Even though a growing number of Western elites are awakening to the reality that Ukraine is headed for defeat and will drag NATO along with it, the so-called intellectual cognoscenti of foreign policy, like the editorial board of the NY Times, continue to indulge fantasies and delusions. They conclude a Sunday editorial pleading for more money for Zelensky and the losing cause with this:
Mr. Trump and his followers may argue that the security of Ukraine, or even of Europe, is not America’s business. But the consequence of allowing a Russian victory in Ukraine is a world in which authoritarian strongmen feel free to crush dissent or seize territory with impunity. That is a threat to the security of America, and the world.
The Washington and New York establishments continue to insist that Vladimir Putin is an “authoritarian strongman.” I have one word of advice — look in the damn mirror and pay attention to what is happening in the United States before you mount your moral high horse and gallop off to lecture other countries on democracy and human rights.
When I read penultimate sentence in the paragraph above I asked myself the question, “How many political prisoners are there in Russia?” I was not surprised by the answer.
“For political prisoners, the situation is often worse, because the state aims to additionally punish them, or additionally isolate them from the world, or do everything to break their spirit,” Vaypan said. His group counts 680 political prisoners in Russia.
Guess what? The United States has prosecuted (and persecuted) twice as many political prisoners than Russia.
In the three years since the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, federal prosecutors have charged more than 1,265 defendants across nearly all 50 states and D.C. and secured sentences of incarceration for more than 460 people, according to newly released numbers from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in D.C.
In remarks Friday, Attorney General Merrick Garland described the Justice Department’s sprawling probe of the Capitol attack as “one of the largest and most complex and resource-intensive investigations in our history.”
None of these numbers capture the lawfare assault on former President Trump and many of the people who served in key positions during his administration. The Biden Administration routinely chastises many other countries — most recently India — for prosecuting political opponents. Talk about lack of self-awareness and irony.
So spare me the bullshit about Russia being a soul crushing attack on personal liberty while claiming the United States is the bastion of freedom and justice. It is a lie. And I say that without delving into the Federal Government’s collaboration with social media to attack conservatives and censor articles and persons who are not in line with Biden’s woke agenda, as thoroughly documented by the reporting of Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi. Then there is the proven case of the Biden Administration’s attack on scientists and physicians who challenged the specious CDC claims and remedies for COVID is just another glaring example of the putrid authoritarianism emanating from Washington, DC.
Here is part two of my discussion with Nima. We focus on the implications for NATO and Secretary of State Blinken’s crazy claim that Ukraine will get to join the NATO club.
That was an excellent discussion with Nima. Well done, Mr. Johnson!
I continue to believe that Biden and his string pullers will try to cancel the election in November.
They will do this in order to save democracy.
Orwell meant 1984 to be a warning not an instruction manual.
Not to worry, that will go on the banned list, too. These elites are defective “human” beings.
They already slapped a “trigger warning” on it in the UK. I think some of the fools wanted to rewrite it as well at one point. Odds are they will shortly try again.
Perhaps.
On the other hand one could make a case that defective human beings have always been in charge.
They won’t have to cancel the election. As the inimitable Josef Stalin put it, “Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”
2.5 million lines of code – give me a break!
Thank you, Larry, for your forthright defense of liberty here in America. To translate the Times into English: “authoritarian strongmen feel free to crush dissent or seize territory with impunity. That is a threat to the security of America, and the world” means “It is a threat to the American empire to have other authoritarian strongmen feel free to crush dissent or seize territory with impunity. That role must be ours alone!”
It’s fits Israel to the T.
Something along the lines of “projection” and “telling a big enough lie often enough”.
It’s damn easy to control minds these days when you have the power, money, depravity and belief in your righteousness about it all.
The one thing these evil forces have misjudged is that there IS a higher authority. And that their hubris and lack of fear might be on their final report card.
The world has been waiting millennia for our oppressors to get their just deserts from God. Has it EVER happened? At best we get yet another set of megalomaniacs with thugs in tow. Hudson exposes the history of the Oligarchs, but somehow the message, so obvious, never seems to escape scholarly discourse.
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency of the certainty of corruption by authority.”
Lord Acton
Looks like us mere humans have to do it for ourselves.
The ‘support the Ukrainianian cause ‘or else” argument is wearing out as people begin to absorb the consequences of supporting this war. Those are bad enough and will get worse for the west. They are bad enough already to kill off the cartoon posturing and start publicly acknowledging Russia’s legitimate grievances and how to deal with those, rather than continuing to play cowboys and Indians with the whole mess.
“All wars are bankers’ wars.” Smedley Butler
Who benefits (or thought they would) from the Ukraine debacle? It’s a long list, but recently Blackrock showed it’s hand as THE major corporate player. Guess who has a huge stake in Blackrock? Rothschild & Co.
Who was taking massive kickbacks from Burisma? The Dems via the Bribe’ems and Kerry.
Who has an “in” with Hillary Clinton? Lynn de Rothschild.
Which Swamper was in charge of the Ukie-Nazi Project? Nuland, who is now safely ensconced next to Hillary at Columbia.
But somehow it’s the politicians and Swampers just “playing cowboys and Indians”… they are indeed not the progenitors of all this, they are the well-paid puppets playing the roles handed to them. Promises of future stature go a long way with the religiously committed crowd.
Don’t forget Soros. I do believe we have him on record from the late ’90s musing about how great it would be to have Slavs killing Slavs using weapons sold them by “the west.”
As Swift said, you know when a genius has entered the world because the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
I get it that Putin is bad for the dunces, bad for the pathetic macho posturing Macron and his ilk because he keeps on showing them up. Oh how they hate him.
But how is Putin and ‘Putin’s Russia’ bad for the rest of us? Why is its family applauding old style christianity so horrendous? It is no good just saying he will conquer us if we do not conquer him. Where is the evidence for that?
