If you ever wondered what it was like to live in the historic time in the aftermath of World War II, when the Cold War started and the United States emerged as the dominant power in the world, wonder no more. You are living in an epochal moment in history. It is fraught with danger, peril and a fundamental realignment of the international order. Gone are the days when the United States could order countries like Saudi Arabia and Qatar to do their bidding like an old Uncle Ben on a Southern plantation.
The United States is on the verge of becoming the Hitler portrayed in the movie, Downfall — issuing orders to imaginary armies no longer capable of carrying out those orders.
I am not suggesting that the United States is on the verge of a collapse akin to what happened to the Third Reich in May 1945, but I do believe that the era of the United States invading other countries at will and overthrowing governments not willing to genuflect at the altar of U.S. power is over. The war in Ukraine has laid bare the weakness of the United States to control the international arena.
The year 2022 will be recorded by future historians as the watershed moment when Russia took the red pill and awoke from its delusion that its could be a partner with the West. Since the break up of the former Soviet Union, Russian leaders — not just Putin — naively believed that they could be accepted as a partner in the World order controlled by the United States. Vladimir Putin, in his speech on December 21, 2022 to the collegium of the Ministry of Defense, blamed himself for believing Western promises and announced that Russia would now rely on itself and deal with the West as a hostile threat. I encourage you to watch the video. While the West tries desperately to portray Putin as a madman, the man speaking is calm, intelligent and coherent. What a contrast with the political dwarfs that populate the United States and Europe.
The covert actions of the United States and Europe to try to destabilize Russia have failed. The coming year, 2023, will witness the end of the unipolar world dominated by the U.S. petro dollar and U.S. military intervention. I am frequently attacked as a Putin sycophant. That is a pernicious lie. I simply believe that Russia is not bluffing and recognize that Russia is one of the few countries in the world that can grow and prosper without whoring itself to the West.
The United States has experienced one existential threat in its history — the Civil War in the 1860s. Ironically, Russia played an important role in preventing the British from intervening in that war to aid the South. Russia, by contrast, has faced centuries of existential threats and always has found a way to meet and defeat those threats, such as Napoleon’s invasion in the 1800s and the Nazi invasion in 1941. Short of nuclear war, there is nothing the United States can do to stop Russia from securing its borders. The United States will discover in 2023 that its multi-billion dollar military is impotent when it comes to projecting power in Russia.
Putin and his government understand that the current war with the West is not just going to be fought in the fields of Ukraine. It also is a political and economic battle. To this end Russia is forging important relationships with China, India and the former imperial colonies of Europe and the United States. There is no such understanding among the political leaders in Washington. They still labor under the illusion that they can bully and threaten weaker countries to do their bidding. Joe Biden tried that gambit with Saudi Arabia and those oil rich sheiks told him, in effect, to go pound sand.
While I wish for everyone reading this a Happy and Prosperous New Year, I fear that 2023 will be a period of darkness and suffering for the West. Europe already is being ravaged by inflation and contracting economies. If the dual whammy of inflation and economic deflation hit America, the crisis will be exponentially worse than the 2008 debacle. The apocryphal Chinese curse, “may you live in interesting times,” confronts us. I pray we survive.
Excellent commentary Larry. And Amen to your closing line.
Absolutely agree with your comment. As an 81 year old Dutch citizen, living and experiencing wars all my live, I now have become an anti-anglo/saxon, pro-russian person. I still live in interesting times. Good wishes for you all.
As a 68 year old former Dutch citizen I agree. Happy New Year to you as well.
As an 82 venezuelan women I totally agree with you Sir
As a 40 years old French of Scottish ascendancy and married to an American, we all agree. We like the people of uk and USA. But their policy is, and has been, evil all the way.
As a 64 year old Canadian who has served in Europe and the Middle East, I also agree.
For 20 years I have been stateing “Why…are we poking the Bear”? NATO promised NOT to encroach on Russia. We have reneged on EVERY promise we made. What ever happened to honour ? Can we not just leave Russia alone ? If the Russian people don’t
like Putin,..they will get rid of Putin. The whole situation is a travesty. The whole world suffers while the American military /industrial complex profits !! The West is going to pay dearly for this blunder !! Will we ever learn ??
Happy New Year and God Bless to all !!
Brought to you by the one tribe, since 1967 pulling the empire to the gutters
Job well done 👍
When a government continuously fails, and failure doesn’t compute, one must face the possibility that failure is a feature of the system. With that said, was the trajectory of PAX Britanica a failure or a feature of the system? similarly, is the trajectory of PAX Americana a failure or a feature? And, if is a feature, who becomes the new PAX when America, Europe, Russia, China and others are destroyed? Hint: It is the elephant in the room you cannot criticize.
Who?
With all due respect, read your Western History from the writings of those who criticized the elephant in the room and got canceled.
Unlikely, its sclerotic society is entirely parasitic – not a culture that recognises, let alone values, innovation.
Even during the soi-disant Golden Age, from Iberia to the Indus, when euroids were flea-ridden mudeaters (nods to Monty Python’s Holy Grail) was a resut of having the remnants of Greek & Roman achievements to pick over.
I forget who pointed out earlier this century (post Twin Towers – Bernard Lewis perhaps?) that more books are translated into Spanish in a single year than were translated into Arabic during the 20th century.
The declining West should just be glad that neither China nor Russia are expansionist/colonialist in the now defunct European sense.
Why would they? Both are entirely self sufficient and secured by geography.
So long as they are not threatened it is of little concern what is done by “…lesser breeds without the Law..” – Kipling’s paean to the US takeover of the Philippines, repurposed from his Recessional for Victoria.
Despite being in my eighth decade, I’m very much looking forward to 2023 and wish all here the best.
I’m very glad to have discovered Larry’s work via JHK’s Kunstler podcast.
It is true “China … is not expansionist/colonialist in the now defunct European sense.”
However, you may recall Deng Xiaoping’s interview with Barbara Walters after the Tiananmen Square incident, where Deng explained to Barbara that all of China’s problems arose from China invading its neighbors to feed its people. Today, China has found a way to feed its people by expanding peacefully, through trade (in contrast to the to the International M. Fers.) To me this was the truth China knew of itself. One must respect that, for to know yourself and know your enemy is to win a thousand battles, Sun Tzu. Send your enemy your best craftsmen, in other words, send them headlong into defecit spending, also Sun Tzu.
China never forgets its enemies and knows who financed the Opium Wars. Who is financing the Phentenol War on the US? It is the elephant in the room you cannot criticize.
Again, is the border crisis, among other things, a failure or a feature of the system?
@talat
Why look for one, reductionist answer? Reality is far more complex. Humans want everything packaged up in a neat, unitary explanation. There isn’t one here.
The world and every nation within is composed of factions and tribes and competing interest groups. These factions sometimes cooperate and sometimes conflict. There is no, single group or entity pulling the strings.
So, the southern border. Why the flood of illegals pouring in? It serves many interests. The Uniparty, Big Business, drug cartels, poor latin countries, military Industrial Complex, Davos, and, sure, any number of nations that benefit from a weak US.
The tide of world events is complex, like weather. Why is the US in such dire straits? Why does snow cover Wyoming in winter? Same idea. Major causes like tilt of the earth and others like El Nino drive winter. Major causes like loss of faith and rise of marxist nihlism drive decline but affected by an array of forces and interests.
With Ukraine we see only a bare outline of causes and actors, intentionally obscured by some and exposed by others. A fog.
China NEVER forgets !! China thinks/deals/reacts in centuries. Not in 4 year election cycles. China does not care what anyone thinks. The Fentanyl war is
China’sopium war !!
Well the Russians should have minded their own business in the 1860s and they might not be having to deal with the arrogant Yankees now.
Nothing that is happening in our country was unforeseeable. Robert E. Lee called it shortly after the Civil War when he wrote thusly to Lord Acton: “The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.”
I have often thought that it would have been much better if the Confederacy had won. Slavery was on the way out anyway; the Industrial Revolution had made sure that capitalist logic would decree that a small number of underpaid workers using machines were preferable to an army of slaves who had to be housed, clothed, fed, given some health care, etc; while with Jim Crow laws and segregation, the situation of blacks didn’t improve much for a hundred years anyway. A broken up United States would have been a much better thing for the rest of the world.
I don’t care about the rest of the world. It would have been better for my people. Southerners we’re the first victims of the Yankee empire.
were the first victims
An American empire was the plan all along. George Washington referred to New York city as “the seat of the empire” and is why New York is called the empire state. The US Navy even had a warship patrolling Japanese waters during our civil war. More in this short video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS-Np1ugzJA
Thank you very much for this link. I am more “Red Pilled” than ever before. I have spent the last hour watching half a dozen videos from this content creator including the one about the U-2 spy plane that went down in Russia in 1960. Hats off to you..
Native Americans first by a long way.
‘Native Americans’?
No such critter. Migrants all of ’em.
As far as treatment?
Yeah, the Sioux tortured and enslaved their enemies the Cheyenne…and vice versa.
Same with the Commanche and the Apache.
And the Kiowa and the Cheyenne.
And the Iroquois and the Cherokee.
And the…well…you get the picture.
Agreed. Plus the Confederacy honored God and a Republican government of the founders with a strictly limited Federal government. Even today we see this in the south.
If the civil war was a war in slavery, the joke is on us, siomce slavery won, we aree all slaves of the US Feral Government
I disagree with you and all other statements about slavers , states rights… Russia also had slavery , it was forced to end it when former slavers run away and formed state within state. Tsar could not defeat them , now they Kazaks and have unique culture, customs and songs. Most Russians have genetic connections to them. Russia also expended to east and conquered more land and nations. US was right to end slavery and keep Union. We should have also taken Canada and all Caribbean Islands.
Below is link of Russian kozaks .
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxN8WYxyDb_K7OwVSfOrDf9KA7jzxlOb1X
Well, you’re wrong. Slavery was an evil. It was a cancer in the Republic. Lincoln cured it by killing the patient. The civil war was the end of the republic as envisioned by the founders and the beginning of the empire. You would have found men in Rome in the 3rd Century who would have told you the Roman Republic was still extant and that the Senate still ruled. Then as now, the government in place only appropriated the language and forms of the old while being something completely different in reality.
The ultimate check in the American system of checks and balances was to be the power of the states to simply walk away. Once that was gone, all of the other checks were more or less illusory. So, the states have been mere creatures and slaves of he feds once the War, now the feds are getting serious about getting around to enslaving individuals. There is no longer any effective buffer between the power of the federal government and the citizens of the states.
States rights, the historical refuge of racists and racism in the US.
Serfdom was bad but not comparable to the European slavery in the Western Hemisphere. At one point the British in the Caribbean calculated that the right lifespan for a slave was 7 years. That was the sweet spot for maximizing profit and after that they were best dead.
The Confederacy was nothing but a tool of the British to erase the legacy of the American Revolution which stood in defiance to the global British Empire.
It’s not hard to imagine what the US would look like if the Confederacy had won since that form of government was imposed on almost every place the British went. It’d be an underpopulated/underdeveloped vassal that could be looted of its natural wealth. So basically the same plan they’ve always wanted for Russia.
