Jake Sullivan is the poster boy for the American empire's regime change and color revolution operations. He has sided with Al-Qaeda in Syria and Azov in Ukraine. His wife just carpetbagged a Congressional seat and guests at their wedding included Tony Blinken, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and John McCain: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/maggie-goodlander-jake-sullivan-commissar-couple
There has never been peace in the world In my lifetime. Resisting the draft, student deferments, the ROTC military clubs of rich sadists teaching war. In cracking open adolescents in the crest of our youth was by breaking down our natural empathy and brotherhood; breaking spirits to make kids into murdering monsters. There is an unholy hell to be an ongoing debt of this 75 years of genocide. No qualms about locking and loading on this generation either. There is a draft system in place ready to crank another shooting hot babe of a war. So ten minutes ago. The monsters never die naturally.
I am 70. The defining conflict of my youth was Vietnam. My father and many of my friends were forever changed—and not for the better—by their participation. Learning about the duplicity of our government in Vietnam prepared me to question everything. I wish I could say the same for many of my peers, who (despite decades of experience with our so-called leaders lying us into war) seem to cling to the propaganda disseminated by liberal media. I don’t get it. You know they lied us into Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, you know about all the regime-change dirty wars we’ve funded, you’re at least minimally aware that we’ve trained terrorists for decades (see U.S. Army School of the Americas if you don’t believe me), but STILL you buy the bullshit. Russia is a threat, Palestinians are terrorists, Israel is our greatest ally, blah blah blah. It’s so sickening.
And that, in my opinion, is the worst part. Without the support of the people, including the soldiers, the war machine cannot function. And yet the machine rolls on...
Read "LEGACY of ASHES" by Tim Weiner. Vietnam was just a continuation of the growing line of "proxy wars" of that era. The USA has always preferred the "proxy war" as their means of control and empire.
The 1980s and 90s were without war. Public sentiment had turned against the war machine after the Vietnam fiasco. That was at the heart of the PNAC document written at the end of that era, and put into effect at the turn of the new century, "years of cuts in defense spending have eroded the American military's combat readiness, and put in jeopardy the Pentagon's plans for maintaining military superiority in the years ahead."
and "Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event *like a new Pearl Harbor.*"
There was peace sentiment in my youth. LBJ and Nixon ran as peace candidates. Peace urge was deliberately eroded by Reagan. He wanted war so badly but Congress wouldn't give him the money. He got the funds by selling arms to Iraq and allowing the Contra to peddle crack cocaine to the USA. I thought they should have impeached him for grossly subverting the constitutional separation of powers, undermining the USAs system of government.
Today any peace thoughts are vigorously suppressed. The USA is sold on the world domination program. Let's hope it works out better than it did for the Axis powers.
"The 1980s and 90s were without war." I do not agree. Ask the thousands of people who died in Libya, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Columbia and Panama to just name a few. Those "covert wars" were just much better hidden from the public. Americans were so absorbed in consumption of cocaine and sex that they just turned a blind eye to the horrors of the CIA, NSA and US Government in general.
Phillip, well said. I grew up in Holland, under the tail end of the Cold War. Visited East Berlin and spent my childhood mountaineering in Yugoslavia. As a teen I demonstrated against Reagan's nuclear missiles in my country, with a million Dutch citizens. Sadly, the US, although I'm fond of individual Americans, turned out to be the most psychopathic regime ever. Jolani is another sadistic sociopath warlord who implemented torture and cruel murder. The US and UK are now rebranding him and his gang as rebels and freedom fighters. If this doesn't wake up Americans, I don't know what will. COVID mayhem, coups, regime change and 800 bases in 80 countries. This has to stop. The US has lost its' way, and could've been a force for good, not evil. They could have ensured clean drinking water for half a billion of the most impoverished on this planet, for starters. They could have done BRI projects, for humanity. They choose to be the Evil Empire, and this isn't gonna end well. Down with the GAE!
What? Are you saying vaccines are eaten? Perhaps if they were they wouldn't be so harmful because injection straight into the muscle and blood over-rides all the highly evolved defence systems of the body, including aversion to pain and needles.
Al-Queda teaming up with Israel may turn out to be Israel’s downfall. Two cobras in the same basket and both fully prepared to stab the other in the back and think they can out-maneuver the other. They may have successfully ousted Assad but who runs Syria now? Al-Queda is just going to meekly go-along-to-get-along with Jews? I don’t think so. Israel is going to trust Al-Queda to co-operate? Both of these groups are greedy, vicious and determined. They’re using each other for now.
USA available oil reserves ( just 8 years of supplies), just went up substantially.
Israel’s role as caretaker of US oil supplies in the Middle East ( in return for the Israeli support / control of 86% of the US Congress and the US House of Reps), just got a big boost.
Oh. By the way…..the USA has been stealing Syrian oil for a long time. No more stealing required. Oil in return for US weapons….US support…. and US connivance…and on.
Netanyahu can now continue to concentrate on the oil and gas fields off the coast of Gaza while the USA concentrates on a coup in Venezuela. (reserves at 300 billion barrels, the largest in the world).
Trumps son-in-law can now concentrate on his real estate (Jews only) tourist extravaganza in Gaza and Trump and his cohorts can spend some time re-arranging the borders of Syria at Israel’s behest. After all, like all of Palestine, a bit of Egypt and Turkey, a lot of Saudi Arabia, all Jordan and Lebanon, a touch of Kuwait, it is all part of the "river to the sea" doctrine so entrenched in the twisted minds of the Judahists, Zionists and their fellow-travellers, posing as so-called citizens in so many countries around the globe.
Another win for Zion and they still have 400 nuclear weapons in stock. “One for each capital” Martin van Creveld (Israeli Historian) "We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions”.
The USA and Israel. A perfect paring for the end of the world.
Yes, I did. There are so many other aspects to this new development that it was difficult to list them all.
Being older than the average responder, I listed the ones that could occur in my lifetime. If I had wanted to go beyond the short term, I would still be writing in a week. Just one of which would have even had to consider the very likely “false flag” possibility, engineered by Trump or Netanyahu or one of their like-minded associates, now present in every corridor in Washington.
Don’t tell the American people though. They still think the future is rosy.
Yes. Exactly. I read a biography of Lawrence of Arabia, where the French and British keep kow-towing to the Sykes-Picot agreement about who was going to control which section of Mesopotamia. This in complete contrast to the actual facts on the ground, where Feisal's (and Lawrence's) Arabs kept taking more territory. And yet -- Sykes-Picot! Put together and signed by two 2nd-tier foreign office flunkies.
Then, a friend who works for an oil company showed me the map that the oil companies of the 1900s had worked out between themselves for who was going to develop what oil reserves. And the Sykes-Picot agreement, it turned out, was just the governments of France and Britain signing off on the oil companies' agreements. All became plain! The Arabs were screwed before they even got into the fight.
CNN never did any interview with Palestinian resistance, nor with Hezbollah or AnsarAllah. "We don't talk to terrorists". They talk to Zionist proxies.
4. The west will tell the rest of the world that “Russia and Iran can’t save you, so you’d better collaborate with us…or you’ll get the Syrian treatment!”
There were no ‘big arrow offensives’ here, the Syrian army officers were bought off and laid down their arms. No significant battles were fought anywhere, the people turned on Assad.
Conflating a treacherous, cowardly 3rd world military’s with a determined, NATO proxy is ridiculous.
Not only am I aware of no evidence of such bribes, it raises the question of why the SAA couldn't find more reliable officers, not to mention what changed since the last flareup of fighting?
You need to read more widely, there was no war here, one side didn’t show up.
As for ‘cope’ I have no dog in this race, just stating the facts.
