All this started with the 2014 US orchestrated Coup/regime change of the Russian friendly government the majority Russian speaking Ukrainians in the East and Crimea VOTED for, installing the Neo-Nazi anti-Russian government headed by the Man US Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland was caught on tape saying she wanted before the regime change was even accomplished, started the 7 year Civil War in Ukraine.
There are just too many SINS of OMISSION in the Historical Record propagated by US and Canadian MSM.
Monday I posted this comment in The Washington Post, "When Western governments declare it's goal and objective is to destroy the Russian Economy without using bombs, Armageddon/WWIII already started.
History proves it's much easier to start Wars than to end them. It took 20 years and $2 TRILLION for the US to extricate itself from the humiliating defeat in Afghanistan.
I expect Putin will use the 'nuclear option' in the Economic War and will turn off Nord Stream I, and all oil and gas pipelines passing through Ukraine to keep Western Europe's Economy going.
The question will be who can endure material privation and want longer? Russians who are accustomed to it, or Western Europeans who aren't, when both the Russian and European Economies crash?
The comment was posted but when I went to make another comment, The Washington Post suspended me from making any more comments for a week and that one was deleted.
What is so infuriating is what they did with that comment, is just the kind of thing US Propaganda demonize Putin for doing.
US MSM Propagandists have the same Military and Intelligence "experts" over and over again with no dissenting opinions. That's when you know it's War inciting Propaganda.
The real tragedy is all those US Military experts say Ukraine doesn't stand a chance against Russia.
President Putin has been warning since 2007, the US sphere of Influence called NATO in Europe advancing to the borders of Russia represent an Existential Threat.
Supplying weapons exposes the malevolent intention of the US to use Ukrainians as Sacrificial lambs in the US War with Russia that started at the end of WWII.
Where was the MSM outrage with the US invasion of Iraq in violation of International Law? Since WWII, the US invaded and bombed only poor, 3rd World Nations and couldn't get a win in any of them.
My focus in geopolitics is primarily economic. Michael Hudson has a very interesting take on Ukraine in an article called America Defeats Germany for the Third Time in a Century. He divides the oligarch blob, as he calls it, into the MIC (Military-Industrial Complex), the OGAM (Oil, Gas & Mining), and the FIRE sector (Finance, Insurance, Real Estate). It's too complex to summarize here but I'm going to do a YT on it tomorrow because it gives a new perspective that's very interesting. He says this will likely result in a New World Order but not the one the blob intends. Check it out: https://michael-hudson.com/2022/02/america-defeats-germany-for-the-third-time-in-a-century/
Thanks for the link. The title of Hudson’s article says it all, and I hope there are now plenty of Germans reassessing their subservience to the U.S. and NATO.
However, while Hudson’s economic critique is incisive (as usual), I think his notion that the Russians will withdraw once the Neo-Nazis are defeated and the Donbas secured is just not in the cards, because Ukrainian membership in NATO is the prime existential problem for Russia. To explore that perspective, and to witness a prophecy on par with anything in the Old Testament, watch Professor John Mearsheimer's 2015 lecture, "Why is Ukraine the West's Fault". (https://youtu.be/JrMiSQAGOS4)
Thanks for that link too Jack. I agree with you that Hudson's prediction seems ballsy, since it's true or not within a week. That's a lot of credibility to risk. But it's certain that Russia would be predicting everything the US & EU is now doing with economic sanctions. Hudson's "unintended consequences" of pushing China and Russia together likely happened before Russia made a move. And China's statement that they'll be brokering a peace deal, resulting in a multipolar economy, seems likely. Could this even be the end of NATO if EU countries are cut off from Russian oil as a consequence? What's really in it for them?
I'm 15m into Mearsheimer's lecture and it's very enlightening. Of course there are many of his basic principles, Chicago-school style, that I don't accept--US core interests on other continents, toppling regimes to install pro-American 'democracies' as 'killing two birds with one stone.' But as Matt Taibbi says, you can glean good info anywhere if you're reading with your critical thinking hat on, and there's plenty here to glean, especially because it's from 2015 before info was being (self-)censored. So I'll definitely finish watching it later.
Hi, Jack. I posted my YT episode on Theodicy, Hegemony and Michael Hudson on Ukraine. It also talks about Mearsheimer's lecture that was really enlightening, all the way through the Q&A. I really appreciate you sending that. I was concerned that if I mentioned him in the title, my video might be deleted, since Matt Taibbi refers to him as "quickly becoming infamous." But so far, so good. Here's the link:
Total despair is all you can feel. A total blanket of propaganda is spread across the entire world. Any hope of human and our planets survival is diminishing by the hour. While this inanity continues, global warming and extinction beckons. Humanity is too stupid to survive.
Interesting comments from Col.Doug Macgregor on Fox and T.Carlson which may indicate the soft-war tactic and measured advance has ended and the major cities are pretty much surrounded. (It was posted on a vlog by Alex Christoforou a guy with a voice like Woody Allen in Athens. He has some great info on the War so far. It's helpful and seems balanced, you know geo-strategic stuff. I have found it strangely positive if that's the right word.
This hopefully means the tactics used in East Aleppo by the Russian army with safe corridors could bring a speedier end to this than being predicted. Things look grim in Mariopol, one guy on Greek TV saying they can't leave as the Azov patrols will kill them. I also read a comment about the tactics the Nazis are using in Ukraine follows the pattern of the Wehrmacht in the fall of Berlin. The comment read:
'Have you noticed how many Battle of Berlin style Wehrmacht tactics are being used by the Kiev regime? We’re less than a week into the war, & so far we’re already seeing:
1. Volkssturm in Kiev (granted an even more half-assed version thereof);
First off, my ears prick up any time a government stops being a government and is instead referred to as a regime. Secondly, in a sea of stupid things I've read related to this war, the comment you reposted has to rank near the top. Inaccuracies aside (Ukraine/Russia agreed to civilian corridors) the tactics listed would apply to any military situation where the population was outnumbered and refusing to greet an invading army with open arms. I'm not denying a Nazi aspect to Ukraine, but casting this as proof of it rings hollow. Defenders have been doing all these things way before Berlin in 1945. Someone's got an agenda they're trying very hard to sell.
