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This is what happens when a bunch of ragged hyenas, jackals and tiny rodents poke The Bear: a new geopolitical order is born in breathtaking speed.

From a dramatic meeting of the Russian Security Council to a history lesson delivered by President Putin and the subsequent birth of the Baby Twins – the People’s Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk – all the way to their appeal to President Putin to intervene militarily to expel the NATO-backed Ukrainian bombing-and-shelling forces from Donbass, it was a seamless process.

The (nuclear) straw that (nearly) broke the Bear’s back – and forced its paws to pounce – was Zelensky the Comedian, back from the Russophobia-drenched Munich Security Conference where he was hailed like a Messiah, saying that the 1994 Budapest memorandum should be revised and Ukraine should be nuclear-rearmed.

That would be the equivalent of a nuclear Mexico south of the Hegemon.

Putin immediately turned Responsibility to Protect (R2P) upside down: an American concept invented to launch wars in MENA (remember Libya?) was retrofitted to stop a slow-motion genocide in Donbass.

First came the recognition of the Baby Twins – Putin’s most important foreign policy decision since going to Syria in 2015. That was the preamble for the next game-changer: a “special military operation (…) aimed at demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine”, as Putin defined it.

Up to the last minute, the Kremlin was trying to rely on diplomacy, explaining to Kiev the necessary imperatives to prevent heavy metal thunder: recognition of Crimea as Russian; abandon any plans to join NATO; negotiate directly with the Baby Twins – an anathema for the Americans since 2015; finally, demilitarize and declare Ukraine as neutral.

Kiev’s handlers, predictably, would never accept the package – as they didn’t accept the Master Package that really matters: the Russian demand for “indivisible security”.

The sequence, then, became inevitable. In a flash, all Ukrainian forces between the so-called line of contact and the original borders of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts were boxed in as the occupying force of territories of two Russian allies that Moscow had just sworn to protect.

So it was Get Out – Or Else. “Or else” came as rolling thunder: the Kremlin and the Russian Ministry of Defense were not bluffing. Timed to the end of Putin’s speech announcing the operation, the Russians decapitated with precision missiles everything that mattered in terms of the Ukrainian military in just one hour: Air Force, Navy, airfields, bridges, command and control centers, the whole Turkish Bayraktar drone fleet.

And it was not only Russian raw power. It was the artillery of one of the Baby Twins, the DPR, that hit the HQ of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Donbass, which actually housed the entire Ukrainian military command. This means that the Ukrainian General Staff instantly lost control of all its troops.

This was Shock and Awe against Iraq, 19 years ago, in reverse: not for conquest, not as a prelude for an invasion and occupation. The political-military leadership in Kiev did not even have time to declare war. They froze. Demoralized troops started deserting. Total defeat – in one hour.

The water supply to Crimea was instantly re-established. Humanitarian corridors were set up for the deserters. “Remnants” now include mostly surviving Azov battalion Nazis, mercenaries trained by the usual Blackwater/Academi suspects, and a bunch of Salafi-jihadis.

Predictably, Western corporate media has already gone totally berserk branding it as the much-awaited Russian “invasion”. A reminder: when Israel routinely bombs Syria and when the House of One Saudi routinely bombs Yemeni civilians, there is never any peep in NATOstan media.

As it stands, realpolitik spells out a possible endgame (see Donetsk’s head, Denis Pushilin: “The special operation in Donbass will soon be over and all the cities will be liberated.”)

We could soon witness the birth of an independent Novorossiya – east of the Dnieper, south along Sea of Azov/Black Sea, the way it was when attached to Ukraine by Lenin in 1922. But now totally aligned with Russia, and providing a land bridge to Transnistria.

Ukraine, of course, would lose any access to the Black Sea. History loves playing tricks: what was a “gift” to Ukraine in 1922 may become a parting gift a hundred years later.

It’s creative destruction time

It will be fascinating to watch what Prof. Sergey Karaganov masterfully described, in detail, as the new Putin doctrine of constructive destruction , and how it will interconnect with West Asia, the Eastern Mediterranean and further on down the Global South road.

President Erdogan, the ceremonial NATO Sultan, branded the recognition of the Baby Twins as “unacceptable.” No wonder: that definitely smashed all his elaborate plans to pose as privileged mediator between Moscow and Kiev during Putin’s upcoming visit to Ankara. The Kremlin – as well as the Foreign Ministry – don’t waste time talking to NATO minions.

Lavrov, for his part, had a recent, very productive entente with Syrian Foreign Minister Faysal Mekdad. Russia, this past weekend, has staged a spectacular strategic missile display, hypersonic and otherwise, featuring Khinzal, Zircon, Kalibr, Yars ICBMs, Iskander and Sineva – irony of ironies, in synch with the Russophobia-fest in Munich. In parallel, Russian Navy ships of the Pacific, Northern and Black Sea fleets performed a series of submarine search drills in the Mediterranean.

The Putin doctrine privileges the asymmetrical – and that applies to the near abroad and beyond. Putin’s body language, in his last two crucial interventions, spell out nearly maximum exasperation. As in realizing, not auspiciously, but rather in resignation, that the only language those neo-con and “humanitarian” imperialist psychos in the Beltway understand is heavy meal thunder (they are definitely deaf, dumb and blind to History, Geography and Diplomacy, for that matter. No to mention they never accepted their defeat in Syria.)

ORDER IT NOW

So we can always game the Russian military, for instance, imposing a no-fly zone in Syria to conduct a series of visits by Mr. Khinzal not only to the Turk-protected shady jihadist umbrella in Idlib but also the jihadists protected by the Americans in Al-Tanf base, near the Syria-Jordan border. After all these specimens are all NATO proxies.

The United States government barks non-stop about “territorial sovereignty”. So let’s game the Kremlin asking the White House for a road map on getting out of Syria: after all the Americans are illegally occupying a section of Syrian territory and most of all adding extra disaster to the Syrian economy by stealing their oil.

NATO’s stultifying Stoltenberg has announced the alliance is dusting off its “defense plans”: that may include little more than hide behind their expensive Brussels desks. They are as inconsequential in the Black Sea as in the East Med – as the Empire remains quite vulnerable in Syria.

There are now four Russian TU-22M3 strategic bombers in Hymeimim base, each capable of carrying three S-32 anti-ship missiles that fly at supersonic Mach 4.3 with a range of 1,000 km. No Aegis system is able to handle them.

Russia in Syria also has stationed a few Mig-31Ks in Latakia equipped with hypersonic Khinzals – more than enough to sink any kind of US surface group, including aircraft carriers, in the East Med. The US has no air defense mechanism whatsoever with even a minimal chance of intercepting them.

So the rules have changed. Drastically. The Hegemon is naked. The new deal starts with turning the post-Cold War set-up in Eastern Europe completely upside down. The East Med will be next. The Bear is back, baby. Hear him roar.

(Republished from The Cradle by permission of author or representative)
 
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  1. Shpalone says:

    The dirty Ruskis can go beg the dirty Chinaman if he wants to be their friend, because nobody else wants anything to do with the dirty Ruskis. Its over!. Russia will be more isolated than Iran.

  2. Bo Bo says:

    I applaud the Russian citizens in Moscow and elsewhere who demonstrated against Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. I am no foreign policy expert. I am just thinking of all the Ukrainian citizens who are having their lives destroyed and upended by the devastating invasion which Putin and NATO could have worked harder to avert. I would love it if Russian soldiers now in the Ukraine protested the invasion by defecting to NATO countries. I am sure they would be acceptable migrants. I hope and pray no nuclear confrontation results from this military debacle. Maybe Putin, Biden, and other NATO leaders can share a cell in hell some day in infinity. SAVE the people- not the politicians!

  3. Franz says:

    The Hegemon is naked.

    The ((ruling class)) will be the last to know.

    Prediction: They’ll keep overplaying their hand till all the bridges fall and only people with “two mommies” will serve in their military.

  4. A123 says:

    The author’s use of “East Med” is fore telling.

    Not-The-President Biden withdrew support from the EastMed gas pipeline project about a month ago. This is now being reconsidered. There are limits to both U.S. export terminals and European import regasification. For political reasons, the reversal is unlikely to be publicly announced before the midterm elections. However, it is happening behind the scenes.

    Christian Greece and Christian Cyprus are indirectly helped by the current conflict.

    PEACE 😇

    • Troll: mulga mumblebrain
    • Replies: @cohen
    , @RadicalCenter
  5. Our politicians in Washington are celebrating the Russian invasion. Complaints about inflation, bad roads, crime, and health care can be ignored, because THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING! Now they can spend a lot more on the military and even build more bases in Europe. Critics can be dismissed as Russian agents. The Cold War is back! Our oil industry is thrilled with soaring oil prices and so is our Saudi ally who can afford even more American weaponry.

    Putin warned for years that the two decades of NATO advancement must halt, and the two new bases in Poland and Romania capable of launching nuclear cruise missiles must be closed. The American response was to invent excuses to keep Russia’s new NordStream pipeline to Germany closed, impose more sanctions, and send more weapons to Ukraine. Ukraine has been a worry for the past decade as the United States attempted to make it a vassal state with disastrous results. All Europeans are glad Russia solved the problem somewhat peacefully, and are angry the USA caused it by refusing to negotiate with Russia and demanding ever more sanctions.

    Biden’s new sanctions are funny. Russia can’t buy American computer equipment so will buy from China. It’s a sanction against American companies. Russian banks can’t participate in the western system based on the US dollar, so will trade directly with China and Iran or switch to Bitcoin. Ukraine is better off now with good relations with its largest trading partner and a crackdown on its massive political corruption.

  6. Rubicon says:

    No where do we find in this article, or any other article that explains in what way is Russia financially prepared for the blow-back when its banks and the entire Russian Financial Market start seeing investors remove their money. Moreover, it has already started.

    After all, it’s not as though, the Russian Financial System has removed enough of its money from the clutches of the US $$ Hegemony.

    In more modern times, the real winner in a war has everything to do with keeping lots of money reserves in its Treasury.

    Can someone point to a specialist in this field??

  7. Stan says:
    @Bo Bo

    If you don’t know what you are talking about, don’t waste readers’ time by flaunting your ignorance.

    • Agree: John Q Duped
  8. Wokechoke says:

    Zelensky will be sipping cocktails with Epstein and Brunel on the beach in Haifa within a fortnight.

    • Agree: Tom Welsh
  9. It would seem our owners really believe their own bullshit. America the paper tiger, it’s there for the world to see. Too bad the people behind the belligerence towards Russia can’t see it. We have a paper cutout president who is the head of a paper tiger. And the people advising him are insane.

  10. TG says:

    At least tactically, Putin has been brilliant. Once he decided to invade the Ukraine, he first leaked his plans to the US government. When Biden and his handlers announced these plans of course nobody believed it, because the US government has no credibility. Even the president of the Ukraine didn’t believe the warnings! So when the invasion did take place, it was a total surprise!

    Clever is the wolf that lets a serial liar raise the alarm.

    But still, as has already been pointed out, the western elites can now blame all of their failures on Russia, all critics are Russian agents, pay no attention to illegal immigration or anything else because RUSSIA, etc. And while Russia may well win a crushing lighting military victory, can they prevent the west from turning Ukraine into a quagmire? It’s easier to tear down than to build, and the west only wants the Ukraine to become a failed state full of people that hate Russians…

  11. One must look long term to realize Putin’s strategic brilliance of cutting off Ukraine’s GlobalHomoZioBIGsRxMIC3BLM head before morphing into a NATO anal monster that kills millions of Heterosexual white Russians by ZOGs, PIGs and NIGs.
    USUKEU military wankers are going back to their CRT military training schools to figure out what went wrong.
    Secretary Austin: Afta y’all get thu suck’s each udda, can we hav uh meat’n? Common man!!!

    • LOL: Katrinka
  12. Katrinka says:
    @Rubicon

    I’m not a specialist, but I know that Russia holds a lot more gold than the J.U.S.A. does.

    • Replies: @RadicalCenter
    , @FKA Max
  13. Daemon says:
    @Shpalone

    How does it feel that your country will likely not exist by the end of the year?

    • Replies: @animalogic
  14. Notsofast says:
    @Carlton Meyer

    you’ll notice that covid has completely fallen out of the news cycle, just as bill gates admits that natural immunity is far better than the “vaccines” and the cdc refuses to release the data from the last two years, as the public might misinterpret it. now it’s 24/7 war,war,war, won’t somebody think of the children. of course you’re going to pay twice as much for gas, it’s the least we can do to help these poor suffering victims of russian aggression.

    • Agree: Kali, John Q Duped, JWalters, Sulu
    • Disagree: Corvinus
    • Thanks: RadicalCenter
    • LOL: InnerCynic
    • Replies: @Abbybwood
  15. Putin’s next move:

    invite Zio-NATO troops to amscray from the Baltic states,

    or else. Or

    so I hope.

  16. @Bo Bo

    You cannot fake such stupidity. This is GENUINE. Russians should defect to the Ukronazis? Are you fecking insane? Their grandfathers destroyed a previous infestation of Ukronazis, and now it is this generation’s duty and privilege to eradicate another.
    And good on the compradore traitors in Moscow. They have identified themselves, and can be carefully monitored in future.

    • Agree: JR Foley
    • Troll: Automatic Slim
    • Replies: @Anon
    , @Irish Savant
  17. barr says:
    @Bo Bo

    While crying and thrashing about Russian invasion America found time to assault Somalia again.

    • Replies: @Derer
  18. @Wokechoke

    And don’t forget the infamous Hymie Brown of 9/11 fame who made aliyah to Israel after being exposed as an imposter.

  19. Other than the obligatory WWII distortions, Putin’s speech from yesterday is strikingly similar to some of Hitler’s speeches just before the outbreak of WWII.

    It’s truly a watershed speech that will change the course of history. He’s essentially declared Total War on JUSA.

    https://thesaker.is/address-by-the-president-of-the-russian-federation-february-24-2022/

    This passage is particularly startling:

    Properly speaking, the attempts to use us in their own interests never ceased until quite recently: they sought to destroy our traditional values and force on us their false values that would erode us, our people from within, the attitudes they have been aggressively imposing on their countries, attitudes that are directly leading to degradation and degeneration, because they are contrary to human nature. This is not going to happen. No one has ever succeeded in doing this, nor will they succeed now.

    Hmm, I wonder who he is referring to?

    This will be the final battle of Good vs Evil. The wrong side won WWII. Humanity and civilization has one last chance.

  20. This conflict began with:


    Video Link

    • Agree: Irish Savant, R2b
    • Thanks: Luus Kanin, Sarah
    • Replies: @Haxo Angmark
  21. America’s tyrannical corporations delete all search results about its 100+ wars and attacks on foreign countries. It wants you to only find Russia and evil Hitler. You gotta dig really deep now, and I think the “free” Internet is now completely US controlled.

  22. MEexpert says:

    The hypocrites (Demo-Repub-crats) in Washington are at it again. Mark Green R-Tenn was moaning about invasion of a sovereign nation. He needs to be reminded about the invasion of sovereign nations, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria by the United States. And of course Saudi’s invasion of Yemen with the help of the US where Children are being killed and starved. Then we have the US’ step child Israel constantly bombing sovereign nations; Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon.

    Then we have this statement from madam Lindsey Graham, “And I can tell you from history, anytime we sit silent and watch the rights of one group be eviscerated, it’s just a matter of time before it comes back to haunt us.” The entire US congress sits silent while the rights of Syrians, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iranians, and the Palestinians are eviscerated on a daily basis by Israel. Any comments madam?

  23. This is no surprise to people who pay attention, via youtube or G2mil rather than corporate media. From my blog:

    Jan 14, 2022 – War Warning

    In 2002, the United States unilaterally and without consultation with the other party, withdrew from the landmark Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty. President George W. Bush noted that the treaty is “now behind us,” describing the ABM Treaty as a Cold War relic. Signed in 1972, the ABM Treaty barred both the US and the USSR from deploying national defenses against long-range ballistic missiles. The treaty was based on the premise that if either superpower constructed a strategic defense, the other would build up its offensive nuclear forces to offset the defense.

    The superpowers would therefore quickly be put on a path toward a never-ending offensive-defensive arms race, as each tried to balance its counterpart’s actions. Until Bush took office, the Treaty was referred to as a “cornerstone of strategic stability” as it facilitated later agreements, reducing U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear arsenals. The US, assuming that a weakened Russia will never again be in a position to counter US hegemonic power, proceeded to encroach on Russia’s borders through the manipulation of international law and mythical NATO objectives.

    In 2007, Putin informed the Western world that Russia will develop its defensive weaponry to counter US advances eastward. This was stated in response to the US missile defense system in Romania that was being developed at the time (and previously prohibited in international law.) The USA also began construction of another large missile launch facility in Poland that is nearing completion.

    Watch Putin’s warning of war in 2016.


    Video Link

    • Thanks: al gore rhythms
    • Replies: @emerging majority
  24. Abbybwood says:
    @Notsofast

    The CDC should now be referred to as the CYA as they and their masters point to Ukraine screaming, “Squirrel!!”

    • Agree: Notsofast, InnerCynic
  25. JR Foley says:
    @Shpalone

    Go back and watch Monday night wrestling or call Hunter Biden and ask him how Lia Thomas is doing in wrestling?

    • Replies: @nosquat loquat
  26. @Daemon

    Ukraine will continue to exist — but not in the same political & legal circumstances as before.

    • Replies: @gabon 45
  27. @Ghan-buri-Ghan

    “Humanity and civilization has one last chance.”
    Yes – & let’s hope that some dopey “Samson” out there doesn’t pull the whole fucking thing down on all our heads… .

    • Replies: @Joe Levantine
  28. parand says:

    In 1994, Ukraine was fooled by US, UK and Russia to give up its own nuclear weapons to become a non-nuclear-weapons state, but the other three aggressors, axis of evil, US – UK- Russia kept their own nuclear weapons in order to invade other countries at will. And now the propagandists come here supporting the illegal invasion of Ukraine and crazy people cheers.

    What is Budapest Memorandum?

    [On December 5, 1994, leaders of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Russian Federation met in Budapest, Hungary, to pledge security assurances to Ukraine in connection with its accession to the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) as a non-nuclear-weapons state. The signature of the so-called Budapest Memorandum concluded arduous negotiations that resulted in Ukraine’s agreement to relinquish the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal, which the country inherited from the collapsed Soviet Union, and transfer all nuclear warheads to Russia for dismantlement. The signatories of the memorandum pledged to respect Ukraine’s territorial integrity and inviolability of its borders, and to refrain from the use or threat of military force. Russia breached these commitments with its annexation of Crimea in 2014 and aggression in eastern Ukraine, bringing the meaning and value of security assurance pledged in the Memorandum under renewed scrutiny.]

    https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/budapest-memorandum-25-between-past-and-future

    These criminal states, agreed and signed, that they will respect Ukraine’s territorial integrity and inviolability of its borders, and to refrain from the use of threat of military force. The US and UK, suppose to protect Ukraine sovereignty and security because they disarmed Ukraine. Now look what has happened to Ukraine trusting the axis of evil, US – UK – Russia. Today, Ukraine has been bombed, divided and occupied. The Russian invasion confirms this belief that those nations without NUCLEAR WEAPONS are in danger and could be invaded any time. Now, the Iranian people understand why RUSSIA, like US and Israel, does not want Iran to have nuclear enrichment.

    Russia has always cooperated with the West against Muslims. Russia and Putin have voted YES to illegal sanctions, at least 4 times, at the UN against Iran to please US/Israel to collect concessions. The invasion of Ukraine brought numerous tweets from the Iranians around the world expressing their disappointment about the invasion and demanding SECURITY from the Iranian government. They believe Iran MUST have nuclear weapons to protect itself from the AXIS of EVIL, more than any other time. Iranian people laugh at Iran fifth column, the reformists’ who trust the WEST, especially US for their SECURITY. Now, it is obvious that NO one can give you security except YOURSELF.
    Where are US, UK and the criminal European states to protect Ukraine who gave up its nuclear weapons?
    Russia and Putin have cooperated with the west to invade Muslim countries. Russia supported Iraq war on Iran where in fact was US war on Iran. Russians let Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan and other countries to be destroyed. Now, they expect not much threat directed at Russia in support of Ukraine from the US and its extension. These criminal states help each other at the critical time. The one who suffers is people of Ukraine, like people of Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Palestine, Libya.

    Whoever supports this criminal invasion cannot be trusted. Down with the propagandists.

    • Disagree: Bro43rd, erzberger
    • Replies: @RadicalCenter
  29. With respect a good report Senior Pepe!
    (And I give very little if you censor me or not).

    Allow me to add one about your most important “series of visits by Mr. Khinzal”, which seems to be so relevant or maybe even most relevant because it seems to be the real turnaround namely the permanent presence of Mr. Tsyrkon at home, sweet home of the Jewnighted States:
    Viewing time: 1 minute

    Video Link

  30. Tsyrkon; exemplary:
    300-400 kg nuclear head, (re. 15,000 kt TNT), delivery speed: Mach 7 – 8 (9 878 km/h)
    Straight line flight distance from
    Cuba whereabouts – Miami Bitch 264.72 mi (426.02 km); 2 minutes, 59 seconds
    Cuban waters – Washington Dicks 1,176.39 mi (1,893.22 km); ca. 12 minutes
    Cuba waters – Jew-Yolk-City: 1,332.29 mi (2,144.12 km); ca. 13 minutes

  31. @Carlton Meyer

    there was no “american” coup in the Ukraine in 2014.

    it was

    a Zionist globo-homo coup. Neither

    america or any other remnant White country

    has any sovereignty vis-a-vis the Jews.

    • Agree: Rev. Spooner
    • Replies: @Irish Savant
  32. @Ghan-buri-Ghan

    WW2 never ended, but you are correct re. Good vs Evil. The West is Evil Incarnate, Russia much better. And Vlad fecking the Ukronazis over is the very best thing I have seen since the Vietnamese tank knocked down the front gate of the ‘South Vietnamese’ death-squad regime’s Presidential Palace in 1975.

    • Replies: @The Old Philosopher
  33. @Thorsten J. Pattberg

    I found on many occasions that if I mentioned Chomsky and Herman’s ‘Manufacturing Consent’ to MSM colleagues of my father, that they would lose it totally. If was quite good sport. And those were absolute paragons in contrast to the swine who infest the MSM now.

  34. Anonymous[142] • Disclaimer says:

    The author doesn’t understand what a “parting gift” is. A parting gift involves giving something, not taking something away. Be best!

    “Heavy meal”?

  35. Yugoslav says:

    That Putin is a criminal and that what he is doing is a crime against humanity your analyses cannot change. Starting a war of aggression against another state where numerous innocent civilians would die cannot be justified. As NATO attacks on Iraque, Lybia, Yugoslavia were criminal actions the same is with this one. You do not have any empathy for other people suffering. Putin was already a criminal when leveled and destroyed Grozny in Chechnia killing numerous of its own citizens.

  36. Quizzler says:

    I come to this site to read actual information from the many commenters on here. Some I flat out disagree with but most actually have viewpoints that make me think…try to research myself to try to get more information. But my real reason for writing is to ask and or tell commenters on here that if you have any doubt to the total ignorance of the American people (and remember they actually vote!)go to any mainstream site that allows “comments”. I always knew that we had ignorant people here but the internet has absolutely frightened me…it is far more widespread than I believed BEFORE the internet. The sudden obsession with Ukraine and the opinions of people that clearly think they are experts…….democracy BS, freedom HS…..the list goes on….Have a great day and thanks to Mr Unz for this site!!

    • Agree: HdC, Biff K
  37. Levtraro says:
    @Bo Bo

    I applaud the Russian citizens in Moscow and elsewhere who demonstrated against Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

    It’s called “burning our lesser assets”. If you cann’t burn your lesser assets when launching a massive propaganda effort, what are they good for?

  38. Levtraro says:
    @Ghan-buri-Ghan

    Yes, it is a very important part of Putin’s Donbass recognition speech. He had earlier supported conservative ideology but it was a nice touch that he expressed his position again in this speech.

  39. Dr. Doom says:

    The United States and its NATO allies called Putin the new Hitler for his incursion into the Ukraine. They then announced the sending of thousands of troops into Poland.

    • Replies: @Sollipsist
    , @Biff K
  40. Levtraro says:

    This Escobar’s article is more informative and less rhetoric than previous articles. Thanks.

  41. …the Master Package that really matters: the Russian demand for “indivisible security”.

    Indivisible security” is just a nebulous cliche. Since it is always unattainable, in a strict sense, it therefore becomes a mere euphemism for the concept of “we want to dominate at your expense“.

    It is telling how the author cannot constrain himself from his repeated glorification of recent military violence in that region, simply because such unrealistically inflated demands were not met.

    The proper manner to handle grievances is through negotiations. The Munich Security Conference would have been an excellent venue for serious discussions, but Russia had no such interest.

    Once the Russian military apparatus had embarked on its spiritual mission to re-establish and impose historical borders through subjugation and terror, civilized discourse had become irrelevant.

  42. Dumbo says:

    Good article by Pepe. And to think he started writing about silly pop music in Brazil.

    Besides Anglin’s fun live thread, this is a Russian blog with direct info on the ground. It’s in Russian but Google Translate or similar works fine.

    https://aftershock.news/?q=node/1068523

    The Saker has some good stuff too, of course.

    https://thesaker.is

    Zero Hedge and RT are OK, but comments have been taken over by trolls and bot, and RT was down for a while.

    The bigger loser is Western mainstream media. What a joke it has become for anyone interested in actual information.

  43. GMC says:
    @Hum

    Agree, notice that once President Putin called out the countries that love to fund, arm and train these Nazis, Pee Wee Trudeau and his Nazi loving cabinet thought it wise to stop with the Fascist ” Emergency Act”. I wonder if the Russian Diplomatic team had a little chat with the Nazi lovers in the west.

    And why was there such a big gunfight near Chernobyl ? Did I hear the word HAARP from the clandestine community a couple weeks ago ? Yes I did.

    • Replies: @HdC
  44. Ahead lies a very busy day for me with no time to read this until later. Looking forward with pleasurable anticipation to reading and to the discomfort and eventual collapse of said ((western)) rag-arsed hyena’s. The full implication of obsequiously serving the gangster jews/masons is being brought to those who so richly deserve it.

    “What Goes Around, Comes Around” and 100+ years of kike war, manufactured boom/bust, 9/11, JFK, feminism, bird flu, AIDS, Palestine, pandemic etc etc etc = lots of accumulated karma.
    Have a Wonderful Day.

    • Replies: @Irish Savant
  45. Nah … a nuclear Mexico would of necessity tread softly while
    a Jewish Ukraine backed to the hilt by the US would be very hostile –
    imagine if you will a nuclear Mexico backed to the hilt by China and Canada
    and hellbent on revising Guadelupe Hidalgo, and it still wouldn´t be
    the same.

  46. Jusses says:

    “ragged hyenas, jackals and tiny rodents”

    You forgot the gimped louse Finland.

  47. Hhsiii says:
    @Ghan-buri-Ghan

    Wait, what side was Russia on? I thought Putin was denazifying Ukraine. This is so confusing.

  48. Kali says:

    Whilst it’s clear that Russia has played a blinder in Ukrain and has put the ZOG sock puppet “leaders” of the west in their place militarily, we, the people of these lands under zionist occupation, cannot aford to indulge in “crisis averted” fantacies just yet, as our own liberties and freedoms, granted us by God/Natural Law, are under direct and continuing threat of the totalitarian neo-con/neo-lib/neo-fascist Davos alumni.

    I’ve been searching for news of the Trucker-lead protests in Canada, and besises a piece by Tony Hall published by Global Reasearch yesterday, there’s very little to be found.

    The news that is getting out gives the impression that the protests in Ottowa and elswhere have been ruthlessly and violently smashed by the Canadian ZOG, amid promises to hunt down and destroy participants and supporters. This WAR AGAINST THE PEOPLE and crushing of descent is for WE THE PEOPLE to fight! – If, by his moves against the empire, Putin has averted a full-blown world war (we shall see) then any lingering hopes that such a war may devestate the zionist/Davos controlled power in the west, and thereby free the people from the need to free ourselves, can be laid aside.

    A-symetric warfare commited by ZOG against the people requires an intelligent responce, which in itself requires we the people to develope economic (“food on the table” does not require bank accounts or crowd funding) independence as well as a system of justice which actually holds wrong-doers, and not inocent victims, to account – including for crimes against life. (I refuse their bulkshit “humanity” rhetoric. We are Mankind!)