It’s unclear how these events will impact either side yet, Syria will collapse into a basket case of lawlessness and chaos, certainly not the big win for Israel and the US that some make it out to be.
And you really think that the timing of the attack on Syria and Israeli escalation against Syria was all coincidence, or that Erdogan didn't consider the effect of the destruction of Syria and how that might benefit Israel?
I feel sad. Sad for the Arabs. Ordinary Arabs whose leaders have betrayed them, their roots and their futures! As to how they have overlooked Syria as a key target I can’t fathom but it’s easy for me to see that in hindsight. That said, it’s not like we weren’t aware that supplies were coming via Syria. It was a key location and hence a key target and for that to be overlooked… the axis of resistance are definitely in a stranglehold now. Call me hopeful but I’m hoping there is a fight there yet.
We don't have to go by the same thinking. A fight with empire? That would be suicide. We need sane, firm, tactics. But we have none. So they will stomp all over our faces. They don't care that we don't want war. Why are men still fighting the wars of empire anyway?
It’s the same question as why are people amongst us still believing that Israel’s fight is about right to exist when they’re the ones slaughtering everybody.
We've got to counter that argument whenever we hear it. Otherwise that will be the way the thinking will go. Only when there is blowback will their argument lose its legs.
The dialectic is at work. Internal contradictions will force a resolution. The US is like a very old tree, seemingly strong but riddled with internal rot.
Unfortunately (rather fortunately) the headline is false. Zionists are flooding the virtual space with WISHFUL THINKING pretending that what they want to happen, is already happening. Caitlin, remember the propaganda "Russia is finished" and "Ukraine is winning" from 2022-2023... Same thing.
Assad resigned on his own and told his army to stop fighting. To avoid a bloodbath. He has protected his country for 15 years and this time something was different and he saw the futility of resisting. He did save a lot of lives this way - but unfortunately most likely these lives will be gone under a terrorist government. It is very must like Ukraine: the “opposition” government make a pact with neo Nazis (Zionist-proxy terrorists) and then these terrorists take over. The Zionist idea about Syria is to annex Golan Heights and force Alawites and Christians out, either by killing them or by transferring them to ghettos.
CJ>>"As luck would have it, these “diversity-friendly jihadists” have been telling the Israeli press that they “love Israel” and won’t do anything to harm its interests, so it’s safe to say that this “revolution” has been about as organically grown as a sheet of crystal meth."
Well put Caitlin! Assad was bad, but at least he was against the US Empire! I wonder how this will change the dynamics of the Middle-East region and its impact on Iran, Russia, and China...
From what I know about the US Empire (and its history and strategies), the ONLY WAY (IMHO) that it can be destroyed is from WITHIN (by Americans that are finally fed up of being exploited by those in power - we haven't reached that peak frustration/desperation point yet...)
We are already on the menu. US seeks wars and apparently depopulation will be the new fashion for the future. How we tolerate the likes of John Kerry Kohn is way, way beyond me. Until get get rid of the traitors, we have little or no future. Yet, the majority of Americans are buying thousand dollar cell phones and don't have serious concerns about our future, of lack thereof. So wonderful to be filled with glee.......
Oh a collapse seems quite possible. China is taking leadership in technology. The USA is too corrupt and change-averse to compete, and too proud and greedy to contract gracefully. Short of nuclear war it seems a matter of time.
"Americans that are finally fed up of being exploited by those in power"
But their being fed up doesn't have anything to do with the empire. Many are not even aware that the empire exists. What these people want is money. The empire brings in money. So most likely doubling down on the empire extracting wealth from the hated, despised foreigners. That's what happened in Napoleon's France and imperial Japan, Germany, and Italy. Trump announced to his followers that the USA was extracting oil from Syria and (hopefully) Venezuela in order to boost their pocketbooks. Said followers raised no protest.
It's not China or Russia or whatever that can take the US down (due to its control of the global financial system and what money can buy).
No other Empire in history has had the global financial (and hence military) chokehold like the US Empire does.
So the only ways (IMHO) that the US Empire can be brought down are:
(1) Destroy the global financial system and US Dollar hegemony
(2) Revolt from within (on multiple levels - Civil wars, revolutions, etc.)
(3) Deadly epidemics
(4) Nuclear annihilation
No alternatives/options are pleasant or desirable, BUT...all Empires collapse - it is a matter of time...
>>"But their being fed up doesn't have anything to do with the empire."
As stated before, the Empire being brought down by external forces seems very unlikely - there is no comparison of the present US Empire to past Empires in history. It would be wishful thinking to go down that route...
At the end of the day - as Caitlin and others have said multiple times - the people (99%) outnumber the power elite (1%). The question is - "what will make them suspend their internal differences/arguments/ideologies" long enough to bring them together as a FORCE against the EMPIRE? (I'm sounding like I'm talking about the Star Wars universe here...)
"No other Empire in history has had the global financial chokehold like the US Empire does."
It seems to me to be eroding rapidly, this decline accelerated by the actions of the USA. Stealing hundreds of billions of dollars from nations which displeased the USA vaporized the trust upon which the system depended. The only option was/is building an alternative system. Only nuclear war could stop this, but seems rather too costly a measure.
>>"It seems to me to be eroding rapidly, this decline accelerated by the actions of the USA."
I don't see any data to corroborate this opinion. If anything, the US is ramping up its global hegemony efforts (maybe because it's getting more desperate ?)
Technology MAY be a game-changer (it usually is). Can the rest of the world come together (economically and technologically) to challenge the US/Western Empire? Time will tell (though I know I probably won't be alive to find out).
I'm sorry to disagree. The behavior of the US right now is the behavior of a failing empire. Syria faced a huge threat after 14 years of very cruel sanctions, being attacked by the US, European nations, Turkey, Israel, and a multitude of mercenaries from around the world. The US empire is going to divide up Syria. Turkey will take some, the US will take the oil, Israel will take water, oil, and agricultural land. Eventually, as the US empire begins to fail--the failure will happen fast--and your arguments about taxation and mortgages are not really relevant--and Syrians will mourn the loss of their country which--let's please remember this--"Syria" was created by European mandates. This is a continuation of European colonialism. But the European countries are facing such difficulties they themselves are in danger. The US empire is failing and cannot POSSIBLY continue to fund its current operations.
Governments rise and fall. Revolutions happen. New governments are created. Some "succeed" and others fail. If a group of terrorists, most of which are fighting each other, have ever overthrown a government and succeeded long-term--especially in the Middle East--I would like you to remind me who that might be?
The primary facts remain. Russia and China are far more stable, economically and otherwise, than the US/Europe. These terrorist groups are not native to Syria--most of them are foreigners supported, trained, and funded by the West. How many times has this approach succeeded? Afghanistan, maybe, after the CIA lost control of the Taliban. I don't think Afghanistan is very stable, even now, except to the degree that foreigners will never control it for long.
Russia and Iran play for the long game. It's way too early to make any serious statements about what's going on. Creating chaos is the U S M.O. but it hasn't been very successful for the entire lifetime of the US empire (which hasn't lasted long).
The destruction of Syria has been a very long engagement. It was the last Arab country to fall, if it has indeed fallen, from the rise of Arab nationalist countries fighting against the British empire. Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Jordan and Iran were always jostling for a leadership role. And who destroyed them? Iran is changed and stronger. The rest have been bribed into collaboration and betrayal of their brethren, or destroyed by CIA operations, which this also is.