Ugh, I am not saying it is proof of them being Nazis. As if you needed it. There is overwhelming evidence out there of the Nazi sympathies of ultra nationalists in Svoboda party and the Ukraine Military. That Svoboda party is not Nazi technically but 'Nationalist' Why? Because they say so? C14 its youth wing have been pretty candid about their fascist position. The '14' in there name comes from David Lane's, (the American neo-Nazi) infamous '14 words', on white supremacy. 'I am not a Nazi, I just love Hitler, hate Jews and deny the Holocaust' position. Not many in modern Europe of that ilk will ever actually admit to being Nazis, it's not a good look when begging for US/UK arms.
The Ukraine army is not wholly Nazi. True. But if the British Army replaced the Life Guards (the most senior British Regiment) with a regiment called HRH Brown Shirt Rifles, that sported a wolfsangel on its regimental colour and hero-worshipped Hitler, and had as its regimental badge the number 88, there would be good reason to believe the whole army and British govt were Nazi tolerant at the least or pretty much Nazi sympathetic. Who would tolerate such a Battalion in their army? Ukraine, that's who.
This is not a justification for Russia's invasion/war (the war has been waged for 8 years and resulted in 80% of casualties in the Russian speakers in Donbas (the Donbas like Russia is oppressive, like Ukraine under Zelensky). My sympathies are with neither faction. My comments were observations of what a former senior American Advisor said which I felt was interesting not necessarily inspired of God. The comments from someone living in Mariupol, It may not be true. He may be lying. Or suffering some sort of hysteria. I don't know.
But when one youth leader of C14 declares in an interview 'We love to kill' maybe not. It was offered as something of interest and like anything I say does not have the the Nihil Obstat or the Imprimatur.
Regime: A government, especially an authoritarian one.
Ukraine government closing critical TV stations, imprisoning a leader of the Opposition, might qualify. Don't you think?
As might all governments now banning and cancelling RT, Dostoevsky from curriculum's (Milan, Italy. Although I think they backtracked on that one), Russian cats from cat shows (The International Cat Federation), Russian paralympians (Olympic Ctte), Russian films from film festivals (Edinburgh) etc etc. Sounds pretty authoritarian and regime-like behaviour to me.
Relaaaaaaaxxxx........chill.......It's the fall of Weimar. Toast some marshmallows in the coming bonfire that will be the 2024 election. The next prez is gonna make Hitler look like a junior high school kid! Thanks Joe Biden/Ron Klain the clown !!!!
now that fox and hannity et al have staked out the extreme war mongering territory, what would the zionist fake-left neoliberals gonna do, agree with them?????? LOLOL Trump would have a field day blasting both, while offering nothing burger.
The comments about Putin being an oligarch and all his many possessions--yacht, castle, etc. being criticized on US television are interesting. There is never any mention of the USA interference with Yeltsin after the demise of the USSR. How many Russian oligarchs are now safely away in America? Russians got rich thanks to the neoliberal advise of the Clinton regime.
Noticing I can no longer reach thesaker.is website. Been some good reporting on the war from there. Must be too far outside the acceptable narrative, AKA the TRUTH. I imagine MoonOfAlabama will be next to be taken out. Strategic Culture Foundation is still up but they're being heavily censored already.
Recently on Twitter, I said that the Democrats were a right-wing party after Jon Stewart disappointed me by characterizing them as part of the left. I got a lot of people mad at me.
And I said (paraphrased, because I have many, many more characters to work with here) "Hey, when I started paying attention to politics in 2003, it was all Republicans arguing that war was good and Democrats at the time were arguing against Iraq at least. So it was the *right-wing* GOP that was pro-war, and the nominally left-wing Democrats who were anti-war. Obama even ran on being anti-war, before getting elected and turning into Bush 2.0 before our eyes. So how the hell can you say it's right-wing to be pro-war back then and not right-wing to be pro-war today? These things don't change, any more than being pro-choice can be called left-wing today and right-wing two decades from now."
Well, I never thought I'd thank Sean Hannity for anything so long as I remained in my right mind, but thank you, Sean Hannity, for proving that right-wingers are still overtly pro-war. And exceptions to that rule such as Tucker Carlson (if he does harbor any pro-war sentiments, he keeps those to himself these days from what I've seen) or Ron Paul do not change that fact. It was the right-wing Bush administration who started the war on terror, and by choosing to continue Bush's wars while starting more of them, the Obama administration chose to be right-wing. The Trump and Biden administrations continued the wars and similarly chose to be right-wing.
Being a left-wing hawk is an oxymoron, just like being "progressive except for Palestine" is. If you're salivating at the prospect of your armed forces killing people because it's a Democrat doing the killing instead of a Republican, and because that makes some kind of difference in your mind, then your mind (such as it is) needs a tune-up.
Isn’t the left/right paradigm dead? Isn’t it just one of those Overton Windows that perfectly exemplifies Chomsky’s quoted concern in Caitlin’s article?
The current warfare in Ukraine proves that the left/right framing is nonsensical. Are the Ukrainians left or right? Are the Ukrainian Neo-Nazis left or right? Are the democratic, capitalist, Christian Russians left or right? If every single U.S. Senator (except perhaps Rand Paul) is a warmonger, including Bernie Sanders, which ones are left and which ones are right?
While the legacy meanings of left and right once had some validity, that meaning has been co-opted by the psychological operators and propagandists whose job is to keep us confined in tiny ideological and identitarian jail cells.
You might be right about that. but as for who is what if there is still such a thing as left and right (i.e., certain political positions being part of one side or the other and not switching back and forth), then in order....
-Ukrainians: I wouldn't know, having not talked to any.
-Ukrainian neo-Nazis: well, they're very bad, that's for sure. I think right-wing, and the fact that the Democrats are happy to support them does nothing to make them left-wing or close to it, since Democrats aren't left-wing at all.
-Russians: wouldn't know since the last time I talked to anybody from Russia was like a decade ago, at least as far as I know.
-US Senators: if they're warmongers, they're not left-wing at all. Not even Bernie Sanders, who talks a good game on domestic issues but isn't actually willing to fight for them the way his supporters wanted him to, so he's really just a pretender at this point, just like Elizabeth Warren.
Mind you, I'm not so married to the left vs. right idea that all anybody needs to do to get me to hate someone is shout "They're right-wing!" That seems to work on a depressingly large number of people, but not on me, maybe because I've heard it said about enough non-right-wingers that I'm skeptical of the charge and therefore want to see actual evidence that someone has what I consider to be fucked up beliefs before I make up my mind about them.