    A very long time ago I regularly used the tagline, more relevant than ever today it seems, “think outside the box, live outside the cage”. We cannot allow our consciousness to be dictated by ANY of ((their)) imperialist systems of (mind) control. Education, economy, trade, justice, welfare, medicine… ALL of these things which we traditionally leave the “ruling class” to decide and dictate, we must now decide for ourselves as we look to a future, not yet determined.

    Even if Putin does eventually wipe out the western ZOG, the new boss, with China as the econimic super-power, will almost certainly turn out to be as bad as the old boss.

    Very best wishes to all,
    Kali.

    • Agree: Bro43rd, gsjackson
  49. anonymous[309] • Disclaimer says:

    Making the rounds is the account that many Russian missile strikes in the first day of war, targeted destruction of the US-backed biological weapons labs which have long been known to be on Ukrainian territory – Ron Unz perhaps take note

    Also key to note is that the ‘smoking gun’ document finally emerged at the British Museum, proving that Russia was absolutely correct about the West promising not to expand NATO into the old Communist East, with Nato and the West lying about this for 25 years … On record are Germany, UK and USA (Jürgen Chrobog, John Weston, Raymond Seitz) all agreeing that this was a solemn promise. The previously secret document can be viewed in full here
    http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/faculty/trachtenberg/cv/19910307.pdf

    • Replies: @GMC
    , @Commentator Mike
    , @d dan
  50. In Spring 2019 it became public that Russia had succesfully tested (in 2018?) a hypersonic missile reaching Mach 15.
    How could that become public (with relative close ups)? Because Russia wanted it to be known?
    Going by Russian tradition it means these were already then to a certain extent (of manufacturing capacity) in place and are ready to be deployed today. “Russia Today” so to speak.
    So the unstoppable current generation of hypersonics with 7 – 10 Mach (depending on load weight) is for Russia second grade already and for other countries not even yet on the horizon (?).
    It seems that Russia is militarily on top of the heap and does no longer need to take existence threatening shit from the Jewnighted States & Israhell.
    More bad news for the murderers and haters of the liveliness of the Christ (“the Nazi”) is the fact that a mighty son of “three Jewish mothers” sincerely pushes the orthodox faith as the savior and anker for Russian life.
    More bad news for us inmates of the FRG zone, dumbfounded through occupation, are the prime lackeys of the Scholz regime of the Jewnighted States & hyenas and their current most dumbest back stabbing of Russia. How will Russia ever forget and forgive Scholz & Cons and the German TV consumers? Even that Schroeder snake weight in against Russia’s right over its homelands.
    As injust as the Allied victor’s tribunal in Nürnberg was as just would be RUS trials in Kiew, Warsaw, Berlin and Brussels today.

    • Thanks: Irish Savant
  51. cohen says:
    @A123

    Hello 123 with fake and deceptive emoji “Peace” only when Israel grabs Palestinian land.
    Or when the Jews torture the Christians, Jews are one who feel the pain (Polish saying).

    So how are the little Talmudist AKA future Holohoax survivors. Are they learning book keeping tricks in the business of human organs trading. A growth industry.

    One of your fellow Holohox survivor Ted Kaufman, FDR’s speech writer, identified merely a writer in your holy online book Wikipedia who authored the famous book “Germany must perish” in 1933 with raving reviews from Time Magazine and New York times. It is hard to get the book, however, available in archives.com.

    http://www.ihr.org/books/kaufman/perish.shtml

    https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Theodore+Newman+Kaufman%22

    https://archive.org/details/GermanyMustPerish1941/1941%20-%20Germany%20Must%20Perish%21%20-%20Theodore%20N.%20Kaufman/page/n107/mode/2up

    This book should be on display in all Holohox museums as fine peace of literature.

    • Troll: Agent76
    • Replies: @Agent76
  52. I’ve never seen so many Queens’ of Hearts jumping up and down in synchronized apoplexy as in UK right now. They lost and they know it. What an embarassing spectatle that is … no more respect given. The empire of Lies is mortally wounded.

  53. JR Foley says:
    @Hum

    Justine is going to Ukraine ahead of Chrystia—-Stoltenberg is looking for Greta —Trudeau is looking for Freeland –Hunter Biden is looking for Firtash —but Who ate the Poroshenkos??

  54. cohen says:

    The Ukrainian war or Russian invasion is having an orgasmic effect on CNN, and the rest. It is interesting to see some old war destroyed buildings and clipping in this war.

    The way Ukrainian Neo-Nazis fought is victory for for Black water trainers in Ukraine. Victoria Nuland is busy baking cookies for the Neo Nazis

  55. Out says:

    Not mentioned was the other less than one hour war ie the success in winning the pipelinistan battle. Now that everyone’s energy costs are about to treble and the main supplier will be US, Biden actually looked pretty pleased with himself as he condemned Russia for their criminality. Job done.

    • Replies: @Bill Jones
  56. A friend of mine phoned me early yesterday morning eager to rub my face in a statement I made about a month ago about Putin not invading the Ukraine. Though I will admit that I was surprised by waking up to the news of a general invasion, I told him that a month ago was not a day ago. The whole situation is a movable feast.

    Someone can correct me if I am wrong but within the last month there was a serious meeting with XI, most ostensibly about how to re-direct energy sources (Nord 2), as well as discussions about support or non-interference. There were many high level trips by individuals to the Kremlin, I assume to try to find a diplomatic solution but because of NATO ties, otherwise known as orders from above by every meat puppet known to mobs as “Presodent” of “Prime Minister”, no initiatives could be taken. I suspect that if there was a de Gaulle among them,

  57. @Wokechoke

    Don’t forget Yatz also has a ticket to that beach party.

  58. Levtraro says:
    @Been_there_done_that

    “Indivisible security” is just a nebulous cliche.

    It’s comparable to “my freedom ends where yours begins”.

  59. @Bo Bo

    Your humanitarian concern is inspiring. A real Mensch.

  60. Holofraudster Zelensky is getting nervous, fearing for his neck. Now he wants to talk. Before he told everybody not to talk with Russia, to sanction Russia and to give Ukraine nukes and no choices for Germans. Now he wants to talk with Russia.
    (24. Feb. 2022) “French President Emmanuel Macron has said he called his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the request of Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky, who reportedly has been trying, in vain, to reach the Russian president.”
    (25. Feb. 2022) “We are not not afraid of Russia, we are not afraid to talk with Russia, talk about everything: security guarantees for our country and a neutral status. But we are not in NATO now – what security guarantees will we have? Which countries will give them?” he said, before adding that there should be talks to bring an end to the Russian military offensive.
    The Jewnighted mess is cleaned up, when Zelensky, Klitshko & Asow’s missleaders hang on the lamp poles of Maidan.
    If Russia fails to clean out the Jewish missleadership in Kiew the current sacrificies are good for nothing. Russia must occupy Kiew till a peoples’ government is elected after a period of uncensored enlightenment of the people, which is only possible if the Jew is freed from money & media. Free the Jews from their burdens. Take the Nazi (Christ) from the cross.

    Is it not a perversion of time that the past 8 years the descendants of Holodomor organizers (i.e. Maidan regime) organized the descendants of the Holodomor victims to holodomorize their orthodox (Russian) brothers?

    Parallel to the local mischief the Maidan regime and their international mafia of descendants of the Holodomor organizers make sure that their local mislead misinformed are damned internationally as “Nazi” and all Nazi (Christ consciousness) must hence be bad.

    • Agree: nokangaroos
    • Replies: @PetrOldSack
  61. Why now?

    “Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said his nation will have every right to become a nuclear power, citing a document signed by leading world states back when Kiev agreed to get rid of Soviet nuclear weapons in exchange for security assurances.”
    https://www.rt.com/russia/550040-ukraine-acquire-nuclear-weapon/

    “If we look at the sequence of events and the incoming reports, the showdown between Russia and these forces cannot be avoided. It is only a matter of time. They are getting ready and waiting for the right moment. Moreover, they went as far as aspire to acquire nuclear weapons. We will not let this happen.”
    https://thesaker.is/address-by-the-president-of-the-russian-federation-february-24-2022/?inmoderation

  62. @Rubicon

    Adolf Hitler is the example you are looking for.

  63. @Shpalone

    Are you the person who writes jokes for the chewish comedian Zhelenskyy?

    bravo! show over.

  64. vladimir says:
    @Yugoslav

    Agree with you. Russia has committed crimes against humanity and should be condemned.
    Look what have happened to many countries where US/NATO invaded and Russia and Putin supported either directly or indirectly, but the criminal Putin helped the criminal west to be recognized as ‘an equal partner’. But they discarded him like a toilet paper after use. Putin and Russia are allies of the zionist apartheid state. Putin regime always said: “Israel has the right to defend itself” like the criminal US Congress. The zionist Russians in Israel are as CRIMINAL as Netanyahu and Putin.

    Invasion of Ukraine must be condemned by everyone with more than 2 brain cells.

    CHINA does not support the invasion of Ukraine by Russia and told the world that ‘Ukraine is a sovereign state’.

    • Disagree: Bro43rd
    • Replies: @Athena
    , @Derer
  65. @Been_there_done_that

    “For eight years, for eight endless years we have been doing everything possible to settle the situation by peaceful political means. Everything was in vain.”

    https://thesaker.is/address-by-the-president-of-the-russian-federation-february-24-2022/?inmoderation

  66. @Bo Bo

    “ . I am just thinking of all the Ukrainian citizens who are having their lives destroyed and upended by the devastating invasion which Putin and NATO could have worked harder to avert.”

    I would believe your sorrows are genuine had you mentioned the people of Serbia, Iraq, Libya, Yemen and Syria.

    • Agree: inspector general
  67. Anonymous[661] • Disclaimer says:

    Bravo Putin!

    Wish that he would send his forces over here and proceed with the dejewification of America.

  68. @TG

    You overlook the fact that 30% of Ukrainians are ethnically Russian, and many are mixed Ukrainian//Russian. The average Ukrainian was not happy with his people being strip-mined by Jewish oligarchs–and don’t forget Zelensky (Ukraine’s Trump, in some ways) was elected by promising to pursue better relations with Russia. His handlers had other ideas.

  69. MLK says:

    Watch ‘It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World’ for a comedic allegory of the world-historical Sad Story that has been our Unipolar Moment.

    We’re near the end of that long movie. Right when Culpepper is finishing his speech: “After all, you’re not really criminals,” to the relief of the previously law-abiding, harmless gaggle that had gone off the deep-end.

    Seriously, geopolitics has been and always will be a complex system in which, like in physics, energy cannot be destroyed, only transferred or transformed. And, no, gaslighting everyone cannot repeal the applicable, for all intents and purposes, laws of nature.

    Russia is getting a do-over of the post-Cold War settlement with the tables turned in every way imaginable. Even some that were not, like a gerontocratic leadership skipping an American ‘Gorbachov’ and going straight ‘Yeltsin.’

    I mention this movie because, even at this clarifying moment, it’s only a Crisis with a capital ‘C’ for the foreign policy establishment that f**ked up a free lunch. It’s ever more obvious all that matters to them is not being made to feel any more bad about themselves than they already do. They expect the American nation and its citizenry to “pay any price, and bear any burden . . .” in service thereof.

    A manufactured crisis can, of course, become a real one, as even a (non-neocon) child knows with two nuclear-superpowers throwing elbows. Absent that, or Putin needing to deliver another round of “If that’s the way you want it, that’s the way you’re gonna get it!,” I agree with Escobar on the coming geography:

    We could soon witness the birth of an independent Novorossiya – east of the Dnieper, south along Sea of Azov/Black Sea . . .

    Why? Not to put to fine a point on — because that’s what I would do if I were Putin. Putin didn’t pull the trigger to buy himself a morass of a different color.

    With hope, the US will get it together. Which is easy, peasy because all it will take is making George Kennan required reading and a public beating for anyone who is anybody who continues, wittingly or unwittingly, to drive Russia into a strategic alliance with China.

    The easiest way to right the ship of state is to put Trump back where he belongs in the Oval Office. That most “transactional” of POTUSs will then horse-trade in the national interest and that of its citizenry. Russia will get the security guarantees and architecture it should have decades ago in return for ending its strategic alliance with China. Germany and Russia can have their Nord Stream II but Germany is going to have to pony up its NATO dues in full going forward and settle its delinquency too. It will also have to meet Trump’s demands on trade. Ukraine’s friendship pipeline through Ukraine should be guaranteed throughput and a mechanism in place for Nord Stream II to be additional capacity only.

  70. @Franz

    Agree.

    That (((ruling class))) has been poking the Bear for decades, wanting to keep it down so it would not be a financial competitor. Too bad, too late.

    http://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2015/03/17/the-truth-about-the-conflict-with-russia/

    • Agree: HdC
    • Replies: @JWalters
  71. Agent76 says:

    January 26, 2022 What is NATO? Military alliance in spotlight as Russia tries to forbid Ukraine membership

    NATO was established in 1949 as a defense against the Soviet Union. Its core principal is mutual defense, enshrined in Article 5 of its founding treaty. There are 30 NATO member. Russia is trying to keep Ukraine from joining them. The threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine prompted NATO forces to mobilize across Europe, evoking for many the military alliance’s first reasons for being.

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/01/26/nato-military-alliance-explained-russia-ukraine/9211025002/

    Nov 29, 2016 The Map That Shows Why Russia Fears War With US


    Video Link

  72. @Rubicon

    Russia’s total foreign debt is estimated at 450 billion USD. For a country with an economy of around 1.7 trillion USD it is not much especially that Russian Debt to GDP ratio of 20%, compared to America’s 125%, makes Russia one of the least indebted countries in the industrial world. But, as economist and journalist and former undersecretary of treasury Paul Craig Roberts points out, all foreign Russian debt came about courtesy of Russians educated in America who advised the Russian government and Russian companies to borrow in foreign currencies when the Russian Central Bank could have simply financed the two parties with Rubles. So I expect, that just like previous sanctions pushed Russia to diversify her economy, the new financial sanctions will force Russia to cut the financial links with Western banks and foreign investors and deprive them from the interest they were earning on Russian debt. Paul Craig Roberts wisely advises Russia and China to cut all links with the treacherous West and concentrate on building their trading zones by excluding the West.

  73. Agent76 says:
    @cohen

    Mar 14, 2012 Holocaust Uncovered (1945) – WARNING: Distressing Images

    English MP Mrs. Mavis Tate shows proof of the holocaust with shots from her visit to a German concentratino camp. Taken from the original 1945 British Pathe newsreel “German Atrocities – Proof”. This Pathe newsreel showed the world at the time what atrocities had been committed.


    Video Link

    • Replies: @HdC
    , @Anon
  74. PJ London says:
    @Rubicon

    You are being a little naive. The money invested in Russia is already spent. All the investors have are pieces of paper which (25/02) have lost more than half their value. Meanwhile, Russian oil, which Europe HAS to have has just increased significantly. All the other Russian exports (coal, Iron, titanium etc.) have also increased in value.
    Russia is sitting in such a powerful position that Putin would have been crazy not to start a war.
    In a month’s time Russia will be far richer than ever before and the West correspondingly poorer. Oil has gone up 20% -maybe will be 50% and the USA alone imports 500,000 to 1.5 million barrels from Russia per day!
    As you say, Countries need to roll over their “National” debt, USA some $20 trillion Russia has none and if it needed some, China has plenty to lend.
    Those dumbass Tic-Tac-Toe players in Washington are up against a country of Chess Grand-masters.

    • Agree: Arthur MacBride
    • Thanks: GMC
  75. @Timur The Lame

    Comment #57 interrupted due to slow acting coffee.

    cont../conclusion.

    Putin presented a scenario of strength where any sane actors in opposition would find it in everyone’s interests to negotiate. Like with the Truckers and Trudeau, the decision was already made from far above that NO dialogue would take place, humanity and belief in institutions be damned…

    It is the old, let’s you and him fight it out. Chaos is ((our)) lifeblood.

    Cheers-

  76. Athena says:

    Note: 12h30 UTC No access to RT through VPN located in Japan

  77. @animalogic

    “ Yes – & let’s hope that some dopey “Samson” out there doesn’t pull the whole fucking thing down on all our heads… .”

    Well, don’t worry, when push comes to shove and they are staring at death or total defeat, they will surrender and look forward to live another day. Their Sampson option is just another hoax like so many others meant to scare or blackmail their adversaries.

    • Replies: @anon
  78. GMC says:
    @anonymous

    I took note a very long time ago – Russia has taken over two regions that have housed those labs outside Crimea in the past 2 days. You can see them on your map. Monday Crimea had a 1000 sick – today 60. Now, whether WHO was told to get out of Dodge or the Russian invasion made the labs shut down is anybodies guess, but I’m not the only one that has noticed those Labs – Moscow did too.
    There is more to this military move on Ukraine that we know about and Russia and the West probably won’t talk about it.
    We certainly notice all the countries that are roaring – Hate Russia hate Russia – have screwed their own people over sideways, and now need to have the peasants deposit their anger towards Russia, instead of their own failed country {s} actions. Typ. Rats.

    • Agree: Notsofast, HdC
  79. @anonymous

    If it is true that Russia took out all these biolabs this is great news.

  80. Athena says:

    Auld bunch of NATO drunken idiots

    Britain, Ukraine to sign new deal on free trade, strategic partnership

    https://www.bilaterals.org/?britain-ukraine-to-sign-new-deal

    “If I were to name one particular area in British-Ukrainian trade, it would definitely be the information technology sector. Last year saw Ukraine earn a whopping $222 million from providing IT services to the United Kingdom – a 120% growth in the last three years,” the ambassador said.”

    “The extensive U.K. service sector – which includes banking, financial services, and insurance – is also seeing improvements in its Ukrainian business, the British embassy noted, with travel, business services, telecommunications, computing and information services all doing well.”

    ”Toms said the British-Ukrainian FTA should be forward-thinking, non-restrictive and ambitious. “In 10 years, Ukraine could be supplying most of the food that the U.K. needs,” he said.”

  81. @Yugoslav

    Rubbish. Russia had no choice with a hostile extremist government on its doorstep threatening its security by flirting with NATO and suppressing its Russian population. None of the other countries attacked by NATO that you mentioned were a threat to NATO countries and most did not border any NATO states but were on different continents.

    • Agree: Avery
  82. @Bo Bo

    You seem to live in an alternate reality. How’s the weather there? I assume, since it’s an alternate reality, that there are no chemtrails.

  83. @Hum

    Pepe, you forgot Canada.

    Trudeau must go!!!

    When Trudeau gave the word, Canadian banks seized and froze people’s accounts with no due process and for doing something that was completely legal; donating to a legitimate charity.

    No one should have any confidence in the Canadian banking system, particularly if you’ve ever donated money to the Republican/Conservative party, or given money to any cause that isn’t sufficiently woke. The catch of course, is that the definition of “woke” changes by the day.

    Remove any savings or investments from Canadian banks and investment companies like TD Ameritrade.

  84. @Hum

    “Trudeau must go!!”

    That reminds me of Cato the Elder (234-149 BC) who finished every one of his speeches in the Roman Senate by saying, “Ceterum autem censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.” (“Furthermore, I say that Carthage must be destroyed!”)

    I’d like to see every MP in the Canadian parliament finish every comment (regardless of the topic) with, “And furthermore Trudeau must go!”

  85. Ok, this is getting to the point of parody:

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/25/putin-facing-efforts-isolate-diplomatically-ukraine

    Aparently, unnamed “diplomats” are looking to kick Russia out of the security council based on … huffing glue, I guess

    • LOL: Notsofast
  86. HT says:

    Looking at the hot mess that the West is turning into, cultures taken over by Jew cultural Marxism and their black pets and every form of degeneracy, I can’t blame Putin for wanting to remove Russia from that once and for all.

  87. @Kali

    USA is a blatant example of “asymmetric warfare committed by ZOG against the people”, although we here in Europe are in the same boat, albeit maybe less obvious.

    Americans are being systematically wiped out by the Jews/zionists who run their “government”. Yet they line up at recruiting stations to fight for those who are killing them against innocent people who are not enemies of USA.
    Has there ever been a people more murderously stupid than this golem ?

    Here is a report on alcohol, drugs and suicide in USA.
    Is there a possibility that Americans can heed this at long last ?
    This is your own “government” doing this to you, you partytime boneheads.

    the main cause of hospital admissions in the United States of America remains excessive consumption of alcohol, usually by adults.

    https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/02/23/677376/CIA-US-drug-overdose-crisis-

    • Replies: @Kali
  88. Ross23 says:

    The invasion is idiotic but I saw the look of fear that swept Putin’s eyes when the defense minister said Ukraine could build a nuke.

    Look that moment up on you tube

    I think that’s what pushed him over the edge

    This is going to be a Guerilla war big time stingers taking out helicopters javelins taking out tanks, I’ve not even got to IEDs yet.

    What if the Russians get to Kiev palace and it’s an empty building how are they going to set up the new gov when the majority in the center hate them and the civilians are armed to the teeth.

    Putin’s best strategy was to do nothing just say out loud if the US put nukes in Ukraine it’s war and leave it at that.

    The US was declining anyway and he would have had the global moral high ground and the Cuban missile narrative.

    This ain’t going to end well all those russian soldiers trapped in a city with little support I just don’t want to look it’s too painful

    • LOL: Kali
    • Replies: @Yee
  89. anonymous[169] • Disclaimer says:

    The facility of this operation makes it clear Russia could press on to Langley and rescue the slavs and ukies of America. They should go ahead and do it. Sooner or later they’re going to have to wipe out the CIA ultras who fuck the world up for fun and profit.

  90. Jiminy says:

    The jew has bit off more than he can chew. He’s in hiding while telling every Ukrainian to arm themselves.
    On the news I saw men saying goodbye to their families as they left to fight. Whatever happened to anything you can do, I can do better. Why aren’t the women going off to fight in this modern world, leaving the men behind to look after the kids?
    Thankfully the cold has gone though. What a relief that is all over.

    • Replies: @showmethereal
  91. The roman says:

    I followed the Ukranian situation from the beginning and I made my opinion . For unknown reason Russia was not able to oppose a blatant golpe in Kiev in 2014. Taking a look at the babbling head of secret service in the video circulating in internet , can help understading , . We saw in Belarus and Kazakistan a complete different resolve . Things change . Putting aside the silly rethoric of the rodents vs the Bear , we can nevertheless appreciate that the Russian are surely more efficient and prompt and even the atlanticists , such as Medvedev, are on board with the new russian doctrine and posture.
    The west is just corruption and propaganda, since the WEF has infiltrated all the institutions and has all the leverages of power. The game is on and will go on until a major breaking point is reached. Putin will win easily in Ukraine and the economic turmoil will hit the weakest of the western countries but no serious damage will be perceived by the russians , who are prepared for the consequences and are historically used to pain and sacrifice. Election in France and Humgary cam give an indication of what will follow but the real turning point are the midterm in Us. The globalist are trying all they can to create a new antifascist front against the new Hitler but things change and sometimes it seemed that they do not keep pace. Maybe the americans will not be fooled .

  92. gotmituns says:

    I don’t give a rat’s butt about poking anyone. Let’s just keep out of this. It’s not our business. While we’re at it, let’s bring all our troops home from everywhere in the world. The only thing we need outside our borders is the nuclear submarine fleet. That will make anyone who wants to make trouble for us to think twice about it.

    • Agree: Boo
  93. What Pepe fails to tell you is that Ukraine had already secretly joined NATO and were trying to pull a fast one, like the Russians did in Crimea. NATO units were secretly infiltrated into Ukraine, disguised in Ukrainian uniforms and were assigned to various bases and frontline units. NATO grade weapons were also distributed and they were just waiting for NATO and Ukraine to officially announce Ukraine’s accession to NATO for these NATO troops to put back on their NATO uniforms. Also numerous foreign Nazis and mercenaries had also joined up as had tens of thousands of ISIS fighters recruited from the immigrant and refugee communities in Germany and elsewhere, all disguised in Ukrainian military uniforms. Putin was well aware of this and that is why he acted decisively. These NATO troops, Nazis, mercenaries and ISIS fighters are the die hard units awaiting obliteration and the real Ukrainian soldiers are deserting in droves as they have no wish to fight and die for this scum. That is the truth but if the Russians will disclose it when they start sifting through the identities of the dead and gathering the evidence remains to be seen.

    • Replies: @Wokechoke
  94. @PJ London

    “In a month’s time Russia will be far richer than ever before and the West correspondingly poorer.”

    Yes. Russia is holding all the cards, and all of the West’s attempts to punish Russia are backfiring.

    Consider…

    [1] The Nord Stream 2 pipeline was completed in Sep 2021, and is already full of gas. If Germany would let it be used, the pipeline would double the amount of cheap energy sent to Europe. Nord Stream 2 cost $10.6 billion to build. Half of that $10.6 billion was paid by Gazprom of Russia (which owns the pipeline). The other half was paid by Shell, plus OMV of Austria, plus Engie of France, plus Uniper and Wintershall DEA of Germany. These Western firms want some return on their investment. They want revenue from the pipeline. They will get nothing as long as the German government refuses to let Nord Stream 2 operate.

    [2] Europe gets half its gas from Russia. Energy prices keep rising because speculators keep betting that German politicians will cut off even more gas from Russia in obedience to Washington. Energy prices in Europe are now at record highs, and they continue to rise. This causes prices in most other industries to rise as well. High prices hurt Europe and help Russia, which can sell gas to China, or to anyone else. In fact Russia is now building a huge gas pipeline to China.

    Sanctions against Russia only hurt Europe. Europe needs Russia far more than Russia needs Europe. The German Chancellor is forcing the German people to pay record high prices for fuel in obedience to Washington.

    Inflation already existed because of the stupid pandemic hoax. Now inflation is even worse because of stupid sanctions against Russia.

    [3] The German government’s ruling coalition includes “Greens” who are climate change fanatics. In obedience to Washington, the Greens cut off Russian gas, which is the cleanest of all fossil fuels, and they are firing up Germany’s old coal-burning plants, which are the dirtiest of all fossil fuels (in terms of pollution). These are the same buffoons that push vax mandates, “woke” excrement, and unlimited immigration of non-whites.

    [4] Brandon boasts that the value of the Russian currency has plunged to a record low, with one ruble now worth barely more than one American penny. So what? Roubles are used inside Russia, and are worth far more than a U.S. penny inside Russia. Meanwhile Russia buys foreign imports using foreign currency, which Russia gets by selling gas, oil, minerals, and so on to foreigners. Foreigners desperately need Russia. As you noted, the USA alone imports 500,000 to 1.5 million barrels per day from Russia. And the USA needs many other things from Russia, such as titanium for aircraft.

    [5] Ukraine’s idiot president Zelenskyy wants the West to block Russia from using the SWIFT system. Brandon and Europe have refused, since Europe needs Russian gas. All of Brandon’s sanctions simply block Russian banks from doing business in the USA, which they do very little of anyway. Besides, Russia already has its own version of SWIFT. The West is run by Dementia Joe and the Keystone Cops.

    QUESTION: If Europe gets half its gas from Russia, then why doesn’t Russia cut Europe off until Europe stops acting like idiots?

    ANSWER: It’s more fun to watch Europe helplessly bang its head against a wall. When you truly hold all the cards, as Russia does, you can afford to laugh and be patient. Russia knows that Europe has no choice but to buckle. It’s only a matter of time. Europe, like Washington, can do nothing but stamp its feet, yank its hair, and scream.

    Ukraine’s continual shelling of civilians in the Donbas was just like Georgia’s attacks on South Ossetia. Russia needed only 12 days to stomp Georgia and wrap everything up (1-12 Aug 2008). Russia is wrapping up Ukraine even faster.

    Georgia and Ukraine did the West’s bidding, and they stupidly thought the West would protect them from Russia. They thought wrong. They were disposable pawns.

  95. @Quizzler

    I always knew that we had ignorant people here but the internet has absolutely frightened me…it is far more widespread than I believed BEFORE the internet. The sudden obsession with Ukraine and the opinions of people that clearly think they are experts…….democracy BS, freedom HS…..the list goes on….

    Don’t worry (or rather, worry a lot…), it’s not just in US, it’s about the same everywhere in western countries.
    A gift from decades of mass dis-information and propaganda lies, pushed by MSM.