Sorry, but it is ludicrous to assume that a Confederacy dominating the United States would automatically be better, or worse. Not that the Confederacy was ever going to win a Civil War that started in 1860. Had the conflict been postponed a decade or two, the story might have been different but then again, the enormous disparity in population and industry would still have existed.
Most importantly:
The reason the US has prospered was primarily because it was isolated from the European wars by the Atlantic Ocean.
There is no reason to believe that any alternate American nation(s) benefiting from the Europeans destroying themselves, repeatedly , would be any less arrogant.
USA nunca debio haber tomado por la fuerza la mitad de Mexico. Al final es y sera una maldicion para los estados fundadores.
Lee was correct. The real issue over which the Civil War was fought was not slavery at all, but “states’ rights” v a centralised powerful federal government. When the South lost that war, the American people lost their freedoms and the world faced an evolving monster.
Central to this at the time, and largely ignored in the history books (if they still teach American history) was the continuing effort of the bankers to create a central bank. History buffs should visit that era and the great monetary issues faced in that war. The people of the US ultimately lost on multiple fronts.
When people say the civil war was fought just because of slavery, I ask why four slave states that remained in the Union sent forces South. (misnamed “border states” in our history books) They could have freed slaves in their own state.
Maryland wanted to leave the union but the Feds sent troops and arrested state legislators before they could vote. After the southern congressmen left, congress voted to free the slaves in the south in 1861, but Lincoln refused to sign. Yet he gets credit for freeing the slaves in 1863, except those in his four slave states.
Thanks for this historical gem. What is the sourcing?
And thank you Larry both for your personal informed insight and wisdom, and getting such a thought provoking forum together.
After the war, Lee engaged in correspondence with Lord Acton in England. Here is a link to the letter in which the quote I cited was contained. Lee lays out his thoughts on the issues of the war and what the fight was about as he saw it. When you read this, you understand why the globalist shills and wokesters have to abolish his memory. There really aren’t any men who are so principled and articulate anywhere in today’s world. If we are to be dumbed down and ruled, then these men must be forgotten and discredited.
https://leefamilyarchive.org/9-family-papers/832-robert-e-lee-to-sir-john-acton-1866-december-16
Wow, brilliant quote. Thanks for sharing!
What a contrast compared to Biden, Austin!. So much of American life deems like a Super Bowl commercial, a pitch, a social media post. I have a sense that people, even at the top of government, think we got this-someone is going to do the blocking and tackling for them, their politics. Maybe but I don’t think so. there will be a huge effort to hide the truth from the American people. Short of military defeat with Americans coming home in body bags, most will be oblivious to chane. Times will be tough but there is the NFL and Sophie Vergara bikini pictures to get people through it.
YES!!!!
The DC Whorehouse has stolen the Constitutional power of the states and destroyed the 10 Amendment protections against centralized power.
The Fools in DC have to decide if they will save the economy or preserve the currency. Most of those clapping seals cheering for the green shirted midget who represents one of the corrupt nations on earth are completely ignorant of the dilemma.
Voting for a 4,500 page, $1.7 trillion budget they haven’t read seals our fate.
Citation, please? (or link, as is the common fashion)
Everything that is happening now was foreseeable, if your only goal is to explain the present. A countless myriad of historical paths can be drawn backward to describe how we got to where we are.
But actually seeing forward is another animal altogether. From now forward, nothing is foreseeable, beyond that I do expect the sun to rise tomorrow morning. If it does, I will be grateful, as always.
Larry,
I have been following you, Scott Ritter, Col Douglas Mcgregor, the two Alexes from Greece, Gonzalo Lira, Andrei Matyanov, and Andrei Revski of The Saker, and am extremely astounded that those in Power in the USA do not have an understanding of how Russia has managed to repel all attempts to overwhelm it whether militarily or economically.
In Vladimir Putin Russia has a world class leader. In time, it is my belief that the person to follow as the next leader will be Dmitri Medvedev.
Unfortunately, for the collective West and most importantly America has lost its way and there is a dearth of good leadership which could guide it in this epochal change about to take place in the coming years.
As a teenager and in later life, I was conditioned to believe the Hollywood version of American ethos and greatness. I am extremely disappointed at the failure of the leadership qualities of America. With the exception of Eisenhower, no good leader has emerged.
May the Almighty guide the American nation to reflect and throw up a leadership that will disentangle itself from the woke leaders now in a controlling situation.
Please do not be dejected. The American people will in their collective wisdom definitely find a way to recover from these delusional dreams of world domination and go back to the basics.
Season’s Greetings! I wish you a long healthy life.
They are metaphysically incapable of understanding it. All of their power is based on an abstraction: a number in a ledger book. They could throw a trillion dollars at Ukraine and it wouldn’t make a difference.
Why does Eisenhower get an exception? Admittedly he brought the Korean War to an end, or at least the fighting, by splitting that nation into two. He also oversaw the overthrow of Mossadegh in Iran and installed the Shah in his place, he oversaw the splitting of Vietnam into north and south after a referendum there voted for unification following the overthrow of the French, he installed the Dulles brothers as Secretary of State and Director of the CIA, and he allowed Hoover to remain in control of the FBI.
It was on his watch that the Military Industrial Complex emerged as a power in its own right, and then on his leaving office had the chutzpa to warn us all against its growing power.
His successor JFK showed promise but was terminated by those whom Ike had empowered.
So, no, Ike does not get my vote.
Yes, the writing on the wall already existed when Eisenhower rose to power. He was powerless(implicit)? to bring an end to the aggressive militant thinking for bringing the world under the domination of the U.S. MIC. All of this ideology from ‘manifest destiny’ to the McCarthy era ‘Commie threat’ had already signed up the average American to declare the U.S. the greatest country in the world with god on its side. How naive. If you wanted central heating and flushed toilets, then indeed, the U.S. has led the world. All of that has led to all of this. Not very deep is it? Shallow, but effective concepts has kept the U.S. in the game, backed by the most powerful military arsenal the world has ever witnessed.
Out of pure spite, Ike the Kike caused the deaths of over a million German POWs by keeping the in open fields surrounded by barbed wire during a brutally cold winter.
It is well documented that Ike the Kike had a visceral hatred of Germans.
I shit on his memory.
That’s been proved as false.
The POW number is exaggerated by some margin, the actual numbers were around 50,000. Nonetheless you are not off the scale because the forced relocation of ethnic Germans from various parts following the end of the war resulted in the deaths of around a million due to starvation and disease. Regrettably the Allies were less than considerate in victory.
I słusznie, że usunięto z krajów sąsiednich V kolumnę niemiecka
Good on you for catching that. The purge of perhaps 20 million Germans from the Eastern third of Pre World Wars Germany in 1945 and dumping them into a completely devastated rump Germany that couldnt adequately feed its pre dump population MUST have caused the deaths of AT LEAST a million Germans postwar. My guess is that it could have been as many as 2 million, especially in the Winter of 1945-46
And heres a story that has never been told anywhere. My guess is that the story was swallowed up by the astounding revelations of the Holocaust. And anyone who knew of it would have shrugged their shoulders and thought. “The Germans are just getting their just desserts”
I totally agree.I have been saying for years that IKE was not warning of the Military industrial congressional complex,he was absolving himself of responsibility for it’s proliferation during his 2 terms.He could claim “I warned you!”.
Oh, and wasn’t Ike the first to coin the term ‘detainee’? We should not forget the 200,000 plus Wehrmacht POWs that he left to die of thirst and hunger and exposure in open barbed wire enclosures at the end of WWII. He skirted the Geneva Convention by reclassifying the POWs as ‘detainees’.
Eric Zeusse at the duran said it right, eisenhower was nothing but a chameleon, spineless one at that. the man was a colonel in the us army until around 1939 but became a 5-star general by 1945, i wonder why.
Ike also approved the 1954 CIA Coup in Guatemala that overthrew its popular democratic government and installed a dictatorship that resulted in two decades of violence and economic turmoil. Here is a short video about Ike’s work there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tNyemfVf4M
“His successor JFK showed promise ”
Why does JFK get an exception? He was just as devoted a Cold Warrior as Ike, but everything he tried to do to “fight the Commies!” failed horribly (Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, precipitating the Cuban Missile Crisis). Maybe he was assassinated because he was too much of a f-up even for the MIC.
In fairness, the Bay of Pigs fiasco was the work of Allen Dulles and the CIA. It was foisted on Kennedy shortly after he took office, but following its instant failure, Kennedy refused to authorize an invasion of Cuba by the US military. This infuriated Dulles, who never forgave JFK for what Dulles regarded as a treasonous act. Allen Dulles was one of the greatest villains in American history, possibly the greatest of all.
I agree with your reality-check about Eisenhower.
“The American people will in their collective wisdom definitely find a way to recover from these delusional dreams of world domination and go back to the basics.”
If only there were some real evidence of this happening, but alas, I feel that an invisible line has been crossed by the vast majority and the poisoned pill (the U.S. narrative of who they are) swallowed to great effect. It is more like a zombie awakening, where the masses are controlled easily through social apps and the entertainment that they think they are getting. Wisdom cannot come out of a culture so depraved and deprived to function as it should, naturally. No one wants to listen and move to the rhythm of our inherent being. It has become a concept far removed from moment to moment life, the here and now.
Foreign Policy has been a mess for the US for some time.
It is bizarre that these superbly educated people could be so arrogant to think Russia will. be backward and watch themselves get surrounded. The elites or elite wannabees lost their respect for people. The guy picking up your garbage in Peoria, the guy who can’t read nor write tending his crop in Botswana, the russian woman washing clothes in the Amur river in Siberia. They are as or more important than Chelsea Clinton. That is one of the appeals of Trump-welder who does
not show up.can stop construction on a portion of a high rise.
The Obamas either do not understand, do not care, or most likely both.
Over at American Thinker, there is an article about Billy Mitchell and Otto Richardson, two American military leaders who were punished for opposing poor strategic planning ing the years leading up to WWII. They were both later vindicated by events.
The author laments the current absence of wise military leadership in America, and he wonders if such people will appear in time to save us, but then he says, “ That is because dictators, after consuming the wealth of their own nations, always invade their neighbors, just as Russia has invaded Ukraine…”
This tells me that he wouldn’t know good leadership if Colonel Douglas McGregor slapped him in the face, and like so many other well-intentioned people on the right, he is stuck in the narrative rut. I hope you are right about the triumph of collective wisdom over conventional wisdom, but pride goes before a fall, and I am afraid that we must fall before we become humble and wiser.
US is an occupied territory by the deep state (bankers, managers, media, church, etc.) and any puppy put in charge will be able to do something if he does not follow the orders of his/her lords.
I don’t see other solution than something violent inside the North American society to break this reality. Very sad. I think that only after this, we will have the opportunity, maybe, to see US working for the good of our planet.
Americans whine alot, then keep voting for the same two parties and wondering why no different result.
Try not voting Dem or Repub. Simples. And no US elections are not totally rigged.
