Sister Ciara says America Forgot That Wars Are Won By Schoolteachers Not Generals

“Wars are won not by generals, but by schoolteachers and priests.”

Above cited quote is what President Vladimir Putin proclaimed to Russian school officials on the eve of Teacher’s Day in April-2025.

Special Report from Sister Ciara

My Dearest Friends:

Back in April, the Ukrainian state funded Kyiv Post released the propaganda video “Russia’s Schools Are Training for War”, about which it revealed: “Russia’s education system is no longer just about patriotism — it’s about preparation for war…This video explains how the Kremlin uses schools, youth programs, and textbooks to push a militarized ideology…From mandatory flag-raising sessions to rewriting history and recruiting schoolchildren into military youth groups — the system has one goal: loyalty, obedience, and readiness to fight”.

I was reminded about this Ukrainian propaganda video last week after the Wall Street Journal published its article “Putin Is Turning Eighth-Grade Classrooms Into Army Training Grounds”, wherein it reported: “A class of Russian first-graders stood to attention this fall as a soldier who had served on the front line in Ukraine inspected their military uniforms…Drills of this kind, broadcast on Russian state television, are happening across Russia as the Kremlin reaches into the country’s schools to prepare potential combatants for future wars…By eighth grade, weapons training—once extracurricular—is now mandatory…Teens are taught army discipline, military history and how to assemble Kalashnikovs and fly drones”.

Since 1948, the American publication U.S. News & World Report has ranked the top military forces in the world, and last year they ranked Russia as having the #1 strongest military in the world, while also noting: “The scale of Russia is difficult to imagine…It is the world’s largest country by land mass – nearly twice as big as Canada, the world’s second-largest nation – and covers all of northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe…Russia has one of the world’s largest economies that is powered by its extensive natural resources”.

What Russia has done in creating the strongest military in the world by using the education of its schoolchildren is exactly what the United States used to do, who created the Boy Scouts of America in 1910 to teach young schoolchildren about flag-raising, loyalty, obedience, and instill in them readiness to fight to protect their country—President Woodrow Wilson, in 1916, formally established the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) to train high school students in army discipline, military history and teach them how to assemble weapons—and when World War II crashed into America in 1941, history recorded: “Nationally, ROTC provided some 100,000 officers to the army, far outnumbering the 14,000 Regular Army officers then serving”.

While Russia emulates what the United States did a century ago to educate schoolchildren into being patriotic and knowledgeable citizens able to protect their country, America has become an “educational wasteland” whose oversupply of college educated idiots are unemployable—these unemployable college grads blame capitalism and are now turning to communism—and while Ford can’t find mechanics to fix their vehicles people buy, major companies like Palantir are hiring high school students because college graduates are a waste.

As to why the American educational system has become a wasteland, the Wall Street Journal article “Millions of Kids Are On ADHD Pills. For Many, It’s The Start Of A Drug Cascade” revealed yesterday:

Danielle Gansky was 7 years old when an administrator at her upscale private girls’ school in suburban Philadelphia flagged problems with her academic performance. She was a bubbly and creative kid, but she was easily distracted in class and her schoolwork was sloppy.

The school told Gansky’s mother that the girl should see a psychiatrist, who diagnosed her with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, and prescribed a stimulant.

Concerned that Danielle might get kicked out if her focus didn’t improve, her mother broke into tears and agreed. But the pills made Gansky agitated, moody and angry. So another doctor put her on Prozac.

More pills followed. Over the years, Gansky was always on two and sometimes three or more psychiatric drugs at once. By her late 20s, she had taken 14 different kinds of psychiatric pills.

None of it ever felt right. The pills dulled her mind and made her irritable or sleepy. But when Gansky complained about the drugs, her doctors would up her dose or try another medication.

“I was living in a body hijacked by the medication”, said Gansky, 29, who is still struggling to wean herself off an antidepressant. “I didn’t have the words or authority to challenge what I was being told”.

On the eve of Teacher’s Day in April, it was historically accurate when President Putin proclaimed to Russian school officials: “Wars are won not by generals, but by schoolteachers and priests”—and United States Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch warned last week: “This is one thing my colleagues and I really agree on: the importance of bringing civic education to our children…Half of Americans cannot pass the citizenship test that non-Americans who are seeking to become U.S. citizens are expected to pass…Most Americans cannot name the three branches of government…And if you ask me what the greatest danger America faces today, it’s itself”.

Agreeing with Justice Gorsuch and his Supreme Court colleagues that the greatest danger to America is itself are my Dear Sisters, who know that teachers like themselves are able to win wars better than any general, simply by educating people using truth and facts.

Unfortunately, though, very few support educators like my Dear Sisters, which is why they keep disappearing at the very moment in time when they are needed the most—but I beseech you to prevent by going below and giving what you can today to support their mission of truth.

For those of you knowing these true things, I urgently plead for your support in our desperate hour of need, and is why I’ve always strongly reminded my Dearest Friends, if you prefer being lied to and deceived then, by all means, turn away from us, but, for those of you still wanting the truth, never forget that in aiding us, or others like us, our Dear Lord gave you this solemn promise: “Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”

With God,

Sister Ciara

Dublin, Ireland

20 November 2025