A couple of interesting asides to tuck away are the following: as a noun “nato” in Greek can mean the curiously misleading “one who is gentle” (lamb-like), the antithesis of the violent military alliance the acronym form connotes, and in Latin “nato” can mean “bare/birth/give birth” as a verb (from the root GENNH), and “begotten/birthed” as a noun (NATUS, root GENNHTOS). Moreover, please note that the NATO marque sports the membership country flags coiling about (encircling) the NATO cardinal direction “cross” at the center of the encirclement; note too how the NATO<>OTAN palindrome wrap-around often sported by NATO similarly bespeaks encirclement. Circling around clockwise from due north, the USA is first. (End of aside; updated 05/15/2022, A.s.) The head of this snake, by its own Godless choices, is not only a part of the snake, but has become its head. Where is the head of the snake located? It is on the other end, way on the other side if you will—you know, the other end of the body. That is where the head of the snake is located. And the head guides the body; the body does what the head thinks it should do. If for example the head says: “Strangle,” then the body will coil about and strangle. We see this snake as foundational to Satan’s hegemonic world order going forward and accordingly see antiChrist emerging out of the West (updated 04/11/2022, A.s.).
International sanctions (notwithstanding military encroachment, e.g., the 2008 Nato Summit targeting Georgia and Ukraine), that mindset in the head, are a strangulation. It forces the prey to fight for its very life, and in that struggle, from the perspective of the prey, anything is allowed. That is why international sanctions are dangerous in the extreme, and not a smart idea. It is understood that they are Godless, they are not in keeping with who Jehovah God is as a holy God. They are like the cruel sieges we read about in the Bible and in secular history; cruel because not least the fallout is indiscriminate, extending beyond the target.
In modern times, when a major world power and major breadbasket nation to boot is being strangled, it will withhold its foodstuffs from its stranglers, and will similarly withhold its natural resources (if it has the financial reserves to withstand the loss of income the withholdings pose). That is a first step response typically—to avoid all-out war—which looms in the backdrop never out of the question as a last resort. But if it can, if it is on its toes, the prey will fast align itself with another major breadbasket nation and world power to minimize the withholdings load and attendant income loss and to maximize the withholdings’ effect (when acting in concert).
Today, at the time of this writing in March-April 2022, the head of the snake said, “strangle the prey,” and the body proceeded to coil about the prey and presumed to strangle it. Will the resource-rich prey withhold things that the body sore needs to survive, things like wheat, barley, natural gas, fossil fuels, precious metals, of which it (the prey) is a major, major supplier on the world’s stage? The warning has been issued that it could happen in response to the sanctions (updated 04/07/2022, A.s.). And as expected, the prey aligned itself with another major breadbasket nation that controls the very dynamics of the grain markets and that is perhaps the true world power. And straightaway the futures markets (emphasis on “futures” here) began to drive any and all attendant prices to the highest heaven. What is a futures market? A futures market is a “casino” where the head multiplies and reposits its money. And as the prices and inflation shoot up, and the poor worldwide suffer even more than they already do consequential to the ripple effect of the markets, the participants in said market “make a killing,” literally and figurately. The precedent of capitalist-driven financial history is that the market will bleed those prices for every last drop it can get [1]. And then, the market participants will turn around and “sell the market,” and keep selling it, until the attendant worldwide recessions run their course, with more pain and sorrow and suffering on the part of the poor (the poor suffer with each swing of the inflation<–>recession pendulum). That is to say, if all-out war does not happen in the meantime. But in that regard, please be assured of this Christian friend: little man is not, repeat, is not going to “torch” this planet of his own doing. Jesus Christ, the Judge, and He alone, per His timing, will do that (2Peter 3:10). So, we do not expect nor fear in the least a strategic nuclear holocaust given the present crisis, but that does not preclude, certainly to the devil’s liking, a tactical event that could be devastating, which we pray does not occur (please join us in that prayer, especially for our suffering brethren). It must be remembered that the pre-Rapture Church will and does suffer along with the unsaved world until She is raptured out of here. A foretaste of what is to come—one can fold in fossil fuels, precious metals, foodstuffs, Revelation 6:6, NLT. Dearest reader please do not pin your eternal future on the devil’s secular lies about God, heaven, and eternity (“A Letter of Invitation”).
Please send us our Messiah Jesus back soon Papa God Jehovah. Amen.
[1] There is no such thing as a free market, though noble efforts are made in that regard. Markets are always manipulated in keeping with the sin nature of humankind. The players in the financial markets that have some semblance of “success” are the ones who figure out how and when and for how long and from which direction the next wave of manipulation is coming from.