In an interesting speech about the way US imperial aggression provokes violence around the world, antiwar commentator Scott Horton made reference to an April 2022 article from Yahoo News that had previously escaped my attention.
I live in a mid-sized American university town trending heavily toward smug, shitlib politics. Everything you wrote would utterly confound almost every one of them. It's all sourced and irrefutable as well as clearly not authored by an incoherent loon, so they would be either forced to accept a glimmer of reality and investigate further or try to pretend they never even saw it.
The first choice leads to dread and the challenging one's own intellect, the second to cheap relief and delaying an inevitably even worse . Since this is the U.S., you can guess which most people would opt for. It's tragic. And the bigger the estates on the edge of town, the gaudier the UKR and other Wokish displays. These are also "climate activists" with 5 acres of continually watered, perfectly manicured lawn strictly for their own pleasure -- well, and that of runners using the paths in the nearby open space.
Shared reality continues to diverge. Thank you for supplying yet another bookmarkable post for those still sliding off the other way.
"I live in a mid-sized American university town trending heavily toward smug, shitlib politics. Everything you wrote would utterly confound almost every one of them. It's all sourced and irrefutable as well as clearly not authored by an incoherent loon, so they would be either forced to accept a glimmer of reality and investigate further or try to pretend they never even saw it. "
Show it to as many of them as you can. Maybe it could open some eyes.
Your description of smug, shitlib politics was a bullseye and also funny. The smug, woke crowd seems to work in colleges and universities in areas that we once thought they would not live in. If the shit hits the fan some day I will watch these smug, woke, pretentious humans panic when they run afraid. I'll tell them to buy Pampers.
"...in areas that we once thought they would not live in."
Yeah, that basically sums it up. And they thought they could keep up the fakeries and grifting forever unmolested. Good to see the Wokish stankwagon encountering a few unexpectedly broad and deep ruts in the road.
I have a friend I have known since we were youngsters in the late 1970s who is an E-9 in the Army, and one of his tasks now is to deal with all of the transgender National Guard soldiers in his state. He believes they exist to give him a hard time; perhaps they do. He has a solid sense of humor, so he is surviving this, but also drinks a lot at night to deal with what he's seen the U.S. Military become in the past seven or eight years.
When Wokism was clearly a thing that was implacably underway across culture and corporations c. 2018-2019, I naively believed that Wokeness would only infect clearly vulnerable areas like social-science departments and fitness magazines. I figured the Wokish would never come for, say, the things I concentrated on in college back in the Christocene era (physics, math, chemistry). I did not realize they had long-range, specific plans for penetrating medicine, the physical sciences, everything.
If that question from Welker was earnest (let's pretend for the sake of bleak humor), then she must have missed the CIA itself conspicuously going Woke three Pride Months ago (I think this was in 2021).
Nuland and her husband Robert Kagan are Neocon warmongering profiteers - their entire careers are dedicated to creating conflict in order to profit by diverting public funds towards the privately owned MIC but also to maintain control over the political narrative which has certain long term goals such as full spectrum control.
If you haven't read it this article should be interesting....''Family Business of Perpetual War''
''Neoconservative pundit Robert Kagan and his wife, Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, run a remarkable family business: she has sparked a hot war in Ukraine and helped launch Cold War II with Russia and he steps in to demand that Congress jack up military spending so America can meet these new security threats.''
Here's another aspect - while Ukrainian soldiers were dodging bullets from the separatists fracking equipment was being installed behind their backs.
No thanks to the conditions in the EU association agreement.
Let us also remember that Kagan and Nuland are East European Jews with some sort of agenda of revenge against Russia for crimes that may have been committed, long ago, by the Tsar. They are financed by AIPAC to influence those who hold political office to further an unknown incomprehensible agenda of Israel which is committing genocide against the Palestinians; provoking war with Iran; bombing Lebanon; and corrupting US politics.
These crimes are covered up by the ADL with baseless cries of "ANTI-SEMITISM" hurled against any and all who point them out.
Do a web search of "ADL phony" then pick and choose which of the articles you want to read from sources like: The Nation; CNN; Foreign Policy Journal; and The Boston Review. Then also look at the pages published by the ADL which warn of extremism rising in Texas and the distribution of anti-semetic "flyers" across the USA. Claims that prove to be made up.
"If all westerners deeply understood all the suffering and danger that has been unleashed upon our world by this war, and deeply understood the fact that their own governments played a role in starting it, the political status quo of the western world would be impossible to maintain. "
And I do believe it's getting more and more difficult to maintain the status quo in the West and keep the public on the pro-NATO side. Every day there's another mainstream outlet mention of how the Ukrainian offensive isn't succeeding as planned... And more and more people agree whenever I post a pro-peace message on social media. The propaganda isn't working like the monsters want it to. There's hope. Keep pushing against the propagandists and sharing articles like this with as many readers as you can. I will if you will. #PeaceInOurTime
However, no American wants to accept responsibility for the 4M people the USA has killed over the last 3 decades. Faced with that fact, many will turn to the safety of 'its all lies'.
Anyone who knows anything about the history and pre-history of this conflict even from before 1991--because at its core is a civil war between Galicians and Russian Ukrainians--knows that this was engineered, not just provoked. It was desired, planned, and set up, at least since 2014 when the Minsk agreements were signed in order to dissemble the real intentions of the fanatic right-wing Ukrainians and their Nato and American patrons. And all with increasing clarity and decision after 2020, as Feb 2022 approached. Graham and McCain went to Ukraine in 2015 or 16 virtually promising them the war they devoutly desired because they stupidly thought Hillary would win. When Biden came back into office--he who tied his whole career and legacy to Ukraine, probably without realizing it at the time, and who so aptly epitomizes the moral rot at the heart of the whole business--that plan for war was moved back to the front burner.
The dirty little secret of the Maidan coup we orchestrated is hidden by the foreground theater of a popular uprising against a Russia-leaning president. That was bad enough, because Yanukovich was relatively good for Ukraine besides being legitimately elected. In the second half of the drama, because it was a two-step, the Galician ultra-nationalists, extremists up to and including neo-nazis, captured the Overton window (to put it far too gently) of Ukrainian politics and inflicted their crazy anti-Russian animus on a nation that preferred a diplomatic solution to conflicts with Donbas and Russia.
The Galician hijacking of Ukrainian politics was absolutely key to our ambitions to use Ukraine in a proxy war against Russia (and indirectly against Europe too!). Without our alliance with the most unsavory elements of Ukraine we could not count on Zelensky to abandon his promise to negotiate when he won 75% of the vote give or take when he was elected.
"For Americans, many of whom still tend to regard Russia through a Cold War-distorting lens, Solzhenitsyn's passionate defense of Russia makes moving reading.
He ends the interview on a somewhat cryptic note, saying that one day the U.S. will have serious need of Russia as an ally against a threat he refused to name. What threat?"
