European racism and revanchism is alive and well and toxic as ever. The latest manifestation of this toxicity comes courtesy of the Atlantic Magazine publishing a piece by Phillips Payson O’Brien with the catchy title, The U.S. and Europe Are Splitting Over Ukraine. Ah, divorce is on the horizon? I pray that O’Brien is right on this point.
O’Brien, an ethnic Irish man born in Boston but working in Scotland as a professor at the University of St. Andrews, accomplishes the amazing feat with his article by coming up with the right conclusion while getting the underlying predicates staggeringly wrong.
He starts by praising NATO as the most successful military alliance EVER, without acknowledging that the raison d’être for NATO was the existence of the Soviet Union. When the Soviet Union broke up like a blob of mercury hit with a hammer, NATO had a mid-life crisis — who the hell do we fight now? Before long NATO hit on Serbia as an opportune target and then started recruiting new members to join this really swell military club. Then came 9-11 and NATO members were roped into helping fight Iraqis and Afghanis. The fact that Europe’s security did not hinge on what happened in Iraq and Afghanistan is ignored. Flexing muscles and bombing brown people became a thing for NATO.
So guess who O’Brien blames for the potential collapse of NATO? If you guessed Donald Trump take a victory lap. O’Brien writes;
When the dominant faction within one of the two major American political parties can’t see the point in helping a democracy-minded country fight off Russian invaders, that suggests that the center of the political spectrum has shifted in ways that will render the U.S. a less reliable ally to Europe.
That is rich. Here is a guy, whose Irish ancestors fled to America for better opportunities in life, complaining about the U.S. not being a reliable ally because of the chance that the majority of the American population does not give two shits about going to Europe to fight an unnecessary war. That complaint might make some sense if Europe was leading the way in trying to gin up a war with Russia and was committed to spending tens of billions of U.S. DOLLARS to fund graft and corruption in Ukraine, but that ain’t happening. Europe is a NATO free-loader and militarily irrelevant. Truth hurts, but the U.K. can barely field a 75,000 man army. Germany and France are not much better. The lack of military oomph from the traditional leaders of Europe is why NATO has been trying to enlist every Javier, Sven and Erdogan in an expanding NATO — they need the bodies.
Rather than engage in a serious debate, O’Brien opts for name-calling — he labels Tucker Carlson a demagogue for correctly asserting that some of the hatred directed at Russia is based on animus towards Eastern Orthodox Christianity. O’Brien insists:
Such claims are ridiculous, not least because Russia is one of the least religious societies on Earth.
So let’s fact check that whopper. According to the PEW Research Service:
Over the past two decades, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, there has been an upsurge in affiliation with Orthodox Christianity in Russia.1 Between 1991 and 2008, the share of Russian adults identifying as Orthodox Christian rose from 31% to 72%, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of three waves of data (1991, 1998 and 2008) from the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) – a collaboration involving social scientists in about 50 countries.
A more recent poll by Interfax confirms PEW’s findings:
Most Russians (68%) consider themselves Orthodox Christians, the percentage of such Russians in the 45-59 age group reaches 76%, according to a poll conducted by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM), which was obtained by Interfax on Wednesday.
The poll shows that 74% of Russia’s women and 60% of Russia’s men consider themselves Orthodox Christians.
Maybe O’Brien confused Scotland — his current abode — with Russia:
Just one in three Scots now identify as being a Christian – a million fewer than 11 years ago.
A survey carried out by YouGov for the Humanist Society Scotland says that those who identify as Christian don’t share in key Christian beliefs with around a third of Christians (36%) saying they “believe the teachings of Christianity’ .
You will find similar declining numbers of Christians in France and Germany. Here’s a recent update on Germany:
Despite the history and the funding, less than 10% of Catholics attend church and only 3% of Protestants. In 2019 over half a million Protestants and Catholics officially disassociated themselves from their church.
It gets worse. Around half of Protestants and Catholics no longer believe in the resurrection. Only 40% of Catholics and 32% of Protestants believe in life after death. Atheists make up 24% of Protestants and 11% of Catholics.
Can we all agree that on this point Mr. O’Brien failed to do even a cursory Google search to try to validate his specious claim?
To his credit, Mr. O’Brien does earn a point for “No Shit Analysis” by writing:
The reality is that, for many years, Europe has largely slipstreamed behind the U.S. on security matters. This has provided real benefits to the U.S., by solidifying American leadership in the world’s most important strategic grouping while allowing European states to spend far less on defense than they would otherwise have to. The differential also means that Europe, on its own, lacks the breadth and depth of U.S. military capabilities.
