As an army veteran I am proudly anti-war. And right now, we have war zones right here that need to be dealt with. We still have the fallout from the "pandemic" to deal with. We have monsters right here that need to be brought to justice. I refuse to let what's happening in a place that we have no business interfering with get me sidetracked. After all, the monsters haven't finished right here with their insane shots, masks, passports, destroying currency, locking down, carbon taxes and the list goes on and on and on. The "powers" hope we'll just forget what they've done while they meddle somewhere else. I'm having none of it. Focus on America and her insane "leaders".
Only it's not going to be the shiny object that Biden masterfully rescued. He screwed up again as only he can. On stage. And no spin is going to put his boneheadedness in any good light.
Distraction. Yes. And another money pit of a Biden project that puts us in major debt.
Fallout? Sarc: what do you mean fallout? Biden say the pandemic isn’t over until he says it is, didn’t you hear him renew the Emergency Powers ACt, oh sorry ha ha I’m thinking Trudeau, I mean the renewal of the Declaration of an ongoing emergency that isn’t. So there’s no fallout like the leftovers of a nuclear attack, no we’re still seeing Biden and gang lob granades into their own people all while waltzing off to mess up again in the European theatre.
My father is career military (swedish combat engineers' corps), retired, and he has always come across as anti-war, as has those of his colleagues I've met, as are those of my cousins and in-laws who has done basic, UN tours, and so on.
Basically, all soldiers of any branch I have ever met are anti-war.
None of them has been pro-BS, pro-adventurism, pro-empire building and most important pro-stupid, meaning the silly notion that this time "We ain't gonna study war no more" oh so common among my pack - academia, especially the social sciences and humanities.
I have debated with colleagues again and again because they really believe that if we don't have a military, there can't be war. Which is like saying if we don't have a fire-alarm there won't be any fires.
The only cure I've found is letting migrants from actual war zones give them a good telling to. I especially remember an iranian air force defector from the Iran-Iraq war - you could hear him clear across campus, he had that stentorian kind of voice - layuing down the law for a bunch of well, I guess you'd call them "Berkely bitches" in the US if that makes any kind of sense?
No. Too many on the payroll in cushy jobs and good customer of the armaments industry. Besides NATO is cheap defence for the Continental Countries paid for mostly by Uncle Sam.
But that’s precisely why Brandon has been talking up war in the Ukraine. It’s a godsend for a failed President to distract the Johnny-come-latelies in the media who finally are waking up to the serial CoVid malfeasance and incompetence, and to distract the public. The UK PM also has reasons to shift media and public gaze, as well as all the other arsewipes in charge in Europe. And yes, our own monsters who have followed the Chinese Government playbook to the letter, should go look in the mirror before berating Putin.
Having taught at the Air Force Academy in the philosophy department, I’ll add that “Just War Theory” has helped neither us nor those to whom we’ve exported it. If we could drop that, regain energy independence, and stop over-committing/over-meddling militarily, we could be formidable once again. But as it stands, cat, you are right. Sigh.
Key is energy, it fuels the war machine. Without the fuel to move tanks, planes, you are stuck in the mud. The fall of Ukraine has been a forgone conclusion after the "red line" was crossed in Crimea and nothing happened. Now is a huge test put before the west by Putin. Will the west abandon their self defeating dependence on energy from unfriendly states? Putin will wait a bit and see. If the answer to the former is no, Russia will move much quicker than anyone may anticipate to invade the next former Soviet territory, NATO member or not. He would love nothing more than to make the mighty NATO look like a neutered puppy.
"The fall of Ukraine has been a forgone conclusion after the "red line" was crossed in Crimea and nothing happened."
Yes. Precisely. In one sense, nothing more need be said.
NATO should have ramped down after the end of the Cold War. Instead, they commenced ramping up in 1997. By 2020 they had added 14 more member countries. Of these, two directly abutted Russia (Estonia, Latvia) and two had access to Russia via the Black Sea (Bulgaria, Romania), joining Turkey which has had access since 1952. Why ramp up? Surely they knew it was poking the Russian bear.
