I’m strangely comforted by the possibility that Putin is smart enough, secure enough, and sane enough, to swat away these idiots in the White House and maintain a safe course of action on spite of their provocations. That still leaves the possibility that Nuclear war is the intention of the Israeli-US axis of evil. Something tells me that Gaza is a sort of diversion, and in that case nothing Putin does will matter. I keep thinking of Russian foreign secretary Primakov trying to prevent the Iraq invasion with negotiations between Bush and Hussein, concluding finally: “They don’t care. They want war.”
Well putting myself in P's position I don't see what he can do to stop it. It's not a bilateral decision. If one side starts a war then war we shall have. It seems to me that world war three began this week. There's no going back now.
The only reason to destroy nuclear early warning sites is to prepare to at least threaten a nuclear first strike. Did you know that the USA is the only nation with "we'll do a first nuclear strike whenever we feel like it" policy? They changed long ago without publicity or debate. The opinion of the public was not solicited.
The USA is now under military discipline in preparation for world war. Blanket censorship, cops beating up protesters....
Actually there are two countries who maintain First Strike nuclear protocols; the other is Israel. Every other nuclear armed country on the planet considers them to be defensive weapons.
The Empire's desperate strategy, if we can call it that, is to threaten the whole world with death in the hopes that the Rest of the World will capitulate rather than die fighting. And if not, well, if the US Empire can't own the world, no one will. The Opposing Powers' desperate strategy is to escalate as slowly as they can get away with, in the hopes that the Empire will implode into civil war before it can reach its goal.
US Civil war is not unlikely. The process of dividing the population against itself has been under way for some time now - neither side will accept the result of the next election, if the country even makes it that far.
My own desperate hope is that both of these artificially created sides can recognise their common enemy - the parasitic predatory class above us, not just in America, not just in the West, but over the whole planet. It emerges from our fearful selfish struggles of dominance and submission. Cooperative fearless solidarity nullifies it. We are out of practice on the latter, but I believe it is a natural human inclination, nonetheless.
Putin also must, for good reason, protect HIS country. Russia is one of the last bastions of Christianity. It has been stated previously that Russia will “save” the world.
I rather think Gaza is not a diversion for some of the factions involved. Consider there is quite the overlap of motivations involved here: profits and prophets. I’m not at all sure which is in the ascendancy here. One, profit, is shortsighted in the extreme. The other, prophets, are simply extreme in their mandated desire for Armageddon. And who else is also involved? The one clear fact is that they are homicida and without compunctionl.
I’m strangely comforted by the possibility that Putin is smart enough, secure enough, and sane enough, to swat away these idiots in the White House and maintain a safe course of action on spite of their provocations. That still leaves the possibility that Nuclear war is the intention of the Israeli-US axis of evil. Something tells me that Gaza is a sort of diversion, and in that case nothing Putin does will matter. I keep thinking of Russian foreign secretary Primakov trying to prevent the Iraq invasion with negotiations between Bush and Hussein, concluding finally: “They don’t care. They want war.”
Well putting myself in P's position I don't see what he can do to stop it. It's not a bilateral decision. If one side starts a war then war we shall have. It seems to me that world war three began this week. There's no going back now.
The only reason to destroy nuclear early warning sites is to prepare to at least threaten a nuclear first strike. Did you know that the USA is the only nation with "we'll do a first nuclear strike whenever we feel like it" policy? They changed long ago without publicity or debate. The opinion of the public was not solicited.
The USA is now under military discipline in preparation for world war. Blanket censorship, cops beating up protesters....
Actually there are two countries who maintain First Strike nuclear protocols; the other is Israel. Every other nuclear armed country on the planet considers them to be defensive weapons.
You can add China to that list, although their change was recent (2019, I do believe?).
The Empire's desperate strategy, if we can call it that, is to threaten the whole world with death in the hopes that the Rest of the World will capitulate rather than die fighting. And if not, well, if the US Empire can't own the world, no one will. The Opposing Powers' desperate strategy is to escalate as slowly as they can get away with, in the hopes that the Empire will implode into civil war before it can reach its goal.
US Civil war is not unlikely. The process of dividing the population against itself has been under way for some time now - neither side will accept the result of the next election, if the country even makes it that far.
My own desperate hope is that both of these artificially created sides can recognise their common enemy - the parasitic predatory class above us, not just in America, not just in the West, but over the whole planet. It emerges from our fearful selfish struggles of dominance and submission. Cooperative fearless solidarity nullifies it. We are out of practice on the latter, but I believe it is a natural human inclination, nonetheless.
You could be right. I don't have any better ideas.
Bingo! 💯 Great comment.
Putin also must, for good reason, protect HIS country. Russia is one of the last bastions of Christianity. It has been stated previously that Russia will “save” the world.
No one cares about Christianity.
No, YOU don’t care about Christianity.
And I’m not speaking of organized, dogma religion.
I hate to break it to you, but Christianity IS ALSO a organized, dogma religion.
Marcus:
There are good Christians (Orthodox, Catholic) and there are abominable “Christians” (evangelicals).
And no, I’m not a Christian.
I’m neither. I love God. I’m Christian, meaning I follow the ways of Christ as much as I can.
Hi Renee
I’m Pagan but I agree that Putin is doing the RIGHT THING.
He truly loves his country and his people.
I rather think Gaza is not a diversion for some of the factions involved. Consider there is quite the overlap of motivations involved here: profits and prophets. I’m not at all sure which is in the ascendancy here. One, profit, is shortsighted in the extreme. The other, prophets, are simply extreme in their mandated desire for Armageddon. And who else is also involved? The one clear fact is that they are homicida and without compunctionl.