"Forbes (F): Tension is mounting between Russia and the now independent Ukraine, with the West strongly backing Ukrainian territorial integrity. Henry Kissinger argues that Russia will always threaten the interests of the West, no matter what kind of government it has.
Solzhenitsyn (AS): Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, [historian] Richard Pipes and many other American politicians and publicists are frozen in a mode of thought they developed a long time ago. With unchanging blindness and stubbornness they keep repeating and repeating this theory about the supposed age-old aggressiveness of Russia, without taking into consideration today's reality.
F: Well, what about Ukraine? Hasn't Russia made threats toward several of the former U.S.S.R. member states?
AS: Imagine that one not very fine day two or three of your states in the Southwest, in the space of 24 hours, declare themselves independent of the U.S. They declare themselves a fully sovereign nation, decreeing that Spanish will be the only language. All English-speaking residents, even if their ancestors have lived there for 200 years, have to take a test in the Spanish language within one or two years and swear allegiance to the new nation. Otherwise they will not receive citizenship and be deprived of civic, property and employment rights.
F: What would be the reaction of the United States? I have no doubt that it would be immediate military intervention.
AS: But today Russia faces precisely this scenario. In 24 hours she lost eight to 10 purely Russian provinces, 25 million ethnic Russians who have ended up in this very way--as "undesirable aliens." In places where their fathers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers have lived since way back--even from the 17th century--they face persecution in their jobs and the suppression of their culture, education and language.
Meanwhile, in Central Asia, those wishing to leave are not permitted to take even their personal property. The authorities tell them, "There is no such concept as 'personal property'!"
And in this situation "imperialist Russia" has not made a single forceful move to rectify this monstrous mess. Without a murmur she has given away 25 million of her compatriots--the largest diaspora in the world!
F: You see Russia as the victim of aggression, not as the aggressor.
AS: Who can find in world history another such example of peaceful conduct? And if Russia keeps the peace in the single most vital question that concerns her, why should one expect her to be aggressive in secondary issues?
F: With Russia in chaos, it does sound a bit far-fetched to see her as an aggressor.
AS: Russia today is terribly sick. Her people are sick to the point of total exhaustion. But even so, have a conscience and don't demand that--just to please America--Russia throw away the last vestiges of her concern for her security and her unprecedented collapse. After all, this concern in no way threatens the United States.
F: Former U.S. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski disagrees. He argues that the U.S. must defend the independence of Ukraine.
AS: In 1919, when he imposed his regime on Ukraine, Lenin gave her several Russian provinces to assuage her feelings. These provinces have never historically belonged to Ukraine. I am talking about the eastern and southern territories of today's Ukraine.
Then, in 1954, Khrushchev, with the arbitrary capriciousness of a satrap, made a "gift" of the Crimea to Ukraine. But even he did not manage to make Ukraine a "gift" of Sevastopol, which remained a separate city under the jurisdiction of the U.S.S.R. central government. This was accomplished by the American State Department, first verbally through Ambassador Popadiuk in Kiev and later in a more official manner.
Why does the State Department decide who should get Sevastopol? If one recalls the tactless declaration of President Bush about supporting Ukrainian sovereignty even before the referendum on that matter, one must conclude that all this stems from a common aim: to use all means possible, no matter what the consequences, to weaken Russia.
F: Why does independence for Ukraine weaken Russia?
AS: As a result of the sudden and crude fragmentation of the intermingled Slavic peoples, the borders have torn apart millions of ties of family and friendship. Is this acceptable? The recent elections in Ukraine, for instance, clearly show the [Russian] sympathies of the Crimean and Donets populations. And a democracy must respect this.
I myself am nearly half Ukrainian. I grew up with the sounds of Ukrainian speech. I love her culture and genuinely wish all kinds of success for Ukraine--but only within her real ethnic boundaries, without grabbing Russian provinces. And not in the form of a "great power," the concept on which Ukrainian nationalists have placed their bets. They are acting out and trumpeting a cult of force, persistently inflating Russia into the image of an "enemy." Militant slogans are proclaimed. And the Ukrainian army is being indoctrinated with the propaganda that war with Russia is inevitable.
For every country, great power status deforms and harms the national character. I have never wished great power status for Russia, and do not wish it for the United States. I don't wish it for Ukraine. She would not be able to perform even the cultural task required to achieve great power status: In her current borders, 63% of the population consider Russian to be their native language, a number three times larger than the number of ethnic Russians. And all these people will have to be re-educated in the Ukrainian language, while the language itself will have to be raised to international standards and usage. This is a task that would require over 100 years.
F: At the heart of all this is a central question: What about Russia and the U.S.? Are we historic rivals?
AS: Before the [Russian] revolution, they were natural allies. You know that during the American Civil War, Russia supported Lincoln and the North [in contrast to Britain and France, which supported the Confederacy]. Then, we were effectively allies in the First World War. But beginning with communism, Russia ceased to exist. What is there to talk about? The confrontation was not at all with Russia but with the communist U.S.S.R.
F: A lot of people in the West think it wasn't communism but traditional Russian imperialism that drove Stalin to grab Eastern Europe.
AS: Absolutely not! This was not Russian imperialism, which in the past only expanded its borders somewhat. This was communist imperialism, which aimed to take over the whole world.
F: Back to Russia, then. Are there other parts of the former Soviet Union that are as Russian as eastern and southern Ukraine?
AS: Yes. All of northern and northeastern Kazakhstan is actually part of southern Siberia. It is settled mostly by Russians, who, just like the other non-Kazakhs--together making up 60% of Kazakhstan's population--are being repressed in their national, cultural, business and daily life. How can a minority govern a majority? Only through duplicity and force. That's exactly what happened in the recent "elections" in Kazakhstan. Kazakh President Narsultan Nazarbayev today is regarded in the West as a great democrat. But he has already become an effective dictator.
F: Where, then, do you see Russia's borders? Which areas should unite with her?
AS: Already in 1990 I wrote that Russia could desire the union of only the three Slavic republics [Russia, Ukraine, Belarus] and Kazakhstan, while all the other republics should be let go. It would be desirable if [a resulting Russian Union] could be formed into a unitary state, not into a fragile, artificial confederation with a huge supra-national bureaucracy, as Nazarbayev recently proposed. That's just smoke and mirrors.
F: None of them a threat to the U.S.?
AS: If one looks far into the future, one can foresee in the 21st century such a time when the U.S. together with Europe will be in dire need of Russia as an ally.
F: That is a puzzling assertion.
AS: It is puzzling only for those who don't look into the future and do not see what kind of new powers are arising in the world."
Freedom Fox: Why would the US and Europe need Russia as an ally in the 21st century? Could he have meant that the US and European governments themselves were becoming the threat to its their own people that the Soviet Communist and German Fascist governments became to their own people? And that it would take the help of the Russians to defeat our oppressors? Hmmmm?
