"They’re like a drunk girl at a bar who is confident that her boyfriend will handle whatever hostilities she provokes."
Great analogy. That same boyfriend also hits her, robs her, and pimps her out to Blackrock and migrants. We're all in an abusive relationship with the GAE.
And the ironic part of these bellicose neocon announcements and claims, is that I would bet none of them has ever been in a real fight, even on the playground...They've been pampered and protected all their lives...
They are what we in the U.S. refer to as “chicken hawks.” Eager to pick a fight but not to actually fight it. Lindsey Graham is a typical U.S. politician of this type.
I'm willing to bet the farm on the fact that the neocons, and pretty much any weak politician, never excelled at anything at school, including making friends. It's why they're so impressed by their adjacency to celebrity and wealth, hoping it rubs off on them, hoping that all those teachers and school children who found them unimpressive and boring -- as they still are -- see where they have landed and are jealous.
These people are sick: unhappy, hurt by never being picked first to play on a team, never wining an award for anything, being average, and not very attractive. They're hurt by mothers and fathers who probably didn't like each other very much and showed little affection for them. They're damaged people who could never achieve anything outside of a government-subsidised position. Their minds are as broken as a a war veteran who has lost his legs, only the damage they have is externalised onto everyone under their influence without the slightest need to demonstrate courage.
This is indeed a real unintended consequence of safetyism and the campaign against bullying, which is in turn a consequence of the stupid idea of locking people who have no interest in learning in school all day.
Yes, the anti-bullying campaign is just another retarded aspect of feminism, which is destroying Western society...In our day, bullying was settled on the playing fields, and the teachers looked the other way...
Long ago, a fellow named Joshua said, "Choose ye this day who ye will serve." Only he said it in another language. You can read it in the Bible. Has his own book therein.
You don't have to consent to be governed. Your own declaration of independence says that, Yuri. "They have abdicated government, placed us out of their protection, and make war on the American people." Sound familiar?
The saddest part of this abusive relationship is that our European misleadership also says that it hurts but it is nice. Deindustrialization, impoverishment through greedflation etc.
Exactly. How is that the Biden Crime Family's open scheme to sell US foreign policy for cash was never really investigated or reported on in the corporate press, much less punished?
I read in the underworld press ,that shit bombs where used in the good old days ,to storm castles and make them surrender .It may work also against the Russians .
I wonder if they have considered what coming out of their bunkers may look like? Will they still waving their "pride"🏳️🌈 ? Who will be left for them to lord over? Who will remain for them to terrorize?
I intend to be here, my friend, waiting for them to emerge, to help bring these so-called 'elites' to justice. The world's not ending, and they must be held accountable.
The survival bunkers probably serve as a hedge against a variety of disaster scenarios. The most certain of these being the rapidly accelerating geomagnetic field fluctuations and the very real potential for a catastrophic solar outburst known as a solar micro-nova. It seems that all dwarf stars experience these events cyclically with our sun’s being every 6000-12000 years. Micro-novae Coinciding with a severely weakened geomagnetic field strength = extinction level event.
So the world is still relying on Putin to behave as a sane adult whilst all the NATO bigwigs and their sycophantic press leap around waving their willies at Russia. I doubt Biden has any idea what is going on but I'm pretty sure Blinken and Friends know - they would rather we all die in a pointless war than let Trump take office in a sensible fashion. I'm in the UK, watching that nasty man Starmer parading around like he thinks he's a statesman - just waiting for the Churchill comparisons to be spouted by the BBC. And still, it seems, most of the public will confidently tell you that Putin Is Mad whilst also telling you that Putin Is Bluffing From A Position Of Weakness. Without any actual knowledge of history, of the whys and wherefores of the Ukrainian situation. War is Money and People are still Uneducated Fools.
'So the world is still relying on Putin to behave as a sane adult whilst all the NATO bigwigs and their sycophantic press leap around waving their willies at Russia.'
I can't express how much I love this mental image.
Putin is NOT the bogeyman here...it is these silly posturing Western leaders. They have attacked Russia with weapons not proportional to the weapons that Russia has deployed! Putin is justified in removing all restraints. FOOLISH EUROPEANS...you deserve the fruits of your refusal to DEFEND YOURSELVES!
When dealing with Putin as with Hitler, one should not assume good faith and any provocation should be vigorously dealth with. The west did nothing in 2014 so he came back in 2022. Then we did too litle by far.
Now we are enabling Ukraine to knock out command and control functioms and stores of munitions on their adversary's territory. Russia has done worse in the west over the decades.
Who can tell what Putin might do in his current state but we should not allow that doubt to give him the ability to take over a neighbour.
Tell me, what asylum or prison for the criminally insane are you posting from? I want to have your internet privileges removed, for your, and our, safety.
Your KEIR must be a very slloooow learner....his ice-cream gambit with the gendarmes should have inculcated the foolishness of Socialist/Marxist views... "From each according to his means, to each according to his needs!" Young Keir 'had the ice-cream'...the public-servants 'had not'....even somebody as obtuse as me would have learned something there? You need to at least cut the public-servants into the 'grift'!
“ Many European countries and no few German politicians, secure behind the American defensive umbrella, just revel in their bellicosity in ways they wouldn’t if they actually bore direct responsibility for their own security. ”
This is perhaps the most profound truth about this entire war. It should be on billboards and trumpeted everywhere.