There are two major elements which the CIA and US government cannot control, apparently. With all these wars, climate change is moving more quickly than necessary. One war jet flight produces as much pollution as a car driven by an excessively consuming American motorist in 100 years. Think about that for a minute. How many sorties are flying over the Middle East and Ukraine? Both Israel and the US rely on jets dropping bombs. Neither country has a military that can fight without jets dropping bombs. The other thing is the failure of the US dollar. World-wide economic stressors are extreme and likely to become much worse. Tax or not. Mortgage or not. Most US income is not taxed due to income inequality. The 12 richest billionaires are worth $2 trillion. And they don't pay tax. The US operations are not funded by taxes. They're funded by the Fed, which is just "accounting"--digitally. Inflation is an indication of how much actual value the US dollar has lost. It's huge. Mind-bogglingly huge already. And likely to increase under Trump. And that loss/income for the rich does not go to very many Americans. The top 10%--that's only 35 million people.
I advise patience. The US has spent 14-15 years trying to destroy Assad, a man who was never raised or prepared to run a country in the crosshairs. As for gas pipelines, where is Cheney's gas pipeline through Afghanistan? This is yet another fiasco Biden can take credit for. The leadership of the DNC are responsible for an amazing amount of destruction, world-wide. Not that the RNC is any better. But it's quite astonishing what they did when they shoved Biden down our throats.
This is a very sad day. And things are about to get much worse. But in the end, the US will lose. It is inevitable. And most of us will witness it, it's coming to us that fast. The world is changing that fast. So this is a warning to us all personally, and it is also yet another harbinger of hope. Ironically.
Too many critical thinking errors in your response:
(1) Confirmation bias -> you pay attention to stories that confirm your beliefs, etc. and ignore important data that goes against them (too many to list here)
(2) You do NOT have an adequate understanding of HOW global finance (and US finance) works. Hence your misunderstanding of the important of being a "sovereign currency issuer" and the "strength of the US Dollar". Please read up on MMT (Modern Monetary Theory) to understand how the financial system works IN REALITY (and not in theory as taught in schools, by politicians, economists, and talking heads)
>>"Capitalism is dead, Chang. It's dead."
I WISH THIS WERE TRUE! But it's NOT. If it were, we wouldn't be talking about it. In fact, Capitalism is EVERYWHERE. Just open your eyes and look around you. Stop pretending and believing comforting narratives. Yes, I'd like to believe such comforting narratives too, but I'd be lying to myself if I did. Be honest, seek out the reality (even if it hurts).
I would say it IS eroding, but not rapidly. When you can print how much ever money you want (which is what the US can do), and when most of the world wants what you print (US Dollars), it is challenging to unseat the world hegemonic entity (the US and its dominance on the global financial system).
No other empire (in history) had the ability to print "unlimited amounts of fake money" (like the US does) AND make the rest of the world DEPENDENT on that "fake money". Until the world can figure out how to trade and circulate "other forms of money - fake or otherwise" that is not beholden to the US, I see slim chances of dethroning the US Empire.
Jihad means struggle ..it is astounding how so many don't know the meaning of the most basic word
Armed struggle is askaree jihad
A vocal struggle is jihad bi loss and struggle of the tongue A financial struggle which i am going through like many people is jihad bil maal struggle of wealth !!!
A spiritual struggle is jihad bi room
At least learn the word you are using to brainwash and misguide the western reader as you seek to mislead people
One of the Zionist objectives is to subvert Islam (into savage non-Quran-reading mercenary woke-a-bbists) and Christianity (into perverse "Judeo-Christian values" and "Rupture"). This is the reason why they are so hell-bent on destroying the Middle East, putting it into the hands of savage fanatics who know nothing about Islam and will make the West whine about "jihadists" and "Clash of civilizations". In Europe, they are destroying Russian Orthodox Church with the same satanic zeal.
Yes. The main goal of the Zionists/Talmudists is to erase Christianity from the face of the earth. Only when Christianity is removed will their "moshiach" come and rule the world. The so-called "Jews" hate Christians/Christianity. This is why they cooperate so well with the $atanists at the top of the Masonic lodges. The whole trans agenda is also due to their desire to transform man back to the original (according to their beliefs) = one being with both sexes. At the same time, a "bonus" is included; these people become unable to reproduce.
Satanists and the Talmud followers/Talmudists, also have the common goal; to have pedophilia as well as abortions up to the time of birth, legalized. Contrary to what Christian people believe, there are many of those who call themselves "Jews" who do not believe in the same god as the Christians.
- Which Jesus Christ has tried to tell us, so many times. Most Israelis are not of the people "Israel" at all = those who believe in the One True God.
you seem to not be a German speaker. "Kampf" does not mean struggle, it means FIGHT. As in war. "Die Soldaten haben mutig gekämpft". "Die Armee kämpft". "Jihad" means struggle as in heavy effort. Not murder and shooting. There is Greater Jihad (struggle with one's own Self) and Lesser Jihad (struggle for a just world in this world).
I'm not a German speaker but I do know a bit of German. Obviously, "struggle" is not a main Kampf definition, but depending on the context it can be one of them.
No doubt USA taxpayer dollars behind overthrowing yet another government. This one in support of a genocide of an indigenous people.
A 2023 report by the Commonwealth Fund found that the US has the highest rate of avoidable deaths among high-income countries, with around 100,000 deaths per year that could have been prevented with better healthcare.
Just imagine the USA redirected its tax revenue towards its people with things like providing universal healthcare, ie like normal countries do, rather than expanding into empire or doing Netanyahu’s sociopathic bidding.
This has NOTHING to do with taxes. The fact is - those in power in the US "JUST DON'T CARE" about ordinary citizens. Yes - it's a difficult TRUTH to swallow - but it is the REALITY.
The US could (with or without any tax dollars) spend/infuse enough money into fixing the health care system, educational system, housing, etc. starting TOMORROW (if it wanted to). But if it does "give the people what they want", WHO will do the dirty/necessary work that needs to be done to support "those in power"?
NOT spending/fixing the health care system, housing, education, poverty, food insecurity, etc. is a CONSCIOUS and VOLUNTARY choice (by those in POWER). It has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with TAXES! Taxes are an EXCUSE used by them WHEN they want to avoid fixing the problems that need fixing!
Paying taxes are a sign of approval and thus consent. "The people" are waiting for government to do something but you said it yourself, government doesn't give a flying fig about us. Right now it's all about weapons and control of the world's population. So keep doing the same things and you bet - we'll keep getting the same results.
>>"Paying taxes are a sign of approval and thus consent."
Nope - people pay taxes because of the "repercussions" of NOT paying taxes. Taxes are NEVER a sign of approval and consent - you couldn't be more wrong.
With the rate that United Health System is buying up everything related to healthcare like pharmacies, doctors offices, other insurance companies, ect we will soon have universal healthcare, but under United.
The citizens fund the government and are too cowardly to stop paying taxes or banks so they do nothing and thus they are indirectly culpable too in these wars.
>>"The citizens fund the government and are too cowardly to stop paying taxes or banks"
WRONG on ALL counts.
(1) Citizens DON'T fund Government (read up on US monetary and fiscal theory). The Govt. TAXES citizens to (a) control inflation (b) reduce inequality (in theory) (c) incentivize and disincentivize behaviors (d) as a way to circulate the currency (e) as a way to make citizens do work that supports the nation (f) other minor reasons...
(2) Cowardness is NOT the reason people don't stop paying taxes or banks. I suggest ruminating a little on this... There are REAL consequences in the REAL world for "not paying taxes".
Pardon me for speaking my truth, but you are very entrenched in the system. You probably don't know about the birth certificate strawman, or how money is created (and I don'[t mean by printing). All those reasons you stated are bunk, pablum for the "useless eaters", how the overlords see people like you and me.
I know many people who hate government but are too chicken to even talk about not paying taxes or mortgages. Paying taxes is them getting the people's consent to do whatever the hell they like. Wake up, it's past time.