“and the rest were blinded”
Someone ask what does that mean, blinded?
Just look at the entire Western Alliance and every other nation that has accepted our perverted moral and bankrupt ideology.
And for this reason they simply can not see what others see so clearly.
It is a consequence of their actions, reaping what one sows. This not only applies to individuals but also to governments of men.
The people in America continue to allow this government of mindless creeps to engage in obscene behavior.
So then, we will also suffer the consequences along with the evildoers.
Larry Johnson is absolutely correct there is no going back the current regime have burned the bridges.
We are now entering a most dark cold place of judgement and rightly so!
All of the information sources you cited are experts I follow as well. Here’s another to check out, if you don’t already: former US Marine, ex-pat living in Thailand, Brian Berletic and the New Atlas channel.
The only solution for the USA. Be a normal country and mind your own business.
Well said Ahmed. Season’s Greetings to you too. Russia and Putin still love the USA, despite their Russophobia, absurd hostility and the Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole).
https://twitter.com/ArtyomLukin/status/1606657535066488833
VS… the US drag queen show to minor aged.
The “remnant” of old constitutional USA is still very much intact. Unfortunately… some form of collapse seems in the cards..before that portion is allowed free hand.
For though your people, O Israel, may be like the sand of the sea,
Only a remnant within them will return;
A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.
Isaiah 10:22
As long as the present cabal in Washington is dominant U. S. policy will get worse.
Mr. Johnson’s analysis paints the picture we face.
It’s sad & disturbing because the U. S. had a good thing going.
But the cabal in Washington was not satisfied… they wanted more… greed for power & control.
Cabal might not be the right word because the cabal’s mind-set has metastasized over time… seemingly the entire “Emerald City” has caught the cabal’s mind-set.
What happens in Ukraine this first three months of the new year will tell a tale.
If we can avoid a General European War… but Russia breaks Ukrainian military resistance East of the Dnieper river… an undeniable defeat might be the straw that breaks the cabal’s back. While Ukraine is down the list of what the average American sees as important to them… a failure of this magnitude can’t be swept under the rug.
The cabal has had public failures… Afghanistan is the most recent… Syria was a failure, too… Iraq also stands as a failure.
Should Ukraine be a failure, as well, that might be the pin that pops the Washington bubble…
There is an information bubble… I know because at one time I was in that bubble.
It needs to be popped… without it costing us our civilization or our rights as citizens.
I do believe the U. S. can make the transition to a multi-polar world.
But the current leadership must be changed.
Heck, when the U. S. started out it was a multi-polar world… France helped us against Britain. Yankees then went out in the world and did what Yankees do best… know how to cut a deal… a tough, but fair bargain, such that we could come back again and make more deals.
We need to be able to do that again…
Pax American was good, but we killed the goose that laid the golden egg… in the last twenty years or so… egos have swollen over the years… arrogance is rampant.
The American leadership circles abused the power the U. S. had developed after WWII and now the U. S. will have to ford the river of geopolitical & geoeconomics in some new fashion.
Or the American People will suffer at the hands of the cabal like never before.
The US (and EU) leadership class is moving in the direction of a post-nation state world. In fact they seem to be actively undermining the concept of a cultural nation in favour of a world where virtual assets can zoom around on the internet and the unwashed are controlled in a dystopian hellscape. These people see themselves as the ruling class that owns things based on the narrative structure they have created. Just read Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens which seems to revere the move to this non-material state.
It looks like instead of thinking they can hop on a spaceship and live in the stars, the elite class of oligarchs is collectively thinking they will live in gated strongholds and interact controlling the world with virtual tools like banking, social media, maybe some biological weapons, drug dealing and other assets which are fluid and transcend borders and military lines.
This structure may not be planned by evil diabolical conspirators in some central place. I actually think it is emerging the way conciousness evolved, and simply is acting like a rudimentary entity. It’s coherent behaviour is like a machine that has been built and is difficult to unbuild.
The only way to dismantle this narrative based system where the 99.9% simply agree to be ruled by this virtual overlord is to find a way to opt out of it. This could happen if the control apparatus loses it’s grip on the concept of value and money. Not sure what is next but it looks to me that CBDC is the next big move of the ruling class.
Pym
What a great post, and brutal insight…
I keep trying to regurgitate in my mind what the antidote is to the fishnet they keep throwing over us….the CBDC is surely their crescendo…..and it’s coming very soon.
Maybe we should be spending a lot of mental effort in throwing out ideas of how to repulse it and survive it…..if enough people think about it, and start ping ponging ideas, surely we’ll have a better chance of defeating it’s total control over us.
For my part, what I think I’ll do, is take it and use it if given freely, but the moment it curtails my shopping or spending choices, I’ll delete the app and send them a message to stick it up their butt…
I will try to save as many valuable things as I can, keep enlarging my circle of like-minded people, keep my ammo dry….because trading and helping will be crucial element if were going to survive their Utopia.
Grow food, keep chickens….. save food, water, medicine, fuel sources.
Fortunately, i grew up in the golden age of the 20th century in a country that was indeed blessed by God, with great family and friends, so I have no regrets or wants, pretty much crossed all those boxes…..I’m old now, so if I go, I go happy and fulfilled, have no wants that have a grip on my soul, except the people and living things that I love……so like I grew up my boys: if the end comes, and you have to fight, remember the cry of the day when Custer attacked, and Crazy Horse was the Warrior Chief, and said: Today is a good day to die!
But there’s no clean, quick and easy way to deal with the economic catastrophe looming, the popping of the Everything Bubble, and that “golden goose” has been dead for at least 60 years, the US has just been playing an enormous game of Three Card Monte with the world, but now everyone can see the US can’t cover even the smallest bet without going bust.
Nixon linking dollar to Petro Dollar instead of gold in 1970s was in my view the most significant act in shaping US modern history.
Without that the current insane debt and military and state expenditure would not have been possible as the economy and political class would have had to live in the real world.
It comes down to cooperation when the fertilizer interacts with the ventilator. I think people will find out they have mutual interest and needs. At the same time they will all realize they dislike the same things about government. It is only the government and the minions that spread the “there are two kinds of people in this country, us and them” propaganda.
It is already going on as people leave the workplace and walk away from the the race de rat. It is about the basics, or likely soon will be. I am concerned about places where there are too many people per square mile and too little calories to go around for the population. The big cities seem to be disintegrating more rapidly.
It is that time we have been told would come. Seems to be now.
Being called a Putin Bot is a sign that you have encountered an idiot, if they then support Biden you know you need your copy of the DSM-5 (American Psychiatric Association s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ) to diagnose them further.
I’ve had so many “Russia is shit, Putin is Hitler and must be stopped” moments with folks in the Boston and DC/Virginia/Tampa, Florida region where I travel in certain circles from Veterans to supposedly “educated” folks the last couple of years, even before Ukraine, that I gave up talking about it even when they ask because they know I’m a Veteran. They’re utterly ignorant. I’ve tried different tacks when they start in, such as “put yourself in Putin’s shoes” and then the Putin Agent shit queers the entire discussion. They then hate me, I have utter disregard for them because they’re idiots. Happens at parties, customer sites and others. Some of these are folks with kids of draft age that could be drawn in. Putin must be stopped. Really! With what? They’re ignorant of OUR weakness. Trump and Flynn thought we could do business with Russia and a new cold war was folly and the Deep State ruined both of them. And here we are with Europe in ruin and it WILL spread to here (except some sectors may profit from Europe’s ruin).
Down in DC in the 80’s, there was an old Congressman name of Joel T. Broyhill (there were others, but his take struck me as profound), that I met through my “profession” (when I met them I picked their brains), he said that good intelligence and diplomacy started with putting yourself in the other guy’s shoes. Thing is, for three decades starting with the Soviet collapse, we didn’t give a shit about the other guy’s shoes, we were able to take a giant and fatal shit on the other guy without concern for their side. Well, that’s over and the “Putin is Hitler” gang still rule the diplomatic and public opinion roost.
Hubris kills. And the whole shitstorm is about to land on all our heads. It may take a bit, but apparently, we do not know who and what we’re dealing with. Pretty awful. And all those ignorant, dumb-ass fuckers will one day ask, “What happened, why didn’t we know?”. Because you “educated” and brilliant assholes didn’t know because you were lazy, stupid, fat and drunk. All of it so unnecessary. Putin just wants to save his country, to be free of NATO-nukes and biolabs designed to kill Russians and save the Russians in the Donbass out to Odessa. Argue that and you’re a Putin Agent. And I for one am sick of the ignorance on this side of the pond. A country that’s merely a gas station, right? Lindsey Graham, fuck you too, I heard him the other night. All these hawks, their children never serve and so what do they care?
Amen. As someone with 3 sons of draft age, I wish assholes like Lindsay Graham would shut up.
I have grandchildren at draft age, I will ship them to stay with my wifes family the Philippines if it comes to it. I say put Graham in some camo wioth a rifle and send his faggy ass over there, if he doesn’t shit himself to death in the first firefight the stupid twit might learn something.
Same experience, Jim C.
Americans are ignorant, propagandized and live in La La Land.
Americans, I sadly have concluded, are also a rather belligerent, blood thirsty lot. They equate “greatness” with militarily smashing whoever they told they should hate today.
Not my experience Eric, the common Americans I met were really kind and helpful. I didn’t meet anyone who was belligerent and blood thirsty. If you see the complete picture you end up feeling sorry for them. And this was my experience as an illegal alien. I jumped the border and America was home. People are people.
Bittu,
Americans are as you say in face to face interactions and in smaller communities. However, try talking to them about Russia, China, Syria and that’s when the fangs, claws and wild eyes emerge. I’m an American, btw. Americans believe they are superior and must police the world and instill American values, by gun point if necessary, everywhere. They are primed to see other countries as targets. All it takes is for the media and politicians to tell them some country is being run by “thugs” and doing evil and Americans are ready to invade and “take out” the leadership, kill the leadership’s minions and install a democracy loving/American friendly leadership. That’s pretty blood thirsty stuff – granted Americans are blind to the brutality of it all because they are so hyper-focussed on the myth of their self-righteousness.
Not just “Americans” (actually North Americans, please recognise all residents of the American continents are Americans).
Most Australians are just the same. Ignorant as fuck and dumb as dog shit. Thoroughly brain washed by US media and Hollyweird movies. Dumbed down by a deliberately degraded “education” system.
Lining up in droves to accept toxic Mrna clot shots while everyday people die or have serious adverse events.
They cheer all U wars and take the token Australian military presence as a badge of honour. Only 50,000 attended the protest against Iraq invasion II, in the second largest city.
Putin is a madman, a dictator, etc. No debate is possible as the “opinions” are just MSM mantras repeated ad nauseum. When pressed a few do admit “I don’t know enough about it”, and then I ask them why do you have such strong opinions when you are obviously ignorant?
LOL a good way to not make friends (and lose some). But who wants willfully ignorant people as friends anyway?
I lived overseas for many years and found that the people in the oppressed countries have a far greater world view than privileged “Westerners”.
