Key players in the Russia-gate hoax and impeachment “entertainments” are now hyperventilating about “all but certain major war in Europe a la WW2” – ghouls Adam Schiff and colonel Alexander Windman (an Ukrainian). Same bastards who led the scam of the century concocted by the SAME lying team -- Obama-Biden-Hillary-Pelosi-Schumer-Schiff and the rest of DNC-CIA/FBI cabal.
Adam Schiff has been, for years, a leading recipient of huge “donations” by arm industry – his main source of funds. Remember when Raytheon in 2013 put on a Beyonce concert to promote Adam Schiff? This despicable -- that human excrement and serial liar is among leading Congress war-mongers and recipient of arm industry donations.
Schiff is now driving government’s domestic terrorism legislation !! In his free time this loathsome grifter wants to write a novel – of all things about Holocaust.
The entire Russia-gate lying team is back in FULL power -- we are now paying the price for not fully unmasking the brazen scam of the century. Of course, Trump and GOP lunatics were and remain VERY bad, however – however, DNC lying and warmongering team is INFINITELY more dangerous. They will for sure try to prevent 2022 elections - as "illegal" - in order to stay in power.
Also remember – Biden was the governor of Ukraine under Obama – selecting and removing heads of industry and Ukraine’s puppet government after successful US coup there. The immense corruption of Biden family still needs to be investigated – Hunter’s Burisma was used to ‘wash” their dirty money. Thanks heavens that recent “colored revolution” coups in Belarus and Kazakhstan were not successful.
WHO will be the first current or former Democrat Congresswoman/man or Senator to publicly acknowledge and confirm the brazen scam of the century – DNC’s + CIA/FBI security complex (St. Obama/Biden/Hillary/Pelosi/Schumer, Jammie Raskin, etc. + Brennan, Clapper, Hayden, etc.) Russia-gate hoax and subsequent conspiracies, including 1/6 “armed insurrection”?
War-monger vampires must be stopped. Military-industrial complex must be defunded – US main “products” and exports are now weapons, coups and immense and all-encompassing corruption. China is far more capitalist than the US, Russia has not been Communist for 30+ years, while the US is a corporate socialism (more polite term for fascism)
This latest infuriating scenario highlights how little light exists between our corporate press and the intelligence apparatus it purports to cover. Apparently "Democracy Dies in Darkness" is not a motto, but a recipe.
Regulatory capture of the legislative process by corporate money makes America effectively a one party state. Now you suggest that the same dynamic is at work with MSM. Yup!
But Caitlin, Russia has not disproved this allegation. They need to publish all diplomatic correspondence to prove memos about this nefarious plot do not exist. Much easier to do that than demand the West publish the intercepted cables that prove the plot's existence, since that would expose the West's "sources and methods." /sarc
As you recall, they tried, but Bush decided to invade WHILE the UN teams were desperately asking Rumsfeld where the WMDs were stored, since he publicly claimed to know. The inspectors weren't allowed to complete their work because we were told Iraq posed a "clear and present danger" to the United States -- a lie worthy of Hitler to justify their pre-determined invasion. The American track record for veracity has not improved since then.
Of course, that's how pretexts work. (I hate my phone's spellcheck!)
I recall at the time some neocons triumphantly proclaiming that the war was all Iraq's fault, because they had "failed" to prove a negative to the satisfaction of a Bush administration that was bound and determined to go to war on the flimsiest of excuses.
Still, the neocons are regularly trotted out as Elder Statesmen And Serious Thinkers, in spite of the fact that none of their wars have performed as publicly advertised.
It's a given that any neocon's kids won't be the ones getting their bodies blown apart by American weaponry in service of their geopolitical goals. Of course the same could be said of our warmongering neoliberals. Unspeakable death is reserved for the children of suckers like you and me. If this weren't the case, we'd all be living in a much more agreeable world.
Speaking of the neocons, Pro-Zionism remains one of the most anti-American things imaginable, although it's consistently portrayed as the opposite. It provided the drumbeat to the Iraqi invasion and is currently fueling the same hostility against Iran. I have zero interest in seeing any more people die just to maintain apartheid Israel's regional power aspirations.
Maybe Bill Krystol could duke it out with that hill of skulls guy Tucker had on the other day. Just beat the shit out of each other, sponsored by Budweiser. The winner gets air-dropped on the war theater of their choice. They've got it set up where their dysfunctions take out the rest of us. Maybe we should outlaw fallout shelters and see how they react.
