No one with eyes to see or ears to hear the terrible cries of suffering and anguish coming from Gaza/Palestine/Lebanon/Syria/Ukraine/Sudan/Yemen/Afghanistan and on and on has any doubt. Martin Luther King Jr. said way back in the 60's "the U.S. is the greatest purveyor of death in the world today." The next day he was assassinated.
It does not matter which party, which president, in our 4 year sham election cycles. The parties work for the same people and work together. The Military Industrial, Oil Conglomerates, neocons or neoliberals (whatever), currently AIPAC and Miriam Adelson, Musk, etc. run this show and their political figureheads, and they have no red lines, no fear, and no conscience, and are completely blinded by Power, Greed and insatiable Profit and Consumption of the world's resources. Truly psychopathic level insanity!
It/they are unraveling, though, before our very eyes. And the vast majority of people on our Earth who do see, who do have a conscience and red lines, who love life and serve life, are holding our world together right now. They will never be in the news, but that solidarity and readiness to act, based in truth and compassion and justice has grown exponentially, as we have grown, in these last 13 months.
Absolutely. The UK/US CREATED Israel, funneling vast amounts of money and weapons (including nuclear) from the start. Israel would not, could not, exist without the US.
Of course it is. What does anyone propose to do about it? The sociopaths who run things are unimpressed by our cleverness, our oh so precious word games, our cute memes, our tightly reasoned arguments and close readings of texts, unmoved by facts, logic, evidence or morality, as long as they have force on their side, as long as the cops and army will shoot when ordered to do so.
It's like trying to reason with a schoolyard bully. Truly, this never grows old:
"A WOLF, meeting with a lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea, which should justify to the lamb himself, his right to eat him.
He then addressed him: Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me.
Indeed, bleated the lamb in a mournful tone of voice: I was not then born.
Then said the wolf: You feed in my pasture.
No, good sir, replied the lamb: I have not yet tasted grass.
Again said the wolf: You drink of my well.
No, exclaimed the lamb: I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother's milk is both food and drink to me.
Upon which the wolf seized him and ate him up, saying: Well! I won't remain supper-less, even though you refute every one of my imputations.
Moral: The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny, and it is useless for the innocent to try by reasoning to get justice, when the oppressor intends to be unjust."
As I said in my recent SubStack Article, there is no barrier to Radioactive fallout. Actually, the US Empire is more dangerous to Americans than it is to almost anyone else on earth. In the event of a nuclear exchange with Russia, the US will be blanketed by MANY (Dozens or possibly hundreds) Nuclear warheads. The fantasy of "survival" by Americans in the event of a thermo-nuclear war has been part of US Government propaganda since 1949. Many Americans will be vaporized.
Problem is here these are details lost to the billions whose minds have been riddled out on "social media" and "celebrity" and "influencer" trivialites.
Do you somehow think Americans are special just because we live here and have crazy people running our country? Do you think nuclear fallout and radiation won’t affect Americans? What makes you think that?
These arseholes bullshitting about "dragging Putin to the negotiating table" seem to have forgotten that two weeks into the conflict, Putin and Zelinski reached a peace settlement.
It was immediately scuttled by the UK and Amerika.
Yes, so what? Fairness and justice don't have anything to do with it, and as far as Zelenskii and the Ukraininan oligarch class are concerned, things have gone wonderfully since then, with floods of free western money for the skim and fawning magazine coverage.
This idiot and the idiots Trump is appointing are the engineers of the Crazy Train on the Railroad to Help! What a Clusterfuk! It seems only you and a few see this and call it what it is. We're like little kids pointing out the Emperor is naked!
Biden is swiftly becoming one of the USA's worst, reckless, most provocative, brutal presidents - with no sense of what's good for the whole. Toxic masculinity in a faltering old man trying to prove something very personal about himself. Ergo, no sense of the whole.
Biden has had a strange aggressive streak, evident since his entry into the public eye long ago. Also a compulsion to make sure there were no doubts about his sexual prowess. Heck, he even keeps aggressive dogs.
I suspect this is a reaction to bullying in high school. Not something you want an adult in positions of power to be (unsuccessfully) working through.
