When the fearless leader of Ukraine is going on US film and TV awards shows, that's a pretty good sign the entire thing is a charade. I've noticed the Legacy Media has started floating "War over Taiwan with China by 2025!!!" lately, which will give time for the US Military Industrial Complex to have a new area of the world to rubbelize and sell their goods. Excellent piece, thanks eugyppius.
Unfortunately, the world situation is more akin to what sometimes happens in the well armed US: the armed drunk in a bar wants to pick a fight with everyone else, most of whom are also packing a pistol.
Spot on. Around 50% of Americans in latest polling don't want the Biden admin to send more aid to Ukraine. And that's facing the full brunt of mainstream press narratives!
Do ANY of our lords and masters EVER even suspect that someone might decide to "rubbelize" us? A few Saudis in airplanes are nothing compared to what the Chinese might decide do!
China and Russia are not the enemy of Americans. Our warmongers in DC are our greatest enemy and no one will admit this truth. Stop voting it only encourages the scoundrels
The Chinese want our land and our infrastructure, especially our farms.
That being said, do you really think the Greens in our government would care if tens of thousands of us were killed by Chinese? They 'd celebrate our deaths for Mother Gaia!
Here's a good idea. Launch a virus that hits Italy particularly hard, knocks out all the small businesses, bankrupts fragile people who then need to leave their rented lodgings..... and buy good real estate from the gulf on up. Has anyone looked into real estate purchasing patterns during Cov crisis?
Not only do we love to rubbelize, we'll buy the rubble cheap and then sell it as "premium aggregate" on the rubble spot market for big bucks. *chomps cigar*
Also notable is the sad reality presented by The Trumpet dot com, that over 200 official US miktary simulations have shown conclusively that if we take on China in the South China Sea, we will lose and lose hard.
We always hear about how we have these huge ocean moats protecting our nation, but somehow the fact that the moats are equall y huge between us and China.
Those logistics combined with the reality that China's navy dwarfs ours ensure that we have not even the proverbial snowball's chance in hell of defending Taiwan.
But that won't slow anything even slightly.
It is increasingly obvious massive failure is the aim in all this, to bankrupt the West for easy takeover by the Totalitarian Elites.
It's become really easy to identify truth from falsehood.
Whatever the news, experts and Government says, believe the polar opposite, under the assumption that they're not just wrong, but actively lying to you.
Here is a text, copied and pasted verbatim from my Dad (a journalist in his younger days) March 23, 2022. It’s long but is proving 100% accurate. Just like with Covid there is zero excuse to pretend it wasn’t predictable. A destroyed Ukraine was always the outcome.
“Hi. The issue here is NATO. A little history is in order. First, Stalin defeated Hitler. Eighty percent of German casualties were on the Eastern front. The success of the D-Day Normandy landings were important in keeping Stalin from over-running Western Europe, which he certainly would have done had they failed.
Stalin was acutely aware that in 1814, Czar Alexander I, after forcing Napoleon out of Russia, pursued him to Paris. The Napoleonic wars ended with Russian cavalry in Paris. Stalin wanted to emulate him, spreading the Communist revolution to the Atlantic. NATO was formed after Stalin’s death In 1953 but with Stalin’s aspirations still in the air. It was a defensive pact — a shield against Soviet expansionism.
After the Soviet Union collapsed, NATO changed. Instead of a shield to protect Western Europe, it became a sword aimed at the Russians.
During negotiations prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union, James Baker , Bush I’s Secretary of State, promised Gorbachev three times that NATO would not move “one inch” to the East. Der Spegiel, the German magazine, wrote an article early this month saying the Germans promised Gorbachev the same thing. In 1996, NATO began accepting former Eastern Bloc countries into alliance.
The last to be accepted were the Baltic states. Although formerly part of Russia, they are heavily Germanic from virtue of their creation by the Teutonic Knights in the late Middle Ages.
Ukraine and Belorussia are different. Both are ethnically Slavic, the same as the Russians. Ukraine was an integral part of Russia for hundreds of years. What we are seeing in Ukraine today is a civil war. The United States might have played a productive role in peace mediations and possibly prevented the war. The neocons in charge of policy today have nixed that. I think the war will end in partition and bitter feelings all around. Our policy here is comprehensively incomprehensible. Sad.
We have no vital national interests in Ukraine except peace. We tried nation-building in Iraq, and that didn’t work out too well. This whole affair is a disaster. Ukraine is being destroyed. An idealist would say the Ukrainians are creating their own country by dying for it. The problem is, even if they win, which I doubt, they lose. Victory means winning a war-ravaged landscape with a hateful neighbor to the east. There will be no end to the animosity. The same people who took us into catastrophic wars in a Iraq and Afghanistan are doing the same thing in Ukraine, with the same results.
What’s the point? Good question. At the end of the First World War, after all the bloodshed and destruction, no one could remember what the war was about. The same thing was true in Vietnam, if not more so.”
My dad grew up in a poor abusive home. He turned 18 in battle in Vietnam. He became a journalist but ultimately left at 29 after being offered a job at the New York Times because he couldn’t give us a great life that way. So many of his generation left and were replaced by moronic mouthpieces. Substack gives me hope the type of people who wrote that text to his grown daughter in less than five minutes asking about Ukraine will take the reigns of journalism again. Thank you for what you do.”
Thanks for this. Your dad sounds as sharp as a tack. Lucky you for being able to tap that! I agree about Substack. It's been a real light in these confounding times. Maybe set him up with a Stack of his own? ☺️
That’s a very kind compliment. He’s a walking encyclopedia of human history who still writes beautifully - that is a regular daily text message from him. Unfortunately he won’t write a Stack. He doesn’t want the blow back. He’s not ideological at all - he’s very fact based and outcome observing. As a person it’s a blessing to have him around, and if he could limit his Substack to genuinely curious people he’d love it. He’s never been a teacher yet he’s the best one I’ve ever met and more knowledgeable than any professor I had in either undergrad or grad school. The problem is it’s hard to do that and he’s past the point in life he’s willing to get into ridiculous arguments with anyone. Watching people act like fools over Covid probably cemented his perspective. He really couldn’t believe how screwed kids were. He hasn’t any interest in activists attacking him and he knows a lot of people in our city that’s slipping into left wing insanity. 😩
If he charges a (nominal) fee for his substack, then the pests stay away. Why not simply post his daily texts when you receive them and block the noisy part from him? Make it your substack written by him. No noise or hassle for him.
I'll consider it. The text is nearly always in reply to my random question. The Ukraine one was me asking why we antagonized this with and what the point was?
Your father is a wise man indeed, with a keen grasp of history.
I just finished Max Hastings epic history on the war in Vietnam, US involvement turned a terrible situation into a complete disaster. Our only accomplishment there was to lengthen and expand the war, and the result was an orgy of death and destruction the poor souls living there had never seen before, even under Japanese occupation. In Ukraine we see history once again repeating, it absolutely boggles the mind.
And decades...Did you hear the one about " Polio " and how the " success if the jab" means Vaxxing is holy and anti vaxxers demon possessed?