Thank you Captain Obvious. That bit of clarity notwithstanding, O’Brien still labors under the delusion that Europe is a viable industrial power and could start cranking out tanks, combat air and artillery shells if America falters:
If the United States simply abandons Ukraine a year and a half from now, there is no way whatsoever that Europe could make up for the loss of aid. But European governments would have to come up with ways to ameliorate that withdrawal. This would require tact and skill—and the preparations would have to start soon. European military officials need to quietly ask their Ukrainian counterparts what the latter would need that the former could supply if American assistance wanes, and then start figuring out how to ramp up production.
Nope. Not going to happen. The factories and steel plants that Britain had during World War II have gone the way of the Dodo Bird — they are kaput. And Germany, the once mighty industrial giant in Europe, is shuttering plants and sending jobs overseas.
O’Brien closes his piece with more magical thinking:
The election of a pro-NATO and pro-Ukraine U.S. president in 2024 should be enough to see Ukraine through to a military victory and peace deal (which would involve Ukraine’s admission into NATO), leading to security on the continent. But that possibility doesn’t absolve European leaders of the obligation to plan for an alternate reality in which an American administration scuttles NATO and seeks a rapprochement with Putin, despite Russia’s genocidal crimes against a European state.
Pigs will grow wings and fly at hypersonic speeds before O’Brien’s sunny vision of the future comes to past — Ukraine’s capacity to win a military victory is bleeding out before Russian bulwarks in the south of Ukraine and its ability to sustain military operations, even with Western support, is fading.
Professor O’Brien’s article is, in my view, just one more piece of evidence that so-called thinkers in the West are starting to panic as they realize the NATO plan to use Ukraine to defeat Russia is a dud. O’Brien and his ilk remain incapable of seeing the only viable exit — acknowledge that Russia will never accept Ukraine as a member of NATO and, if it has to, will work to collapse NATO from within in order to secure its borders.
What is obvious to me is that westernaganda is now busy creating the narrative of a victory even when nothing even remotely in the same universe exists. They claim victories, and then they label as “Putin propaganda spreaders” anyone who points out those “victories” are fictional, and then they use their fake claims as the basis of further fake claims. Soon they’ll claim they’ve taken Tokmak and/or Melitopol and try to ride on that to declare the collapse of Russia is around the corner, if only Ukranazistan is given more weapons, money, and mercenaries of course.
The Demonic Nihilists will likely claim that ‘not’ taking Tokmak and Melitopol was a great victory by exhausting and inflicting millions of casulties on the RF forces that will surely lead to the glorious victory of the ukronazi wreich and it’s penis-piano-playing furher! Send your money by pay-pal now!!!
Most university professors do not deserve the respect they are automatically given. The old saw about a PhD meeting years of studying more and more about less and less is really true. But you need a PhD to teach in a university. So we have a class of people who are academically lobotomized and we regard them as experts. Genuflect, please.
“All experts serve the state and the media and only in that way do they achieve their status. Every expert follows his master, for all former possibilities for independence have been gradually reduced to nil by present society’s mode of organisation. The most useful expert, of course, is the one who can lie.”
Guy Debord Comments on the Society of the Spectacle
https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/big-truths-bigger-lies
Yes, all professions eventually become priesthoods of dogma, and all experts become High Priests. Dogma should be the province of religion, not of worldly things.
Your point about university indoctrinated system slaves is one of the fundamental problems confronting the west.
Very few people recognize this or will acknowledge this because the vast majority are indoctrinated system slaves.
Sadly for the west, the only real way out of this situation is the collapse of the system.
Few recognize this process is already in its early days.
Yup. I hear those who used to be rational people spout the climate change dogma and tout BLM/black candidates but if Ben Carson is brought up or Tim Scott it is a foreign language. Scary stuff. Definitely see why Germans let jews be slaughtered. I have no doubt 70% of US democrats would turn in their jewish friends within 24
hours the government said they wanted to id all jews.
I say live and let live, no concern of mine but have you noticed any signs saying “If you hate transpeople, then we have the right to kill you”? (in so many words). I have.
[QUOTE] “have you noticed any signs saying ‘If you hate transpeople, then we have the right to kill you’? (in so many words). I have.”[/QUOTE]
Where were you carrying this sign?
Because if you weren’t carrying this sign, then you are doing one of those Joe Biden, “I was there and it happened to me!” false claims — when you WEREN’T THERE, and it did NOT HAPPEN to you.