It has always been a world war, with all the usual suspects comprising the two sides, just, for now, confined to the geographic landscape of Ukraine, where truly stupid people think they can get away with playing their stupid games just to win even stupider prizes, and all the while, puffing themselves all up, feeling all kinds of tough and self-righteous while doing so.
I can only imagine that the temptation for Putin to just take a wrecking ball to the whole debacle must be enormous.
In truth, and behind closed doors, I have no doubt they are counting on President Trump to save their bacon, and their own countries, from certain financial doom, if not worse, and bring the entire tragic farce to an end.
I’m sincere hope is that he makes them pay dearly for their arrogant, reckless and irresponsible behaviors, like having to foot the entire bill for rebuilding whatever may remain of Ukraine.
That’s if it’s still there at all, when this thing ever does come to its ignominious end.
The ex Polish DPM today opined that "half of the money that went to the Ukraine was stolen." Of course RT, which quoted him accurately, was banned precisely because no one else will report that. No facts - no problems for liars.
In the UK RT is still banned. The European version was always a bit odd, but taken with the usual MSM there was a real chance of getting news. Now it's via Substack et al, and occasional glimpses of RT.
I use a VPN. But if you try using Telegram on VPN, Durov will tell you that RT has broken local laws, no matter where you are! I guess he should not have gone for Dinner with Emmanuel. Why did he? He will now end up the 'last man in the Bastille' like the Marquis de Sade.
Like Ritter, he is in a France-sized (perhaps arrondissement-sized) prison. He (like Ritter) has committed Assange's crime: "an insult to the international class."
When I lament to my Russian friends about us in the West losing a last medium we could trust for communication, they say: "we never trusted him."
Biden, empty vessel that he is, has never held human life in high regard and has the moral fortitude of a human trafficker, so this is certainly not surprising. He was selected because he would do anything, and I mean anything, his masters tell him to do. The ultimate Muppet. His so-called "legacy" will sadly be, death and destruction as evidenced by his Covid policies, vaccine mandates, Afghanistan withdrawal, open borders/unfettered mass immigration (including over 13,000 criminals), and the Ukraine War.
That suicide bomber was identified but the Marines were not allowed to shoot to kill. Not only did 13 of our troops die, but hundreds were seriously injured. Missing arms and legs. Paralyzed for life. Sides of faces and bodies blown away.
The officers in charge should be court-martialed for treason, incompetence, dereliction of duty, and stupidity.
Seeing Afghans hanging off the sides of a airborne US plane is an image seared in the memory. It was our "Saigon moment."
Anyone who served in the military is disgusted, embarrassed, and angered at what happened in the botched surrender of Afghanistan. The injuries and death were preventable. It was the senior officers in charge who lacked the moral courage to do the right thing to protect our troops.
I hate each and every one of those cowards in the Pentagon.
Stay tuned for the Kyiv [sic] moment. There is only one language uglier than Israeli, also a synthetic language btw, created by Nazis in the 19th Century - the Ukrainian Mowa.
The truly disturbing thing is that so many American voters voted for Biden while ignoring his obvious cognitive issues. They ignored the clear reality that Biden wasn't really running anything and they didn't question who was making all the decisions, nor did they care that he wasn't really functioning as president. Then they ignored it for the next 4 years and also ignored his rapid mental decline, and worse yet, so many of them voted for him yet again in the primaries. What is wrong with half the American people?
I can’t believe that then, when the cat was out of the bag, and Biden was outed in the debate as undeniably cognitively deficient, a large portion of those people then voted for Kamala. Who ALSO displays very clear cognitive deficits! Wut
"We are governed by stupid and dangerous people" There is wide agreement on this. Part of the problem is that each tribe thinks that it is the other tribe that has the more stupid and dangerous people. Unfortunately, political commentators mostly comment on individuals and rarely look at the systemic features that are responsible for stupid and dangerous people to have power over ordinary citizens in the first place.
Excellent point. Some are however more stupid and dangerous than others….none more so than the USA by going around with petrol and matches setting off fires everywhere for decades running. Controlled chaos and creative destruction is how they have gotten their way, and the table do seem to be turning.
I regret to say that here in America the mentally incompetent and the deranged remain in charge until either sanity prevails after our inauguration in January or else we may all be living in bomb shelters if we have them. Arming Ukraine has never been in the national or strategic interest of the US and had it not been for the intervention of the British, the war in Ukraine would have been over years ago by virtue of the treaty ready to be signed by the belligerent parties. Assuming that we are fortunate to survive until our inauguration, I am confident that our newly installed POTUS will read the riot act to Zelensky who will cease to be the recipient of US munitions largesse--deal or no deal.
a friend of mine of now quite some time (20 y) from Sankt-Peterburg, who is now in his sixties so has known diverse periods since USSR to now, and who is also an experienced traveler, speaks fluently german, french, italian, was never interested nor moved by politics. Since 2023 he is infuriated that his government has not wiped Lwow and the bulk of Galicia with nuclear strikes. Actually 9 of 10 Russian I know for years react the same.
If war starts, Russia will be hurt bad but noting can impeach it to wipe out Western Ukraine, UK and Germany. They will render Europe useless for USA.