“Well, that’s over and the “Putin is Hitler” gang still rule the diplomatic and public opinion roost.”
Virtually everyone in positions of influence mortally fear the words “Putin sympathizer.” Putin and Russia have been so successfully demonized. That is the way the West makes cowards and puppets. The media are the tools of the evil regimes.
Few are the brave.
It amazes me that a country of 300+ million citizens has no quality leadership in its political class. These people must exist and that is a statistical certainty but they seem to be not part of the political system. Unfortunately, the political class has built structures that for one to climb to the top, one becomes totally corrupted by the system. This was the difference that was in play when Putin became president. He did not merge into the political process and even now he has no traditional political habit of talking a lot without actually saying anything meaningful. When asked a question, he answers directly, something no other politician does. When it comes to Washington and political class, as Jim Malone said, If you’re afraid of getting a rotten apple, don’t go to the barrel. Get it off the tree. The country needs to get rid of its political class as a whole and start with a clean slate.
It’s not that amazing, really. Every mistake you’ve made in life will be broadcast all over the media and all over twitter. Every time you’ve been fired, DUIs and whatever else they dredge up whether it’s true or false. Who wants to go through that? That’s how we get this very low character people who end up running our country.
Unless you’re one of the selected class. Brandon’s odd behavior has been completely buried by the media over his entire political life.
His daughter’s diary in which she questioned whether his showering with her when she was a teenager should be front and centre in any public conversation about him.
The man is a pervert, a hebephile, a paedophile , a traitor, and thoroughly corrupt and dishonest.
We havwe to stop expecting “leadership” expecially from the District of Criminals. None of those asswipes have anything to offer, they are worst of the worst and you’d be happy of they were only incompetent, then they wouldn’t be quite so dangerous.
Concentrated power should never be allowed to happen especially like this.
My late brother in law, retired USN was a McCainiac and neocon. His biggest fear was China sailing up the Potomac and taking over DC then running the country.
I asked him if he’d obey them if they did and the answer was yes, he would because they would be running the nations capitol. He was serious and saw no other choice.
I always told him that if they did, it would serve them right, but also what would they do? “Follow this law, send in your taxes, turn in your guns.” Yeah, come down here and make me.
We don’t have to bow our heads in fealty to these people, they have nothing to offer. They are parasites. You don’t feed your tapeworm, you starve it death and watch it die floating in a toilet bowl.
“Unfortunately, the political class has built structures that for one to climb to the top, one becomes totally corrupted by the system. ”
The system caters to the corrupted, it doesn’t create them. That’s why anyone with an ounce of integrity and self-respect will never make it in the system, they just won’t Take The Ticket.
As usual a very informative talk by Vladimir Vladimirovich – much of it extemporaneous, something that the Western, in particular American, leaders cannot so much as approximate. And this is how our enemy, the sociopaths in Davos, wish it. They cannot have strong leaders in the West and be able to institute their sinister Plan. Thank God (literally) that at this critical time in the World history, He raises up the most unlikely of candidates to promote Liberty and God!
Very excellent end of the year summary. Yes the US and those poodles in Europe are in deep trouble of their own making. Absolutely correct knowing that the only option left for the US is to launch nukes against its enemies mainly Russia, China, Iran … without further hesitation and without prior notice, because it’s become pointless dispatching jumbo-sized aircraft carriers for the purpose of scaring them. With these new hypersonic missiles such as the Russian Kinzhal and similar Chinese/Iranian versions the possibility of sinking an entire fleet of US aircraft carriers hundreds of miles away in just a few minutes is %100. Fortunately, any decisions about launching nukes won’t be made by the schizophrenic liars crowding the western capitals. The actual decision should come from the head of the Straussian tribe, just like how they decided to pull the building no. 7 during Sept. 11 events in NY. Though being business minded, most likely they prefer maintain their accumulated wealth and power for as long as possible. They realize that the current world situation differs considerably from the times of the Napoleonic Wars, WWI, WWII were when they could conduct business from a safe distance and profit handsomely by supporting both sides. Again with Sarmat, Avangard missiles with almost %100 hit accuracy, there’s no spot on earth where these City of London based Straussian business people could find themselves a hiding place. Wish everyone a Happy New Year.
Thanks for a year of clear-eyed assessments, Larry. Happy New Year…
Why should I watch a line of puppets ?
The US post WW2 was a benevolent force.
There is no comparison between 1945 and today.
Have none of you heard of the Berlin Airlift ?
No of course not because the US was grand and Stalin’s Soviets were sniveling cowards.
“The US post WW2 was a benevolent force.”
Ask the Koreans if they agree with your lie. And the Vietnamese. And the Cubans. And the scores of other countries that are victims of US coups, biological warfare, military attacks, blackmail, assassinations, loss of their nation’s wealth due to US controlled World Bank debt, etc, etc, etc.
Wilfully ignorant or a deceitful troll. Or just plain and simply , well simple.
Which Korea do you want us to ask, the rich one that has cars exported around the world – which will cause that climate change that will kill us all, or the poor one that is the non-carbon emitting exemplar of renewability that occaisonally launches a rocket towards Japan?
You focus conveniently in (South) Korea (which is a colony of USA anyway), and ignore all the other countries.
It says a lot about you.
(And, yes, you should ask the koreans of both sides about the outcome. Maybe you think you know what they think? Can I ask why do you know?)
How many Americans moved to that “colony”? How many “colonists” are now resident there? Who was the first Colonial Governor? Back to you dear follower.
I guess some people fail to understand that neocolonialism is still colonialism.
Both are created by USA, in order to show the whole world who is the boss. Anyone that opposes the boss ends up the same way. Few years ago some US politician proposed denuclearization of Korea using Libiyan model.
….and that egomaniacal arrogance and unwarranted sense of superiority is why the US and it’s subservient “allies” have hit rock bottom…..it’s a long way back from the gutter!
‘West Berlin’ came into being after a exchange of this Russian occupied part of Berlin with American occupied Thuringia & Saxony. The Americans didn’t like the prospect of having to look constantly at the capital of Saxony, Dresden. You know what was being airlifted to Dresden and by whom.
Never in its history was US empire a benevolent force. If you don’t belive me ask Native Americans, or African Americans, or Mexican Americans, or any non-White American at any point at it’s history. I bet your house is built on stolen land, after your forefathers exterminated the natives in the name of benevolence.
Your way of thinking is what caused the problems in the first place.
Geronimo,
Which tribes were exterminated, not to include the Erie or Delaware – killed off by guess who , and why would reservations be needed or heros like Nathan Phillips be around if the natives were exterminated?
It’s all a hoax by those damn Ruskies.
Thank you Mr. Johnson for your excellent work. I wish you a Happy New Year. Greetings from Germany.
Hi “another steve”
if by “line of puppets” you mean the military personnel sitting in on Putin’s speech I would say that the “line of puppets” listening to Zelenski’s speech in the US congress is no better.
But then again military people have a different code of conduct from corrupt politicians.
You could give the US the benefit of a doubt when it comes to benevolence but that benevolence dissipated after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. This was stated by folks much wiser than myself.
“power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.”
“Since the break up of the former Soviet Union, Russian leaders — not just Putin — naively believed that they could be accepted as a partner in the World order controlled by the United States. Vladimir Putin, in his speech on December 21, 2022 to the collegium of the Ministry of Defense, blamed himself for believing Western promises and announced that Russia would now rely on itself and deal with the West as a hostile threat. “
Thank you for your further evidence of matters discussed in:
https://sonar21.com/why-intelligence-fails-a-round-table-discussion-with-gonzalo-lira-larry-johnson-and-john-kiriakou/
particularly in regard to “analysis” and “interpretation” facilitating the continuing naivete of “The United States of America” since at least 1969, and the ongoing transcendence of “The Soviet Union” by The Russian Federation deemed necessary by a growing sum of some in “the Soviet Union”, The Russian Federation, and their associates to transcend the coercive social relations misrepresented as “The United States of America” in pursuit of Pax Americana which some interpreted/interpret as colonialism facilitated through moderated vectors of “bullshit and ball grabbing”, which since at least 1922 was deemed to be a hostile threat by factions within “The Soviet Union”, The Russian Federation and their associates best transcended with the minimum blowback through the complicity of “The United States of America” as a function of their immersion in self-absorbtion, which should be addressed with the minimum of challenge appropriate to context and sequencing to facilitate purpose.
This perhaps will address part of the comparative question asked by Mr. Lira during the round table discussion in regard to “US” and “Russian intelligence”, to which in respect of “Russian intelligence” no answer was offered either by Mr. Kiriakou or Mr. Johnson, since the focus throughout was on matters of “The United States of America” in illustration of the continuing half-lives of mirror gazing/group think/self-absorbtion, not solely facilitated by adopting/maintaining models of bureaucratic organisation.
“No, the demons are not banished; that is a difficult task that still lies ahead. Now that the angel of history has abandoned the Germans, the demons will seek a new victim. And that won’t be difficult. Every man who loses his shadow, every nation that falls into self-righteousness, is their prey…. We should not forget that exactly the same fatal tendency to collectivization is present in the victorious nations as in the Germans, that they can just as suddenly become a victim of the demonic powers.”
Carl Jung “The Postwar Psychic Problems of the Germans” (1945)
I believe that 2023 is going to be the year of rejuvenation and rebirth for most countries who are aligned on the side of Russia in this war for peace and justice
One of our RC-135’s just got a brush back pitch from China, probably for straying into Chinese air space.
I can only say “Amen” to these remarks. We can only hope that it will not come to a nuclear war.
“… I am frequently attacked as a Putin sycophant”
A suggestion to all those that are thus slandered:
– Don’t be on the defensive, because you are giving your enemy a sign of triumph. You side with truth and justice, because you know where they are at this historical time; you can retort by accusing them of siding with true nazism, true corporate-fascism, true war crimes, true robbery. All that is provable in a court of law; all that is inferred by the compulsive lying of the western media.
– Stand for the heart of the matter, not the personal components. You stand for truth – wherever is to be found, even if it is in Russia at this time – and you stand for justice – which cannot be separated from truth; those moral imperatives do not depend on nationality or tribe, they are above man, they are God’s traits.
– A historical comparison can be helpful on occasion: What would you do in nazi Germany in 1938? Would you go to the numerous rallies to raise your arm and shout hysterically your heil, or would you sit quietly at home and pray for a lightening bolt to do some cleansing in the land? There is the dividing line between the mob and the moral, error and truth, wickedness and righteousness.
The personal day of judgement – nations will also be judged – will not bring up what tribe or nation you are from, but how you decided between truth and error, between good and evil.
The same dangerous “game” with China. The brain-pooping morons in the government media blather on about China’s “expansionist desires.” Funny, then what are USNATO warships doing drifting off the coasts of China thousands and thousands of miles from their homeland? The Chinese are in Germany, among other places, yes. They are creating lots of jobs where I live right now. Peacefully. Jobs bring income for people and tax money. I still remember the accusation of a NATO mannequin: “Russia is on the border of NATO.” Logical, after all, NATO has marched right up to Russia’s borders. But most people in the West no longer have the cognitive ability to understand this logic.
