out millions of dollars to Holocaust survivors and their families. The Ukrainians have literally gotten away with murder. 

Today, decades after the war, Ukraine has more neo-Nazi groups than any other country in the world! (Yet another world record) And they are not forced underground in any way. The largest of these, Azov, is unofficially part of their parliament. Many fools consider them to just be nationalistic. Although some members might be, most are thugs. Their flag is similar to a swastika and they are antisemitic to the core, just like their grandfathers were.

Azov flag

When Putin says he wants to de-nazify Ukraine, he's not lying. I have no doubt that we will soon be hearing of stories leaked out of Ukraine, blaming it's small Jewish population for the trouble they are in now. I already have heard some.

Ukraine is not a democracy and never has been. It is as corrupt as Russia or perhaps more so. Definitely more antisemitic. Since 2014, Ukraine has become the world's most popular money laundering state. Oligarchs run it mob style and chose the then actor Zelensky to be their presidential puppet. The WEF's Klaus Schwab bragged about helping elect him and his equivalent Canadian puppet Trudeau. Just about every rich and famous player has been to Ukraine. And came back with even more money. From Bill Gates to Joe Biden, from George Soros to the Clintons. They all know that Ukraine is open for business. Even the CIA opened deadly bioweapon laboratories there because they couldn't open them anywhere else!

I am sick and tired of  people (especially Jews) depicting Zelensky as a hero or worse, a Jewish hero. Zelensky is as Jewish as Bernie Sanders or George Soros.  Technically he was born Jewish but that's where it ends. He left his Judaism by the road side years ago.  He is no real friend to Israel and tolerates the neo-Nazis in his own government quite well. He does what his masters tell him to do and say. He has probably been paid off by Soros who is loving all of us Western nations spending billions to prop up this corrupt state and leader. Do you recall their capitulation to then VP Biden to fire their prosecutor who was looking at the fraud committed by the Burisma corporation who had Hunter Biden as a board member? They wanted the billions of US dollars from the Obama administration and would do anything for the money. So they did. Biden bragged about it on TV!  Here's a clip if you haven't seen it. Quite incredible: Joe Biden brags about firing Ukrainian prosecutor

To be sure, I'm no fan of Putin. He's a brutal dictator and I certainly wish that he hadn't invaded Ukraine. Many innocent people will die as a result, no doubt. But to see it from his view, Ukraine has a population of about 40 million people. About half are Russians! The other half come from various tribal factions like Ruthenians, etc. If you look at the history of Ukraine, it belonged to many different empires and states until recently. My father was brought up in a city called Lvov in Poland before WWII. Now it belongs to Ukraine under the name of Lviv. If my dad was alive he could tell us stories of how the people of the city would hunt Jewish boys like him down on the way back from school and beat them up. This was well before WWII. The neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine have been running roughshod on all Russian citizens and businesses there. I will include a video here where you can see it. These videos and my facts here are not typically found in the mainstream media (yet). But over time the truth does slowly leak out and you'll hear more about what I'm saying here. I urge you to watch this video, it will hopefully wake you up from the constant babble I hear 24/7 about how noble the Ukrainians are. Ukraine neo-Nazis.

Today on social media I see many people with a Ukrainian flag. I've read articles written by good writers (both Jews and Gentiles) who are piling on the backs of Ukraine and espousing how brave the people are and how wonderful Zelensky is. Why are we giving them this kind of false idolatry and PR? 

I view this war like I did when Iran and Iraq were at war years ago. Two evil states killing each other. Mostly I feel sorry for my fellow Jews who remain in Ukraine. It's hard to say how many they are but I can guess about 100,000 poor Jews still live there. If you want to help the cause, you should donate to organizations that help them.  I'm proud of my Jewish homeland, Israel who is already planning on sending planes to bring them to Israel. 

If we learn anything from this war it's that we (Jews and Israel) cannot rely on anyone else to guarantee our safety.

Calling Putin names won't help. 

Of course this entire war could have been prevented if President Trump was still the US leader. He had the US on a course of energy independence and strength. The US, Canada and even Israel could have supplied all the oil, gas and coal that Europe needed. But thanks to the cognitive mess we call Joe Biden, he undid all that and gave a pass to the Russian pipeline to fuel Germany and the rest of Europe. Israel discovered huge reserves of oil and gas underground and under its territorial waters in the Mediterranean years ago. The plan was to build a pipeline to ship it to Crete & Greece and then on to Europe. The Trump administration sponsored the project. But the Biden administration cancelled it. Strong sanctions now will hurt Russia and all of us as well. 

Israel needs to be very careful as to how it deals with this war. It has a relatively good relationship with Russia at the moment and shouldn't assume that it can jump on the sanction bandwagon with many other countries without risking some serious repercussions in Syria and elsewhere.

To sum up: I stand for my Jewish people in Ukraine and for all the good Christians there as well. I pray for their well being and I have donated money for them. I wrote this article because another narrative needs to be heard. You might not want to hear it, yet here it is. I might lose some friends over this but the situation isn't black and white. Most geopolitical events are complex. I don't consider myself an expert. I am not. But like most things in the news, a narrative is being developed by people we should not trust but people are caught up in that 24/7 news cycle and are quick to hop on the mainstream media's bandwagon.  I for one, will not lose too much sleep if Ukraine disappears. I'll leave it up to Him to decide how things play out there. I do believe in karma.... 

How ever one looks at the situation, it's certainly not worth risking a world war over, G-d forbid! Recall the events leading up to WWI. A Serb assassinated the Austro-Hungarian archduke. Because of various treaties signed by various world powers at the time (Britain, France, Germany and Russia) this small incident brought on the war! A brutal war that no one wanted. 

We are at a crossroads here too. We must be very careful what we wish for. Urging our countries to send troops and planes over there can easily spark something no one wants (perhaps except the WEF and people like George Soros). I am not an isolationist by any means. But we do have other means at our disposal to de-escalate this. Opening our energy sectors in the US, Israel and even my own country, Canada, to serve Europe and thereby cut out Russia is probably the best and most effective way. Of course electing strong principled leaders that are not corrupt is an absolute requirement as well!