May I recommend as a scholar of Russia-Ukraine the book of the govt professor at University of Rhodes Island Nicholai Petro, The Tragedy of Ukraine? This is far and away the best and most detailed book so far on Ukrainian nationalism and what happened to its in 2014. It's expensive because its a European academic publisher (De Gruyter) but well worth it.
I went to archive.org to see if they had the book available, they often do. But not for this book you suggest. However, they did have a link to this YouTube discussion of the book back in January, 2023. I'll bookmark it to view it. If you've read the book I'll be curious about your thoughts of the discussion?
"The Tragedy of Ukraine" w/ Nicolai Petro, Alexander Mercouris, and Glenn Diesen
It's an excellent interview, though it takes about 20 minutes before Nicolai and Alexander really cut to the chase--which is a if not the main issue in his book. That is not just the narrowness of Galician nationalism, but also the way it took over Ukrainian politics in 2014. (I wish they had started out with this event and placed it in historical context.) Petro's style is careful and methodical in laying out his points and the denouement can take patience. But he is full of nuances and significant details. If you've already read the book, he is much easier to follow and see where he is going. If you haven't but pay careful attention esp. after the 20 mark, it comes through. Galician intransigence has wrecked Ukraine (if I may out it more bluntly than he does) and the US has taken advantage of that for its own nefarious purposes.
This interview happened a while ago and its political hopes are outdated, given the military situation on the ground. Any hope for a reconciliation that would preserve Ukrainian sovereignty over most of its modern territory has, I suspect, slipped away. The Russian part of Ukraine has to go back to Russia to protect it from Galician ethnic cleansers. In my opinion, though, the US bears as much responsibility for that as the Ukrainian ultra-nationalists. Most Ukrainians across the board wanted a diplomatic solution a la Minsk. That's what got Zelensky elected with 75% of the vote. We sabotaged that with our Galicians.
Thank you. If there are other non-YouTube channels like Rumble or Bitchute that have similar content I'd also take the heads-up about. YouTube being what YouTube is and all.
War was cast in stone in 2008 at the Bucharest Summit which resolved to bring Ukraine and Georgia into NATO. See also Putin's response to that. Listen to Mearsheimer outline the history.
Only inhuman monsters would put humanity at risk of nuclear war to advance the narrow interests of the one percent. The war is not to protect your "freedom". It is to protect the freedom of the vested interests in this nation to continue to rape and pillage the world for their own benefit. Caitlin, thank you for calling out these monsters.
The off ramp for this war may be another "walk away", just as in Afghanistan and Vietnam. NATO spent 20 years and 2. 3 trillion dollars in Afghanistan and left behind 80 billion dollars worth of equipment. granting a modern military to the Taliban. As Western domestic economies decline foreign wars are going to be harder than ever to sustain. Populations of the NATO countries are facing some dark times as Washington is going to cannibalize their economies more than ever to feed the MICC and NATO-- as long as this marriage from hell exists the West is screwed.
How far the fall before the West has a sane moment?
Not only NATO countries, but here in the USA as well. Caitlin has already made it clear how the US Oligarchy is stealing from the Australian people.
This theft is so obvious that for many they can't see it. They make unsubstantiated claims about the invincibility of American Technology and the US Navy armada. They listen to hacks like Peter Zeihan who has been claiming for years now that China's economy is about to collapse, when exactly the same parameters are even worse in the US economy.
Zeihan is a pentagon propagandist, everything he predicts is tilted to favor the west and disadvantage the Wests enemies. he does an incredible job at weaving the truth into his propaganda which makes it all the more believeable.
If one only listens to Zeihan, yes, it certainly is believable. If you listen to Norton, Wolff, Hudson and others, you quickly recognize that Zeihan is just substituting "China" in for "USA".
Of course, it isn't really that simple, but close enough.
The US is not walking away but doubling down, and will continue to do so, for short of nuclear war, there is little Russia can do that so much as inconveniences the neocons in Washington.
The sanctions regime has fallen on its face everywhere around the globe, that may be an inconveniences to the war mongers but it also is highly public egg on their faces.
It simply does not matter to Victoria - fuck the EU - Nuland who ends up in the White House - somehow she'll end up flip flopping from a Republican to a Democrat administration as easily as a prostitute changes clientele.
Totally - when they end up being responsible for the deaths of millions of people for some dark and mysterious reason they'll end up with a Nobel for Peace - perhaps it comes in useful when they get hauled before the meaningless ICC.
These active warmongers have extreme personality disorders that require immediate treatment in a place of safety but I certainly can't see that happening under the present management. The whole idiotic capitalist show will come crashing down first, hopefully in a non-radioactive way.
Here's the problem - They're Straussians - collectively we've never figured out how to hold our political representatives accountable when they've strayed down the wrong path.
Julian Assange's predicament has revealed that the judicial system is as bent as they are!
The Pentagon has proven unable to account for absolutely staggering sums of public funds.
Any business that operated in that manner would have been shut down by their creditors a long time ago - not the Pentagon - they'll just keep throwing more money at it - retired US generals make the transition from the DOD to the privately owned MIC where they end up as very well remunerated board members.
Who stands to benefit from all this?
The MIC's largest shareholders are...........[drum roll]
All good - You can use that search to see who the largest shareholders are for each company
The MIC's largest shareholders are Vanguard and Blackrock - when they're not among the top of the search results they're most likely own major shareholdings in the company that is.
For example Lockheed Martin largest shareholders are
State Street Corporation Vanguard Group, Inc. (The) - and Blackrock Inc.
Vanguard are private so it's been impossible for me to find out who actually owns shares in them.
It goes the other way too. Secretariy of Defense Mark Esper had to get a congressional waiver to come more or less straight out of Raytheon. They said they wouldn't do it again, then did it again with Lloyd Austin.
"In the 90's Secretary of State Baker promised Gorbachev NATO wouldn't expand into Ukraine." But really "always wanted to take Ukraine in NATO." Because, "look, times change," and you've "gotta be flexible." "It doesn't really matter what the promise was."
Yes. Provoked. Deliberately:
Fake Zelensky Tricks George Bush To Admit That USA Promise To Russia Not To Expand NATO
Excellent newsletter & the speech by Mr. Horton was spot on. I worry more & more about nuclear war with these nut jobs that are running the government in the U.S. and it seems the people around me, including my loved ones can’t see it. This war started in 2014 with the Maidan Coup & the US and the collective West who supported Nazi factions in Ukraine. These people are descendants of the Western Ukrainians(Galicians?) who fought along side the Nazis when former Soviet Union was invaded in 1941. Most of my family doesn’t even know this part of the history of Western Ukraine. Yes, most definitely this was deliberately provoked. Most of these American politicians & elites are just plain EVIL, truly monsters. They are literally knowing people are dying in this war & don’t care, just keep sending more weapons, aid to Ukraine and as long as those Ukrainians kill more Russians they are happy even if that means more Ukrainians have to die to do it(“to the last Ukrainian”). SICK!!!! And the sad part is both Russians & Ukrainians are Slavic people/share similar history of Slavic culture.