It is well known that capitalism was established because it would be more profitable than slavery in chains.
But the pillars of no nation can be racism and greed; and less pretend that the new economic slavery is accepted.
Western civilization was a program based on racism, crime and dispossession and has been a total failure from a human point of view. A program in which even the Western Christian Church was complicit. Let us remember that all the conquest was by the sword and by the cross. And none of that can be disputed by anyone.
Exactly. Industrial society needs highly trained slaves. Old scool slavory required a big stick. Modern day slavery requires a stick and a carrot.
Sorry (not sorry) to say that it’s all our fault….if being brutally honest with ourselves, it’s totally all our fault.
Wether you call them western values, or capitalism, or consumerism….or materialism….it’s all on us.
These Gods appeared out of nowhere, wether by flying serpent or out of the sea….they offered us a game to play: Monopoly…..and almost everyone not only wanted to play, but became obsessed and addicted to it.
Did those Gods forced you to want a boat, or a mansion, or playboy bunnies, amass paper with pictures of dead people on it?
Did they put a gun to your head?
Did they threaten your children or family?
No? Then you did it on your own accord….you wanted everything that game (and subsequent culture) more than anything….you were glad to walk down the plank of cell phones, SUV’s, flat screen TVs, island vacations, Europe in spring, toys, toys, toys….
But now that you’ve been playing the game for awhile, you’ve come to realize nothing in life is free
You hate the position “those” people/Gods put you in…..let’s not kid ourselves, we still want all the rewards that playing that game offers, but we don’t want to follow the rules….
Like I’ve told many materialistic friends, so they’ll understand….don’t like the game? The rules? The costs? Easy…stop playing …..or become an Amish.
Don’t blame them, blame yourself….
You have mistaken me for someone else. None of those things has anything to do with me. I’m a Slav from Eastern Europe. We were never part of The West, nor do we want those western values. West keeps on coming here, with stick and carrot, in order to colonize and exploit us. We just want The West to go away, and stick that carrot up rainbow colored western ass.
Totally agree with you….it was mainly consumerism and materialism I was referring to….but of course, its the west that so exemplifies it so well….but every corner of the world has Merceds Benz and Gucci and cell phones and…..
I know what you are talking about, but I had to stress that “The West” is not “The World”. As a matter of fact, most of the World is not The West, and it is wrong to extrapolate western values to everyone (although they are being pushed onto everyone, just like the language we are currently using). The current worldwide events show a pushback of sorts, and it seems that few billions worth of people still prefer their traditional values.
Everyone wants decent life conditions, but most couldn’t care less about brand of their car or suit (as long as it’s a decent car or a suit). The whole luxury brand thing is artificial creation by “the capitalism” in order to increase the profit. It’s not on us, but on a greedy few. Marketing agencies are constantly pounding it into brains of the masses, and some people get into the position you described (just like some people started smoking because Humphrey Bogart looked cool doing it). I would say that it is forced, and not voluntarily. It’s artificial, and intentional, and has to break at some point.
Western car manufacturers left Russia this year. Russians instantly started buying more Chinese cars, and they are fine with it. McDonald’s left too, and those restaurants started operating under a new name. Things even came out better in the end, because they don’t have to pay money to old brand owners any more.
Sorry for the rant. My point is, it’s not the fault of common people trying to get by, but of those rich and powerful that just want more and more (plain old greed). Consumers did not come up with consumerism, just like slaves did not come up with slavery.
I understand that in 2014 – Meydan – Russia was 60% self-sufficient. Today 80%. And the remaining 20% was luxury crap like Mucky D’s etc. So, no big deal getting rid of western imports. Another loss for the collective waste.
Vegetarians in UK rely on 80% imports.
Trouble ahead…
I agree with Larry and all the above comments wholeheartedly – our corrupt and useless leadership class right across the Western world must be removed.
My prediction for ’23 is war in the Middle East. Netanyahu and the demonic Zionists now in charge will cause mayhem. IMO they caused the Ukrainian war to clear the people from the land and leave it bare for the novo-Israel to be created. That region is the ancestral home of the Khazarian jews who make up 90% of the jews currently in Palestine/Israel.
From Lavrov, oer RT:”He noted that a separate team of US specialists, created after American lawmakers demanded a more robust mechanism for tracking billions in lethal aid, has traveled to Ukraine to monitor the flow of Western arms to the country.”
RT has that wrong and I doubt Lavrov isn’t aware, that guy is aware of EVERYTHING. A month and a half back, a few Republican lawmakers tried to gather support for an audit and accounting for the next round of Ukrainian “funding” and weapons aid and were slapped down and forced to retracted the proposal by all the Democrats and the remaining Republicans, the White House, State and military, everyone weighed in against any accounting whatsoever. Republicans wanted auditors, real ones, IN POLAND at points of entry for weapons, plus audits of the cashflow with no one in Ukraine.
When all of a sudden they announced a couple of weeks ago that American boots on the ground in Ukraine would be tracking the “aid”, I smelled a rat. I believe these Americans will be operators of Patriot and whatever other weapons the Ukies who are left cannot operate for themselves. There will be no audits, that’s all a lie. And those Americans getting killed could be a tripwire of some sort. Everything the U.S. does in the face (or ignorance) of Russia’s overwhelming military assets over there makes me a tiny bit ill. Every time I’ve smelled a rat, the U.S. has delivered bigger than the sewer rat farms in NY City, rat capitol of the world. Like Larry, I’m dreading Biden’s LBJ Tonkin Gulf moment.
they are way beyond amateur Gulf of Tonkin.It will be more on the order of 911.
Re: Economic Collapse
If De-dollarization accelerates, the consequences are going to be profound.
Just one data point illuminates the challenge. In 2019, approx 9% of the Federal Budget was devoted to paying interest on the Federal Debt. Average Interest rate – approx. 1.8%. In a de-dollarization scenario – The Feds will need to pay ‘market interest rates’ which depending on the model could be anywhere from 5% to 8%.
Around 25% to 40% of Federal Budget is then devoted to paying interest on Federal Debt. For state and local the effects are even worse.
Ponder the implications. Now imagine, every single buyer of Federal Debt is doing the same maths. This will likely take 3-7 years to play out. Downward spiral doesn’t even begin to describe the situation.
” Now imagine, every single buyer of Federal Debt is doing the same maths. This will likely take 3-7 years to play out.”
You may believe that you fully understand the questions “What are “The United States of America” and how are they facilitated ?” and “In 2022/3 what are the likely consequences of bullshit and attempted ball grabbing when the balls were German ?”.
Perhaps it is not understanding, but speculation as in “free” markets on investment priorities ?
Unfortunately there is little sign of any significant de dollarisation.
Ash.
You are wrong, the signs are all over the place if you just look for it…
https://thedeepdive.ca/zoltan-pozsar-g7-investors-should-worry-about-gold-backed-renminbi-eclipsing-dollars-commodity-encumbrance/
This one i found at MoA today, so the signs are there.
The timeline is also laid out over at Armstrong economics blog.
Another good economy source is http://thegreatrecession.info/blog/
He have a lot of free articles.
De-dollarization has been underway since 2007-08 albeit at a glacial pace. At last count, only 60% of global central bank reserves are dollars.
The illegal sanctions etc. have certainly accelerated de-dollarization.
Let’s have a look from the Russian perspective. On 11 September 2021 President Vladimir Putin and Patriarch Kirill opened the monument to St. Alexander Nevsky in Pskov oblast, close to the border with the Baltic countries https://gorthodox.com/en/news-item/vladimir-putin-and-patriarch-kirill-open-monument-to-st-alexander-nevsky-in-pskov-oblast
800 years ago Alexander Nevsky (1242) defeated the Teutonic Knights during ‘the battle on Ice’ (set to music by Sergei Prokofiev). The monument gives expression in bronze to Alexander Nevsky’s famous phrase: “Those who come to us with a sword shall die of a sword.” Well, this phrase motivates the actions of President Putin to defend the Russian Federation against modern lookalikes from the Teutonic Knights.
When people from so different backgrounds, life experience, history, geography .. ideology! think exactly the same about something (I agree with every single word of this post from Mr. Johnson) … Well, it’s quite curious, to say the least.
We should “fight” each other only in sports, really.
Happy 2023 for everybody.
Feliz 2023.
Some would call that common sense. The curious thing is that the common sense isn’t so common.
Martin Armstrong has quite a few predictions for 2023, none of them good for the US and Western Europe.
The rampant election fraud ( see Arizona) is undermining the people’s confidence in peaceful redress, and the Biden Bunch is by all indicators at war with the people of the US, the riff-raff in flyover country.
Notice that the only Republicans “winning” elections are the RINOs like McConnell and Co.
The debt load is as unsustainable as it is unpayable, the military has been rendered incompetent and equipped with weapons even it can’t afford with virtually unlimited budgets.
Many of us know what is coming, the normies have no idea.
The real enemy is not Russia or China but that festering mass of corruption inside the beltway rapidly metastasized across the nation.
It can’t be voted out anymore, the courts refuse to help. The best we can hope for is a Soviet style collapse, but that was relatively non-violent. I am pretty sure the psychos in DC would rather see it all burned down, us with it.
We are long past fixing this.
I think the real answer lies on us returning to our roots.
The founders never intended to create a giant blob of a country ruled by one city. We were intended to be a loose collection of independent states. States were sovereign not merely administrative offices for the Feral Government.
This could be out path out of this mess. Secession is not necessary only recognition of the 10th Amendment.
In any event, 2023 will be a turning point, it will be up to us what direction.
Well said Mr. Johnson. Ukraine was a template. They know the current generation is not going to go fight their wars for them. Just look at recruiting. So, make proxy armies! Who cares if they are Nazi’s. And they WILL defeat the Russians for us. But now they are losing. And that sends a signal to the other potential charnel grounds. The recent Taiwan election was not an outlier. The Taiwanese do not want the US fighting their Game of Thrones whose dick is bigger game in their front yard. And now we have forced Iran, China, Russia and India together. Do your numbers. How much of the world is that? And due to our constant financing, we have encouraged the right-wing lunatics in Israel. The butcher Netanyahu is back in power. He will try to embroil us in yet another Middle Eastern war. Which, for all our blood lust, I think the USA has NO stomach for. And your most important point. When all this bullshit ends, Hitler/Washington turns inward. To the “enemy” within. We will see an FBI/CIA/ATF/Homeland Security offensive you cannot imagine. Any fantasy of law and freedom in the USA dies in the next years. I can only hope I am gone, and on a foreign beach by then. I fought for this country. As a soldier. As a police officer. It was all a lie. It always has been. I will fight no more.
I also fought for a lie, but I think I have one more good fight in me. I won’t allow my grandchildren to bury a cowards bones.
Returning to our roots will be forced upon us–and not a bad outcome. Too much power in too few hands all around (government & industry).
i wish Mr. Johnson and his readership a healthy and prosperous new year also and that you all survive and thrive in the challenging times we are living in.