I'd sure like to know what the triplets - Blinken, Sullivan and Hochstein - dribble into Biden's ear. More compensatory toxic masculine bravado. Topped with hubris.
Russia’s military has the primary duty to defend Russia’s territory and people. Washington, London and Paris should take a good look at the new nuclear doctrine presented by Putin on September 25, 2024.
I understand and sympathise. The nation should be named the Benighted States of America. (Dictionary def: Lacking cultural, moral or intellectual enlightenment. Ignorant.) We could also add something about malign influence. Of course, there are, too, any number of fellow travellers such as our own Commonwealth of Australia. Smaller in stature, admittedly, but side by side with our Big Brother and guilty as hell as we avert our gaze from the genocide in the Middle East. And we keep supplying the spare parts for the weapons supplied by Big Bro. for Bibi's bastardry.
Perfect! -- not least your concluding alliteration! In that the Prime Monster revels in appearing before the US Congress to dozens of standing, adulatory ovations and before UN convocations with his despicable lies, perhaps we could augment with "...Bibi's bombastic and bombs-away bastardry."
When you say Biden ramps up - who is “Biden?” Because cognitively, he is not even competent enough to make himself a sandwich, so who are we talking about here? A genuine question.
"it would mean NATO countries “are at war with Russia.” ". As you say, Caitlin, "either way it is insane". We are grasping at straws if we think any of these sickos will ever do anything at all to actually make the world a safer and better place. Or even save it from disappearing altogether.
(1) at the beginning (i.e. Feb 2022) was Russia ready/prepared enough/strong enough/etc. to finish the job in a short time?
(2) The difference between Russia and US/NATO, IMHO, is that Russia wanted (and tried multiple times) to resolve the conflict with AS LITTLE damage/hostilities/carnage as possible. BUT, the US (and NATO) made that IMPOSSIBLE for Russia. Russia had a decent energy/trade relationship with Europe and did not want to upset that. But the US/NATO gave it NO OTHER OPTIONS, and hence we have what we have.
Chang, I agree with the points you are making. US/NATO by starting this proxy war, was not looking for peace. It was to diminish Russia in its plans for war with China.
Of course this war was entirely intentional on the part of NATO. The war has gone just fine as far as they are concerned, which is why they only continue to escalate.
Yes, Feral Finster, The Russian Federation was cautious as in not to start a full-scale war -incidentally that is why the Western media kept repeating the slogan " Russian full scale invasion of Ukraine"!
Didn't Noam Chomsky at the time say that Russia could have finished the war in weeks, if it had taken out Ukraine's military targets at the outset.....
Russia was foolish not to have done so. It wouldn't matter what they did or why,.those who seek Russia's downfall would accuse her of every possible crime, without regard for facts, logic or evidence.
Israel can openly commit the most sadistic crimes, and nobody dares raise a peep.
Another point here, Russian troops were in disarray at the beginning of the Ukraine war as Ukraine with the help of U.S./NATO military intelligence and Russia unsecured communications, took out multiple Russian generals. Russia admits to 8 but some give estimates up to 18 along with one admiral. This was a significant blow to Russia initially.
Now we see as U.S./NATO and the arms industry throw some of their best weapon systems against Russia, Russia has responded with countermeasures making some of the supposedly more advanced weapons obsolete. This is the basis of many of the wars lately, to impress with power and create fear of Empire, and testing new weapons. One must not forget, this is an existential fight for the Russians, and pawn Ukraine is being destroyed.
And what would the U.S. become without its never ending wars??? The world deserves to know.
Another aside, Biden should be immediately removed from office, but…then Harris would show her true colors.
Yes, we need to be out in the streets, millions strong.
Oh, I think it is obvious that Russia was caught flatfooted by this war, that they anticipated a cakewalk and instead walked into a NATO trap. They only had, what, eight years to prepare?