Denise, please forgive me for my tone in my other reply to your comment.
I didn't mean to come across the way I did.
I do understand what you mean (from your perspective) and where you are coming from, though I disagree with your opinion/evaluation of it.
As you say, YES - it would be GOOD if people don't pay their taxes and mortgages - but they also have their families (and everyone that depends on them) to think about. Many people's lives depend on whether they pay their taxes/mortgages or not. Hence, it is NOT cowardly to continue paying taxes/mortgages.
Also, not paying taxes/mortgages will NOT bring about any solution to the US Empire (internally or externally). There are systems in place. These SYSTEMS need to be replaced. Taxes/mortgages are NOT the problem. The SYSTEMS (and the people in positions of power and authority running these systems) ARE THE PROBLEM.
What makes you think you know the "truth" ? Certainly NOT your understand of the global (or US) financial systems.
I suggest reading up on REAL economic theories (and history) and understanding how the financial system REALLY WORKS.
Also, please work on your argumentation skills (saying "reasons you stated are bunk" belies any confidence anyone might have in your reasoning skills).
(1) Understand the role of taxation
(2) Understand how inflation works (supply-side/demand-side, etc.)
(3) Understand different methods to control inflation
In short, please work on your understanding of "economics" and "finance" before embarking on an argument/discussion on the subject.
I already have studied all those things you're very presumptuous aren't you. You're the one who needs to study. I told you what to look into and you totally ignored it and proceeded to tell someone who knows more than you what they should do. Just because you can't comprehend what I'm talking about doesn't mean it's me who has the deficiency! YOu didn't ask one thing about what I said and I know you are totally clueless. Sorry to be so blunt, but most people are. Like I said, look up the strawman trust account. Lots of info now online. When I learned about it it was as vague as vapors.
There is so much more DEBUNKING all this nonsense you talk about.
Please work on your CRITICAL THINKING skills! And be careful about falling for scams, frauds, and conspiracy theories.
And again, NONE of this "strawman account" stuff has ANYTHING to do with how the financial system works. Focus on understanding economics, finance, and systems. I don't see ANY evidence (from ANY of your comments) on your understanding of how these systems really work.
Meanwhile, no one is talking about Gaza. The genocide has gotten worse than ever before, and yet all the news is about Syria. It's as if everyone decided it was over, but I'm not ready to move on. F this world.
I recall reading an essay in the late 1960s titled something like the Zionist plan for the Middle East. In a nutshell it called for the break up of the Arab states in the region along ethno-religious lines.
At the time, the dream of Arab nationalist leaders and movements was to united the Arabic-speaking people into a progress, secular, socialist unitary state. Assad's Syria is the last remnant of that vision.
Here we are half-a-century later with the Zionist plan, as conveyed to General Wesley Clark at the Pentagon in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 -- regime change in seven countries in five years -- having come to fruition, although it took longer than expected.
Sadly lots of shitlibs are cheering for the terrorists in Syria because Obama started the war there and Assad is friendly with Putin. They are the most brainwashed and brain dead people in history.
Can the shitlibs think back that far? Experience tells me they are know-nothing cultists who think they are morally and intellectually superior to everyone else.
BRICS was never meant to be a rival to the West. It is a consortium of nations that offers financing and development opportunities to its members. I never understood all that talk about how BRICS will topple the petrodollar. There is no toppling the petrodollar. Ever. Try and you risk nuclear annihilation.
It’s simply the central bankers moving their nation destroying fiat debt machines eastward so they can blow out new countries. Rinse and repeat every century or so. It’s the same crowd behind BRICS and NATO. There should have already been an attack to prevent BRICS from advancing as much as they already have but there hasn’t. The central bank crowd will eventually use world war to destroy the west just as planned for the NWO agenda. It will be made to appear to defend the petrodollar but it will all be scripted theater and the west will lose as per the script.
BRICS is not a military alliance. Besides, Syria isn't some kind of final decisive victory.
The real game is economic growth. Syria makes no difference for that. The true goal is for the West to have a secure supply line with which to attack Iran, or at least credibly threaten to do so. There is no guarantee that the West will be successful in conquering Iran.
Ominous. I hope, Caitlin and readers, that events might elicit a resurgence of and victory for President Bashar Al-Assad and his sovereign nation...that is/has been for decades so beset by those for whom "sovereignty" means nothing. (But: IRAN and RUSSIA caving to Genocidal/Colonial Zionism and its obedient servant??? -- goddam.)
I'm particularly sad because, from very afar and from reports and video footage that I deemed credible, I've "loved" President Al-Assad and his lovely, courageous wife Asma as I love my own two daughters who are in the same age range. I mourn for them and for Syria....
Note: I haven't kept abreast of this at all: What will happen to Palestinian refugees in Syria? Angst....
Wow! How quickly yesterday's Nazis and jihadist terrorists are magically transformed into today's good guys!
Jake Sullivan is the poster boy for the American empire's regime change and color revolution operations. He has sided with Al-Qaeda in Syria and Azov in Ukraine. His wife just carpetbagged a Congressional seat and guests at their wedding included Tony Blinken, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and John McCain: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/maggie-goodlander-jake-sullivan-commissar-couple
There has never been peace in the world In my lifetime. Resisting the draft, student deferments, the ROTC military clubs of rich sadists teaching war. In cracking open adolescents in the crest of our youth was by breaking down our natural empathy and brotherhood; breaking spirits to make kids into murdering monsters. There is an unholy hell to be an ongoing debt of this 75 years of genocide. No qualms about locking and loading on this generation either. There is a draft system in place ready to crank another shooting hot babe of a war. So ten minutes ago. The monsters never die naturally.
I am 70. The defining conflict of my youth was Vietnam. My father and many of my friends were forever changed—and not for the better—by their participation. Learning about the duplicity of our government in Vietnam prepared me to question everything. I wish I could say the same for many of my peers, who (despite decades of experience with our so-called leaders lying us into war) seem to cling to the propaganda disseminated by liberal media. I don’t get it. You know they lied us into Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, you know about all the regime-change dirty wars we’ve funded, you’re at least minimally aware that we’ve trained terrorists for decades (see U.S. Army School of the Americas if you don’t believe me), but STILL you buy the bullshit. Russia is a threat, Palestinians are terrorists, Israel is our greatest ally, blah blah blah. It’s so sickening.
And that, in my opinion, is the worst part. Without the support of the people, including the soldiers, the war machine cannot function. And yet the machine rolls on...
Humans are herd animals.
People have short memories, and our generation is rapidly being replaced by those too young to remember Vietnam.
Your gen has no fear of nukes... ours sure did but the shitlibs listening to CNN for five decades have lost most of their marbles anyways.
My generation spans the entirety of the cold war.
Why would Vietnam be unique in governmental duplicity?
Read "LEGACY of ASHES" by Tim Weiner. Vietnam was just a continuation of the growing line of "proxy wars" of that era. The USA has always preferred the "proxy war" as their means of control and empire.
Proxy war. Russia in the North, U.S., in the South. U.S., gave money and weapons to Russia to give to North Vietnam.
Read, National Suicide by Professor Antony C. Sutton.
Any of his books on the government are vital.
The 1980s and 90s were without war. Public sentiment had turned against the war machine after the Vietnam fiasco. That was at the heart of the PNAC document written at the end of that era, and put into effect at the turn of the new century, "years of cuts in defense spending have eroded the American military's combat readiness, and put in jeopardy the Pentagon's plans for maintaining military superiority in the years ahead."
and "Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event *like a new Pearl Harbor.*"
Then 9/11 happened. Quelle coïncidence.
The First Gulf War? The invasion of Panama?.The attacks on Libya? The Iran Iraq War?