Mr. johnson was on the yearend roundtable with gonzalo lira. he came on around the 2 hr mark . the link on youtube below is where he showed up on the video.
Open House—Alex Stein, Sleboda, Larry Johnson, HistoryLegends, Ian Cheong, Christoforou, Nixon
https://youtu.be/Kz1-ee7gF6k?t=7152
Alex christoforu showed us some symbolism on yesterdays report on how putin showing the west he is moving on at around the 19 minute mark
Belenksy, BlackRock & WEF. Putin, Lukashenko & Ivanov. Vucic off-ramp. Odessa removes Catherine. U/1
https://youtu.be/s8bk5q2vckA?t=1154
New atlas guy explaining russian tactics
Why is Russia Conducting its Special Military Operation this Way?
Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine is being fought differently than the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 not because Russia’s military is inferior or incapable of conducting modern warfare effectively, but because it is an entirely different type of conflict
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F89iypG7k8s
this is a little controversial to some- shows some pax americana
https://www.youtube.com/@talesoftheamericanempire
The American Colony Called Germany
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adfyCJLmPM8
this is for the science orientated viewership
The presentation .starts at the 3 minute mark . language warning. this is what WEF Yuval_Noah_Harari is discussing when he is talking about hacking humans.
Weaponizing Nanotechnolgy Hacking The Human
NANO 101 for the uneducated and or those interesting in it
https://zn21g5kls-n995.bitchute.com/rAKVUormiH30/cE5JGrg23glE.mp4
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (6/10) Movie CLIP – The Eiffel Tower Falls (2009) HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ps3fGNzpd0
year end clownworld
https://republicbroadcasting.org/news/wef-urges-public-to-bathe-once-a-week-or-less-to-save-the-planet/
Larry, there is no Chinese curse such as »May you live in interesting times« (meaning: in terrible times), it is an invention of the … you guessed it right: British. The Chinese (the few who care about this) have analysed the roots of it, you‘ll find it here:
https://www.zhihu.com/question/19611025/answer/31157933
It is in Chinese, of course, use Goggle‘s translator, meaning should be sufficiently clear.
Larry, you characterized most high level American politicians perfectly: Political Dwarfs. But, I would add one more adjective: Ignorant. Willfully, blindingly ignorant of the fact that American policy instigated and ignited this war. That America is wickedly responsible for creating the Ukrainian meat grinder. The old America is dying fast. And with the massive Biden instigated invasion by South American grifters and parasites (giant future Democrat voting bloc) the dying will be faster. President Putin is defending God and family. Biden is defending Satan, Marxist Socialism, homosexuality, and infanticide. Triune God will determine who wins this war. Can’t imagine He would be on the side of today’s Satanists, in Washington D.C.
Larry: Excellent article. Reminds me of Dmitri Medvedev’s predictions for 2023, which he posted on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/MedvedevRussiaE/status/160748733840120627
After reading your article, I fear that Medvedev’s predictions may come true after all.
Sorry – wrong link. Here is the correct link:
https://twitter.com/MedvedevRussiaE/status/1607487338401206273
Everybody just thought he was trolling with those ten predictions. The UK rejoining the EU? It is a matter of time. The powers that be ignored it, never enforced it, and will eliminate it. Oil prices $150? That is a matter of short time. The EU collapses? A matter of time. Poland and Hungary into the ex-Ukraine? A matter of time. Some of the rest may have been tongue in cheek. Elon Musk as President? Never underestimate the stupidity of the American sheep.
Absolutely. Actually, two of his predictions – movement of financial power from the West to Asia, and collapse of Dollar/EU as fiat currencies – are already underway, and should pick up momentum in 2023.
“Pax Americana” was what kept the various European tribal kingdoms from going back to warring amongst themselves. They all basically disarmed, and fell back on American protection against any external threat.
As such, Pax Americana could last only as long as America’s protection racket could be kept going. Russia’s SMO calls the bluff.
The US/NATO won’t enter the fray directly. It is better to be thought a paper tiger than to march onto the battlefield and remove all doubt.
It’s dawning on some Europeans that a European security structure without Russia on board is DOA. A nascent Pax Rossya is starting to stir in Europe just as a nascent Pax Rossya is already stirring in the Middle East.
“A nascent Pax Rossya is starting to stir in Europe just as a nascent Pax Rossya is already stirring in the Middle East.”
Emulation was/is not the purpose, transcendence was/is the purpose, so no intention or need of suffixes to attain sustainable Pax, since suffixes preclude Pax which is facilitated by co-operations of the agreement capable for mutual benefit.
From 1968 it was known by some in “The Soviet Union” that Pax Sovieticus was a synonym of, and not facilitated by, the Brezhnev Doctrine the transcendence of which would be likely only be facilitated by transcending coercive social relations including co-operation by coercion, upon which both “The Soviet Union” and “The United States of America” were reliant for sustainability, by social relations based upon co-operation for mutual benefit.
One catalyst of this understanding was the cancellation/preclusion of addressing one of the major systemic threats of “The Soviet Union” namely the economy particularly the agricultural and logistical sectors, in cooperation with some other participants in The Council For Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) which had been in process since 1962 through various projects, by invading and “restructuring” Czechoslovakia in August 1968 by a “collection of the willing” in COMECON, thereby undermining COMECON and cooperative ventures facilitated there by, including joint research and publications; Mr. Ota Sik’s “Plan and Market in Socialist economies” being “overwritten” by Mr. Federenko and Mr. Leontiev’s “Optimal functioning system for a Socialist Economy” which facilitated Gosplan becoming a publisher of children’s literature/illusions to enable almost everyone to overfulfill the plan in order to receive bonuses, which they could not spend due to the rates of production and access to goods through presently existing logistics as was deemed appropriate in “presently existing socialism”.
“The United States of America” emulated this strategy recently by “sabotaging” Nord Stream 1 and 2 and why in another previous comment “MirrorGazers” suggested that “The United States of America” did not confiscate the reserves of The Russian Federation, but rather The Russian Federation made an investment, the return on investment becoming more apparent through time.
Pax Americana also kept the Central and South Americans from each others throats. The world is permanent clan war, permanent tribal war, permanent ethnic war, permanent religious war, and permanent race war, with elites at all the various levels of structure vying for dominance. The intensity can wax and wane on time scales longer than a human lifetime so the less observant think these peaceful minima constitute normality instead of simply lulls. If there is no top dog riding herd, then all the smaller dogs will fight. Those who lived under the old imperial Pax Romana relearned this lesson the hard way when the Western Roman Empire finally died. The peoples who inhabit North, Central, and South America are about to relearn this lesson in exactly the same manner.
The WASP ruling elites who established the Pax Americana enforced it by co-opting local elites into their transnational imperial economic system, similar to much of Roman imperial expansion. The Jewish-led multicultural ruling elites who defeated them for power over America by the close of the 1960’s gradually added destabilizing submission to socioeconomic reengineering of indigenous populations to the requirements of involuntary imperial membership, a process also most intensely imposed upon my own Heritage American people. One example is the abolition of subsistence farming in Mexico (and their being driven into the wage labor economy). While one can make an argument that it needed to be done, no one in New York City or Washington DC had any business dictating how and and at what pace. This kind of interference in client state internal matters by imperial elites inflames tensions between local elites and the people over whom they rule, destabilizing order.
Some are worse than others, but all ruling elites are exploitative, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, culture, mores or anything else. Judgement of exploitation by the ruling elite enforcing an imperial Pax must be balanced against the benefits of the enforced peace. The establishment and maintenance of imperial Pax is fundamentally an exercise in diversity management. No one undertakes such a thankless task unless they think it will substantially benefit them.
Another aspect to consider is that, even if the exploitation by the ruling elite of a Pax is outweighed by the benefits of the peace, stability of that ruling elite is necessary for the Pax to continue. The Roman Empire died in part because its ruling elites got replaced by people from its imperial possessions. (1) There can only be one civilizational vision. Once a ruling class goes multicultural all of the infighting made inevitable by its inhomogeneity erodes ability to maintain the Pax. The Globalist American Empire (GAE) is currently dissolving in a similar way.
Europe joining a Pax Rossya might ensure European survival. It’s not likely to manifest because what passes for the institutional right wing in Europe, who are the only resistance in Europe to the GAE, seems hellbent on demonizing Russia in an attempt to leverage that cooperative energy to stop the ongoing legalized foreign invasion and population replacement in their own countries. I understand that the European right are desperate to save their peoples, but how they think that is going to work is mystifying. Regardless of European intent or willingness, the Russians would have to agree to accept the responsibility. Why would they? The track record for continued existence of ethnic groups (nations) whose ruling elites assume the burden of administering a Pax is not good. Maybe the Russians want to do just enough to ensure that they are left alone.
(1) “Race Mixture in the Roman Empire”, Tenney Frank, The American Historical Review, Vol. XXI, #4, July 1916.
Possible, of course but I’m not convinced given the structures that are now in place. I suspect that much of whatever hostilities arise in the near future will be instigated by the failing hegemon.
On a more hopeful note, Pax Rossya is already showing profits in the Middle East. Following trilateral talks in Moscow, Turkey has agreed to withdraw its troops from Syria, opening the door to a rapprochement between Erdogan and Assad. If/when that happens, I predict a cascade of resolutions to ancient frictions will follow.
We can also already see the principle difference between Pax Rossya’s and Pax Americana’s MOs. The latter maintained order through a balance of tensions while the former seeks to dilute tensions to the point where they can be dealt with bilaterally. One doesn’t have to wonder long to conclude which will have more staying power.
The German subtitles are sh*t.
To bad. Sometimes they literally reverse the said.
Nice piece, LJ
“Vladimir Putin, in his speech on December 21, 2022 to the collegium of the Ministry of Defense, blamed himself for believing Western promises and announced that Russia would now rely on itself and deal with the West as a hostile threat.”
Yes – and it is so very tragic that Putin had to come to that accurate assessment. So sad. What is this madness that rejects partnership and a chance for peace in the world. A Russian/US alliance would have the strength to create global stability and prosperity.
US does not have allies or partners, only colonies and servants. Peace was never an option. This is not the first time West is trying to destroy Russia. Putin knew that all along, but gave West another chance because it is in the spirit of the Russian/Slavic/Orthodox culture. It also makes it easier to see who is the good guy in here, which helps rest of the world in choosing sides (if they have that option).
What is even more tragic is that Putin, after trying for over eight years to diplomatically resolve the conflict, had no choice but to sign orders which he knew would result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people he considered his fellow Slavs.
The only thing the West has managed to break in Russia is this man’s heart.
This December 21 speech was very solemn, like the announcing of a verdict. It was the announcing of resolve for the future carrying out of the verdict, not of war, but the methodical preparation for the survival of the Russian nation.
The US ship of state is a drifting shambles.
I would be very interested to hear what Larry Johnson has to say about the claims of CIA sleeper cells in Russia from
as recent as 2016.
I like both clips.