There is however plenty of evidence to back Russia’s claim that we in the west have been bad for Russia, seeking in one way or another to chip away at it and its sphere of influence, all in the cause of snaffling its resources, ever since we lied the Soviet Union into a surrender giving us a ‘victory’ we had never earned, and then Putin came along and frustrated the west in its desire to finish the job.
Russia won’t make that mistake twice.
“But how is Putin and ‘Putin’s Russia’ bad for the rest of us?”
My wife would tell you it’s because Putin started an unprovoked war when he invaded Ukraine, because his soldiers committed a massacre in Bucha, because under his direct orders Putin had children stolen from Mariupol (making Putin a sought after War Criminal), because Putin wants to take the rest of Europe after he’s finished taking Ukraine, because Putin is a murderer who kills his political rivals, people like Navalny.
Every talking point that CNN has hammered into her head my wife believes, (it was the same with Covid). When I have tried, with facts, to convince her otherwise she says it’s best if we just don’t talk about it. It drives me crazy that she can’t see through the media’s BS about Putin and Russia but she won’t budge on her (and her entire Portuguese family’s) views. I’m the odd man out, so I try to keep my mouth shut around everybody except my 20-year-old nephew who likes me a lot, has an open mind, and is willing to listen, to calmly and intelligently question.
It helps not being completely opposed by everyone.
Having been exposed – by me- to daily doses of The Duran, Judge Nap, Col MacGregor, Ritter etc for 2+ years, my wife is fairly up to speed on geopolitics.
Alas, the wider family are lost in MSM brainwashed mode, but I have noticed that the “unprovoked” war is rarely mentioned now.
In the UK an official “Don’t mention the war” (Fawlty Towers) omerta has been imposed on the nation, as it’s become clear to even the brain-dead that Ukraine is losing/has lost.
“Having been exposed – by me- to daily doses of The Duran, Judge Nap, Col MacGregor, Ritter etc for 2+ years, my wife is fairly up to speed on geopolitics.”
I wish I could say the same about my wife. Granted, she’s very busy with full-time work, housework, plus caring for her 93-year-old wheelchair-bound mother. But, when I’m upstairs late at night, watching the same shows that you watch with your wife, my wife is downstairs watching CNN (the Portuguese version is just as bad, if not worse, than the American original) with her 90-year-old father. I don’t begrudge her her time spent with her elderly father, I just wish, at this stage of the game, that their quality time spent together didn’t revolve around unquestionably absorbing non-stop Western media brainwashing.
It was the same thing with Covid which, after three long years, ended, thank God, when Ukraine began. For that alone I thank Putin.
I find it interesting that while people will clearly see the MSM/gov’t lies on some issues, but they completely trust the MSM/gov’t on other issues.
You carry the “official narrative” to the extremes on Israel, but see reality on Russia.
Here’s an open secret…the “official narrative” is ALL lies. ALL LIES. The old joke, how do you know when a politician is lying? His lips are moving.
“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” William Casey, CIA Director under Reagan
(I don’t give links to this verified quote anymore because of the few in existence, one site completely disappeared and another the page was scrubbed. Obviously the Empire of Lies doesn’t like the truth to be told about it’s Lies.)
So Reagan, the darling of the Religious Right, knew from day-one what the CIA and the rest of the Swamp was up to. And did nothing to stop it, joined right in with Thatcher.
See, the RR beatifies Reagan, and ignores the Swamp/MSM covering up his culpability in the Lies. Ditto Trump, here’s but one example, “the Clintons are good people”. HOW can anyone trust someone whose worldview contains that, let alone the fragile ego that can’t admit he’s going bald?
Trump will probably win (assuming the election is held), but no one should be under any illusions he going to “save America”. The cleanest dirty shirt.
“Trump will probably win (assuming the election is held), but no one should be under any illusions he going to “save America”. The cleanest dirty shirt.”
Unfortunately, I believe your words are true.
At best Trump can stop the hemorrhaging, and at the very best he’ll also be able to kick out millions of the 8 to 10 million illegals who’ve swarmed across our borders (and straight to welfare) since Biden took office.
If Trump had RFK Jr.’s intellect, and understanding of how Washington D.C.’s ABC departments work, the system could be torn down and rebuilt. With Trump in office we will, at best, just be able to buy ourselves some time – along with greatly lowering the chances of the USA starting WWIII.
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“You carry the “official narrative” to the extremes on Israel…”
As for the Palestinians, I know they’d be cheering the loudest if it was Israel who was on the receiving end of all their current pain and suffering.
If the Gazans are so wonderful why doesn’t the Muslim World take their Muslim “brothers and sisters” in during their greatest time of need?
I’ll tell you why. It’s because Muslims know what thankless, violent royal pains-in-the-asses these Palestinians/Gazans are.
I have had over a decade of first-hand experience living in a 30%-Muslim European capital: Brussels. The Moroccan Muslims ruined much of Brussels just as Pakistani Muslims have ruined many parts of England, and Algerian Muslims have ruined many parts of France. I speak from first-hand experience when I say that whatever city in the West Muslims go to and congregate in large numbers they ruin it. All you have to do is to look at their crime, violent crime, welfare statistics and now, acts of terrorism in Western cities.
Viktor Orbán was correct in telling the EU to go get f*cked when they tried to shove massive third-world Muslim immigration down Hungary’s throat, and the Hungarian people love him for it.
P.S. I also have no great love for Israel and for Jews. I know they’d sell me, a member of another tribe, down river just as readily as Muslims would.
Nice side-step. Readers should note the attempt to distance your extreme Christian theology and its attendant exceptionalist attitude from its Judaic-Zionist foundations.