There certainly were wars in the eighties.. proxy wars in central and south america.. Reagan's wars.
And horrific things in the Philippines and no doubt countless others..
The attacks on Libya were staged by NATO, like those in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
These were small potatoes by comparison to Vietnam, as this document itself states (and bemoans).
Tell that to the Iraqis, Libyans, and Iranians. There was a total of over a million deaths.
There was peace sentiment in my youth. LBJ and Nixon ran as peace candidates. Peace urge was deliberately eroded by Reagan. He wanted war so badly but Congress wouldn't give him the money. He got the funds by selling arms to Iraq and allowing the Contra to peddle crack cocaine to the USA. I thought they should have impeached him for grossly subverting the constitutional separation of powers, undermining the USAs system of government.
Today any peace thoughts are vigorously suppressed. The USA is sold on the world domination program. Let's hope it works out better than it did for the Axis powers.
There were a lot of people who should have gone to prison for Iran-Contra. Didn't Bush sr. pardon a bunch of them, just before someone went to trial?
It's just like the blue line, the powerful all protect one another.
"The 1980s and 90s were without war." I do not agree. Ask the thousands of people who died in Libya, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Columbia and Panama to just name a few. Those "covert wars" were just much better hidden from the public. Americans were so absorbed in consumption of cocaine and sex that they just turned a blind eye to the horrors of the CIA, NSA and US Government in general.
How convenient.
Phillip, well said. I grew up in Holland, under the tail end of the Cold War. Visited East Berlin and spent my childhood mountaineering in Yugoslavia. As a teen I demonstrated against Reagan's nuclear missiles in my country, with a million Dutch citizens. Sadly, the US, although I'm fond of individual Americans, turned out to be the most psychopathic regime ever. Jolani is another sadistic sociopath warlord who implemented torture and cruel murder. The US and UK are now rebranding him and his gang as rebels and freedom fighters. If this doesn't wake up Americans, I don't know what will. COVID mayhem, coups, regime change and 800 bases in 80 countries. This has to stop. The US has lost its' way, and could've been a force for good, not evil. They could have ensured clean drinking water for half a billion of the most impoverished on this planet, for starters. They could have done BRI projects, for humanity. They choose to be the Evil Empire, and this isn't gonna end well. Down with the GAE!
It obviously depends on one's definition of peace.
Vaccines are easily broken down in the 2-3 pH of a healthy stomach.
What? Are you saying vaccines are eaten? Perhaps if they were they wouldn't be so harmful because injection straight into the muscle and blood over-rides all the highly evolved defence systems of the body, including aversion to pain and needles.
What do you do with food that you don't eat?
Might not be over till it's over, you know.
Al-Queda teaming up with Israel may turn out to be Israel’s downfall. Two cobras in the same basket and both fully prepared to stab the other in the back and think they can out-maneuver the other. They may have successfully ousted Assad but who runs Syria now? Al-Queda is just going to meekly go-along-to-get-along with Jews? I don’t think so. Israel is going to trust Al-Queda to co-operate? Both of these groups are greedy, vicious and determined. They’re using each other for now.
Don't kid yourself. Turning Iraq into a failed state worked out just dandy for Israel.
Al-Queda isn't an equal partner. They are being funded. Now they will set up a puppet state that will do what it is told.
lol
……..with some assistance.
USA available oil reserves ( just 8 years of supplies), just went up substantially.
Israel’s role as caretaker of US oil supplies in the Middle East ( in return for the Israeli support / control of 86% of the US Congress and the US House of Reps), just got a big boost.
Oh. By the way…..the USA has been stealing Syrian oil for a long time. No more stealing required. Oil in return for US weapons….US support…. and US connivance…and on.
Netanyahu can now continue to concentrate on the oil and gas fields off the coast of Gaza while the USA concentrates on a coup in Venezuela. (reserves at 300 billion barrels, the largest in the world).
Trumps son-in-law can now concentrate on his real estate (Jews only) tourist extravaganza in Gaza and Trump and his cohorts can spend some time re-arranging the borders of Syria at Israel’s behest. After all, like all of Palestine, a bit of Egypt and Turkey, a lot of Saudi Arabia, all Jordan and Lebanon, a touch of Kuwait, it is all part of the "river to the sea" doctrine so entrenched in the twisted minds of the Judahists, Zionists and their fellow-travellers, posing as so-called citizens in so many countries around the globe.
Another win for Zion and they still have 400 nuclear weapons in stock. “One for each capital” Martin van Creveld (Israeli Historian) "We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions”.
The USA and Israel. A perfect paring for the end of the world.
You forgot the big prize. Qatar now gets to build its massive gas pipeline to Europe, eliminating any need for Russian gas.
Yes, I did. There are so many other aspects to this new development that it was difficult to list them all.
Being older than the average responder, I listed the ones that could occur in my lifetime. If I had wanted to go beyond the short term, I would still be writing in a week. Just one of which would have even had to consider the very likely “false flag” possibility, engineered by Trump or Netanyahu or one of their like-minded associates, now present in every corridor in Washington.
Don’t tell the American people though. They still think the future is rosy.
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I like to see people like you see it from the 30,000 ft view. (Obviously)
Just like almost every soft balled interview.
They can’t speak to truth as the consequences can become dire.
The media, same as the old, just not as blatant…
They don't buy it from Russia anyway. India has the largest oil refinery in the world and it is fed by pipelines from Russia.
It's a GAS pipeline not an OIL pipeline, and Europe does buy gas from Russia.
To quote Dick Cheney, "SO?"
Yes. Exactly. I read a biography of Lawrence of Arabia, where the French and British keep kow-towing to the Sykes-Picot agreement about who was going to control which section of Mesopotamia. This in complete contrast to the actual facts on the ground, where Feisal's (and Lawrence's) Arabs kept taking more territory. And yet -- Sykes-Picot! Put together and signed by two 2nd-tier foreign office flunkies.
Then, a friend who works for an oil company showed me the map that the oil companies of the 1900s had worked out between themselves for who was going to develop what oil reserves. And the Sykes-Picot agreement, it turned out, was just the governments of France and Britain signing off on the oil companies' agreements. All became plain! The Arabs were screwed before they even got into the fight.
It’s really SICKENING.😢☮️🇵🇸
Nazis and terrorists get along just fine with MICIMATT complex field workers.
CNN never did any interview with Palestinian resistance, nor with Hezbollah or AnsarAllah. "We don't talk to terrorists". They talk to Zionist proxies.
1. Contrary to Russian apologists, "big arrow" offensives are in fact possible.
2. Ignore Erdogan's touching rhetoric. He basically made a deal with Israel, doubtless brokered by the US.
Russian intelligence caught flatfooted. Again.
3. Obama/Biden/Trump’s plan to turn Syria into a failed state worked.
I write this with no joy, but the facts are what they are.
Another Monday Morning Quarterbacking session from the cool cat launched in no time. Concluded with 100% success as all of them are. 🤣
Add this:
4. The west will tell the rest of the world that “Russia and Iran can’t save you, so you’d better collaborate with us…or you’ll get the Syrian treatment!”
Found on internet, FWIW.
Really? How not nice of the West! 😡
Keep coming up with more valuable brainfarts off google and wider internets. By this point there might even be some on brainyquotes.
Wonder what the ritters of the youtubes are saying 😳
There were no ‘big arrow offensives’ here, the Syrian army officers were bought off and laid down their arms. No significant battles were fought anywhere, the people turned on Assad.
Conflating a treacherous, cowardly 3rd world military’s with a determined, NATO proxy is ridiculous.
Sounds like cope.
Not only am I aware of no evidence of such bribes, it raises the question of why the SAA couldn't find more reliable officers, not to mention what changed since the last flareup of fighting?