And now since 2008 there has been the NATO threat of Ukraine and Georgia being added - two new states to abut Russia. The time for jaw jaw negotiations seems to be over. How hard was it for NATO to say they will no longer consider Ukraine and Georgia as member countries? Would that have placated the bear? Perhaps not, but the bear would have lost its key argument.
i argue on a blog with a russia hater, he has all sort of legalistic references to 'justice and right' and says "we never said no new nato members" in 1990 to get the red army out of east germany. of course, putin and xi know what went down, and what is legal in diplomacy is who has more tanks and artillery pieces.
they make legal arguements for setting up the dissolution of russia by nukes next door..
usa has not met just war doctrine in my time: 1972 on.
in 1990 at a command brief, they rolled in a chaplain who assured us saving the sheiks' oil in kuwait met the 6 just war measures..
idk!!
war by usa is legitimitized murder, not moral murder!
I remember learning Just War Theory in college and gobbling it up as a young, starry-eyed 18-year-old. Now I look back and just laugh at myself for buying into it.
Pointing out your teaching doesn’t bolster your case, as the Air Force Academy is now totally degenerate and thus fully on board with the Globohomo cabal (along with 99% of other programs, especially in philosophy). Nevertheless, cat is indeed correct.
I’m not sure you understood my point. I was adding JWT, which has been taught at military academies for decades now, as something unhelpful, in addition to the factors the cat discusses here.
Well said. The US should stop empire building. And above all, stop telling the rest of the world how to live. Rainbow flags. Reparations. Mask-distance-jab. Men in women's bathrooms. Green energy. Stop it! Putin can at least tell men from women.
There is some substance to Russia's claims. Maybe not enough to justify war, but the provocations about NATO and shellings were real.
For those that do not know, what you say is all too real. Here in Japan a student from the US submitted a study to an English language teaching journal on the need of teaching pronouns and other LGBTQWTF BS. As I understand it, it will be published. The US exports all the stuff we and most the would know to be just plain stupid. The US spends tons of money on these “initiatives” and sends people abroad to “spread the word” just as missionaries do for their religions. It is a religion to them and they are as fanatical about their “evangelism” as can be imagined. We do not like in our schools and other peoples do not like it in theirs. While we may fight against it in the US, abroad we all get painted with the same brush. We are all blamed for trying to force this nonsense upon others. You know what? That blame is deserved.
Blame a lot of it on the Peace Corps generation who had themselves a lovely adventure and thought just because their host families welcomed them courteously and appreciated the new well, that we were all the same now and buddies forever. Americans are the most naive people to have ever established a cuture on earth.
I was extraordinarily fortunate that in my own adventuring overseas, as a private individual, I was welcomed by people from different classes of society, and spent much time within (though not really part of though I did delude myself) their families, and I learned that there's no monolithic thing called "the poor" (or any other class), and even the illiterate make good, or bad, choices, and some people are smart and some aren't, and not every bad situation is entirely because of fate. There are disadvantages, and then there's that thing called free will, which exists everywhere even if often greatly constrained. But try telling that to the professional helping class with their strings of degrees...
Yes, the importation of "woke" values that are not welcome in some societies. There were interesting references to the "Motherland" in Putin's February 24th speech, as well as concern expressed about those values entering the "Motherland." Could this actually be genuine perturbation for Putin, who, it is said, wishes to return to the embrace of Motherland?
More than a few in the world are less enchanted with these values pervading lives and the lives of children; yet, it seems at times we are encompassed all round.
The best argument for American isolationism I’ve ever read! The idiots In the swamp need to focus on fixing our country and let the world handle their own issues. One day we’ll face a nation that will bring the war to us. Maybe then we’ll see the error of our ways. High price to pay for our history of arrogance.
That's exactly it. Some people read history, some people endlessly watch the news.
Those who read history realise that history keeps on going, and while the personalities and technologies may change, people and their motives don't, and nations and empires continue to rise and fall. Those who endlessly watch the news think that history began yesterday, that we are in an entirely new situation, and that what their politicians are telling them is the honest truth.
Prof John Mearsheimer makes that point in his excellent address at the University of Chicago in 2015 - entitled "Why is Ukraine the West's fault?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4
Yes, the schooling by Prof Mearsheimer in the second youtube is invaluable. In 25 minutes, he deftly takes us on an overview of Ukraine/Russia relations. Well worth the time. The youtube is over an hour long, but the first 25 minutes are all we need. Looking forward to watching "Why Is Ukraine the West's Fault?" Thank you!