Hating Muslims in general is 100% US/ZATO “Israel official narrative”, at least until the Muslims flex their electoral muscles. See Bribe’em’s reaction to the Michigan “undecided” Dems and Trudy’s rhetorical tap dance to keep the Canadian Muslim voters on-side. The “it’s all Hamas’s fault” is the usual propaganda tactic.
The rest of the bigoted bile you spout speaks for itself, that can’t be all blamed on the Swamp or MSM. Maybe learned from your Christian “community”, and a healthy dose of Epoch Times-style yellow journalism?
Does it ever occur to you that a large portion of the migrants from the various places the US/ZATO has intentionally disrupted may not be the best and brightest of that society? And there’s a reason they left the country the US/ZATO targeted, and they know who is to blame… the societies that blindly tolerate such reprehensible criminals who pose as politicians and oligarchs. The EU and Britain just happen to be the closest, easiest places to escape to, thanks to Soros et.al.
The US isn’t getting many Muslim migrants from South/Central America, but the problems are largely the same, for the same reasons.
The Muslim families in my community are largely law-abiding, decent people, trying to fit into the existing society without losing their heritage. They were welcoming and gracious when their children invited my non-believer children to attend their celebrations. And no attempts to recruit, just invited to enjoy their traditions and wonderful food.
Tolerance and cooperation, it works wonders… see Chechnya.
“The Muslim families in my community are largely law-abiding, decent people, trying to fit into the existing society without losing their heritage.”
Wonderful.
But personal anecdotes are just that – anecdotes.
Like blacks in the USA, Muslims in Brussels are nine, ten, or more-times more likely to be violent, criminal, and on welfare. Unlike American blacks our Muslims have, so far, made up 100% of our murderous terrorists. The crime, welfare, and violence statistics do not lie – they are facts. But everyone is supposed to still pretend, after all the evidence to the contrary, that diversity is our strength.
It’s no secret: Muslim immigration into Europe has been a disaster.
If Biden decides to bring a million Gazans to America in order to win over the Muslim vote it means that that many more non-Muslim Americans will vote for Trump.
But YOUR personal anecdotes and OPINIONS are valid?…
Without hard numbers to back up your suppositions, I call bullshit.
No, I’m not doing your homework for you, you claimed it, you prove it. I doubt the actual crime numbers will support your 10x BS.
And you buy the Official Narrative on who was behind 9/11… Muslims with boxcutters… FFS. 3 buildings drop into their own basements within hours… never anything even remotely like it before, never since. Hook, line and sinker…
And when did Bribe’em say he was going to import a million Gazans? Making shit up to support your bogus claims.
Desperation…
Aww!! Someone needs to write a code that explodes his computer anytime he types Brussels on his computer.
I believe this guy is an old geezer judging by the number of times a day he tells his stories of being pickpocketed by an Nigerian or how his wife came back to him after being thrown out by the Algerian she had run away with.
Muslim boys will be Muslim boys! In this case Moroccan, not Nigerian or Algerian. But hey, looking on the bright side, at least they didn’t join ISIS! The report doesn’t tell us if the donkey was male or female, either way, poor donkey. Donkey diddling is probably quite common in The Wonderful World of Muslim!
News Flashback: 15 Muslim children and teenagers catch rabies after gang raping an infected donkey in Morocco:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/fifteen-teens-children-treated-rabies-10999810
Had to dig back 7 years to find that gem…obvious where YOUR mind is stuck.
A picture worth a thousand words.
I understand. Perhaps you can turn it into a book someday. You could call it “I fell in love with a midwit.” If it helps at all, you aren’t alone.
“As Swift said, you know when a genius has entered the world because the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”
Biting-my-tongue…
I watched the new video earlier.
We are definitely in a “samizdat” period in the US now. I first learned of that term recently when Taibbi wrote about it. If fits perfectly, and man, is the irony heavy. Maybe the worst part being how many of my fellow Americans have not a clue. They still think the “news” and all the bullshit coming from DC is all honest and genuine.
It’s astounding to see all the neocon psychos and idiots peddling the line that “if Russia is allowed to win, it will be on to the next step of their expansionist campaign for territorial gains!”.
It was interesting to hear you talking about the whole neocon psychology, with the complete nonsensical megalomania and idiocy about “spheres of influence” and all.
But then it should not be any mystery or surprise to anyone. The organization might be defunct some years now, but the old website of the Project for the New American Century is still viewable archived on the web, and it’s all laid out, including the basic idea in their crazy little heads that any government on Earth that is considered an obstacle to the neocons in DC being the rulers of a world empire is to be brought to submission or destroyed.
https://web.archive.org/web/20130609154959/http://www.newamericancentury.org/
Thanks for the link. It’s a goldmine.
Look at all the Jewish signatures to the 1999 request asking Clinton to send US ground troops to Kosovo:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130509081054/http://www.newamericancentury.org/balkans_pdf_00.pdf
The lie exists. In the West, lies are a means of manipulating people’s minds. But the dilemma is even greater.
As I often emphasize, I still don’t understand whether and how rational decision-makers in the West think and plan. To what extent are decision-makers in the West lying to themselves? Are they thinking in reality or in a matrix? Every decision-maker was influenced in their childhood by TV, comics and later by books in which the Russian, the Asian, the Arab is always the brutal villain and was defeated by the good guys, the CIA, the FBI and US superheroes. This continued in the universities. But then there was the “career” criterion and the “money” factor. And so they made careers. In the civilian sector, in business, in finance, in the security services, in public administration and in politics. Only those who toe the line make a career. Their world view is based on indoctrination and lies throughout their entire biography. Exceptions prove the rule.
The French writer Robert Merle studied the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp and wrote a book about him. “Death is my profession”. This person is not described as a sadistic psychopath, but as a “conscientious accountant and business economist”. He believed in the righteousness of his actions.