We all know where that led, and it was every bit as BS as the Death Jab, it just didn't kill as many people, especially since they finally quit killing third worlders with it in 2021,
when tfe banned the banned the live virus version after decades of outcrues to quit killing people with it.
I hate to break it to you, but this thing is far from over. There are more Ukrainian men who can die and more pointless proclamations by Biden, Ursula, Stoltenberg, and the rest of the cool gang who swear promise pinky that NATO isn't involved. This thing is WW3 and has been since the fall.
The Russians have been supreme in their cool headedness.
I am of two minds about this. Part of me does fear it's far from over, the other part sees increasing signals (WSJ piece, this, the RAND assessment) that the West is trying to disengage – perhaps because Ukraine is truly exhausted in ways we don't yet understand.
Maybe the WSJ article things are leaving a possible off ramp? It’s long term politically untenable- the polling in the Us is clear, the public does not agree with funding the war any longer during the recession environment.
Orgy of destruction? Zelinski's former spin doctor, Arestovich, just last week commented on how precise Russia's invasion was in terms of hitting only military targets during the initial invasion. And yet Arestovich is still alive? (plus he's said more inconvenient truths days later).
Abrahms will get delivered...sometime. LOL The world is seeing Germany for the vassal state it STILL is.
Oh and look at how Russia and the US wages war. 500,000 dead Iraqi children might wish to disagree with the good vs bad guys discussion.. The US takes out water and energy infrastructure FIRST.
Good point about "how Russian and the US wage war" but the US isn't acting alone here. The EU has it's own set bond villains at play, Canada isn't out of the game either. The goal of these bastards is globalism.
With the west funneling arms and providing intelligence, it will be impossible to lose, too. We will fight to the last Ukrainian. That's the perfect Banker's War. If you've not seen this, Julian Assange figured this out, broadcast it, and paid a steep price for speaking the truth: https://rumble.com/v27smom-julian-assange-sharing-how-the-war-money-scam-works..html
In a reasonable day and age, we would have already stormed the Bastille and freed him. He and Snowden would be our heroes, rather than creatures like Nicki Minaj or Jussie Smollet.
On some level, I'd like to understand what the actual foreign policy aims of the US state are at this point. Right now, it seems that the United States will not tolerate communism or communist countries, in any form. It will also not tolerate largely islamic or theocratic countries, in any form.
If you are a country or a people's around the world, you are not free to practice whatever religion or system of government you want. Some of these religions and governments are threats to the United States. As a result, the United States has the right to kill remotely, fight wars, interfere with covertly, and sanction, any ideology or belief system it does not approve of, anywhere on the globe.
This is a genuinely malevolent perspective, and that 20+ million foreign citizens have been killed by the united states in the last 50 years fighting elective wars seems shocking. I can't think of a country that has interfered in more sovereign nations, or done more to disrupt the political and social systems of any country that dares govern and believe in ways that the united states declares unacceptable.
How do we stop this runaway process? How do we have some level of accounting for the level of violence and harm that has been inflicted over the past 20 years? How do we declare drone warfare off the table, especially when being used to kill civilians in other countries?
Kathleen, I heard about the bioweapon labs way back in the beginning of this war,but have not heard anything about them since. Have they been shut down, abandoned or taken over by Russia? You got any info on that?
Haven't read any recent updates. There was a user on Twitter who used the name "Clandestine." He wondered why early in the war, Russia was only targeting certain cities. Then he did a deep dive and discovered those cities were where the US funded bioweapon labs were located.
He was promptly kicked off Twitter. There is a substack I believe that is written by the same person.
Biden's son, John Kerry's stepson, and Pelosi's son were all involved with their tentacles in various business deals in Ukraine.
It's also been the focus of getting GM crops widely pushed on Europe. Monsant. was heavily involved in this (now blended innocently into Bayer in Germany). Ukr. is a farming wonderland. Tie that to Gates buying up the farmland in the US + biotech interests. Ukr. positioned to be the US colony in Europe for this stuff.
Precisely. The US has been using a strategy lately by letting the potential opposition join the cool kids club before they make their move: Christian Drosten, ordinary German scientist, let into the golden light of Fauci to "be part of the game". Driverless cars and the dangers those entail: open a Tesla factory in Berlin. Ethical and uncorrupted medical science? Let a German company down the street from Germany's medical headquarters "buy" Monsant. Why were German companies allowed to start producing the 'world-saving vaccine' developed in Chapel Hill?
Basically manipulating the egos of the less sophisticated, non-psychopathic players so that they get to have their own mini golden crown and therefore won't fight against the bad things that happen.
Proxy war with Russia, instigating conflict in Taiwan with China. The united states, in 2023, 40 years after the fall of the Berlin wall, is spending $100 billion interfering with Russia. Still has a blockade of Cuba, which is communist. The US policy is causing hardship in Cuba, in Taiwan, in China, and Russia. Why is it interfering with these states and regions? Because they have Communist governments, or in the case of Taiwan, because they want to use it as a wedge against China. 4 years of "Russian interference, our state has been subverted by Russian bots and infiltrators." Pretending there's secret blackmail material on Trump and that he was controlled by a foreign power. Communism has something to do with it, in my opinion.
The US is interfering because they are the bully in the schoolyard.
We no longer have the moral authority to tell other countries what to do, and what not to do, after bombing the shit of the Middle East for the last +20 years.
I'm not sure the current foreign policy is even that coherent... otherwise they'd surely be doing less of the active self-sabotage re their own energy and financial stability, and they wouldn't be attacking the strategic capacity and readiness of their own armed forces [which they are], and they wouldn't be signalling embarrassing and destabilising weakness/incompetence at every opportunity [such as each time Biden or Kamala open their mouths].
It rather feels like since the post-JFK era the intelligence services ('deep state'?) started 'freelancing', so to speak, and pretty much operate independently of whatever the elected government, or other institutional US power bases, are doing. After a veritable spree of coups, they were feeling very bold. When someone tried to reign them in, they whacked that person, who happened to be a sitting President (JFK). After that triumph over accountability, they just carried on, running their own operations.
They learned how to pilfer literally trillions and pull it off balance sheet to fund this activity in perpetuity [see: the $2 triliion that went missing the day before 9-11... etc].
Now they appear to operate roughly according to the blueprint of the PNAC (Project for a New American Century) doctrine, which was dreamed up by evil old pillocks like Kissinger and Kagan.
And in the execution of this philosophy, they have truly mastered Disaster Capitalism, with the War > Profit > War > Profit cycle, which has only further increased their hegemony and insulation from any kind of oversight.
I genuinely don't think the White House have any control whatsoever over the behaviour of the security state, and they probably also know that?
It's not that $2 trillion got stolen from the Pentagon, it's that their accounting is such a mess that no one knows where the money goes. Their balance sheets are literally made up, full of completely fake entries. This excellent article about it from Matt Taibbi will turn your hair white: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/pentagon-budget-mystery-807276/
He doesn't really detail what actually happened around 9-11 though, which I think does speak to nefarious and deliberate behaviour (not simply crap accounting practice due to various factors of size and setup, and having to account for a vast amount of depreciating assets).
Enjoy Matt's work though, always a pleasure to read his stuff.