Russia will not track back because it can not. You don´t destroy a major energy infrastructure like Nordstream like it is nothing, you don't rob the $/€ reserves of a national central bank like it is nothing. you don´t go around barking like hysterical dogs in the last level of rage shooting you have a divine right to tell who lives and who dies in the known Universe like Americans do.
the other point is that the formerly called Third World is damn fed up with Western wars, sanctions, menaces, and will happily rejoice to see Western Europe and USA bleed.
"The missile strike, in a sense, is … an admission of weakness"
Strength is weakness and war is peace. While somebody who sure as shit ain't Biden is trying to start a nuclear war, the new Republican Senate Majority Leader was on TV criticizing the ICC's issuance of an arrest warrant for Bibi. He's not concerned that some unidentified and clearly unelected person or people are shooting weapons into Russia. Nope, he's only worried about his bosses getting poor treatment by the ICC. The Republican Party must die.
HOLY FUCK, Man....are you giving a pass to the traitorous Obama'istas who came to power legally, and then perverted the American system into an autocratic machine that is now above citizen control!
No Shit For Brains, right now I'm only talking about the Republican Party and their leadership. Amazingly, I am capable of separating the two parties from each other and addressing each on its own.
You ain't BIG enough...maybe UGLY enough, but not big enough! When it comes down to it....the American political system must die! It is corrupt beyond repair down to its very core. Bush/Cheney and their Patriot Act dealt the death blow
There is only the Republican party now. The ICC has no jurisdiction over the sovereign state of Israel. The Speaker needs to address more crises than one.
The "...in a sense..." part of that proposition is telling. The person knows that it requires a 'non-' in front of it but is too self-interested and shy to do so. We have to do it for 'zem', or whatever the pronoun for assholes is.
I have to confess that one failing of GenX, many of whom are now 'in charge' (if that's what you can call it) of European states is that, having grown up during the height of the Cold war we lost the (sensible) fear. All those threats, all that scaremongering (I can remember the news telling us that Reagan would start WW3), all those CND protests of the leftover hippie boomers terrifying us through our school days and then - nothing happened. It all ended peacefully, the wall came down and things got better (for a while, last century). The fear is gone and they don't realise that the West is not what it was.
We *thought* it ended peacefully, but according to Jeffrey Sachs, we intentionally and secretively continued the Cold War. https://youtu.be/VWYZpF2ngnc
Since Jeffrey was instrumental along with scum like Bill Browder with the NDE of the Russians and others in the USSR, I always wonder just what he is up to. Legacy, cover-up? I have never heard a mea-culpa.
According to Sachs, in 1991 or 92 Russia asked him to help with their economic problems, as he had helped Poland and a South American country. But the American government would not cooperate.
According to him, he was blamed because of his association with some people at Harvard, but he claims he didn't have anything to do with what they did in privatizing industry.
All I really know is what I saw in a couple of video interviews and the fact that Matt Taibbi did not disagree with him.
"According to Sachs ...Russia asked him" ?! Apart from the absurdity of anyone asking a former (and future!) mortal enemy to help them out during the collapse of their country, exactly what "Russia" is he referring to? There was no Russia and there was no USSR either but had there been he, (Sachs), was certainly the enemy of both.
I had personal experience of the Washingtonian selection process of Yeltsin, the first President of Russia. Yeltsin came to be vetted in Washington by the people who had staged the coup in the USSR which signalled the demise of a state that did not naturally need to die. There were grave doubts about him in the CIA press and Clinton appeared to be deeply concerned about who would end up in charge of the dissolution of the USSR, not of the re-birth of Russia.
After Yeltsin passed out and almost drowned in a ditch in Washington, the following morning, Clinton and the Lugenpresse dubbed him a fit ruler for a reconstituted, reform USSR.
The following decade of plunder of Russian assets by the Semibankirschina, whose main "partner" Boris Berezovsky was tasked with handling the drunken, addled kleptomaniac, Yeltsin (remind you of Biden at all?) was underwritten and legalized by the advice and direction of the likes of Sachs and the Harvard Economists. US vulture capitalists told Sachs what to write and they took full advantage of the era of privatization as you can well imagine. One of the biggest carpet-baggers and globalist criminals was Bill Browder and Heritage Capital, of whom more below.
That Russia survived the 'help' of the USA is a miracle for which the USA has never forgiven Russia or Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. The "Russia" that asked Sachs to help was, unfortunately, Langley, USA.
If you want to up your game on the topic, look up Alex Krainer, he has done some sober, adult analysis of the Yeltsin era. You could also watch the Bill Browder-persecuted and almost entirely banned documentary called The Magnitsky Act -Behind the Scenes by Sergei Nekrasov.
You voted for the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986—signed into law by Reagan on November 6, 1986—which granted amnesty to about 3 million illegal immigrants in the US. It gave an incentive for more to come and opened the floodgates. That might not have started WW3 but could factor into it.
The scaremongering became crying wolf. I think our generation decided the best strategy for life was to live as though WW3 would never happen. This approach worked up until now.
If the Eurocrats are NATO's crazy girlfriend, the Regime-aligned here in the US are her other friends piling onto the provocations. And if you listen to them discuss this conflict, they certainly argue like women: "Putin's a dick! He started it!"
The hyperfeminization of the West is veering us down some dark and dangerous roads.
'they certainly argue like women: "Putin's a dick! He started it!"'
I raised a son. He sounded like that a lot, as did his schoolyard friends of both sexes.