There is no off-ramp to this either. Is Russia going to give back the territories? No way, never... Is America going to stop funding it? No way, never.. Ukraine is nearly out of soldiers so it cannot last “years” wo nato being directly involved (as we saw yesterday with German soldiers dying in German tanks in RUSSIA!!! This has no choice but escalate to a full on war between nato and Russia simply bc of manpower. All those American soldiers sitting in Poland waiting and Zelensky is beating down senior homes and Girl Scouts for bodies to throw in the meant grinder. wont last much longer before we’re fully involved.
The worm has turned on the blank check money spigot. Watch for a major NBC escalation by Ukraine, blowing up a nuclear power plant, launching WMD filled rockets at Moscow, the "labs" coming into play...
The Ukranian Government has maimed or killed upwards of a million of their own citizens. They either go big and drag the West into open war or flee with their stolen loot. No other future for them and running does not guarantee their long term future. Just look at what has happened to so many of the overseas Russian oligarchs...
Exactly. At some point something has to happen to bring nato in. Ukraines escalation continues and the nato weapons lethality increasing is meant for just that. Do something big enough that Russia has no choice. Putin knows this however and so does anyone paying attention. I think he’s just waiting for China to be ready to take Taiwan honestly. The US cannot fight a two front European and Pacific situation. We are weak, china needs to do this while Biden is in office. This administration not only wants full on war but the collapsing financial system requires it. we’re months away from a massive confrontation not years imo. We’ll see but i see no off-ramp anywhere by anyone. I see nuclear war at the end of this unfortunately. This is a war that will shape the world’s next structure. The western elites (WEF, BIS etc..) want Russias land and resources as well as to control the world. they view Russia as weak and able to be taken in which China wouldn’t fight if the west took Russia. this is the stand-off between east and west. It will not end until there’s a winner or global catastrophe.
An American will snap his fingers and Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia will send an "expeditionary force" to catch Russian munitions. Germans, etc. on the table next.
None of them will be happy about it, but nobody will ask them their opinion.
Latest report from this morning is a German tank crewed by Germany Army regulars was just destroyed in Russian held territory. That would be a NATO incursion.
The US, as the shining light of democracy is the major instigator in the majority of world issues today and in the last 50 years. We are simply a tool used by the evil in the world to create havoc. It’s all about money and linked to the Fed and IMF. The road will run out soon.
Scott Horton is also a certified Truth-teller like Caitlin Johnstone. "Manifest Infamy" seems to be the Western strategy here--or Manifest Entropy. The Collective West's (meaning the Elite's) Death Wish is the thing to be most concerned about. Otherwise, the World will work the way it's always worked, by fits and starts...
Will check it out, and thanks for the heads up! Kind of tragic that the West won't change its tune until it's literally beaten in the field or runs out of money, the latter being the most likely scenario as the Dollar de-values in an increasingly multipolar world...
They are clueless because they haven't been depopulated yet, or think that they're on some special exemption-from-extinction list. Funny how all the Anglo Eugenics Societies had to change their names after the Nazis Holocausted the brand...
Horton's debate with Bill Kristol, which Caitlin brought to our attention two years ago, shows Horton's unstoppable, undeniable logic. We should be reading more from his anti-war pages
Thanks for the link. Scott Ritter did not appreciate Horton disinviting him from the Rage Against the War rally, but I'm a big tent person when it comes to opposing war. And that should be a really big tent by now.
No I was not kidding but I apologize because I am not sure at all now, having re-read the only text I can find describing the incident (https://www.scottritterextra.com/p/cancel-culture-round-three-get-out?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2FHorton&utm_medium=reader2), and I may be misremembering something from one of the many interviews Ritter has done. I would hate to contribute to any in-fighting amongst anti-warriors like both Scotts (Ritter and Horton). Of the two, I value Ritter's opinion more highly -- and all the more because of the sordid attempts of the powers-that-be to skewer him (partially successful) -- but as far as I know they have identical positions on the insanity of the Ukraine war and I agree with them both.
Well, FWIW: (I believe) -if- anyone on that page asked Scott to not show up, it was because of pressure from the idiots who formed their own worthless protest a month later. I forget who those guys were.
Scott didn't go anyway. He was disinvited a second time. I know Dore, Nixon, and Blumenthal would not have been supportive of that.
I tried to follow along, but the references were all unspecific.
Stuck here in Malpensa airport I have had a chance to listen to the Kirstol-Horton debate and am very impressed with Scott's performance. He is an excellent debater. Even without bringing in the US responsibility for 9/11 (see David Griffin), the arguments that Horton masterfully presents are "enough." So I repeat my apology for mentioning what I seem to recall as Scott Ritter's remarks about Horton. In truth I don't know what either Scott thinks about 9/11. That is the dog that still refuses to bark.
I live in a mid-sized American university town trending heavily toward smug, shitlib politics. Everything you wrote would utterly confound almost every one of them. It's all sourced and irrefutable as well as clearly not authored by an incoherent loon, so they would be either forced to accept a glimmer of reality and investigate further or try to pretend they never even saw it.
The first choice leads to dread and the challenging one's own intellect, the second to cheap relief and delaying an inevitably even worse . Since this is the U.S., you can guess which most people would opt for. It's tragic. And the bigger the estates on the edge of town, the gaudier the UKR and other Wokish displays. These are also "climate activists" with 5 acres of continually watered, perfectly manicured lawn strictly for their own pleasure -- well, and that of runners using the paths in the nearby open space.
Shared reality continues to diverge. Thank you for supplying yet another bookmarkable post for those still sliding off the other way.
Please don't use hypocrisy to support a climate denial argument.
Climate science is NOT part of the culture war. So just stop.
The United States of Do As I Say Not As I Do
Do unto others before they can do it unto you.
Except the “unto you” part is manufactured.
"I live in a mid-sized American university town trending heavily toward smug, shitlib politics. Everything you wrote would utterly confound almost every one of them. It's all sourced and irrefutable as well as clearly not authored by an incoherent loon, so they would be either forced to accept a glimmer of reality and investigate further or try to pretend they never even saw it. "
Show it to as many of them as you can. Maybe it could open some eyes.
Exposing the university crowd to reality will only result in your being cancelled or at the very least dis invited to everything !
Your description of smug, shitlib politics was a bullseye and also funny. The smug, woke crowd seems to work in colleges and universities in areas that we once thought they would not live in. If the shit hits the fan some day I will watch these smug, woke, pretentious humans panic when they run afraid. I'll tell them to buy Pampers.
"...in areas that we once thought they would not live in."
Yeah, that basically sums it up. And they thought they could keep up the fakeries and grifting forever unmolested. Good to see the Wokish stankwagon encountering a few unexpectedly broad and deep ruts in the road.