As for your Iraq comment, study a map; Syria is far more geographically critical for Israel than Iraq.
You need to read more widely, there was no war here, one side didn’t show up.
As for ‘cope’ I have no dog in this race, just stating the facts.
It’s unclear how these events will impact either side yet, Syria will collapse into a basket case of lawlessness and chaos, certainly not the big win for Israel and the US that some make it out to be.
I still have seen no evidence, just wishful thinking. The "bribes" theory also assumes that Syrian counterintelligence was really really clueless.
Anyway, Iraq was turned into a failed state and this didn't bother Israel or the US in the slightest.
Not a theory, the proof is self evident from the events on the ground.
Syrian intelligence was clearly bought off as well.
Ok, so you have no hard evidence. Syrians must be really easy to bribes. Dunno why nobody tried this before.
"I still have seen no evidence" - where are you supposed to see it?
Also, where have you seen the evidence of "flatfootedness"? Provide links will ya?
And you really think that the timing of the attack on Syria and Israeli escalation against Syria was all coincidence, or that Erdogan didn't consider the effect of the destruction of Syria and how that might benefit Israel?
This is depressing news.
I feel sad. Sad for the Arabs. Ordinary Arabs whose leaders have betrayed them, their roots and their futures! As to how they have overlooked Syria as a key target I can’t fathom but it’s easy for me to see that in hindsight. That said, it’s not like we weren’t aware that supplies were coming via Syria. It was a key location and hence a key target and for that to be overlooked… the axis of resistance are definitely in a stranglehold now. Call me hopeful but I’m hoping there is a fight there yet.
We don't have to go by the same thinking. A fight with empire? That would be suicide. We need sane, firm, tactics. But we have none. So they will stomp all over our faces. They don't care that we don't want war. Why are men still fighting the wars of empire anyway?
It’s the same question as why are people amongst us still believing that Israel’s fight is about right to exist when they’re the ones slaughtering everybody.
We've got to counter that argument whenever we hear it. Otherwise that will be the way the thinking will go. Only when there is blowback will their argument lose its legs.
Demonic possession
The dialectic is at work. Internal contradictions will force a resolution. The US is like a very old tree, seemingly strong but riddled with internal rot.
Unfortunately (rather fortunately) the headline is false. Zionists are flooding the virtual space with WISHFUL THINKING pretending that what they want to happen, is already happening. Caitlin, remember the propaganda "Russia is finished" and "Ukraine is winning" from 2022-2023... Same thing.
According to Al Jazeera Assad is finished. I figure they ought to know.
Assad resigned on his own and told his army to stop fighting. To avoid a bloodbath. He has protected his country for 15 years and this time something was different and he saw the futility of resisting. He did save a lot of lives this way - but unfortunately most likely these lives will be gone under a terrorist government. It is very must like Ukraine: the “opposition” government make a pact with neo Nazis (Zionist-proxy terrorists) and then these terrorists take over. The Zionist idea about Syria is to annex Golan Heights and force Alawites and Christians out, either by killing them or by transferring them to ghettos.
CJ>>"As luck would have it, these “diversity-friendly jihadists” have been telling the Israeli press that they “love Israel” and won’t do anything to harm its interests, so it’s safe to say that this “revolution” has been about as organically grown as a sheet of crystal meth."
Well put Caitlin! Assad was bad, but at least he was against the US Empire! I wonder how this will change the dynamics of the Middle-East region and its impact on Iran, Russia, and China...
From what I know about the US Empire (and its history and strategies), the ONLY WAY (IMHO) that it can be destroyed is from WITHIN (by Americans that are finally fed up of being exploited by those in power - we haven't reached that peak frustration/desperation point yet...)
If we don't get a move on, we'll be next on the menu.
We are already on the menu. US seeks wars and apparently depopulation will be the new fashion for the future. How we tolerate the likes of John Kerry Kohn is way, way beyond me. Until get get rid of the traitors, we have little or no future. Yet, the majority of Americans are buying thousand dollar cell phones and don't have serious concerns about our future, of lack thereof. So wonderful to be filled with glee.......
Who's "we" ? And what's meant by "move on"?
Presumably "we" is US citizens. "get a move on" means to take action, to get moving toward some goal.
Oh a collapse seems quite possible. China is taking leadership in technology. The USA is too corrupt and change-averse to compete, and too proud and greedy to contract gracefully. Short of nuclear war it seems a matter of time.
"Americans that are finally fed up of being exploited by those in power"
But their being fed up doesn't have anything to do with the empire. Many are not even aware that the empire exists. What these people want is money. The empire brings in money. So most likely doubling down on the empire extracting wealth from the hated, despised foreigners. That's what happened in Napoleon's France and imperial Japan, Germany, and Italy. Trump announced to his followers that the USA was extracting oil from Syria and (hopefully) Venezuela in order to boost their pocketbooks. Said followers raised no protest.
It's not China or Russia or whatever that can take the US down (due to its control of the global financial system and what money can buy).
No other Empire in history has had the global financial (and hence military) chokehold like the US Empire does.
So the only ways (IMHO) that the US Empire can be brought down are:
(1) Destroy the global financial system and US Dollar hegemony
(2) Revolt from within (on multiple levels - Civil wars, revolutions, etc.)
(3) Deadly epidemics
(4) Nuclear annihilation
No alternatives/options are pleasant or desirable, BUT...all Empires collapse - it is a matter of time...
>>"But their being fed up doesn't have anything to do with the empire."
As stated before, the Empire being brought down by external forces seems very unlikely - there is no comparison of the present US Empire to past Empires in history. It would be wishful thinking to go down that route...
At the end of the day - as Caitlin and others have said multiple times - the people (99%) outnumber the power elite (1%). The question is - "what will make them suspend their internal differences/arguments/ideologies" long enough to bring them together as a FORCE against the EMPIRE? (I'm sounding like I'm talking about the Star Wars universe here...)
"No other Empire in history has had the global financial chokehold like the US Empire does."
It seems to me to be eroding rapidly, this decline accelerated by the actions of the USA. Stealing hundreds of billions of dollars from nations which displeased the USA vaporized the trust upon which the system depended. The only option was/is building an alternative system. Only nuclear war could stop this, but seems rather too costly a measure.
>>"It seems to me to be eroding rapidly, this decline accelerated by the actions of the USA."
I don't see any data to corroborate this opinion. If anything, the US is ramping up its global hegemony efforts (maybe because it's getting more desperate ?)
Technology MAY be a game-changer (it usually is). Can the rest of the world come together (economically and technologically) to challenge the US/Western Empire? Time will tell (though I know I probably won't be alive to find out).
I'm sorry to disagree. The behavior of the US right now is the behavior of a failing empire. Syria faced a huge threat after 14 years of very cruel sanctions, being attacked by the US, European nations, Turkey, Israel, and a multitude of mercenaries from around the world. The US empire is going to divide up Syria. Turkey will take some, the US will take the oil, Israel will take water, oil, and agricultural land. Eventually, as the US empire begins to fail--the failure will happen fast--and your arguments about taxation and mortgages are not really relevant--and Syrians will mourn the loss of their country which--let's please remember this--"Syria" was created by European mandates. This is a continuation of European colonialism. But the European countries are facing such difficulties they themselves are in danger. The US empire is failing and cannot POSSIBLY continue to fund its current operations.
Governments rise and fall. Revolutions happen. New governments are created. Some "succeed" and others fail. If a group of terrorists, most of which are fighting each other, have ever overthrown a government and succeeded long-term--especially in the Middle East--I would like you to remind me who that might be?