The behavior you describe sounds more like classical patriarchal leadership. This was one reason it was thought women would provide a moderating influence. Of course they introduced problem specific to themselves.
"One of the most obnoxious consequence of NATO, is what you might call the Crazy Girlfriend Effect. Many European countries and no few German politicians, secure behind the American defensive umbrella, just revel in their bellicosity in ways they wouldn’t if they actually bore direct responsibility for their own security. They’re like a drunk girl at a bar who is confident that her boyfriend will handle whatever hostilities she provokes."
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That’s really it, ain’t it? And more times than not, the boyfriend gets his jaw broken because he really ain’t so manly as she thinks.
Perhaps it's time to admit that NATO expired on March 21, 1991 when the Warsaw Pact was ended. NATO deserves a dignified service with full military honors.
I knew someone who would not listen to anything Armstrong had to say because "he was a 'felon'. " She is now dead from the mRNA experimental bio-warfare injection.
"They’re like a drunk girl at a bar who is confident that her boyfriend will handle whatever hostilities she provokes."
Great analogy. That same boyfriend also hits her, robs her, and pimps her out to Blackrock and migrants. We're all in an abusive relationship with the GAE.
And the ironic part of these bellicose neocon announcements and claims, is that I would bet none of them has ever been in a real fight, even on the playground...They've been pampered and protected all their lives...
They are what we in the U.S. refer to as “chicken hawks.” Eager to pick a fight but not to actually fight it. Lindsey Graham is a typical U.S. politician of this type.
But Lindsey can suck dicks like a pro.
How can you be eager to pick a fight if you know you're not willing "to actually fight it"?
Maybe because your arms industry supporters are making big bucks?
I'm willing to bet the farm on the fact that the neocons, and pretty much any weak politician, never excelled at anything at school, including making friends. It's why they're so impressed by their adjacency to celebrity and wealth, hoping it rubs off on them, hoping that all those teachers and school children who found them unimpressive and boring -- as they still are -- see where they have landed and are jealous.
These people are sick: unhappy, hurt by never being picked first to play on a team, never wining an award for anything, being average, and not very attractive. They're hurt by mothers and fathers who probably didn't like each other very much and showed little affection for them. They're damaged people who could never achieve anything outside of a government-subsidised position. Their minds are as broken as a a war veteran who has lost his legs, only the damage they have is externalised onto everyone under their influence without the slightest need to demonstrate courage.
exactly right! how many would benefit from getting punched in the face.
That could very well come in the form of munitions manufacturing facilities being targeted.
This is indeed a real unintended consequence of safetyism and the campaign against bullying, which is in turn a consequence of the stupid idea of locking people who have no interest in learning in school all day.
Yes, the anti-bullying campaign is just another retarded aspect of feminism, which is destroying Western society...In our day, bullying was settled on the playing fields, and the teachers looked the other way...
Long ago, a fellow named Joshua said, "Choose ye this day who ye will serve." Only he said it in another language. You can read it in the Bible. Has his own book therein.
You don't have to consent to be governed. Your own declaration of independence says that, Yuri. "They have abdicated government, placed us out of their protection, and make war on the American people." Sound familiar?
Abusive? Come on, baby. Don't be like that. You know we still love you!
Here, I ‘ll give you some rocks to smoke…
A dog-eat-dog situation:
https://x.com/ErikHoffma35980/status/1860072716004684120
“And you’re wearing milkbone underwear!
I had to google the expression. Now I get it. Cheers, man!
Yeah someone said it to me once so I thought I would share…
It comes from this sitcom clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8TufQcnrdQ&t=136s
Awesome! I grew up with no TV so that is novel to me…..way to fond the source!
The saddest part of this abusive relationship is that our European misleadership also says that it hurts but it is nice. Deindustrialization, impoverishment through greedflation etc.
Biden's just rewarding his deep state backers for covering up his family criminal enterprise.
The craziest part is The Left is more concerned with allowing men to shit in women's restrooms than global nuclear war!
Maybe this is why the elite are building their own survival bunkers?!
The only survival bunker the rich deserve is 6 feet by 6 feet by 3 feet.
Ashes! Piles of ashes....
I was gonna go with pick apart by carrion crawlers….but hey, we can diversify !
^^^This^^^
Glad to see you used "shit" rather than "turd"
Maybe instead of facing a Trump return to the White House the swamp feels a nuclear holocaust is preferable. It is all beyond logic.
It's from a reliable source: https://babylonbee.com/news/in-last-ditch-attempt-to-prevent-trump-from-taking-office-democrats-start-world-war-3
One should really say “merde” - French is the language of diplomacy.
Down grading German politicians turds to shit ,could land you in the Dachau prison .
Lolol. You always crack me up, John!...;]
Since I am long retired, I have taken on cracking you up for a past time. lol
Good luck JL. RG is a tough nut to crack.
I guess we will wait until Jan 19 for Hunter's pardon? Let's see who else will be on the list of criminals?
Jim “plausible deniability”
Exactly. How is that the Biden Crime Family's open scheme to sell US foreign policy for cash was never really investigated or reported on in the corporate press, much less punished?
Well, Trump tried to look into it and got impeached for his trouble...
True.