Its kind of an American thing at this point, just look at any argument made by shitlibs and the RW. They both make claims and tell you to go do the "research" on everything, and when you do crush them with actual data, then you didn't look at the "real" evidence.
Let me add to the list of no-evidence claims supported by the Times et al.: "Operation warp Speed produced excellent vaccines that will defeat the pandemic." As a molecular biologist, I said a year ago that I would very much like to scrutinize that evidence — the molecular-immunological details behind such a claim. Answer: "Sorry, you'll have to wait until you're dead." This is the quite standard operating procedure of feeding us merda and calling it nutritious. Bruccia in inferno, MSM.
I must say left wingers are far more dangerous than right wingers. Your version of the lie is so much more sophisticated and convincing. NYT gives it all a great heft and gravitas. I prefer the earnest pathos of conservative media with it’s authentic jingoism and an ever present 2nd amendment vibe.
I hear you. I can no longer watch or read the MSM because it makes me feel like visiting a re-education camp. So I let Caitlin, Taibbi, Greenwald, Jimmy Dore, etc. do the watching and critiquing for me. However, Tucker Carlson does appeal, but only because he is the only MSM host (I’m aware of) who occasionally invites Greenwald and Dore as guests. But that does not mean I have developed a leaning for the right or think the right “less dangerous”, because I find the entire left/right framing as the root element of the psyop known as The Narrative. It's blind belief in the left/right framing that is dangerous.
Take away the left/right framing and most of us could have civil, even enjoyable conversations with people with whom we disagree, because outside that stage-managed world of the MSM and the scripted soundbites of our politician-hypnotists and their mass formation cults, natural humans are multi-faceted, far more complex, and completely unique (and often inconsistent) in their views.
Old habits die hard and I still frequently find myself using the thoroughly ingrained left/right framing, too. But I’m trying to break that habit because it seems to me that one of the most effective ways we can defend our individual and collective liberty is to completely reject the left/right nonsense.
The left/right framing is still used mostly because it's all we've got, and binary choices are so appealing to our brains. Our rotten and restrictive two party system still reflects this but anyone paying attention to politics in this post-Trump era can only conclude that such labels are only useful as tools for elitist framing. Better to have us fighting each other than hauling the oligarchs before tribunals, right?
So Trump is a Nazi and Biden is a radical left Socialist. Anyone still beating those left/right partisan drums should be given wide quarter.
Perhaps they are the same thing but appealing to different audiences.
I wish Caitlin would stop taking about "capitalism" and concentrate on the greed of a few sociopaths who use the "brand" of "capitalism" to screw the "rest of us".
I have a slightly different read. I think capitalism fosters greed, which is better than the lethargy of socialism/government control. For me the problem is we simply don’t pay people enough. We got rid of all our manufacturing jobs and people are left in low skill service jobs with no pay . I know it’s not hard or meaningful work but these people need to be able to live with dignity. Raise minimum wage to $20 an hour so people can live and get rid of all the bullshit government program, they are make work projects for the public sector without much for the poor. Then I unleash the ambitious to be as green as they want - it’s in their nature.
While it may be true that "capitalism fosters greed" the corollary is that "socialism fosters sloth". Neither statement is completely true, but each holds some truth.
I never read it, but I appreciate the title of Ayn Rand's book, "The Virtue of Selfishness." My family came to visit in Florida and I wanted to know what they wanted to do. No one would say for fear of revealing themselves to be "selfish". I had only been there a couple of months. I didn't know what there was to do. Com'on guys Speak UP!
As far as raising the minimum wage, I support it in principle but also recognize the threat to me because I have to live on my retirement savings. It once seemed like more than I'd ever need, but it isn't at all difficult for me to imagine now living in my car. (probably a stupid nightmare, but it still exists.)
America's financial institutions are being manipulated in multiple ways to squeeze the "rest of us" (anyone, and I truly mean anyone who isn't a Billionaire).
Also, this super secret plot ZOMG is useful, as it provides Zelenskii a pretext to further crack down on domestic opposition in Ukraine.
Note how Zelenskii already has arrested opposition politicians and shuttered opposition media, and the Free And Democratic West(R) has raised not so much as a peep in complaint.
Crimea was part of Russia from 1783, when the Tsarist Empire annexed it a decade after defeating Ottoman forces in the Battle of Kozludzha, until 1954, when the Soviet government transferred Crimea from the Russian Soviet Federation of Socialist Republics (RSFSR) to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (UkrSSR). The transfer was announced in the Soviet press in late February 1954, eight days after the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet adopted a resolution authorizing the move on 19 February. The text of the resolution and some anodyne excerpts from the proceedings of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet meeting on 19 February were published along with the very brief announcement.[1] Nothing else about the transfer was disclosed at the time, and no further information was made available during the remainder of the Soviet era.