Basically, if you can stage a massive pyrotechnic show with some blood and gasps, you can load up yours and your friends' pockets with X-billion and gallop off into the sunset. Thanks for the well-planned show. Next up is .......
I agree. I just could not believe that Ukraine started within a year of leaving Afghanistan. I truly thought there would be a break from the wars. I was mistaken.
Indeed. The money-hungry monster was ready to feed again within a matter of months, and the spooks at the CIA etc seem to have been more than happy to make it happen... again.
No sooner had the Military Industrial Complex been thrown off the teat of western taxpayers cash in Afghanistan, they latched on again hungrily in Ukraine. They sucked up literal trillions in Irag and Afghanistan, and I have no doubt they've got designs on a good, long, profitable war in Ukraine as well.
But as usual, the money-men beat the weapons-men to the party. Ukraine has been a money laundering hub for decades, and following the 2014 colour revolution the big players stepped out from the shadows and began kicking things up a notch, looting in the open thanks to the conditions attached to the IMF emergency loans which paved the way for this (as those loans are designed to do). Since 2014, when Ukraine "opened up markets" as the IMF demanded, BlackRock have already acquired almost 30% of all their country's agri land.
And they're not done yet. Notice the timing of this:
1. Recent Congressional package of another $40bn of taxpayers cash approved >
2. Within 48hrs BlackRock announce they have agreed a deal with Ukraine to finance the rebuilding.
What happened there isn't even subtle. The US taxpayer just ponied up $40bn, which will be handed to Ukraine's govt, who will hand it to BlackRock and other approved looters, and get to keep a nice cut for themselves for facilitating. They don't even bother being tactful about the timelines anymore. It's like the last days of Rome, they know the whole global financial system is a ponzi scheme that's coming down soon, so they're just looting the casino as fast as possible before it does.
It bothers me that I agree with your conclusions. Most of the industrialized world seems to "identify as" rattus rattus. And the western liberal democracies are a sinking ship. Our collective world view is "Grab it while you can!"
Thing is, Russia is no longer a communist country. It suits the US to continue to brand them as "totalitarian" - and most people accept this for historical reasons.
Right now of course, Russia is arguably less autocratic than the US (& some other NATO countries, eg France & Germany).
"Communism" is the rallying cry of war for the US, and has been for all of my lifetime (post-war baby boomer, when "post-war" meant WW2). But these days it is more of a propaganda thing (well, actually it always was, with "nuclear disarmament" being dismissed & reviled as Soviet war propaganda post WW2).
The reality is that war is very profitable for some people, and those people are the ones with money & influence. We can see that with Raytheon & Lockheed Martin & their ilk today, sponsoring the Ukraine conflict (& being the ones who are profiting most from it).
Take a bird's eye view, and you will see the same processes as we saw with Pfizer & its manipulations of the past few years.
It is going to take more than an ideological war to fix this!
If the Ukrainian people understood (and I'm sure many of them do) how they have been used by the United States and by N.A.T.O. for their own political goals, and how little their supposed allies truly care about the welfare of Ukraine, they would be furious with them and with Zelenskyy for partnering with them. They would never want to ally themselves with the West again, and certainly not with N.A.T.O. The Ukrainian people have been sacrificed on the pyre of Western imperialism. This is not only a shame. It is a crime committed by sociopaths who care not who gets hurt or dies, as long as it isn't themselves.
When I saw that video of the Russian soldier arguing with the two guys in a foxhole before shooting them, that's all I could think of. Random guys in a forest somewhere dying. For no reason other than America wants them to do so.
Yes, absolutely. Whatever the cost to Russia, Ukraine will bear the brunt. We should have negotiated peace last February. Those of you who remember the 1990s in the former Soviet Union may very well shudder to imagine Ukraine's future at the hands of its Western allies.
This is a piece I’ve been waiting for from you for some time. There is so much crap floating around the Internet regarding this. I consider you clear eyed about what is happening, and certainly closer to the situation than I. Here in the US even so called “right leaning” outlets run with the “evil Putin” narratives and we have Republican congressional idiots wanting to erect statues of Zelenskyyyyyy.
Do some research today. News has broken that on the day Russia invaded Ukraine, Zelensky ordered the destruction of all documents related to the firm MetaBiota ... in which Hunter Biden had a tremendous stake.
This likely explains why our fake president has emptied US coffers to give Zelensky any- and everything he wants. Pure blackmail. Look at The Gateway Pundit.
it does appear my USA has been fomenting this mess since at least 2014. much to my disgust. this Weld article will eventually morph into German disgust for NATO and the US. I don't blame them. Obama started this mess with vicky newland as lead manipulator.
Back then Trudeau was also posing for photos with Zalen. after a plane was mysteriously taken down that had quite a few biotech researchers on it. And before this round broke out again there were planes being taken down. So it seems the same players have an ongoing involvement.
I remember when the plane went down. Also, there were deaths previously to that downing of the plane. Here and there, researchers and microbiologists were dying.
And wasn't it "convenient" that Kary Mullis, the inventor of the PCR test, died just a few months before the start of the plandemic? Mullis didn't like Fauci at all and did not recommend the PCR test for diagnosing illnesses.
There were over 900 microbiologists dead under mysterious circumstances in the first decade of the 2000's, which marks the time of biolab Morgellons Disease and the gov's consequent decision to send biolabs overseas to Wuhan and Ukraine, where more biolab outbreaks continued (e.g. swine flu, with shared motifs in Covid Spike). The Morgellons community was aware of all this. People with Ukr. connections were warning before these magical vaccines came out not to take them if one wanted to have children.
I'm a (very) conservative American. Since about the 2nd week of last March, I've understood that Russia had the ground war in the bag. Since summer, I've known that Russia was going to win the 'sanctions war', that Europe and the US were busy shooting themselves in the mouth, and that Washington was equally busy making Europe into an economic vassal, blowing up pipelines and what have you. (I never understood why Europeans put up with this imperialism, though.) Now my fervent prayer is that Russia will continue to dismantle NATO, the EU, and to destroy dollar domination of the world. In other words, I want a total, crushing Russian victory over Ukraine and its puppet masters in NATO. I have ceased to believe the American national myth completely.
Putin himself asked that same question during one of his speeches not long ago.
He observed the Europeans were lamenting their deindustrialization, trying to present bills to America. He asked what did they expect, when one allows others to wipe their feet on oneself? But, after all this is their business.
Fucking savage. Say what you will but Putin always gives very good speeches, usually dropping in a few literary references.
Eugyppius, I personally do read a lot about this very regrettable war, but do not make a lot of public comments. I just wanted to say thank you for keeping us updated on what is happening "below the surface".
A tank is just an armored cannon on caterpillar tracks with some sensors giving it input.
To say that "tank XYZ is a game changer", like some newspapers do, is usually incorrect. For example, tank A can hit enemy tank B from 3km, whereas tank B can only hit tank A from 2km. Does that turn the war into a shooting gallery with one tank A destroying dozens of tank B's from distance?
Not really because the war involves terrain, concealment, camouflage, etc. In most places in Ukraine you cannot see beyond a few hundred meters.