The primary facts remain. Russia and China are far more stable, economically and otherwise, than the US/Europe. These terrorist groups are not native to Syria--most of them are foreigners supported, trained, and funded by the West. How many times has this approach succeeded? Afghanistan, maybe, after the CIA lost control of the Taliban. I don't think Afghanistan is very stable, even now, except to the degree that foreigners will never control it for long.
Russia and Iran play for the long game. It's way too early to make any serious statements about what's going on. Creating chaos is the U S M.O. but it hasn't been very successful for the entire lifetime of the US empire (which hasn't lasted long).
The destruction of Syria has been a very long engagement. It was the last Arab country to fall, if it has indeed fallen, from the rise of Arab nationalist countries fighting against the British empire. Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Jordan and Iran were always jostling for a leadership role. And who destroyed them? Iran is changed and stronger. The rest have been bribed into collaboration and betrayal of their brethren, or destroyed by CIA operations, which this also is.
There are two major elements which the CIA and US government cannot control, apparently. With all these wars, climate change is moving more quickly than necessary. One war jet flight produces as much pollution as a car driven by an excessively consuming American motorist in 100 years. Think about that for a minute. How many sorties are flying over the Middle East and Ukraine? Both Israel and the US rely on jets dropping bombs. Neither country has a military that can fight without jets dropping bombs. The other thing is the failure of the US dollar. World-wide economic stressors are extreme and likely to become much worse. Tax or not. Mortgage or not. Most US income is not taxed due to income inequality. The 12 richest billionaires are worth $2 trillion. And they don't pay tax. The US operations are not funded by taxes. They're funded by the Fed, which is just "accounting"--digitally. Inflation is an indication of how much actual value the US dollar has lost. It's huge. Mind-bogglingly huge already. And likely to increase under Trump. And that loss/income for the rich does not go to very many Americans. The top 10%--that's only 35 million people.
I advise patience. The US has spent 14-15 years trying to destroy Assad, a man who was never raised or prepared to run a country in the crosshairs. As for gas pipelines, where is Cheney's gas pipeline through Afghanistan? This is yet another fiasco Biden can take credit for. The leadership of the DNC are responsible for an amazing amount of destruction, world-wide. Not that the RNC is any better. But it's quite astonishing what they did when they shoved Biden down our throats.
This is a very sad day. And things are about to get much worse. But in the end, the US will lose. It is inevitable. And most of us will witness it, it's coming to us that fast. The world is changing that fast. So this is a warning to us all personally, and it is also yet another harbinger of hope. Ironically.
Capitalism is dead, Chang. It's dead.
BRICS
China selling US Bonds to UAE
Too many critical thinking errors in your response:
(1) Confirmation bias -> you pay attention to stories that confirm your beliefs, etc. and ignore important data that goes against them (too many to list here)
(2) You do NOT have an adequate understanding of HOW global finance (and US finance) works. Hence your misunderstanding of the important of being a "sovereign currency issuer" and the "strength of the US Dollar". Please read up on MMT (Modern Monetary Theory) to understand how the financial system works IN REALITY (and not in theory as taught in schools, by politicians, economists, and talking heads)
>>"Capitalism is dead, Chang. It's dead."
I WISH THIS WERE TRUE! But it's NOT. If it were, we wouldn't be talking about it. In fact, Capitalism is EVERYWHERE. Just open your eyes and look around you. Stop pretending and believing comforting narratives. Yes, I'd like to believe such comforting narratives too, but I'd be lying to myself if I did. Be honest, seek out the reality (even if it hurts).
The global financial chokehold is eroding rapidly.
I would say it IS eroding, but not rapidly. When you can print how much ever money you want (which is what the US can do), and when most of the world wants what you print (US Dollars), it is challenging to unseat the world hegemonic entity (the US and its dominance on the global financial system).
No other empire (in history) had the ability to print "unlimited amounts of fake money" (like the US does) AND make the rest of the world DEPENDENT on that "fake money". Until the world can figure out how to trade and circulate "other forms of money - fake or otherwise" that is not beholden to the US, I see slim chances of dethroning the US Empire.
Jihad means struggle ..it is astounding how so many don't know the meaning of the most basic word
Armed struggle is askaree jihad
A vocal struggle is jihad bi loss and struggle of the tongue A financial struggle which i am going through like many people is jihad bil maal struggle of wealth !!!
A spiritual struggle is jihad bi room
At least learn the word you are using to brainwash and misguide the western reader as you seek to mislead people
One of the Zionist objectives is to subvert Islam (into savage non-Quran-reading mercenary woke-a-bbists) and Christianity (into perverse "Judeo-Christian values" and "Rupture"). This is the reason why they are so hell-bent on destroying the Middle East, putting it into the hands of savage fanatics who know nothing about Islam and will make the West whine about "jihadists" and "Clash of civilizations". In Europe, they are destroying Russian Orthodox Church with the same satanic zeal.
The Middle East has been targeted by Israel. They cannot stop. They want to devour everything for themselves. And I hope the world doesn't let them.
Yes. The main goal of the Zionists/Talmudists is to erase Christianity from the face of the earth. Only when Christianity is removed will their "moshiach" come and rule the world. The so-called "Jews" hate Christians/Christianity. This is why they cooperate so well with the $atanists at the top of the Masonic lodges. The whole trans agenda is also due to their desire to transform man back to the original (according to their beliefs) = one being with both sexes. At the same time, a "bonus" is included; these people become unable to reproduce.
Satanists and the Talmud followers/Talmudists, also have the common goal; to have pedophilia as well as abortions up to the time of birth, legalized. Contrary to what Christian people believe, there are many of those who call themselves "Jews" who do not believe in the same god as the Christians.
- Which Jesus Christ has tried to tell us, so many times. Most Israelis are not of the people "Israel" at all = those who believe in the One True God.
Ukraine is destroying Russian Orthodox Churches!
Not sure what you're trying to say. "Mein Kampf" is also My Struggle.
you seem to not be a German speaker. "Kampf" does not mean struggle, it means FIGHT. As in war. "Die Soldaten haben mutig gekämpft". "Die Armee kämpft". "Jihad" means struggle as in heavy effort. Not murder and shooting. There is Greater Jihad (struggle with one's own Self) and Lesser Jihad (struggle for a just world in this world).
I'm not a German speaker but I do know a bit of German. Obviously, "struggle" is not a main Kampf definition, but depending on the context it can be one of them.
See Übersetzungen here: https://de.thefreedictionary.com/kampf
No doubt USA taxpayer dollars behind overthrowing yet another government. This one in support of a genocide of an indigenous people.
A 2023 report by the Commonwealth Fund found that the US has the highest rate of avoidable deaths among high-income countries, with around 100,000 deaths per year that could have been prevented with better healthcare.
Just imagine the USA redirected its tax revenue towards its people with things like providing universal healthcare, ie like normal countries do, rather than expanding into empire or doing Netanyahu’s sociopathic bidding.
How does this benefit everyday US citizens?
This has NOTHING to do with taxes. The fact is - those in power in the US "JUST DON'T CARE" about ordinary citizens. Yes - it's a difficult TRUTH to swallow - but it is the REALITY.
The US could (with or without any tax dollars) spend/infuse enough money into fixing the health care system, educational system, housing, etc. starting TOMORROW (if it wanted to). But if it does "give the people what they want", WHO will do the dirty/necessary work that needs to be done to support "those in power"?
NOT spending/fixing the health care system, housing, education, poverty, food insecurity, etc. is a CONSCIOUS and VOLUNTARY choice (by those in POWER). It has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with TAXES! Taxes are an EXCUSE used by them WHEN they want to avoid fixing the problems that need fixing!
Paying taxes are a sign of approval and thus consent. "The people" are waiting for government to do something but you said it yourself, government doesn't give a flying fig about us. Right now it's all about weapons and control of the world's population. So keep doing the same things and you bet - we'll keep getting the same results.