YOU did not see one of these signs. Instead, you saw a report about some people who thought that those of us who don’t take the vaccine are “… attempting to kill the rest of us…”, and therefore, us vaccine deniers should be imprisoned or put to death for “…trying to kill the rest of us…”
Then, you also saw “Gay Rights” types of stories or articles, where the claim is this: Trans Rights are Human Rights.
Then your –Sean ‘Rachel Maddow’ Hannity– shepherd got you all fired up, with your blood near the boiling point — to the point where you have conflated these two stories, and then you INSERTED YOURSELF into the stories — as if you personally were there and that you personally “experienced” this. Hah! Fat chance. Next, you’ll be telling us that YOU remember being on the rooftop of the Embassy in Saigon, loading people onto the “choppers”, and that when YOU got back to ‘the States”, the “Hippies” spat on YOU and called YOU a baby killer.
Haven’t you noticed the hypocrisy — that you will listen to AC/DC, but you won’t listen to people who do AC-DC?
It’s the old story really. ‘It is very difficult to convert a man to a particular point of view when his pay check depends on him continuing to say the opposite’.
These moral dwarfs and cowardly clowns know in their bones what is what, but to admit it means instant dismissal and the loss of their detached six bedroom house and two Mercedes in the drive.
Well, hang onto your hat because if you want a clear example of how this mess started way back in 2008, here you go. If Bush was a retard back then, feast your eyes on this nattering nabob. He’ll give Biden a run for his money any day of the week. https://www.bitchute.com/video/jY2KLM9B0Zpc/
Is the US REALLY a superpower? Time to be honest. If so, then how in hell does it consistently elect the people it does to run the place? It just don’t compute.
I tried counting rational people in government once and still had two toes left over.
What a breath of fresh air – to hear the blunt, brutal truth.
The way of the ANALYST and mindset, needed to be ONE!
Ceud mìle fàilte!*
Brought a smile to my face. So much truth, and presented with masterful wit and biting sarcastic edge to skewer another deepstate Nihilist drone!
But also a reminder that demonic rot that pervades the un-self aware so-called inteligencia and beauracratic servant class in the EOL.
Thank you.
*Scots Gaelic – 10,000 Welcomes!
* Chiefly Irish English (ref OED)
In Ireland, it’s actually Céad Míle Fáilte, and I believe it’s the same in Scotland. I’m not sure what relevance any Irish dna in this guy has. Most US citizens have some kind of non-US origin. Wiki makes no mention of an Irish connection, and Phillips and Payson have no Irish flavour about them at all. Seems he was born in Boston, so I would think his beliefs and attitudes owe more to the US than Ireland.
Now if you want to observe some real Irish poison, just regard Samantha Powers as the real deal, born hardly a mile from my own family homestead.
But really, I don’t think any Irish connection to this guy is relevant to his views. They sound pure neo-con to me.
100,000 welcomes, actually -can’t Americans count??
Here is a short video about NATO after the Cold War ended, as it transformed from a defensive alliance into a collection of vassal states supporting the American empire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of_XSjH3uHg
NATO was always a collection of vassal states supporting the American empire.
If only our “vassals” would do what they were ordered to do. And special thanks to Christopher Steele and GCHQ.
I think the reports of NATO’s “demise” are wishfully exaggerated. Sure, some my leave NATO, but the MIC runs the western world, and as Nietzsche said, Das Leben des Feindes. – Wer davon lebt, einen Feind zu bekämpfen, hat ein Interesse daran, daß er am Leben bleibt. Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy staying alive. Human, All too Human IX, 531
The “demise” of NATO won’t necessarily be via its dissolution, and some shell of the organization may remain. The true demise of NATO, and it’s in the process of happening, is in the revelation to all the world that it is not all-powerful, but impotent.
Will the MIC and its lobby continue to get government support and ridiculous budgets? Maybe, with the provisio that America is broke, and has to pass debt limit extensions to keep financing itself. That this approach cannot continue indefinitely is a simple mathematical fact. Default or hyper-inflation are the choices left, as there is no way to “grow” out of debt because the industrial base has been gutted, and there’s no money to rebuild it. Catch-22 there.
And what of all the enemies made over the last 6-7 decades? Once it is obvious that NATO, and by extension the US, is a paper tiger, they’ll be coming for revenge from all directions. NATO can’t handle Russia in Ukraine. Add China, Iran, and others to the mix and every terrorist organization will start sniping in earnest.