Instead of tank vs tank duels, there is howitzers, antitank rockets etc. A war is multidimensional.
And if a tank is hit with a main caliber round or an AT missile, the crew may survive but the tank will need repair, will lose sensors, etc.
A stealth airplane could be a game changer, but a non-stealth airplane like F-16 will not change the battlefield much.
If your prediction becomes reality, how does the American President, 2 years in office, tell the American people he has armed the Taliban beyond their wildest dreams, and lost a proxy war to Russia?
There are plenty of ways to spin a defeat when it's a defeat by proxy. You simply diminish your role in the affair through a compliant media. Keep some sanctions against Russia in place, and move on with your life.
Damn - I wish you were wrong! "Forever wars", around the world, have, since Korea, blessed us with well over 70,000 body bags, hundreds of thousands of injured, and of course, millions of dead and injured civilians in the in unfortunate host countries. And cost trillions of dollars. Which may have "The West " on course to bankruptcy.
All of your points are valid - and all of them can be traced to the same root causes. We have, in spite of President Eisenhower's 1961 warning, succumbed to the military-industrial complex. We fight wars to support our arms industries, and the plethora of three letter agencies and shadowy bureaucracies that need wars to justify their budgets, and their very existence. To these players, the horrendous toll, in dead and injured, in wasted lives and wasted wealth, is mere "collateral damage."
Add to that the fact that the United States has already largely Balkanized along ethnic lines and it really doesn't matter what the people at the top do.
You may rest assured that the Office of Spin is working hard on refining its script for the 2024 season: how to present B's failures as successes. Will be fun (?) to watch.
Don't interrupt Joe ,he is busy changing the climate in his White House basement . Why is that building called the White house ,it is soooo racial . Black House must be the name ,after the Blacks paint it black .
Which territorial integrity are they always referring to? As I understand it, The eastern part of Ukraine was not under Kiev's control since 2014/2015, who was sending shells their way regularly. Is it the case that independence is good as long as it is not to join Russia?
By the time the hundred tanks arrive Zelenski will have to draft 70 year Oldies to run them .The Russians have thousands of tanks and making more every day .In the second world war it was the same .Some German tank divisions had two tanks left ,when the soviets came at them with hundreds of tanks .For the Germans making Panzer Fausts and sending hitler jugend boys with two fausts tied to a bike to the front was a last hope of winning .I hope the war crazies in the west don't have similar ideas ,like winning with nukes ? What if Biden forgot where he mislaid his launchpad ,,?
How many ways can one say...clusterphuck? The US has tied itself to this disaster when it opted to not pursue a peaceful outcome years ago, phucked over (2014) what used to be a democratically elected government & instead chose war industry profits via American taxpayers instead.
Don't under estimate Biden . Most people when they fall on a stairwell they fall down the stairs .Biden gong up stairs to his plain falls up the stairs .Falling up instead of down is close to magic .Mountain climbers would be happy falling up the mountain instead of down ,
When the fearless leader of Ukraine is going on US film and TV awards shows, that's a pretty good sign the entire thing is a charade. I've noticed the Legacy Media has started floating "War over Taiwan with China by 2025!!!" lately, which will give time for the US Military Industrial Complex to have a new area of the world to rubbelize and sell their goods. Excellent piece, thanks eugyppius.
The U.S. (it’s government .. not it’s citizens) reminds me of a drunk in a bar who wants a fight with everyone.
The US govt reminds me of a group of lunatics/spycopaths trying to convince other lunatics/psychopaths that they are not lunatic/psychopaths.
And, that everyone is in play for the PSYOP...
spot on Rubberto!
Lunatics indeed
Unfortunately, the world situation is more akin to what sometimes happens in the well armed US: the armed drunk in a bar wants to pick a fight with everyone else, most of whom are also packing a pistol.
I see it more as a crowd of school children urging " Let's You and Him Fight!
We will back you up! You won't get hurt, it will be great !
For example the oft manipulated Kurds.
Spot on. Around 50% of Americans in latest polling don't want the Biden admin to send more aid to Ukraine. And that's facing the full brunt of mainstream press narratives!
Bingo.
It's like your old college buddy. "C'mon, man, you got this!"
Do ANY of our lords and masters EVER even suspect that someone might decide to "rubbelize" us? A few Saudis in airplanes are nothing compared to what the Chinese might decide do!
If only China could reach us.
China and Russia are not the enemy of Americans. Our warmongers in DC are our greatest enemy and no one will admit this truth. Stop voting it only encourages the scoundrels
The scoundrels aren't worried. Voting is just a distraction. If it stops working, they'll think of something else.
precisely!
What makes you think they can't?
Geography.
I dunno, the fact that they don't have 10,000 Liberty ships to move troops across the Pacific, or any way to defend them if they did?
The Chinese want our land and our infrastructure, especially our farms.
That being said, do you really think the Greens in our government would care if tens of thousands of us were killed by Chinese? They 'd celebrate our deaths for Mother Gaia!
They want it, but they have no way of occupying it, so they can't really claim it. That is, it's "theirs" until we say otherwise.
Here's a good idea. Launch a virus that hits Italy particularly hard, knocks out all the small businesses, bankrupts fragile people who then need to leave their rented lodgings..... and buy good real estate from the gulf on up. Has anyone looked into real estate purchasing patterns during Cov crisis?
I think that's another of the ever increasing number of topics one is not allowed to question.
Florida Georgia South Caroline and North Carolina have been booming in the past 3 years. Lots of building (no masks/fresh air too) and buying.
It's definitely a strategy, but unless that strategy includes *occupation*, it's doomed over the long-term.
I agree.
If you are curious, just check your state and county land applications and permits.
Lots of Chineeeese companies
Not only do we love to rubbelize, we'll buy the rubble cheap and then sell it as "premium aggregate" on the rubble spot market for big bucks. *chomps cigar*
You forgot the "twirls mustache" image!
And "stretches suspenders".
Yes, excellence as usual here.
Also notable is the sad reality presented by The Trumpet dot com, that over 200 official US miktary simulations have shown conclusively that if we take on China in the South China Sea, we will lose and lose hard.
We always hear about how we have these huge ocean moats protecting our nation, but somehow the fact that the moats are equall y huge between us and China.
Those logistics combined with the reality that China's navy dwarfs ours ensure that we have not even the proverbial snowball's chance in hell of defending Taiwan.
But that won't slow anything even slightly.
It is increasingly obvious massive failure is the aim in all this, to bankrupt the West for easy takeover by the Totalitarian Elites.
That is how they forced Japan to buy their old military stuff with Japanese tax payers money, which will end up in the hand of USMIC.
Soon he'll be Cosmo's SEXIEST MAN ALIVE.
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It's become really easy to identify truth from falsehood.
Whatever the news, experts and Government says, believe the polar opposite, under the assumption that they're not just wrong, but actively lying to you.
100% success rate over the last few years.
working on a post about this actually, but whenever they all come out with the same message at the same time overnight - that's the lie.
you may not be able to figure out what's wrong with it right away, but you know it's not right somehow. you know there's a lie in it.