Excellent piece. I can see our administration, frustrated at its impotence against Putin, lashing out against its citizens at home. This endless chatter about the threat from non-existent "white supremacists" is setting the stage for such an action.
I supported the Canadian truckers, but am fearful about the US trucker convoy. The potential of the multitudinous nefarious characters inhabiting the DC swamp staging another "insurrection" and using it to declare martial law has presented itself on a platter. At this point I put nothing past these dissembling, self-righteous liars.
A better move for the truckers would be to simply stay home until all mandates were dropped. William Briggs had an excellent piece on this maneuver over on his substack.
I agree; totally worried about the validity of the US trucker convoy, which seems weirdly...late. Smells like false flag (all due respect and props to anyone legitimately involved, however).
Yes. Exit the system. Sit home do nothing. The only way anything will change is if the economy goes under. A general strike from the system will do that.
But you're underlying premise is that Russia is to Ukraine as the allegorical scorpion is to the turtle: always expansionist and therefore fated to pursue this course of action.
Sadly, we'll never know the truth. Due to America's short-sidedness we have reneged on our promise to limit the growth of NATO - an organization that should have ceased to exist either the day after the USSR dissolved or at least when Germany decided to stop contributing to its own defense.
Russia, whether you like them or not, has legitimate national defense interests. And they are massively threatened by the presence of advanced weapons systems in Warsaw-pact countries. America's overthrow in 2014 of the democratically elected pro-Russia Ukrainian government is what made today's action inevitable. Other arguments may have weight, but they are superfluous. It didn't happen during the Trump years because it was unnecessary: Trump respected other nations' sovereignty, unlike every other US president of recent vintage. Also, Trump was not weak-kneed and demented.
I am not yet convinced, but I tend to think the same. After seeing all governments acting in lockstep imposing "pandemic" measures that defy the most basic form of common sense, it became clear that most governments are acting on behalf of other interests; this idea certainly needs serious consideration.
And there are historical precedents: the transfer of technology and funds to the Soviet Union (and China) by the US government and Wall Street, in the middle of an alleged arms race; the help that Lenin and Trostky received from the West to start their revolution (Trosky arrived well funded to Russia from New York, with American passport, by way of Canada, Lenin travelled from Switzerland through Germany by train, awarded with an especial permission. etc.
I recommend doing an internet search on Antony Sutton: Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution. But beyond that, to ask oneself: how a bunch of "revolutionaries" fighting 30 other groups prevailed and took control of the biggest country on earth without international support, or why were Wall Street banksters, channeling millions of dollars to Bolsheviks through the Red Cross?
Without going that far in time, the Russian government tried really hard to implement the QR code digital feudalism system, they went along with a disastrious vaccine, making it mandatory in some places; they signed "a memorandum of cooperation with the World Economic Forum (WEF) on establishing an affiliated Center for the 4th Industrial Revolution in Russia". Klaus Schwab mentioned (erroneously) that Putin was also one of their Young Leaders, in that infamous video in which he admits that the WEF has "penetrated" many cabinets.
Putin was placed in government by Yeltsin, with the joyful approval of Bill Clinton. They even used their preferred method of a false flag terror attack to boost his approval.
But perhaps, before writing all of this, the simplest of questions: cui bono with wars?
or: Was it Oceania or Eastasia the ones we are fighting a perpetual war with?
As an old cat who was a kitten during the Cuban Missile Crisis and remembers Khrushchev pounding his shoe at the UN and saying "We will bury you"--you are spot on when you talk about Russia playing the long game. There is another thing that the US is not good at, which its "allies" and "friends" would be wise to consider, and that is keeping its promises. Ask any Native American tribe about that. Frankly I am surprised that ANY country would trust us any more. I certainly wouldn't. And attacking Russia from the West is simply suicide. Napoleon tried it, Hitler tried it; the British had some success in the Crimea but it came at a horrific cost. I think we have more than enough problems right here at home, leave Russia and Ukraine alone.
totally agree with you on the pivot. it smelled very much like a wag-the-dog operation to distract from the failing narrative and the truckers. Honk honk.
The grifter class needs conflict to create opportunities of dependence, those foreign aid packages of small arms and ammo aren't going to sell themselves.