I have a friend I have known since we were youngsters in the late 1970s who is an E-9 in the Army, and one of his tasks now is to deal with all of the transgender National Guard soldiers in his state. He believes they exist to give him a hard time; perhaps they do. He has a solid sense of humor, so he is surviving this, but also drinks a lot at night to deal with what he's seen the U.S. Military become in the past seven or eight years.
When Wokism was clearly a thing that was implacably underway across culture and corporations c. 2018-2019, I naively believed that Wokeness would only infect clearly vulnerable areas like social-science departments and fitness magazines. I figured the Wokish would never come for, say, the things I concentrated on in college back in the Christocene era (physics, math, chemistry). I did not realize they had long-range, specific plans for penetrating medicine, the physical sciences, everything.
If that question from Welker was earnest (let's pretend for the sake of bleak humor), then she must have missed the CIA itself conspicuously going Woke three Pride Months ago (I think this was in 2021).
''Dorfman writes that initial support provided to Ukraine during the Obama administration had been “calibrated to avoid aggravating Moscow''
Nonsense - in the end OBAMA admitted the US role orchestrating the Kiev coup ....there's Nuland caught with her hand in the cookie jar.
$5 Billion she admitted spending to engineer it.
Nuland and her husband Robert Kagan are Neocon warmongering profiteers - their entire careers are dedicated to creating conflict in order to profit by diverting public funds towards the privately owned MIC but also to maintain control over the political narrative which has certain long term goals such as full spectrum control.
If you haven't read it this article should be interesting....''Family Business of Perpetual War''
https://consortiumnews.com/2015/03/20/a-family-business-of-perpetual-war/
''Neoconservative pundit Robert Kagan and his wife, Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, run a remarkable family business: she has sparked a hot war in Ukraine and helped launch Cold War II with Russia and he steps in to demand that Congress jack up military spending so America can meet these new security threats.''
Here's another aspect - while Ukrainian soldiers were dodging bullets from the separatists fracking equipment was being installed behind their backs.
No thanks to the conditions in the EU association agreement.
I could go on...
Let us also remember that Kagan and Nuland are East European Jews with some sort of agenda of revenge against Russia for crimes that may have been committed, long ago, by the Tsar. They are financed by AIPAC to influence those who hold political office to further an unknown incomprehensible agenda of Israel which is committing genocide against the Palestinians; provoking war with Iran; bombing Lebanon; and corrupting US politics.
These crimes are covered up by the ADL with baseless cries of "ANTI-SEMITISM" hurled against any and all who point them out.
Do a web search of "ADL phony" then pick and choose which of the articles you want to read from sources like: The Nation; CNN; Foreign Policy Journal; and The Boston Review. Then also look at the pages published by the ADL which warn of extremism rising in Texas and the distribution of anti-semetic "flyers" across the USA. Claims that prove to be made up.
Listen to Aaron Good's podcast interview with the author of " Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn. " https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/american-exception/id1617469345i=1000616413312
Or Moon of Alabama as he reports on several articles that claim it was Israel that hacked the 2016 election for Trump
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/03/israel-not-russia-hacked-the-2016-election.html
I too "could go on"...
In Jewish folk memory, Ukrainians were the stupidest and most ogrish antisemites of all.
I think it might be more correct to say Galacians or Western Ukrainians, but maybe it is a point without distinction.
Well, those were the most Ukrainian-identified Ukrainians but, yes, you are more specific and correct.
Excellent comment. Also remember, Kagan wrote PNAC along with Ch ch Cheney and Wolfowitz. It’s been Zionism 1st and last.
I read that quote as an effort to throw the blame on Trump since he is the: satanae diei
"If all westerners deeply understood all the suffering and danger that has been unleashed upon our world by this war, and deeply understood the fact that their own governments played a role in starting it, the political status quo of the western world would be impossible to maintain. "
And I do believe it's getting more and more difficult to maintain the status quo in the West and keep the public on the pro-NATO side. Every day there's another mainstream outlet mention of how the Ukrainian offensive isn't succeeding as planned... And more and more people agree whenever I post a pro-peace message on social media. The propaganda isn't working like the monsters want it to. There's hope. Keep pushing against the propagandists and sharing articles like this with as many readers as you can. I will if you will. #PeaceInOurTime
However, no American wants to accept responsibility for the 4M people the USA has killed over the last 3 decades. Faced with that fact, many will turn to the safety of 'its all lies'.
Denial is not only a river in Egypt.
Anyone who knows anything about the history and pre-history of this conflict even from before 1991--because at its core is a civil war between Galicians and Russian Ukrainians--knows that this was engineered, not just provoked. It was desired, planned, and set up, at least since 2014 when the Minsk agreements were signed in order to dissemble the real intentions of the fanatic right-wing Ukrainians and their Nato and American patrons. And all with increasing clarity and decision after 2020, as Feb 2022 approached. Graham and McCain went to Ukraine in 2015 or 16 virtually promising them the war they devoutly desired because they stupidly thought Hillary would win. When Biden came back into office--he who tied his whole career and legacy to Ukraine, probably without realizing it at the time, and who so aptly epitomizes the moral rot at the heart of the whole business--that plan for war was moved back to the front burner.
The dirty little secret of the Maidan coup we orchestrated is hidden by the foreground theater of a popular uprising against a Russia-leaning president. That was bad enough, because Yanukovich was relatively good for Ukraine besides being legitimately elected. In the second half of the drama, because it was a two-step, the Galician ultra-nationalists, extremists up to and including neo-nazis, captured the Overton window (to put it far too gently) of Ukrainian politics and inflicted their crazy anti-Russian animus on a nation that preferred a diplomatic solution to conflicts with Donbas and Russia.
The Galician hijacking of Ukrainian politics was absolutely key to our ambitions to use Ukraine in a proxy war against Russia (and indirectly against Europe too!). Without our alliance with the most unsavory elements of Ukraine we could not count on Zelensky to abandon his promise to negotiate when he won 75% of the vote give or take when he was elected.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn had a historical perspective on Russia and Ukraine.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn On The New Russia
Forbes, May 9, 1994
https://www.forbes.com/2008/08/05/solzhenitsyn-forbes-interview-oped-cx_pm_0804russia.html?sh=34d18f3a5f53
"For Americans, many of whom still tend to regard Russia through a Cold War-distorting lens, Solzhenitsyn's passionate defense of Russia makes moving reading.
He ends the interview on a somewhat cryptic note, saying that one day the U.S. will have serious need of Russia as an ally against a threat he refused to name. What threat?"
"Forbes (F): Tension is mounting between Russia and the now independent Ukraine, with the West strongly backing Ukrainian territorial integrity. Henry Kissinger argues that Russia will always threaten the interests of the West, no matter what kind of government it has.