At present, capital interests dominate everything in the West. The merry-go-round of business and politics is the driving force behind corruption. The foundations and NGOs of the oligarchs are the means by which the careers of politicians are organized, who then later make policy and decisions in their interests in the highest offices of state. One example of this is the WEF. However, this also created the problem of negative selection. Today, unscrupulous careerists and ideologues occupy the highest offices of state.
If you think the example of the concentration camp commander is exaggerated, I must disappoint you. The list of people responsible for many millions of deaths is very long. I’ll save myself the trouble of writing a long list of names now. And they are still wealthy and respected personalities today.
Nobody makes such careers who has moral scruples and is critical enough to disagree.
And the majority of ordinary people live in a fairytale world thanks to the media.
All good points. But I do think that a lot of “ordinary people” are pretty skeptical. If you look at the comments sections of MSM newspapers you will see that all of the top rated comments are coming from anti war folks who have seen through the BS.
The fact is, all the neocon wars have ended in disaster of one kind or another, and this one is even more noticeable as it affects western people in their wallets.
“The merry-go-round of business and politics is the driving force behind corruption.”
I’ve always thought that the relationship between Pentagon officials and the Arms Industry was a clear conflict of interest; I never understood how it was legal for the same Pentagon officials, whom decided on which multi-billion dollar weapons systems to buy from a weapons manufacturer, were also able to jump into plush, high-paying, jobs within those same companies they bought from the moment they retired from the military.
Because it’s still relatively fresh:I also wonder how many tens of millions passed between the Pharmaceutical Industry and the US politicians who rammed the Covid “vaccine” into our arms under pain of (basically) house arrest and loss of livelihood. How could anyone say “No!” to those terms?
There are powerful Americans who should be hung for what they did to their fellow citizens, to this country, in the name of fighting Covid yet the whole incident seems to be completely forgotten. All those family businesses and lives ruined, either through bankruptcy or due to a faulty (to many cases fatal) “vaccine.” But it’s old news. Forgotten.
Our government has moved on: “Look! Look! Putin’s hiding under your bed!”
You absolutely nailed it. But until people throw the television into the dumpster where it has always belonged, nothing will change.
Still interesting how you can get Ukraine and Covid JABS right, but be so wrong on Israel…
And you never did clarify if you think Covid originated at the Wuhan lab… so “Christian” Russia GOOD, “commie, atheist” China BAD?
So some MSM lies are true (see your lies about Hamas “rapes and murders” above), others aren’t.
I start to respect mr. Larry so much, voice of reason. If USA admin will have people like him to govern USA will be super power but elites want to dominate the planet without accepting international laws, karma will repay them back as always.
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“But the consequence of allowing a Russian victory in Ukraine is a world in which authoritarian strongmen feel free to crush dissent or seize territory with impunity. That is a threat to the security of America, and the world.”
That is really rich… guess what is even worse? Right: A ‘strongman’ that is opposed in the strongest possible way (just shy of nuclear exchange) and wins nonetheless. Now that would be a strongman worth fearing.
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Maybe it really is the evil strongman that is losing this fight? And maybe that is for the better of the whole world?
The desperation levels of what passes for western leaders is a different order of magnitude to the nuclear brinkmanship of the eighties, and I’m wondering if the US and its satellites won’t retreat into a “garrison state”; in view of financial meltdown being a certainty (can’t say when, but a ponzi is a ponzi) and the desired “global” reset not to the rentier oligarchy’s liking that’s the last best choice (from their point of view)
Disagree. I DO NOT call the rioters of january 6 “Political Prisoners”. But there are certainly “Political Prisoners” in the US. And I fear that with Trump as president the amount of those “Political Prisoners” will increase.
<>. Rioters. Really. Look back 6 months earlier for rioters. Burning shit. Killing people. Blinding people with green lasers. Rioters? Really?
I fear . . . what’s with the fear bit?
Has your little kids got a trump effigy under their beds?
On a more sensible note, you should fear those ‘stirring’ harridans – face lift pelozi, fatty prof, and horned clintone.
Now they ARE enough to keep even adults awake at night.
What you call the Political Prisoners of Jan 6 is irrelevant. They are Political Prisoners and that is a fact.
And the hypocrisy is not just confined to the US. Here in the UK we have the continuing shocking torture of the world’s leading journalist, Julian Assange for exposing NATO war crimes, while “hate speech” laws see people locked up for putting stickers expressing perfectly legal opinions like “it’s ok to be white”. Meanwhile in Scotland now pointing out a cross dressing man is not a woman, risks gaol. In France there have been numerous political prosecutions of National Rally supporters and Germany threatens to ban the main opposition party, AFD. And they all have the nerve to call Putin, who enjoys a level of support that should have any Western politician green with envy, a tyrant.
“And they all have the nerve to call Putin, who enjoys a level of support that should have any Western politician green with envy, a tyrant.”
The same applies to Hungary’s hugely popular, four-time-elected-leader Viktor Orbán, who has been the continual Prime Minister of Hungary since 2010. The entire Western leadership (minus Trump), especially the incompetent EU leaders, hate Viktor Orbán’s populist guts.
Why is that so?
Viktor Orbán refused to go along with the failed EU policy forcing his country’s native soul to be destroyed – like their own EU countries’ souls have been destroyed – by massive, non-integrating, third-world, Muslim immigration. And, just as bad, Orbán won’t warp the minds of Hungarian youths by permitting, as normal, parades where homosexuals in leather thongs dry-hump each other to techno music on Budapest’s streets in celebration of their perverted sexuality (he says to keep it private).
Worst of all, Orbán has proven himself to be 100% correct in not going all-in against Putin/Russia when the USA/EU was demanding his loyalty to them over his loyalty to his own people.