Here is a text, copied and pasted verbatim from my Dad (a journalist in his younger days) March 23, 2022. It’s long but is proving 100% accurate. Just like with Covid there is zero excuse to pretend it wasn’t predictable. A destroyed Ukraine was always the outcome.
“Hi. The issue here is NATO. A little history is in order. First, Stalin defeated Hitler. Eighty percent of German casualties were on the Eastern front. The success of the D-Day Normandy landings were important in keeping Stalin from over-running Western Europe, which he certainly would have done had they failed.
Stalin was acutely aware that in 1814, Czar Alexander I, after forcing Napoleon out of Russia, pursued him to Paris. The Napoleonic wars ended with Russian cavalry in Paris. Stalin wanted to emulate him, spreading the Communist revolution to the Atlantic. NATO was formed after Stalin’s death In 1953 but with Stalin’s aspirations still in the air. It was a defensive pact — a shield against Soviet expansionism.
After the Soviet Union collapsed, NATO changed. Instead of a shield to protect Western Europe, it became a sword aimed at the Russians.
During negotiations prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union, James Baker , Bush I’s Secretary of State, promised Gorbachev three times that NATO would not move “one inch” to the East. Der Spegiel, the German magazine, wrote an article early this month saying the Germans promised Gorbachev the same thing. In 1996, NATO began accepting former Eastern Bloc countries into alliance.
The last to be accepted were the Baltic states. Although formerly part of Russia, they are heavily Germanic from virtue of their creation by the Teutonic Knights in the late Middle Ages.
Ukraine and Belorussia are different. Both are ethnically Slavic, the same as the Russians. Ukraine was an integral part of Russia for hundreds of years. What we are seeing in Ukraine today is a civil war. The United States might have played a productive role in peace mediations and possibly prevented the war. The neocons in charge of policy today have nixed that. I think the war will end in partition and bitter feelings all around. Our policy here is comprehensively incomprehensible. Sad.
We have no vital national interests in Ukraine except peace. We tried nation-building in Iraq, and that didn’t work out too well. This whole affair is a disaster. Ukraine is being destroyed. An idealist would say the Ukrainians are creating their own country by dying for it. The problem is, even if they win, which I doubt, they lose. Victory means winning a war-ravaged landscape with a hateful neighbor to the east. There will be no end to the animosity. The same people who took us into catastrophic wars in a Iraq and Afghanistan are doing the same thing in Ukraine, with the same results.
What’s the point? Good question. At the end of the First World War, after all the bloodshed and destruction, no one could remember what the war was about. The same thing was true in Vietnam, if not more so.”
My dad grew up in a poor abusive home. He turned 18 in battle in Vietnam. He became a journalist but ultimately left at 29 after being offered a job at the New York Times because he couldn’t give us a great life that way. So many of his generation left and were replaced by moronic mouthpieces. Substack gives me hope the type of people who wrote that text to his grown daughter in less than five minutes asking about Ukraine will take the reigns of journalism again. Thank you for what you do.”
Thanks for posting this. A very, very, good summary of the history of the build up to the current revenue generating exercise in eastern Europe.
Thanks for this. Your dad sounds as sharp as a tack. Lucky you for being able to tap that! I agree about Substack. It's been a real light in these confounding times. Maybe set him up with a Stack of his own? ☺️
That’s a very kind compliment. He’s a walking encyclopedia of human history who still writes beautifully - that is a regular daily text message from him. Unfortunately he won’t write a Stack. He doesn’t want the blow back. He’s not ideological at all - he’s very fact based and outcome observing. As a person it’s a blessing to have him around, and if he could limit his Substack to genuinely curious people he’d love it. He’s never been a teacher yet he’s the best one I’ve ever met and more knowledgeable than any professor I had in either undergrad or grad school. The problem is it’s hard to do that and he’s past the point in life he’s willing to get into ridiculous arguments with anyone. Watching people act like fools over Covid probably cemented his perspective. He really couldn’t believe how screwed kids were. He hasn’t any interest in activists attacking him and he knows a lot of people in our city that’s slipping into left wing insanity. 😩
If he charges a (nominal) fee for his substack, then the pests stay away. Why not simply post his daily texts when you receive them and block the noisy part from him? Make it your substack written by him. No noise or hassle for him.
I'll consider it. The text is nearly always in reply to my random question. The Ukraine one was me asking why we antagonized this with and what the point was?
Your father is a wise man indeed, with a keen grasp of history.
I just finished Max Hastings epic history on the war in Vietnam, US involvement turned a terrible situation into a complete disaster. Our only accomplishment there was to lengthen and expand the war, and the result was an orgy of death and destruction the poor souls living there had never seen before, even under Japanese occupation. In Ukraine we see history once again repeating, it absolutely boggles the mind.
Pyrrhic victory
If that
Wow. Thx for posting
As weird as it sounds, I think there's some sort of Satanic element in all of the lies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ANOVSjDUd4&t=14
Here's strategic blueprint how they achieve the "one voice, one message" propaganda feat.
Especially at 4:00 "at that time we didn't have a media budget", meaning now they have, propaganda funds to buy media influence.
Our diversity is our strength!
Two weeks to flatten the curve!
Hospitals might become overwhelmed.
Your mask is to protect others!
We have a pandemic of the unvaccinated.
my favorite is asymptomatic C0VID.
"you have no symptoms and nothing is wrong with you, but we have a handy dandy little test that SAYS you're sick."
The evidence if overwhelming there was government run systematic election fraud.
It's the Government.
The always lie. And lie some more.
You are 100% correct.
The bigger question is.....why do the sheep fall for this 100% of the time?
Denial Coping mechanisms for stress of the information chaos.
And decades...Did you hear the one about " Polio " and how the " success if the jab" means Vaxxing is holy and anti vaxxers demon possessed?
We all know where that led, and it was every bit as BS as the Death Jab, it just didn't kill as many people, especially since they finally quit killing third worlders with it in 2021,
when tfe banned the banned the live virus version after decades of outcrues to quit killing people with it.
And vote for the highest credible candidates with least campaign funding.
Sadly, this seems to be precisely the case and a sound strategy to boot!
I hate to break it to you, but this thing is far from over. There are more Ukrainian men who can die and more pointless proclamations by Biden, Ursula, Stoltenberg, and the rest of the cool gang who swear promise pinky that NATO isn't involved. This thing is WW3 and has been since the fall.
The Russians have been supreme in their cool headedness.
I am of two minds about this. Part of me does fear it's far from over, the other part sees increasing signals (WSJ piece, this, the RAND assessment) that the West is trying to disengage – perhaps because Ukraine is truly exhausted in ways we don't yet understand.
"It could've been soooo much worse if the US hadn't become involved"
That'll be the memo sent to the media.
Mission Accomplished
so effing true
war is likely tied to Money laundrying, hunter, and biolabs research.
Let's hope the USA is trying to disengage!
Maybe the WSJ article things are leaving a possible off ramp? It’s long term politically untenable- the polling in the Us is clear, the public does not agree with funding the war any longer during the recession environment.
Possibly the US has other fish to fry, namely Saudi Arabia. If you look at it from the viewpoint of the threats to the us$ anyway.
Or maybe because they've razed everything in Ukraine they needed to raze?
