I look at the many sanctions that Western countries are imposing on Russia, and I am amazed.
Some means are available to the enlightened world to impose its will on perverted countries.
Disconnection of banks from the global clearing system, closure of fragments of gas, foreclosure of amusement ships in the middle of the sea, what not.
Who needs weapons of war today when there are so many ways to strangle a tyrannical ruler without leaving home.
And I'm just asking myself a few questions.
One, where were you with all your great sanctions in 3D when it was possible to eliminate Iran and its aspirations to become an empire?
After all, it would have been possible to bring the ayatollahs to their knees a long time ago if all the non-lethal measures now being used against Russia had been used against Iran.
And I answer to myself - there is no interest in the West to eliminate the murderous aspirations of the new Persian Empire, because there is a chance that it will fatally harm the Jewish state, and such a chance is not so easily given up.
From the point of view of the Europeans and the Americans on the left, the Iranian option must be left alive, so that the Jews have something to fear.
The second question I ask myself is how long will it take between this new war, the overall economic war in Russia, and the imposition of similar sanctions on us, when we go to war once again there is no choice in the Arab tyrant living on our border.
And there is an answer: at the first opportunity, however faint, these tools will be tried on us, and if God forbid we get involved in a bad war in Gaza - which produces images that the refined screens in Europe and America can not stand - then the SWIFT fist will land on our face in full swing.
Here I have already read Gideon Levy, who wrote this week "One Swift and Enough Conquest", and if Gideon thought about it and published it in the exile newspaper in their country, then it will already resonate with our lovers all over the world.
Therefore, the State of Israel must prepare for the day when they will try to disconnect us from the world banking system, prepare a pile of Gentile cash on the side as Putin did, and this is true for every citizen and every international company, and it is worth preparing battle dishes in the laundry.
And it is desirable to hurry with the gas, to drill as much as possible, so that we will have a current on the day of the boycott - and so that they will be more dependent on us than they are today, and will be reluctant to operate the full press.
And especially to take a good look at what is happening to Russia and its citizens.
It's the trailer and we'll be the movie.
Rising
Here comes another big wave, and I say - be careful not to fall where we failed as a company with the previous wave of immigration from Russia in the 1990s.
I well remember the passions that swept the country when it became clear that some of the new immigrants were suffering from economic deprivation, and therefore renting out their physical assets to anyone who reduced the price.
There were rumors of contacts for five shekels then, and all the dishonest men exchanged stories of prostitution for how little money they managed to get as many exploiters from distressed women as possible.
And the newcomers to their children are already here, their men are left behind and who knows if they will get out of there alive.
Their property is there, a treasurer there, and they are easy prey for all the men who have not yet downloaded software to update what it is like to be a worthy man in the 21st century.
And I watch legions of exploiters gather around the new flowers that have landed in the flower bed, and just want to pick them, just want to pick.
By the way, from my really good sources I hear about new immigrants who discover here that their marital status is not what they thought, and that their spouse who stays there has another wife, more legal.
We will not go into details, but it is clear that this further weakens the women and may cause them to seek confidence in the form of a man in a shaky reality.
That's why I first call on all men who feel an increase in testosterone levels when they hear about the arrival of lost souls dressed in a young female body: Ask yourself before you travel to the absorption center closest to where you live, what is the purpose of the trip.
If you are going to look for love because you have flipped through all the Tinder and the women in the country are not right for you, come on for fun, blessing and success.
But if you're out on a hunting trip, with a roll of bills in your back pocket, Deir Balcom.
There is no blessing in the intimacy you buy from a woman in distress, and she will haunt you again until your last day and even after, my informants in the next world tell me.
And if someone tells you that he met an refugee for the sake of an refuge, show him that he is an inferior man and cut off contact.
And more importantly, I call on women's organizations to appoint an absorption trust, Russian- and Ukrainian-speaking local women who will individually accompany each immigrant and seek asylum, warn against the local custom of consuming paid sex services regardless of the lady's mental state, and offer them better ways to absorb and support their children.
Ways that there will be no human trauma and a family stain in the future, when the children will already be almost sabras.
And boys and girls need to be taken care of.
Let us not be for them the post-war war.
Stickers
From the dawn of history man has been engaged in barter.
For most of man's days on earth this has been the accepted way of getting things that man desires and does not have.
The money was invented only about 2,500 years ago, until then it was a sheep for a winter coat, a lentil pitcher for a used ax in good condition from a pagan doctor.
But then came the world of coins, and much later the banknotes, and today it is no longer possible to buy goods for another commodity, and if I go into a grocery store and take pasta and try to pay for it in a woven woolen cocoon at night, it will end with Eran Suissa's gossip column.
But, there is a place where ancient knowledge is still preserved.
In children.
There, with no modern means of payment, barter is in full swing.
And while from year to year the goods change, but the principle does not.
Give me what I do not have, I will give you what I have to exchange.
When I was a kid, chewing gum wrappers stirred our imaginations.
Today it is completely worthless, like the Turkish lira, but I still remember the special covers with portraits of football players that for one I would get some ten of the simplified "maiden" gum.
Several commercial storms filled my day as a child, achievements and failures, losses and fortunes.
And not only chewing gum wrappers, but also cards of the "wonderful world", napkins, apricot kernels, and many other hot goods that have cooled in the meantime and are not known to future generations.
And I say all this because the currency that goes to the merchant now in my childhood market, at least - and from the availability in the stores I understand that it is not only here at home - these are the gel stickers.
Haven't you heard?
You have no children of the right age.
Gel stickers are pieces of semi-solid gel, on which are printed all sorts of cute figures for girls 'and boys' eyes, lovable hedgehogs, magical fairies, juicy cupcakes and everything that comes out of them, and pleasant to muck them between the fingers, especially if they are really thick.
And that's the story here.
The thickness.
The stickers that are considered, expensive, rare, are the thick ones, and there are also small and small ones, which are stored in the economic system built on them.
Every day my girls go out to school with the bag of stickers, and in return they show each other the spoils of the trading day.
The main activity is exchanges, and the goal - to expand the collection without buying in the store.
And day by day the collection grows, and thickens, and a small oligarchy is formed in the house.
And in a few days, or weeks, a voice will suddenly come out: over.
Now toothpicks are being collected from around the world, and the whole collection will be worth nothing and nothing.
But what does it matter.
Trading skills were learned, and a lot of fun, and the thick stickers would be used by me to stabilize a swinging table, and we came out with a profit on all sides.
Shabbat Jalom you will have.
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