Solzhenitsyn (AS): Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, [historian] Richard Pipes and many other American politicians and publicists are frozen in a mode of thought they developed a long time ago. With unchanging blindness and stubbornness they keep repeating and repeating this theory about the supposed age-old aggressiveness of Russia, without taking into consideration today's reality.
F: Well, what about Ukraine? Hasn't Russia made threats toward several of the former U.S.S.R. member states?
AS: Imagine that one not very fine day two or three of your states in the Southwest, in the space of 24 hours, declare themselves independent of the U.S. They declare themselves a fully sovereign nation, decreeing that Spanish will be the only language. All English-speaking residents, even if their ancestors have lived there for 200 years, have to take a test in the Spanish language within one or two years and swear allegiance to the new nation. Otherwise they will not receive citizenship and be deprived of civic, property and employment rights.
F: What would be the reaction of the United States? I have no doubt that it would be immediate military intervention.
AS: But today Russia faces precisely this scenario. In 24 hours she lost eight to 10 purely Russian provinces, 25 million ethnic Russians who have ended up in this very way--as "undesirable aliens." In places where their fathers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers have lived since way back--even from the 17th century--they face persecution in their jobs and the suppression of their culture, education and language.
Meanwhile, in Central Asia, those wishing to leave are not permitted to take even their personal property. The authorities tell them, "There is no such concept as 'personal property'!"
And in this situation "imperialist Russia" has not made a single forceful move to rectify this monstrous mess. Without a murmur she has given away 25 million of her compatriots--the largest diaspora in the world!
F: You see Russia as the victim of aggression, not as the aggressor.
AS: Who can find in world history another such example of peaceful conduct? And if Russia keeps the peace in the single most vital question that concerns her, why should one expect her to be aggressive in secondary issues?
F: With Russia in chaos, it does sound a bit far-fetched to see her as an aggressor.
AS: Russia today is terribly sick. Her people are sick to the point of total exhaustion. But even so, have a conscience and don't demand that--just to please America--Russia throw away the last vestiges of her concern for her security and her unprecedented collapse. After all, this concern in no way threatens the United States.
F: Former U.S. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski disagrees. He argues that the U.S. must defend the independence of Ukraine.
AS: In 1919, when he imposed his regime on Ukraine, Lenin gave her several Russian provinces to assuage her feelings. These provinces have never historically belonged to Ukraine. I am talking about the eastern and southern territories of today's Ukraine.
Then, in 1954, Khrushchev, with the arbitrary capriciousness of a satrap, made a "gift" of the Crimea to Ukraine. But even he did not manage to make Ukraine a "gift" of Sevastopol, which remained a separate city under the jurisdiction of the U.S.S.R. central government. This was accomplished by the American State Department, first verbally through Ambassador Popadiuk in Kiev and later in a more official manner.
Why does the State Department decide who should get Sevastopol? If one recalls the tactless declaration of President Bush about supporting Ukrainian sovereignty even before the referendum on that matter, one must conclude that all this stems from a common aim: to use all means possible, no matter what the consequences, to weaken Russia.
F: Why does independence for Ukraine weaken Russia?
AS: As a result of the sudden and crude fragmentation of the intermingled Slavic peoples, the borders have torn apart millions of ties of family and friendship. Is this acceptable? The recent elections in Ukraine, for instance, clearly show the [Russian] sympathies of the Crimean and Donets populations. And a democracy must respect this.
I myself am nearly half Ukrainian. I grew up with the sounds of Ukrainian speech. I love her culture and genuinely wish all kinds of success for Ukraine--but only within her real ethnic boundaries, without grabbing Russian provinces. And not in the form of a "great power," the concept on which Ukrainian nationalists have placed their bets. They are acting out and trumpeting a cult of force, persistently inflating Russia into the image of an "enemy." Militant slogans are proclaimed. And the Ukrainian army is being indoctrinated with the propaganda that war with Russia is inevitable.
For every country, great power status deforms and harms the national character. I have never wished great power status for Russia, and do not wish it for the United States. I don't wish it for Ukraine. She would not be able to perform even the cultural task required to achieve great power status: In her current borders, 63% of the population consider Russian to be their native language, a number three times larger than the number of ethnic Russians. And all these people will have to be re-educated in the Ukrainian language, while the language itself will have to be raised to international standards and usage. This is a task that would require over 100 years.
F: At the heart of all this is a central question: What about Russia and the U.S.? Are we historic rivals?
AS: Before the [Russian] revolution, they were natural allies. You know that during the American Civil War, Russia supported Lincoln and the North [in contrast to Britain and France, which supported the Confederacy]. Then, we were effectively allies in the First World War. But beginning with communism, Russia ceased to exist. What is there to talk about? The confrontation was not at all with Russia but with the communist U.S.S.R.
F: A lot of people in the West think it wasn't communism but traditional Russian imperialism that drove Stalin to grab Eastern Europe.
AS: Absolutely not! This was not Russian imperialism, which in the past only expanded its borders somewhat. This was communist imperialism, which aimed to take over the whole world.
F: Back to Russia, then. Are there other parts of the former Soviet Union that are as Russian as eastern and southern Ukraine?
AS: Yes. All of northern and northeastern Kazakhstan is actually part of southern Siberia. It is settled mostly by Russians, who, just like the other non-Kazakhs--together making up 60% of Kazakhstan's population--are being repressed in their national, cultural, business and daily life. How can a minority govern a majority? Only through duplicity and force. That's exactly what happened in the recent "elections" in Kazakhstan. Kazakh President Narsultan Nazarbayev today is regarded in the West as a great democrat. But he has already become an effective dictator.
F: Where, then, do you see Russia's borders? Which areas should unite with her?
AS: Already in 1990 I wrote that Russia could desire the union of only the three Slavic republics [Russia, Ukraine, Belarus] and Kazakhstan, while all the other republics should be let go. It would be desirable if [a resulting Russian Union] could be formed into a unitary state, not into a fragile, artificial confederation with a huge supra-national bureaucracy, as Nazarbayev recently proposed. That's just smoke and mirrors.
F: None of them a threat to the U.S.?
AS: If one looks far into the future, one can foresee in the 21st century such a time when the U.S. together with Europe will be in dire need of Russia as an ally.
F: That is a puzzling assertion.
AS: It is puzzling only for those who don't look into the future and do not see what kind of new powers are arising in the world."
Freedom Fox: Why would the US and Europe need Russia as an ally in the 21st century? Could he have meant that the US and European governments themselves were becoming the threat to its their own people that the Soviet Communist and German Fascist governments became to their own people? And that it would take the help of the Russians to defeat our oppressors? Hmmmm?
Solzhenitsyn is indispensable. One of the Greats.
May I recommend as a scholar of Russia-Ukraine the book of the govt professor at University of Rhodes Island Nicholai Petro, The Tragedy of Ukraine? This is far and away the best and most detailed book so far on Ukrainian nationalism and what happened to its in 2014. It's expensive because its a European academic publisher (De Gruyter) but well worth it.