Who do you think benefits more from the war dragging out, Russia or NATO? Whose side is time on?
Orgy of destruction? Zelinski's former spin doctor, Arestovich, just last week commented on how precise Russia's invasion was in terms of hitting only military targets during the initial invasion. And yet Arestovich is still alive? (plus he's said more inconvenient truths days later).
Abrahms will get delivered...sometime. LOL The world is seeing Germany for the vassal state it STILL is.
Oh and look at how Russia and the US wages war. 500,000 dead Iraqi children might wish to disagree with the good vs bad guys discussion.. The US takes out water and energy infrastructure FIRST.
Good point about "how Russian and the US wage war" but the US isn't acting alone here. The EU has it's own set bond villains at play, Canada isn't out of the game either. The goal of these bastards is globalism.
With the west funneling arms and providing intelligence, it will be impossible to lose, too. We will fight to the last Ukrainian. That's the perfect Banker's War. If you've not seen this, Julian Assange figured this out, broadcast it, and paid a steep price for speaking the truth: https://rumble.com/v27smom-julian-assange-sharing-how-the-war-money-scam-works..html
Assange is right. Again. And he's paid a hell of a price!
And continues to pay.
A martyr for the truth.
In a reasonable day and age, we would have already stormed the Bastille and freed him. He and Snowden would be our heroes, rather than creatures like Nicki Minaj or Jussie Smollet.
Smollet served a weekend in jail, before they sprang him.
Our system is completely corrupt.
Absolutely. The endless war all for the money. Add to that the endless US govt corruption and money laundering via the Ukraine. Biden crime family is just one part of it. I’m sure it’s most if not all of the faceless ‘elite’ … watch https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/events/never-again-is-now-global/Never-Again-Is-Now-Global-Part-1/ for just a few more clues.
Thanks. I will check it out.
MIC...militarized industrial complex
+
Washing taxes into politicians pockets
At the expense of people.
Psychopaths
On some level, I'd like to understand what the actual foreign policy aims of the US state are at this point. Right now, it seems that the United States will not tolerate communism or communist countries, in any form. It will also not tolerate largely islamic or theocratic countries, in any form.
If you are a country or a people's around the world, you are not free to practice whatever religion or system of government you want. Some of these religions and governments are threats to the United States. As a result, the United States has the right to kill remotely, fight wars, interfere with covertly, and sanction, any ideology or belief system it does not approve of, anywhere on the globe.
This is a genuinely malevolent perspective, and that 20+ million foreign citizens have been killed by the united states in the last 50 years fighting elective wars seems shocking. I can't think of a country that has interfered in more sovereign nations, or done more to disrupt the political and social systems of any country that dares govern and believe in ways that the united states declares unacceptable.
How do we stop this runaway process? How do we have some level of accounting for the level of violence and harm that has been inflicted over the past 20 years? How do we declare drone warfare off the table, especially when being used to kill civilians in other countries?
Communism doesn't have anything to do with it.
Ukraine is a money laundering operation for the corrupt Biden regime. Also a bioweapon lab wonderland.
Pedo Joe has to start a war with Russia to hide his corrupt Ukraininan business deals with his corrupt perverted son Hunter.
I give you a standing OVATION 👏 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 for your post!
I wish I was wrong.
Kathleen, I heard about the bioweapon labs way back in the beginning of this war,but have not heard anything about them since. Have they been shut down, abandoned or taken over by Russia? You got any info on that?
Haven't read any recent updates. There was a user on Twitter who used the name "Clandestine." He wondered why early in the war, Russia was only targeting certain cities. Then he did a deep dive and discovered those cities were where the US funded bioweapon labs were located.
He was promptly kicked off Twitter. There is a substack I believe that is written by the same person.
Biden's son, John Kerry's stepson, and Pelosi's son were all involved with their tentacles in various business deals in Ukraine.
https://bioclandestine.substack.com/
Here is an update from Clandestine from a few days ago:
https://twitter.com/WarClandestine/status/1619886316371726341
Interesting.
Ha! Biden, Kerry, Pelosi tentacles! No surprise there. Thanks Kathleen 😊
Military flew the contents out of the labs back to US soil at the beginning.
https://drjessesantiano.com/bioweapons-from-ukraine-are-now-in-the-us/
Everyone needs to subscribe to this guy – he does consistently excellent posts.
Thanks Bird
Thanks for the heads up.
It's also been the focus of getting GM crops widely pushed on Europe. Monsant. was heavily involved in this (now blended innocently into Bayer in Germany). Ukr. is a farming wonderland. Tie that to Gates buying up the farmland in the US + biotech interests. Ukr. positioned to be the US colony in Europe for this stuff.
One thing I always admired about the EU were their strict policies concerning GMOs.
No longer...
Bayer...Nazi Germany all over again.
Precisely. The US has been using a strategy lately by letting the potential opposition join the cool kids club before they make their move: Christian Drosten, ordinary German scientist, let into the golden light of Fauci to "be part of the game". Driverless cars and the dangers those entail: open a Tesla factory in Berlin. Ethical and uncorrupted medical science? Let a German company down the street from Germany's medical headquarters "buy" Monsant. Why were German companies allowed to start producing the 'world-saving vaccine' developed in Chapel Hill?
Basically manipulating the egos of the less sophisticated, non-psychopathic players so that they get to have their own mini golden crown and therefore won't fight against the bad things that happen.
Don't forget the sex trafficking of women and children, as well as possible organ harvesting and adrenochrome harvesting.
Links between Metabiota/CIA and the Biden’s seem to keep cropping up
https://twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1619784534953984000
Yes!
Thank you for the link.
Absolutely!
Proxy war with Russia, instigating conflict in Taiwan with China. The united states, in 2023, 40 years after the fall of the Berlin wall, is spending $100 billion interfering with Russia. Still has a blockade of Cuba, which is communist. The US policy is causing hardship in Cuba, in Taiwan, in China, and Russia. Why is it interfering with these states and regions? Because they have Communist governments, or in the case of Taiwan, because they want to use it as a wedge against China. 4 years of "Russian interference, our state has been subverted by Russian bots and infiltrators." Pretending there's secret blackmail material on Trump and that he was controlled by a foreign power. Communism has something to do with it, in my opinion.
The US is interfering because they are the bully in the schoolyard.
We no longer have the moral authority to tell other countries what to do, and what not to do, after bombing the shit of the Middle East for the last +20 years.
I'm not sure the current foreign policy is even that coherent... otherwise they'd surely be doing less of the active self-sabotage re their own energy and financial stability, and they wouldn't be attacking the strategic capacity and readiness of their own armed forces [which they are], and they wouldn't be signalling embarrassing and destabilising weakness/incompetence at every opportunity [such as each time Biden or Kamala open their mouths].
It rather feels like since the post-JFK era the intelligence services ('deep state'?) started 'freelancing', so to speak, and pretty much operate independently of whatever the elected government, or other institutional US power bases, are doing. After a veritable spree of coups, they were feeling very bold. When someone tried to reign them in, they whacked that person, who happened to be a sitting President (JFK). After that triumph over accountability, they just carried on, running their own operations.