If men shit in women's restrooms ...
isn't it rather doubtful they're still to be considered RESTrooms ??? ... 🤔🤔🤔
I read in the underworld press ,that shit bombs where used in the good old days ,to storm castles and make them surrender .It may work also against the Russians .
Heaps of ash do not defecate any more ...
Cowering in those bunkers won't help the elites when we come to hold them accountable. They'd be better off lawyering up.
I wonder if they have considered what coming out of their bunkers may look like? Will they still waving their "pride"🏳️🌈 ? Who will be left for them to lord over? Who will remain for them to terrorize?
I intend to be here, my friend, waiting for them to emerge, to help bring these so-called 'elites' to justice. The world's not ending, and they must be held accountable.
the final feast of cannibalism
The survival bunkers probably serve as a hedge against a variety of disaster scenarios. The most certain of these being the rapidly accelerating geomagnetic field fluctuations and the very real potential for a catastrophic solar outburst known as a solar micro-nova. It seems that all dwarf stars experience these events cyclically with our sun’s being every 6000-12000 years. Micro-novae Coinciding with a severely weakened geomagnetic field strength = extinction level event.
This is a very good point. I'm going to have to read up on this.
I recommend starting with the videos that lay the foundation of cyclical earth catastrophe theory.
https://youtube.com/@suspicious0bservers?si=04nt1_vgocwlXYgC
Thanks, Greg!
And leaving the US (a la Helen Degenerate).
Biden's puppet masters and the blob are doing everything they can to sabotage a fairly peaceful ending to this proxy war.
And NATO should be worrying about just how much Trump and Team are going to defund NATO, the UN, WHO etc.
I guess E.D. is not worried about the legions from the Religion of Peace throughout the UK.
So the world is still relying on Putin to behave as a sane adult whilst all the NATO bigwigs and their sycophantic press leap around waving their willies at Russia. I doubt Biden has any idea what is going on but I'm pretty sure Blinken and Friends know - they would rather we all die in a pointless war than let Trump take office in a sensible fashion. I'm in the UK, watching that nasty man Starmer parading around like he thinks he's a statesman - just waiting for the Churchill comparisons to be spouted by the BBC. And still, it seems, most of the public will confidently tell you that Putin Is Mad whilst also telling you that Putin Is Bluffing From A Position Of Weakness. Without any actual knowledge of history, of the whys and wherefores of the Ukrainian situation. War is Money and People are still Uneducated Fools.
Yes, the way to dusty death….
It seems NATO forgets that Russia/USSR shrugged off losing 30 million poor souls when largely winning WW2.
We are ruled by cretins
'So the world is still relying on Putin to behave as a sane adult whilst all the NATO bigwigs and their sycophantic press leap around waving their willies at Russia.'
I can't express how much I love this mental image.
Putin is NOT the bogeyman here...it is these silly posturing Western leaders. They have attacked Russia with weapons not proportional to the weapons that Russia has deployed! Putin is justified in removing all restraints. FOOLISH EUROPEANS...you deserve the fruits of your refusal to DEFEND YOURSELVES!
That’s true!
He’s raising the ante for negotiating at best. At worst, let’s not think about it.
Let's hope you're right!
They're actually worse than uneducated fools; they're educated fools.
Bingo!
"Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously."
G.K. Chesterton
Tru dat.
When dealing with Putin as with Hitler, one should not assume good faith and any provocation should be vigorously dealth with. The west did nothing in 2014 so he came back in 2022. Then we did too litle by far.
Now we are enabling Ukraine to knock out command and control functioms and stores of munitions on their adversary's territory. Russia has done worse in the west over the decades.
Who can tell what Putin might do in his current state but we should not allow that doubt to give him the ability to take over a neighbour.
Have you joined the Ukrainian army yet then?
He's already a private in the troll army.
Tell me, what asylum or prison for the criminally insane are you posting from? I want to have your internet privileges removed, for your, and our, safety.
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He (?) probably thinks of when Time Magazine made Hitler their "Man of the Year"?
You can’t continuously poke the Bear with a stick and then be surprised when it tears your face off.
Paying someone to be this stupid just seems so contradictory…
Quite, same here.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2022/04/05/put-in-boots-the-ukraine-panto/
https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/keir-starmer-british-politician-and?utm_source=publication-search
Your KEIR must be a very slloooow learner....his ice-cream gambit with the gendarmes should have inculcated the foolishness of Socialist/Marxist views... "From each according to his means, to each according to his needs!" Young Keir 'had the ice-cream'...the public-servants 'had not'....even somebody as obtuse as me would have learned something there? You need to at least cut the public-servants into the 'grift'!
I suspect he cuts the public-servants into the 'grift nowadays!
“ Many European countries and no few German politicians, secure behind the American defensive umbrella, just revel in their bellicosity in ways they wouldn’t if they actually bore direct responsibility for their own security. ”
This is perhaps the most profound truth about this entire war. It should be on billboards and trumpeted everywhere.
It has always been a world war, with all the usual suspects comprising the two sides, just, for now, confined to the geographic landscape of Ukraine, where truly stupid people think they can get away with playing their stupid games just to win even stupider prizes, and all the while, puffing themselves all up, feeling all kinds of tough and self-righteous while doing so.
I can only imagine that the temptation for Putin to just take a wrecking ball to the whole debacle must be enormous.