An excellent bit of documentation of the non stop flood of lies presented by US-controlled media, and of just to what extent any "opposing opinion" (read "truth") is repressed, as far as the Russian effort to reasonably protect itself from short range nuclear missiles being placed by the US / NATO in Ukraine. When the Soviets did the same in Cuba, it was felt appropriate to engage in an act of war against them (the blockade of Cuba). But I guess when it's the other side, what for the US is reasonable defense is "an act of brutal invasion by a Hitler-like madman" (that being the party line of the US State Department regarding Russia's efforts to reverse a US State Department fomented coup in Ukraine).
Howeve: It is unfortunate you chose to include in this piece, however, evidence of your ignorance of science and medicine by engaging in transmission of big lie level falsehood of the same degree as the US State Department on Ukraine, regarding biological effects of radiation.
In addition to being a life long fighter for social justice, I'm a physician who has studied the biological effects of radiation on humans from all the major studies from which our knowledge of same has been acquired, including among them the 50 years and more study of the survivors of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. EVERY SINGLE ONE of the major such studies show that below a very very high threshold dose, radiation is entirely harmless to humans. While increased risk of cancer and other disease WAS seen among the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (some of whom got staggeringly high radiation doses... around 1/6 to 1/3 the 100% lethal dose), this contributed near not at all to the massive death and injury toll either immediately or over the next 50 years of close medical study of survivors. That death toll (around 200,000 civilians incinerated) was near entirely due to heat and blast from the bombs. The facts are very clear.
Nuclear war and nuclear bombs are horrific enough without adding LIES about the non-existent dangers of radiation. And these lies (which began to be told by quack MD Helen Caldicott and junk scientist / Nobel Prize winner Herman Mueller in a deceitful effort use fear mongering lies for the "greater good" of recruiting more people to the anti-atmospheric bomb testing campaign) have had a horrific effect, resulting in the deaths of thousands to tens of thousands... and probably 10s to 100s of millions soon, due to unchecked global warming caused by the fear created about clean safe sustainable nuclear power, THE ONLY means of replacing dependence on fossil fuel.
At Fukushima hysterical fear of radiation like that you expressed here KILLED OUTRIGHT 2000 Japanese due to a 100% unwarranted hasty and prolonged evacuation of the entirely harmless (as assessed by the UN World Health Organization and other groups of the most credible medical and physical researchers publishing in Nature, one of the most respected of peer review science and medical journals) levels of radiation that leaded from the three well-contained melt downs.
In Western Europe, after the Chernobyl accident, 10,000 to 100,000 (the number depends on whose study you read, but in any case it was a BIG number) women (grossly misinformed by a deceitful, ignorant and hysterical media) aborted otherwise wanted pregnancies for fear that exposure to the "plume of radiation" blowing from Chernobyl over Western Europe would cause them to give birth to deformed or otherwise damaged babies. And this plume? It involved radiation levels lower than low background radiation... levels 10,000 and more times lower than the levels of radiation pregnant mothers at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were exposed to ... yet the incidence of harm to children born of these mothers (children and mothers were followed for 50 years, medically) was... ZERO. NOT ONE SINGLE case. The hysteria and ignorance of these European women was not their own fault... it was engendered by lies from their physicians, and lies in the media, like those you printed here regarding the non-existent dangers of radiation.
Radiation is basically very very near entirely harmless, but hysterical fear of radiation is massively deadly. There are many more examples than the two I just gave.
If you want to educate yourself, I recommend you read Wade Allison's book "Nuclear is For Life", which examines one by one the major studies on which our knowledge of radiation effects on humans is based, done over the last 100 year, in great detail. Wade is a retired particle physicist who spent years educating himself in medicine in general and epidemiology in particular in order to provide education to the public about radiation. I also advise you to read George Erickson's book "unintended consequences", which presents much of the same data, and also has information about nuclear power, and about the disastrous failure that is "renewable" power. George is a retired Alaska Bush Pilot and retired dentist, and is a life long environmentalist who is deeply concerned about the fate of the Arctic and Antarctic wilderness.
His book is available free, as a pdf file (even tho he has written other best selling books), at this link:
Please keep exposing the wall to wall lies about the Russia Ukraine USA conflict told in the US media. But please ALSO try to educate yourself regarding radiation, and energy policy issues.
"When the Soviets did the same in Cuba" - surprisingly large number of Americans, and maybe overall Westerners, when asked what that crisis was about start with that. Somehow they either forget, omit, or didn't know to begin with that it was in response to the US' deploying Jupiter missiles in Italy and Turkey in 1961.
As a result of Soviets backing out those missiles were gone too.
Well known and respected nuclear physicists from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission disagree with you on how dangerous radiation fallout is. Cancer rates around the world more than multiplied once the US got its handy little technology and started testing it willy nilly with impunity. Helen Caldicott is hardly a quack and calling her that reveals your agenda-building more nuclear power plants.
Thyroid cancer was never an issue before Oppenheimer's nightmare, now it's common place. The cancers around the world have triggered our eventual extinction.
The lie that there are cancer survivors is a lie. When a person survives cancer 5 years they are considered a survivor and that goes into the official record. Even if they die on the sixth year.
You might want to take your own advice and educate yourself "Dr."
Here are some of those nuclear experts to help you better understand the truth of the dangers behind nuclear power and radiation fallout.
I regret to say it is you who are ignorant of the facts, and who are presenting outright falsehoods, and misleading selective neglect of data and cherry picked irrelevant or exceptional data. I note you have not mentioned your qualifications to distinguish junk science from credible, intellectually honestly done science. Your comment certainly strikes me as one from a credulous, confirmation-bias-driven true believer in politically-correct lies.
There are people with esteemed positions in nuclear power regulation who are malignant, deadly frauds and liars. Since you mention Fukushima (the facts concerning which you clearly are entirely ignorant of) I'll point that as an example:
Jazcko was the chief of the US nuclear regulator commission at the time, and he advised Americans to leave Japan and Japan to evacuate a large area around Fukushima. He is held in extreme contempt as a malignant and deadly liar and incompetent among the bulk of those involved in nuclear power and study of radiation effects of humans, tho you are ignorant of this. Even the Wikipedia entry for Jazcko makes clear... without much reading between the lines... what a vile character he is.
In contrast, the UN World Health organization AND an independent research group publishing in Nature measured radiation levels around Fukushima, and found there was ZERO risk to health anywhere outside of the plant, either acutely or to those who might live there for the next 50 years. Numerous other studies have confirmed this... that the evacuation was a crime against humanity that killed 2000 people outright and seriously damaged the lives of another 60,000.