The trouble with making enemies is that you have enemies. We are approaching times where we’ll see just how much of a bitch Karma is. NATO is done. They’ll try and carry on somehow to justify all those cushy bureaucratic jobs and budgets, but they aren’t a power anymore. They rested on their laurels talking tough, but Ukraine is showing they can’t back it up. A few dozen hyper-sonic missiles and the whole US fleet is toast. We have no defence. We have no capacity to supply a serious military effort. We have no industry to convert, no money, and no critical materials.
NATO is effectively dead because it has no infrastructure to support it. The sooner we all get real on this, the better off we’ll be.
Excellent comment and I couldn’t agree more. I have been saying for quite some time “What happens if the countries we have sanctioned, pissed off, bombed, etc, get together and sanction the US? They don’t even need a new currency per se, to do this. Your printed dollar won’t help you at that point. When this happens, we will end up like Argentina. With BRICS expanding, I don’t see how this is avoided.
Exactly. And the dribble in US dollar debt deterioration is speeding up:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/mediocre-tailing-3y-auction-sees-fewest-foreign-buyers-october
It’s getting harder for the US treasury to peddle their paper to foreigners, which will result in higher rates here. Remember, they only have to slow down purchases of US paper to screw us, they don’t have to stop altogether.
Meanwhile, it’s starting to look like the Fed is fucked:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/peter-schiff-fed-money-magicians-running-out-rabbits
And the US consumer, 2/3’s of the economy, is tapped out both from inflation and the increased rates that are exacerbated by reduced foreign demand for dollars:
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/ny-fed-survey-finds-sharp-deterioration-household-finanancial-sentiment-long-term
“Bidenomics” is just a polite way of saying “we’re fucked.”
Isn’t NATO like one of those organizations where ‘you can enter but you can never leave’?
Yeah, like the mafia or a roach motel.
Spot on.
It hasn’t matured yet, but we will likely see the response during our lifetime.
Every wedding party that Obama and his successors have murdered will result in thousands of angry Afghans that will pursue revenge with all they have got. Most will fail but the ones succeeding will be devastating.
Every remote conflict will drive the point home that this madness will only end once it is moved to DC, London and Tel Aviv. Berlin and Paris for good measure not that they really matter.
The neocons initial success has bred complacency and stupidity and lack of imagination where this will likely end. They have been trying to fool all of the people all of the time and time is running out.
Unless there is a quick and honest turnaround, it will be a disaster. Considering that they have destroyed the basis of both Europe and N America with their social engineering, the chances for such turnaround are slim. Even if nothing happens from the outside, they are already imploding from the top inside. All with the motto, “the situation is hopeless but not serious”. The end of Western civilisation as we knew it. All down the drain in a generation.
Nietzsche`s quote would have to more correctly translate as: “Whoever draws purpose from combating an enemy”, rather than “Whoever lives for the sake of…”. While this may seem like nitpicking, there is a difference between the two implied incentives.
Look deeper.NATO,G7,G20,EU,OECD,OSCE,World Bank,WEF,IMF,and any other western institution you care to name will become irrelevent.We are rapidly reaching the point where nobody cares what they say or do.This is the wests biggest fear.Notice the rhetoric becomes more outrageous and fantastical.
Just a linguistic nitpick, Larry.
You write, “ fight Iraqis and Afghanis…”
An afghani is a unit of currency, such as a dollar.
The correct adjective is ‘Afghan’ as was taught to me by one of my Afghan students.
South Asia we all call them Afghanis and even Afghanis refer to themselves as such. Sounds like your student was a product of the western wokeism education system which is obsessed with nitpicking about labels and names.
Well, if they get as offended as the Pakistanis do when you call them pakis. then it’s no wonder we lost that war.
O’Brien has adopted the Western m.o. of sticking to his narrative and blocking (cancelling) alternative views (or facts). Clearly dutifully Russophic, he has to blame Putin for the West’s ills. He is an Irishman living and working with Scots, whose only epiphanies of religion emerge when they run out of whisky. Clearly a man of dubious principles, poor choices and misplaced employment.
Larry, your response to this moron and a certifiable f*ckwit was priceless. Thank you!
I found an even better one and he actually ran the country for eight years.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/jY2KLM9B0Zpc/
It could be a bar joke:
“An American Irishman enters a bar in Scotland and says:
“Has anyone heard the latest news about Ukraine?”
“Yeah,” says one, “I heard they are winning any day now.”
All except the Irishman with an American accent explode in raucous laughter.
The guy says “As a matter of fact that’s true, they just need more and better weapons.” Nobody laughs.
The bartender says, “it i’nt joost the joke, m’lad. It’s how you tell it.”
Biden and Zelenski enter the bar. The waiter greeted them and asked the reason for their visit.