In truth, and behind closed doors, I have no doubt they are counting on President Trump to save their bacon, and their own countries, from certain financial doom, if not worse, and bring the entire tragic farce to an end.
I’m sincere hope is that he makes them pay dearly for their arrogant, reckless and irresponsible behaviors, like having to foot the entire bill for rebuilding whatever may remain of Ukraine.
That’s if it’s still there at all, when this thing ever does come to its ignominious end.
In terms of reconstruction, just as with the USA, the EU27 and UK have already consigned trillions of dollars. It all disappears.
Some never reaches Ukraine and some disappears into well-known famous pockets.
Meanwhile parts of Ukraine look like a vast version of Lebanon, with no prospect of recovery for possibly decades.
First, we must have peace. This must come soon. The loss of life for both sides is a tragedy.
The ex Polish DPM today opined that "half of the money that went to the Ukraine was stolen." Of course RT, which quoted him accurately, was banned precisely because no one else will report that. No facts - no problems for liars.
In the UK RT is still banned. The European version was always a bit odd, but taken with the usual MSM there was a real chance of getting news. Now it's via Substack et al, and occasional glimpses of RT.
I use a VPN. But if you try using Telegram on VPN, Durov will tell you that RT has broken local laws, no matter where you are! I guess he should not have gone for Dinner with Emmanuel. Why did he? He will now end up the 'last man in the Bastille' like the Marquis de Sade.
Are they still holding him? I guess I could go look it up…
Like Ritter, he is in a France-sized (perhaps arrondissement-sized) prison. He (like Ritter) has committed Assange's crime: "an insult to the international class."
When I lament to my Russian friends about us in the West losing a last medium we could trust for communication, they say: "we never trusted him."
Ugh. So much corruption, misery and death.
You feel like needing to take a shower just reading about it all.
Yup. Well said.
It's almost as if they're profiting from war........
Ending NATO and making Europeans responsible for their own defense would be a good start.
Perhaps they will learn manners? Most likely this will be earned the hard way as their economies tank and the hordes continue to move onward.
It seems as though Russia is trying not to crush them the way the USA is intent on doing…..
Very well said Suzie...the most meaningful comments posted anywhere on this issue!
Biden, empty vessel that he is, has never held human life in high regard and has the moral fortitude of a human trafficker, so this is certainly not surprising. He was selected because he would do anything, and I mean anything, his masters tell him to do. The ultimate Muppet. His so-called "legacy" will sadly be, death and destruction as evidenced by his Covid policies, vaccine mandates, Afghanistan withdrawal, open borders/unfettered mass immigration (including over 13,000 criminals), and the Ukraine War.
Afghanistan botched surrender.
Retreat is almost never pretty. Getting the US out of there is the best thing the corrupt old geezer ever did.
That suicide bomber was identified but the Marines were not allowed to shoot to kill. Not only did 13 of our troops die, but hundreds were seriously injured. Missing arms and legs. Paralyzed for life. Sides of faces and bodies blown away.
The officers in charge should be court-martialed for treason, incompetence, dereliction of duty, and stupidity.
Seeing Afghans hanging off the sides of a airborne US plane is an image seared in the memory. It was our "Saigon moment."
I wasn't aware that you were referring to this particular incident. I'd actually forgotten about it.
Anyone who served in the military is disgusted, embarrassed, and angered at what happened in the botched surrender of Afghanistan. The injuries and death were preventable. It was the senior officers in charge who lacked the moral courage to do the right thing to protect our troops.
I hate each and every one of those cowards in the Pentagon.
Stay tuned for the Kyiv [sic] moment. There is only one language uglier than Israeli, also a synthetic language btw, created by Nazis in the 19th Century - the Ukrainian Mowa.
There were Nazis in the 19th century? Who'da thunkit!
I didn’t realize the Bible was that recent. Thank you.
The truly disturbing thing is that so many American voters voted for Biden while ignoring his obvious cognitive issues. They ignored the clear reality that Biden wasn't really running anything and they didn't question who was making all the decisions, nor did they care that he wasn't really functioning as president. Then they ignored it for the next 4 years and also ignored his rapid mental decline, and worse yet, so many of them voted for him yet again in the primaries. What is wrong with half the American people?
I can’t believe that then, when the cat was out of the bag, and Biden was outed in the debate as undeniably cognitively deficient, a large portion of those people then voted for Kamala. Who ALSO displays very clear cognitive deficits! Wut
I think the only change I would make to the OP is:
"Last Sunday, the senile U.S. President Joe Biden" should be, "Last Sunday, the America hating, Muslim puppet master, Barack Hussein Obama"
And weaponization of our Justice system against Americans, including his opponent.
"We are governed by stupid and dangerous people" There is wide agreement on this. Part of the problem is that each tribe thinks that it is the other tribe that has the more stupid and dangerous people. Unfortunately, political commentators mostly comment on individuals and rarely look at the systemic features that are responsible for stupid and dangerous people to have power over ordinary citizens in the first place.
Excellent point. Some are however more stupid and dangerous than others….none more so than the USA by going around with petrol and matches setting off fires everywhere for decades running. Controlled chaos and creative destruction is how they have gotten their way, and the table do seem to be turning.
The tables have turned here in the USA. Time is not moving fast enough. There was a negotiated peace in 4/22, but the top gun wouldn’t allow it.
All systems have fatal flaws. None more so than Democracy.