Not until 1992, just after the Soviet Union was dissolved, did additional material about this episode emerge. A historical-archival journal, Istoricheskii arkhiv (Historical Archive), which had been published in the USSR from 1955 until 1962, began appearing again in 1992 with transcriptions of declassified documents from the former Soviet archive.
That the transfer was justified solely by Crimea’s cultural and economic affinities with Ukraine is -- far-fetched. In the 1950s, the population of Crimea — approximately 1.1 million — was roughly 75 percent ethnic Russian and 25 percent Ukrainian. A sizable population of Tatars had lived in Crimea for centuries until May 1944, when they were deported en masse by the Stalinist regime to barren sites in Central Asia, where they were compelled to live for more than four decades and were prohibited from returning to their homeland. Stalin also forcibly deported smaller populations of Armenians, Bulgarians, and Greeks from Crimea, completing the ethnic cleansing of the peninsula. Hence, in 1954, Crimea was more “Russian” than it had been for centuries.
Crimea had originally been an “autonomous republic” (avtonomnaya respublika) in the RSFSR, but its status was changed to that of an “oblast’” (province) in the RSFSR in 1945, ostensibly because the forced removal of the Crimean Tatars had eliminated the need for autonomy. After the Crimean oblast was transferred to the UkSSR in 1954, it retained the status of an oblast’ within Soviet Ukraine for 37 years. In early 1991, after a referendum was held in the UkrSSR and a resolution was adopted a month later by the UkrSSR parliament, the status of Crimea was upgraded to that of an “autonomous republic.” Crimea retained that designation within Ukraine after the Soviet Union broke apart.
A tragic irony of the Crimean transfer is that an action of sixty years ago, taken by Moscow to strengthen its control over Ukraine, has come back to haunt Ukraine today.
MSM owns the truth and they do with it as they please: assert, change, outlaw, categorize, ban, sanctify, manipulate, as they please.
I’ve been rereading Matt Tiabbi’s book Hate inc as serialized on his Substack, archives 2018, what a revelation. Without it your appreciation is incomplete. Really, do yourself a favour.
Sounds like a variant on the old "rainmaker" scam.
Rainmaker makes promises and demandscompliance, and whatever happens, rainmaker takes credit for a successful prediction. If nothing happens, rainmaker takes credit, claiming that compliance delivered the desired results.
"The paper of record" They really call themselves that still? That makes your toilet paper a "Paper of Record" too. Maybe even more so. Cause your toilet paper ends up with the same quality of substance on it.
It seems they just toss out whatever sh** and see what sticks. They tried "175,000 Russian troops on Ukraine border" last month (google it), but had to settle for 100,000 .
Well, when he was titular president, Poroshenko claimed that Donbass was occupied by100,000 - 200,000 Russian troops, but that the Ukrainian paramilitaries were manfully holding them off. (Apparently, Russians are not only invisible to satellite reconnaissance, they also cannot be captured and do not need air support.)
So why would 100,000 Russians, or even 175,000 Russians be such a big deal?
I believe a link to this substack was promoted here recently but, it is such a good historical analysis of the current situation in Ukraine that I hope folks will read it, and again if they already have: https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-68-putins-challenge-to
Key players in the Russia-gate hoax and impeachment “entertainments” are now hyperventilating about “all but certain major war in Europe a la WW2” – ghouls Adam Schiff and colonel Alexander Windman (an Ukrainian). Same bastards who led the scam of the century concocted by the SAME lying team -- Obama-Biden-Hillary-Pelosi-Schumer-Schiff and the rest of DNC-CIA/FBI cabal.
Adam Schiff has been, for years, a leading recipient of huge “donations” by arm industry – his main source of funds. Remember when Raytheon in 2013 put on a Beyonce concert to promote Adam Schiff? This despicable -- that human excrement and serial liar is among leading Congress war-mongers and recipient of arm industry donations.
http://politicalpartytime.org/party/36073/
Schiff is now driving government’s domestic terrorism legislation !! In his free time this loathsome grifter wants to write a novel – of all things about Holocaust.