    • Agree: Biff K
  96. anon[357] • Disclaimer says:
    @Joe Levantine

    that actually worries me. how the fuck are we to be rid of these demonic parasites if they’re gonna surrender and the goyim (once again) have mercy on these sons of bitches??

    • Replies: @Joe Levantine
  97. Pindos says:
    @Bo Bo

    It’s was only a mouse. You can get down from the table.

    • LOL: Realist
  98. @MLK

    MLK, I was with you 100% up to the last paragraph where you spun off into cloud-koo-koo land with a Trump fantasy.
    Putin will not stop at the Dnieper River. He will scatter and chase the rag-tag Ukraine army all the way to the western border if he has to. But he will not cross that border. Then the Serious Negotiations begin. Putin will have the extra chips at the table – and he will get the end game he wants.
    A partitioned Ukraine with the new border at the Dnieper River. Perhaps keep Russian troops in Kiev as another bargaining chip. But there will be clear understanding that NATO will never set foot in Ukraine. There will be no NATO knife pointing at the Russian throat.
    Everybody kisses and makes up. The 30 inch gas line starts flowing to the Germans, and all is well in Europe. Just a small tiff between cousins. No Biggie. The Globo-homos of Washington d.c. will piss and moan but will be ignored because everyone knows they are idiots.
    Putin will do this, because that’s what I would do.

    • Agree: Realist
    • Replies: @PetrOldSack
  99. Be of good cheer! This is the beginning of the end of GloboHomo! Yes, many of us will suffer. Yes, there is the possibility of nuclear war, but this day was long coming. The fecklessness, degeneracy, and greed of the corrupt West cannot respond to Putin in a coherent manner. Like they used to say of the Soviet Union, GloboHomo has too may “internal contradictions.” Need an example? The climate change hoax is pushing up the cost of energy, which fattens Putin’s coffers and enables him to do as he wishes.

    Get right with Jesus, folks!

  100. @Dr. Doom

    Go figure: there’s only one place on Earth where you can openly revere the Nazis, and the West is in bed with them.

    Well, WAS in bed with them. It looks like the West is slipping out the motel room door as the sun rises, with vague promises to call them later.

  101. Dumbo says:

    “Take the power into your own hands!” the Russian president said, arguing that the Ukrainian army would be a better negotiating partner than “a bunch of drug addicts and neo-Nazis” who he claimed have “entrenched themselves in Kiev,” and have been holding the people “hostage.”

    https://www.rt.com/russia/550628-putin-address-ukraine-military-power/

    LOL, how can you not like Putin? He’s awesome. At least compared to the freaks that we have in power in the West (Biden, Trudeau, Macron, and all those women).

    • Agree: Jimmy le Blanc, Realist
  102. @Shpalone

    ….Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Yeah, sure…except Russia has a Military that can kick anyone’s ass…and they have lots and lots of energy sources Try again.

  103. gabon 45 says:
    @animalogic

    Kharkiv to Odessa will be Russian affiliate State(s) free of the gangsters in Kiev and fascists in Lviv.

    The Russians will once again control the edge of the Black Sea on the north.

    A commercial Renaissance will begin for all these states and the balance of Ukraine will be a basket case slowly making their way to a new order free from Washington DC

  104. @Thorsten J. Pattberg

    Having had a great time tearing up the Ukrainian and( British trained) IPSO cyber warfare specialists on the RT comments board; I discovered late yesterday afternoon that “someone” introjected a “denial of service” preventing me from even accessing Russia Today’s site.

  105. This is Putin’s last breath. The Ukraine war doesn’t go well for him. Ukis prepared the war very well. No blitzkrieg in sight. I guess soon Putin will be imprisoned and a lots of new countries will replace Russia.

  106. @MEexpert

    Graham and McConnell are both being blackmailed by who knows whom who happen to have plenty of proofs of those two senators’ bedroom proclivities. Imagine the stress of having to “play ball” with your blackmailers because your states of South Carolina and Kentucky are heavily overburdened by Southern Badtist’s and Holy Rollers. “As good Christians we can’t have THAT kinda people representing US”. American hypocrisy also played a HUUUGE role in that charade.

    • Replies: @MEexpert
  107. @Been_there_done_that

    “Indivisible security” is just a nebulous cliche. Since it is always unattainable, in a strict sense, it therefore becomes a mere euphemism for the concept of “we want to dominate at your expense“.

    In the twisted minds of US ZOG, it surely became what you point.

    Because, after the Istanbul 1999 Charter was signed, stating:

    Security and peace must be enhanced through an approach which combines two basic elements, we must build confidence among people within States and strengthen co-operation between States.

    Each participating State will respect the rights of all others in these regards. They will not strengthen their security at the expense of the security of other States.

    https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/4/2/17502.pdf

    the obligations were firstly to build confidence, cooperate, respect, then the outcomes would have made a correct interpretation of not strengthen their security at the expense of the security of other States very simple and straightforward.

    But instead, US ZOG started, right after their signing this Charter, to:
    – withdraw unilaterally from weapon anti-proliferation treaties
    – rejecting all approaches made in good will, from Russia and other states, and keeping his cold-war mentality
    – invading and brutalizing other countries for no other reason but economic and geopolitical interests
    – pressuring his allies to adopt the same stance
    – promoting terrorism, political destabilization and color revolutions inside all other countries which do not align with them
    – and on and on…

    Who then violated from the beginning the principles they were commited to ?
    Who then sabotaged everything in the Charter since its inception ?

    You must be suffering from some kind of mental disturbance, Alzheimer most probably, which explains your absolute lack of memory, coupled with a sheer ill will and confusion.

    The proper manner to handle grievances is through negotiations. The Munich Security Conference would have been an excellent venue for serious discussions, but Russia had no such interest.

    Oh yes ???
    So why no western state wanted to enter in serious discussions and negotiations at the 2007 Munich Security Conference, when Putin stated clearly his grievances ?

    And why those same western states continued to ignore the same grievances all these years, including the last attempt on December 2021 ?

    WHY ?

    • Replies: @Been_there_done_that
  108. Looks like Putin is encouraging a military coup in Ukraine.

    Wonder how Ihor Kolomoisky is getting on in Dnipro ?
    Maybe the great 3-passport Uke patriot will activate Pussy Riot ?

    “Take the power into your own hands!” the Russian president said, arguing that the army would be a better negotiating partner than “a bunch of drug addicts and neo-Nazis” who he claimed have “entrenched themselves in Kiev,” and have been holding the people “hostage.”

    https://www.rt.com/russia/550628-putin-address-ukraine-military-power/

  109. @Carlton Meyer

    Please take note of the facts that Daddy WarBu$h was CIA since graduating Yale (2) He headed the Agency under Raygunz (3) He was the Agency’s organizer of the Bay of Pigs operation against Cuba (4) he was almost certainly running the show from in front of the Texas School Depository building on 11-22-63(5) America’s largest aircraft carrier bears his name and the kicker: The CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia bears his name as well.

    Case closed.

    • Replies: @Notsofast
  110. @MEexpert

    ” Then we have the US’ step child Israel constantly bombing sovereign nations; Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon.”
    You have it wrong MExpert, Israel is not a step child. After the American elites and politicians divorced their constitution they have a Zionist as a step daddy.

    • Replies: @MEexpert
  111. Mefobills says:

    This is what happens when a bunch of ragged hyenas, jackals and tiny rodents poke The Bear: a new geopolitical order is born in breathtaking speed.

    This is what the rodents look like.

    At NATO, diversity is our strength:

    • Replies: @Poco
  112. @A123

    For nearly half a century, Cyprus has consisted of two parts, a predominantly Greek south and a predominantly Turkish north.

    Not sure that either part of Cyprus is particularly helped by recent events — that is, Russia’s belated move to keep US nuclear-ready missiles, troops and tanks out of its border region and protect the majority of residents of the ukraine(“borderland”), who are ethnically Russian and native Russian-speakers and have family across the Soviet-made border in Russia proper.

    If the Greek part of Cyprus is foolish and belligerent enough to let the US or “nato” station troops, warships, and missiles on its territory — trying again to militarily encircle and encroach upon Russia — Russia will not stand for it. Russia would be forced to take action again, rather than wait to be backed into a corner. How would that end well for Greek or Turkish Cypriots?

    If the assumption is that nato would be willing and able to prevail in a new unnecessary conflict over Cyprus, that’s doubtful. Better not to keep encircling and threatening Russia or anyone else. Better not to deliberately create new conflicts like a pointless US/nato base in Cyprus would engender.

  113. @Katrinka

    Correct. The average rapper wears more gold than the US has left unlooted in its Treasury.

  114. @TG

    And while Russia may well win a crushing lighting military victory, can they prevent the west from turning Ukraine into a quagmire? It’s easier to tear down than to build, and the west only wants the Ukraine to become a failed state full of people that hate Russians…

    I already hear the talk of the west arming Ukrainian guerrilla fighters. However be careful what you ask for. Russia has plenty of proxies to funnel heavier arms to let’s say Mexican drug cartels. Crypto currency to Basque separatist and the list goes on and on…….

    • Agree: Michael Korn
    • Replies: @Michael Korn
  115. @parand

    Are you unaware that the government of “the ukraine” promised to return assets to Russia and promised to pay off its share of the defunct USSR’s debts?

    Are you also unaware that Russia voluntarily paid off its share of the USSR’s debts AND the former Ukrainian SSR’s share of those debts as well?

    Are you further unaware that those lovely people in the borderland repeatedly stole Russian gas that was merely supposed to transit through that territory?

    Yeah, those big bad Russians and those saintly “ukrainians.”

    Thank God those Soviet nuke weapons were taken out of the borderland. Too volatile, corrupt, and controlled by an unreasonable aggressive power (the US) to be trusted with such destructive power.

    • Replies: @parand
  116. @anon

    Maybe we should learn from them; Theodore Kaufman ‘ Germany Must Perish’. But heck, the goys might stick to Marcus Aurelius’ maxim: lack of imitation is the greatest revenge.

  117. Michael Korn [AKA "Mevashir"] says:

    This article by Yoichi Shimatsu is first I’ve seen that clearly implicates the Catholic Church (along with the Jews) in the Ukraine conflict: https://rense.com/general96/promises-promises.php

    [MORE]

    History Repeats

    The pretense of a middle ground in Europe is ablaze under rocket fire. Ukraine is the flashpoint of conflict between two opposing realms, the corrupt Catholic and Jewish secularists of the West and, on the other side, traditionalist Orthodox Christians, Buddhists and liberal Muslims of the Eastern realm. In the hypocritical viewpoint of arch-Catholic Joe Biden and his State Secretary Antony Blinken, a Hungarian Jew, the underlying political and historical issues are going unmentioned in their New Cold War propaganda. The Democrat White House’s ulterior motive is to eliminate the cultural identity and geopolitical history of an Orthodox-rooted Eastern Christian realm, which has encompassed Kiev Rus, Belarus, Russia, the western Tartar-Mongol realm, the Balkans and Greece, under the traditional mantle of Constantinople (until the Islamist Turkish conquest in the 14th century).

    Under the one-sided influence of Roman Catholic absolutism, the NATO powers have been attempting to bury, once and for all time, the legacy of the Church of the East. The ongoing campaign of sectarian denial and media deception by major Western news agencies and their Jesuit spy masters is a continuation of the Great Schism of 1056, when the traditional Greek and Aramaic linguistic tradition centered in Constantinople was challenged by the Latin-speaking advocates of the Church of Rome, which was modeled after the Jewish priestly Sanhedrin council.

    The simmering dispute between the Pope and the Orthodox clergy erupted into brutal violence with the Crusaders’ murderous Sack of Constantinople in 1204. While virtually forgotten in the minds of guilt-evading Western European Christians, that unholy sacrilege still burns in the memory of Eastern Christianity, now more than ever given the mantra of NATO threats against the Russian Orthodox realm, which are aimed at coercing Ukraine to accept Catholic domination.

    For the arch-Catholic revisionists at the Vatican and NATO, the greatest inspiration for subduing Orthodox Russia comes from Catherine the Great, the lusty Prussian princess who ascended the throne of Russia after the assassination in prison of her cousin-husband Emperor Peter III. The foreign-born empress “reformed” Russia by inviting in waves of Germanic immigrants and western advisers, especially into Ukraine. She also gave a huge swath of Ukrainian territory to the Austrian Hapsburg Empire. This history of an ethnic German presence in Ukraine later provided the pretext for Nazi Germany’s invasion of Ukraine in June 1941.

    Despite her dubious morals, Russian historians have expressed little criticism of her majesty’s high-handedness since it was Catherine who annexed Crimea into her Russian empire (a historical precedent that NATO apologists still fail to admit). The complexities of history show that there are no permanently fixed borders across most of Continental Europe, except in the throats of propagandists.

    To comprehend the Russian aversion to papist alliances like NATO, a foreigner should attend Mussorgsky’s opera Boris Godunov, based on the royal regent of Tatar (Mongol) descent, whose troubled reign marked the start of Russia’s Time of Troubles. The mysterious death of Prince Dimitry triggered internal revolts and invasions by the Catholic-rooted Lithuanian-Polish Confederation, which cleverly ran a destabilization operation known as the Three False Dimitrys. The most successful of the imposters was a Jew, Pseudo Demitrius II or the Third False Dimitry. In many regards, the anti-Russian campaigns of the late 16th century marked the beginning of the Age of Psy-ops, or psychological warfare, which have continued into the current military intervention by Russia against NATO puppet Ukraine (following the Syria engagement and other battlefronts)

    Since then conflicts between Western Europe and Russia, backed by the ignoramuses of Democrat Washington, have been a tennis court of disinformation and psy-ops, from the Ribbentropp-Molotov pact prior to World War II to the Cold War and Reagan’s CIA-orchestrated Fall of the Berlin Wall and puppet Gorbachev’s “collapse” of the Soviet Union 1988-89. In this context of geopolitical deception and political subversion, Vladimir Putin has emerged as a formidable obstacle to the Vatican-Jewish strategy for global domination. After busting the Rothschild’s Yukos Oil takeover, then crushing the Army of Georgia run by Harvard-educated Mikhail Saakashvili in 2008 (the latter who also staged the Euro-Maidan Square shootings of 2008). The Russian government then imposed strict rules on NGOs, in particular the George Soros-sponsored fake “democracy” disinfo campaign. With Moscow’s regional alliance with the People’s Republic of China under the SCO or Shanghai Cooperation Organization, master geopolitician Putin now holds all the cards. Biden and Blinken are amateurs by comparison, left to biding their time at the stoplight while blinking at the oncoming headlights of a bulldozer. Democrat Washington is hopelessly lost, out of its pony league in geopolitical affairs.

    While media-fixated Westerners consider Putin to be an unsympathetic and downright chilly character, well, so was Ivan the Terrible, the first-ever czar who transformed a disorganized Russian army into the Continent’s most formidable land force. The vast interior of the Euro-Asian continent is held together by force of will, and not as the West would have it, dancing girls on smart phones.

    Kiev Rus Restored

    Through direct action rather than by mere diplomatic words, Vladimir Putin is upholding the banner of that central realm of the Kiev Rus and the legacy of defenders of Mother Russia, including Alexander Nevsky who defeated the papist invasion of Catholic German knights; regent Boris Gudenov (whose loyalties proved to be for Russia and not his native Tatar-Mongol roots) against Polish aggression; Tsar Alexander I (who fought Napoleon’s onslaught) and then-commissar Nikita Khruschev’s bold resistance to the German assault at Stalingrad.

    As for Ukraine, Kiev Rus will undoubtedly witness a revival when the yoke of Western European decadence and Catholic subversion is stripped off. Russians perceive a special role for that Western region in the cultural identity and geopolitical history of the larger Slavic realm, being the settlement of early sailor-settlers from Scandinavia and the Baltic who established the trade routes and Orthodox Christian connections with Constantinople and thereby with the Holy Land. The suppression of Vatican intrigues and restoration of a larger role for the Orthodox rites can restore the vitality of Ukraine as in the days of Vladimir the Great in the 10th century, when Kiev served as the trade and travel hub to Constantinople.

    The revival of cooperation between the Orthodox centers in Russia, Ukraine, Greece and the Holy Land should strengthen and stabilize Christian communities in the Black Sea region and Eastern Mediterranean. Here, in the United States, an Orthodox revival will hopefully also provide a counterpoint to Catholic domination over American politics, now unfortunately associated with Irish and Mexican criminality and subversion in the United States as is now represented in that despicable national disgrace Hunter Biden and those sinister U.S. Postal employees who tampered with electoral ballots in the recent presidential election.

    Dialogue with Russia, rather than a self-mutilating confrontation, is the way forward for the security of Europeans and stabilization of the all-important cost of energy on U.S. highways. Cooperation and dialogue instead of another failed crusade is the only sensible way forward for Americans in a shrinking leadership space worldwide. Just like everyone else caught in the throes of change, Americans must summon the courage to adapt to new realities or be left to flounder in futility and frustration. Rather than being our worst enemy, Putin provides a lesson to Americans about the dangers of indolence, luxury and corruption. Americans, like Russians, are a stern people, indeed a nation of heroes, with strong ethical commitments and religious traditions, which must not be allowed to wither under commercialism and media-driven fantasies. It’s high time to get tough – on ourselves and shape up and end all fantasizing about being a heroes in dangerous times and exotic places.

  118. Poco says:
    @Mefobills

    What a disgusting display.
    Behold the intellectual vanguard of the collectivized bourgeoisie.
    Empty, indoctrinated, pusillanamous, craven, treacherous, self-righteous, and stupid.

    • Replies: @Mefobills
  119. @MLK

    Two small points …
    – Russia did not go to all these lengths to stop at the Dnjepr i.e. Odessa
    is gone; we´ll see what concessions Orange Man makes over Transdnjistr.
    – ZATO can have the rent for East Germany – as soon as the Poles pay up
    (the delinquent Russians will be dealt with separately); you do realize
    Israel will have to pay all that back one day?

  120. Anonymous[176] • Disclaimer says:
    @Shpalone

    You are demented. Go hide in Israel

  121. @Kurt Knispel

    If they leave Zelensky et al. loose ends, that will kill any lasting effects of the effort for Russia indeed.

  122. parand says:
    @RadicalCenter

    [Thank God those Soviet nuke weapons were taken out of the borderland. Too volatile, corrupt, and controlled by an unreasonable aggressive power (the US) to be trusted with such destructive power.]

    Yah, then I agree with you and ask Iranian government to invade the FAKE ‘republic of Baku’ and take back the Iranian territory where was stolen by the Russians, tsar Alexander I, in 19th century, because the corrupt Aliyev family along with terrorist Erdogan, both stooges of Israel and zionism, are turning Baku into a military base for Israel to spy on Iran and commit act of terrorism. Your tribe are going to face the same situation soon, because Iran cannot allow its territories be used against herself.

  123. sinewave says:

    I remember reading a quote from Bismark : ” The Russians are slow to mount but ride very fast”

    • Thanks: Michael Korn
  124. @RadicalCenter

    If the Greek part of Cyprus is foolish and belligerent enough to let the US or “nato” station troops, warships, and missiles on its territory — trying again to militarily encircle and encroach upon Russia — Russia will not stand for it.

    What complete nonsense! Are you a video game addict? This is an example of the delusional projections that have reached unhealthy levels at this web site.

    For your information, the island of Cyprus has a permanent British military base, not part of the EU, like Gibralter on the southern part of Iberia.

    You should have looked at a map before you typed this. Cyprus is sufficiently removed from Russia that your terminology “encircle and encroach” is just laughable.

    Aside from that, Cyprus is one of the most popular places for Russian tourists to visit abroad. Russian millionaires can even buy Cypriot citizenship on good terms.

    • Agree: nokangaroos
    • Replies: @RadicalCenter
  125. @Director95

    Fifty thousand White and talented, patriotic Americans would put the US back at the table of global geo-politics. No more is needed. Less will not do.

  126. Mefobills says:
    @Poco

    Hillarious. No sarcasm…I can’t stop laughing. You nailed it. Thanks!

    • Thanks: Poco
  127. Apple says:

    Western politicians are plain stupid
    Russia is a huge military power
    And by the way the world owes the Red army for defeating the nazis in the Second World War.. the saying that 8 of 11 German soldiers died fighting in the eastern front

    Russia’s security and economic concerns should be respected by the west .. it’s no joke.. Putin is set on protecting his people not just in russia but also in Europe too

    • Replies: @HT
    , @Old Brown Fool
  128. Mr. Unz, you should be ashamed of letting Putin’s dogs roam free on your website. The History may frown at your laissez-faire attitude. Unless, of course, you have a different agenda.

  129. Yee says:
    @Ross23

    This ain’t going to end well all those russian soldiers trapped in a city with little support I just don’t want to look it’s too painful

    Those Russian soldiers wouldn’t stay long to be trapped… There’d be no occupation, the troops will come and leave quickly. Just to destroy military assets and teach the Ukrainians a lesson. Occupation is too costly in both money and men.

    Fight a war so you’d gain 50 years of peace. Like China’s border war in North Korea, India and Vietnam.

  130. @Michael Korn

    When Putin presents conditions during the peace talks with Ukraine’s military or any other responsible body in that messed-up conglomeration of ethnicities and U$$R additions, Ukraine must be sensibly divided into three parts:

    (1. Those regions in eastern and Southern Ukraine which do not have a majority ethnic Ukrainian population would become associated with Russia, much like Donetsk and Lugansk currently enjoy by treaty.

    (2. The Ukrainian state must divorce itself from the Roman dominated western regions, primarily Galicia, which though retaining Orthodox rituals, are allied with Rome through their Uniate Catholicism and which also is the breeding-grounds of those Banderites who hate Ukrainians proper, Russians, Jews and all Orthodox Christians.

    (3. The new Ukraine state will revert to its pre-Leninist borders and will center on Kiev. Without those USSR added-on nationalities, Ukraine can peacefully discover its own soul with the fake Ukrainian Orthodox Church being disinherited and the traditional Rus Orthodox Church once more recognized as that newly refurbished state as its prime religious tradition.

    • Agree: Old Brown Fool, R2b
    • Thanks: Michael Korn
  131. Anon[336] • Disclaimer says:
    @mulga mumblebrain

    Their grandfathers destroyed a previous infestation of Ukronazis, and now it is this generation’s duty and privilege to eradicate another.

    Yeah, the nerve of those Nazi-Ukies of old, I mean, who of us wouldn’t have wanted to take up arms and fight on the side of St. Stalin?

    • Replies: @Passer by
  132. @parand

    Iran should work it out with the Russian government and follow the same policy which Persia and Bogdan Chmielinsky used against the Khazarian pirate and slave-taking empire in ca 1060 and conjointly remove the usurpers from the ancient Persian province of Baku and reincorporate it into Iran.

    If this is done conjointly, “Sultan” Erdogan, Occupied Palestine Yidniks and the NATO “powers” will only be able to sputter and fume—that in the face of Russo-Iranian unity and with the former enjoying their status as the world’s #1 military power.

  133. d dan says:
    @anonymous

    “Russian missile strikes in the first day of war, targeted destruction of the US-backed biological weapons labs which have long been known to be on Ukrainian territory”

    That will be tragic. Hopefully, Russian could preserve those bio labs so that they could be part of the evidences for trials of crimes against humanity in a decade or two. They could also be converted to museums and historical sites to educate future generations.

    China was too poor and inexperience enough to have lost and destroyed many of the evidences of Japanese (and some Western) crimes and aggression in the past. I hope Russia don’t make similar mistake.

    • Replies: @Old Brown Fool
  134. HT says:
    @Apple

    The Soviets were the only ones who got anything from WWII. The rest of the Allies were idiots who did nothing but make the world safe for communism and world wide jewry both of which are now destroying America. How we wound up fighting on behalf of the Soviets is an insanity that cannot be rationally explained. America and Europe would have been better off taking the L and working out a settlement with Hitler which would allow him to take over the Soviet state.

    • Replies: @ProfessorChops
  135. Michael Korn [AKA "Mevashir"] says:
    @emerging majority

    I think you need to leave the northwoods and head to the negotiating table. Too bad people like you don’t serve in DC.

  136. anon[185] • Disclaimer says:

    Some clever ass here saying US should ally with Russia against China. Well, good point, just tell me how you gonna do that? Talk Putin into believing your promises? LOL is Putin that stupid in your mind? Hasn’t he eat enough lies from your fellows allready? At least that’s what I feel after I read his very long post translateed on Chinese media as the #1 hot hit on Weibo for some 12 hours, just like most of my netizen fellows did.

    Go back to the ally topic. Here is what Putin want:
    1 NATO back off, aka Russia safty.
    2 buy the Russian gas and energy and other stuff, aka Russia livelihood.
    What can you offer to him? which one would you gas seller and NATO owner offer tim? would you rather offer him more lies?
    China can not offer term 1 but China support that concern of Putin. China definitely offers term 2.
    That’s the basics why Russia China ally is possible, yet Russia US ally is impossible.
    Russia EU ally could be possible if there is a dying NATO. Not happening yet.

    • Replies: @showmethereal
  137. @Hum

    I agree that Trudeau must go. He denounces his own people as Nazis as our military trains and finances the Azov Battalion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a real Nazi military organization that is fortunately being crushed as I write this by Russian forces. Yet Trudeau is a dim-witted poster boy for wokeness, while the real danger to Canada is the Deputy PM, Chrystia Freeland, an unapologetic Nazi sympathizer with a family history in WW2 Ukraine that would make the SS blush. Freeland is the tyrant behind the retarded prince who has publicly announced that our constitutional right to protest is now gone; protesters subject to bank seizures, assets seized…all without recourse by the Canadian people. My country, that I served, and what it stood for, is on the eve of destruction.

    • Replies: @Kali
  138. @HT

    I think you’ve been reading too much SS porn. Read real history or get a job.

    • Replies: @HT
  139. @MEexpert

    You forgot to mention the attack by the US and NATO on Serbia in 1999.

    • Replies: @MEexpert
  140. Michael Korn [AKA "Mevashir"] says:
    @emerging majority

    Catholic counter-perspective:

    https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2022/02/24/ukraine-russia-and-the-world-a-conversation-with-george-weigel/
    This warped view of history includes the historically and ecclesiologically untenable notion that the Russian Orthodox Church is the sole legitimate heir of the baptism of the eastern Slavs in 988. Thus I found it both interesting and somewhat encouraging that the leaders of the two competing Orthodox communities in Ukraine, including the community that has maintained close ties with the Russian Orthodox patriarchate of Moscow, condemned Putin’s invasion and defended Ukraine’s sovereign integrity.

    • Replies: @Michael Korn
  141. Kali says:
    @Arthur MacBride

    Has there ever been a people more murderously stupid than this golem ?

    I have to admit to being torn on this question. Sure, there is a certain number of self-destructive morons commiting slow suicide by alcohol and other hard drugs in the US, as there are in Europe, Russia, UK, et al. – I hate to say it, but for the benefit of our future as a species, we can only hope they are all obediently jabbed, and sterilised (or worse) out of the gene-pool.

    But there is also a significant minority of very intelligent critically thinking individuals from all backgrounds across all of those countries too, who have at least prepared mentally, if not phisically, for a historic shift in socio-economic relations and the removal of a murderous parasite from those relations., whilst, thanks to the over-reach of said parasite class, more and more wake up to reality every day.

    I do take your point about the American golum, which from this side of the Atlantic, often seems too stupid for words. But thanks to websites like this one we can see clearly that it is not all of the American people. Let the drunks, junkies and woke race-baters which form that golum destroy themselves everywhere they exist, whilst those of us with an eye to creating a better life experience for all future generations go about creating that difference on (and in) the ground, building our own econimic systems and developing a universal jurisdiction based on Natural Law within which to try and hang the globalist parasites and political traitors in due course.

    (Sorry. I got a bit carried away there. I only intended a short response!)

    Very best regards,
    Kali.

    P.S. The incessant noise of mitary aircraft moving east, which I mentioned in Anglins thread a short time ago, appears to have ceased.

    • Thanks: Arthur MacBride
    • Replies: @Arthur MacBride
  142. Biff K says:
    @Dr. Doom

    They’re calling Putin a Nazi; Putin calls the small hats running Kiev Nazis.
    What ever happened to the word “prick?”