Besides, the USA and European "leaders" need a distraction to take all of their citizen's eyes off the increasing deaths caused by the vaxx. About the only thing they have left rhat is sensational enough is a cold war with the world's boogeyman, Putin.
Thank you for the link..I did not know this but am not surprised. I have already decided I will probably not be going anywhere, certainly not abroad that I have no interest in anyway. But even inside the U.S. ...maybe eventually I will not even be going for routine checkups.....I wouldn't want to give anyone a "cold". At almost 70 years of age that is what WE called it decades past. In the article it was stated...people have a right to feel safe at events(I take it to mean concerts, sporting events etc) but I thought jabbed or not you could catch it and spread it. Did I miss something?
You’re welcome. I don’t even have a doctor 😂😂 Before covid I used to get blood work done once a year at a Lions Club event on the cheap. They quit doing it so not even that anymore. I see the dentist and the eye doc and that’s it. My plan is to find a remote area and buy 2-5 acres and become as self sufficient as possible. I fail to understand how people feel ‘safe’ when as you said you can still catch it and spread it 🙄. I don’t think you missed anything….people are beyond understanding.
There is more to our interest in Ukraine than just blundering. Systems like the post-Maidan government are designed to launder state dept and other US funds back to politically connected people in the US. The more corrupt the host government, the less likely that the funds can be traced.
All of the years of spending on Afghanistan defense was not a failure to Washington DC. We paid for the Afghani government to buy US military hardware from US defense companies. The Afghanis keep their cut of the funds and everyone is happy, right? Hence, why you see deep state resistance to bringing back the hardware: if we had that equipment back here its less equipment we would need to buy the next time the scam is played out.
You want evidence that this is the gravy train that keeps Washington afloat? Sidney Blumenthal was emailing Hillary about which company she should hire for relief efforts in Libya-- before we had decided to even have any relief efforts there.
So that was why they impeached Trump. He was asking questions about the Ukraine grift. It implicates everyone in DC from the CIA to Congress to the former vice president's son and they all know it.
So there is in fact a very smart policy in place to produce these corrupt money flows, once you discount their stated aims. This time they overplayed their hand a bit and underestimated Putin. They tried to pull a Maidan in Belarus and failed miserably. They pushed for big NATO spending in Ukraine and that tipped Russia over the edge.
What should really worry everyone right now is that there isn't a big, messy, corrupt, conflicted zone for these money flows right now. Don't you think they will be frantically looking to create one?
I think you are right about the money being the motive but I think they got exactly the response they wanted. Watch what happens to our defense spending now that we "must counter the growing Russian threat". This was the real end game and it was pushed by US defense companies ie; the military industrial complex.
It could be. I really hope they don't manage to escalate this into direct conflict by intent or accident. Biden is already asking for billions 'for Ukraine.'
One last frantic spurt of money. I mean, how can they possibly even spend this when they are under siege? Oh, that's right! Most of it just goes to the pentagon. Go figure.
As an army veteran I am proudly anti-war. And right now, we have war zones right here that need to be dealt with. We still have the fallout from the "pandemic" to deal with. We have monsters right here that need to be brought to justice. I refuse to let what's happening in a place that we have no business interfering with get me sidetracked. After all, the monsters haven't finished right here with their insane shots, masks, passports, destroying currency, locking down, carbon taxes and the list goes on and on and on. The "powers" hope we'll just forget what they've done while they meddle somewhere else. I'm having none of it. Focus on America and her insane "leaders".
Ukraine is the new shiny object to keep us distracted, and perhaps facilitate, The Great Reset. I'd love to know what Klaus thinks...
Only it's not going to be the shiny object that Biden masterfully rescued. He screwed up again as only he can. On stage. And no spin is going to put his boneheadedness in any good light.
i am retired cold warrior. i prepared for things i do not want to remember.
this country is not in the right ( just war is broken in usa) ) on this as in most since ww ii.
Distraction. Yes. And another money pit of a Biden project that puts us in major debt.
Fallout? Sarc: what do you mean fallout? Biden say the pandemic isn’t over until he says it is, didn’t you hear him renew the Emergency Powers ACt, oh sorry ha ha I’m thinking Trudeau, I mean the renewal of the Declaration of an ongoing emergency that isn’t. So there’s no fallout like the leftovers of a nuclear attack, no we’re still seeing Biden and gang lob granades into their own people all while waltzing off to mess up again in the European theatre.