“We’ve come to agree on how to start World War III in which 20 million Ukrainians and one big-breasted blonde will die,” Biden says.
“Why a blonde with big breasts,” asked the waiter, and Biden turned to Zelensky and said:
“Did I tell you that nobody cares about Ukrainians.”
Excellent.
Ariadna’s was better though.
Speaking of jokes.
1. One of the most high-profile anti-vax athletes gets “Moderna Shot of the Day.” 🎾💉
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/80682
2. The Daily Mail
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/80711
Once again, all this energy wasted. This time on The Atlantic. It’s almost like the Pentagon and MIC could create a few more publications or maybe just print more outrageous bullshit and those in the opposition would spend 100% of their energy on such a distraction. Think of all the energy wasted on critiques of US vs Russia vs Ukraine as portayed in the media. Wouldn’t it be better to figure out how to shut said media down? And why should anyone care what Nuland or Blinken says – except that that’s all we get to talk about. The Overton Window – we debate the lies in the Atlantic and that is a SUCCESS for those pushing the lies. They laugh all the way to their private bank and we in opposition are left holding the blivit.
This is how you fight propaganda. Everyone sees things differently, based on the source they get this information from. Most people watch MSM and they believe all that crap, because their own judgement tells them, that when so many different news-stations and experts tell you the same thing over and over, it must be true. They also tell them, that only Russia uses propaganda.
This is how you condition or manipulate people. They are truly sheep. Misinformed, but happy. Because all they hear and/or watch on MSM tells them, everything is not that bad at all, we are all winners and the other (evil) side is loosing badly. The outlook is even quite good.
You can leave it like that or you can discuss those things and teach others to see the obvious lies and engage with others the same way to show them the same (like a chain reaction). People still have to decide on their own, what or who they will believe. But they now have two versions to choose from. Only one is more real/true than the other.
I have been surprised that not a single person who I’ve talked to about Ukraine has asked for alternative sources of information. They are all happy to believe the MSM bs and do not welcome any intrusion on their world view.
So be it. Life is short, and I will leave them to wallow in their delusions.
Recall the principle. People can have their own opinions but not their own facts (which become clearer to the masses over time).
Probably just a happenstance of language but “NATO hit on Serbia… then attacked Afghanistan” which have SFA to do with the North Atlantic being landlocked countries.
Reminds me of the old joke about being “Becalmed off the storm tossed coasts of Bohemia.”
Well, Yugoslavia was not a landlocked country (in any of its iterations). Some experts (real ones, not MSM kind) say that landlocking Serbs was one of the goals of Balkanization, and that it even mirrors British (or now, NATO) desire to cut off Russians from Black Sea. If Serbia or Hungary had sea access, or border with Russia, things would have been different in the region.
NATO ‘hit on Serbia’ to force a secession of territory and now it ‘hits on Russia’ to deny a secession of territory under very similar circumstances, although I’d argue that Serbia’s approach to defending its territorial integrity was far milder.
This ‘rules-based order’ it purports to defend seems to me to be something concocted in the psychiatric ward at Bellevue Hospital.
As usual, Larry’s analysis is spot on. But I will beg to differ on the religious matter: the fact that Europe (as he shows with Scotland) is getting less and less religious would support the point that the hatred of everything Russian is not related to being Christian Orthodox. That hatred already existed in the times of the Soviet Union, when religion didn’t play a role over there.
The real matter at that time was Communism, the ghost that European elites were afraid of. The focus changed now, but not towards religion. As once was said, “It’s the economy, stupid!”. The fall of the USSR was seen as an unbelievable change to get their filthy hands on Russia’s natural resources, an unfathomable source of wealth. And with Yeltsin it certainly went their way, and everyone (but the Russians) were happy. With Yeltsin gone, Putin made the plundering much more difficult, and THAT is what is driving the West crazy. All that wealth SO close, and they can’t get their hands on it anymore! It has been said openly, that it would be great for Russia to break down in small states that would allow to access those resources freely, and that “it is not fair that Russia holds all that wealth in their hands”. Well, it is a well known scheme that has worked for centuries: when the wealth was in South America, plunder the continent! When it was in Africa, same thing. Now it is in Russia, so let’s see how can we do the same.
IT doesn’t look like it’s going to be easy this time.
J, that has been their wet dream for centuries. For them, that will always remain just a wet dream. Russia is protected, from above and from within. It’s a rock, against which they will smash themselves. Even time is on Russia’s side.