They learned how to pilfer literally trillions and pull it off balance sheet to fund this activity in perpetuity [see: the $2 triliion that went missing the day before 9-11... etc].
Now they appear to operate roughly according to the blueprint of the PNAC (Project for a New American Century) doctrine, which was dreamed up by evil old pillocks like Kissinger and Kagan.
And in the execution of this philosophy, they have truly mastered Disaster Capitalism, with the War > Profit > War > Profit cycle, which has only further increased their hegemony and insulation from any kind of oversight.
I genuinely don't think the White House have any control whatsoever over the behaviour of the security state, and they probably also know that?
It's not that $2 trillion got stolen from the Pentagon, it's that their accounting is such a mess that no one knows where the money goes. Their balance sheets are literally made up, full of completely fake entries. This excellent article about it from Matt Taibbi will turn your hair white: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/pentagon-budget-mystery-807276/
Yes, I've read that one, great article.
He doesn't really detail what actually happened around 9-11 though, which I think does speak to nefarious and deliberate behaviour (not simply crap accounting practice due to various factors of size and setup, and having to account for a vast amount of depreciating assets).
Enjoy Matt's work though, always a pleasure to read his stuff.
Basically, if you can stage a massive pyrotechnic show with some blood and gasps, you can load up yours and your friends' pockets with X-billion and gallop off into the sunset. Thanks for the well-planned show. Next up is .......
I agree. I just could not believe that Ukraine started within a year of leaving Afghanistan. I truly thought there would be a break from the wars. I was mistaken.
Indeed. The money-hungry monster was ready to feed again within a matter of months, and the spooks at the CIA etc seem to have been more than happy to make it happen... again.
No sooner had the Military Industrial Complex been thrown off the teat of western taxpayers cash in Afghanistan, they latched on again hungrily in Ukraine. They sucked up literal trillions in Irag and Afghanistan, and I have no doubt they've got designs on a good, long, profitable war in Ukraine as well.
But as usual, the money-men beat the weapons-men to the party. Ukraine has been a money laundering hub for decades, and following the 2014 colour revolution the big players stepped out from the shadows and began kicking things up a notch, looting in the open thanks to the conditions attached to the IMF emergency loans which paved the way for this (as those loans are designed to do). Since 2014, when Ukraine "opened up markets" as the IMF demanded, BlackRock have already acquired almost 30% of all their country's agri land.
And they're not done yet. Notice the timing of this:
1. Recent Congressional package of another $40bn of taxpayers cash approved >
2. Within 48hrs BlackRock announce they have agreed a deal with Ukraine to finance the rebuilding.
What happened there isn't even subtle. The US taxpayer just ponied up $40bn, which will be handed to Ukraine's govt, who will hand it to BlackRock and other approved looters, and get to keep a nice cut for themselves for facilitating. They don't even bother being tactful about the timelines anymore. It's like the last days of Rome, they know the whole global financial system is a ponzi scheme that's coming down soon, so they're just looting the casino as fast as possible before it does.
It bothers me that I agree with your conclusions. Most of the industrialized world seems to "identify as" rattus rattus. And the western liberal democracies are a sinking ship. Our collective world view is "Grab it while you can!"
MIC
IS, THE unelected "Intelegence Branch"
Thing is, Russia is no longer a communist country. It suits the US to continue to brand them as "totalitarian" - and most people accept this for historical reasons.
Right now of course, Russia is arguably less autocratic than the US (& some other NATO countries, eg France & Germany).
"Communism" is the rallying cry of war for the US, and has been for all of my lifetime (post-war baby boomer, when "post-war" meant WW2). But these days it is more of a propaganda thing (well, actually it always was, with "nuclear disarmament" being dismissed & reviled as Soviet war propaganda post WW2).
The reality is that war is very profitable for some people, and those people are the ones with money & influence. We can see that with Raytheon & Lockheed Martin & their ilk today, sponsoring the Ukraine conflict (& being the ones who are profiting most from it).
Take a bird's eye view, and you will see the same processes as we saw with Pfizer & its manipulations of the past few years.
It is going to take more than an ideological war to fix this!
Excellent comment.
Cause a US dollar currency collapse...that will get their attention.
If the Ukrainian people understood (and I'm sure many of them do) how they have been used by the United States and by N.A.T.O. for their own political goals, and how little their supposed allies truly care about the welfare of Ukraine, they would be furious with them and with Zelenskyy for partnering with them. They would never want to ally themselves with the West again, and certainly not with N.A.T.O. The Ukrainian people have been sacrificed on the pyre of Western imperialism. This is not only a shame. It is a crime committed by sociopaths who care not who gets hurt or dies, as long as it isn't themselves.
Imagine how they must feel. Women and children allowed to leave, husbands and fathers have to stay behind...
When I saw that video of the Russian soldier arguing with the two guys in a foxhole before shooting them, that's all I could think of. Random guys in a forest somewhere dying. For no reason other than America wants them to do so.
So sad.
Yes, absolutely. Whatever the cost to Russia, Ukraine will bear the brunt. We should have negotiated peace last February. Those of you who remember the 1990s in the former Soviet Union may very well shudder to imagine Ukraine's future at the hands of its Western allies.
very hard agree, natalie smith.
This is a piece I’ve been waiting for from you for some time. There is so much crap floating around the Internet regarding this. I consider you clear eyed about what is happening, and certainly closer to the situation than I. Here in the US even so called “right leaning” outlets run with the “evil Putin” narratives and we have Republican congressional idiots wanting to erect statues of Zelenskyyyyyy.
Zelensky is a pimp.
You’re being too kind.
You give Zelenkii tanks and he will give you a blow job for it .
Perv
Do some research today. News has broken that on the day Russia invaded Ukraine, Zelensky ordered the destruction of all documents related to the firm MetaBiota ... in which Hunter Biden had a tremendous stake.
This likely explains why our fake president has emptied US coffers to give Zelensky any- and everything he wants. Pure blackmail. Look at The Gateway Pundit.
No doubt DTT, when you're a grifter fake president lots of people got dirty shit on you! Cha- ching! $$$$$
it does appear my USA has been fomenting this mess since at least 2014. much to my disgust. this Weld article will eventually morph into German disgust for NATO and the US. I don't blame them. Obama started this mess with vicky newland as lead manipulator.
Songbird McCain also helped with the overthrow in Ukraine.
Back then Trudeau was also posing for photos with Zalen. after a plane was mysteriously taken down that had quite a few biotech researchers on it. And before this round broke out again there were planes being taken down. So it seems the same players have an ongoing involvement.
I remember when the plane went down. Also, there were deaths previously to that downing of the plane. Here and there, researchers and microbiologists were dying.
And wasn't it "convenient" that Kary Mullis, the inventor of the PCR test, died just a few months before the start of the plandemic? Mullis didn't like Fauci at all and did not recommend the PCR test for diagnosing illnesses.
There were over 900 microbiologists dead under mysterious circumstances in the first decade of the 2000's, which marks the time of biolab Morgellons Disease and the gov's consequent decision to send biolabs overseas to Wuhan and Ukraine, where more biolab outbreaks continued (e.g. swine flu, with shared motifs in Covid Spike). The Morgellons community was aware of all this. People with Ukr. connections were warning before these magical vaccines came out not to take them if one wanted to have children.