    • LOL: Kali, Emslander
  143. Passer by says:
    @Rubicon

    Oil, gas, coal, metals, food, fertilisers, wood, electricity prices are spiking and Russia has lots of those. Reserves are not in dollars. There are large gold reserves. Debt levels are low. FX reserves are about 650 billion dollars equivalent. Last year trade with China reached 150 billion dollars.

  144. do says:
    @Bo Bo

    You need to come of your rat hole and hear what Trump had to say about Putin..

  145. Passer by says:
    @Anon

    Why did they kill poles then?

    • Replies: @HdC
  146. A123 says:
    @RadicalCenter

    I am talking about the EastMed gas pipeline from the Cypriot gas field Aphrodite, and to a lesser extent Calypso. The need for new natural gas suppliers to replace unreliable Russia is a win for Christian Cyprus.

    NATO is not relevant to the discussion. While Turkey is a NATO member, it is a defense arrangement that would not back Erdogan violence against Christian Cyprus. In fact it might serve as motivation to clear the illegal Turkish occupation off the northern part of the island.

    PEACE 😇

     

     

    • Replies: @RadicalCenter
  147. Michael Korn [AKA "Mevashir"] says:
    @Michael Korn

    This is an excellent article. But i fear it too is colored by bias:

    • NATO poses a threat to Russian national security. Many NATO countries are functionally pacifist; NATO poses no more threat to Russia than it does to Papua New Guinea.
    • Russia has a “right” to a “sphere of influence” around itself. It doesn’t. That is sheer imperialism. And to compare Putin’s claims to the Monroe Doctrine is nonsense on stilts. The Monroe Doctrine was aimed at retarding the further advance of imperialism in the name of the national sovereignty of free states. What Putin is doing is advancing imperial claims that deny other countries their sovereign rights.

    Putin watched carefully as NATO destroyed Libya, Syria, and helped destroy Iraq and Afghanistan. Does Wiegel really not see this?

    The US has intervened repeatedly in Latin America to deny nations sovereign rights and specifically to install rightwing dictatorships. Does Wiegel not see this?

    i am afraid that there is no truly unbiased perspective here. Each side is colored by egoistic biases.

    And Wiegel doesn’t recognize that the West has lost almost all its moral legitimacy. We are weak and dying under an onslaught of culture corruption and banality as well as an economy that is unjust unequal and deeply bankrupt.

    • Thanks: showmethereal
    • Replies: @emerging majority
  148. mercenaries trained by the usual Blackwater/Academi suspects

    If I remember right, those mercenaries can be executed under the Geneva Conventions, 1925. For too long these mercenaries have operated without facing any consequences.

    • Agree: Arthur MacBride
  149. @d dan

    Hopefully, Russian could preserve those bio labs so that they could be part of the evidences for trials of crimes against humanity in a decade or two.

    Not possible; the criminals would rather nuke the whole world.

  150. @Apple

    Putin is the last of the real leaders who dominated the west in the 19th and 20th Centuries; he is determined to protect the security and interests of his country at any cost; it will be wise not to interfere in that, and lose whatever little one has.

  151. HdC says:
    @Agent76

    The allegations of the holocaust were disproved during the Zuendel trials in Toronto.
    The prosecution did not offer any eye witness, nor could they offer any authenticated documentation.
    Further, the absence of any forensic of other scientific evidence speaks volumes in itself.
    Although convicted, the Canadian Supreme Court overturned the convictions for spreading “false news”.

    • Agree: Towey
  152. do says:
    @Ghan-buri-Ghan

    No. The two wrong sides fought each other during WWII and only now the right- thinking side appears to be rising.

  153. “We could soon witness the birth of an independent Novorossiya – east of the Dnieper, south along Sea of Azov/Black Sea, the way it was when attached to Ukraine by Lenin in 1922. But now totally aligned with Russia, and providing a land bridge to Transnistria.”

    Well, Lenin did attached to Russia a lot more, since Russia by the time Lenin took power all but fell apart and Ukraine fell off too. When Putin manages to attach more to Russia from the list of fallen off territories he could have a right to speak about mines set by Vladimir Lenin.
    Generally Putin has huge problems with history and memory parts about Soviet reality.
    Instead of blaming real culprits Gorbachov, Yakovlev and Yeltsin his patron, he never stops to poke Lenin or Stalin.
    I understand that. Basically cannot look any good but smearing those greater then him.
    Otherwise the whole operation is long due and I am supporter of the whole thing reaching its goals.
    All those Banderites on this forum can kiss their beloved Banderistan goodbye.

    • Replies: @nokangaroos
    , @ross23
  154. HdC says:
    @Passer by

    Maybe because Poles were murdering German expatriates by the tens of thousands?
    Fact is, before the great Polish statesman (name escapes me), died in 1935, Germany and Poland had quite good relations and were working out their areas of contention.
    With the death of that individual, Polish statesmen turned to Britain and, emboldened by the worthless British guarantee, became bellicose towards Germany. The rest is history.

  155. and the dirty ruskis made the yank and mutt butthurts

  156. HT says:
    @ProfessorChops

    You mean like the “real history” that said how the European Allies saved civilization by defeating Hitler and then promptly destroyed their own civilizations by letting Jews and their non-white pets take over their countries turning them into godless politically correct cultural Marxist nightmares?

  157. HdC says:
    @GMC

    “Nazi”? Prove it.
    I submit it is communists, who screw up everything they touch and couldn’t run a lemonade stand.
    The National Socialists improved the standard of living tremendously in Germany in quite a short time.

    • Replies: @HT
    , @GMC
  158. Derer says:
    @Shpalone

    And they let you walking the streets without a straitjacket.

  159. @Shpalone

    I totally agree if what you mean as “nobody” you mean virtually everybody including NATO, lol.
    Countries all over the world are looking to re-consider their alliances and angle to get on Russia’s friends list.

  160. @Kali

    Thank you for your eminently sensible response, Kali.
    I agree completely and there seem to be signs that the “significant minority” you identify is expanding in both quantity and quality.

    I’m looking forward to true history, especially of the bloody 20 Century, being not just written (as much of it already has been) but widely disseminated and replacing the ludicrous fairytales we are today led to believe, in some places under govt threat.
    I believe this is inevitable.
    It will pose a grave threat to those who have carried out 100+ years of outrageous war on the world. And even continue to do so today. Perhaps not for long.

    Returning your kind wishes.

    • Replies: @Kali
  161. Biff K says:
    @emerging majority

    The fake Ukrainian Orthodox church is 50% of what Ukrainia is there for. Ukes were at one time Poland’s Appalacia – they had customs and dialects the Polish “Panstwo” thought were peasant (Poland, in its heyday went right down to the Black Sea where SW Ukrainia is today). So, treated badly they went more Rus – dumping the Roman Catholic church, turning Orthodox, cyrillic, and agglomerating as such in the 1880’s (previously, just a region). They were, in effect, breakaway “Poles” who could exit the country, due to Poland’s partition and reduction to a slave state of Austria-Hungary, all but Warsaw given over to Austria, Germany (Prussia), and Russia. After WW I, boundaries redrawn, Lwow (now spelled “Lwiw”) was as Polish as Lodz, mixed with some remnant Ukes. After WW II that part of Poland (reluctantly) was given to the USSR as a gift for routing the Nazis out of there, and Germany’s punishment, the eastern part of Germany went to Poland (all on a whipped up excuse called the Oder Neisse line.) There are still many Poles stuck east of Poland’s border in SW Ukraine. Another example of the polyglot that makes up the Ukraine to this very day.

    • Replies: @mulga mumblebrain
  162. @A little boy in the crowd

    Europe gets half its gas from Russia

    …as well as the rest of your remarks:

    Agreed. To put it this way: he who controls energy, flows of energy, can manifest it’s ownership of this energy reserves militarily, on this finite planet, owns the world. The nominal arithmetic of finance magic (the $ was based as much on the former, and still is, but has lost grip) matters little. As things stand –a finite planet running on overshoot– control over calories(gas before even considering the build of a product) is the game, and is since forever, hence all of the US “efforts” @war, hence the drive up to WWII, as well as Ghengis Khan and his hordes.

    It is quite absurd, that the US imports energy resources from Russia(to what extend?), and rattles on about “sanctions”. What is happening is the global players forcing the hand of unruly territories to choose what side they are on, there is no longer eating of all plates(Turkey of Erdogan) as Western Europe has done. Each and every individual’s energy needs can be felt, stronger then any fake news can play mind games.

    As a margin note: replace your apparatus of power you dumbstruck Northern Amerika. The current crop of corrupt, cowardly, and i do not know what is worse, incompetent faggots(the same goes for most of Western Europe), will sink your “nation” without a fight. Get rid, replace some fifty thousand “top” power brokers in finance, congress, administrations, media, think-tanks or sink to the bottom of the tub. Crowd control has it’s limits, it is harder to fool stark reality as manifest above.

    • Replies: @Guntbutler
  163. HT says:
    @HdC

    That wasn’t hard to do once they removed the parasites from the system that were sucking the country dry.

  164. @mulga mumblebrain

    I’m tired of hearing Ukrainians dismissed as Nazis when the country is owned and run by Jews. That’s not just a throwaway remark it’s the truth. The ‘Nazis’ like the Azov Battalion are just useful cannon fodder to be dispensed with as required.

  165. @DevilAdvocate

    …not strengthen their security at the expense of the security of other States…

    Russia’s security is not threatened. Claims to that effect are just a canard. By contrast, the security of over a hundred millions of Europeans is threatened by Russian missiles in territory it illegally occupies. This war is about Putin wanting to reverse prior decisions by Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev Brezhnev, and Yeltsin.

    So why no western state wanted to enter in serious discussions and negotiations at the 2007 Munich Security Conference, when Putin stated clearly his grievances ?

    I did not follow the conference fifteen years ago. I doubt your premise is true, and the question is not so important after such a length of time. Russia was invited to attend this year but no representative showed up (for the first time) because Putin preferred to wage a war instead.

  166. @MEexpert

    Let’s not forget the rights of the Donbass. Finally someone in the world did not sit by.

  167. Derer says:
    @barr

    Without the military activities the US economy would contract by half.

    • Replies: @RadicalCenter
  168. Notsofast says:
    @emerging majority

    don’t forget about granddaddy warbush, prescott bush and his attempted coup of fdr that was brought down by smedley butler (who bush had tried to recruit into his plot). if fdr had the stones to prosecute bush we might not have the neo-con infestation that has destroyed the future of this country and western europe.

    • Replies: @emerging majority
  169. Kali says:
    @ProfessorChops

    Freeland is the tyrant behind the retarded prince who has publicly announced that our constitutional right to protest is now gone; protesters subject to bank seizures, assets seized…all without recourse by the Canadian people.

    Don’t be too quick to despair, Prof Chops. Hubbie just read aloud to me that Canadians are removing their money from Canada banks into US banks in massive numbers, as well as opting for cash, gold and cripto. There was a 500% increase in Canadians opening US bank accounts in just the last 24 hours, according to the report he read.

    Asymmetric warfare can be fought on many fronts.

    That said, I appreciate your disgust for the globalist traitors and parasites currently goose-stepping to Davos tunes at the expense of the people. Take heart; rope is cheep and easy to make.

    Best wishes,
    Kali.

    P.S. The birds are still flying, but fewer now.

  170. Southfront update report from Kiev.

    Kiev Assault: The Capital Besieged. Russia And Ukraine To Launch Negotiations (Videos)

    Pics/vdo of UAF after Russia takes Gostomel a/p, blocks Kiev from West.

    https://southfront.org/kiev-assault-the-capital-besieged-russia-and-ukraine-to-launch-negotiations-videos/

  171. @Been_there_done_that

    Been talking long enough with “partners” refusing to address every single concern and behaving as if Russia has no interests at all even along her borders and in territories that used to be part of RI and USSR. Considering military hysteria that had been driven by USA and her poodles and ukis preparations for assault Russia simply decided that enough is enough and called the bluff..
    The west is toothless in military terms safe nukes of course and is being run by shortsighted imbeciles that completely shitted full the well they used to drink from.

  172. The Hypocrisy and Hysteria of ‘Our Leaders” is a sight to behold. See links below for more info:
    —————————————————-
    The Slaughter of Millions by “The Good Guys”
    https://graysinfo.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-slaughter-of-millions-by-good-guys.html
    ————————————————————–
    https://graysinfo.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-war-criminals-world-of-death.html
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    https://graysinfo.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-wars-and-civil-wars-of-political.html
    ————————————————
    https://graysinfo.blogspot.com/2018/12/will-war-criminals-be-brought-to.html

    https://graysinfo.blogspot.com/2014/11/will-war-criminals-perpetrate-nuclear.html
    —————————————————————
    Did We Provoke Putin’s War in Ukraine?
    PAT BUCHANAN • FEBRUARY 25, 2022
    https://www.unz.com/pbuchanan/did-we-provoke-putins-war-in-ukraine/
    ——————————————————————-
    From the Black Sea to the East Med, Don’t Poke the Russian Bear
    PEPE ESCOBAR • FEBRUARY 24, 2022
    https://www.unz.com/pescobar/from-the-black-sea-to-the-east-med-dont-poke-the-russian-bear/
    —————————————————————-

  173. Furrbaby says:

    Zelensky and his neocon handlers are calling for untrained civilians to stand up and fight the Russian military. This is not only desperate it’s criminal..

    That b-sterd Zelensky and his handlers could care less about the welfare of the true Ukrainian people.

    He’s basically encouraging them to get slaughtered all for Biden, himself , Nuland and the NEOCON’s wicked motives.

    • Replies: @Timur The Lame
  174. Anon[336] • Disclaimer says:
    @Agent76

    You’ll want to begin your education with this text from 1975, and that Ron himself was kind enough to provide in HTML format:

    https://www.unz.com/book/arthur_r_butz__the-hoax-of-the-twentieth-century/

  175. @Serge Krieger

    As usual the Jew is trying to obfuscate – “All those Banderites on this forum”
    think the Russians are the good ones for once 😀

  176. Kali says:
    @Arthur MacBride

    I am in full agreement with all you say here, Arthur (but have used up my quota of response buttons).

    Fond regards,
    Kali.

    • Thanks: Arthur MacBride
  177. @A little boy in the crowd

    Good econ. eff. observ. together with comment 75. (just a note for KK archive)

  178. @Shpalone

    Putin burned his bridges with the West with his attack on Ukraine. He seemed like he was playing an intelligent game of 4D chess that was dividing NATO, but then he started playing checkers George W. Bush style. Take notice, he didn’t attack a NATO member. He threw a wimpy country against the wall that no one said they’d defend to show he meant business like America does. He made Ned Price into a prophet of Ukrainian doom. I suppose America’s leadership saw a kindred spirit in him. This is like something stupid they’d do.

    He has set a precedent that China will judiciously study while giving Putin tacit support. I wonder if Taiwan realizes that when it gets invaded by China, the West will show support by sanctioning a few Chinese entities, and by releasing a lot of hot air out both ends of their bodies.

    • Replies: @Wielgus
    , @showmethereal
  179. Towey says:
    @Irish Savant

    Me too! It must be part of a script as, as far as I am aware, they seem to have been referring to them as Nazis since the Jewish coup replaced the democratically elected leader. I never could understand the motive behind it. I get the impression that this whole war was planned out a long time ago, down to the propaganda.

  180. mcohen says:

    The bringing down of Jeffery epstein,the clintons being stopped in 2016,and trumps Russian connections,prince andrew are all starting to make sense.These events are a brilliant move by Russia to neutralize the west into supporting the ukraine.
    Just imagine if instead of 2 years of trump there would be 2 years of clinton.There would of been no attack on ukraine.
    It is like the Russians have frozen the west into acting through compromise

    The snake bites tale sure has some interesting twists and turns.

    I bet when ukraine is “liberated” maxwell will be “liberated”

    What a conspi…. racy. What a covid 19

  181. ross23 says:
    @Serge Krieger

    Maybe your being too optimistic rather like Russia / Putin

    May appeal to some old men who remember the good ol days of the Soviet Union, but to your average 18-40 year old Ukrainian who`s on facebook & instagram and dreams of earning 2000 Euros a month in Germany on a EU work visa, probably not.

    Old men don`t fight wars. I don`t think Putin saw this, he has seriously mis-calculated

    Just waiting any day now for one of the most iconic pictures of 21st century, the Ukrainian 10 year old standing in front of a column of Russian tanks with a torn Ukrainian flag and an unsympathetic looking white Russian bearing down on her from the top of his tank.

    “Why do you kill us mr putin” being the headline around the world, then they give her a US passport, medal & tv interview.

    • Replies: @mulga mumblebrain
  182. @Furrbaby

    The ‘big brains’ from academia are opining on how guerrilla warfare and citizen insurrections have a rich history in the area since WW2 etc etc.. hence handing rifles out to people aged 18-60 is the same as creating a Viet Cong or the primitive tribal mountaineers of Khyber Pass fame.

    Can someone please hand these ‘intellectuals’ a shovel and ask them on pain of death which end is the business end? Half would fail.

    It is too ridiculous to discuss. These citizen patriots couldn’t survive an average deer hunt.

    Cheers-

    • Replies: @Wokechoke
  183. Hey, wait a minute…
    Is the bear a pussycat?

    https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5236737?from=top_main_3

    No Russian gas for German inmates in the Jewmerican zone but Russian oil for slave economy of the Jewnighted States of Israhell!

    500 – 1500 thousand barrels a day?!

    66 times sanctions a day but the oil must flow for the chosen ones.

    US / SU = Shekel;

    Yes or No Mr. Jewtin or Mr. Russia? Slosho Russia?

  184. hillaire says:

    Now that the Russkies have Blitzkrieged through the anglo zionists satrap ‘Novo Khazaria’, terrifying the yiddish comedian and the clowns that advise him… exterminating the jewish nazis and mossad consultants (?) and yankee and septic isles mercenaries..

    Secured the Nuclear ‘accident’ chernobyl and done an all round excellent job… I have but one question..

    where will the krauts get their ‘gas’… because we all know they can’t live without it… and some can’t live with it…

    but that may just be a story..

    Go on Vlad turn off nordstream 1 … and invade Poland (again)..

  185. It’s too early to celebrate…

  186. The criminal Stoltenberg says that NATO will continue to supply Ukraine with weapons.

    https://www.rt.com/news/550660-nato-ukraine-weapons-russia/

  187. Wielgus says:
    @Johnny F. Ive

    It does resemble how the US Empire does business. Ironically… Or perhaps just an illustration of the age-old fact that in this world, woe to the weak.

    • Replies: @Johnny F. Ive
  188. @ross23

    Even if it never happens, the Western MSM lie-machine will produce it, filmed in LVOV, no doubt.

  189. @Irish Savant

    Well the emigre’ vermin who flocked in after Gorbachev surrendered were DEFINITELY Nazi and Banderite scum. They were allowed to have refuge in the Anglosphere for decades, then returned to turn Ukraine into a neo-Nazi regime, with aid from the USA in the shape of Nudelman’s FIVE Billion in cash, then the fascist putsch and massacres that NO Western MSM presstituite bag of faeces DARE ever mention. That various Judaic elements have rushed in to exploit the situation is simply ‘busyness’ old boy, religious fanaticism for obscure sects, and nostalgia.

  190. @Biff K

    And our ‘freedomloving’ Ukronazis spent much time and effort slaughtering Poles in Galicia and Volhynia in 1943-4 in a REAL genocide that these ‘freedomloving’ Banderites CELEBRATE every year.

    • Replies: @nokangaroos
  191. FKA Max says:

    Samuel P. Huntington remains undefeated…

    Ukraine and the Clash of Civilizations
    https://nationalinterest.org/feature/ukraine-and-clash-civilizations-153636
    “Huntington predicted the crisis in Ukraine. His theory that nations would return to their historical and cultural roots had a natural corollary: nations that were divided between civilizations, so-called “cleft” countries, were the places that would most likely generate great-power conflict. Consider that, in the former Yugoslavia, the United States, Germany, Russia and prominent Islamic nations all lined up to support different proxies in the conflict according to shared civilizational commonalities.

    By Huntington’s civilizational standard, Ukraine is a severely cleft country, divided internally along historical, geographic and religious lines, with western Ukraine firmly in the European corner and eastern Ukraine and Crimea firmly in the orbit of Orthodox Russia. Even though it was published years before the 2013 Ukrainian crisis, Huntington’s most famous book, The Clash of Civilizations, is rife with warnings about the dangers of the Ukrainian situation and predicts that Ukraine “could split along its fault line into two separate entities, the eastern of which would merge with Russia. The issue of secession first came up with respect to Crimea.””

    “Personally, I feel that his “Clash of Civilizations” theory/framework has aged extremely well. There is, however , the possibility that his theory so greatly influenced world leaders, that it has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. There is a rumor, for example, that Putin invaded eastern Ukraine because he believed/agreed with Huntington’s analysis, that it is a “cleft country,” which will eventually/is destined to brake apart along cultural/civilizational lines.” – March 23, 2017 at 5:16 pm GMT • 5.0 years ago • 300 Words https://www.unz.com/isteve/reforming-stuyvesant-hs-admissions-should-blacks-whites-team-up-against-asian-grinds/#comment-1810979

    • Replies: @mulga mumblebrain
  192. @parand

    What is my tribe, Americans? White people? (Fine with me). My background is Italian, German and Slavic.

    Family on both sides was Roman Catholic until the 2000s, when my parents left the church. My wife and I followed them out the door later.

    I don’t know enough about Iran and Azerbaijan and their history to comment on the rest. But I’ll read and learn, including from your comments.

    Read someone’s comment history before making assumptions. (I’ve made that mistake too.)

  193. @Wielgus

    Yes, “might makes right,” but Putin could have left it with the breakaway republics, and he cowardly picked a non-NATO country to attack. He is beating up a weakling, but then what? He destroyed any possible relationship with Europe. America would have continued looking like a fool with its warnings if he did not attack Ukraine.

    Putin was entering the breakaway republics as a peacekeeper. People would disagree but still he could play the part of rational statesman that was being unfairly threatened by America. Europeans would have huffed and puffed, and eventually things would have died down, but now how do they climb down from this?

    Nord Stream 2 will be dead for a very longtime. This changes nothing regarding the nuclear threat against Russia in Eastern Europe. He gave America a huge propaganda victory and the only thing he accomplished in Eastern Europe was to make it more threatening by supplying it with a good reason to see Russia as a threat. He showed that America’s Cassandras weren’t crazy regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Putin showed the world that he was an idiot like his American partners. His previous actions weren’t because he was playing 4D chess, it was because he was a pussy! He still is until he triggers Article 5! He was dividing NATO but now he has reunited it with a strong evidence based rationale based on his actions in Ukraine.

    • Replies: @RichardDuck
    , @Wokechoke
  194. @TG

    Unfortunately only great suffering will make the message sink in. That story is not finished yet. NATO might be shipping new armement to Zelensky. They wish to make a new clonfict zone out of the poor people of Ukraine while they have their morning coffee at the NATO HQ.

  195. @mulga mumblebrain

    And that was the end of the beginning of the demise of the US Empire.

  196. @Been_there_done_that

    Haven’t played video games in several decades, but enjoy making those weird comments.

    Turkey is very popular for Russian tourists too, as our acquaintances in Russia tell us, yet the countries are still very much at odds.

    As for Cyprus being too far for missiles there to encircle and threaten Russia, you are overstating the point. Turkey is on the other side of the Black Sea from southern Russia (and other nations). Cyprus is quite close to Turkey, especially when it comes to modern aircraft and missile speeds. US base on Cyprus would indeed be reasonably perceived as unacceptable to Russia.

    Good point about the Cyprus base of formerly-great formerly-Britain, though. Cyprus should tell them to leave.

    It’s Gibraltar, not Gibralter, which presumably you know since you are an expert on the region 😉

    • Replies: @Been_there_done_that
  197. @Derer

    I appreciate your sentiment, Derer. But the US and American citizens would prosper if we cut our war spending by 1/2 or more. Over the course of just one presidential “administration”, that would yield trillions of dollars of savings. Trillions of dollars fewer that we’d “need” to borrow or print out of thin air.

    Lower interest payments on the federal government debt would result.

    We’d also dampen the severe inflationary pressures caused by debasing /diluting the currency.

    Not to mention the little matter of millions fewer deaths, horrible injuries, and traumatic suffering in a dozen countries posing no threat to Americans — including our mercenary “heroes” who come home in a body bag, handicapped, or mentally unbalanced.

    • Agree: showmethereal
  198. @Rubicon

    A recent report on the financial situation in Russia detailed that it has over 600 billion dollars in reserve funds while the wealthy have already moved most of their monies to Dubai. A lot of these reserve monies are in gold.

    It is expected that China will backstop whatever Russia requires for Russian oil, which it has plenty of.

    President Putin did not do this without taking care of any consequences that could effect the nation financially.

    This is not to say that there will not be hard times but in most cases, sanctions against developed nations actually hurt the nation that is implementing them more than the target.

    Look at what Trump’s sanctions have done with China and the subsequent issues that they have been causing over here in the States. This and his stupid bone-headed tax cuts for the wealthy have just about bankrupted our country since so much is now reliant on working people to pay their taxes to make up for these shortfalls.

  199. @Carlton Meyer

    Biden’s new sanctions are funny.

    Yes, they are, aren’t they?

    Russia can’t buy American computer equipment so will buy from China. It’s a sanction against American companies.

    That’s all right, though. We should prefer American companies to manufacture chiefly for the American market, anyway.

    Russian banks can’t participate in the western system based on the US dollar, so will trade directly with China and Iran …

    Some Americans will be surprised to learn that Russians can buy things abroad without using dollars.

    … or switch to Bitcoin.

    Nah, Bitcoin is a mere technolibertarian cope. Bitcoin is fake. Russia doesn’t want it. You will see.

  200. @Been_there_done_that

    Russia’s security is not threatened. Claims to that effect are just a canard.

    So then explain me why missiles (intended to be ) placed at Cuba, in 1962, were a threat so big it got such an immediate and firm reaction from US, while missile bases placed in Poland and Romania, at about the same distance from Russia borders are just a canard ? And much more closer if Ukraine joins NATO ?
    Are you just stupid or blind ???

    I did not follow the conference fifteen years ago.

    Oh, I did not too. But it’s very easy to hear Putin speech there, his proposals, and check if they had any follow up.

    (subtitles in french, but you can surely find in english)

    BTW, at that time, Putin was already fed up with the western indifference to russian proposals since the end of Cold War, and with their unilateral demolishing of everything constructive.

    • Replies: @Been_there_done_that
  201. @A123

    Russia has been a reliable and honest energy supplier in the face of gas theft, threats, and deliberate bad-faith delay.

    But your new point about Cyprus perhaps getting some profitable gas business through the pipeline on your map as an alternative to the supply list by the West preventing operation if NS2, yes, that seems sound. I’ll go learn about that pipeline. Thank you —

    And God bless Russia.

    • Replies: @Corvinus
  202. Kiev mourns the imminent departure of its Nato-addicted furher…

    “This might be the last time you see me alive”…

    • Replies: @Bombercommand
    , @R2b
  203. mcohen says:

    Just so anyone here has forgotten to do the numbers

    Ukraine exported a record 8.2 million tons of corn to China in 2021, making up nearly 30% of total Chinese corn imports. Ukraine accounted for as much as 86% of Chinese corn imports in 2019. Ukraine also exports barley and sunflower oil to China.

    The question is.Who is paying for war.hmmmm

  204. @Out

    And if Slo Jo does succeed in replacing Germany’s Gas, how will Americans feel when their heating bills go up by 250%?

  205. @Timur The Lame

    I’m not sure there’s been a “general invasion”.

    There has certainly been a comprehensive and apparently totally successful attack on all Military and Intelligence assets and facilities throughout the country but boots on the ground seem to be limited to the New Republics.

  206. Athena says:
    @vladimir

    ”Critical Hour Interview on Ukraine Invasion”

    https://raymcgovern.com/

    ”I did not think at the time that Putin would order an invasion of Ukraine, partly because I “knew” China would not countenance such a violation of its oft-stated policy against violating another nation’s sovereignty. Wrong. It turns out to be pretty clear that Xi approved the invasion. This is BIG.

    In a fresh piece I penned after this interview, I suggest that this is a liminal time, and that the old Soviet concept of the “world correlation of forces” remains of key importance. Owing to the new Sino-Russian alliance, that balance has now shifted to the West’s disfavor. See what you think.”