Yes, but given that the plunder benefits a few and is likely to be costly for the masses, in order to enlist popular support or at least quell opposition to your endeavour b/c it actually might lead to something dangerous, like off the top of my head, nuclear war, you have to arouse hatred of the victims of your plans, b/c they’re communist, orthodox, muslim, fascist or because they refuse to eat crickets to save the planet, whatever pretext that’ll stick will do.
Very well written and thoughtful analysis post Larry. Well done…
One section of article:
“The cause of this collapse would be the profound difference in outlook between the Republican Party’s populist wing—which is led by Donald Trump but now clearly makes up the majority of the GOP—and the existential security concerns of much of Europe. The immediate catalyst for the collapse would be the war in Ukraine. When the dominant faction within one of the two major American political parties can’t see the point in helping a democracy-minded country fight off
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1) There are less than a 10 of GOPs that support “populist” Trump… hardly “the majority”
Russian invaders, that suggests that the center of the political spectrum has shifted in ways that will render the U.S. a less reliable ally to Europe. The latter should prepare accordingly.”
*****
2) So, “collapse” stated 2x, guess that was what he meant by “divorce”…one was that “majority Trump populist GOP party” and the other reason was “Americans can’t seem to find the will to fight Russian invaders”…more
**Gosh, I would have thought that maybe the “sanctions from Hell” that collapsed EU economy that the U.S. thought would be a great idea for everyone might be “a catalyst”…
Or hey, another catalyst … that tiny tiny Nordstream 2 pipeline we blew up, causing the EU to pay 3-4 times the LNG and oil prices… which resulted in manufacturing heading for the hills
(But still… the EU should be able to blanket the EU with weapons and ammunition factory’s within a year… for Ukraine)
3) Or the US forcing the EU to “de-risk” from China to further the development of the EU (not)
I had the “catalyst of collapse” (divorce) wrong this whole time… it was Trump and not defending “democratic” Ukraine from Russian invaders..enough..
I’ll go and get “my mind right”…
Picking apart the fallacies, inconsistencies and non sequiturs in western groupthink has already become akin to shooting fish in a well-stocked barrel. It should finally be listed under the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system.
The cartel is attempting to repatriate UKR men from Ireland:
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/ireland-sends-ukraine-draft-extradition-notices
Nothing has been solved:
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/new-ira-probe-five-remain-in-custody-after-woman-is-freed-without-charge-in-derry/a242182801.html
The War Pig
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2023-08-22/physical-decay-war-pig-victoria-nuland-truly-shocking
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2023/08/20/unmasking-the-destructive-career-of-neocon-monster-victoria-nuland-now-second-in-command-of-bidens-state-department/
…so about under the arctic… the projection of RU force upon the USA…. if they keep poking the bear:
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/JC081i024p04445
…hey… lots of the Pentagon banking records went up in the 9-11 controlled blast….
… Kiev is the heart.
Yep, that’s the way you win a war all right. If only we’d forced Canada to return all those draft dodgers, we’d have beat those vietcong to a pulp.
Sorry but I stopped reading at mention of St Andrews. Endowed with a prestigious golf course the region has a university favoured by the rich London elites like Kate Middleton and William Windsor but also has a Defence Studies faculty so impregnated with NATO funding as to be irrationally partisan
It is another of those institutions that has expanded into media propaganda in recent years and which is delusional and systemically dangerous
This piece overlooks the real reason the US will keep on pouring money and men into Europe- to maintain the rift with Russia. That was always the point of NATO from a US POV. The great US fear is and always has been of a european politico-economic-military bloc with Russian resources at its core. It is time for europe to wake up and realise that Russia IS NOT THE ENEMY here.
As for us free loading on US investment in NATO- Since when does a colony free load? All the US investment is designed to keep a grip on european economies and maintain this divide.
Finally the religious bit. The relevant divide- Catholic versus Orthodox- reflects the divide between Polish Ukrainians and the Russian leaning ones and is just a tool in the prosecution of a war with far deeper roots in ancient fractures Russia has always wanted to heal. The Poles are a menace. There was an uprush of Baltic protest after the Pope indicated his lack of sympathy for voices fostering this religious division, and condemned the appalling treatment of Orthodox priests in Ukraine. But many Poles took this moment to consider just how they are being used by the cynical irreligious forces that have driven this daft war.
Biden is lost in the fantasy of his Irish roots which he identifies with gangsterism and strong men. Weak men (and he is a weak man) fall for this allure. It is not really about religion .