Good reminder that the Ukraine/Russia issue is still on the menu, and that the nuclear war entree sits on a server's tray.. i.e.,.... a server called Ukraine. Just as another reminder, no one, NO ONE, survives a nuclear war... not animals.... not plants... and certainly not humans. A few radioactive resistant bugs may linger a little longer, but since they will have nothing to feed on they may not survive either. In a full scale nuclear war, any human still alive after a few months will probably wish they had been directly under a mushroom cloud. Yet...... we keep playing Russian Roulette with the real thing... Russians... .If stupidity has another name, Homo Sapiens can fill that space.
Does anyone STILL doubt that the US Empire IS THE MOST DANGERIOUS ELEMENT/HINDRANCE to World Peace and the BIGGEST THREAT to humanity?
No one with eyes to see or ears to hear the terrible cries of suffering and anguish coming from Gaza/Palestine/Lebanon/Syria/Ukraine/Sudan/Yemen/Afghanistan and on and on has any doubt. Martin Luther King Jr. said way back in the 60's "the U.S. is the greatest purveyor of death in the world today." The next day he was assassinated.
It does not matter which party, which president, in our 4 year sham election cycles. The parties work for the same people and work together. The Military Industrial, Oil Conglomerates, neocons or neoliberals (whatever), currently AIPAC and Miriam Adelson, Musk, etc. run this show and their political figureheads, and they have no red lines, no fear, and no conscience, and are completely blinded by Power, Greed and insatiable Profit and Consumption of the world's resources. Truly psychopathic level insanity!
It/they are unraveling, though, before our very eyes. And the vast majority of people on our Earth who do see, who do have a conscience and red lines, who love life and serve life, are holding our world together right now. They will never be in the news, but that solidarity and readiness to act, based in truth and compassion and justice has grown exponentially, as we have grown, in these last 13 months.
💯 Well said Liana Chenoweth Kornfield!
I hope that is true !
Along with Israel.
Israel is PART of the US Empire (EVERYONE should know this by now).
Absolutely. The UK/US CREATED Israel, funneling vast amounts of money and weapons (including nuclear) from the start. Israel would not, could not, exist without the US.
Of course it is. What does anyone propose to do about it? The sociopaths who run things are unimpressed by our cleverness, our oh so precious word games, our cute memes, our tightly reasoned arguments and close readings of texts, unmoved by facts, logic, evidence or morality, as long as they have force on their side, as long as the cops and army will shoot when ordered to do so.
It's like trying to reason with a schoolyard bully. Truly, this never grows old:
"A WOLF, meeting with a lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea, which should justify to the lamb himself, his right to eat him.
He then addressed him: Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me.
Indeed, bleated the lamb in a mournful tone of voice: I was not then born.
Then said the wolf: You feed in my pasture.
No, good sir, replied the lamb: I have not yet tasted grass.
Again said the wolf: You drink of my well.
No, exclaimed the lamb: I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother's milk is both food and drink to me.
Upon which the wolf seized him and ate him up, saying: Well! I won't remain supper-less, even though you refute every one of my imputations.
Moral: The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny, and it is useless for the innocent to try by reasoning to get justice, when the oppressor intends to be unjust."
Not whatsoever! This is psychopathic and totally dismisses any consideration for American lives
I don't think you get it yet. The US Empire is a THREAT to ALL humans (including those living in America).
As I said in my recent SubStack Article, there is no barrier to Radioactive fallout. Actually, the US Empire is more dangerous to Americans than it is to almost anyone else on earth. In the event of a nuclear exchange with Russia, the US will be blanketed by MANY (Dozens or possibly hundreds) Nuclear warheads. The fantasy of "survival" by Americans in the event of a thermo-nuclear war has been part of US Government propaganda since 1949. Many Americans will be vaporized.
https://open.substack.com/pub/mlynch/p/biden-administration-and-neo-cons?r=cu55h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Problem is here these are details lost to the billions whose minds have been riddled out on "social media" and "celebrity" and "influencer" trivialites.
Do you somehow think Americans are special just because we live here and have crazy people running our country? Do you think nuclear fallout and radiation won’t affect Americans? What makes you think that?
Fuck Amerikkkan lives. ( I say this as an Amerikkkan.)
If we’re too chickenshit to overthrow the duopoly, whether by voting Third Party or by the barrel of a gun, we deserve NOTHING.