    • Replies: @mulga mumblebrain
  207. Kapyong says:
    @A little boy in the crowd

    “Russia needed only 12 days to stomp Georgia and wrap everything up (1-12 Aug 2008). Russia is wrapping up Ukraine even faster.”

    The Five Day War.
    In your face, Israel !

  208. @Quizzler

    I agree, a number of people here have different life experiences and provide an interesting range of opinions and often good references. As always it is better to double check the facts. Truth is elusive at best.

  209. Corvinus says:
    @RadicalCenter

    “And God bless Russia.”

    You mea pray for sovereign Ukraine. Why are you fascinated with an ex-KGB Deep Stater who is in bed with oligarchs?

    • Troll: Notsofast
    • Replies: @RadicalCenter
  210. Athena says:

    Millions complain: “After all, one can’t do anything!” – Is that true?

    https://www.zeit-fragen.ch/en/archives/2022/no-34-16-february-2022/letter-to-the-editor.html

    (excerpts)

    “In 1943, when Stalingrad happened, I was called to the anti-aircraft guns, as a 16-year-old, and I ended the war by deserting. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be alive today. The 17- and 18-year-olds who didn’t run away at that time were almost all killed in the housing war in Berlin.”

    “After the war I asked myself: “How could this happen? I didn’t know that! No one should be able to use that as an excuse again, I want to contribute to that.”

    “Three things are important for the Americans in their European policy: to keep the Americans in, to keep the Russians out (against good cooperation between Russia and Germany and Europe); to keep the Germans down.”

    “The Americans exploit this where possible; they twist the knife in the wounds (for example in Poland).”

  211. whodat says:

    The analogy with the WWII situation is fearful.
    WWII. Germany gets in bad graces in England because of demanding ethnic Germans
    in parts of Europe can be in the same nation as their fellow ethnics .
    Then Germany wants a land bridge across part of Poland to Danzig. and England says
    to Poland, if you confront Germany, we will go to war to join you.
    Germany was cut up by the treaty of Versailles so no connection with German Danzig was possible Sure enough Germany says hell with that and invades Poland and takes what they want, (with Russian help oddly enough). England, fulminates as usual because they have a “I hate Germany” thing going on because Germany and Jews were already a loggerheads and England was at highest level, was directed by Jewish interests. So off we go to start WWII, but it was a phony war because as usual England has a big mouth and no armed forces at that time. So Hitler practically begs for peace. By that time he has taken France too and Vichy France is Pro German mostly. So eventually the US gets into it via Japan attack, and off we go to help England make good on Their war guarantee.
    Fast forward to today.
    Russia is hated by England like Germany was, because Jewish interests in England Hate Russia,(because Russia supports Iran which supports Hezbollah) so we are close to a war guarantee situation with Ukraine, for the same reasons, and in the end, probably the same result, Uncle Sam comes to England’s side if it comes to blows over some Eastern European kerfuffle involving Russia and former USSR . Same old shit. England slinging around bellicose rhetoric, Johnson swinging his johnson around in Russia face. Why the hell can’t Ukraine etc behave more a unaligned country like Finland . Join the EU , ok but stop with the Russian confrontational stance and weapons. There is Johnson playing Churchill, writing checks he can’t honor and looking across the pond.

    • Agree: Towey
    • Thanks: Mario Partisan
    • Replies: @Bill Jones
    , @V. K. Ovelund
  212. JWalters says:
    @Franz

    I agree they’re overplaying their hand. They didn’t foresee the internet, which is a game-changer. They are losing control of the information the public is getting. Their corporate media wall is in danger of collapsing.

    Most reporters and editors in the US media must now know they are self-censoring. There are so many taboo topics: Israel’s crimes; Iraq war; Afghanistan war; Wall Street “bailouts”; Zionit control of media; Zionist control of politicians via massive Zionist money in Us politics; Congress & press reliable cheerleaders for US sending Americans to war for our oligarchs; the Zionist character of our oligarchs; the fiction about Russia influencing the 2016 election (hiding the massive Ziionist influence); stealing the 2020 Democratic nomination from Bernie by election fraud and giving the nominations for president and vice president to the two worst performing candidates who were the most solid Zionist puppets.

    The puppets in our press know they are betraying the American people. The puppets in our government know the same. When enough of the public knows this (and the number is growing), they will have to come over to the truth to save face, and perhaps avoid prison as complicit in horrific crimes. Thus could the castle crumble.

    • Agree: Franz
  213. @mulga mumblebrain

    – like the much-inoked “Ukrainian people” are again welcoming their liberators
    (this time from the other direction)
    – like Taras Bulba´s revolt was against Jewish tax farmers and not some
    generic “Poles”
    … so the “Banderites” had no beef with “Poles”. They despised being administered with the Generalgouvernement, yes (a candidate for all-time worst political blunders).
    43-44 they were fighting partisans – would you deign to give a specific incident?

    • Replies: @mulga mumblebrain
  214. Athena says:

    The enemy image propaganda against Russia is becoming ever more unbearable

    https://www.zeit-fragen.ch/en/archives/2022/no-34-16-february-2022/the-enemy-image-propaganda-against-russia-is-becoming-ever-more-unbearable.html

    (excerpts, emphasis added)

    “Michael Lüders, in his latest book, “Die scheinheilige Supermacht. Warum wir aus dem Schatten der USA heraustreten müssen” (The Hypocritical Superpower. Why we must step out of the shadow of the USA), he reviewed literature on the subject and illustrated the manipulation techniques of our media with many examples.

    The dangers of this conformity are great. Millions of people in our countries only get these messages. People are affected even if they do not want to believe what is constantly coming down on them. Propaganda is a form of violence against spirit and soul, and it violates everyone.

    Add to this the fact that those who have (so far) publicly expressed themselves differently within the power elites are bombarded with media broad sides and pilloried – be it the former Inspector General of the German Navy, the former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder or those parts of the German Social Democrats that deviate even slightly from the US and NATO line. Campaigns are staged to intimidate and silence those who are attacked, but also the people who dared to think alike.

  215. @PJ London

    At some point it will dawn on the dim wits that Russia is the worlds largest (60% by one source I saw) of the raw materials for fertilizer. Nat Gas is the source of those raw materials of course.

    Next winter in Germany will be the coldest and hungriest since Eisenhower’s genocide.

  216. I wonder how China sees this, and are they willing to make their move on Taiwan when they can see the impotence of Biden and the faggot infested US Military. The fall of the Ukraine in 72 hours could be very tempting for China to take advantage of this unique moment in history. The Taliban saw weak dick Biden correctly and made their move, and now the USA is out of their nation.

    Politifact – “More than 15,000 transgender Americans” are “serving in the military today.”

    Listening to the news blame Trump for the fall of Ukraine is very laughable, but Trump makes me nervous because once again he is bragging it wouldn’t have happened under his watch. I now understand why Trump made so many threats in his first term, he has a huge ego and doesn’t want to be seen in history as weak, he did not want to be the president when these nations fall. Trump doesn’t want war, and he sure doesn’t want to be forced into a corner and have to go to war to protect his legacy and ego.

    Trump Spokesperson: Why Have Nuclear Weapons ‘If You’re Afraid To Use’ Them?

    So it is logical that China may take Taiwan as a chess piece while the US and NATO are spinning their wheels in the mud outside of Ukraine. Once Taiwan falls, Guam is next on China’s shopping list. There is no way Guam can stand as US naval and air base if China is going to expand as a major military power. Guam is a major pivot point to project power in the Pacific. From Guam, bombers can reach Australia, Philippines, SE Asia, and North Korea – and all those nations are about to be swallowed by China and it’s sphere of influence. So how much longer under Biden will North and South Korea stay separated?

    [MORE]

    The point I am making is that the world geopolitical map is being rapidly redrawn, and the first two dominoes to fall were Afghanistan and Ukraine. Which nation will be withdrawn from the US hegemon next? Opportunity awaits the bold actor. Russia took Ukraine and there wasn’t a damn thing NATO could do about it. Jews are now crying big crocodile tears – just turn on any western news and hear them whine about Russia and Putin. I have zero sympathy for this loss and see Putin’s actions as righteous in face of a constantly meddling evil Jewish (Rothschild -Zionist) empire.

    Jews are really pissed about the fall of Ukraine, on many sites (including this one) I am reading very delusional comments by saddened Jews at such a great loss (for them). But there is no sympathy for the Jew on the internet because the world has awakened to the Jew problem. For instance over at Goolag (Google) Jewtube (Youtube) wants to censor free speech – they actually want laws passed to end our first amendment! So this cry of freedom from the Jewish news sources lands on deaf ears, Jews do not want freedom in Amerika, so how can the Jews running the Ukraine want freedom over there?

    Jewish YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Asks U.S. Gov’t To Criminalize Free Speech

    One more thing that I have been talking about for decades has come true (and no one noticed). It became obvious with the advent of GPS and cruise missiles that accuracy is so good, and missiles so fast, all of the invincible WW2 hardware is obsolete. Basically a million dollar missile can sink a billion dollar air craft carrier – and there ain’t anything you can do about it. With satellites and drones and airborne radar the enemy knows exactly where your big ship or tank is, and can direct a missile at it from many different platforms. Start a war, push the button, watch the ships sink. There is no more hunting ships with U-boats.

    So I said many times when war comes the ships will be sunk in 30 minutes and that did come to pass with the Ukrainian navy – sunk to the bottom, glug, glug, glug, and there was nothing the Jew could do about it. The all powerful Jew and his machinations have failed in the Ukraine, the crybabies can now go to the wailing wall and complain to their god how they have been betrayed (by science over religion).

    I think before this decade is out, as things accelerate in the financial collapse, Hawaii could easily become the western edge of the US in the Pacific – and that too will fall in the coming decades as the USA is rubbed out. Do you know what Little Fidel Turdeau just did, he let the cat out of the bag, he stupidly froze bank accounts and seized money. That started a bank run, so they shut down the Canadian banks then lifted the ban. But now the word is out. This morning a lady in front of me in line at the bank withdrew her funds – and I am in Oregon. Saw it with my own eyes – people couldn’t care less about the bombing of brown nations or Palestinians being rubbed out, but boy ‘oh boy you threaten their money and you get their full attention. How many Canadians are now quietly withdrawing bank deposits and are purchasing golden maple leafs to bury in the basement?

    Now the white man will know how it feels to be rubbed out by the endless supply of other races

    Little Big Man

    Jack Crabb : Do you hate them? Do you hate the White man now?

    Old Lodge Skins : Do you see this fine thing? Do you admire the humanity of it? Because the human beings, my son, they believe everything is alive. Not only man and animals. But also water, earth, stone. And also the things from them… like that hair. The man from whom this hair came, he’s bald on the other side, because I now own his scalp! That is the way things are. But the white man, they believe EVERYTHING is dead. Stone, earth, animals. And people! Even their own people! If things keep trying to live, white man will rub them out. That is the difference.

    Old Lodge Skins : There is an endless supply of white men. There has always been a limited number of human beings.

    Old Lodge Skins : Today is a good day to die.

    Now it is white man’s turn to die. I am white and I can see the end coming, Amerika is going down hard, the military empire is rapidly shrinking, the welfare hoardes are coming across the border and demanding more freebies. Our death jabbed military can’t find it’s ass from a hole in the ground, it can not fight any war anymore – that is the legacy of demon spawn GW Bush and his Evangelical lobby begging for the end times.

    • Replies: @showmethereal
    , @antibeast
  217. JWalters says:
    @Carlton Meyer

    According to renowned WWII London Times reporter Douglas Reed, the war profiteering bankers financed the Communist revolution in Russia to establish a permanent war between Russia and the rest of Europe. A large-scale divide & conquer play.

    Today they are still flogging that “conflict”, despite Russia no longer being Communist (and despite the breakup of the Soviet Union). Via their wholly owned corporate media they are milking that divide as long as they can. What appear to be nonsensical actions by the US and EU make perfect sense for the bank gangsters calling the shots from behind the curtain.

    Reed’s masterful research is here.
    “The Controversy of Zion”
    http://www.controversyofzion.info/

  218. @Johnny F. Ive

    You have many good points here Johnny. The first reaction of NATO nations to Russia invasion of Ukraine is going to be fear and they are going to rally unanimously against Putin. Russia has suffered decades of humiliation from the West and Russia will face the music, So we are in for a long confrontation. But Russia will continue on its momentum and force Europe to make hard choices. There is no end-game in sight if that is what you imply.

    • Replies: @Johnny F. Ive
  219. FKA Max says:
    @Katrinka

    “I’m not a specialist, but I know that Russia holds a lot more gold than the J.U.S.A. does.”

    The U.S. (8,000+ metric tons) holds way more gold than Russia (2,000+ metric tons) in absolute terms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_reserve but as a share of GDP Russia has larger gold reserves:

    “Russia is the undisputed world leader in gold reserves as percentage of nominal GDP, but Europe is not too far behind:

    For the United States, that ratio is 1.8%. For China the ratio is estimated at 1.5% (China’s ratio is an estimate because China is non-transparent about the amount of gold in its reserves. The actual ratio is likely in a range of 1% to 3%).
    […]
    For Russia, the gold-to-GDP ratio is a whopping 5.6%, or three times the U.S. ratio.
    […]
    The gold-to-GDP ratio for the Eurozone is 3.6%; not as high as Russia, but double the U.S. ratio. On the whole, Russia is the strongest gold power in the world.” – August 23, 2018 at 8:37 pm GMT • 3.6 years ago • 500 Words https://www.unz.com/tengelhardt/beijings-bid-for-global-power-in-the-age-of-trump/?showcomments#comment-2479597

    However, most of the World’s mined, central bank gold is stored on U.S. soil in NYC:

    The United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox + The Federal Reserve Bank of New York Building at 33 Liberty Street = over 10,000 metric tons of gold

    “The Federal Reserve Building’s three-story gold vault is toward the western end of the site, adjoining Nassau Street.[23] The vault rests on Manhattan’s bedrock, 80 feet (24 m) below street level and 50 feet (15 m) below sea level, and contains the largest known monetary-gold storage reserve in the world.[36] As of 2019, the vault housed approximately 497,000 bars of gold, weighing about 6,190 short tons (5,620 metric tons).[36] The Fed serves as a guardian for the gold and does not own it outright. Nearly 98 percent of the building’s gold is owned by the central banks of 36 foreign nations.[37][38] The remaining two percent is owned by the United States and international organizations such as the IMF. As of August 2016, the building’s vault holds 13.4 million troy ounces (460 short tons) of gold bullion and $3 million (book value) in gold coins for the United States, just over 5 percent of the United States’ total gold reserve.” – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Bank_of_New_York_Building#Gold_vault

  220. JWalters says:
    @Doug Ryler

    Thanks for that link. It’s important the we free the Christian Zionists from their duped status. That will knock out a big pillar of support for the Zionist criminals.

    Here’s a good documentary on how the Zionists conned those Christians.
    “Christian Zionism: The Tragedy & The Turning”
    Alternative link to YouTube
    https://whtt.org/christian-zionism-the-tragedy-the-turning-part-i/

    The core strategy of the Zionists is to turn these Christians’ attention (and worship) to the Old Testament by tapping into their interest in prophecy. This focus then replaces a focus on the actual teaching of Jesus. This video shows a Christian Zionist meeting where this strategy is on display. Notice the Israeli at the center of things.
    “Bible Prophecy Q&A with Amir Tsarfati, Jan Markell, Pastor Barry Stagner and Pastor Jack Hibbs”

    Jesus made a clean break with the Jewish religious authorities in his parable of the good Samaritan. The priest and the Levite (Temple caretaker) pass by the wounded man, while the non-Jewish Samaritan rescues him. Jesus’ audience understood that the reason the priest and Levite avoided the injured man was because they were following the Talmudic law – have nothing to do with Gentiles because they are unclean, inferior beings (essentially animals). Jesus rejected that law, and said that a non-Jew who treated all humans with compassion was the model to follow.

    Incidentally, this Talmudic law explains why the Israelis treat the Palestinians like animals. And why they treat most Americans like animals, as seen in their 9/11 attack, and their Wall Street “bailouts”, which bankrupt millions of Gentile Americans. Their Christian Zionist deception is (in a way) small potatoes compared to those, but nevertheless is an essential part of their overall operation.

    Run Unz wrote a good article about the Talmudic law which provides useful information for debating.
    “American Pravda: Oddities of the Jewish Religion
    https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-oddities-of-the-jewish-religion/?highlight=religion

    • Replies: @Johnny Sweden
  221. gatobart says:

    The Empire has never let a blow like this go for free, it has always hit back and hard and usually in the periphery of the offending power if that is Russia, the USSR or China. Not at the center of course, they love life as much as most of us. If I was a betting man I would tell a moustachioed guy in the Americas to start thinking about the ires of March and what he plans to do about it if you know what I mean.

    • Thanks: PetrOldSack
  222. @nokangaroos

    In Ukraine the regime passed a ‘law’ making it unlawful to publicise the genocide of Poles by the Banderites in Galicia and Volhynia from 1943-4, despite Ukronazis celebrating it every year. And the Polish regime rejoindered by making it unlawful to deny that genocide. Ain’t the ‘Free World’ a wonder to behold?

    • Replies: @nokangaroos
  223. @Athena

    Ukraine is NOT a ‘nation’. It is a brothel, a neo-Nazi training ground and a dupe of the West, so ‘national sovereignty’ does not apply.

    • Replies: @Athena
  224. @FKA Max

    Huntington’s theory was just the blue-print for unending US Imperial aggression and subversion to destroy multi-ethnic, multi-faith States, and mimics the plans the Zionazis outlined in the infamous Oded Yinon Plan, and which the US had implemented in Yugoslavia. It is just bog standard Imperial ‘Divide and Rule’ strategy, and typically Evil.

    • Replies: @FKA Max
    , @Poco
  225. It would be a mistake to lionize Putin.

    Escobar and others like Paul Craig Roberts (who is so thoroughly disgusted with the depravity of the Western system which he once served that it blinds his judgement) need to realize, or be reminded, that deception is the highest form of the art of war.

    Love the people of Ukraine and Russia, and at the same time spit on their governments.

    • Replies: @Derer
  226. RodW says:
    @TG

    Russia and China seem to be better at ‘nation building’ than western countries. Both within and outside their own borders.

  227. FKA Max says:
    @mulga mumblebrain

    “Huntington’s theory was just the blue-print for unending US Imperial aggression and subversion to destroy multi-ethnic, multi-faith States […] It is just bog standard Imperial ‘Divide and Rule’ strategy, and typically Evil.”

    The reality is quite or exactly the opposite of what you claim, actually.

    “The Clash of Civilizations” is guidebook for advanced practitioners of “realpolitik” in the West, and encourages/warns them to refrain from imperialistic tendencies:

    Putin Lives in the World that Huntington Built
    By Ilya Budraitskis
    https://www.fkawdw.nl/en/review/desk/putin_lives_in_the_world_that_huntington_built or https://archive.ph/N7SgY
    “The author of The Clash of Civilizations by no means shares the pessimism of Oswald Spengler regarding the ‘decline’ of the West, but calls upon the West to soberly evaluate its own potential in the face of a rapidly changing demographic balance. The European population is becoming smaller and smaller whereas the Asian population is growing: this key component of Huntington’s theory is backed up with statistics meant to persuade the reader.

    The Cold War, as an ideological confrontation between two blocs, has become a thing of the past and the time has come to reassess the role of international institutions created in the previous era. So the question, “Whose side are you on?” is replaced by “What are you?” Hence, NATO should transform itself from a military organization of the ‘free world’ into a bloc defending the interests of only one of the civilizations, namely the West. There is no point in the European Union considering the integration of countries belonging to Orthodox or Islamic civilizations—and their adherence would create major problems in the future. For the determination of a new balance of forces each civilization needs to accommodate itself to its ‘kin country’, a kind of elder sibling. For the West, that is the United States; for the Orthodox world, Russia.
    […]
    Huntington bewails the fact that the West is still not fully aware of this new reality and that it continues to “export democracy” to non-Western countries. In this new world of eight civilizations, sovereignty is not defined by the rule of popular representation but by the correspondence of the state to its own political culture, its particular local religion and ethical norms. The regimes of Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Russia purport to follow precisely these very principles. Moreover, if the Islamic world, torn apart by conflicts between Shiites and Sunnis, is not at present in a condition to determine its main kin country, then Orthodox civilization has been more fortunate: it has Russia.

    Throughout its existence, the Putin regime has been Huntington’s star pupil.”

    • Thanks: Mario Partisan
  228. @Michael Korn

    Wiegel, without researching his background, strikes me as a Bavarian rather a Baden or Rhineland Catholic. The Bavarian Catholics are much like those in Poland and Croatia and little resemble those in the Netherlands, as a counter-example. They tend to be very one-sided and very Augustinian and Dominican in their outlooks, to say nothing of the shifty Opus Dei, Knights of Malta and Jesuit types in their midst. In other words, they are not far in their thinking from Inquisition mindedness.

    There is a nexus between these more extreme Romanists and the Sanhedrin controlled Zionists. Altogether they strike me as imperialists on steroids.

    • Replies: @Michael Korn
  229. Here in the United States, I care only about affirming that an election was stolen.
    1. Arrest the traitors.
    2. Commandeer the television stations.
    3. Televise the evidence 24/7.
    4. Televise the trials.

  230. @SeekerofthePresence

    Yeah, not one close up of Brian Jones, who invented The Rolling Stones. Like Bill Wyman said: “The name The Rolling Stones was Brian’s, everything was Brian’s”. Plenty closeups of those two talentless posers Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Mick and Keith who you don’t even notice in the early PR photos, but Brian shines like the star he always was. Who stole the copyright of the name The Rolling Stones from the murdered Brian Jones??? Who stole the copyright of songs like Ruby Tuesday, written by Brian Jones??? Who murdered Brian Jones, who benefited from his murder??? The Big Lie. Are you gonna post about the Russian Army armoured vehicle that swerved to roll over a civilian Ukrainian automobile crushing it and it’s driver inside??? Are you gonna post about Russian Army vehicle’s drive by shootings of Ukrainian civilians walking the streets of their own country???

  231. Wokechoke says:
    @Timur The Lame

    The Resistance in Kiev to Russians could be strong, but the problem really is that it’s obvious there were no forces stationed in Kiev to defend the capital and approaches to the capital. They are all in Donbas and Kharkov like sitting ducks when the Russian tanks hit them in the rear. The Russians probably destroyed all the command and control of the Ukrainian field army that’s in Kharkov. They’ve already been beaten and outflanked. The forces in Belorussian were not expected to Blitzkreig the Ukrainian capital city. The operation was obvious to any half competent arm chair general though. But the US and UK advisers allowed Ukie troops to defend the frontier rather than the capital city.

  232. Wokechoke says:
    @Commentator Mike

    They’ll have the victory on the battlefield and the office safes and the archives. It’s going to look very bad for western politicians who’ve been involved in Zelensky’s regime. Whether the documents are fake or real there’s much to pour over in the files of the Ukrainian state. The forensic auditing teams will have good good time.

    • Replies: @Commentator Mike
  233. lydia says:

    Take a moment & pray for the Ukraine, Russia, Europe and the World

    Patrick Lenk
    175K subscribers

    Please take a moment and pray for the Ukraine, Europe, the World and everybody involved in that war. Let’s pray for the support of the best future of humanity! Join the global light forces by prayer now! No matter who you are, your spirituality, background or religious affiliation. Send your prayers, energies and good thoughts to the Ukraine and Europe. Connect with your God, pray, meditate or focus your mind – whatever feels best and fitting for you. Let’s focus together for the best outcome. Thank you! Background Chant: Patrick Lenk – Jesus Prayer (Russian) –

    • Replies: @Johnny Sweden
  234. @Notsofast

    Quite so. I was delighted some 30 years back when I came upon a copy of his original “War is a Racket”. Mr. Butler’s most famous line in that book: “I was a whore for Wall $treet”—this from the most decorated Marine in U.S. history.

    Curiously, though during WWII Prescott Bu$h was declared as having given aid and comfort to the enemy; but by the time of the Harryass Truman administration he was able to run for and receive a seat in the U.$. Senate from the most subtly corrupted state in the Union: Connecticut. Some part of his “reprieve” must have been due to his membership in the Skull n’ Bones club at Yale, as was Daddy WarBu$h and his half-idiot son. He and the Crypto John Kerry another Bonesman, exemplified the total corruption of the American political process when they ran against each other for Pretzeldunce.

    • Agree: Derer
    • Replies: @Notsofast
    , @Notsofast
  235. @RichardDuck

    Thanks! I don’t see what Russia gets out of this besides bridge burning. It may be kicked out of SWIFT. Countries like Germany are still resisting committing energy seppuku. It will be interesting to see if they give into pressure.

    The wild card is China and I think the end-game runs through Beijing. Putin obviously has Xi’s blessing. Xi has a similar situation with Taiwan and the US. Ukraine and Taiwan are historically deeply connected to their adversaries. The situation between Russia and Ukraine must have resonated with China. China has a Zionist like desire for Taiwan. Nothing is going to keep them apart.

    The alliance between China and Russia was an obvious development. The surprise is that it is clearly out in the open now. China isn’t going to complain loudly about Russia doing what it wants to do to Taiwan. I don’t think Europeans care that much about Taiwan. It is across the world from them and China is a large market that Europeans can’t ignore. I’m curious how Europeans will see China in the new China-Russian alliance. They have not been at all concerned about China’s military strength before. Example: “China is not a military threat, EU top diplomat says:” https://www.politico.eu/article/china-is-not-a-military-threat-eu-top-diplomat-says/

  236. @Franz

    The West’s Rainbow Warriors versus Russia’s Rolling Metal Thunder? Hmm. Interesting contest. Maybe Tim Cook has developed some Weaponized Unicorns to help out.

    • Agree: Franz
  237. What happened…

    Sometimes the ‘bar’ eats you. (Lebowski’s THE SHINGING moment.)

    Don’t keep slapping the bear.

  238. Derer says:
    @vladimir

    You are talking nonsense. Do you understand that Ukraine or Poland or Baltic minnows are controlled by the disloyal zionists elite especially Ukraine is their cushy nest (the US nest is even bigger). The consequence of Putin actions will be new pro-Russian government in Ukraine the one that was overthrew by US interference (Nuland, McCain, Biden, Soros) in 2014.

  239. Derer says:
    @Yugoslav

    You call yourself a Yugoslav but you sound like belonging to a mosque in Bosnia or Kosovo. Chechnya is an inland lock-in territory within Russia and thus their quest for independence is a futile ambition.

    Ukraine situation is not analogous with any of NATO escapades. While NATO was not threaten by any of those countries, the Ukraine was target of military bases of Russian number one enemy NATO. In addition the Kiev nazi regime committed genocide of Russian inhabitants in Donbas.

  240. Derer says:
    @USA Invades Israel

    Love the people of Ukraine and Russia, and at the same time spit on their governments.

    The present Ukrainian puppet government was installed by the US criminal interference and the pro-Russian was removed by the same criminals. When the US picked “boy” loses invasion follows.

    • Replies: @USA Invades Israel
  241. @mulga mumblebrain

    Ain´t the `Free World´a wonder to behold?

    Yes 😀 Bandera´s boys were not happy after they took Lemberg all alone,
    their declaration of independence was ignored and they were lumped
    together with the Poles; what most Westoids keep forgetting
    (this not to insinuate that you do) is that Stepan was a CIA goon
    twice as long as a Natzee collaborator (until the (((KGB))) finally got him
    in Munich 1959) and that the partisan war against the USSR lasted until 1975(!).
    Being a freedom fighter is full-time hold-your-nose and thankless.
    Now watching all these Jews scurry to the Polish border like cockroaches
    when the light is turned on is balsam for Those Who Can See
    (except they will land on our backs again).

  242. GMC says:
    @HdC

    Come to Russia and tell the Russians that the Right Sector politicians, Azov Battalions and others are not Nazis. If you think Russia is going to change their mind or their definition – you don’t know Russians very well.
    I’m pretty sure when the West Ukies started to display the Nazi flag, started to salute Heil Hitler and beat up women in Kiev for speaking Russian – They be Nazis ! Your definition doesn’t count , on this side of the Dniepr R. And that what counts.

  243. @RadicalCenter

    US base on Cyprus would indeed be reasonably perceived as unacceptable to Russia.