It is profoundly hysterical, ignorant fear of radiation, like yours, that is deadly. Radiation itself is essentially entirely harmless outside of astronomically rare massive exposures, and then only when such are incurred very rapidly.
Helen Caldicott is one f the most vile, contemptible, disgusting liars and quacks of all MDs I know. She's in some respect worse than MDs to assert anti-VAXX quackery. She's up there with Dr. Oz, when it comes to insults to science and medicine and dissemination of deadly falsehoods.
Where did say you got your MD degree, Pauline? Your training in distinguishing quality medical claims from fraudulently or incompetently researched ones? Your training in physics and math? I'd like to know, because what your wrote was so replete with profoundly credulous, gullible, assertion of big lies and over the top falsehoods that it seems apparent to me you are entirely unable to separate honest science and medicine from lunatic quackery and junk science.
I would bet you give credence to broadly held in contempt junk scientists and over the top lunatic frauds Mark Z Jacobson and Joe Mangano... both held in extreme contempt by the bulk of those in science and medicine for their faking of data and repeated assertion of obvious falsehood.
As for your ravings about thyroid cancer: I did not even use the word "cancer survivor", nor did I anywhere refer to "5 year survival" from cancer generally in my previous note.
It was you, in your abysmal ignorance of medicine, who brought that up as if it were relevant to what I had written.
Your implying I was using "5 year survival datea" is fundamentally dishonest, and is an example of your using the sleazy old debating team tactic of "creating a straw man" / "putting words in someone's mouth".
You'd do well to listen to what Alexander Pope wrote 400 years ago, paraphrased as "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing / Drink deep, or taste not the Pierean Spring."
I spoke specifically about thyroid cancer, which IS 99% curable for most intents and purposes. By "curable" I mean people successfully treated for it live out normal life spans, and for the most part (with some minor qualifications) experience during that normal life span normal quality of life. But you, profoundly ignorant of medicine, assert otherwise, exposing your faith in lies and lack of medical knowledge.
The ONLY time thyroid cancer has occurred attributable to widely dispersed radiation was at Chernobyl. Where about 4000 to 6000 people may have gotten it due to I131 exposure... and perhaps 40 to 100 died. Even then... most of this thyroid cancer would have NOT occurred had the dying Stalniist bureaucratic state of the USSR not insanely and criminally tried to hide the fact of Chernobyl, and in so doing failed to take the then well KNOWN and ready at hand there measures to prevent thyroid cancer in the face of 131 release:
(1) Distribute potassium iodide pills to all people under 20. (2) warn the public not to drink milk or eat other dairy foods produced locally for the next 90 days. (3) MASSIVELY ship in uncontaminated milk and other foods for the population to consume. Had this been done... and without any evacuation... there would either have been NO added thyroid cancers, or at least a hugely smaller number of such.
[I131, with a half life of 8 days, is 99.9% gone in less than three months.]
I bet you cannot even NAME most of the major studies on which our current medical and scientific knowledge of radiation effects on humans is based. I have read all of them and the discussions of them extensively, from the perspective of one highly trained in judging the quality of scientific and medical research, reports, and discussions.
Yet again, I ask you: What are your qualifications, other than a willingness to spout selected discredited accounts if they agree with your faith in anti-nuclear dogma and lies, and absolute rejection of anything that contests your true-belief in malignant falsehood/
If you want to demonstrate I'm mistaken in this assessment of you, why not show me you ARE willing to read quality material that makes a case for something other than what you believe in? Read George Erickson's book "Unintended Consequences / The Lie that Killed Millions and Accelerated Climate Change". Available free at this link:
Buy and read Wade Allison's book "Nuclaer is for Life" (an awfully-chosen title, I will agree... but the book is nothing short of brilliant] to learn what all major studies on the effects of radiation on humans shows.
You have demonstrated in your reply PROFOUND ignorance of science and medicine, so I feel it appropriate to ask you about your qualifications to evaluate matters of science, medicine, and engineering as they relate to energy policy.
I'm trained at Harvard [where I'm proud to say I also was on, at the time, the executive committee of SDS as we led two years of student striked against the war in Vietnam] in the sciences (BA in biochemistry) , and at UCSD in medicine (MD). What education in and experience practicing science and medicine do you have? Have you taken care of patients whose lives depending on the quality of your ability to read research reports and distinguish between likely valid ones and likely poor ones?
I would respectfully advise you not to pontificate about subjects you have neither knowledge of nor education in... other than dogma fed you by the fossil fuel industry and by those paid by the fossil fuel industry (such as fake environmentalist organizations like the Sierra Club and and the NDRC),
Your post here struck me as very similar to the faith readers of the tightly controlled and censored press here now have in the 100% false narrative that Russia is an aggressor in Ukraine and Putin is a mad man / Hitler-like figure. It was a total rejection of knowledge and intellectually honestly collected, freely discussed and debated science and medicine. And a parroting of the litany of some of the most malignant and deadly liars concerning energy policy.
Lies that kill thousands... arguably millions.
Please stop being a cat's paw for the fossil fuel industry and spreading their lies as abut the NON EXISTENT dangers of radiation and nuclear power.
given the zionist warmongering chorus, i can only sympathize with Putin striking back and striking back as hard as he can teach the zionists a lesson that they will NEVER forget again.
Please don't confuse and conflate zionists with all Jewish people. That is as indiscriminate as everyone going after the Russian people for Putin's actions.
the global imperialism has been affecting humanity for at least the last 100 years including you and your loved ones. the cycle of abuse has to be broken by someone and somehow. you gotta break some eggs to to make omlet.
Newsflash: Covid-19 just announced joining sanctioning Russia and pulled itself out of that hellhole. "Not worth it" - the representative overheard saying.
All this started with the 2014 US orchestrated Coup/regime change of the Russian friendly government the majority Russian speaking Ukrainians in the East and Crimea VOTED for, installing the Neo-Nazi anti-Russian government headed by the Man US Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland was caught on tape saying she wanted before the regime change was even accomplished, started the 7 year Civil War in Ukraine.
There are just too many SINS of OMISSION in the Historical Record propagated by US and Canadian MSM.
Monday I posted this comment in The Washington Post, "When Western governments declare it's goal and objective is to destroy the Russian Economy without using bombs, Armageddon/WWIII already started.