I went to archive.org to see if they had the book available, they often do. But not for this book you suggest. However, they did have a link to this YouTube discussion of the book back in January, 2023. I'll bookmark it to view it. If you've read the book I'll be curious about your thoughts of the discussion?
"The Tragedy of Ukraine" w/ Nicolai Petro, Alexander Mercouris, and Glenn Diesen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2IdIbCREuk
It's an excellent interview, though it takes about 20 minutes before Nicolai and Alexander really cut to the chase--which is a if not the main issue in his book. That is not just the narrowness of Galician nationalism, but also the way it took over Ukrainian politics in 2014. (I wish they had started out with this event and placed it in historical context.) Petro's style is careful and methodical in laying out his points and the denouement can take patience. But he is full of nuances and significant details. If you've already read the book, he is much easier to follow and see where he is going. If you haven't but pay careful attention esp. after the 20 mark, it comes through. Galician intransigence has wrecked Ukraine (if I may out it more bluntly than he does) and the US has taken advantage of that for its own nefarious purposes.
This interview happened a while ago and its political hopes are outdated, given the military situation on the ground. Any hope for a reconciliation that would preserve Ukrainian sovereignty over most of its modern territory has, I suspect, slipped away. The Russian part of Ukraine has to go back to Russia to protect it from Galician ethnic cleansers. In my opinion, though, the US bears as much responsibility for that as the Ukrainian ultra-nationalists. Most Ukrainians across the board wanted a diplomatic solution a la Minsk. That's what got Zelensky elected with 75% of the vote. We sabotaged that with our Galicians.
Thank you for taking the time and relating to me your impression of it. I will now explore the material in greater detail based on your suggestions.
The Duran is the single best Youtube channel for Ukraine commentary. in my opinion.
I have probably watched this when it came out, but I'll watch it again and give you a comment, later today.
Thank you. If there are other non-YouTube channels like Rumble or Bitchute that have similar content I'd also take the heads-up about. YouTube being what YouTube is and all.
It's refreshing to read someone who knows what he's talking about.
War was cast in stone in 2008 at the Bucharest Summit which resolved to bring Ukraine and Georgia into NATO. See also Putin's response to that. Listen to Mearsheimer outline the history.
Yep!
Only inhuman monsters would put humanity at risk of nuclear war to advance the narrow interests of the one percent. The war is not to protect your "freedom". It is to protect the freedom of the vested interests in this nation to continue to rape and pillage the world for their own benefit. Caitlin, thank you for calling out these monsters.
The off ramp for this war may be another "walk away", just as in Afghanistan and Vietnam. NATO spent 20 years and 2. 3 trillion dollars in Afghanistan and left behind 80 billion dollars worth of equipment. granting a modern military to the Taliban. As Western domestic economies decline foreign wars are going to be harder than ever to sustain. Populations of the NATO countries are facing some dark times as Washington is going to cannibalize their economies more than ever to feed the MICC and NATO-- as long as this marriage from hell exists the West is screwed.
How far the fall before the West has a sane moment?
Not only NATO countries, but here in the USA as well. Caitlin has already made it clear how the US Oligarchy is stealing from the Australian people.
This theft is so obvious that for many they can't see it. They make unsubstantiated claims about the invincibility of American Technology and the US Navy armada. They listen to hacks like Peter Zeihan who has been claiming for years now that China's economy is about to collapse, when exactly the same parameters are even worse in the US economy.
Zeihan is a pentagon propagandist, everything he predicts is tilted to favor the west and disadvantage the Wests enemies. he does an incredible job at weaving the truth into his propaganda which makes it all the more believeable.
If one only listens to Zeihan, yes, it certainly is believable. If you listen to Norton, Wolff, Hudson and others, you quickly recognize that Zeihan is just substituting "China" in for "USA".
Of course, it isn't really that simple, but close enough.
Twice in a single-term presidency❓ Not Bloody Likely.
The US is not walking away but doubling down, and will continue to do so, for short of nuclear war, there is little Russia can do that so much as inconveniences the neocons in Washington.
The sanctions regime has fallen on its face everywhere around the globe, that may be an inconveniences to the war mongers but it also is highly public egg on their faces.
That wasn't what I was talking about.
Russia is going to give North Korea the weapons capable of nuking the USA. Does that count?
NK already has that.
I think they were able to reach Guam and some uninhabited Aleutian islands. We were supposed to be alarmed by this.
The proposed missiles could reach Pearl Harbor and the mainland USA.
Remember the air raid alert over Hawaii a few years back?
At any rate, NK missile technology, past or present, is not causing a change of Western attitudes with respect to Ukraine
It simply does not matter to Victoria - fuck the EU - Nuland who ends up in the White House - somehow she'll end up flip flopping from a Republican to a Democrat administration as easily as a prostitute changes clientele.
A bit like the war criminal Kissinger.
Totally - when they end up being responsible for the deaths of millions of people for some dark and mysterious reason they'll end up with a Nobel for Peace - perhaps it comes in useful when they get hauled before the meaningless ICC.
These active warmongers have extreme personality disorders that require immediate treatment in a place of safety but I certainly can't see that happening under the present management. The whole idiotic capitalist show will come crashing down first, hopefully in a non-radioactive way.
Please stop calling Fascism capitalism, they are not the same thing.
capitalism creates the conditions for fascism to emerge.
Nope, capitalism happens at the farmers market every day without guns, tanks, F-16s or obnoxious ass hat politicians justifying their fascism.
Here's the problem - They're Straussians - collectively we've never figured out how to hold our political representatives accountable when they've strayed down the wrong path.
Julian Assange's predicament has revealed that the judicial system is as bent as they are!
the military is on top. It's the government that is the hooker.
The Pentagon has proven unable to account for absolutely staggering sums of public funds.
Any business that operated in that manner would have been shut down by their creditors a long time ago - not the Pentagon - they'll just keep throwing more money at it - retired US generals make the transition from the DOD to the privately owned MIC where they end up as very well remunerated board members.
Who stands to benefit from all this?
The MIC's largest shareholders are...........[drum roll]
Anyone?
Easy. Vanguard has about 9%. Other mutual funds add up to over 50%.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/type-shareholders-own-most-number-090037845.html
All good - You can use that search to see who the largest shareholders are for each company
The MIC's largest shareholders are Vanguard and Blackrock - when they're not among the top of the search results they're most likely own major shareholdings in the company that is.
For example Lockheed Martin largest shareholders are
State Street Corporation Vanguard Group, Inc. (The) - and Blackrock Inc.
Vanguard are private so it's been impossible for me to find out who actually owns shares in them.
I don't see why Vanguard would sell shares in itself. They have no need of outside capital.
It goes the other way too. Secretariy of Defense Mark Esper had to get a congressional waiver to come more or less straight out of Raytheon. They said they wouldn't do it again, then did it again with Lloyd Austin.