    How funny; you still haven’t figured out how ridiculous your comments were. The Republic of Cyprus (the Greek portion of that island) is not a NATO member because it is a neutral country.

    For your information, Russia does not have a veto over Cypriot policy. Anyway, why should a US base in Cyprus be “unacceptable” to Russia if there are already US bases much closer to it in Turkey?

    Extending your hypothetical conjecture, to further expose its absurdity, I am sure that Israel would much welcome a US base in Cyprus. Do you think that Russia would prevail against such wishes?

    • Replies: @showmethereal
  244. @DevilAdvocate

    So then explain me why missiles (intended to be ) placed at Cuba, in 1962, were a threat so big it got such an immediate and firm reaction from US, while missile bases placed in Poland and Romania, at about the same distance from Russia borders are just a canard ?

    The difference is sixty years of technological advances and political developments. The perceived threat those missile bases pose to Russia is overblown and rather trivial in comparison to Russia’s missiles in the illegally occupied Königsberg / Kaliningrad region.

    • Replies: @emerging majority
  245. It would have been more sensible if the Nazis had declared independence of Galicia in 2014 instead of trying to take all of Ukraine. Now most of their die hard hardcore Nazi military formations are on the borders of the independent republics of Donetsk and Lugansk with nobody to watch their backs and awaiting their annihilation. Stupid is as stupid does.

  246. @Wokechoke

    Hopefully Russians will release some of the secrets they uncover, especially what went on in those many biolabs, and get the truth out to us. I see the West is trying to ban and hack RT and other Russian information sites probably worried by what may be reported about their dirty works.

  247. anon[257] • Disclaimer says:

    The USA is terrible, and also the guy who was the first President to not start a foreign war for many decades is terrible. American men from America are just terrible. Terrible, terrible, terrible. We get it. Everything is terrible except for what you like. Got it. Why even keep writing articles? Everything from America is just terrible terrible terrible. China and Russia are eternally perfect.

  248. Since the Budapest declaration, that Ukraine and Georgia should join NATO, Russia has protested. The CIA coup in 2014 when democratic elected leader was ousted and a ((puppet)) was installed as President there has been a civil war between Ukrainian army and Donbass Rebels, eight years now. So I guess Russia just got tired of meaningless discussions with the west and solve the problem with military might and no other country seems keen on starting a nuclear war with Russia over Ukraine.

    The USA is of course very happy, Putin is making USA Great Again. The vassal states in Europe will buy more weapons from USA and raise their military NATO budgets and NATO will keep Germany down, Russia out and USA in Europe as always.

    Well, it would be nice to live in peace without idiotic politicians interfering with your life all the time.

  249. @JWalters

    Run Unz seems to be a cool guy with a cool website respecting freedom of speech. I like it.

    • Agree: V. K. Ovelund
  250. @FKA Max

    As of August 2016, the building’s vault holds 13.4 million troy ounces (460 short tons) of gold bullion and $3 million (book value) in gold coins for the United States, just over 5 percen

    Polluted information, nothing to base analysis upon. Only whistle-blowers from the inside, with verifiable digital documents and methods of obtaining these data could be credible. There are no data in the public domain that are reliable. “Armchair”, “Cowdung” “annalistics”. No reproach meant.

    The real start to lay hands upon the global hoaxes and scams is documenting the gamers, their methods, the locations that hold some of the data. Forensic efforts, not references to corrupted insiders and publications. Truth seekers are in war like circumstance. Your efforts is just adding to the clutter.

    –as a margin note– We the murk at the bottom of society do not see the constant pings in the “news” on covid and vaxing for over a week. Could that be just a single indication that the elite power mongers are a very small group of decision makers, overburdened by a single venue, venture at a time? That would make them quite vulnerable. Deconstruction as needed in the West.

    • Replies: @FKA Max
  251. @FKA Max

    The European population is becoming smaller and smaller whereas the Asian population is growing: this key component of Huntington’s theory is backed up with statistics meant to persuade the reader.

    Humans are like batteries, they can hold energy as storage (“net economic worth”) as well as being a drain on the rest of society (defective batteries in a cluster) and drain the grid. This is a model that can fit in and out migrations and population densities and volumes. Feel free to abuse the idea.

  252. @Kali

    The A-symetric warfare commited by ZOG against the people is called “law”.

    It’s the set of arbitrary rules concocted by sociopaths known collectively as government.

    ZOG = government. All governments eventually turn on their own people.

    • Agree: Yukon Jack, Kali
    • Replies: @Kali
  253. @whodat

    Germany gets in bad graces in England because of demanding ethnic Germans
    in parts of Europe can be in the same nation as their fellow ethnics .

    The antipathy against Germany was economic rather than ethnic. As the economic superiority of the UK was built on physics, the German threat was better chemistry; initially signaled by simple dyes, starting to show in proto-plastics. As Germany rebuilt itself in the late 20’s/30’s Churchill said something along the lines of “The industrial recovery must be halted else the Great War was for nothing”.

    The irreplacable James Corbett did a great series of pieces on WWI. Well worth the time,

    https://www.corbettreport.com/wwi/

    • Thanks: V. K. Ovelund
  254. Michael Korn [AKA "Mevashir"] says:
    @emerging majority

    From Wiegel’s Amazon page:

    https://www.amazon.com/George-Weigel/e/B004MO9PTW/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1
    George Weigel, Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, is a Catholic theologian and one of America’s leading public intellectuals. He holds the William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC.

    From 1989 through June 1996, Mr. Weigel was president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he led a wide-ranging, ecumenical and inter-religious program of research and publication on foreign and domestic policy issues.

    Mr. Weigel is perhaps best known for his widely translated and internationally acclaimed two-volume biography of Pope St. John Paul II: the New York Times bestseller, Witness to Hope (1999), and its sequel, The End and the Beginning (2010). In 2017, Weigel published a memoir of the experiences that led to his work as a papal biographer: Lessons in Hope — My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II.

    George Weigel is the author or editor of more than thirty other books, many of which have been translated into other languages. Among the most recent are The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God (2005); Evangelical Catholicism: Deep Reform in the 21st-Century Church (2013); Roman Pilgrimage: The Station Churches (2013); Letters to a Young Catholic (2015); The Fragility of Order: Catholic Reflections on Turbulent Times (2018); The Next Pope: The Office of Peter and a Church in Mission (2020); and Not Forgotten: Elegies for, and Reminiscences of, a Diverse Cast of Characters, Most of Them Admirable (2021). His essays, op-ed columns, and reviews appear regularly in major opinion journals and newspapers across the United States. A frequent guest on television and radio, he is also Senior Vatican Analyst for NBC News. His weekly column, “The Catholic Difference,” is syndicated to eighty-five newspapers and magazines in seven countries.

    Mr. Weigel received a B.A. from St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Baltimore and an M.A. from the University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto. He is the recipient of nineteen honorary doctorates in fields including divinity, philosophy, law, and social science, and has been awarded the Papal Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice, Poland’s Gloria Artis Gold Medal, and Lithuania’s Diplomacy Star.

    • Replies: @Michael Korn
  255. MEexpert says:
    @emerging majority

    Agreed. As “good Christians” they forget to turn the other cheek. The US turns the other cheek only to Israel and I don’t mean the one on the face.

  256. MEexpert says:
    @Rev. Spooner

    My mistake. It used to be the other way around but the roles have been reversed.

  257. MEexpert says:
    @cylindrical crown

    Yes. Serbia and Kosovo as well. Actually, the US did bomb Pakistan although it was not a full fledged attack. They did violate Pakistani sovereignty by going into Pakistan and “killing” Usama bin Laden. Of course, there are doubts about him being alive at that time.

  258. Athena says:
    @mulga mumblebrain

    I agree.

    It’s as if Russia was coming in Toronto to hijack the parliament by funding terrorism, and then back the independence of Québec, pretending it’s a sovereign country.

    (To grab the lands, the water, the waterways into America, the minerals, the cheap labour, the electric power plants, the natural gas pipelines, and take control of the military bases used refuel theCF-18s.)

    That would be ILLEGAL, i.e., against RESOLUTION 1244 of the United Nations.

    The Brits and Canada should stop arming and fueling pseudo-revolutions of independentists in Ukraine to satisfy Washington.

  259. FifthDim says:
    @Hum

    Do you mean the Associated State of Canada?
    Definition: An associated state is the minor partner in a formal, free relationship between a political territory with a degree of statehood and a (usually larger) nation, for which no other specific term, such as protectorate, is adopted.
    Elementary schools forced children to watch US presidents inauguration ceremony, this is an Associated State, isn’t it?

    • Replies: @dogbumbreath
  260. Mr. Escobar – with this article you are outing yourself as a Putin fanboy. The analytic depth here plumbs the depths of a spoon.

    The military exercise has been largely incompetent. The outcome of this will be disastrous for Russia on nearly every possible metric.

    And most of all: here is what you don’t understand – you are so far from understanding it.

    Russia is weak. Weak, weak, weak. And in Putin and his kleptocrats’ hands, it is much, much weaker.

    The Russian people literally have so much better, and deserve so much better. On their behalf maybe it’s time you took up a new interest.

    • Replies: @Michael Korn
  261. @FifthDim

    Canada as a sovereign country is a myth. Canada is still a colony of the UK. Every Canadian PM (same as President in US) swears their allegiance to the British Monarchy and NOT the people.

    https://www.themythiscanada.com/

    • Agree: RadicalCenter
    • Replies: @emerging majority
  262. Michael Korn [AKA "Mevashir"] says:
    @Michael Korn

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCMUeryzX2Y
    Fascinating video of Putin complaining about the decline of influence of the Catholic Church in the West. I doubt the Catholics would even appreciate his gesture.

    • Replies: @DevilAdvocate
  263. Michael Korn [AKA "Mevashir"] says:
    @SimplePseudonymicHandle

    The Russian people literally have so much better, and deserve so much better. On their behalf maybe it’s time you took up a new interest.

    What do you mean “have so much better”? Do you mean better leaders than Putin?

  264. @Hum

    Trudeau must go!!!

    Be careful what you wish for. Anyone that thinks that all of Canada’s political parties aren’t occupied territory better wake up. There is no guarantee the next stooge would be any better, and could well be worse. We have a shortage of lampposts.

  265. @whodat

    … Jewish interests in England Hate Russia, (because Russia supports Iran which supports Hezbollah) …

    I had assumed that Jewish interests everywhere hate Russia because Russian gentiles wrestled control of the Soviet project, which had been Jewish in inception, away from Jewish interests.

    But actually, I know nothing about it. Is my assumption wrong?

  266. @Corvinus

    I don’t pray for sovereign Ukraine if that means a country that will help the US encircle Russia by putting tanks, troops and missiles right up on Russia’s borders and near its two most significant cities. That’s needless belligerence and no country with the power to stop such a nearby threat would be wise to sit and wait to be surrounded and invaded, which is what the US and “uk” intend.

    But I will pray for the least loss of life possible, Ukrainian and otherwise. And we can all pray that (1) the US government stops lying about the history of these kindred Rus peoples, stops accusing Russia of things it apparently has not done, stops condemning Russia for doing things that the US does (and then some) all the time, (4) stop moving their forces thousands of miles away to surround a rival power, and (5) that Russia will NOT continue its advance into the western oblasts of the ukraine where they are truly not welcome by people of different ethnicity, culture, language, religious denomination, and historical affinities.

    As for Putin, I would find it easy to believe that he is roughly as corrupt as the rulers of the US, though I don’t know with confidence. Based on their current arguments and legitimate security concerns, Russia still is the most reasonable and least bad party in the conflict at this time. Whether just to gain international credibility to serve his nation’s interests or for whatever reason, Putin has been far more honest than the US, uk, and other NATO governments on this and other foreign-policy matters.

    As for Putin being ex-KGB, how do you feel about taking the side of the systematic liars, provocateurs, and mass murderers in the CIA, “Defense” Department and other organs of the US warfare / surveillance state? Or are we going to hold Russia and its leaders to a double standard here as everywhere else?

    Speaking of sovereignty, how about letting people in the farther-western oblasts of the ukraine vote in a referendum about their future? With the consent of the neighboring countries, of course, the people of each oblast could be given a choice between (1) becoming an independent country or (2) joining a neighboring country, I.e. Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, or Romania as the case may be.

    I’m referring primarily to the oblasts on the land that a non-Russian mass murderer named Josef Stalin arbitrarily added to the Ukrainian SSR in 1939 and 1945. To use your rhetoric, why are you so obsessed with killing to preserve borders set by a Soviet Communist dictator?

    Same question about the crimea, which as you well know was arbitrarily moved from the Russian SSR to the Ukrainian SSR by another non-Russian Soviet Communist dictator. Neither the ethnic-Georgian dictator nor the Ukrainian dictator consulted the people living on those territories or the rest of the Russian or Soviet populations.

  267. @Irish Savant

    As I have often noted, “fascist” and “Nazi” are tossed around without regard to what the “real” ones were. Fascists and Nazis opposed usury, introduced (and enforced) higher employment standards, and generally improved the lives of citizens. They were also opposed to immigration while there were unemployed. How have any of the so-called “fascist” or “Nazi” regimes, whether in Ukraine or any of the (((Western liberal democracies))), done that? How can any group consorting with the tribe whose name must not be spoken be a “Nazi”?
    They aren’t my preferences for a political ideology, but what existing one does? Even the old National Front had issues.
    If there was any doubt about who “owns” the ZOG of Ukraine, this might help to clarify.
    https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/leaked-report-israel-acknowledges-jews-in-fact-khazars-secret-plan-for-reverse-migration-to-ukraine/

  268. R2b says:

    Rus was founded by Scandinavians, Vikings.
    They crushed eventually the Kahzars.
    This is what the war is about.
    And also between different Christian lines.
    The Uniate should be downplayed, and the Russian Ortodox Church reign.
    The Talmudists are in the Vatican.
    Pray, and hope, this is the true and real thing.
    Otherwise, the millennium is over.

  269. Kali says:
    @RoatanBill

    Yes indeed.

    Speaking of anarchy, I think it was commenter ‘Realist’ who today sharded an exellent analysis of the whole new geopolitical order suddenly manifest in the world.
    https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/02/thomas-luongo/putin-ushers-in-the-new-geopolitical-game-board/

    In it, this paragraph particularly caught my eye: ‘Cutting Russia out of SWIFT would mean the end of the EU as anyone has known it or wishes it could be in the future. It would mean the end of the petrodollar system.’

    And it would mean many millions of deaths throughout Europe and beyond.

    Only Davos trained politicians, whom we all know by name, if not by their sickeningly reptilian actions, could possibly sanction (no pun intended) such a glaringly barbarric, genocidal and self-destructive(!) collapse of the world economy.

    And this is where the players of this diabolical game of “it’s the economy stupid”-World Dominance, reveal their weakness: They cannot aford to pull the plug to their source of power -Swift.

    Of course from the perspective of those who understand, from every perspective, a sudden collapse of the Swift exchange mechanism would devestate, not only our enemies, but also ourselves. (A ‘Sampson Option’ on steroids). That would be the cyber attack to end all cyber attacks!

    But that in no way means that the evil fuckers behind this “Catch 22 Economy” can never lose the game… As more and more and more of us, we lowly peasants of the land, stop playing their fucking evil game, and become the caretakers of … well, everything, including ourselves and our children and the spaces we inhabit, the less power it has to weild.

    And we win, as we establish a new paradigm of mutally beneficial cooperation with our friends and neighbours, under the guidance of those who have been paying attention and have made preparations for our independance.

    As you may know from previous comments, RoatanBill (hello!), like so many others, I accept the jurisdiction of none but myself, under God and Natural Law.

    Currently I think it’s fair to say that, what passes for “Law” in the west is up for review, as the truth of the fraud, filth and corruption inherrent in the entire system stands front and centre, for all conscious, sentient men and women to see. They have shown themselves to us. The jig is up. Now we each get to decide for ourselves how we wish to conduct ourselves in our own lives.

    In cooperation with one another we (conscious/sentient) can easily devise the methofs by which our needs will be met. As long as we keep our ego’s out of it and work together for the good of each one. Those of us paying attention for the last several uears have amassed a great deal of knowledge, and many of us have massed plenty of practical experience in many various fields too.

    Like Vladimir Putin, we are in such a strong possition right now, if only we use it.

    The “West” along with its vile “jurisdiction” is finished. Time for the conscious and sentient amongst us to write a more “whole-sum” narrative and re-write the future.

    The way is not easy, but many of us were born for this.

    Fond regards, Bill,
    Kali.

  270. @Been_there_done_that

    FDR and Churchill agreed with Stalin that the slice of East Prussia would go to Russia. So what was illegal about that action?

    • Replies: @Been_there_done_that
  271. @Derer

    That is true about the installed Western figurehead (both of them in sequence) which proves the Ukrainian government prior to Western involvement was already corruptable. Ukraine is slightly less corrupt than Russia itself, and Russia has been purged(?) of Western involvement.

    https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/most-corrupt-countries

    I trust Western governmental leaders as much as Eastern ones. Both have their dirty methods. I do favour Western ideologies of Liberty over Eastern ideologies. Historically in the modern era, most naturalized Easterners have sought to escape Eastern countries and not vice versa.

  272. @RadicalCenter

    Good job. Very well stated and altogether incisive.

  273. @dogbumbreath

    The Bloody Quean runs Canada (all Crown Lands are hers in Canuckistan) through her appointed stooge Governor General.

    • Replies: @dogbumbreath
  274. @Michael Korn

    Agree. And the whole interview was quite enlightening.

  275. @Kali

    I read that article this morning. I visit LewRockwell first thing every morning and the next stop is TUR.

    The world needs more people with your attitude and clear thinking ability. The masses never get to where you are because they believe in obeying the “law” without ever thinking about their slave status in a system that is constantly undermining their survival. The majority of the US adult population voted in the last (s)election to prove they haven’t a clue as to how the world actually works.

    The bulk of the population thinks the US military personnel are to be thanked. They back the blue. If they had any sense, they’d realize that those two institutions are nothing but the instruments that prevent them from reaching their full potential as sovereign human beings. The gov’t controlling the education system and the media has produced adults with zero critical thinking abilities.

    As economies in Europe and the US worsen due to funny money policies and massive amounts of debt, more and more people are experiencing hardship that’s like the proverbial 2×4 upside the head to wake them up to a stark reality. Before, they were part of a middle class working for a future to raise their families and retire in dignity. Now, lots of those plans are gone forever with more depredations to come, many more.

    I believe I’ll live long enough to see the end of the “United States of America” because it’s in the process of final collapse right now.

    • Replies: @Kali
  276. gatobart says:

    As I said before, the Empire will strike back. The Empire always strikes back. And in the periphery, against some weak spot in the enemy”s armor. Maduro, beware of the ires of March. Stay tuned.

  277. gatobart says:
    @Hum

    Forget about it. Most Canadians dont care about foreign affairs anyway and in elections they usually vote driven by local, provincial or national issues: health care, inflation, salaries, pensions, etc, etc. One of the very few militant groups in Canada are the one million Ukrainians living in the Prairies and Trudeau knows that he needs their backing to have an electoral base evenly distributed all over the country. One of the historical problems Liberals have had in Canada is that their political base rests above all in the East, mainly in Quebec and Ontario. During the Pierre Trudeau years the main complaint in the Prairies was that he was the PM of the East and didn”t represent them. So it is possible that Trudeau son keeps much in mind what he learnt when sitting on his father”s lap during those heady political strategy meetings in Ottawa.

  278. annamaria says:
    @Franz

    A comment on Lang’s site:

    the US is headed more down the fascist path than Russia. Mussolini’s quotes on fascism are worth a read.

    • Agree: Franz
    • Replies: @Franz
  279. Poco says:
    @mulga mumblebrain

    Huntington’s theory is the opposite you brain dead gimp.

    • Replies: @mulga mumblebrain
  280. @emerging majority

    FDR and Churchill agreed with Stalin…back to Russia.

    This is a false assertion, which would explain why you cannot provide any proof.

    These three leaders met in Yalta (Crimea) in February 1945. They could not have referred to Russia but the USSR. The issue of Königsberg was not even on the agenda at that time during the war. This meeting was a few weeks before Roosevelt died, in April of that year, toward the end of the Battle of Königsberg.

    At the Potsdam Agreement in August 1945 the United States and Britain declared that they would support the transfer of that territory at a future peace conference. Such a conference, including a peace treaty, has not yet occurred, hence also not a transfer of sovereignty or title. The territory was merely being provisionally administered by the USSR.

    During the Potsdam Conference the United Nations was being established. The Charter reaffirmed the principle forbidding the acquisition or annexation of territory through war, which went into effect in October 1945 and became binding on the USSR, as a member. The illegality of the ongoing occupation derives from this acknowledged principle.

    The 2+4 agreement on Germany in 1990 left the issue of Königsberg unresolved. Whatever three old men may hypothetically have discussed or agreed in 1945 has no legal bearing on the issue if the details were not enshrined in a treaty. This explains why both Yeltsin and Putin were reported to have discussed the transfer back to Germany.

    • Replies: @emerging majority
  281. Kali says:
    @RoatanBill

    Thanks for your kind wirds, Bill.

    Sadly, however the transition to a new paradigm plays out, it’s certain that those who have never managed to think an independant thought are lost to us (or to themselves, as it goes), and will not survive without their willing collaberation with their slave-masters. But the more we can show the art of critical thinking – by pointing out obvious contradictions a within the Western narrative, hopefully without causing too much cognitive disonance, the more open they will become to that art. – A process made easier for us by the spectacle the rulers of the west are currently making of themselves. == mass-Zombie Apocalypse averted..?

    But many we will have to leave behind as western civilisation, as we currently know it, collapses – state by state, federation by federation, treaty by treaty, death-cult by death-cult…

    In the meantime, as events unfold, the sentient and the conscious can get to work preparing to try and punish evil… amongst other very important things,ike learning how to cooperate and how to solve the food problem without access to supermarks…

    This may prove to be a streep but satisfying learning curve for very, very many of us!

    Right, that’s quite enlugh out of me for the moment! 😉

    Best wishes,
    Kali.

    • Agree: RoatanBill
    • Replies: @RoatanBill
  282. annamaria says:

    The US gift to Ukraine – the Pentagon Bio-weapon labs: http://dilyana.bg/the-pentagon-bio-weapons/

    The US Army regularly produces deadly viruses, bacteria and toxins in direct violation of the UN Convention on the prohibition of Biological Weapons. Hundreds of thousands of unwitting people are systematically exposed to dangerous pathogens and other incurable diseases. Bio-warfare scientists using diplomatic cover test man-made viruses at Pentagon bio laboratories in 25 countries across the world. These US bio-laboratories are funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) under a $ 2.1 billion military program– Cooperative Biological Engagement Program (CBEP), and are located in former Soviet Union countries such as Georgia and Ukraine, the Middle East, South East Asia and Africa.


    US DoD Biolaboratories in Ukraine
    Kyiv – 5, Lvov -3, Odessa – 2, Vinnitsa -1, Ternopil -1 Uzhgorod – 1, Kherson – 1, Kharkiv -1.
    And also 2 (two) biological laboratories in the immediate vicinity of the peninsulas of Crimea and the city of Lugansk!

    – Ukrainian Scientific and Technological Center: http://www.stcu.int/
    – US Department of Defense Threat Reduction Agency (STCU/STCU)
    https://www.dtra.mil/#
    – Embassy: https://ua.usembassy.gov/embassy/kyiv/sections-offices/defense-threat-reduction-office/biological-threat-reduction-program/
    – Information: https://rg.ru/2020/04/24/ssha-priznali-nalichie-na-ukraine-sekretnyh-biologicheskih-laboratorij.html

    • Replies: @mulga mumblebrain
  283. annamaria says:

    The zionized exceptionals are openly fighting Russians on behalf of Ukrainian Neo-Nazis. What else can one expect from a nation that let their countrymen on USSLiberty be killed by Israeli warplanes, without any reprimand from the nation’s government?

    The zionized servants to Bankers:

    Outside and inside Odessa .. US and UK advisors are still present and strong by the look of the weapons and how they are seen being slung. This force seems to be receiving direct real-time support from the US. … The Russian Government has publically stated (reported on Sputnik or RT) that US drones over the Black Sea are assisting forces in and around Odessa.
    The Russian Government also reported that a US drone helped Ukraine coordinate a counterattack against the Russian operation to take Snake Island from Ukraine (the island is now under Russian control).

    When attending Arlington cemetery, how do they celebrate American soldiers fallen during WWII? – With the American flag, the Neo-Nazi flag, or both? Or perhaps with the Israeli flag? Consider that the self-proclaimed Neo-Nazi Azov battalion was supplied with Israel-made rifles…

  284. FKA Max says:
    @PetrOldSack

    “The real start to lay hands upon the global hoaxes and scams is documenting the gamers, their methods, the locations that hold some of the data. Forensic efforts, not references to corrupted insiders and publications. Truth seekers are in war like circumstance. Your efforts is just adding to the clutter.”

    It’s common knowledge that much of Europe’s central bank gold was stored in the U.S., so that in case of a Soviet invasion of western Europe, that gold would not fall into the hands of the Communists. This arrangement was considered to be a Cold War relic by many Europeans and unnecessary, and there was a huge movement in Germany in particular, to repatriate some or even all of their gold back to Germany:

    Germany repatriates $31 billion in gold from Paris and New York
    August 23, 2017
    https://money.cnn.com/2017/08/23/investing/germany-gold-reserves-new-york-paris/index.html
    “In total, 743 tons have been transferred. The project was completed three years ahead of schedule.
    The central bank previously said it was bringing the gold home to help build public “trust and confidence.”
    But it’s also a recognition that times have changed: Germans are no longer worried about preventing their gold reserves from falling under Soviet control — a real fear during the Cold War.
    And the central bank no longer needs to keep gold in Paris as a protective measure that would allow it to quickly exchange international currency in an emergency. Both countries use the euro.”

    But, I’m pretty sure that after the recent events surrounding Ukraine, a majority of Europe’s central bank gold will remain in the U.S., or maybe even some of it will move back to the U.S. It appears that instead of deconstructing the West, recent geopolitical tensions are actually consolidating the West.

    I don’t quite follow/understand most of what you are trying to convey with your comment, but in case you are able to understand German, here a very good video by a German game theorist commenting on recent world events and what different types of game theory strategies could have motivated them; in reference to you commenting on “gamers” and “elite power mongers are a very small group of decision makers”:

    Putins Ukraine-Krieg: Lag die Spieltheorie falsch?
    Feb 26, 2022 by Prof. Dr. Christian Rieck

    • Replies: @DevilAdvocate
    , @Yukon Jack
  285. Notsofast says:
    @emerging majority

    please remember that the bush and the walker (as in geo herbert walker bush) families had banks seized in ww2 for laundering nazi gold, which were then returned to them in the 50’s when the heat was off. this shit goes back a long way.

  286. Notsofast says:
    @emerging majority

    oh yeah, don’t forget that granddaddy bush personally dug up geronimos grave so that the bonesmen (ketchup kerry included) could drink blood from his skull (and they still refuse to return his remains to this day).

  287. Great article…………if it were only true.

    Escobar appears to have gone off on another “fantastic voyage” as he attempts to grab every Russian dick within reach so he can suck on it. What should one do in the face of such extreme sycophancy?

    Answer: cancel Escobar or cancel one’s subscription to this BS rag.

    • Replies: @emerging majority
  288. @Kali

    Kali: An intensely rural area is where I make my home. Lately, I have been writing a column for a local small newspaper (weekly) chain. It’s featured a couple of essays under the headline of “Thought for Food”.

    Just this evening I watched a video by iceagefarmer.com. His 22 minutes focused on the 3 merchant ships hit by missiles in the Black Sea. The war has shut down all of Ukraine’s grain exports and much of Russia’s. Plus, Russia is the world’s #1 fertilizer and ammonia producer and this source is now on sanctions from the Cabal. India faces possible/probable starvation of millions. Brazilian agriculture is freaking out with their lack of fertilizer. American corn producers will need to mostly shift over to soybeans.

    Now I have come to understand Klaus $chwab’s “own nothing and be happy” meme on behalf of the trillionaires who set up the WEF. Add massive food shortages to millions dying from the mRNA jabs and you have the response to the Georgia Guidestones and their push to reduce the planetary population from 7+ billion to a mere 500 million. Genocide on an unbelievable scale…and the beat goes on with mass media—“blame Putin”. What happened was that the Cabal goaded Ukraine to massively bombard Luhansk and Donetsk. This worked out as planned as Mama Bear rushed in to save her two cubs. Now, worldwide disaster looms.