These arseholes bullshitting about "dragging Putin to the negotiating table" seem to have forgotten that two weeks into the conflict, Putin and Zelinski reached a peace settlement.
It was immediately scuttled by the UK and Amerika.
Exactly. 😢☮️🇵🇸
Yes, so what? Fairness and justice don't have anything to do with it, and as far as Zelenskii and the Ukraininan oligarch class are concerned, things have gone wonderfully since then, with floods of free western money for the skim and fawning magazine coverage.
Genocide Joe is thé worst warmongering monster on earth. Why is he still breathing?
He is still breathing to give the false impression that he is still alive. There is nothing there. He is a wraith.
We know he’s demented, but now also deranged!
Deranged!!
He might already be dead
Lower than 🐳💩!
This idiot and the idiots Trump is appointing are the engineers of the Crazy Train on the Railroad to Help! What a Clusterfuk! It seems only you and a few see this and call it what it is. We're like little kids pointing out the Emperor is naked!
The Emperor has no clothes--and no conscience, either!
Biden is swiftly becoming one of the USA's worst, reckless, most provocative, brutal presidents - with no sense of what's good for the whole. Toxic masculinity in a faltering old man trying to prove something very personal about himself. Ergo, no sense of the whole.
I thought Biden reached that point a long time ago.
Biden has had a strange aggressive streak, evident since his entry into the public eye long ago. Also a compulsion to make sure there were no doubts about his sexual prowess. Heck, he even keeps aggressive dogs.
I suspect this is a reaction to bullying in high school. Not something you want an adult in positions of power to be (unsuccessfully) working through.
I think a few sessions with Gabor Mate would do Joe some good. Or not.
He wouldn't be able to understand anything Gabor might tell his demented ass.
In his prison cell at The Hague, sure. Gladly send Gabor to chat with him at that point.
There is no cure for sociopathy. They just are what they are.
Maybe a few sessions with Mike Tyson.
I'd sure like to know what the triplets - Blinken, Sullivan and Hochstein - dribble into Biden's ear. More compensatory toxic masculine bravado. Topped with hubris.
None of this matters,a s long as Biden remains titular president and orders given in his name are carried out.
Has no sense of decency and compassion unchanged from his career
Russia’s military has the primary duty to defend Russia’s territory and people. Washington, London and Paris should take a good look at the new nuclear doctrine presented by Putin on September 25, 2024.
They obviously think that Russia is bluffing.
It would seem he's determined to go out with a bang.
Well, let him go out with a BANG (the self-imploding kind), but why does he have to take the world along with him?
Exactly. Let him implode or explode himself, but leave the rest of us ALONE.
And to take all of us with him.
I detest my United States of America and its floundering, flailing, failing foreign policy.
I understand and sympathise. The nation should be named the Benighted States of America. (Dictionary def: Lacking cultural, moral or intellectual enlightenment. Ignorant.) We could also add something about malign influence. Of course, there are, too, any number of fellow travellers such as our own Commonwealth of Australia. Smaller in stature, admittedly, but side by side with our Big Brother and guilty as hell as we avert our gaze from the genocide in the Middle East. And we keep supplying the spare parts for the weapons supplied by Big Bro. for Bibi's bastardry.
Perfect! -- not least your concluding alliteration! In that the Prime Monster revels in appearing before the US Congress to dozens of standing, adulatory ovations and before UN convocations with his despicable lies, perhaps we could augment with "...Bibi's bombastic and bombs-away bastardry."
And also it’s non-existent domestic policy
Malign Neglect.
I'm so sick of his evil, old ass. January 20th can't come fast enough.
Right, and then we get another evil old ass in charge to carry out the same, or far worse, policies.
When you say Biden ramps up - who is “Biden?” Because cognitively, he is not even competent enough to make himself a sandwich, so who are we talking about here? A genuine question.
"Biden" is a gestalt creature of Blinken and a few dozen others manipulated by the oligarchs. And possibly little grey aliens.
Why grey as a matter of interest ?
Hmm… They always seem to be grey aliens in the more modern interpretations of aliens. “Little green men from Mars” is just out of date.
It doesn't matter, as long as the orders given in Biden's name are carried out.