President George W. Bush admitted it last year:
"In the 90's Secretary of State Baker promised Gorbachev NATO wouldn't expand into Ukraine." But really "always wanted to take Ukraine in NATO." Because, "look, times change," and you've "gotta be flexible." "It doesn't really matter what the promise was."
Yes. Provoked. Deliberately:
Fake Zelensky Tricks George Bush To Admit That USA Promise To Russia Not To Expand NATO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2SxvBKZMcY
Excellent newsletter & the speech by Mr. Horton was spot on. I worry more & more about nuclear war with these nut jobs that are running the government in the U.S. and it seems the people around me, including my loved ones can’t see it. This war started in 2014 with the Maidan Coup & the US and the collective West who supported Nazi factions in Ukraine. These people are descendants of the Western Ukrainians(Galicians?) who fought along side the Nazis when former Soviet Union was invaded in 1941. Most of my family doesn’t even know this part of the history of Western Ukraine. Yes, most definitely this was deliberately provoked. Most of these American politicians & elites are just plain EVIL, truly monsters. They are literally knowing people are dying in this war & don’t care, just keep sending more weapons, aid to Ukraine and as long as those Ukrainians kill more Russians they are happy even if that means more Ukrainians have to die to do it(“to the last Ukrainian”). SICK!!!! And the sad part is both Russians & Ukrainians are Slavic people/share similar history of Slavic culture.
The most succinct, honest and important article on the Ukraine War for some time.
There is no off-ramp to this either. Is Russia going to give back the territories? No way, never... Is America going to stop funding it? No way, never.. Ukraine is nearly out of soldiers so it cannot last “years” wo nato being directly involved (as we saw yesterday with German soldiers dying in German tanks in RUSSIA!!! This has no choice but escalate to a full on war between nato and Russia simply bc of manpower. All those American soldiers sitting in Poland waiting and Zelensky is beating down senior homes and Girl Scouts for bodies to throw in the meant grinder. wont last much longer before we’re fully involved.
The worm has turned on the blank check money spigot. Watch for a major NBC escalation by Ukraine, blowing up a nuclear power plant, launching WMD filled rockets at Moscow, the "labs" coming into play...
The Ukranian Government has maimed or killed upwards of a million of their own citizens. They either go big and drag the West into open war or flee with their stolen loot. No other future for them and running does not guarantee their long term future. Just look at what has happened to so many of the overseas Russian oligarchs...
Exactly. At some point something has to happen to bring nato in. Ukraines escalation continues and the nato weapons lethality increasing is meant for just that. Do something big enough that Russia has no choice. Putin knows this however and so does anyone paying attention. I think he’s just waiting for China to be ready to take Taiwan honestly. The US cannot fight a two front European and Pacific situation. We are weak, china needs to do this while Biden is in office. This administration not only wants full on war but the collapsing financial system requires it. we’re months away from a massive confrontation not years imo. We’ll see but i see no off-ramp anywhere by anyone. I see nuclear war at the end of this unfortunately. This is a war that will shape the world’s next structure. The western elites (WEF, BIS etc..) want Russias land and resources as well as to control the world. they view Russia as weak and able to be taken in which China wouldn’t fight if the west took Russia. this is the stand-off between east and west. It will not end until there’s a winner or global catastrophe.
An American will snap his fingers and Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia will send an "expeditionary force" to catch Russian munitions. Germans, etc. on the table next.
None of them will be happy about it, but nobody will ask them their opinion.
Latest report from this morning is a German tank crewed by Germany Army regulars was just destroyed in Russian held territory. That would be a NATO incursion.
Holy 💩!
The US, as the shining light of democracy is the major instigator in the majority of world issues today and in the last 50 years. We are simply a tool used by the evil in the world to create havoc. It’s all about money and linked to the Fed and IMF. The road will run out soon.
Scott Horton is also a certified Truth-teller like Caitlin Johnstone. "Manifest Infamy" seems to be the Western strategy here--or Manifest Entropy. The Collective West's (meaning the Elite's) Death Wish is the thing to be most concerned about. Otherwise, the World will work the way it's always worked, by fits and starts...
The Horton video is an absolute MUST WATCH. It succinctly highlights the events that lead up to this crisis and calls out those responsible.
Will check it out, and thanks for the heads up! Kind of tragic that the West won't change its tune until it's literally beaten in the field or runs out of money, the latter being the most likely scenario as the Dollar de-values in an increasingly multipolar world...
Grand Chessboard, baby! (Zbig)
Yes. Depopulation is agenda #1 and people are clueless
They are clueless because they haven't been depopulated yet, or think that they're on some special exemption-from-extinction list. Funny how all the Anglo Eugenics Societies had to change their names after the Nazis Holocausted the brand...
Macgregor, Ritter, Sachs,. Mearsheimer et al have been saying this for a year and a half. But cannot be said too often.
and Horton.
Horton's debate with Bill Kristol, which Caitlin brought to our attention two years ago, shows Horton's unstoppable, undeniable logic. We should be reading more from his anti-war pages
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/watch-scott-hortons-one-sided-debate
Thanks for the link. Scott Ritter did not appreciate Horton disinviting him from the Rage Against the War rally, but I'm a big tent person when it comes to opposing war. And that should be a really big tent by now.
I hadn't any idea it was Horton responsible for disinviting Ritter. Wow. Talk about changing my mind about a guy.
Seriously, are you "sure"? Please tell me you're kidding.
No I was not kidding but I apologize because I am not sure at all now, having re-read the only text I can find describing the incident (https://www.scottritterextra.com/p/cancel-culture-round-three-get-out?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2FHorton&utm_medium=reader2), and I may be misremembering something from one of the many interviews Ritter has done. I would hate to contribute to any in-fighting amongst anti-warriors like both Scotts (Ritter and Horton). Of the two, I value Ritter's opinion more highly -- and all the more because of the sordid attempts of the powers-that-be to skewer him (partially successful) -- but as far as I know they have identical positions on the insanity of the Ukraine war and I agree with them both.
Well, FWIW: (I believe) -if- anyone on that page asked Scott to not show up, it was because of pressure from the idiots who formed their own worthless protest a month later. I forget who those guys were.
Scott didn't go anyway. He was disinvited a second time. I know Dore, Nixon, and Blumenthal would not have been supportive of that.
I tried to follow along, but the references were all unspecific.
Stuck here in Malpensa airport I have had a chance to listen to the Kirstol-Horton debate and am very impressed with Scott's performance. He is an excellent debater. Even without bringing in the US responsibility for 9/11 (see David Griffin), the arguments that Horton masterfully presents are "enough." So I repeat my apology for mentioning what I seem to recall as Scott Ritter's remarks about Horton. In truth I don't know what either Scott thinks about 9/11. That is the dog that still refuses to bark.
You meant to say a decade and a half
US foreign policy can be summed up as "we will bury you."
Megaprovoked.