    All day I’ve been following events and e.m.ing and phoning friends in the area to take food issues absolutely seriously. Rural areas can possibly survive. As for the urban masses—possible if they can afford the prices, as supermarket shelves steadily thin out. Currently, the theme on which my efforts are invested: Think globally and act locally. It may be our only hope.

    • Agree: Kali
    • Replies: @Yukon Jack
    , @Kali
  289. @Major Rage

    Good riddance to bad rubbish. You strike me as a Boobtoob Noose addict, thus terminally deluded.

    • Replies: @Major Rage
  290. @MLK

    It is so comical to read people who think Putin actually liked or was friendly with Trump. The thing Putin liked about Trump was it was so easy to fool and manipulate him just by stroking his ego a little bit. Putin’s intellect is many levels above Trump. He has no real friendship with him. Putin decided to go this route 20 years ago with the SCO and BRICS. Trump also pulled out of Open Skies and the Intermediate Range Missle treaties… Two other things Putin told the US was a bad idea. You are simply dreaming.

    • Replies: @Wokechoke
  291. @Been_there_done_that

    The U$$A occupation of Germany was also provisional, yet it remains ever since May 8, 1945. GERMANY IS AN OCCUPIED COUNTRY. The U$$A and Perfidious Albion have refused to sign a peace treaty in almost 77 years. You remind me about a little statement made roughly 2,000 years ago, slightly paraphrased: “Don’t be concerned about a speck (of East Prussia) in someone else’s eye when you have a log in your own.”

    You are a pedantic fool.

    • Replies: @Been_there_done_that
  292. @Jiminy

    “On the news I saw men saying goodbye to their families as they left to fight. Whatever happened to anything you can do, I can do better. Why aren’t the women going off to fight in this modern world, leaving the men behind to look after the kids?”

    I thought about that too…. Won’t the woke crowd be upset that women aren’t being allowed to stay and defend?? Every other garbage movie out of Hollywood now is about female heroes and villains … It will be a shocker for them to find out it’s not true.

  293. @Kali

    Outstanding comment and I stand in awe. Please keep commenting Kali!

    • Replies: @Kali
  294. @FKA Max

    Thanks for the video link, I cannot understand german but auto-translate is good enough.

    I enjoyed particularly the point where Prof.Rieck states the possibility of Putin’s Ukraine action to be part of a more global strategy where Russia and China are acting together to create the ideal moment for Taiwan’s annexation by China.
    This would be, IMO, a genius strike over the US hegemony which, after being throwed in disarray by one sudden invasion, and being unable to effectively counter it, suffers another full blow in a different front.
    If this really happens in the next few days or weeks, I suppose the new alliance would emerge quite consolidated in the eyes of the world, and certainly feared because it shows a determination and capability to act in a way that was unthinkable until now.

    • Replies: @FKA Max
  295. @anon

    You are correct… But for those people race is all that matters… Their goal is for the white man to unite against the Yellow Peril. They can’t understand why Russia and Serbs (and even Hungarians) don’t want to participate in their racial dominance scheme.

  296. @emerging majority

    What happened was that the Cabal goaded Ukraine to massively bombard Luhansk and Donetsk. This worked out as planned as Mama Bear rushed in to save her two cubs. Now, worldwide disaster looms.

    Exactly. Just look at how the Russian stock market crashed, and then imagine that contagion spreading. (https://bigcharts.marketwatch.com enter RU:RTS)

    https://danericselliottwaves.org/2022/02/elliott-wave-update-25-feb-2022

    Yanking Russia out of SWIFT may go down in the history books as the key event that unraveled and ended the modern financial system.

    S&P cuts Russia’s rating to junk, Moody’s issues junk warning

    Feb 25 (Reuters) – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine triggered a flurry of credit rating moves on Friday, with S&P lowering Russia’s rating to ‘junk’ status, Moody’s putting it on review for a downgrade to junk, and S&P and Fitch swiftly cutting Ukraine on default worries.

    All bonds of all states are junk – no government has any ability or intention to repay their debt – once you consider that when the great unwind cometh all bonds become instantly unpayable. This IMO was inevitable, and now with Russia in Ukraine they haveth their scapegoat why the system crashed. You don’t have to be a Nostradamus to know 450 trillion of debt is unpayable without exponential growth. In depressions growth turns negative and bonds become worthless.

    • Replies: @dogbumbreath
  297. @annamaria

    Perfect Imperial Orwellianism-‘Defence Threat Reduction’=bio-warfare research and war preparation.

  298. @Poco

    You appear to have Huntington’s Disease, bozo.

  299. @FKA Max

    Read between the lines and the post-script, Max. The Empire that Huntington faithfully served does not do ‘peaceful co-existence’. All others civilizations must either Westernise, or just submit to the Exceptional Empire. The USA NEVER exported ‘democracy’-it imposes subservience, but now it can no longer due to massive over-stretch. The End of History has ended.

    • Replies: @FKA Max
  300. @emerging majority

    GERMANY IS AN OCCUPIED COUNTRY.

    This does not contradict any previous claims I have made at this web site and simply restates what must be inferred from the message you responded to. A few weeks ago I even pointed out in a different thread that it was allegedly scheduled to last for 99 years. Your use of capitalized letters even makes it appear as if this were some kind of bold revelation for you.

    The UK, France, Spain, and the Netherlands are also under de facto occupation due to the US military bases located there, in part to control the airspace, but your muddy mind apparently cannot distinguish between an involuntary and hostile occupation with no self-determination, including even territorial annexation (for instance, in the West Bank and all of Jerusalem) versus a consensual or cooperative occupation with intact and internationally recognized sovereignty for the host countries to regulate their own political affairs, hence without any territorial claims.

    You are a pedantic fool.

    Your gratuitous name-calling, once again, is always a sure signal to readers that you are frustrated by not having been able to contradict me on the facts and therefore, out of intellectual weakness, feel a reflexive urge to distract from this by putting on a theatrical show of pomposity.

    • Replies: @emerging majority
  301. @emerging majority

    The Bloody Quean runs Canada (all Crown Lands are hers in Canuckistan) through her appointed stooge Governor General.

    Yes Queen is head of Monarchy…but from memory, the BNA act was written to imply Queen Victoria (died 1901) as monarch and not the current monarch (Queen Elizabeth).

    Anyway, the Queen needs permission to enter “The City of London”, so by default, I would say the Governor General of Canada serves the Queen in the UK and the Queen in the UK serves “Private International Finance” (City of London).

  302. Kali says:
    @emerging majority

    Good morning E.M. and thank you for your fine comment.

    For some time now I’ve commented (some may say “ranted”) about the importance of putting food in the ground/food independance.

    Any dependance on “the economy stupid” (TES) for lifes essentials at this point in history spells death or enslavement/immiseration. But for those brave souls located within the metropolis who are willing to step out of their “comfort-zones” (oh the irony) and buck the cultural impositions of western ZOG, a window of oportunity still exists to impliment changes to their economic well-being in cooperation with like-minded friends and nieghbours.

    Did you ever see a documentary film called The Power of Community? It details steps taken by urban communities within Cuba after that country was cut off from global markets/TES. Food was planted and cultivated in every availabke space: gardens, parks, verges, balconies, etc, and trade and exchange markets and networks were established, along with local currencies (LETS).
    Initially there were issues with urban gangs steeling and robbing from the comnunities, but over time the members of those gangs were convinced of the wisdom of cooperative systems benefiting the whole community, and their efforts turned to supporting and working with their communities… all to the benefit of urban Cuba.

    Although the situation faced by city-dwellers in western nations today is somewhat different, and although “TES” has managed to atomize and isolate many, that process is far from complete, so that those of vission and foresight may yet initiate similar “cooperative comnunities” solutions in their own neighbourhoods. Initially they may need to be somewhat more circumspect, given the effectiveness of the mass-formation/zombiefication of far too many, but given the rapidly changing geo-political situation, even the zombie-appocalypse may be averted by such actions.

    Personally I’d prefer communities abandon the concept of money (replacement for trust and faith) all together, particularly amongst themselves, as time goes by and we are all cut off from “TES” , but that’s not my decission to make.

    Anyway, the point is that with intelligent action, community interaction and wise cooperation, even those trapped in urban centres may survive the impossition of the (undoubtedly Davos) Georgia guidestones “prophecy”, and to evolve beyond the constraints of TES and the Talmudic “money-lenders”.

    Though I currently live in rural Portugal I was born and spent most of my life in the city of Liverpool. Should Divine Grace ever lead me home again you can bet I’d be taking my enxada (sp.? – digging tool) with me and posting fliers through the letter boxes of my neighbours as soon as I landed!

    Very best wishes, Emerging Majority,
    Kali.

  303. Kali says:
    @Yukon Jack

    Wow! I am humbled. Thank you so much for your kind words!

    Love,
    Kali.

  304. @Johnny F. Ive

    So you are saying it is false that the Ukrainian nationalists were still shelling and attacking Donbass?
    And why would he directly attack a NATO country?? What would be the point of that? Putin is not a cowboy… Even though the western press is calling him a mad man. Putin is very calculating.

  305. @Yukon Jack

    1) Guam was never Chinese territory so China has no desire to have it… Taiwan is not about imperialism but about restoring China before it was invaded by that 8 Nation Alliance 2) it would be a waste of time and manpower. US bases in Japan and South Korea are far more of a threat. China is not a weak country that can’t target US refueling tankers… Most planes taking off from Guam if they wanted to launch cruise missiles at China would need to refuel. A large target for PL-15 or HQ9/10 missiles on planes and ships respectively – which have long ranges. It’s ballistic missiles can hit Guam already from the Mainland. It makes no sense whatsoever to take Guam. God forbid that there be a direct fight over Taiwan… but at most what would happen is the people of Guam get their territory back by the US voluntarily giving it up as a liability and no longer an asset. 3)see #1 again It’s true that China probably regrets retreating in 1962 after beating India – and calling for negotiations over South Tibet/Arunchal Pradesh… But they did so because they didn’t want to be seen as imperialists. But again – that region is considered Chinese territory.. Guam never was.

  306. @Kali

    I instantly thought of you when I viewed this:

    • Replies: @Kali
  307. antibeast says:
    @Yukon Jack

    So it is logical that China may take Taiwan as a chess piece while the US and NATO are spinning their wheels in the mud outside of Ukraine. Once Taiwan falls, Guam is next on China’s shopping list. There is no way Guam can stand as US naval and air base if China is going to expand as a major military power. Guam is a major pivot point to project power in the Pacific.

    China does need Guam to project power in the Pacific because its East Coast has direct access to the East China Sea. In fact, those remote islands in the Pacific are hard to defend and difficult to supply as proven during WWII when the Japanese either lost to the Americans or starved to death in those remote islands. And that was before the advent of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers or submarines which don’t require fuel depots in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Their only practical use today is to serve as R&R stops for the US Navy personnel.

    From Guam, bombers can reach Australia, Philippines, SE Asia, and North Korea – and all those nations are about to be swallowed by China and it’s sphere of influence.

    Hypersonic missiles have made bombers obsolete.

    • Agree: showmethereal
  308. Great column, but the Russian air and artillery strikes fell far short of ‘Shock and Awe’. Shock and Awe is be seen, be felt, be overwhelming and terrifying, and happens before the main troops even enter theatre.

    Despite years of experienced reporting on war, Escobar is like most firebrands of the real left; long on enthusiasm and short on practical acumen that even the most couched of armchair warriors would have.

    There was never any reported buildup of Russian air power for a Shock and Awe campaign.

    The West would never fail to notice and hype this, so it appears Russia went with what was on the shelf at the nearest air bases.

    Entering an informal NATO country without Shock and Awe, isn’t efficient.

    The Russian air and artillery campaign in Syria was ‘Shock and Awe’. They took out everything worth taking out and more over a matter of weeks. Almost the entire material capacity of the Islamic State to fight was destroyed.

    Ukraine, would have taken far less; maybe a week of overwhelming air power expression to take out command, control and logistics capacity in depth, with pauses to track activity to more hidden redoubts and caches. Russia had years to prepare, but so did Ukraine and NATO.

    The Russian air and artillery campaign in Ukraine, lasted only hours. There appeared to be nothing more than the usual air support measures taken ahead of an infantry advance, restricted to immediately relevant tactical targets, plus removing big-ticket items like the air force and navy.

    Going soft on Ukraine just allowed neo-Nazi extremists to do what the IS, did only with more time – move troops and materiale into civilian areas and dig in. Meanwhile, UA conscripts fear Azov and Right Sector more than the Russians.

    By holding back on real Shock and Awe, Russia made the war a lot more costly for themselves and the Ukrainians.

    Realistically, Putin should have just left NATO hanging on war, not pounced on a rhetorical threat of a nuclear Ukraine. At least until they had more air power positioned, and the visibility of this might have strengthened their negotiating hand and prevented war.

  309. Corvinus says:
    @RadicalCenter

    “I don’t pray for sovereign Ukraine if that means a country that will help the US encircle Russia by putting tanks, troops and missiles right up on Russia’s borders and near its two most significant cities.“

    That’s always been that way for obvious reasons that are bearing out today. Furthermore, that is ultimately Ukraine’s decision to decide how to best protect its own interests.

    “That’s needless belligerence and no country with the power to stop such a nearby threat would be wise to sit and wait to be surrounded and invaded, which is what the US and “uk” intend”

    Your perception is other than reality. The U.S. and UK are not going to send in troops to Russia, face global condemnation for that action, as week as risk WW3.

    “And we can all pray that (1) the US government stops lying”

    To use your rhetoric, why are you so obsessed with killing to preserve borders set by a Soviet Communist dictator

    As well as Putin. But that’s geo politics in a nutshell.

    “As for Putin, I would find it easy to believe that he is roughly as corrupt as the rulers of the US, though I don’t know with confidence”

    Them you are being willfully ignorant.

    “how about letting people in the farther-western oblasts of the ukraine vote in a referendum about their future”

    How about letting the Ukraine decide rather than be bullied by Russia regarding their own internal affairs? Russia is pulling the same stunts as the U.S. in the past, yet you give mother Russia a free pass.

    “To use your rhetoric, why are you so obsessed with killing to preserve borders set by a Soviet Communist dictator”

    The borders have been recently drawn by free peoples, not Stalin. Why are you obsessed with Russia using bloody coercion to interfere with the business of their neighbor?

    • Replies: @Wokechoke
  310. @Yukon Jack

    S&P cuts Russia’s rating to junk, Moody’s issues junk warning

    Feb 25 (Reuters) – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine triggered a flurry of credit rating moves on Friday, with S&P lowering Russia’s rating to ‘junk’ status, Moody’s putting it on review for a downgrade to junk, and S&P and Fitch swiftly cutting Ukraine on default worries.

    Westerners have been under mass hypnosis. Always bitching about China’s “trustworthy system” aka (social credit) when ALL Westerners have had the same system in place for years….albeit not digital under one platform. Try leasing a car, they check your credit history. Apply for a credit card, they check your credit history. Apply for a job, they check your criminal record. Apply for an apartment, they check your credit and employment history. And now, if the Gorilla on the block (S&P, Moody’s, Fitch) doesn’t approve of your behavior (i.e. Putin), they downgrade your company or country.

  311. Kali says:
    @RoatanBill

    In a nutshell, Bill, that’s about the size of it. Thank you very much for the thought.

    Much love,
    Kali.

  312. FKA Max says:
    @DevilAdvocate

    “Thanks for the video link, I cannot understand german but auto-translate is good enough.”

    You are very welcome and great that you were able to translate/understand it, DA!

    I attended a German-American School http://www.gaspa-ca.org/ in the late 1990s and have some family in Germany, and that’s why I can understand it and speak it fairly well. I like to watch German Youtube content, so I keep my German language skills and German/European political knowledge up to speed/date.

    Yes, a possible Ukraine distraction/diversion in order to invade/annex Taiwan is an interesting scenario to ponder.

    But, I believe China prefers infiltration over invasion in regards to Taiwan, but it’s a possibility:

    Chinese spies have penetrated Taiwan’s military
    Filed Dec. 20, 2021
    https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/taiwan-china-espionage/
    “The repeated cases of the most senior level of Taiwan armed forces officers being convicted of espionage has got to have a psychological effect on the officer corps and in the ranks.”

    What I found the most interesting point he made is that the U.S. intelligence community (mostly CIA and NSA) used the Ukraine crisis to rehabilitate its severely damaged image and reputation (mostly due to Iraq WMDs and Snowden) among the U.S.’s European allies. As Prof. Rieck put it, I’m paraphrasing, Europeans have to start trusting U.S. intelligence assessments more again after they correctly predicted Putin’s Ukraine moves, which the Europeans, especially the Germans, had been very skeptical of for the last almost 20 years.

    German intelligence (BND) got Putin’s intentions embarrassingly wrong:

    Embarrassment as head of German intelligence trapped in Ukraine after failing to foresee invasion
    26 February 2022
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/02/26/embarrassment-head-german-intelligence-trapped-ukraine-failing/
    “Bruno Kahl, head of the BND, had to be rescued by his own agents after travelling to Kyiv before Russians attacked”

    Former CIA Deputy Director Apologizes for Flawed Iraq War Intel
    Jun 25, 2015

    • Replies: @DevilAdvocate
  313. Wokechoke says:
    @Corvinus

    Russia will occupy the landbridge to Crimea. North side of the Black Sea is all his at this point.

  314. FKA Max says:
    @mulga mumblebrain

    “The End of History has ended.”

    Agreed.

    “The End of History” or the “Unipolar Moment” has most decidedly ended, if it ever really existed in the first place, and wasn’t just a delusion (of grandeur).

    “However, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, much debate on future world politics arose. Mearsheimer predicted a multipolar system as it was in the 1930s (Welsh 2013). Fukuyama foresaw a spread of liberal democracies throughout the world and Huntington presented his self-fulfilling prophecy, namely the “clash of civilizations” (Korany in Fawcett 2005: p. 61). He argued that international politics would now be centered by the interplay of West and non-Western civilizations and thus lead to conflict. In contrast to these assumptions and theories, Krauthammer developed a theory which he called the unipolar moment. He argued that the United States emerged as the only great power from the Cold War and were not part of a new unipolar international system (Varisco 2013). Especially when looking at US foreign policy in West Asia and North Africa, it becomes clear that Krauthammer’s theory has had a huge impact.
    […]
    All in all, Krauthammer’s ‘unipolar moment’ never existed. It was rather a US-led political order in an interconnected globalized world (Ikenberry 2004: p. 154). Therefore, it was not US unipolarity which impacted West Asia and North Africa but an interplay of the US, its allies and – in the contemporary world system – its opponents.” – https://www.e-ir.info/2015/09/13/the-impact-of-the-unipolar-moment-on-us-foreign-policies-in-the-mid-east/ or https://archive.ph/wip/4s9bD

  315. @FKA Max

    Yes, a possible Ukraine distraction/diversion in order to invade/annex Taiwan is an interesting scenario to ponder.
    But, I believe China prefers infiltration over invasion in regards to Taiwan, but it’s a possibility:

    The second statement does not go against the first, IMO. But rather reinforces it. I would see this infiltration as “paving the way” for the annexation process, to oil it in a way that does not causes too much resistance. After all, Taiwan people are essentially chinese, ethnically and linguistically.

    Europeans have to start trusting U.S. intelligence assessments more again after they correctly predicted Putin’s Ukraine moves

    I still don’t know what to make of all this intelligence, and the way how so many people, very knowledgeable of Russia and Putin, failed so blatantly in their expectations that a full-blown invasion would never occur.

    My take is, we were probably duped by a magistral move from the part of Putin and his Foreign Ministry, creating a full visible intention that at same time was not to be taken really seriously, either from the side of those flaming him, or from those supporting him.
    If the US and NATO really believed Russia would make this move, they would have prepared for it much better, which makes me think they didn’t, and used the “intelligence” rather to stoke their flames and force some kind of negociation to their advantage.

    But instead, it looks this happening blew in the face of everybody, surprising everyone. Except the morons who followed blindly the propaganda, of course, and who are irrelevant.

    • Replies: @FKA Max
  316. @FKA Max

    Good points. Not sure about Russia – but I know in China – the “official” reserves (which yes they do give the number – which is where that percentage comes from) is nowhere even close to what the actual gold the government has. By far China is the top “consumer” of gold and both imports (India second) and mines the most… But that is certainly not all jewelry. A lot of it is “private investors” – who of course when called up will exchange it with the government. Like oil and grain reserves – and nuclear stockpile – the actual gold reserves are a state secret in China. Whatever the west estimates of any – it is much more. Now I’m admittedly guessing – but I would assume the same for Russia under Putin (except the nuclear stockpile – which was indeed transparent until recently). I did hear it is illegal for gov officials to hold assets overseas… So I have a feeling Russia does a similar thing with gold stores not all being regarded as “official”… But again I’m guessing. But I think it’s a high probability.

    https://www.asiafinancial.com/swiss-gold-exports-to-china-rise-as-price-breaches-1900

    But there are many questions about what is really held at the Federal Reserve in NY (and Fort Knox). Lots of questions. And now since what happened with Libya and Venezuela – many countries are realizing not to hold gold in the US or London or affiliates. Even since what South Korea did by freezing Iranian funds – more and more countries will avoid all US allies to store wealth.

  317. @Been_there_done_that

    I don’t know European sentiments… But please explain to me why more don’t want to be neutral like Cyprus or Switzerland or (on paper) Finland..?? Why do they join a gang that they know will increase tensions… I don’t get the logic.

    • Replies: @Been_there_done_that
  318. FKA Max says:
    @DevilAdvocate

    “If the US and NATO really believed Russia would make this move, they would have prepared for it much better, which makes me think they didn’t, and used the “intelligence” rather to stoke their flames and force some kind of [negotiation] to their advantage.

    But instead, it looks this happening blew in the face of everybody, surprising everyone. Except the morons who followed blindly the propaganda, of course, and who are irrelevant.”

    There are people like me and even some members of the “deep state” who are welcoming these developments and are glad that Putin finally “ripped off the Band-Aid”, so to speak.

    Precisely, because we believe Huntington’s “Clash of Civilizations” framework is now inevitable, unless there is a major nuclear war, and will lead, we believe, to more peaceful, less chaotic, slower paced and fairer world affairs. Having to deal with fewer Russian oligarchs and their offspring in NYC, London, Paris, Berlin and in the West in general, is a terrific thing, in my book. Beijing is more than welcome to host them from now on.

    Vladimir Putin’s Clash of Civilizations
    Feb. 26, 2022
    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/26/opinion/vladimir-putin-clash-of-civilizations.html or https://archive.fo/A8Qai
    “In this vision the future is neither liberal world-empire nor a renewed Cold War between competing universalisms. Rather it’s a world divided into some version of what Bruno Maçães has called “civilization-states,” culturally-cohesive great powers that aspire, not to world domination, but to become universes unto themselves — each, perhaps, under its own nuclear umbrella.

    This idea, redolent of Samuel P. Huntington’s arguments in “The Clash of Civilizations” a generation ago, clearly influences many of the world’s rising powers — from the Hindutva ideology of India’s Narendra Modi to the turn against cultural exchange and Western influence in Xi Jinping’s China. Maçães himself hopes a version of civilizationism will reanimate Europe, perhaps with Putin’s adventurism as a catalyst for stronger continental cohesion. And even within the United States you can see the resurgence of economic nationalism and the wars over national identity as a turn toward these kind of civilizational concerns.

    In this light, the invasion of Ukraine looks like civilizationism run amok, a bid to forge by force what the Russian nationalist writer Anatoly Karlin dubs “Russian world” — meaning “a largely self-contained technological civilization, complete with its own IT ecosystem … space program, and technological visions … stretching from Brest to Vladivostok.” The goal is not world revolution or world conquest, in other words, but civilizational self-containment — a unification of “our own history, culture and spiritual space,” as Putin put it in his war speech — with certain erring, straying children dragged unwillingly back home.”

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  319. @showmethereal

    …explain to me why more don’t want to be neutral…

    It is easier to explain why some countries are neutral than why other are not. Some of this is related less to sentiment than historical inertia and geographical circumstances. Like Switzerland, Sweden has been neutral foe a long time, include during two world wars. Yet Sweden, along with Finland, now appear to be on the verge of joining NATO; in any case there are close levels of cooperation.

    Switzerland can afford to be neutral due to its topography, which makes it relatively easy to defend, and Ireland is remote and surrounded by water, as is Malta. Austria is neutral because it was a condition for its independence to end post-war occupation. Generally, being neutral would require a higher level of self-defense to maintain that status. Larger or more populous countries are not neutral because they have been big powers in the past.

    Also, all eastern European countries, which for decades had been under Soviet occupation, joined NATO because the people never wanted to experience such subjugation again. In this context it appears that many pro-Russian commentators posting here may be too narcissistic to understand that Russian imperialist attitudes are widely resented in eastern and central Europe, just as many Jews cannot seem to grasp why they are not liked for displays of chauvinism.

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  320. Franz says:
    @annamaria

    Mussolini’s quotes on fascism are worth a read.

    Amazing.

    When I was reading up on the Antifa people last year, I was shocked to find out how little they know about what they think they are against. Mussolini was “the most respected statesman in Europe” as the 1920s came to an end. Cole Porter cheered him on in popular song. The man had it all… then the wrong people turned against him and that was that.

    Is it how bright Benito was a century ago, or how dumb some people are now?

  321. Wokechoke says:
    @showmethereal

    No. TRUMP could Command 100,000,000 white men to fight anyone anywhere. Biden? You want to die for him? Said no white prole ever.

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  322. MEexpert says:

    World is seeing hypocrisy of the West. Tears are being shed for poor Ukraine. What did Putin do anything different? Are there any worldwide demonstrations against Israel? Are there any sanctions against Israel, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, the US, and the UK? Are there any fundraisers for the victims of Yemen war or the Palestinians? Are there any condemnations in the United Nations against these countries? Did the FIFA expel the Israelis, the Saudis, the Emiratis, the British, and the Americans? Did the IOC deny any of these countries the right to hold Olympics?

    The difference? Supposed victims are white Europeans and the aggressor is the hated Putin. International coalition of Christians and Jews are in a constant fund raising mode for the never ending victims of holocaust and now the jews in Ukraine.

    Is Putin any worse than G. W. Bush, Obama, Trump, or Biden or Netanyahu, Begin or Shamir or Muhammad bin Salman?

    G.W. Bush invaded Afghanistan and Iraq. Obama chose to one up Bush by invading Libya and Syria. Hardly neighbors. Bush had Saddam hunted down and killed. Obama did the same to Kaddafi. Obama had an American citizen killed in Yemen. Clinton and Trump fired missiles in Sudan, Afghanistan and Iraq. Trump assassinated Suleimani and Mohandes in Iraq. Israel killed many Irani scientists for target practice. Muhammad bin Salman is causing genocide in Yemen.

    Putin took out a page from Obama’s book. R2P. Responsibility to Protect. So why is he a criminal? At least he is protecting his brethren and neighbors, the Russians in Donbas who were under attack.
    Does the US have any moral right to sit in judgment on Putin?

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  323. @Been_there_done_that

    Though I don’t know European feelings I can read history and I know France once pulled itself out of NATO… As to Eastern Europe – I can understand not wanting to be bullied… But just like growing up – joining a gang is not the best way because gangs by nature end up in fights. Especially after seeing NATO attack Yugoslavia – they should have realized they would be inviting more danger. Is Putin imperialistic??? Or does he simply not want US (NATO really is run by the US) weapons near striking distance of his country??? If that is not so – the Why was the US so nervous when Russian bombers went to Venezuela a few years ago….???

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  324. @emerging majority

    Don’t talk about my rubbish and I won’t talk about your sister. GFY little man.

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  325. @Been_there_done_that

    Done, Dear: “Bold Revelation” indeed. As a techno-neophyte, I don’t set up to do boldface, so Caps will have to do. You make mountains outta molehills. Typical for an intellectual snob.

    As you are highly pedantic relative to “international law”, your deliberate conflation of the de facto occupation, as you call it of France, Spain and the Netherlands, is simply NOT in the same league as occupation of a former enemy of nearly 77 years into the mists of the past and refusal to grant the German government a simple peace treaty is ipso facto a matter of de jure occupation.