The entire Russia-gate lying team is back in FULL power -- we are now paying the price for not fully unmasking the brazen scam of the century. Of course, Trump and GOP lunatics were and remain VERY bad, however – however, DNC lying and warmongering team is INFINITELY more dangerous. They will for sure try to prevent 2022 elections - as "illegal" - in order to stay in power.
Also remember – Biden was the governor of Ukraine under Obama – selecting and removing heads of industry and Ukraine’s puppet government after successful US coup there. The immense corruption of Biden family still needs to be investigated – Hunter’s Burisma was used to ‘wash” their dirty money. Thanks heavens that recent “colored revolution” coups in Belarus and Kazakhstan were not successful.
WHO will be the first current or former Democrat Congresswoman/man or Senator to publicly acknowledge and confirm the brazen scam of the century – DNC’s + CIA/FBI security complex (St. Obama/Biden/Hillary/Pelosi/Schumer, Jammie Raskin, etc. + Brennan, Clapper, Hayden, etc.) Russia-gate hoax and subsequent conspiracies, including 1/6 “armed insurrection”?
War-monger vampires must be stopped. Military-industrial complex must be defunded – US main “products” and exports are now weapons, coups and immense and all-encompassing corruption. China is far more capitalist than the US, Russia has not been Communist for 30+ years, while the US is a corporate socialism (more polite term for fascism)
The US has been fascist for a while now. If I had to put a date on it it would be September 11,'01. The false flag that will be Empire's downfall.
Or another Sept 11 -- Chile and Allende coup/murder
Dude you got to check out Matt Tiabbi, nobody and mean nobody does it better.
I read Taibbi for at least a decade...
Gotcha. His substack is the best, unfettered he is magnificent.
This latest infuriating scenario highlights how little light exists between our corporate press and the intelligence apparatus it purports to cover. Apparently "Democracy Dies in Darkness" is not a motto, but a recipe.
Very cleaver, you gave me a real laugh, thanks.
This ain't at all unusual for the NYT go back to 1917, hell to back to the Spanish American war. They do loves them some war.
Sorry Caitlin. I can’t separate the NYT from its advertisers and govt handlers, so to me they’re all the same brand of useless.
Regulatory capture of the legislative process by corporate money makes America effectively a one party state. Now you suggest that the same dynamic is at work with MSM. Yup!
But Caitlin, Russia has not disproved this allegation. They need to publish all diplomatic correspondence to prove memos about this nefarious plot do not exist. Much easier to do that than demand the West publish the intercepted cables that prove the plot's existence, since that would expose the West's "sources and methods." /sarc
The United States did something similar when it demanded that Iraq prove that it did not have WMDs.
As you recall, they tried, but Bush decided to invade WHILE the UN teams were desperately asking Rumsfeld where the WMDs were stored, since he publicly claimed to know. The inspectors weren't allowed to complete their work because we were told Iraq posed a "clear and present danger" to the United States -- a lie worthy of Hitler to justify their pre-determined invasion. The American track record for veracity has not improved since then.
Of course, that's how pretexts work. (I hate my phone's spellcheck!)
I recall at the time some neocons triumphantly proclaiming that the war was all Iraq's fault, because they had "failed" to prove a negative to the satisfaction of a Bush administration that was bound and determined to go to war on the flimsiest of excuses.
Still, the neocons are regularly trotted out as Elder Statesmen And Serious Thinkers, in spite of the fact that none of their wars have performed as publicly advertised.
It's a given that any neocon's kids won't be the ones getting their bodies blown apart by American weaponry in service of their geopolitical goals. Of course the same could be said of our warmongering neoliberals. Unspeakable death is reserved for the children of suckers like you and me. If this weren't the case, we'd all be living in a much more agreeable world.
Speaking of the neocons, Pro-Zionism remains one of the most anti-American things imaginable, although it's consistently portrayed as the opposite. It provided the drumbeat to the Iraqi invasion and is currently fueling the same hostility against Iran. I have zero interest in seeing any more people die just to maintain apartheid Israel's regional power aspirations.
Hubris is one hell of a drug.
Who out there will volunteer to take a nuclear blast, all in an effort to prove that Mine Is Bigger Than Yours, which is where neocons are leading us?
Maybe Bill Krystol could duke it out with that hill of skulls guy Tucker had on the other day. Just beat the shit out of each other, sponsored by Budweiser. The winner gets air-dropped on the war theater of their choice. They've got it set up where their dysfunctions take out the rest of us. Maybe we should outlaw fallout shelters and see how they react.
I hate spellcheck too! Wasn't it created by Bill Gates?