History proves it's much easier to start Wars than to end them. It took 20 years and $2 TRILLION for the US to extricate itself from the humiliating defeat in Afghanistan.
I expect Putin will use the 'nuclear option' in the Economic War and will turn off Nord Stream I, and all oil and gas pipelines passing through Ukraine to keep Western Europe's Economy going.
The question will be who can endure material privation and want longer? Russians who are accustomed to it, or Western Europeans who aren't, when both the Russian and European Economies crash?
https://rayjc.com/2022/02/28/have-we-arrived-at-armageddon-wwiii"
The comment was posted but when I went to make another comment, The Washington Post suspended me from making any more comments for a week and that one was deleted.
What is so infuriating is what they did with that comment, is just the kind of thing US Propaganda demonize Putin for doing.
US MSM Propagandists have the same Military and Intelligence "experts" over and over again with no dissenting opinions. That's when you know it's War inciting Propaganda.
The real tragedy is all those US Military experts say Ukraine doesn't stand a chance against Russia.
President Putin has been warning since 2007, the US sphere of Influence called NATO in Europe advancing to the borders of Russia represent an Existential Threat.
Supplying weapons exposes the malevolent intention of the US to use Ukrainians as Sacrificial lambs in the US War with Russia that started at the end of WWII.
Where was the MSM outrage with the US invasion of Iraq in violation of International Law? Since WWII, the US invaded and bombed only poor, 3rd World Nations and couldn't get a win in any of them.
Keep in mind that a new gas pipeline from Russia to the PRC will come online soon.
My focus in geopolitics is primarily economic. Michael Hudson has a very interesting take on Ukraine in an article called America Defeats Germany for the Third Time in a Century. He divides the oligarch blob, as he calls it, into the MIC (Military-Industrial Complex), the OGAM (Oil, Gas & Mining), and the FIRE sector (Finance, Insurance, Real Estate). It's too complex to summarize here but I'm going to do a YT on it tomorrow because it gives a new perspective that's very interesting. He says this will likely result in a New World Order but not the one the blob intends. Check it out: https://michael-hudson.com/2022/02/america-defeats-germany-for-the-third-time-in-a-century/
Thanks for the link. The title of Hudson’s article says it all, and I hope there are now plenty of Germans reassessing their subservience to the U.S. and NATO.
However, while Hudson’s economic critique is incisive (as usual), I think his notion that the Russians will withdraw once the Neo-Nazis are defeated and the Donbas secured is just not in the cards, because Ukrainian membership in NATO is the prime existential problem for Russia. To explore that perspective, and to witness a prophecy on par with anything in the Old Testament, watch Professor John Mearsheimer's 2015 lecture, "Why is Ukraine the West's Fault". (https://youtu.be/JrMiSQAGOS4)
Thanks for that link too Jack. I agree with you that Hudson's prediction seems ballsy, since it's true or not within a week. That's a lot of credibility to risk. But it's certain that Russia would be predicting everything the US & EU is now doing with economic sanctions. Hudson's "unintended consequences" of pushing China and Russia together likely happened before Russia made a move. And China's statement that they'll be brokering a peace deal, resulting in a multipolar economy, seems likely. Could this even be the end of NATO if EU countries are cut off from Russian oil as a consequence? What's really in it for them?
I'm 15m into Mearsheimer's lecture and it's very enlightening. Of course there are many of his basic principles, Chicago-school style, that I don't accept--US core interests on other continents, toppling regimes to install pro-American 'democracies' as 'killing two birds with one stone.' But as Matt Taibbi says, you can glean good info anywhere if you're reading with your critical thinking hat on, and there's plenty here to glean, especially because it's from 2015 before info was being (self-)censored. So I'll definitely finish watching it later.
Hi, Jack. I posted my YT episode on Theodicy, Hegemony and Michael Hudson on Ukraine. It also talks about Mearsheimer's lecture that was really enlightening, all the way through the Q&A. I really appreciate you sending that. I was concerned that if I mentioned him in the title, my video might be deleted, since Matt Taibbi refers to him as "quickly becoming infamous." But so far, so good. Here's the link:
https://youtu.be/taJfTNOGy5U
Well, I'm quite terrified now. If there is no tomorrow, then it has been a privlege to read and share your work while it lasted.
Total despair is all you can feel. A total blanket of propaganda is spread across the entire world. Any hope of human and our planets survival is diminishing by the hour. While this inanity continues, global warming and extinction beckons. Humanity is too stupid to survive.
and Putin’s track record is clear, every war he wins is followed by another war," Watts added.
Here let me fix that,
and America's track record is clear, every war they lose is followed by another war.
Interesting comments from Col.Doug Macgregor on Fox and T.Carlson which may indicate the soft-war tactic and measured advance has ended and the major cities are pretty much surrounded. (It was posted on a vlog by Alex Christoforou a guy with a voice like Woody Allen in Athens. He has some great info on the War so far. It's helpful and seems balanced, you know geo-strategic stuff. I have found it strangely positive if that's the right word.
This hopefully means the tactics used in East Aleppo by the Russian army with safe corridors could bring a speedier end to this than being predicted. Things look grim in Mariopol, one guy on Greek TV saying they can't leave as the Azov patrols will kill them. I also read a comment about the tactics the Nazis are using in Ukraine follows the pattern of the Wehrmacht in the fall of Berlin. The comment read:
'Have you noticed how many Battle of Berlin style Wehrmacht tactics are being used by the Kiev regime? We’re less than a week into the war, & so far we’re already seeing:
1. Volkssturm in Kiev (granted an even more half-assed version thereof);
2. Preventing civilians from leaving the warzone (see https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/03/01/greek-in-mariupol-fascist-ukrainian/);
3. Holding festungs down to the last man (e.g. Kharkov, Mariupol, etc.);
4. Forced conscription of military aged men;
5. Strafbattalion
This was from the Saker website: https://thesaker.is/day-6-a-couple-of-quick-points/
First off, my ears prick up any time a government stops being a government and is instead referred to as a regime. Secondly, in a sea of stupid things I've read related to this war, the comment you reposted has to rank near the top. Inaccuracies aside (Ukraine/Russia agreed to civilian corridors) the tactics listed would apply to any military situation where the population was outnumbered and refusing to greet an invading army with open arms. I'm not denying a Nazi aspect to Ukraine, but casting this as proof of it rings hollow. Defenders have been doing all these things way before Berlin in 1945. Someone's got an agenda they're trying very hard to sell.