Hitler was supposed to be 55 in that clip – they made him look 80 – as old as er…
Putin looks mid-50s – but he is 70 so sure to retire any day now…
When a government continuously fails, and failure doesn’t compute, one must face the possibility that failure is a feature of the system. With that said, was the trajectory of PAX Britanica a failure or a feature of the system? similarly, is the trajectory of PAX Americana a failure or a feature? And, if is a feature, who becomes the new PAX when America, Europe, Russia, China and others are destroyed? Hint: It is the elephant in the room you cannot criticize.
Shades of Zelensky’s downfall. But he is only the puppet.
No one can rule the world. The US is “kicking against the pricks.”
A few Americans doctors have been talking about regulatory capture to explain the Covid policies. In my opinion, they fail to realize that the whole government was captured decades ago. Will Americans be able to take their government back?
It took a long time for the captors to execute their coup. The noose is already around the necks of the captives. The Republic does not have time enough to methodically change before the traitors end the resistance. I see a minimum of civil war if the nukes do not get us first.
“Will Americans be able to take their government back?”
So, we have “a few American doctors,” as in, a very small percentage, who rightly figured out that “Covid policies” might be the result of “regulatory capture.” At the same time, these same few doctors where unaware that their government was captured “decades ago,” and that these Covid policies were, most likely, a natural outgrowth of that governmental capture.
Do I have that right?
If I do, I think you’ve answered your own question. A very small percentage of a select group of Americans where able to identify one piece of puzzle that doesn’t fit, but still, unable to see the puzzle as whole, which means, that the most aware Americans we have at the moment are actually quite clueless.
Note: One of the most fascinating aspects of watching the Covid drama as it unfolded, was seeing the shock on those “few American doctors” faces as they tried to defend the honor and integrity of objective science, but were forced to come to the realization, albeit quite slowly in most cases, that 99% of their brothers and sisters in all related fields had sold out at the earliest opportunity, and these sell-outs were now happy and willing to throw them, and objective science, under the bus.
And as I intimated, “Covid policies” represent only a very small piece of a puzzle that has been distorted beyond all recognition, which means, there is no way back, short of miracle.
Thank you for this summary of the naked truth.
Can anyone in their wildest imagination believe Mr. Biden (Potatus 46) could ever give such a cogent, statesmanlike address as that given by Mr. Putin?
re: “I do believe that the era of the United States invading other countries at will and overthrowing governments not willing to genuflect at the altar of U.S. power is over.”
I don’t believe that.
There are many ways the U.S. can interfere with or destroy other (less powerful) countries. The tentacles of the giant squid are global.
Where we can simply bomb and destroy, we will.
Where we can control a country via economic means, we will.
Where we can take down a country via cyberwarfare, we will.
As Harold Pinter stated in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech:
“I have said earlier that the United States is now totally frank about putting its cards on the table. That is the case. Its official declared policy is now defined as ‘full spectrum dominance’. That is not my term, it is theirs. ‘Full spectrum dominance’ means control of land, sea, air and space and all attendant resources.
The United States now occupies 702 military installations throughout the world in 132 countries…[and] possesses 8,000 active and operational nuclear warheads. Two thousand are on hair trigger alert, ready to be launched with 15 minutes warning…What we do know is that this infantile insanity – the possession and threatened use of nuclear weapons – is at the heart of present American political philosophy. We must remind ourselves that the United States is on a permanent military footing and shows no sign of relaxing it.”
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2005/pinter/lecture/
We are ruled by mass murderers and monumental thieves who are not about to give up their money and power. I would not put it past these mental midgets to do anything as they feel that their dominance is threatened. By anything, I mean ANYTHING.
They obviously have no problem destroying Ukraine and its people.
They obviously have no problem destroying Europe and its people.
They obviously have no problem destroying America and its people.
If it takes destroying anyone, anywhere, they will do it.
I can think of a dozen different things the U.S. can do that no one can do a damn thing about, just as we blew up Nord Stream with zero consequences.
Given the fact that we are under the thumb of “the political dwarfs that populate the United States and Europe”, you can bet this isn’t going to end well.
Fukuyama is still gurgling about ‘the end of history’, deriding “strong authoritarian states” (Russia, China) as fatally flawed (unlike his fantasy “liberal democracies”):
“The weaknesses are of two sorts. First, the concentration of power in the hands of a single leader at the top all but guarantees low-quality decision making, and over time will produce truly catastrophic consequences. Second, the absence of public discussion and debate in “strong” states, and of any mechanism of accountability, means that the leader’s support is shallow, and can erode at a moment’s notice.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/francis-fukuyama-still-end-history/671761/
I see nothing but “low-quality decision making [producing] truly catastrophic consequences” every day in the U.S./Europe. I see “the absence of public discussion and debate” right here, where we are instead force-fed Orwellian propaganda 24/7.
We are doomed by hubris and stupidity.
Well said.
In his most recent press conference, all-powerful authortarian dictator and madman extraordinairre, Vladimir Putin, was for the third time in the last two months, forced to take a follow up question from a Russian reporter because he tried to avoid answering it the first time.
It was really very instructive. Around 25 or 30 Russian journalists, representing most of the country’s top news agencies, posing extemely difficult questions to their President (one might even say, many of an existential nature),and when he attempted to duck just one, which he clearly did, they all fell silent, and allowed their colleague the opportunity to pose the question again.
Which she promptly did.
Note: The question was about American Patriot missile systems being introduced to Ukraine. It is an uncomfortable situation for Russian high command, this escalatory provocation. Yes, the Patriot is completely irrelevant in the grand scheme, not because it sucks at its primary job of shooting down cruise missiles and fixed wing aircraft, but for the simple reason it does not have the range to intercept outgoing Russian ICBM’s in their boost phase.
But there are American missile systems specifically designed to do this job, most notably, the newer versions of their SMIIIs, and if they ever happen to be brought up in any conversation pertaining to this Ukraine conflict, then I would suggest there is a good chance, nuclear armegeddon is right around the corner.
Put it this way, the introduction of SMIIIs into the underbelly of mother Russia is red line even Vladimir Putin can’t ignore, as to do so would be to find himself gutted like fish, his pieces tossed in the Volga.
From Portugal, a good new year for you Mr Larry. Thank you for all!
a similiar argument:https://gilbertdoctorow.com/
What an excellent opportunity we had when Soviet Union collapsed! We could have been magnanimous in victory and integrated Russia into the West and reaped untold benefits to ourselves and the world as a whole. Russia’s “limitless” resources, our ingenuity and technological prowess, Chinese manufacturing capability and Indian IT knowhow would have been a boon to us and the world. Drastically reducing military expenditures around the world and directing them to the welfare of ordinary people: universal health care, job security, disease eradication, poverty elimination, global warming mitigation etc. Instead, we blew it! The result, namely the Eurasian partners, Russia, China and India, along with the Global South, will dominate this century. That should scare the heck out of the so-called West and the neocons and the military industrial complex responsible for making this happen should be held to account. Even now it is not too late. We should give up the wet dream of ruling the world along with our vassals in the so-called Combined West, embrace the multi-polar world, which does have a place for the rapacious West, as long as we are willing to respect other nations’ interests. Alas, it is not going to happen. Instead, we will steadily vanish into pages of history, an unenviable and easily avoidable fate!
Thanks for the reality check Larry…my guess is that those of us that have been on this blog for a while are like-minded and have watched with amusement and horror the breakneck speed at which US elites are destroying our beloved country.
Dr. Michael Vlahos (whom you are familiar with) had a blog up for a while entitled “A New Civil War” wherein he compares the downfall of the US Empire to the downfall of the Roman Empire…the blog often highlighted that it took hundreds of years for Rome to “fall”. The blog is an excellent study and well written in the Vlahos style…I would encourage everyone to read it…the last post was NOV 2021 but the blog is still up:
https://www.anewcivilwar.com/vlahos-blog
Certainly the US does not have hundreds of years left as an Empire…the fall is imminent. Biden is a demented mix of Nero and Caligula playing his woke agenda while promoting sexual deviancy.
As 2023 comes to a close…a couple of quotes seem to capture the moment:
“Ideals are peaceful. History is violent” – the Movie “Fury”
“Burn your past in the fires of today. For from within the ashes there will rise a smoke of hope for our future” – Zainab Sajjad
I think we all know whats coming and 2023 will indeed be an historic geopolitical moment.
You mean our multi-TRILLION dollar military, which has failed to win in any war since 1945 – Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria …
Wrong! That is a mighty slander of those fine fighting men/women/trannies/fags and lesbians.
Didn’t you hear of the resounding victory in Grenada??
Victory was never the goal, constant wars were. Gazzillion dollar military did exactly what it was supposed to.
Larry, this is by another Larry written in 2008. His name Larry Cummer and his son is Ian who writes on readingjunkie dot com. It’s a prescient piece.
For decades I’ve prescribed we take a defensive posture, ensure integrity of our votes and integrity of our borders. We’ve betrayed our founders who warned against foreign entanglements and have become a Nazi Empire of Hate and Lies.
I was a Neocon Dupe and I credit Larry Cummer for setting me straight.
https://fabiusmaximus.com/2008/06/07/survival/
In political philosophy, the right of revolution (or right of rebellion) is the right or duty of a people to “alter or abolish” a government that acts against their common interests or threatens the safety of the people without cause. Stated throughout history in one form or another, the belief in this right has been used to justify various revolutions, including the American Revolution, French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, and the Iranian Revolution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_revolution
PAX American @ this point depends on the success of a Proxy War.
Ukraine has burned through a huge amount of military equipment. It can’t be replaced in amounts & sophistication equal to the Army they had at the start of the war.
The initiative is with the Russians.
Attrition is working… but Russia needs a “stroke” of victory that can’t be denied… in neocon circles & corporate main stream media… thus, the general public, as well.
I am not sure why Russia needs any “strokes of victory” to convince the dumb Westerners in, well, anything?!
Russia keeps pounding the Uki neo-nazis, exterminating anywhere from 500 to 1,000 per day (so, say, 15,000 to 25,000 per month). There are all sorts of estimates flying around as to how much more “meat” the jewish overlords of the Ukraine (the Nudelmans, the Zelenskis, the Blinkins, etc.) can throw at the Russian military. Some say 200,000. Some others are saying 500,000. Though all agree that the best and the most experienced are fertilizing the soil at this point. So, all Russia needs to do is, basically, continue steadily de-nazifying the Ukraine for another 8 to 33 months (depending on which of the above numbers are true). And who cares what sort of garbage the press-titutes in the so called ‘Western media’ are feeding their gullible plebes?! Those printed lies won’t change the situation on the ground one bit.
And if the ‘general public’ in the collective waste wants to believe that Russia is losing, even at the point when the last Uki neo-nazi will be feeding the worms, be my guest, let them. The western plebes have never been the smart bunch and at this point they are so dumb and immersed into their virtual reality / social-media fantasy Metaworld, let them stay there forever. In the remaining 90% of the World, where people prefer to live in reality, no one will care.
“de-nazifying”
Slogans are often invitations for others to iterate/speculate on their contents.