National leaders who care more about their own people/nation/history/traditions than the demands of Globohomo ain’t all too popular among our feckless Western leaders these days.
Well, waiting 5 hours for a comment to get through moderation is akin to being a political prisoner.
Here in the Nazi West, they isolate you. For instance, the other day I was attempted to get a windscreen replacement, but they wouldn’t accept my active Gmail address. Same for registering on this site, would not accept my email, and this is very common for me, say 80% won’t accept either of my two working email addresses.
The next thing, if no one comments on your comment, you’ve no idea if anyone can actually see it, like being shadow banned.
It’s the same on NaziTube. Around 90% of comments are shadow banned. I’ve even proven it, but I think NaziTube insists channels don’t publish a contact email address to prevent people from checking if they are shadow banned, and in the case I managed to prove, using screen shots, because he had an email.
Many talk about the UK being an open prison, and I would agree. I do see myself as a political prisoner, even though I am not affiliated to any group or party,
So you don’t need to be well known, to be a political prisoner.
If you feel unjustly set upon, use the Contact Form to put your case before Larry in private. Attempting to use public Social Pressure to change the situation won’t sit well. Pissing off Larry has consequences.
In my experience when you leave then re-enter the page, the coloured “held for moderation” banner reappears for a short time.
Or to see what the world sees, log out, refresh the page to see if the post appears. If not, it is still in moderation.
“Pissing off Larry has consequences.”
Yea, rumor has it he knows folks from the CIA of all people. Bad lot to piss off, them 😉
I don’t think people who complain necessarily have litigation in mind. Maybe just appealing to the conscience of individuals in powerful institutions
I hate America and the sooner it sinks beneath the waves the better. All the world’s problems come from that fetid, stinking, evil hellhole.
An article that I agree with you completely. I have been telling any who would listen that “our” institutions use of the word democracy is a sure sign that we do not have one. It is the same as the guy who you just meet, spends his time trying to convince you how “tough” he is, it is a dead give away that he is the opposite of “tough”
Nima is an excellent interviewer he understands that it is Larry we need to hear.
So the NY Times doesn’t like strong men.
That’s 3 minutes of my life I won’t get back
There are more political prisoners than those that Mr. Johnson lists. All are being unjustly punished.
Shadow banning applies not only to conservative critics of government policy. Socialists too get the same treatment.
I thank Larry for his vigorous advocacy for first amendment rights. We need more speech not less. This country has serious problems and no proposals for remedies should discarded cavalierly.
The NYT hates VVP because Russia protects children from LGBT propaganda. That is his original sin in their eyes and they defame him because of that one issue. I know there are other reasons, but that is their #1 issue.
Fortunately, people around the world see that he is a good man who loves Russia and looks out for the welfare of children. People no longer buy the slander aimed at him.
Terrific piece. The title of your interview with Dima- ‘NATO’s worse Nightmare’ is a fitting description of the evolving strategic/military debacle confronting the US/NATO in Ukraine. Consider-
1. Foreign policy- The Pentagon has not ‘won’ a war since 1945. Despite spending > $21 trillion of American taxpayer $$ on post-911 militarization, we confront military disasters in: Afghanistan, Iraq. Libya, Syria, Yemen/Red Sea, Ukraine and Gaza. Not only have these conflicts irreversible undermined US national security, they have provided a vivid display of the limitations of US military power. Unfortunately, after ‘investing’ so much human and financial capital in these campaigns, the Pentagon is incapable of extricating itself from these conflicts as doing so is an admission of defeat and by extension, military weakness. (See: 20 Years of War: A Costs of War Research Series; https://www.bu.edu/pardee/research/20-years-of-war-a-costs-of-war-research-series/).
2. Domestic front- Decades of neoliberal economic policies- tax cuts for the wealthy, financial deregulation, attacks on labor/job outsourcing/plant closures which gave rise to the 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) which was never resolved. Since that time, the US ‘economy’ has been sustained by an orgy of money printing- since 2009 the FED has pumped over circa $50 trillion to prop up equity markets (stocks & bonds), [still] insolvent banks and buying up mortgage-backed securities. As a result, debt levels have exploded- US government debt now exceeds $34 trillion & increasing ~ $1 trillion every 100 days & does not include municipal, corporate or consumer debt (see- https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEBTN; https://www.usdebtclock.org/).
Bottom line- we are seeing the accelerating decline of late-stage American capitalism whose very survival is contingent upon continuous debt monetization (aka ‘money printing’). This is destroying our country.
The objective was not to “win” wars, it was to sow chaos and destruction, to prevent the “good examples” from succeeding.
The domestic financial-economic depredations you list led the US and its US$ Reserve dependencies into massive debt, and debt is the historically documented lever of choice used by the Oligarchs to take control of gov’ts.
“You will own nothing”… which means they will own everything.
Assange is a political prisoner of the U.S. as we use our extended reach to punish whistleblowers who dare to say anything that embarrasses us even when it’s true. The MSM only ‘leaks’ info that our govt wants us to hear.
I just came across this new piece on The Grayzone, and it seems important to get in here, relevant to the new (well, refreshed, anyway) public barking about “Ukraine will join the NATO club real soon, because, like, freedom and democracy and Russian aggression n’stuff”.
Meet Centuria, Ukraine’s Western-trained neo-Nazi army
https://thegrayzone.com/2024/04/07/centuria-ukraines-western-neo-nazi-army/
Among other things, in the top photo, note the overt presence of a certain symbol shared by both the SS of Nazi Germany and the Ukrainian Azov Battalion.
A little graphic aid.