Dunno. I do know that the spellcheck on my latest version Samsung phone is a flaming piece of shit.
Wheel, my smell cake wokes jest flying.
Seems that I wasn't the only one who remembered April Glaspie when Biden uttered that particular "gaffe".
Its kind of an American thing at this point, just look at any argument made by shitlibs and the RW. They both make claims and tell you to go do the "research" on everything, and when you do crush them with actual data, then you didn't look at the "real" evidence.
And of course, Lichtenstein has weapons of mass destruction, while Monaco is building up its secret arsenal of up to 490 nuclear warheads. 🤣🤣🤣
Let me add to the list of no-evidence claims supported by the Times et al.: "Operation warp Speed produced excellent vaccines that will defeat the pandemic." As a molecular biologist, I said a year ago that I would very much like to scrutinize that evidence — the molecular-immunological details behind such a claim. Answer: "Sorry, you'll have to wait until you're dead." This is the quite standard operating procedure of feeding us merda and calling it nutritious. Bruccia in inferno, MSM.
I must say left wingers are far more dangerous than right wingers. Your version of the lie is so much more sophisticated and convincing. NYT gives it all a great heft and gravitas. I prefer the earnest pathos of conservative media with it’s authentic jingoism and an ever present 2nd amendment vibe.
I would submit there is no distinction between right wing and left wing lies as far as the NYT is concerned. They will support any and all.
I hear you. I can no longer watch or read the MSM because it makes me feel like visiting a re-education camp. So I let Caitlin, Taibbi, Greenwald, Jimmy Dore, etc. do the watching and critiquing for me. However, Tucker Carlson does appeal, but only because he is the only MSM host (I’m aware of) who occasionally invites Greenwald and Dore as guests. But that does not mean I have developed a leaning for the right or think the right “less dangerous”, because I find the entire left/right framing as the root element of the psyop known as The Narrative. It's blind belief in the left/right framing that is dangerous.
Take away the left/right framing and most of us could have civil, even enjoyable conversations with people with whom we disagree, because outside that stage-managed world of the MSM and the scripted soundbites of our politician-hypnotists and their mass formation cults, natural humans are multi-faceted, far more complex, and completely unique (and often inconsistent) in their views.
Old habits die hard and I still frequently find myself using the thoroughly ingrained left/right framing, too. But I’m trying to break that habit because it seems to me that one of the most effective ways we can defend our individual and collective liberty is to completely reject the left/right nonsense.
Very well said
The left/right framing is still used mostly because it's all we've got, and binary choices are so appealing to our brains. Our rotten and restrictive two party system still reflects this but anyone paying attention to politics in this post-Trump era can only conclude that such labels are only useful as tools for elitist framing. Better to have us fighting each other than hauling the oligarchs before tribunals, right?
So Trump is a Nazi and Biden is a radical left Socialist. Anyone still beating those left/right partisan drums should be given wide quarter.
Perhaps they are the same thing but appealing to different audiences.
I wish Caitlin would stop taking about "capitalism" and concentrate on the greed of a few sociopaths who use the "brand" of "capitalism" to screw the "rest of us".
I have a slightly different read. I think capitalism fosters greed, which is better than the lethargy of socialism/government control. For me the problem is we simply don’t pay people enough. We got rid of all our manufacturing jobs and people are left in low skill service jobs with no pay . I know it’s not hard or meaningful work but these people need to be able to live with dignity. Raise minimum wage to $20 an hour so people can live and get rid of all the bullshit government program, they are make work projects for the public sector without much for the poor. Then I unleash the ambitious to be as green as they want - it’s in their nature.
While it may be true that "capitalism fosters greed" the corollary is that "socialism fosters sloth". Neither statement is completely true, but each holds some truth.
I never read it, but I appreciate the title of Ayn Rand's book, "The Virtue of Selfishness." My family came to visit in Florida and I wanted to know what they wanted to do. No one would say for fear of revealing themselves to be "selfish". I had only been there a couple of months. I didn't know what there was to do. Com'on guys Speak UP!
As far as raising the minimum wage, I support it in principle but also recognize the threat to me because I have to live on my retirement savings. It once seemed like more than I'd ever need, but it isn't at all difficult for me to imagine now living in my car. (probably a stupid nightmare, but it still exists.)
America's financial institutions are being manipulated in multiple ways to squeeze the "rest of us" (anyone, and I truly mean anyone who isn't a Billionaire).
Well said
Also, this super secret plot ZOMG is useful, as it provides Zelenskii a pretext to further crack down on domestic opposition in Ukraine.