I truly believe Biden has no clue what he’s signing.
Biden is irrelevant at this point.
"Biden is irrelevant at this point."
Beg to quibble, T. Biden has ALWAYS been irrelevant.
After nearly a half century of service to who, or whatever is pulling his strings, he was installed as puppet.
Look at the man's long and larcenous career. Examine at his record.
And try to identify ANY instances of meaningful relevance.
He failed upwards his entire pathetic life.
He is in the way.
Uhm, wrong.
As long as he can still sign, his puppet will keep pulling the strings. After that, we’re good.
Just pray he doesn’t die before Jan 20.
In that sense, he's not irrelevant.
I meant he's irrelevant in terms of decision-making which, admittedly, does not directly relate to what you originally said. Sorry!
I’d like to know who/who all is making decisions for the entire USA. Or, maybe I don’t.
I suspect it would be similar to discovering how sausage is made.
I regret to say that here in America the mentally incompetent and the deranged remain in charge until either sanity prevails after our inauguration in January or else we may all be living in bomb shelters if we have them. Arming Ukraine has never been in the national or strategic interest of the US and had it not been for the intervention of the British, the war in Ukraine would have been over years ago by virtue of the treaty ready to be signed by the belligerent parties. Assuming that we are fortunate to survive until our inauguration, I am confident that our newly installed POTUS will read the riot act to Zelensky who will cease to be the recipient of US munitions largesse--deal or no deal.
Didn’t the Americans send Boris to tear up the peace treaty?
Either Boris took the initiative on his own or more likely as you say that he was put up to it by our senile grifter.
I believe it was negotiated by Turkey, but shot down by Biden.
a friend of mine of now quite some time (20 y) from Sankt-Peterburg, who is now in his sixties so has known diverse periods since USSR to now, and who is also an experienced traveler, speaks fluently german, french, italian, was never interested nor moved by politics. Since 2023 he is infuriated that his government has not wiped Lwow and the bulk of Galicia with nuclear strikes. Actually 9 of 10 Russian I know for years react the same.
If war starts, Russia will be hurt bad but noting can impeach it to wipe out Western Ukraine, UK and Germany. They will render Europe useless for USA.
Russia will not track back because it can not. You don´t destroy a major energy infrastructure like Nordstream like it is nothing, you don't rob the $/€ reserves of a national central bank like it is nothing. you don´t go around barking like hysterical dogs in the last level of rage shooting you have a divine right to tell who lives and who dies in the known Universe like Americans do.
the other point is that the formerly called Third World is damn fed up with Western wars, sanctions, menaces, and will happily rejoice to see Western Europe and USA bleed.
"The missile strike, in a sense, is … an admission of weakness"
Strength is weakness and war is peace. While somebody who sure as shit ain't Biden is trying to start a nuclear war, the new Republican Senate Majority Leader was on TV criticizing the ICC's issuance of an arrest warrant for Bibi. He's not concerned that some unidentified and clearly unelected person or people are shooting weapons into Russia. Nope, he's only worried about his bosses getting poor treatment by the ICC. The Republican Party must die.
HOLY FUCK, Man....are you giving a pass to the traitorous Obama'istas who came to power legally, and then perverted the American system into an autocratic machine that is now above citizen control!
No Shit For Brains, right now I'm only talking about the Republican Party and their leadership. Amazingly, I am capable of separating the two parties from each other and addressing each on its own.
You ain't BIG enough...maybe UGLY enough, but not big enough! When it comes down to it....the American political system must die! It is corrupt beyond repair down to its very core. Bush/Cheney and their Patriot Act dealt the death blow
Is this the effeminization of the comment thread? 🤣
I apologize...my brains, or whatever small fragments remain, felt insulted!
There is only the Republican party now. The ICC has no jurisdiction over the sovereign state of Israel. The Speaker needs to address more crises than one.
The "...in a sense..." part of that proposition is telling. The person knows that it requires a 'non-' in front of it but is too self-interested and shy to do so. We have to do it for 'zem', or whatever the pronoun for assholes is.
I have to confess that one failing of GenX, many of whom are now 'in charge' (if that's what you can call it) of European states is that, having grown up during the height of the Cold war we lost the (sensible) fear. All those threats, all that scaremongering (I can remember the news telling us that Reagan would start WW3), all those CND protests of the leftover hippie boomers terrifying us through our school days and then - nothing happened. It all ended peacefully, the wall came down and things got better (for a while, last century). The fear is gone and they don't realise that the West is not what it was.
We *thought* it ended peacefully, but according to Jeffrey Sachs, we intentionally and secretively continued the Cold War. https://youtu.be/VWYZpF2ngnc
Because the cold war ended, both NATO and the UN were no longer necessary. They need to keep wars going in order to justify their existence.
You nailed it, that's precisely the situation.
Since Jeffrey was instrumental along with scum like Bill Browder with the NDE of the Russians and others in the USSR, I always wonder just what he is up to. Legacy, cover-up? I have never heard a mea-culpa.
Sorry, NDE?
According to Sachs, in 1991 or 92 Russia asked him to help with their economic problems, as he had helped Poland and a South American country. But the American government would not cooperate.
According to him, he was blamed because of his association with some people at Harvard, but he claims he didn't have anything to do with what they did in privatizing industry.
All I really know is what I saw in a couple of video interviews and the fact that Matt Taibbi did not disagree with him.