>>"Paying taxes are a sign of approval and thus consent."
Nope - people pay taxes because of the "repercussions" of NOT paying taxes. Taxes are NEVER a sign of approval and consent - you couldn't be more wrong.
With the rate that United Health System is buying up everything related to healthcare like pharmacies, doctors offices, other insurance companies, ect we will soon have universal healthcare, but under United.
Nobody of influence and authority cares.
The citizens fund the government and are too cowardly to stop paying taxes or banks so they do nothing and thus they are indirectly culpable too in these wars.
>>"The citizens fund the government and are too cowardly to stop paying taxes or banks"
WRONG on ALL counts.
(1) Citizens DON'T fund Government (read up on US monetary and fiscal theory). The Govt. TAXES citizens to (a) control inflation (b) reduce inequality (in theory) (c) incentivize and disincentivize behaviors (d) as a way to circulate the currency (e) as a way to make citizens do work that supports the nation (f) other minor reasons...
(2) Cowardness is NOT the reason people don't stop paying taxes or banks. I suggest ruminating a little on this... There are REAL consequences in the REAL world for "not paying taxes".
Pardon me for speaking my truth, but you are very entrenched in the system. You probably don't know about the birth certificate strawman, or how money is created (and I don'[t mean by printing). All those reasons you stated are bunk, pablum for the "useless eaters", how the overlords see people like you and me.
I know many people who hate government but are too chicken to even talk about not paying taxes or mortgages. Paying taxes is them getting the people's consent to do whatever the hell they like. Wake up, it's past time.
Denise, please forgive me for my tone in my other reply to your comment.
I didn't mean to come across the way I did.
I do understand what you mean (from your perspective) and where you are coming from, though I disagree with your opinion/evaluation of it.
As you say, YES - it would be GOOD if people don't pay their taxes and mortgages - but they also have their families (and everyone that depends on them) to think about. Many people's lives depend on whether they pay their taxes/mortgages or not. Hence, it is NOT cowardly to continue paying taxes/mortgages.
Also, not paying taxes/mortgages will NOT bring about any solution to the US Empire (internally or externally). There are systems in place. These SYSTEMS need to be replaced. Taxes/mortgages are NOT the problem. The SYSTEMS (and the people in positions of power and authority running these systems) ARE THE PROBLEM.
" War-Tax Resistance "
Very good idea, but we have to come together to agree because we can't get very far doing things on our own. But as a front, we can.
>>"Pardon me for speaking my truth"
What makes you think you know the "truth" ? Certainly NOT your understand of the global (or US) financial systems.
I suggest reading up on REAL economic theories (and history) and understanding how the financial system REALLY WORKS.
Also, please work on your argumentation skills (saying "reasons you stated are bunk" belies any confidence anyone might have in your reasoning skills).
(1) Understand the role of taxation
(2) Understand how inflation works (supply-side/demand-side, etc.)
(3) Understand different methods to control inflation
In short, please work on your understanding of "economics" and "finance" before embarking on an argument/discussion on the subject.
I already have studied all those things you're very presumptuous aren't you. You're the one who needs to study. I told you what to look into and you totally ignored it and proceeded to tell someone who knows more than you what they should do. Just because you can't comprehend what I'm talking about doesn't mean it's me who has the deficiency! YOu didn't ask one thing about what I said and I know you are totally clueless. Sorry to be so blunt, but most people are. Like I said, look up the strawman trust account. Lots of info now online. When I learned about it it was as vague as vapors.
You seem to have fallen for FAKE/FALSE information.
(1) https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/birth-certificates-financial-accounts/ (A specious theory that the U.S. has turned citizens into "collateral" was developed by a convicted forger with ties to white nationalists.)
(2) What Is a Strawman Account? Beware — It's a Scam (https://marketrealist.com/p/what-is-a-strawman-account/)
(3) https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2021/07/fact-check-birth-certificate-does-not-create-a-fictitious-legal-entity-straw-man-owned-by-the-state.html
There is so much more DEBUNKING all this nonsense you talk about.
Please work on your CRITICAL THINKING skills! And be careful about falling for scams, frauds, and conspiracy theories.
And again, NONE of this "strawman account" stuff has ANYTHING to do with how the financial system works. Focus on understanding economics, finance, and systems. I don't see ANY evidence (from ANY of your comments) on your understanding of how these systems really work.
Thank You Caitlin
Meanwhile, no one is talking about Gaza. The genocide has gotten worse than ever before, and yet all the news is about Syria. It's as if everyone decided it was over, but I'm not ready to move on. F this world.
The press and the U.S. state have been trying to normalize it
I recall reading an essay in the late 1960s titled something like the Zionist plan for the Middle East. In a nutshell it called for the break up of the Arab states in the region along ethno-religious lines.
At the time, the dream of Arab nationalist leaders and movements was to united the Arabic-speaking people into a progress, secular, socialist unitary state. Assad's Syria is the last remnant of that vision.
Here we are half-a-century later with the Zionist plan, as conveyed to General Wesley Clark at the Pentagon in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 -- regime change in seven countries in five years -- having come to fruition, although it took longer than expected.
Lesson learned: The Empire is far from finished.
The empire gets its power from the people. The people go along with it, work for it, obey it's diktats. So that's consent.
Sadly lots of shitlibs are cheering for the terrorists in Syria because Obama started the war there and Assad is friendly with Putin. They are the most brainwashed and brain dead people in history.
Can the shitlibs think back that far? Experience tells me they are know-nothing cultists who think they are morally and intellectually superior to everyone else.
In the 60's Syria and Egypt actually unified as the UAR. Today it seems like a hallucination.
What could possibly go wrong?!?! 😒
BRICS is over. Major moment of weakness of Russia and Iran.
Nope - BRICS+ is just warming up... (and I don't say this out of some sense of optimism or woo-woo thinking)
Is this a recording?
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BRICS was never meant to be a rival to the West. It is a consortium of nations that offers financing and development opportunities to its members. I never understood all that talk about how BRICS will topple the petrodollar. There is no toppling the petrodollar. Ever. Try and you risk nuclear annihilation.
YES! Well said. Finally someone that understands BRICS! Thank you!
It’s simply the central bankers moving their nation destroying fiat debt machines eastward so they can blow out new countries. Rinse and repeat every century or so. It’s the same crowd behind BRICS and NATO. There should have already been an attack to prevent BRICS from advancing as much as they already have but there hasn’t. The central bank crowd will eventually use world war to destroy the west just as planned for the NWO agenda. It will be made to appear to defend the petrodollar but it will all be scripted theater and the west will lose as per the script.
BRICS is not a military alliance. Besides, Syria isn't some kind of final decisive victory.
The real game is economic growth. Syria makes no difference for that. The true goal is for the West to have a secure supply line with which to attack Iran, or at least credibly threaten to do so. There is no guarantee that the West will be successful in conquering Iran.
And the BRICS factors in exactly how?
Isis loves Israel and Israel loves Isis.
Ominous. I hope, Caitlin and readers, that events might elicit a resurgence of and victory for President Bashar Al-Assad and his sovereign nation...that is/has been for decades so beset by those for whom "sovereignty" means nothing. (But: IRAN and RUSSIA caving to Genocidal/Colonial Zionism and its obedient servant??? -- goddam.)
I'm particularly sad because, from very afar and from reports and video footage that I deemed credible, I've "loved" President Al-Assad and his lovely, courageous wife Asma as I love my own two daughters who are in the same age range. I mourn for them and for Syria....
Note: I haven't kept abreast of this at all: What will happen to Palestinian refugees in Syria? Angst....