Ugh, I am not saying it is proof of them being Nazis. As if you needed it. There is overwhelming evidence out there of the Nazi sympathies of ultra nationalists in Svoboda party and the Ukraine Military. That Svoboda party is not Nazi technically but 'Nationalist' Why? Because they say so? C14 its youth wing have been pretty candid about their fascist position. The '14' in there name comes from David Lane's, (the American neo-Nazi) infamous '14 words', on white supremacy. 'I am not a Nazi, I just love Hitler, hate Jews and deny the Holocaust' position. Not many in modern Europe of that ilk will ever actually admit to being Nazis, it's not a good look when begging for US/UK arms.
The Ukraine army is not wholly Nazi. True. But if the British Army replaced the Life Guards (the most senior British Regiment) with a regiment called HRH Brown Shirt Rifles, that sported a wolfsangel on its regimental colour and hero-worshipped Hitler, and had as its regimental badge the number 88, there would be good reason to believe the whole army and British govt were Nazi tolerant at the least or pretty much Nazi sympathetic. Who would tolerate such a Battalion in their army? Ukraine, that's who.
This is not a justification for Russia's invasion/war (the war has been waged for 8 years and resulted in 80% of casualties in the Russian speakers in Donbas (the Donbas like Russia is oppressive, like Ukraine under Zelensky). My sympathies are with neither faction. My comments were observations of what a former senior American Advisor said which I felt was interesting not necessarily inspired of God. The comments from someone living in Mariupol, It may not be true. He may be lying. Or suffering some sort of hysteria. I don't know.
But when one youth leader of C14 declares in an interview 'We love to kill' maybe not. It was offered as something of interest and like anything I say does not have the the Nihil Obstat or the Imprimatur.
Regime: A government, especially an authoritarian one.
Ukraine government closing critical TV stations, imprisoning a leader of the Opposition, might qualify. Don't you think?
As might all governments now banning and cancelling RT, Dostoevsky from curriculum's (Milan, Italy. Although I think they backtracked on that one), Russian cats from cat shows (The International Cat Federation), Russian paralympians (Olympic Ctte), Russian films from film festivals (Edinburgh) etc etc. Sounds pretty authoritarian and regime-like behaviour to me.
Relaaaaaaaxxxx........chill.......It's the fall of Weimar. Toast some marshmallows in the coming bonfire that will be the 2024 election. The next prez is gonna make Hitler look like a junior high school kid! Thanks Joe Biden/Ron Klain the clown !!!!
now that fox and hannity et al have staked out the extreme war mongering territory, what would the zionist fake-left neoliberals gonna do, agree with them?????? LOLOL Trump would have a field day blasting both, while offering nothing burger.
Please everyone keep calm. This will all be brought to a balanced conclusion soon.
The comments about Putin being an oligarch and all his many possessions--yacht, castle, etc. being criticized on US television are interesting. There is never any mention of the USA interference with Yeltsin after the demise of the USSR. How many Russian oligarchs are now safely away in America? Russians got rich thanks to the neoliberal advise of the Clinton regime.
Noticing I can no longer reach thesaker.is website. Been some good reporting on the war from there. Must be too far outside the acceptable narrative, AKA the TRUTH. I imagine MoonOfAlabama will be next to be taken out. Strategic Culture Foundation is still up but they're being heavily censored already.
Recently on Twitter, I said that the Democrats were a right-wing party after Jon Stewart disappointed me by characterizing them as part of the left. I got a lot of people mad at me.
And I said (paraphrased, because I have many, many more characters to work with here) "Hey, when I started paying attention to politics in 2003, it was all Republicans arguing that war was good and Democrats at the time were arguing against Iraq at least. So it was the *right-wing* GOP that was pro-war, and the nominally left-wing Democrats who were anti-war. Obama even ran on being anti-war, before getting elected and turning into Bush 2.0 before our eyes. So how the hell can you say it's right-wing to be pro-war back then and not right-wing to be pro-war today? These things don't change, any more than being pro-choice can be called left-wing today and right-wing two decades from now."
Well, I never thought I'd thank Sean Hannity for anything so long as I remained in my right mind, but thank you, Sean Hannity, for proving that right-wingers are still overtly pro-war. And exceptions to that rule such as Tucker Carlson (if he does harbor any pro-war sentiments, he keeps those to himself these days from what I've seen) or Ron Paul do not change that fact. It was the right-wing Bush administration who started the war on terror, and by choosing to continue Bush's wars while starting more of them, the Obama administration chose to be right-wing. The Trump and Biden administrations continued the wars and similarly chose to be right-wing.
Being a left-wing hawk is an oxymoron, just like being "progressive except for Palestine" is. If you're salivating at the prospect of your armed forces killing people because it's a Democrat doing the killing instead of a Republican, and because that makes some kind of difference in your mind, then your mind (such as it is) needs a tune-up.
Isn’t the left/right paradigm dead? Isn’t it just one of those Overton Windows that perfectly exemplifies Chomsky’s quoted concern in Caitlin’s article?
The current warfare in Ukraine proves that the left/right framing is nonsensical. Are the Ukrainians left or right? Are the Ukrainian Neo-Nazis left or right? Are the democratic, capitalist, Christian Russians left or right? If every single U.S. Senator (except perhaps Rand Paul) is a warmonger, including Bernie Sanders, which ones are left and which ones are right?
While the legacy meanings of left and right once had some validity, that meaning has been co-opted by the psychological operators and propagandists whose job is to keep us confined in tiny ideological and identitarian jail cells.
You might be right about that. but as for who is what if there is still such a thing as left and right (i.e., certain political positions being part of one side or the other and not switching back and forth), then in order....
-Ukrainians: I wouldn't know, having not talked to any.
-Ukrainian neo-Nazis: well, they're very bad, that's for sure. I think right-wing, and the fact that the Democrats are happy to support them does nothing to make them left-wing or close to it, since Democrats aren't left-wing at all.
-Russians: wouldn't know since the last time I talked to anybody from Russia was like a decade ago, at least as far as I know.
-US Senators: if they're warmongers, they're not left-wing at all. Not even Bernie Sanders, who talks a good game on domestic issues but isn't actually willing to fight for them the way his supporters wanted him to, so he's really just a pretender at this point, just like Elizabeth Warren.