Note how Zelenskii already has arrested opposition politicians and shuttered opposition media, and the Free And Democratic West(R) has raised not so much as a peep in complaint.
Why Did Russia Give Away Crimea Sixty Years Ago?
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/why-did-russia-give-away-crimea-sixty-years-ago
Crimea was part of Russia from 1783, when the Tsarist Empire annexed it a decade after defeating Ottoman forces in the Battle of Kozludzha, until 1954, when the Soviet government transferred Crimea from the Russian Soviet Federation of Socialist Republics (RSFSR) to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (UkrSSR). The transfer was announced in the Soviet press in late February 1954, eight days after the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet adopted a resolution authorizing the move on 19 February. The text of the resolution and some anodyne excerpts from the proceedings of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet meeting on 19 February were published along with the very brief announcement.[1] Nothing else about the transfer was disclosed at the time, and no further information was made available during the remainder of the Soviet era.
Not until 1992, just after the Soviet Union was dissolved, did additional material about this episode emerge. A historical-archival journal, Istoricheskii arkhiv (Historical Archive), which had been published in the USSR from 1955 until 1962, began appearing again in 1992 with transcriptions of declassified documents from the former Soviet archive.
That the transfer was justified solely by Crimea’s cultural and economic affinities with Ukraine is -- far-fetched. In the 1950s, the population of Crimea — approximately 1.1 million — was roughly 75 percent ethnic Russian and 25 percent Ukrainian. A sizable population of Tatars had lived in Crimea for centuries until May 1944, when they were deported en masse by the Stalinist regime to barren sites in Central Asia, where they were compelled to live for more than four decades and were prohibited from returning to their homeland. Stalin also forcibly deported smaller populations of Armenians, Bulgarians, and Greeks from Crimea, completing the ethnic cleansing of the peninsula. Hence, in 1954, Crimea was more “Russian” than it had been for centuries.
Crimea had originally been an “autonomous republic” (avtonomnaya respublika) in the RSFSR, but its status was changed to that of an “oblast’” (province) in the RSFSR in 1945, ostensibly because the forced removal of the Crimean Tatars had eliminated the need for autonomy. After the Crimean oblast was transferred to the UkSSR in 1954, it retained the status of an oblast’ within Soviet Ukraine for 37 years. In early 1991, after a referendum was held in the UkrSSR and a resolution was adopted a month later by the UkrSSR parliament, the status of Crimea was upgraded to that of an “autonomous republic.” Crimea retained that designation within Ukraine after the Soviet Union broke apart.
A tragic irony of the Crimean transfer is that an action of sixty years ago, taken by Moscow to strengthen its control over Ukraine, has come back to haunt Ukraine today.
MSM owns the truth and they do with it as they please: assert, change, outlaw, categorize, ban, sanctify, manipulate, as they please.
I’ve been rereading Matt Tiabbi’s book Hate inc as serialized on his Substack, archives 2018, what a revelation. Without it your appreciation is incomplete. Really, do yourself a favour.
Sounds like a variant on the old "rainmaker" scam.
Rainmaker makes promises and demandscompliance, and whatever happens, rainmaker takes credit for a successful prediction. If nothing happens, rainmaker takes credit, claiming that compliance delivered the desired results.
"The paper of record" They really call themselves that still? That makes your toilet paper a "Paper of Record" too. Maybe even more so. Cause your toilet paper ends up with the same quality of substance on it.
It seems they just toss out whatever sh** and see what sticks. They tried "175,000 Russian troops on Ukraine border" last month (google it), but had to settle for 100,000 .
Well, when he was titular president, Poroshenko claimed that Donbass was occupied by100,000 - 200,000 Russian troops, but that the Ukrainian paramilitaries were manfully holding them off. (Apparently, Russians are not only invisible to satellite reconnaissance, they also cannot be captured and do not need air support.)
So why would 100,000 Russians, or even 175,000 Russians be such a big deal?
Reporter: "Why are you shooting at Donbass?"
Ukrainian paramilitary: "Because Russians are there."
Reporter: "Then why aren't you shooting at Crimea?"
Ukrainian paramilitary: "Russians are really there."
As a Brit I am constantly embarrassed by my country's foreign policy of Russophobia/Sinophobia.
I know why they do it.
They are obedient to the Windsor Black Nobility.
I believe a link to this substack was promoted here recently but, it is such a good historical analysis of the current situation in Ukraine that I hope folks will read it, and again if they already have: https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-68-putins-challenge-to