Not very flattering to these folks, for them to believe the Nazis would have endorsed the self-determination of any Slav
That has always been a huge and astonishing irony about the whole thing, in my mind. All those Banderite cult characters enthusiastically signing up climbing onboard the Third Reich bandwagon, even as it seems certain to me that the “Aryan” Nazis probably regarded them with contempt.
More to suggest strongly that along with being malevolent psychopaths, they were not especially bright.
“The foul beast is already here, among us. How can we be so blind?”
From Meyssan’s ominous warning : The alliance of MI6, the CIA and the Bandéristes
https://www.voltairenet.org/article216406.html
See the video clip of Secret Order Centuria Ceremony.
This is the danger.
Many refugees from Ukraine are bringing years of such nihilist ideology to Europe, and go right by the radar.
Kids in school grow up with this. It is too easy to identify only Azov, or obvious ideologues.
This already in Apr 2022. The “training video” there preceded Paris finding Javelin’s there.
Is this a Gladio 2 stay behind?
This is the danger.
Many refugees from Ukraine are bringing years of such nihilist ideology to Europe, and go right by the radar.
Kids in school grow up with this. It is too easy to identify only Azov, or obvious ideologues.
There is a whole can of worms, there, all the Ukrainian refugees scattered through Europe, with the question lurking under the surface” how many are of the Banderite fascist kind. I do understand that it’s worse, and more subtle, than the obvious cases (e.g., Azov, the blatant overt characters covered in Nazi tattoos, and so on)… there’s the matter of how many are more subtle, even if it’s just a case of someone indoctrinated all their life and carrying a lot around somewhat subconsciously.
All this is important, and I suspect it will become more and more of a problem. Combine the dispersal through Europe of Uke refugees with what will happen when it becomes widely understood that Ukraine has been completely fucked by the US neocons combined with their EU/NATO vassal puppets. That’s on top of the inherent basic problem… as somebody once put it, “Nazis gonna Nazi!”.
It’s worth mentioning this. I forget where I heard it and who said it. I think one was a former Ukrainian diplomat who worked in DC until after the 2014 coup (when he realized what was happening to his country, and bailed, wanting no part of it).
The point is, from a couple different sources I considered to probably be credible, it was said that maybe around 30% or so of the Ukrainian population were either overt full on Banderite cult Nazis, or not directly part of it, but sympathetic. Both a minority and also a lot of people.
Kiev changed the school books :
RF Ambassador to the UN Nebenzia asked his French counterpart at the UN if he knew he was Ukrainian.
https://ria.ru/20220512/nebenzya-1788200476.html
Here the source of absolute, and Biblical, truth is referenced – Kiev school textbooks. (Hilarious article!)
Those who push “ethnic” identity-politics, in fashion today in NATOstan, ought to check these sources!
“I find there now that we are ALL Ukrainians, and Jesus is likely from Galicia, as the Pharoah Mena took his name from Mena in Ukraine.”
All in Geography for the 8th grade edited by Maslyak and Kapirulin, the French, Spaniards, Portuguese, Turks and even Jews came from Ukraine.
History of Ukraine for the 7th grade under the general editorship of Lyakh and Temirova, it is said that the formation of the Ukrainian people has 140,000 years.
A History textbook for the 9th grade edited by Turchenko and Moroko states that by the end of the 18th century, Ukrainians at that time were one of the largest peoples in Europe”.
In other words EU people have no idea what these refugees “know”. And we are the dumbest inferior idiots according to them.!
Just imagine these in a EU school!
The “irrational hatred of Russia” has deep roots going back to the Cold War. The poisoning and assassination stories like Litvinenko or the Skripals, polonium or Novichok, strikes a deep chord in that subliminal hatred, with all the Cold War spy stories ever written. It’s a literal concert of psyop inspired hatred. There was also the the poisoning of Victor Yushcheno with dioxin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yushchenko
Then there’s Hollywood where the traditional adversary is always Russia and they are always painted as unspeakably evil. The beginner’s mind, observing such narratives, will invent pre-patterned reactionionary hatred of such depravities and prejudice against the alleged depraved, and doesn’t trend toward judicial and forensic analysis, like it should, because the design of the propaganda is to create hatred.
So everybody blames Putin for it? It’s a big outfit and they can afford it? Nobody blames Reagan and other US Presidents for the School of the Americas. Kennedy wasn’t blamed for the Bay of Pigs because it was investigated and published but modern day media investigates and knows dick. That’s why somebody like Assange was needed and why they don’t want him back.
“Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims.”
― Julian Assange
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/4553283.Julian_Assange
I don’t think Assange was always right, but I expected him to figure it out eventually.
An Assange Putin interview could be interesting. But what have they done to him?
The “irrational hatred of Russia” has deep roots going back to the Cold War. The poisoning and assassination stories like Litvinenko or the Skripals, polonium or Novichok, strikes a deep chord in that subliminal hatred, with all the Cold War spy stories ever written. It’s a literal concert of psyop inspired hatred. There was also the the poisoning of Victor Yushchenko with dioxin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yushchenko
Then there’s Hollywood where the traditional adversary is always Russia and they are always painted as unspeakably evil. The beginner’s mind, observing such narratives, will invent pre-patterned reactionionary hatred of such depravities and prejudice against the allegedly depraved, and doesn’t trend toward judicial and forensic analysis, like it should, because the design of the propaganda is to create hatred.
So everybody blames Putin for it? It’s a big outfit and they can afford it? Nobody blames Reagan and other US Presidents for the School of the Americas. Kennedy wasn’t blamed for the Bay of Pigs because it was investigated and published but modern day media investigates and knows dick. That’s why somebody like Assange was needed and why they don’t want him back.
“Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims.”
― Julian Assange
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/4553283.Julian_Assange
I don’t think Assange was always right, but I expected him to figure it out eventually.
An Assange Putin interview could be interesting. But what have they done to him?