My father is career military (swedish combat engineers' corps), retired, and he has always come across as anti-war, as has those of his colleagues I've met, as are those of my cousins and in-laws who has done basic, UN tours, and so on.
Basically, all soldiers of any branch I have ever met are anti-war.
None of them has been pro-BS, pro-adventurism, pro-empire building and most important pro-stupid, meaning the silly notion that this time "We ain't gonna study war no more" oh so common among my pack - academia, especially the social sciences and humanities.
I have debated with colleagues again and again because they really believe that if we don't have a military, there can't be war. Which is like saying if we don't have a fire-alarm there won't be any fires.
The only cure I've found is letting migrants from actual war zones give them a good telling to. I especially remember an iranian air force defector from the Iran-Iraq war - you could hear him clear across campus, he had that stentorian kind of voice - layuing down the law for a bunch of well, I guess you'd call them "Berkely bitches" in the US if that makes any kind of sense?
i am retired us military, i served a few assignment is support of nuclear bombing.
i am penitent!
Hopefully, this might be the final withering of NATO.
No. Too many on the payroll in cushy jobs and good customer of the armaments industry. Besides NATO is cheap defence for the Continental Countries paid for mostly by Uncle Sam.
‘… get me sidetracked…’
But that’s precisely why Brandon has been talking up war in the Ukraine. It’s a godsend for a failed President to distract the Johnny-come-latelies in the media who finally are waking up to the serial CoVid malfeasance and incompetence, and to distract the public. The UK PM also has reasons to shift media and public gaze, as well as all the other arsewipes in charge in Europe. And yes, our own monsters who have followed the Chinese Government playbook to the letter, should go look in the mirror before berating Putin.
Rinse and repeat, for Canada.
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Having taught at the Air Force Academy in the philosophy department, I’ll add that “Just War Theory” has helped neither us nor those to whom we’ve exported it. If we could drop that, regain energy independence, and stop over-committing/over-meddling militarily, we could be formidable once again. But as it stands, cat, you are right. Sigh.
Key is energy, it fuels the war machine. Without the fuel to move tanks, planes, you are stuck in the mud. The fall of Ukraine has been a forgone conclusion after the "red line" was crossed in Crimea and nothing happened. Now is a huge test put before the west by Putin. Will the west abandon their self defeating dependence on energy from unfriendly states? Putin will wait a bit and see. If the answer to the former is no, Russia will move much quicker than anyone may anticipate to invade the next former Soviet territory, NATO member or not. He would love nothing more than to make the mighty NATO look like a neutered puppy.
"The fall of Ukraine has been a forgone conclusion after the "red line" was crossed in Crimea and nothing happened."
Yes. Precisely. In one sense, nothing more need be said.
NATO should have ramped down after the end of the Cold War. Instead, they commenced ramping up in 1997. By 2020 they had added 14 more member countries. Of these, two directly abutted Russia (Estonia, Latvia) and two had access to Russia via the Black Sea (Bulgaria, Romania), joining Turkey which has had access since 1952. Why ramp up? Surely they knew it was poking the Russian bear.
And now since 2008 there has been the NATO threat of Ukraine and Georgia being added - two new states to abut Russia. The time for jaw jaw negotiations seems to be over. How hard was it for NATO to say they will no longer consider Ukraine and Georgia as member countries? Would that have placated the bear? Perhaps not, but the bear would have lost its key argument.
i argue on a blog with a russia hater, he has all sort of legalistic references to 'justice and right' and says "we never said no new nato members" in 1990 to get the red army out of east germany. of course, putin and xi know what went down, and what is legal in diplomacy is who has more tanks and artillery pieces.
they make legal arguements for setting up the dissolution of russia by nukes next door..
usa has not met just war doctrine in my time: 1972 on.
in 1990 at a command brief, they rolled in a chaplain who assured us saving the sheiks' oil in kuwait met the 6 just war measures..
idk!!
war by usa is legitimitized murder, not moral murder!
I remember learning Just War Theory in college and gobbling it up as a young, starry-eyed 18-year-old. Now I look back and just laugh at myself for buying into it.
"If" is an insurmountable obstacle when those in power seek the exact opposite.