In forming a closer relationship with Russia, the Baltics have always been the problem for old europe, and there is some mileage in pouring Baltic zealotry into this senseless conflict on the Russian front just to exhaust the hoo ha. But if the US wants a bunch of nutters rattling its cage instead of them rattling ours, please feel free to open your gates to refugees as europe moves closer to Russia. Which it will once Germany and France hold their own post mortem of this conflict.
The first secretary-general of NATO, Lord Ismay, said that it was created “to keep the Americans in, the Russians out and the Germans down”.
Problem was that 46th Congress cut off Lend-Lease to U.K. and France was beset by Communist agitation in 4th Republic and U.K. was bankrupt
Bevin persuaded Mackenzie King to keep Canadian troops in Europe as a means of urging US to do same. U.K. knew it could not take on Soviet forces in Europe especially with Germany collapsed and France in chaos
………..and the Germans down”.
Well, it worked out well with the Germans anyway. A well trained bunch. “Sit boy, that’s a good doggy. Now here’s a berliner biscuit”……Dankeschön 🙂
What do you expect, Larry? He’s from Boston.
Boston was a hotbed of IRA recruiting and funding during ‘the Troubles’. I wonder where he stood on that?
He probably wasn’t born yet. Bostonians are democrats to their marrow. They believe everything in the Official Narrative and think they’re smart because of it.
O’Brien is a moron fop, and probably got his historical instructions from media slebs, also moron fops, along with whatever fancy organization supplied him with political fairy tales. The raison d’etre for NATO was a money laundering tax racket, the cover story was the existence of the Soviet Union.
That’s why they freaked out in panicked circles in all the cushy offices when the SU dissolved, and they ran around like demented chickens without heads trying to come up with another enemy yarn to keep the welfare checks coming.
They came up with the security expansion alibi while Russia was still collecting itself and trying to stabilize. With the new format in place all they had to do was rope a dope one nation after another into the scam on the pretext of the big, bad Russian bear at the door and siphon off more tax money since by this point they were and still are experts at it.
NATO is collapsing because they are pathological liars and couldn’t keep the web in place, and then stupidly started smoking their own crack supply and figured that if they could attack Libya and Serbia without consequence and laugh about it all the way home they could do the same to the Russians.
They should have cashed in during the Russian interim and moved on to another tax ripoff racket, but like all ponzi racketeers, they could not stop, overloaded the runaway gravy train, and let it crash into a combat ditch.
This video presents a fascinating look at
the interplay between religion and patriotism in Russia today, circa 2020:
The Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces
https://youtu.be/uX57HWfxpuQ
Hard to imagine such in the decadent West.
Thank you so much for sharing this with us. It certainly explains a lot. It answers some questions, like what the Russians are fighting against in Ukraine. But it also leaves we in the ‘West’ with a question: How is it we find ourselves on the same side as those who, after all these years, still follow Hitler.
How is it we find ourselves on the same side as those who, after all these years, still follow Hitler.
Because they ‘thought’ they’d make good Hessians and that Borrell wouldn’t have to worry about anyone uprooting his petunia beds. Hey, it was a nice fantasy while it lasted.
As an atheist I am not sure how impressed or horrified I should be.
As an atheist you should be horrified of religions that do holy wars, persecution of infidels/apostates/witches/anyone, organized pedophilia, child mutilation, wealth hoarding, TV evangelism, and other horrifying stuff.
This building is a monument to those that died fighting evil, and are still dying fighting the same evil.
Some more footage, if anyone is interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_lDNvwTx6Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjkuti_HmFU
This may surprise many Americans, but the #1 reason why the Deep State and the Swamp have been trying so hard to destroy DJT, is NOT because he is a homophobe, racist, xenophobe, mysoginist, etc, etc, etc,… it is because he did embrace Christianity and with it came his fervor in protecting the life of the unborn, law and order, caring for the citizens he represents first, by raising their standard of living, which is an ANATHEMA to -demon-worshippers and Beelzebub-lovers.
I take deep offense at the idea that you can be a modern-day Democrap and a moral person at the same time. I found it astounding that a most brilliant attorney and Constitutional expert Alan Dershowitz declared that he is a life-time Democrat, no matter what and on the same breath, that he will defend any client, a terrorist, an assassin, a prostitute, etc. That shows that he and tens of millions around the world can be brilliant and morally bankrupt at the same time.
It is not possible to live a moral life, i.e., love God, obey the laws of this country, have traditional family values and be a Democrap. It is like trying to mix oil and water.
The deep seated hatred we see in America has its roots on a completely distorted view of morality.
You mention Dershowitz…. mega scum.