Wow....I didn't know there were that many!
There's lists of them floating around out there.
That story really needs to be revisited.
I'm a (very) conservative American. Since about the 2nd week of last March, I've understood that Russia had the ground war in the bag. Since summer, I've known that Russia was going to win the 'sanctions war', that Europe and the US were busy shooting themselves in the mouth, and that Washington was equally busy making Europe into an economic vassal, blowing up pipelines and what have you. (I never understood why Europeans put up with this imperialism, though.) Now my fervent prayer is that Russia will continue to dismantle NATO, the EU, and to destroy dollar domination of the world. In other words, I want a total, crushing Russian victory over Ukraine and its puppet masters in NATO. I have ceased to believe the American national myth completely.
"I never understood why Europeans put up with this imperialism, though."
Our selected officials are frequently offered token places on various boards of international committees, companies and corporations and so on.
They don't give a used fig for us, only their own personal profit and power.
They happily sell themselves to whatever bank, fund or other that is bidding for influence.
I can't believe that so-called experts thought that sanctions against Russia would work.
Russians are a tough and hardy people. Think Stalingrad and the 900-day siege of Leningrad.
They would do a "work around" to the bullying tactics of the US and its allies.
But, on the other hand, could the corrupt Biden regime be doing these draconian tactics to bring about the fall of the US and its allies?
Since Obama is really in charge, that premise of intentional destruction, needs closer scrutiny.
Putin himself asked that same question during one of his speeches not long ago.
He observed the Europeans were lamenting their deindustrialization, trying to present bills to America. He asked what did they expect, when one allows others to wipe their feet on oneself? But, after all this is their business.
Fucking savage. Say what you will but Putin always gives very good speeches, usually dropping in a few literary references.
Eugyppius, I personally do read a lot about this very regrettable war, but do not make a lot of public comments. I just wanted to say thank you for keeping us updated on what is happening "below the surface".
A tank is just an armored cannon on caterpillar tracks with some sensors giving it input.
To say that "tank XYZ is a game changer", like some newspapers do, is usually incorrect. For example, tank A can hit enemy tank B from 3km, whereas tank B can only hit tank A from 2km. Does that turn the war into a shooting gallery with one tank A destroying dozens of tank B's from distance?
Not really because the war involves terrain, concealment, camouflage, etc. In most places in Ukraine you cannot see beyond a few hundred meters.
Instead of tank vs tank duels, there is howitzers, antitank rockets etc. A war is multidimensional.
And if a tank is hit with a main caliber round or an AT missile, the crew may survive but the tank will need repair, will lose sensors, etc.
A stealth airplane could be a game changer, but a non-stealth airplane like F-16 will not change the battlefield much.
If your prediction becomes reality, how does the American President, 2 years in office, tell the American people he has armed the Taliban beyond their wildest dreams, and lost a proxy war to Russia?
There are plenty of ways to spin a defeat when it's a defeat by proxy. You simply diminish your role in the affair through a compliant media. Keep some sanctions against Russia in place, and move on with your life.
Where does the US get the moral authority to put sanctions on any country?
They have been bombing the shit of the Middle East for the last +20 years.
They have been overthrowing democratically elected governments for at least 75 years.
They get it from the age old doctrine of might makes right
No longer.
The US military got their asses kicked by a bunch of goat herders in Afghanistan.
The US military is more worried about what pronouns to use.
Fat Gen. Milley is still dealing with his "white rage." No doubt because he is too fat to fit into his uniform and that makes him cranky.
SecDef Austin has blood on his hands for forcing the US military to take the covid death shots.
The US military left billions of $$$ worth of military hardware in Afghanistan, and now are sending billions more to corrupt Ukraine.
We no longer have the industrial base to manufacture weapons of war in a fast time frame.
Damn - I wish you were wrong! "Forever wars", around the world, have, since Korea, blessed us with well over 70,000 body bags, hundreds of thousands of injured, and of course, millions of dead and injured civilians in the in unfortunate host countries. And cost trillions of dollars. Which may have "The West " on course to bankruptcy.
All of your points are valid - and all of them can be traced to the same root causes. We have, in spite of President Eisenhower's 1961 warning, succumbed to the military-industrial complex. We fight wars to support our arms industries, and the plethora of three letter agencies and shadowy bureaucracies that need wars to justify their budgets, and their very existence. To these players, the horrendous toll, in dead and injured, in wasted lives and wasted wealth, is mere "collateral damage."
I don't disagree except to point out that the US has the proven willingness to subject countries to unimaginably vicious aerial bombardment.
China is making all kinds of products for the world .I'm sure china would make weapons and ammo for the USA if asked nicely ..
Milley and Asstin! What a couple of dickheads! They sure fucked up our military.
I used to think it was incompetence, now I know it was on purpose.
CCP orders.
They NEVER tell the plebs anything.
Average American has the attention span of a goldfish dude lol. It’s not gonna matter.
Add to that the fact that the United States has already largely Balkanized along ethnic lines and it really doesn't matter what the people at the top do.
You may rest assured that the Office of Spin is working hard on refining its script for the 2024 season: how to present B's failures as successes. Will be fun (?) to watch.
Would that be "fun" as in "you have to laugh - or you'd cry".
Vomit, more likely
Cry.
Agree
Pedo Joe is so corrupt and hates us so much, he doesn't care.
Don't interrupt Joe ,he is busy changing the climate in his White House basement . Why is that building called the White house ,it is soooo racial . Black House must be the name ,after the Blacks paint it black .
The paper shredders are probably working overtime in the pedo Biden criminal regime.
Perhaps that should be "when" the US "military industrial complex" has lost a proxy war to Russia?
Which territorial integrity are they always referring to? As I understand it, The eastern part of Ukraine was not under Kiev's control since 2014/2015, who was sending shells their way regularly. Is it the case that independence is good as long as it is not to join Russia?
By the time the hundred tanks arrive Zelenski will have to draft 70 year Oldies to run them .The Russians have thousands of tanks and making more every day .In the second world war it was the same .Some German tank divisions had two tanks left ,when the soviets came at them with hundreds of tanks .For the Germans making Panzer Fausts and sending hitler jugend boys with two fausts tied to a bike to the front was a last hope of winning .I hope the war crazies in the west don't have similar ideas ,like winning with nukes ? What if Biden forgot where he mislaid his launchpad ,,?
How many ways can one say...clusterphuck? The US has tied itself to this disaster when it opted to not pursue a peaceful outcome years ago, phucked over (2014) what used to be a democratically elected government & instead chose war industry profits via American taxpayers instead.
Absolutely disgraceful.
Biden helped phuck over that govt and the country of Ukraine
Don't under estimate Biden . Most people when they fall on a stairwell they fall down the stairs .Biden gong up stairs to his plain falls up the stairs .Falling up instead of down is close to magic .Mountain climbers would be happy falling up the mountain instead of down ,
Story of his career
FJB fell down on a inclined UP stairway. FJB did NOT fall down coming down the stairway, if he had maybe the world would be a better place today. imo