A few items, a potpourri.

So much swirling about us.

We were just nearing the end of covid obsession when suddenly the same level of intense public interest pivoted to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This tells us much about the nature of our times (and timeline).

There are some observations, off the beaten path, to be made.

About Vladimir Putin and those bizarre long tables: many claim the reason was simply fear of in fact contracting covid from visitors. It is reported that he made aides quarantine for a week before getting near him.

If so, does this indicate hyper-caution to the point of paranoia, or are there other questions to be asked?

Could it be that Putin is concerned with someone poisoning or otherwise harming him?

Might he (as still others posit) suffer from cancer and a compromised immune system, thus the caution, and perhaps also thus the strange behavior (from steroids)?

We’ve heard that bandied about. Remember, Putin is both a conspiracist and a KGB operative (there is no such thing as “former” KGB). As for the idea of his fearing a biological agent, Putin has been implicated in a number of murders (critics, journalists, and other political antagonists), and those attacks or killings have involved both chemical and radioactive toxicants. (One victim, Viktor Yushchenko, is below.) Does Putin fear the KGB’s own weapons turned on him?

If the fear is simple covid, one wonders whether Putin knows something about the pathogen (and its laboratory origin) that we do not. Keep in mind how drastically China also reacted.

Has there been an international biowar in progress — under our radar?

This is a very clever operative — Putin — adept also in disinformation.

Thus, be careful that what you are ingesting as “news” did not originate in Russian bots and “trolls” that in the past few years have found fertile ground in social media and certain alternative news blogs. No one wants to be a partner to disinformation — also known as “propaganda” (a game played, of course, by both sides).

Does evil operate?

Above, as Asia News reports, “A hundred or so women dedicated to the magical arts, dressed in habits and hoods decorated with images of birds of prey, gathered in Moscow to express solidarity with a president who, although he enjoys, at least on paper, the consensus of over 70% of Russians, according to the witches needs help because the events of recent days put him in serious danger from his many enemies. ‘Let the great strength of Russia manifest itself,’ Aljona hypnotically repeats, distributing her curses to the whole world, to which the sisters of the curse enthusiastically reply ‘indeed!'”

Now throw into the mix the sudden entrance, albeit with baby steps, of China and Syria onto the stage: Iran with throwing several missiles at a U.S. base near the American embassy in Iraq (keep in mind prophecies that Russia would join forces with Arab nations) and China with its posturing toward a takeover of Taiwan (which, like Russia with Ukraine, its claims as its own). Is a world conflict in its nascence?

Might Russia seek to bring all its former “satellites” back into its orbit — including Yugoslavia (which included Bosnia-Hercegovina, home to Medjugorje)?

There are rumblings there. Some think Serbia is once more flexing muscles. As for Putin, he has long bemoaned the breakup of the Soviet Union, dismissed Ukraine’s claims to sovereignty, and as a news outlet put it, mused about nuclear war ending with Russians as “martyrs.” Is holding on to Christian values what motivates him (as some like to believe) — or simple recovery of past U.S.S.R. superpowerdom (most likely)?

Very serious questions — and needs for prayer, although there are vague signals that a peace agreement may be reached.

Europe has already spent two years on high alert against the pandemic. But now the manifestations of its anxieties and desires for self-defense have shifted from the masks, vaccines, and lockdowns of Covid to the bunkers, iodine pills, and air raid sirens of nuclear war.

[Footnote: Speaking of social media, what are we to make of a post like this?

Answer: Well, those are not new photos but from various parts of the world during recent years. Is the one (top right) Ukraine? Perhaps — but if so, again, years ago. Again: caution with social media. 

Astoundingly, even the invasion of Ukraine is a point of division, albeit among a small percentage of the public than recent contentions over politicians, elections, the Capitol, the pandemic, and vaccines.

Strange times — about to get (see upcoming “special report” on prophecy) stranger.]

[resources: Witness: To Apparitions and Persecution in Ukraine]