I agree that Russia waited until after winter to take out the Ukraine electrical grid, for humanitarian reasons. But I also think they will continue to attack the electric and gas facilities going forward, so that the people of Ukraine will both realize and have the time to leave Ukraine. This will take down Ukraine’s economy, while at the same time causing an immigrant crisis in Europe. I think people underestimate the damage Russia is doing to the economies and to the militaries of the Collective West.
If the US had to fight a war now, they would be low on equipment, and the strategic oil reserve is almost empty. Add to that a woke military and a population that is physically unfit and has no stomach for war. There are no safe spaces on the battlefield.. and there is no such thing as a participation trophy…
Following his determined compliance with the party line and ardent blind script reading while under duress.
ADM Kirby USN has been inducted into the Tommy Atkins Hall of “Complete Military Balderdash, Bollocks and BS”.
In recreation of his actions, he has been given the honorary rank of Seaman.
It was good to see RFK Jr. put out a video about the reality in Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/KevinMNelsonUSA/status/1777098493137440934
Spot on, as always, Mr J 😀
America’s Hypocrisy as An Authoritarian State Being Exposed as Ukraine Flounders
There fixed it.
Israel uses Gospel and Lavender, and ChatGPT AI.
Pentagon has a major contract with Thiel’s (GOP donor) Palantir AIP.
Someone wrote that the danger of AI is when huge systems integrate in a hierarchy.
That has already started :
Palantir AIP | Defense and Military
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEM5qz__HOU
This AIP, integrated with OpenAI and Bard, from billionaire Thiel, is ready to both generate and conduct military operations.
Palantir CEO Karp already in Feb told WaPo that AIP was already used in Ukraine.
Obvious question – what if a Chatbot gave firing orders and the Pentagon only found out later?
This is likely why Musk and others call for a moratorium! There is a Congress bill to block AI and nukes.
Improving an algorithm in a bombed rubble heap will not put the city back!
(Larry with the Judge..)
What unsettles me in these times is, that the brain-washing of the crowds is beyond what I could have ever imagined!
Sadly enough I see this in my direct surroundings and it is so deeply ingrained, that it is almost impossible to still reach the respective persons in any way lest with arguments and facts and logic.
This is probably also the case with many politicians, who still believe, that the Russian Federation is a 1:1 replica of the USSR and Putin was the best pupil Stalin and Lenin ever had.
These folks know NOTHING about Russia and it´s people and still they have already passed the verdict of Russia = Danger for the “free” world.
I am very grateful for your work, Larry, as also for what the late Gonzalo Lira did and what comes from Brian Berletic, Matt Taibbi or also Tom Luongo and ZeroHedge, to name just a few.
The masses have always been brainwashed, the big difference is that before the internet, the truth was much harder to find, and so the brainwashing was more effective.
Most of the history people have been taught is all lies. Very few people in the world even today understand the real truth about history and how it affects what is happening today. The truth is like peeling an onion, every layer reveals a new layer, and another piece of the puzzle. The problem is the more you learn, the darker the story gets.
I used have discussions with someone who was a Mason, and he talked more than he was supposed to. He told me one day that my search for the truth was counterproductive. He said the truth was a paradox. That the more truth you know, the more you will wish you did not know…. Some days I think he was right. I think how nice it would be to go back to being a happy idiot….
Couldn’t have said it better myself. We are living in very dangerous times. I can’t be sure, but I perceive the conflict between the Russian Federation and those who have hijacked “the west” as a conflict between those who embrace the idea of objectivity as something to strive for against those (the west) who think perception is reality and everything is a “social construction.” That’s what I see, big time.
Consider our economic assumptions here in “the west” called Modern Monetary Theory. In a nutshell it claims the government can print all the fiat currency they want, because they can use the law to require its acceptance in transactions. That’s what it boils down to. Supply and demand do not concern these people–outside objective forces do not concern these people–at all. What has this, alongside the weaponization of the financial system against Russia that violates clear international laws and norms, resulted in? The globe is fleeing the dollar. For the first time since, hell, Bretton-Woods (?) oil is being bought and paid for with Rubles, with Yuan, with Rupee’s, with Rial’s, with Riyal’s. That is not my imagination. That shit is happening in real time. Those who hijacked “the west” are utterly destroying it, from top to bottom, inside and out, socially, culturally, and militarily.
Our glorious leaders and the pack of crooks in Kiev think dollars ARE bullets, that paper money can magically be turned into bombs and shells. That’s not the way it works. Reality intrudes, and in a war, one doesn’t have the option of dodging reality. What has been the reaction of the Zelinsky pack? I can tell you straight up: with each passing day they sound more like the Nazi’s holed up in Berlin in 1943. They lie to themselves and believe their own outlandish propaganda. I’m sure the drugs help. It’s beyond amazing.
Stupid shallow people like John McCain used to call Russia “a gas station pretending to be a country.” Turns out, Ukraine is a PR firm pretending to be same. THAT’S the reality, and I strongly believe the common people aren’t buying it, beyond a small hard core of True Believers. What we appear to have among the leadership of the EU and the Five Eyes is a cult-like, closed system phenomena. Group Think writ large. They simply can’t imagine losing to the Russians. It’s beyond their comprehension.
The real danger is in the shift of their mantra from “as long as it takes” to “whatever it takes.” They are outright saying, many of them, “Russia cannot be allowed to win this conflict.” This, of course, is around six months after the White House proclaimed that “Russia has already lost this conflict.” See how that works? They are in utter denial, and becoming dangerous in their desperation. There are many among them, I think, who’s racist hatred of Russians for being Russian and Russian culture is so strong they would in fact be willing to start WW3 before accepting defeat. These people are a clear and present danger to the future of all humanity, IMO. They should be assassinated at this point. It’s that dangerous, IMO.