"it would mean NATO countries “are at war with Russia.” ". As you say, Caitlin, "either way it is insane". We are grasping at straws if we think any of these sickos will ever do anything at all to actually make the world a safer and better place. Or even save it from disappearing altogether.
The West sees Russian indecision not as reasonableness or humanitarianism, but as contemptible weakness and acts accordingly.
Had Russia acted decisively from the outset, the point would be moot.
2 questions/points:
(1) at the beginning (i.e. Feb 2022) was Russia ready/prepared enough/strong enough/etc. to finish the job in a short time?
(2) The difference between Russia and US/NATO, IMHO, is that Russia wanted (and tried multiple times) to resolve the conflict with AS LITTLE damage/hostilities/carnage as possible. BUT, the US (and NATO) made that IMPOSSIBLE for Russia. Russia had a decent energy/trade relationship with Europe and did not want to upset that. But the US/NATO gave it NO OTHER OPTIONS, and hence we have what we have.
Chang, I agree with the points you are making. US/NATO by starting this proxy war, was not looking for peace. It was to diminish Russia in its plans for war with China.
Of course this war was entirely intentional on the part of NATO. The war has gone just fine as far as they are concerned, which is why they only continue to escalate.
1. Russia certainly did not need to do bonehead things like "send put fighter planes without SEAD loadouts" or "invade with only 60,000 troops".
2. Does Russia want to be nice or does Russia want to win? This "just the tip" nonsense only gets more people killed.
Yes, Feral Finster, The Russian Federation was cautious as in not to start a full-scale war -incidentally that is why the Western media kept repeating the slogan " Russian full scale invasion of Ukraine"!
Didn't Noam Chomsky at the time say that Russia could have finished the war in weeks, if it had taken out Ukraine's military targets at the outset.....
Russia was foolish not to have done so. It wouldn't matter what they did or why,.those who seek Russia's downfall would accuse her of every possible crime, without regard for facts, logic or evidence.
Israel can openly commit the most sadistic crimes, and nobody dares raise a peep.
Another point here, Russian troops were in disarray at the beginning of the Ukraine war as Ukraine with the help of U.S./NATO military intelligence and Russia unsecured communications, took out multiple Russian generals. Russia admits to 8 but some give estimates up to 18 along with one admiral. This was a significant blow to Russia initially.
Now we see as U.S./NATO and the arms industry throw some of their best weapon systems against Russia, Russia has responded with countermeasures making some of the supposedly more advanced weapons obsolete. This is the basis of many of the wars lately, to impress with power and create fear of Empire, and testing new weapons. One must not forget, this is an existential fight for the Russians, and pawn Ukraine is being destroyed.
And what would the U.S. become without its never ending wars??? The world deserves to know.
Another aside, Biden should be immediately removed from office, but…then Harris would show her true colors.
Yes, we need to be out in the streets, millions strong.
Oh, I think it is obvious that Russia was caught flatfooted by this war, that they anticipated a cakewalk and instead walked into a NATO trap. They only had, what, eight years to prepare?
Good reminder that the Ukraine/Russia issue is still on the menu, and that the nuclear war entree sits on a server's tray.. i.e.,.... a server called Ukraine. Just as another reminder, no one, NO ONE, survives a nuclear war... not animals.... not plants... and certainly not humans. A few radioactive resistant bugs may linger a little longer, but since they will have nothing to feed on they may not survive either. In a full scale nuclear war, any human still alive after a few months will probably wish they had been directly under a mushroom cloud. Yet...... we keep playing Russian Roulette with the real thing... Russians... .If stupidity has another name, Homo Sapiens can fill that space.
The Biden administration couldn't leave the building without leaving a little WWIII, could they?
This is just utter craziness!
In the last 48 hours, Russia has taken out a large portion of Ukraine electricity infrastructure, so there is definitely something going on there.
I hope it's the beginning of the end of the war.
Not really. Nobody in Washington, nobody in Brussels, nobodu in Kiev cares whether the cannon fodder have heat or electricity.
I don't know how the Ukraine military coordinates across the country without power.
It's not as if they are bitcoin mining or conducting AI here.