Pointing out your teaching doesn’t bolster your case, as the Air Force Academy is now totally degenerate and thus fully on board with the Globohomo cabal (along with 99% of other programs, especially in philosophy). Nevertheless, cat is indeed correct.
I’m not sure you understood my point. I was adding JWT, which has been taught at military academies for decades now, as something unhelpful, in addition to the factors the cat discusses here.
Well said. The US should stop empire building. And above all, stop telling the rest of the world how to live. Rainbow flags. Reparations. Mask-distance-jab. Men in women's bathrooms. Green energy. Stop it! Putin can at least tell men from women.
There is some substance to Russia's claims. Maybe not enough to justify war, but the provocations about NATO and shellings were real.
For those that do not know, what you say is all too real. Here in Japan a student from the US submitted a study to an English language teaching journal on the need of teaching pronouns and other LGBTQWTF BS. As I understand it, it will be published. The US exports all the stuff we and most the would know to be just plain stupid. The US spends tons of money on these “initiatives” and sends people abroad to “spread the word” just as missionaries do for their religions. It is a religion to them and they are as fanatical about their “evangelism” as can be imagined. We do not like in our schools and other peoples do not like it in theirs. While we may fight against it in the US, abroad we all get painted with the same brush. We are all blamed for trying to force this nonsense upon others. You know what? That blame is deserved.
Blame a lot of it on the Peace Corps generation who had themselves a lovely adventure and thought just because their host families welcomed them courteously and appreciated the new well, that we were all the same now and buddies forever. Americans are the most naive people to have ever established a cuture on earth.
We're nice, so everyone else is nice ...
Probably true but they are still doing it.
I was extraordinarily fortunate that in my own adventuring overseas, as a private individual, I was welcomed by people from different classes of society, and spent much time within (though not really part of though I did delude myself) their families, and I learned that there's no monolithic thing called "the poor" (or any other class), and even the illiterate make good, or bad, choices, and some people are smart and some aren't, and not every bad situation is entirely because of fate. There are disadvantages, and then there's that thing called free will, which exists everywhere even if often greatly constrained. But try telling that to the professional helping class with their strings of degrees...
Well said.
Yes, the importation of "woke" values that are not welcome in some societies. There were interesting references to the "Motherland" in Putin's February 24th speech, as well as concern expressed about those values entering the "Motherland." Could this actually be genuine perturbation for Putin, who, it is said, wishes to return to the embrace of Motherland?
More than a few in the world are less enchanted with these values pervading lives and the lives of children; yet, it seems at times we are encompassed all round.
Woke values aren't even welcome in most areas of America despite what the Wokesters and WokeCorporations would have you believe.
The best argument for American isolationism I’ve ever read! The idiots In the swamp need to focus on fixing our country and let the world handle their own issues. One day we’ll face a nation that will bring the war to us. Maybe then we’ll see the error of our ways. High price to pay for our history of arrogance.
An outstanding piece Gato! Thank you.
"Players like Russia think in decades.
The US thinks in terms of news cycles."
That's exactly it. Some people read history, some people endlessly watch the news.
Those who read history realise that history keeps on going, and while the personalities and technologies may change, people and their motives don't, and nations and empires continue to rise and fall. Those who endlessly watch the news think that history began yesterday, that we are in an entirely new situation, and that what their politicians are telling them is the honest truth.
Prof John Mearsheimer makes that point in his excellent address at the University of Chicago in 2015 - entitled "Why is Ukraine the West's fault?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4
And he is still right on target this week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbj1AR_aAcE
Yes, the schooling by Prof Mearsheimer in the second youtube is invaluable. In 25 minutes, he deftly takes us on an overview of Ukraine/Russia relations. Well worth the time. The youtube is over an hour long, but the first 25 minutes are all we need. Looking forward to watching "Why Is Ukraine the West's Fault?" Thank you!
Mearsheimer is an excellent scholar and lecturer, and dispenses with all the ideological BS that comes out of the war hawks.
I also think the US thinks in terms of what will not disturb the stock market, and the (MSM) news cycles toe that line.
Excellent piece. I can see our administration, frustrated at its impotence against Putin, lashing out against its citizens at home. This endless chatter about the threat from non-existent "white supremacists" is setting the stage for such an action.