How that could be done effectively is obviously beyond me.
I’m going a little overboard on comments here (seriously, I’m not one of those people who hammers away on stuff like this all day), but there’s also this.
But the consequence of allowing a Russian victory in Ukraine is a world in which authoritarian strongmen feel free to crush dissent or seize territory with impunity. That is a threat to the security of America, and the world.
I’m sure virtually everybody reading here recognizes the obvious bullshit. But just to spell it out plainly, it’s disgusting to see the continuing harping on the fictional tale about “seizing territory” and such, when there has never been any glimmer of a sign that the geographically largest nation on the planet has any interest in seizing territory, for any reason. It has been forced upon them to have a situation where they might find it necessary to take control of some areas just because of the sources of trouble there. (See: Banderite Nazis.)
Still completely ignoring the plain simple truth of reality of the “SMO” setting out to force the Ukrainian military out of territory where it does not belong ever since the former Ukrainian oblasts of Donetsk and Lugansk declared independence, and those areas doing that because of the coup overthrowing the democratically elected president, done by people who then wanted to either drive them away or just kill them (and likewise with the people to the south in Crimea, who opted to rejoin Russia, and were accepted).
I know, none of this is likely to need to be explained to most, if not all, readers here, but it merits being spelled out again just to fully express my disgust with the gross mendacity of the New York Times. I really think they went beyond any hope of redemption quite a while ago, and I wonder what will happen to that once respectable paper when the truth finally gets through the fog of propaganda and a kind of critical mass of the US citizenry understand the complete corruption.
It’s going to be rough for a lot of people who have had their little Uke flags and declaration of “I stand with Ukraine” and all that, when the day finally comes that they realize they’ve been force fed complete backwards upside down reality inversion bullshit for a decade now, and still counting. That can’t come soon enough, for the sake of the whole world, really, and that’s not hyperbole.
But the NYT, and a list of other formerly credible and respected “news media”, are likely to go swirling around the bowl and down the plumbing when we get there.
I suspect much of the world reads that NYT article thus:
“But the consequence of allowing a Russian victory in Ukraine is a world in which [our] authoritarian strongmen [no longer] feel free to crush dissent or seize territory with impunity. That is a threat to the security of America, and the world [we own].”
The west is obviously now in the “bargaining” stage of the anticipatory grief cycle. I like the “…and drag Nato down” phrasing. Works well, but where do they go next? Depression and then Acceptance? Seems a hard pill to swallow for a hugely misinformed sullen population falling from their apex of colonial grace.
Back in the 1950’s Donald R. Cressey published a model called the “fraud triangle” to help account for the risk of employed servants embezzling other people’s money. The three factors were pressure, opportunity, and the key: the capacity to rationalize the theft.
In justifying to themselves why their fraud is “okay” these Nato public servant bandits know that the USA is printing the loot and no taxpayer is harmed (at least in the short term). In their sick minds they know that if it was not the Russians then it would be the Martians. Whatever it takes to maintain poodles on a leash. And thirdly, they know the ‘exceptionalism’ status of their post-colonial elite is crumbling and a new world and a new people are emerging. Symbolically, the Donbas was always a center of worker’s consciousness. The need to ‘snuff it out’ is existential for the real owners of the exclusive Clubs that George Carlin rightly pointed out.
They know that revolutions begin when the people cannot eat. And they know the double-bind they face is based on declining capacity to dominate the globe without inexpensive Russian energy and resources. It is increasingly ‘make or break’ time and back into the Medieval corner they crawled out of during the Industrial Revolution and so called Enlightenment.
A couple of years back the Ukraine was a nowhere flyover space. I’m constantly amazed at the images of small towns and fields density sitting on rich dark black soils. Big Agriculture must surely have a broad-acre genetically modified industrial farming model in mind. Very few of these expansionist wars ever proceed without the costs being calculated to be covered by the conquest. A Nato loss is going to displease the hungry shareholders, big time.
I read today that the vast majority of Ukrainian military fodder comes from the rural villages and farmlands — not the large cities. Makes sense if even the local oligarchs want a net-effect outcome to fill their pockets. The Scottish Clearances come to mind: “The Highland Clearances (the “eviction of the Gaels”) were the forced evictions of a significant number of tenants in the Scottish Highlands and Islands, mostly in two phases from 1750 to 1860″ (Wikipedia). They had the USA and British empire to crawl around. Today, the Ukrainian “Gaels” are less fortunate with their alternative “clearance” options.
Let the rationalization games begin. The resultant blood-bath is likely to put Rome to shame.
The Anglosphere is unique among the empires of history. Both England, and her daughter, America, and her sisters, all claim that their historic mission is to disarm cheats and punish villains, and to bring liberation to the oppressed. But now the whole world sees the lie for what it really is. And they’ve had enough. Washington and London strictly control what the English speaking peoples know about the world outside of the Anglosphere. And they seek to give the impression that that the Cold War, and the 20th Century, never ended. We’re still at war with Germany and Russia in Europe, and with China and Japan in Asia. Even though those countries and peoples have moved on into the 21st Century. Where the Anglosphere has no power, or influence anymore. And is nothing but a dangerous, dying animal, or a senile old psychopath on his last breath. George Orwell’s Oceania actually exists. The rocket bombs are hypersonic. But the rest of the world doesn’t live in 1984. Or in constant, artificial fear.
Nima Alkhorshid had a 2 hour long podcast with Jacques Baud (a person you refrerred to in one of your posts here on your blog):
Title: “Russia Has Ground Down Ukraine’s Army and Defeated NATO’s Doctrine | Jacques Baud”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2Dvoh2IK9M
(I remain of the opinion that as soon as the US goes “down the drain” NATO will go the same route as well.And the US is NOT “in the best of financial shapes”).
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