    When it comes to your charge of “gratuitous name-calling”, call it what you like but if the shoe fits, you have earned the distinction of being obliged to wear it. “Pomposity”. Again you are projecting quite perfectly. Your own pomposity even puts to shame the former CIA-head and the imposed upon the obliging Trump, his Secretary of $tate, Pompeo. Birds of a feather, I guess.

    So does $tate cut your paycheck, or is it one of the intel agencies.? Obviously you are too much of an intellectual ilk to be a simple media-mesmerized moron.

  326. @Major Rage

    Ooh. Major rage from a teenage page, posting from Mama’s basement. Get back to your game-board, junior.

  327. @showmethereal

    Is Putin imperialistic???

    Yes, most definitely! This became evident almost exactly four years ago, on Friday, March 2, 2018, toward the end of a very long interview with Putin, before an audience in the illegally occupied Königsberg / Kaliningrad region, a few weeks before his re-election. A few years ago (check my archive here) I even provided a link to a translated video of that event, including the time where one could find it. Here is a brief summary of what he said during that noteworthy passage:

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-election-putin/putin-before-vote-says-hed-reverse-soviet-collapse-if-he-could-agencies-idUSKCN1GE2TF

    March 2, 2018 – Reuters

    Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday he would reverse the collapse of the Soviet Union if he had a chance to alter modern Russian history, news agencies reported.

    The pronouncement came in response to a leading question by the moderator, so it appears this message was planned in advance, as a memorable crescendo to what was essentially a boring and lame event, which included asinine questions from the audience and Putin talking with hand motions about about how he chops his salad when preparing his meal. It was a surprising and newsworthy statement, and it is likely that he intended to announce it in that particular city.

    He was given the chance in part through weakness in Western governmental leadership (Biden, Scholz, Macron), including the fact that currently the defense ministries in roughly a dozen Western countries are headed by female politicians with no military experience, ideological degeneration, societal fracturing in wake of the “Great Reset” project, coerced toxic gene therapy inoculations, and so on. So he decided to take advantage of this perceived opportunity, as he stated four years ago.

    The military attack that began last week is intended to be the beginning of a long progression. In July of last year Putin provided a long, subjective history lesson mixed with political agitation propaganda to prepare the general framework for his imperialistic and nostalgic endeavor. Here is a link to the English version from the Kremlin web site:

    http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181

    Article by Vladimir Putin ”On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians“

    Putin wants to take Russian society back to the 19th century, when it was more relevant in world affairs than it is now. I think that this is may be a psychological mechanism to compensate for low self-esteem, which is surely shared by many millions of Russians. At the very latest during the past few days people should have figured out that they had been monumentally deceived by shameless lies. Remember Lavrov’s recent assertion “Nobody is planning an attack against Ukraine“? Why then are so many people still willing to be lied to again, even now? It is another cult phenomenon.

    Or does he simply not want US (NATO really is run by the US) weapons near striking distance of his country???

    That is the false narrative that was planted as propaganda and continues to be repeated, endlessly. It is especially hypocritical in light of Russian missiles threatening Europe in the Königsberg / Kaliningrad region, mentioned above. The key word in your quote is “simply“, as in superficially simplistic, to emotionally appeal to the lowest possible denominator of credulity. The underlying chauvinism is spectacular: It is unacceptable for a few million Russians to be threatened by missiles but it is no big deal for hundreds of millions of Europeans to be be threatened by Russian missiles located outside of its territory in Königsberg / Kaliningrad. The big difference is also that while NATO does not intend to invade Russia, Putin has unambiguously threatened Europe to bring about his imperial ambition.

    Why was the US so nervous when Russian bombers went to Venezuela a few years ago….???

    I do not know if anybody was really nervous about this, except maybe Venezuelans.

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  328. PeLe says:
    @Shpalone

    The dirty Ruskis, the dirty Chinaman, the coons, the dotheads, the niggers, the gooks, the reds, the kikes, the towelheads, the slopes, da dis, da dat. Grow up and change ya damn underwear fool. Predictably, you’ll be the last know that it’s AMERICA which is finished. It destroyed itself from within. But hey, you like Kool-Aid? Drink up!

  329. @MEexpert

    Agree. But

    World is seeing hypocrisy of the West.

    Not sure to what extent the general public sees this or is taken in by Western propaganda. Probably in countries which have been victims of the West, USA, NATO, EU

  330. @FKA Max

    and will lead, we believe, to more peaceful, less chaotic, slower paced and fairer world affairs.

    a world divided into some version of what Bruno Maçães has called “civilization-states,” culturally-cohesive great powers that aspire, not to world domination, but to become universes unto themselves

    That is an idea I fully subscribe.
    It is probably a bit similar to the basis of EU creation, except they had 2 significant problems from the start:
    1- They were too small to aggregate a real force within each state, and never knew to really unify
    2- they were overshadowed by a much more large power (the US)

    But nations of the size of China, with its multimillion productive population, Russia with is large land and resources, and India maybe, or some sort of south Asia aggregation of states, could well be good candidates to these civilization-states.
    Europe could be also one of them, if they shake the crippling US domination from their backs and start taking seriously the matter on their hands. By themselves or together with Russia (better).

    each, perhaps, under its own nuclear umbrella.

    This is unfortunately a must today.
    But perhaps, after every part on Earth has formed his own civilization-state, and getting minimally developed, a coordinated full nuclear weapon disarming may take place globally.

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  331. FKA Max says:
    @DevilAdvocate

    “Europe could be also one of them, if they shake the crippling US domination from their backs and start taking seriously the matter on their hands. By themselves or together with Russia (better).”

    Nearly as many ethnic Germans live in the U.S. (roughly 45 million) as do in Germany itself (60+ million). Due to this genetic proximity and cultural affinity, Germany would never choose Russia over the U.S. as an ally, and since a unified Germany usually dominates continental European politics, the Western/European/Transatlantic Alliance will always include the U.S. and vice versa Germany, in my opinion and experience.

    [MORE]

    Americans also feel that Germany is the non-Anglo-Saxon country they share most values with. Almost four out of ten people in the U.S. say they have common values with Germans.

    https://www.unz.com/article/who-are-the-alt-right/#comment-2020713

    The reason Russia and Germany actually ever got as close to each other as they did over the last 20+ years until just recently, was to a large extent because Putin is a Germanophile, e.g. he was stationed in Germany, speaks the language (even with his daughters and his ex-wife, I believe): https://www.thearticle.com/first-person-putin-the-rise-of-the-russian-president or https://archive.ph/wip/5cIT8

    Plus, a nuclear-armed Germany would not be ideal, also my opinion. The only way to keep Germany from building up its own nuclear deterrence system, is the U.S. giving Germany security guarantees backed up by its nuclear arsenal:

    I had a brief exchange on this topic last year, and this is also the reason why I’m in favor of NATO and disagree with Trump on cutting American funding, etc. to it, because it pacifies Germany (and Japan), which is necessary to keep Europe, and presumably the world, at peace.

    – June 17, 2018 at 9:06 pm GMT • 3.8 years ago • 300 Words https://www.unz.com/isteve/daily-mail-infiltrates-secret-bilderberg-confab-finds/#comment-2377599

    But some high-ranking German officials have, nevertheless, been advocating for it (the former German Minister of Defence Rupert Scholz, not the current German Chancellor Olaf Scholz):

    Germany may need own nuclear weapons: Scholz
    26 January 2006
    https://www.expatica.com/de/uncategorized/germany-may-need-own-nuclear-weapons-scholz-99433/ or https://archive.ph/kDdpt

    Some more examples of U.S./Anglo-Saxon “deep state” thinking/strategizing/game theorizing in regards to Europe, Germany and world affairs, via Steve Sailer:

    For example, back in the 20th Century, I went to a conference where the most impressive speaker may have been the late General William Odom, who had been Zbig’s head of military intelligence in the Carter Admin, then head of Reagan’s National Security Admin. He gave his theory of the Grand Strategic Interests of the United States: there are only two places in the world that Really Matter in the sense that the world could be ruled from there (instead of, presumably, from North America): northwest Europe (Britain, France, and Germany) and northeast Asia (Japan, Korea, and China). He said that war within either cockpit would be of the gravest concern to the United States, just as it had been in the 1940s.

    But, you’ll notice, it’s not a coincidence that the US stations troops in two of three countries in each trio. That way, any possible war, such as between France and Britain or Japan and Korea would involve at least one country with American bases, which makes such a war unthinkable to local national leaders.

    To this day, I have no idea if Odom was just blowing idiosyncratic smoke, or whether this really was Settled Doctrine of the USG of the kind of fundamentals that you really only hear about if you get invited to a conference with people of this caliber.

    Similarly, General Odom and Mrs. Thatcher got involved in a furious 10 minute argument standing about five feet from me over the events immediately following the collapse of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989 in which West German chancellor Helmut Kohl, with General Odom’s support, absorbed East Germany into a unified Germany, much to the dismay of Mrs. Thatcher, who recalled the power of the last chancellor of a unified Germany.

    In some ways, this was just Deep State oldtimers on the conference circuit rehashing old debates. But it definitely made clear even to a clueless outsider like me that the power of the chancellor of a unified Germany would be a major feature of the upcoming 21st Century, which we have seen.

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  332. @Been_there_done_that

    That’s lot of Kool Aid you drink… It’s not good for the blood stream

  333. A agglutinating signifiers for a drug dealer and a meme, you couldn’t just make the author’s name up even if you tried. Icing on the cake is that it belongs to a dictatorship-loving russophile bro as well and a lover of death and destruction doled out in the name of recreating a 3rd rate empire…

  334. @FKA Max

    Due to this genetic proximity and cultural affinity, Germany would never choose Russia over the U.S. as an ally, and since a unified Germany usually dominates continental European politics, the Western/European/Transatlantic Alliance will always include the U.S. and vice versa Germany, in my opinion and experience.

    But the US has changed a lot since the last decades. Society was corrupted by many factors, specifically racial, behavioural, etc. Is that affinity still valid today ?

    And giving the “oppression” the US subjected Germany since WWII, at economical, militar and strategical level, my impression this is now the time for Germany (and all Europe) start to make the allegiances with those they see more fit for mutual development and cooperation.

    Plus, a nuclear-armed Germany would not be ideal, also my opinion. The only way to keep Germany from building up its own nuclear deterrence system, is the U.S. giving Germany security guarantees backed up by its nuclear arsenal

    But deterrence against whom exactly ?
    Are we still mired in the outdated Cold War view ?

    Nuclear arms are probably still necessary, at least for the larger countries, because of the climate of distrust we habe been accustomed, mainly by responsibility of US external policy.
    But in the longer term, after each large nation fits in their own geostrategical-economical due place, and a more stable complex of inter-state relations are set, I don’t see why not go for a global disarming.
    Meanwhile, Germany would fit better in an European bloc, independent from US and UK.

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  335. A123 says: • Website
    @FKA Max

    The only way to keep Germany from building up its own nuclear deterrence system, is the U.S. giving Germany security guarantees backed up by its nuclear arsenal:

    Germany has access to 20 U.S. B61 nuclear bombs that can be carried on a portion of their multi-role Tornado aircraft. However, that platform is scheduled to be de-certified in 2025. An extension to 2030 is possible but not guaranteed.

    Future plans are muddled. The U.S. faction pushing F35’s has managed to have the anticipated replacement F18’s removed from the approved list (but not officially de-certified). Germany has not expressed interest in the F35 program, and at this late date they probably could not obtain a delivery queue position that would serve as a replacement.

    PEACE 😇

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  336. FKA Max says:
    @A123

    “Germany has access to 20 U.S. B61 nuclear bombs that can be carried on a portion of their multi-role Tornado aircraft. However, that platform is scheduled to be de-certified in 2025. An extension to 2030 is possible but not guaranteed. […] at this late date they probably could not obtain a delivery queue position that would serve as a replacement.”

    Correct, there is another option without Germany having to become an official nuclear power itself…

    France, Chirac and Sarkozky https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/thanks-but-no-thanks-sarko-s-nuke-offer-bombs-with-berlin-a-506124.html , has offered Germany control over part of its nuclear arsenal in the past, similar to the current German nuclear sharing agreement/arrangement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_sharing with the U.S., which would be delivered by Rafale fighter-bombers https://armscontrolcenter.org/fact-sheet-frances-nuclear-arsenal/

    Macron unveils nuclear doctrine, warns EU ‘cannot remain spectators’ in arms race
    Feb 7, 2020

    Is the EU about to build its own army? | DW News
    Jan 5, 2022

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  337. FKA Max says:
    @DevilAdvocate

    “But the US has changed a lot since the last decades. Society was corrupted by many factors, specifically racial, behavioural, etc. Is that affinity still valid today ?”

    Most Germans absolutely love(d) Obama, even though he is not white, but apparently he has some German ancestry. That’s why I mentioned that this is not just about race/genes, but even more so about culture and values.

    “But deterrence against whom exactly ?
    Are we still mired in the outdated Cold War view ?”

    Most definitely against Russia after the recent events in Ukraine and threats from Putin to put Russia’s nuclear forces on alert. I just talked to a relative in Germany, and he was freaked out by Putin’s nuclear threats in recent days. He was somewhat of a “Putin/Russland Versteher”, in favor of Nord Stream 2 and a proponent of Merkel’s “Wandel durch Handel” doctrine and policy with Russia and especially China, but he did a complete 180 on Russia, etc., and dislikes Putin now more than he disliks Trump. And many Germans dislike(d) Trump with a passion, even though he is half-German. Again the affinity seems to be predominately based on a common value system and culture, and not just purely on race. Many German-Americans in the Midwest also voted for Obama, even though they had less close genetic proximity with him than with McCain or Romney. Having had Joe Biden as his running mate in those parts of the country, really helped too though.

    Europe’s Sleeping Giant Awakens
    March 1, 2022
    “Politics in Berlin has undergone a cataclysm that no one saw coming.”
    https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/03/germany-putin-ukraine-invasion/623322/

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  338. The subtitle of this article should be: the Stupendous Strategic Stupidity of the Central States of Europa.

  339. FKA Max says:
    @FKA Max

    “Most Germans absolutely love(d) Obama […] dislikes Putin now more than he dislik[e]s Trump. And many Germans dislike(d) Trump with a passion”

    I believe, Putin’s biggest strategic blunder and miscalculation was/is to move into Ukraine when the U.S. has a President, who is very popular among the three main European NATO allies (Germany, UK, France). Biden is almost as popular and trusted as Obama was. I don’t think sanctions against Russia would have been nearly as effective and collective as they are under Biden’s leadership, with Trump or even Bush 43 in the White House:

    “Whereas Trump’s low marks often resembled the poor ratings received by George W. Bush during his administration, Biden’s reviews are closer to some of the highly positive ones for Obama during his two terms as president.”

    Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2021/01/19/british-french-and-german-publics-give-biden-high-marks-after-u-s-election/ or https://archive.ph/Q6Khd

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  340. A123 says: • Website
    @FKA Max

    I believe, Putin’s biggest strategic blunder and miscalculation was/is to move into Ukraine when the U.S. has a President, who is very popular among the three main European NATO allies (Germany, UK, France).

    Putin chose to act while the U.S. is burdened by an illegitimate White House occupant, despised by the American people. It is hard to see that as a blunder.
    ___

    CNN stacked the deck and still couldn’t deliver a winning hand to Not-The-President Biden. (1)

    There’s no way to sugarcoat it, but CNN’s post-SOTU poll is absolutely awful news for President Joe Biden. Via Aron Goldman of the Argo Journal:

    Biden did enough to address:
    — Inflation — 47%
    — Violent Crime — 46%

    What makes it worse for the president is that the “sample of State of the Union speech watchers was +11 points more Democratic than the American public

    Yep. Below 50% on key issues even with a D+11 bias.
    ___

    The medication ran out a few minutes before the end of the SOTU speech. This produced the closing exhortation “Go Get Him”. Needless to say, no one knows who “Him” is supposed to refer to. (2)

    PEACE 😇
    _____________________________

    (1) https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2022/03/02/didnt-make-the-sale-cnns-d11-post-sotu-poll-is-awful-news-for-joe-biden/

    (2) https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/03/01/final-3-words-of-bidens-state-of-the-union-speech-have-people-guessing/

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  341. @FKA Max

    I believe, Putin’s biggest strategic blunder and miscalculation was/is to move into Ukraine when the U.S. has a President, who is very popular among the three main European NATO allies (Germany, UK, France). Biden is almost as popular and trusted as Obama was.

    Biden’s popularity in US is decreasing by the day.

    Biden’s popularity in Europe (and much less popularity of Trump) is certainly due to the action of MSM in Europe, who is totally subservient to US diktat.

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  342. FKA Max says:
    @DevilAdvocate

    “Biden’s popularity in Europe (and much less popularity of Trump) is certainly due to the action of MSM in Europe, who is totally subservient to US diktat.”

    Yes, it’s a fascinating dynamic, Biden’s popularity in Europe and his unpopularity in the U.S.

    I think the cause of that, is that even conservative MSM in Europe (like “Bild” https://www.bild.de/ in Germany) are always pro-NATO and by extension pro-U.S., no matter whether POTUS is a Democrat or a Republican, whereas here in the U.S. Fox News is never or rarely pro a Democrat POTUS.

    What made Trump so unique and so universally disliked, really despised, among Europeans is that he was, I think correctly, perceived as anti-NATO, i.e. anti-European security, so even European conservatives were against him, despite Trump being zealously pro-Israel, which many of them are also. But NATO has a higher priority among the “deep state” in continental Europe than Israel does (the Israel lobby is much stronger in the UK than in continental Europe, so the EU actually became less pro-Israel after Brexit).

    We were Trump supporters until late December 2019, when he just got too pro-Israel for our taste and started to support Biden from then on out. It was just a couple of weeks before Trump had Qasem Soleimani assassinated, that we switched allegiances. We felt even more strongly about our support for Biden after that assassination, because we considered the Iranians to be vital allies in the war against the Islamic State, that had been terrorizing the European heartland, and we knew that Biden would also likely pull U.S. troops from Afghanistan, which we were also in favor of:

    [MORE]

    In 2020, Biden said he bears “zero responsibility” should Afghanistan fall to Taliban
    https://ne-np.facebook.com/CBSNews/videos/in-2020-biden-said-he-bears-zero-responsibility-should-afghanistan-fall-to-talib/2922139014766869/

    We knew that Biden would be the only Democrat candidate who could beat Trump, so we had to make sure he would win the Democrat primary, i.e. we started an Alt Right meme campaign against Bernie Sanders, who at the time (early 2020) was still supported by Alt Right intellectual heavyweights like Richard Spencer and was the biggest threat to a Biden nomination (I since deleted my Twitter account, that I used back then):

    “Nazis are also on Twitter astroturfing as Biden supporters/harassing Bernie Supporters right now, and I can’t seem to find anyone who cares”
    Source: https://archive.ph/FNkVg

    We were successful with our campaign and strategy and by mid-2020 Richard Spencer had officially declared his support for Biden and we had established/secured a sufficiently big enough faction within the Alt Right to ensure that Biden would have significant support in the white Rust Belt swing states, that Trump had used, with Alt Right support, to beat Hillary Clinton and win the electoral college in 2016:

    The ‘race realist’ theory of how Trump can win, explained
    August 22, 2016
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/08/22/the-race-realist-theory-of-how-trump-can-win-explained/

    Biden appeals both to black voters — and to white voters suspicious of Black Lives Matter
    January 2, 2020
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/01/02/biden-appeals-both-black-voters-white-voters-suspicious-black-lives-matter/

    Richard Spencer Reiterates Support for Biden, Disavows ‘Useless’ and ‘Traitorous’ GOP
    8/25/20
    https://www.newsweek.com/richard-spencer-reiterates-support-biden-disavows-useless-traitorous-gop-1527555

    White Nationalist Richard Spencer Votes for Joe Biden: ‘To Hell With Libertarian Ideology’
    11/3/20
    https://www.newsweek.com/white-nationalist-richard-spencer-votes-joe-biden-hell-libertarian-ideology-1544572

  343. FKA Max says:
    @A123

    “Putin chose to act while the U.S. is burdened by an illegitimate White House occupant, despised by the American people. It is hard to see that as a blunder.”

    As I have been trying to convey, and as some other UR authors have pointed out as well already, e.g. Mike Whitney’s article https://www.unz.com/announcement/super-virality-and-unexploded-intellectual-bombs/ that went super-viral, this never was as much about the U.S. as about continental Europe, and specifically Germany.

    I don’t think Putin expected this number of sanctions and the amount of unity from and in the Western/NATO Alliance, especially with a German SPD Chancellor. He underestimated the popularity of Biden in Germany, probably because Germans had really cooled to the U.S. under Trump, and I believe Putin incorrectly assumed that that was still the case, and that Germany would also be less cooperative with the U.S., due to currently higher inflation and energy prices, etc.

    As General Odom, I believe correctly, posited:

    He gave his theory of the Grand Strategic Interests of the United States: there are only two places in the world that Really Matter in the sense that the world could be ruled from there (instead of, presumably, from North America): northwest Europe (Britain, France, and Germany) and northeast Asia (Japan, Korea, and China).

    https://www.unz.com/isteve/daily-mail-infiltrates-secret-bilderberg-confab-finds/#p_1_4:45-98

    So, in order for the U.S. to be a dominant global power it needs to have a President that is accepted, ideally popular and trusted in “northwest Europe (Britain, France, and Germany).” The way to lose global dominance for the U.S. is to have a President, who is unpopular in that highly geo-strategically important region of the world, even if he/she happens to be very popular domestically in the U.S.

    That is also the reason, why Putin and the Russians probably favored Trump, because they knew that a POTUS who is unpopular in Europe, would give Russia in turn more influence in Europe and specifically in Germany and by extension more power in world affairs, and they are/were right about that, IMHO.

    Analyst says ‘Fortress Russia is gone’ in face of US sanctions • FRANCE 24 English
    Mar 2, 2022

    “The US, EU, and their allies have been announcing measures designed to isolate and weaken the Russian economy. Since 2014, Vladimir Putin has been taking pre-emptive steps to protect the economy from future sanctions. But Brian O’Toole, former US Treasury Official and Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, says that in the face of Western sanctions, “Fortress Russia is gone.””

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  344. A123 says: • Website
    @FKA Max

    this never was as much about the U.S. as about continental Europe

    This was about continental Europe because Putin timed the event to coincide with a moment of maximum American weakness.

    Not-The-President Biden lost the 2020 election and was placed in the White House as a coup leader. Add to that, his rapidly accelerating mental incapacity. The combination prevents America from having sane policies. This impacts everything the illicit regime touches.

    For Example — There is incontrovertible evidence Khamenei abrogated JCPOA1 while Obama-Biden was still in office. What is Not-The-President Biden trying to negotiate? JCPOA2 that will be broken by sociopath Khamenei while his administration is still occupying the White House. A key symptom of Alzheimer’s is the inability to learn.

    specifically Germany.

    Putin catastrophically mis-timed Germany.

    Merkel was a servile East German craving a Return To The Nest. Her failed leadership and submissiveness was everything that Putin could have wanted.

    The new Traffic Light coalition makes Scholz serve the Green Party above all others. NS2 was dead as soon as the Greens acquired veto power. Ukraine is a really handy excuse to stop taking hydrocarbons from Russia. And, a double win for Greta’s Gretins (∆) if other European nations also stop.

    PEACE 😇
    __________

    (∆) Gretin — Proper Noun:
        -i- A faith based, anti-science acolyte of Greta Thunberg.
        -ii- A cretin specifically associated with fake science and global warming mythology.

     

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    , @FKA Max
  345. Wokechoke says:
    @FKA Max

    The US will have trouble fighting Russia if white men in the US are generally feeling alienated from their duly elected President. Biden had to pander to Black people to win the primary and he will have to attack whitey all over again to win in 2024. The martial class in the US is white men with right wing political leanings ages 18-45. That’s possibly why Putin chose this moment. The President is not the natural commander in chief any longer. Biden’s election signalled a war in Ukraine was inevitable.

  346. Wokechoke says:
    @A123

    This really is about Germany. Correct.

  347. FKA Max says:
    @A123

    “Merkel was a servile East German craving a Return To The Nest. Her failed leadership and submissiveness was everything that Putin could have wanted.”

    Agreed. Merkel’s chancellorship was disastrous in so many ways for Germany, and she played a major part in why Germany became to dependent on Russian oil and gas (e.g., rushed decommissioning of German nuclear power plants after Fukushima, etc.), instead of intelligently diversifying its energy supply.

    But Putin really has deep ties, especially emotionally, to Germany. This isn’t just about geopolitical chess and Grand Strategy for him, IMHO. His closest German confidante, Matthias Warnig, arguably saved Putin’s closest family members’ lives twice. Warnig organized and paid for Putin’s then wife (the mother of his two eldest, official daughters) to get life-saving surgery in Germany, after she had suffered life-threatening injuries in a car accident in Russia in 1993:

    “Warnig gilt als enger Vertrauter von Putin; sie begegneten sich spätestens im Januar 1989, als sie gemeinsam an Feierlichkeiten zum 71. Jahrestag der Tscheka teilnahmen.[17] Seit spätestens 1991 sind sie befreundet. Als 1993 Putins damalige Frau Ljudmila Alexandrowna Putina lebensgefährlich verunglückte, sorgte Warnig laut Medienberichten dafür, dass sie in Deutschland operiert werden konnte.[2]” – https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Warnig#Privat or https://web.archive.org/web/20140803214017/https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article130829736/Dieser-Deutsche-geniesst-Putins-Vertrauen.html

    and he hosted and protected the Putins’ daughters in Germany when gang warfare was rampant in early, post-Soviet Russia:

    “Tikhonova was born in Dresden, East Germany, the younger of two daughters of Vladimir Putin and Lyudmila Putina (née Shkrebneva). The family moved to Saint Petersburg in the spring of 1991. Later, during violent gang wars involving the Tambov Gang while it was taking control of St. Petersburg’s energy trade, she and her sister Maria were sent by their father, who feared for their safety, to Germany where their legal guardian was former Stasi Matthias Warnig, who had worked with their father in Dresden as part of a KGB cell and established the Dresdner Bank branch in St. Petersburg.[6] Later, she attended German School Moscow.[7]” – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katerina_Tikhonova#Early_life

    The interesting thing is that Warnig has criticized the path Putin has taken regarding Ukraine, but apparently they are still good friends, and Warnig is one of the few people Putin allows to openly criticize/disagree with him:

    “Nur über Umwege ist zu hören, dass Warnig die Rolle Russlands in der Ukraine durchaus kritisch sieht. “Er ist einer der wenigen, die Putin offen die Meinung sagen.” Dem Verhältnis der beiden Männer zueinander, ihrer Freundschaft, tut das offenbar keinen Abbruch.” – https://web.archive.org/web/20140803214017/https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article130829736/Dieser-Deutsche-geniesst-Putins-Vertrauen.html

    I just watched Putin’s meeting with Russian female pilots and flight attendants today, and he seemed calmer and more collected, and less emotional, than in his previous TV appearances since the start of the Russian military incursion into Ukraine, that started last week:

    Putin meets flight crew members of Russian airlines [TAPE]
    Streamed live 9 hours ago

    Hopefully, he has come a little more to his senses, and talked to or was in some type of communication with Matthias Warnig, so that the situation in Ukraine can be deescalated.

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  348. FKA Max says:
    @FKA Max

    “played a major part in why Germany became to[o] dependent on Russian oil and gas”

    Here a detailed English article about Warnig’s and Putin’s friendship:

    Circles of power: Putin’s secret friendship with ex-Stasi officer
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/13/russia-putin-german-right-hand-man-matthias-warnig
    “One twist of fate soon brought them closer. In 1993 Putin’s then wife Lyudmila had a life-threatening car accident. Warnig was quick to help, and Lyudmila underwent surgery in Germany. Dresdner paid for the expenses.”

    Warnig briefly speaks in the following clip:
    Nord Stream Pipeline Inauguration
    Nov 11, 2011

  349. FKA Max says:
    @FKA Max

    Update:

    Germany plans to buy up to 35 F-35 fighter jets that are certified to deliver the U.S. atomic warheads stored and shared in/with Germany:

    Germany to buy dozens of US fighter jets in spending spree
    14/03/2022
    https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220314-germany-to-buy-dozens-of-us-fighter-jets-in-spending-spree

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