Mind you, I'm not so married to the left vs. right idea that all anybody needs to do to get me to hate someone is shout "They're right-wing!" That seems to work on a depressingly large number of people, but not on me, maybe because I've heard it said about enough non-right-wingers that I'm skeptical of the charge and therefore want to see actual evidence that someone has what I consider to be fucked up beliefs before I make up my mind about them.
An excellent bit of documentation of the non stop flood of lies presented by US-controlled media, and of just to what extent any "opposing opinion" (read "truth") is repressed, as far as the Russian effort to reasonably protect itself from short range nuclear missiles being placed by the US / NATO in Ukraine. When the Soviets did the same in Cuba, it was felt appropriate to engage in an act of war against them (the blockade of Cuba). But I guess when it's the other side, what for the US is reasonable defense is "an act of brutal invasion by a Hitler-like madman" (that being the party line of the US State Department regarding Russia's efforts to reverse a US State Department fomented coup in Ukraine).
Howeve: It is unfortunate you chose to include in this piece, however, evidence of your ignorance of science and medicine by engaging in transmission of big lie level falsehood of the same degree as the US State Department on Ukraine, regarding biological effects of radiation.
In addition to being a life long fighter for social justice, I'm a physician who has studied the biological effects of radiation on humans from all the major studies from which our knowledge of same has been acquired, including among them the 50 years and more study of the survivors of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. EVERY SINGLE ONE of the major such studies show that below a very very high threshold dose, radiation is entirely harmless to humans. While increased risk of cancer and other disease WAS seen among the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (some of whom got staggeringly high radiation doses... around 1/6 to 1/3 the 100% lethal dose), this contributed near not at all to the massive death and injury toll either immediately or over the next 50 years of close medical study of survivors. That death toll (around 200,000 civilians incinerated) was near entirely due to heat and blast from the bombs. The facts are very clear.
Nuclear war and nuclear bombs are horrific enough without adding LIES about the non-existent dangers of radiation. And these lies (which began to be told by quack MD Helen Caldicott and junk scientist / Nobel Prize winner Herman Mueller in a deceitful effort use fear mongering lies for the "greater good" of recruiting more people to the anti-atmospheric bomb testing campaign) have had a horrific effect, resulting in the deaths of thousands to tens of thousands... and probably 10s to 100s of millions soon, due to unchecked global warming caused by the fear created about clean safe sustainable nuclear power, THE ONLY means of replacing dependence on fossil fuel.
At Fukushima hysterical fear of radiation like that you expressed here KILLED OUTRIGHT 2000 Japanese due to a 100% unwarranted hasty and prolonged evacuation of the entirely harmless (as assessed by the UN World Health Organization and other groups of the most credible medical and physical researchers publishing in Nature, one of the most respected of peer review science and medical journals) levels of radiation that leaded from the three well-contained melt downs.
In Western Europe, after the Chernobyl accident, 10,000 to 100,000 (the number depends on whose study you read, but in any case it was a BIG number) women (grossly misinformed by a deceitful, ignorant and hysterical media) aborted otherwise wanted pregnancies for fear that exposure to the "plume of radiation" blowing from Chernobyl over Western Europe would cause them to give birth to deformed or otherwise damaged babies. And this plume? It involved radiation levels lower than low background radiation... levels 10,000 and more times lower than the levels of radiation pregnant mothers at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were exposed to ... yet the incidence of harm to children born of these mothers (children and mothers were followed for 50 years, medically) was... ZERO. NOT ONE SINGLE case. The hysteria and ignorance of these European women was not their own fault... it was engendered by lies from their physicians, and lies in the media, like those you printed here regarding the non-existent dangers of radiation.
Radiation is basically very very near entirely harmless, but hysterical fear of radiation is massively deadly. There are many more examples than the two I just gave.
If you want to educate yourself, I recommend you read Wade Allison's book "Nuclear is For Life", which examines one by one the major studies on which our knowledge of radiation effects on humans is based, done over the last 100 year, in great detail. Wade is a retired particle physicist who spent years educating himself in medicine in general and epidemiology in particular in order to provide education to the public about radiation. I also advise you to read George Erickson's book "unintended consequences", which presents much of the same data, and also has information about nuclear power, and about the disastrous failure that is "renewable" power. George is a retired Alaska Bush Pilot and retired dentist, and is a life long environmentalist who is deeply concerned about the fate of the Arctic and Antarctic wilderness.
His book is available free, as a pdf file (even tho he has written other best selling books), at this link:
http://tundracub.com/UnintendedConsequences/Unintended-Consequences.pdf
Please keep exposing the wall to wall lies about the Russia Ukraine USA conflict told in the US media. But please ALSO try to educate yourself regarding radiation, and energy policy issues.
---marty
Martin H. Goodman MD
"When the Soviets did the same in Cuba" - surprisingly large number of Americans, and maybe overall Westerners, when asked what that crisis was about start with that. Somehow they either forget, omit, or didn't know to begin with that it was in response to the US' deploying Jupiter missiles in Italy and Turkey in 1961.
As a result of Soviets backing out those missiles were gone too.
Well known and respected nuclear physicists from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission disagree with you on how dangerous radiation fallout is. Cancer rates around the world more than multiplied once the US got its handy little technology and started testing it willy nilly with impunity. Helen Caldicott is hardly a quack and calling her that reveals your agenda-building more nuclear power plants.
Thyroid cancer was never an issue before Oppenheimer's nightmare, now it's common place. The cancers around the world have triggered our eventual extinction.
The lie that there are cancer survivors is a lie. When a person survives cancer 5 years they are considered a survivor and that goes into the official record. Even if they die on the sixth year.
You might want to take your own advice and educate yourself "Dr."
Here are some of those nuclear experts to help you better understand the truth of the dangers behind nuclear power and radiation fallout.
Fukushima Lessons Learned (or not, in your case).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boxYjxgWjV0&t=37s
I regret to say it is you who are ignorant of the facts, and who are presenting outright falsehoods, and misleading selective neglect of data and cherry picked irrelevant or exceptional data. I note you have not mentioned your qualifications to distinguish junk science from credible, intellectually honestly done science. Your comment certainly strikes me as one from a credulous, confirmation-bias-driven true believer in politically-correct lies.
There are people with esteemed positions in nuclear power regulation who are malignant, deadly frauds and liars. Since you mention Fukushima (the facts concerning which you clearly are entirely ignorant of) I'll point that as an example:
Jazcko was the chief of the US nuclear regulator commission at the time, and he advised Americans to leave Japan and Japan to evacuate a large area around Fukushima. He is held in extreme contempt as a malignant and deadly liar and incompetent among the bulk of those involved in nuclear power and study of radiation effects of humans, tho you are ignorant of this. Even the Wikipedia entry for Jazcko makes clear... without much reading between the lines... what a vile character he is.