NDE is a Near Death Experience.
"According to Sachs ...Russia asked him" ?! Apart from the absurdity of anyone asking a former (and future!) mortal enemy to help them out during the collapse of their country, exactly what "Russia" is he referring to? There was no Russia and there was no USSR either but had there been he, (Sachs), was certainly the enemy of both.
I had personal experience of the Washingtonian selection process of Yeltsin, the first President of Russia. Yeltsin came to be vetted in Washington by the people who had staged the coup in the USSR which signalled the demise of a state that did not naturally need to die. There were grave doubts about him in the CIA press and Clinton appeared to be deeply concerned about who would end up in charge of the dissolution of the USSR, not of the re-birth of Russia.
After Yeltsin passed out and almost drowned in a ditch in Washington, the following morning, Clinton and the Lugenpresse dubbed him a fit ruler for a reconstituted, reform USSR.
The following decade of plunder of Russian assets by the Semibankirschina, whose main "partner" Boris Berezovsky was tasked with handling the drunken, addled kleptomaniac, Yeltsin (remind you of Biden at all?) was underwritten and legalized by the advice and direction of the likes of Sachs and the Harvard Economists. US vulture capitalists told Sachs what to write and they took full advantage of the era of privatization as you can well imagine. One of the biggest carpet-baggers and globalist criminals was Bill Browder and Heritage Capital, of whom more below.
That Russia survived the 'help' of the USA is a miracle for which the USA has never forgiven Russia or Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. The "Russia" that asked Sachs to help was, unfortunately, Langley, USA.
If you want to up your game on the topic, look up Alex Krainer, he has done some sober, adult analysis of the Yeltsin era. You could also watch the Bill Browder-persecuted and almost entirely banned documentary called The Magnitsky Act -Behind the Scenes by Sergei Nekrasov.
"After Yeltsin passed out and almost drowned in a ditch in Washington."
????!!!!
Check the US papers of the day. It's all there.
'I can remember the news telling us that Reagan would start WW3.'
As an American who loved and voted for the man, I say this: Hah!
You voted for the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986—signed into law by Reagan on November 6, 1986—which granted amnesty to about 3 million illegal immigrants in the US. It gave an incentive for more to come and opened the floodgates. That might not have started WW3 but could factor into it.
I'm sorry Reagan disappointed you by not being a philosopher king with perfect ability to make the USA a paradise for all time.
Maybe you would have preferred Jimmy Carter or Walter Mondale (or Michael Dukakis - or Santa Claus) as president.
The scaremongering became crying wolf. I think our generation decided the best strategy for life was to live as though WW3 would never happen. This approach worked up until now.
If the Eurocrats are NATO's crazy girlfriend, the Regime-aligned here in the US are her other friends piling onto the provocations. And if you listen to them discuss this conflict, they certainly argue like women: "Putin's a dick! He started it!"
The hyperfeminization of the West is veering us down some dark and dangerous roads.
'they certainly argue like women: "Putin's a dick! He started it!"'
I raised a son. He sounded like that a lot, as did his schoolyard friends of both sexes.
The behavior you describe sounds more like classical patriarchal leadership. This was one reason it was thought women would provide a moderating influence. Of course they introduced problem specific to themselves.
Neither gender is blameless.
Thanks for reinforcing my point by referencing schoolyard teenagers.
Meanwhile WW3 looms.
"One of the most obnoxious consequence of NATO, is what you might call the Crazy Girlfriend Effect. Many European countries and no few German politicians, secure behind the American defensive umbrella, just revel in their bellicosity in ways they wouldn’t if they actually bore direct responsibility for their own security. They’re like a drunk girl at a bar who is confident that her boyfriend will handle whatever hostilities she provokes."
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That’s really it, ain’t it? And more times than not, the boyfriend gets his jaw broken because he really ain’t so manly as she thinks.
Or he simply tells her they're finished, and walks out the door.
He needs to be smart enough to do that.
Excellent analysis. Of course, your people didn’t vote for these harmful decisions—neither did we here in Canada.
[https://tnc.news/2024/11/20/db-trudeau-supports-ukraines-long-range-attack-on-russia/]
Or here in Australia. Yet we have neocons here wanting us to be a part of this madness.
Trudeau is the fourth horseman - in a Jerry Lewis mask. I think he is proof that the effects of MK Ultra are genetically inherited.
I fear that until enough of us start 'voting' with lead and blood, nothing will change.
And there is the ultimate conclusion of all this madness. In the end, peace comes from the end of a barrel.
The logic of it is iron-clad.
Perhaps it's time to admit that NATO expired on March 21, 1991 when the Warsaw Pact was ended. NATO deserves a dignified service with full military honors.
Agree. NATO needs an Official Funeral, complete w/27 draped flags.
It's OVER!
I'm sorry. That was March 31, 1991.
Anyone who disbelieves Putin's determination is stupid (and ignorant) in the extreme. Russia is already evacuating their government's to a Ural Mountain underground complex. And they've been building and deploying temporary portable shelters. https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/putin-launches-mass-production-of-nuclear-shelter-for-his-people/
Wake up and smell the coffee ... the fuze is getting shorter by the day.
I knew someone who would not listen to anything Armstrong had to say because "he was a 'felon'. " She is now dead from the mRNA experimental bio-warfare injection.