I supported the Canadian truckers, but am fearful about the US trucker convoy. The potential of the multitudinous nefarious characters inhabiting the DC swamp staging another "insurrection" and using it to declare martial law has presented itself on a platter. At this point I put nothing past these dissembling, self-righteous liars.
A better move for the truckers would be to simply stay home until all mandates were dropped. William Briggs had an excellent piece on this maneuver over on his substack.
I agree; totally worried about the validity of the US trucker convoy, which seems weirdly...late. Smells like false flag (all due respect and props to anyone legitimately involved, however).
I agree that non-participation is the best solution. I try to remove myself from damaging agendas whenever possible.
Yes. Exit the system. Sit home do nothing. The only way anything will change is if the economy goes under. A general strike from the system will do that.
I agree with nearly everything you wrote.
But you're underlying premise is that Russia is to Ukraine as the allegorical scorpion is to the turtle: always expansionist and therefore fated to pursue this course of action.
Sadly, we'll never know the truth. Due to America's short-sidedness we have reneged on our promise to limit the growth of NATO - an organization that should have ceased to exist either the day after the USSR dissolved or at least when Germany decided to stop contributing to its own defense.
Russia, whether you like them or not, has legitimate national defense interests. And they are massively threatened by the presence of advanced weapons systems in Warsaw-pact countries. America's overthrow in 2014 of the democratically elected pro-Russia Ukrainian government is what made today's action inevitable. Other arguments may have weight, but they are superfluous. It didn't happen during the Trump years because it was unnecessary: Trump respected other nations' sovereignty, unlike every other US president of recent vintage. Also, Trump was not weak-kneed and demented.
For me it feels like a chess move but not Russia against Ukraine/EU/US but rather elites against us, ordinary folks.
All eyes are on Ukraine and now suddenly
Inflation,
excess deaths,
vaxx genocide,
piece of sars-cov2 furin cleavage site on 2018 Moderna patent,
WHO contarcting T-Systems to make global vaccine passports
are all topics that are not so important.
It's Putin's part of the script and he is playing it.
I am not yet convinced, but I tend to think the same. After seeing all governments acting in lockstep imposing "pandemic" measures that defy the most basic form of common sense, it became clear that most governments are acting on behalf of other interests; this idea certainly needs serious consideration.
And there are historical precedents: the transfer of technology and funds to the Soviet Union (and China) by the US government and Wall Street, in the middle of an alleged arms race; the help that Lenin and Trostky received from the West to start their revolution (Trosky arrived well funded to Russia from New York, with American passport, by way of Canada, Lenin travelled from Switzerland through Germany by train, awarded with an especial permission. etc.
I recommend doing an internet search on Antony Sutton: Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution. But beyond that, to ask oneself: how a bunch of "revolutionaries" fighting 30 other groups prevailed and took control of the biggest country on earth without international support, or why were Wall Street banksters, channeling millions of dollars to Bolsheviks through the Red Cross?
Without going that far in time, the Russian government tried really hard to implement the QR code digital feudalism system, they went along with a disastrious vaccine, making it mandatory in some places; they signed "a memorandum of cooperation with the World Economic Forum (WEF) on establishing an affiliated Center for the 4th Industrial Revolution in Russia". Klaus Schwab mentioned (erroneously) that Putin was also one of their Young Leaders, in that infamous video in which he admits that the WEF has "penetrated" many cabinets.
Putin was placed in government by Yeltsin, with the joyful approval of Bill Clinton. They even used their preferred method of a false flag terror attack to boost his approval.
But perhaps, before writing all of this, the simplest of questions: cui bono with wars?
or: Was it Oceania or Eastasia the ones we are fighting a perpetual war with?
1000% yes to the above.
As an old cat who was a kitten during the Cuban Missile Crisis and remembers Khrushchev pounding his shoe at the UN and saying "We will bury you"--you are spot on when you talk about Russia playing the long game. There is another thing that the US is not good at, which its "allies" and "friends" would be wise to consider, and that is keeping its promises. Ask any Native American tribe about that. Frankly I am surprised that ANY country would trust us any more. I certainly wouldn't. And attacking Russia from the West is simply suicide. Napoleon tried it, Hitler tried it; the British had some success in the Crimea but it came at a horrific cost. I think we have more than enough problems right here at home, leave Russia and Ukraine alone.