Did you ever ponder who are included in the slogan “de-nazifying”?
As an American I don’t want the U. S. damaged/hurt more than has to be.
The faster U. S. opinion turns, the faster this can get to negotiations, tough as it might be… I’m not interested in the destruction of Ukraine or unnecessary deaths of soldiers.
I’ve been commenting at a pro-Ukraine military website… they (not all, but the worst examples) are lying through their teeth about everything…
A wash, rinse, repeat of corporate, main stream media.
With some very determined people.
Taking territory & cities and possibly even encircling large numbers of Ukrainian soldiers (20,000) can’t be lied about… can’t be spun… can’t be denied….
If Russia wants to end the war as quickly as possible… then Russia needs a moment where victory is self-evident… certainly, breaking Ukrainian organized resistance East of the Dnieper river… would be one of those moments.
And by “moment” I don’t mean a passing situation, but has a status.
Russia takes military control of the Eastern half of Ukraine, East of the Dnieper river.
That happens and even neocon support evaporates over night.
The U. S. cuts off Ukraine… and the war stops… without a General European War.
The most important goal I have in this whole affair.
The best result would be the Ukraine military marching on Kiev with popular support in the streets.
You describe a really pounding, the soldiers are under incredible stress… there are reports of soldiers refusing orders @ the front… a march on Kiev may be remote, but who knows… high casualties will do that.
As the Ukrainian military is hollowed out…
At a stroke Ukraine is de-nazifed and de-militarized.
Does an egg shell collapse all @ once?
Hello Larry. Long-time reader, 1st time commenter (despite the fact that it looks like the comments have strayed into a Dixie Dispute.)
When I was a child, I often thought I lived in the most boring era ever. Nearing 60 now, I am honored to live in the most historic moment of human history: the possible extinction of the human species. In between those very distinct perceptions occurred an enormous number of epiphanies, realizations, discoveries and an increasing intolerance for the toxins of indoctrination, propaganda and outright lies.
There are a lot of comparisons made with historic crises, such as WWII, and most of those are marginally useful, if at all. However, one point that I have yet to see made is this: When it came time for the U.S. (and Russia) to confront the madness of the Third Reich and Imperial Japan (leaving aside American provocations), the guns did not stop until we went to Berlin and to Tokyo and killed the regimes in their beds.
No one seems to think this could happen in our time, and with the unfortunately high probability of nuclear annihilation, that may be true. But should our own insane regime somehow avoid incineration, someone, somehow, will need to march in and kill our own regime in their bed. Better if we do it ourselves, of course, and this may be the only way to avoid nuclear annihilation, but one way or another, our fate is written.
I agree with your assessments pretty much across the board, and I agree that Putin is a more rational, erudite and considerate statesman than any individual in the West. Some might think these statements treasonous, but I assert that they are far more patriotic than support for the megalomaniacal stupidity of the Bushes, Clintons, Obamas, Von Der Lugens, Borrells, Trusses, Netanyahus, etc. ad nauseam.
Someone must stop us, and someone will. As much as I admire Putin, it would be better ourselves than him.
The ruling class/deep state/banksters hold no allegiance to any country. I doubt they will resort to the nuclear Samson option when it becomes obvious their plans are being thwarted by Russia. They will employ genetically targeted bio-weapons. The COVID-19 plandemic was just a trial run.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-intel-committee-member-warns-dna-testing-kits-could-lead-targeted-bioweapons
Posting with no further comment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NITiFRk4GxI
Looks like something YouTube failed to censor
Larry, thank you so much for this spot-on analysis/commentary. And an additional thanks for embedding that portion of Russian President Putin’s recent speech – so vital for all of us to take in and think about.
I just watched this Jimmy Dore segment on Tulsi Gabbard tearing apart newly elected representative George Santos over his profligate lying,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsVgTbP5pPs
this is both hilarious and shocking at the same time, how anyone can have any trust in public figures when they pull stunts like this and then try to pretend it’s nothing,
in the interest of political balance Jimmy then goes on to do a 10 minute catalogue of Biden life of lying which runs right up to the present!
and they wonder why much of the world doesn’t want to be run by the US,
It was ” … both hilarious and shocking at the same time … ”
Indeed. My second favorite part of the episode was the tweet of Ritchie Torres:
George Santos pretended to be a gay Afro-Latino Ukrainian Brazilian Catholic Jew whose mother died on 9/11 …
My first favorite part was Joe Biden claiming he finished in the top half of his law class. Who makes such a claim in way of a boast? His class had 86 people in it, which means, Mr. Biden could have finished as low as 43rd, which hardly would have made him the stuff of jurisprudential legend.
That in reality, he finished near dead bottom, is hardly worth noting. The point is, if you are going to lie, lie big!
I see the same propaganda and lies in France which is now a completely failed state.
Those lies might be the nemesis of the west because the medias and politics believe them, live in a fictional world and try to build over it.
China might be “a bridge to far”, too much provocation, too much arrogance, too much ignorance.
I wish I could argue with you, Larry, but I can’t. The trend lines have been pointing this way for a long time but the inertia has kept the US going on its trajectory.
I see a scenario very much like the end of the USSR for the US. It won’t be a catastrophic defeat anywhere but an unraveling of the system from internal contradictions. There’s a brittle facade now and the main goal of everyone in charge of everything is to maintain that while looting the interior as fast as they can. I deeply fear the reaction of the American people when reality comes calling, though it may be we (on the whole) simply submit.
Congrats LJ , your site become the number one site to go to get real analysis (along with Smoothie’s , Bernard and Saker’s)
it boggles the MIND how foolis is US neocon in trying to push russia AND china in the same time. The obvious truth in bernard’s analysis indicate that the west is facing a financial crisis thats why they forgo strategic risk and go full bore attacking russia and china.
the last days of peace in america will be short , afer that hardship will come to USA and the west until the rats at the top died and people take back their nation
“While the West tries desperately to portray Putin as a madman, the man speaking is calm, intelligent and coherent. What a contrast with the political dwarfs that populate the United States and Europe.”
So if I am reading this right then the only explanation is that Putin is a puppet!! The US manipulates the puppet and he reacts!! He is a poor leader because is reacting and not being proactive!! The Us set up Putin over the last 8 years knowing he would react this way and he has never disappointed!! PATHETIC!!
Congrats. You win the prize for the most obtuse comment. Well done Troll.
“You win the prize for the most obtuse comment. ”
Do you suggest the blini prize or as discussed in another location but not lodged in respect of Mr. Obama, the Nobel Peace prize for consistent failure in matters of “intelligence” and “warfare” ?
You have to kill a lot more people before you get the Nobel.
Larry & friends
Seasons greetings from Hazelton, in northern British Columbia, where it’s cold (-5) but not frigid!
I got my book today, after defrosting the mailbox.
‘History of the Byzantine State’ by George Ostrogorsky. For the second half of the last century, this was ‘the’ book.
If you want to study empires, Byzantium is a big fish; Half of the Roman empire, which developed it’s own routines (Greek), it lasted for 900 years!
The central government (king) had to bribe the nobility to provide soldiers to defend against frequent invasions. In time, the nobility became powerful & independent. They got busy doing what they wanted to do, while the king had to hire expensive mercenaries. The king went broke. When the Turks came calling, there were increasingly smaller armies trying to keep them away from the heartland. Until one day, there was nothing left but the city with it’s thick walls.
Mark Twain noted that ‘History doesn’t repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes’!
Also a shout-out to AbeBooks; AbeBooks is the Amazon of used books. Their servers give you a choice of different prices & conditions, from booksellers in Britain & USA (Canada is a miniscule market). Every book I’ve gotten from them has been, mostly pristine!
Vous avez compris l’essence même de ce qui constitue l’HUMANITE, chez Larry.
“Putin and his government understand that the current war with the West is not just going to be fought in the fields of Ukraine. It also is a political and economic battle. To this end Russia is forging important relationships with China, India and the former imperial colonies of Europe and the United States”
I urge President Putin to start forming alliances with the peoples of the American South, Appalachia and West.
We are allies in this war.
Putin knows that doing so would only endanger those people. Sometimes allies have to work together while pretending that they don’t know each other.
Orthodox Christians in Ukraine nowdays have to pretend that they hate Putin, in order to survive another day. They keep quiet and try to dismantle evil state from the inside.
“Putin knows that doing so would only endanger those people. ”
Of course as below.
“…..try to dismantle evil state from the inside.”
Only if they have the abilities/facilities in peaceful means, not illusions like MIRistas that they were/are caballero de la rosa which rendered them corpses with their own complicity and their children damaged, instead of being rational and silent.
Your namesake knew how to “win” battles but not how to transcend social relations, but he apparently transmitted some wisdom to others.
Hoever be careful not to turn him into a useful fool as was the case with Mr. Guevara since romantics don’t tend to “win” wars – ask the Poles who have the experience but not necessarily the knowledge by being to some degree immersed in the illusions of for your freedom and ours, and that Mr. Dombrowski is still marching – not bad tune; self-destructive lyrics though.
Happy New Year.
“We are (potential) allies in this war.”
That is understood as are the likely consequences of that, and why in context “I urge President Putin to start forming alliances with the peoples of the American South, Appalachia and West.” is not wise, since dead allies have no agency but are subject to the agency of others rendering them “heroes” and/or T-shirts as in the case of the useful fool Mr. Guevara whose followers facilitated the Condor Years, increases in body counts of themselves and their associates, and the consequent wetting the bed rates of their children, whilst the purpose of “How to drown a drowning man with the minimum of blowback ?” would be frustrated.
Mr. Johnson apparently has experience in such matters, so perhaps you should ask for his opinion in the matter?
Hear hear.
Happy New Year. My father’s bane was ever fighting against Americans.
Stephen M. Walt has written an article closely related to this article by Larry:
https://archive.vn/2022.12.13-231259/https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/12/13/the-united-states-couldnt-stop-being-stupid-if-it-wanted-to/
The United States Couldn’t Stop Being Stupid if It Wanted To
For Washington, self-imposed restraint will always be a contradiction in terms.
Walt brings up some very serious and significant issues,
which I think explain why leftists such as Hilary Rodham Clinton have supported so many wars with states controlled by conservative men
(think the Taliban and Afghanistan, Hussein and Iraq, Khadaffi.and Libya, Assad and Syria).
Not the, often blamed for these wars, “military-indudtrial complex”.
Quoting from Walt’s article:
Walt also writes of
One should ask why that is.
I think the answer is obvious:
It reflects the desires of those who are funding the “think tanks” (really, lobbying firms and influence operations).
The Clintons are liberals who hate “leftists”, The wife spends most of her time destroying “leftist” factions within the Democrats.
The US state – both liberal and conservative factions – is happiest killing “leftist” countries: Afghanistan (in 80s), Iraq (under Baathist socialism), Syria (under Baathist socialism), Vietnam, Central and South America, Yugoslavia, Libya, North Korea.
The idea that the USA is “leftist-controlled” is kooky. The idea that the USA is “liberal-controlled” captures at least part of reality.
But otherwise its great to see an “old school” comment section!