In contrast, the UN World Health organization AND an independent research group publishing in Nature measured radiation levels around Fukushima, and found there was ZERO risk to health anywhere outside of the plant, either acutely or to those who might live there for the next 50 years. Numerous other studies have confirmed this... that the evacuation was a crime against humanity that killed 2000 people outright and seriously damaged the lives of another 60,000.
It is profoundly hysterical, ignorant fear of radiation, like yours, that is deadly. Radiation itself is essentially entirely harmless outside of astronomically rare massive exposures, and then only when such are incurred very rapidly.
Helen Caldicott is one f the most vile, contemptible, disgusting liars and quacks of all MDs I know. She's in some respect worse than MDs to assert anti-VAXX quackery. She's up there with Dr. Oz, when it comes to insults to science and medicine and dissemination of deadly falsehoods.
Where did say you got your MD degree, Pauline? Your training in distinguishing quality medical claims from fraudulently or incompetently researched ones? Your training in physics and math? I'd like to know, because what your wrote was so replete with profoundly credulous, gullible, assertion of big lies and over the top falsehoods that it seems apparent to me you are entirely unable to separate honest science and medicine from lunatic quackery and junk science.
I would bet you give credence to broadly held in contempt junk scientists and over the top lunatic frauds Mark Z Jacobson and Joe Mangano... both held in extreme contempt by the bulk of those in science and medicine for their faking of data and repeated assertion of obvious falsehood.
As for your ravings about thyroid cancer: I did not even use the word "cancer survivor", nor did I anywhere refer to "5 year survival" from cancer generally in my previous note.
It was you, in your abysmal ignorance of medicine, who brought that up as if it were relevant to what I had written.
Your implying I was using "5 year survival datea" is fundamentally dishonest, and is an example of your using the sleazy old debating team tactic of "creating a straw man" / "putting words in someone's mouth".
You'd do well to listen to what Alexander Pope wrote 400 years ago, paraphrased as "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing / Drink deep, or taste not the Pierean Spring."
I spoke specifically about thyroid cancer, which IS 99% curable for most intents and purposes. By "curable" I mean people successfully treated for it live out normal life spans, and for the most part (with some minor qualifications) experience during that normal life span normal quality of life. But you, profoundly ignorant of medicine, assert otherwise, exposing your faith in lies and lack of medical knowledge.
The ONLY time thyroid cancer has occurred attributable to widely dispersed radiation was at Chernobyl. Where about 4000 to 6000 people may have gotten it due to I131 exposure... and perhaps 40 to 100 died. Even then... most of this thyroid cancer would have NOT occurred had the dying Stalniist bureaucratic state of the USSR not insanely and criminally tried to hide the fact of Chernobyl, and in so doing failed to take the then well KNOWN and ready at hand there measures to prevent thyroid cancer in the face of 131 release:
(1) Distribute potassium iodide pills to all people under 20. (2) warn the public not to drink milk or eat other dairy foods produced locally for the next 90 days. (3) MASSIVELY ship in uncontaminated milk and other foods for the population to consume. Had this been done... and without any evacuation... there would either have been NO added thyroid cancers, or at least a hugely smaller number of such.
[I131, with a half life of 8 days, is 99.9% gone in less than three months.]
I bet you cannot even NAME most of the major studies on which our current medical and scientific knowledge of radiation effects on humans is based. I have read all of them and the discussions of them extensively, from the perspective of one highly trained in judging the quality of scientific and medical research, reports, and discussions.
Yet again, I ask you: What are your qualifications, other than a willingness to spout selected discredited accounts if they agree with your faith in anti-nuclear dogma and lies, and absolute rejection of anything that contests your true-belief in malignant falsehood/
If you want to demonstrate I'm mistaken in this assessment of you, why not show me you ARE willing to read quality material that makes a case for something other than what you believe in? Read George Erickson's book "Unintended Consequences / The Lie that Killed Millions and Accelerated Climate Change". Available free at this link:
http://tundracub.com/UnintendedConsequences/Unintended-Consequences.pdf
Buy and read Wade Allison's book "Nuclaer is for Life" (an awfully-chosen title, I will agree... but the book is nothing short of brilliant] to learn what all major studies on the effects of radiation on humans shows.
You have demonstrated in your reply PROFOUND ignorance of science and medicine, so I feel it appropriate to ask you about your qualifications to evaluate matters of science, medicine, and engineering as they relate to energy policy.
I'm trained at Harvard [where I'm proud to say I also was on, at the time, the executive committee of SDS as we led two years of student striked against the war in Vietnam] in the sciences (BA in biochemistry) , and at UCSD in medicine (MD). What education in and experience practicing science and medicine do you have? Have you taken care of patients whose lives depending on the quality of your ability to read research reports and distinguish between likely valid ones and likely poor ones?
I would respectfully advise you not to pontificate about subjects you have neither knowledge of nor education in... other than dogma fed you by the fossil fuel industry and by those paid by the fossil fuel industry (such as fake environmentalist organizations like the Sierra Club and and the NDRC),
Your post here struck me as very similar to the faith readers of the tightly controlled and censored press here now have in the 100% false narrative that Russia is an aggressor in Ukraine and Putin is a mad man / Hitler-like figure. It was a total rejection of knowledge and intellectually honestly collected, freely discussed and debated science and medicine. And a parroting of the litany of some of the most malignant and deadly liars concerning energy policy.
Lies that kill thousands... arguably millions.
Please stop being a cat's paw for the fossil fuel industry and spreading their lies as abut the NON EXISTENT dangers of radiation and nuclear power.
given the zionist warmongering chorus, i can only sympathize with Putin striking back and striking back as hard as he can teach the zionists a lesson that they will NEVER forget again.
Please don't confuse and conflate zionists with all Jewish people. That is as indiscriminate as everyone going after the Russian people for Putin's actions.
the global imperialism has been affecting humanity for at least the last 100 years including you and your loved ones. the cycle of abuse has to be broken by someone and somehow. you gotta break some eggs to to make omlet.
We are in the times of Revelation...(Apocalypse)
Newsflash: Covid-19 just announced joining sanctioning Russia and pulled itself out of that hellhole. "Not worth it" - the representative overheard saying.