It’s all Woodrow Wilsons fault. It really is. Scott Horton explains it in 5 minutes too. https://youtu.be/UUnly2clTMo
PS: this latest charade was to pivot away from Covid narrative collapse and legal shit hitting the fan.
totally agree with you on the pivot. it smelled very much like a wag-the-dog operation to distract from the failing narrative and the truckers. Honk honk.
“The only winning move is not to play.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpmGXeAtWUw
He he he... I was sitting here saying in a computer voice, "Shall we play a game?"
😆 “How about a nice game of chess?” ♚
Not with the Russians madame. They actually know how to play that game.
Good call 😂
Loved that movie.
The grifter class needs conflict to create opportunities of dependence, those foreign aid packages of small arms and ammo aren't going to sell themselves.
Besides, the USA and European "leaders" need a distraction to take all of their citizen's eyes off the increasing deaths caused by the vaxx. About the only thing they have left rhat is sensational enough is a cold war with the world's boogeyman, Putin.
Or perhaps its so no one is paying attention to this…..
https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2022/02/24/national-vaccine-quietly-rolled-out/
Thank you for the link..I did not know this but am not surprised. I have already decided I will probably not be going anywhere, certainly not abroad that I have no interest in anyway. But even inside the U.S. ...maybe eventually I will not even be going for routine checkups.....I wouldn't want to give anyone a "cold". At almost 70 years of age that is what WE called it decades past. In the article it was stated...people have a right to feel safe at events(I take it to mean concerts, sporting events etc) but I thought jabbed or not you could catch it and spread it. Did I miss something?
You’re welcome. I don’t even have a doctor 😂😂 Before covid I used to get blood work done once a year at a Lions Club event on the cheap. They quit doing it so not even that anymore. I see the dentist and the eye doc and that’s it. My plan is to find a remote area and buy 2-5 acres and become as self sufficient as possible. I fail to understand how people feel ‘safe’ when as you said you can still catch it and spread it 🙄. I don’t think you missed anything….people are beyond understanding.
This is certainly depressing.
It shows you can’t trust any politician on either side 🤷♀️
Right on.
We should defend our borders, not theirs.
And I'm beginning to wonder about defending Canada's!
If I was king of Taiwan I would be mining the strait immediately
Hell of a good idea. Really.
There is more to our interest in Ukraine than just blundering. Systems like the post-Maidan government are designed to launder state dept and other US funds back to politically connected people in the US. The more corrupt the host government, the less likely that the funds can be traced.
All of the years of spending on Afghanistan defense was not a failure to Washington DC. We paid for the Afghani government to buy US military hardware from US defense companies. The Afghanis keep their cut of the funds and everyone is happy, right? Hence, why you see deep state resistance to bringing back the hardware: if we had that equipment back here its less equipment we would need to buy the next time the scam is played out.
You want evidence that this is the gravy train that keeps Washington afloat? Sidney Blumenthal was emailing Hillary about which company she should hire for relief efforts in Libya-- before we had decided to even have any relief efforts there.
So that was why they impeached Trump. He was asking questions about the Ukraine grift. It implicates everyone in DC from the CIA to Congress to the former vice president's son and they all know it.
So there is in fact a very smart policy in place to produce these corrupt money flows, once you discount their stated aims. This time they overplayed their hand a bit and underestimated Putin. They tried to pull a Maidan in Belarus and failed miserably. They pushed for big NATO spending in Ukraine and that tipped Russia over the edge.
What should really worry everyone right now is that there isn't a big, messy, corrupt, conflicted zone for these money flows right now. Don't you think they will be frantically looking to create one?
A worthy comment, especially for the conclusion about needing to create another conflict zone for cash flow. Thanks for the reminder.
I think you are right about the money being the motive but I think they got exactly the response they wanted. Watch what happens to our defense spending now that we "must counter the growing Russian threat". This was the real end game and it was pushed by US defense companies ie; the military industrial complex.
It could be. I really hope they don't manage to escalate this into direct conflict by intent or accident. Biden is already asking for billions 'for Ukraine.'
Exactly what I talked about right here:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/new-biden-white-house-asks-congress-approve-6-4-billion-aid-assist-ukraine/
One last frantic spurt of money. I mean, how can they possibly even spend this when they are under siege? Oh, that's right! Most of it just goes to the pentagon. Go figure.