He single-handedly destroyed the tenured Prof. Norman Finkelstein, author of The Holocaust Industry. He was on the plane as a group of USA and Israelis to the home base of Al-Jazeera to suppress an important documentary factually exposing Israeli dirty tricks in an issue that I cannot precisely recall (help, someone?),
and weasled out of the huge bind that he was in because of his activities with Epstein. Most likely by threats and other nasty manipulations that his profession, and religious sect, are famous for.
He represents a intregal component of the parasitical rot that mockingly permeates the USA.
Look it up disbelievers.
Yes, the ‘progressive,’ globalist,’ deep state,’ communist, US ‘demonrats/democrap/democrats and republicons/republicans,’ satanic, whatever one calls them are a quasi-religious cult. A murderous cult worhiping evil and death.
Russia is europe’s largest Nation (and still an Empire), this is europe’s civil war. He apparently doesn’t know his ‘Irish’ history . One day the Pope will recognise Eastern Orthodoxy in a burst of ‘Enlightenment’.
In the meantime we wait for the end of europe’s Religious Wars… We cannot simply end them while they are stoked by the existing Vatican. I submit we must recognise the Vatican’s existence. Its foolish but necessary.
My father was an Irish catholic and my mother an Irish protestant.
I hope thats helpful.
Germany is protestant, France is catholic. Spain is still exorcising its demons from the past. Italy doesn’t know where it is. Hennry the eighth is long dead in England. Portugal is in recovery and has hopes.
It’s not “europe’s civil war”, but Russian civil war (yet another one).
Western Europe will get its civil war once the migrants achieve critical mass. It would also be a religious war, and racial war. We already got some hints of it in France.
Germany is not Protestant. It was predominantly Catholic hence CDU party was strong until GDR collapsed and Protestant Merkel ended up turning a Catholic Party into a Green/SPD entity
GDR had more Protestant complexion but Germany is essentially pagan
“O’Brien writes;
When the dominant faction within one of the two major American political parties can’t see the point in helping a democracy-minded country fight off Russian invaders, that suggests that the center of the political spectrum has shifted in ways that will render the U.S. a less reliable ally to Europe.”
Maybe should read;
In 2014 and before, the corrupt left tentacle of America’s political swamp Creature, (there is only one) bludgeoned democracy to install a servant and ever since has and will gift billions upon billions “for as long as it takes”, yawn, till the last Ukulele, how evil; gift unashamedly to democracy-minded, but extremely fake undemocratic corrupt regimes. The present servant, servant of the people my arse, a dictator, IMO the unwritten face of the world’s largest laundromat, quick smart dissolved opposition parties and cancelled dissenting media, had laws scribbled to plunder those entities and gag any opposing voices; meanwhile America’s comatose sheep people rot on the vine, coerced to comply with corporate controlled UN offers of woke contract accepted with unquestioned gay abandon by all tentacles of the Creature and its Vassal States; that suggests the Incognitos driving the thoughts and actions of the Creature are obviously materially enriching their predator spawn at the expense of all of Mother Earth and her useless eaters.
They don’t give a flying f about friends or foes.
Are the Western top brass very artfully changing the narrative preparing for Phase III – “It’s over – We’ve won”? In this 2 minute statement these men surely cannot believe what they are saying – are they fooling, the people, their masters or themselves?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66763868
Slightly depends on whether you believe it is Russia that has paid the cost or could it be Ukraine or is it indeed ‘over’?
As Milley says “We shall see”
The guy in black would need to get breast implants, before declaring victory against Russia. There is not enough space for new medals.
The “Putin has already lost the war” narrative has been pedalled from the early days of the SMO by phoney Tony Radakin amongst others, and more recently by senile Joe.
It is based on the assumption that being cast out of the Rules based Order, and cancelled by The West is a fate worse than death.
They have not yet noticed that 88% of the world are not in the Collective West, or that the BRICS are on track to become the most powerful grouping in the world, and that Russia is a hugely important, and respected player in both.
That chuckleduck probably still lives with his brain mired in Cold War propaganda from way back when that kept saying Russians are “godless”.
Russia doesn’t need to sink NATO from within: The Wokester & WEF types are doing the job for them.
If the mass of people in the West wake up to the depopulation efforts to make them the carbon to be eliminated, they might just find the stones to say no, but I’m not holding my breath.
During the Cold War all US analysts got it wrong then too.
The so-called communist Soviet was actually run by the Orthodox Church.
Proof? Anyone remember the Ogarkov Plan to overrun Europe? That was called the Third and Final Rome – something Americans just did not notice. We are here today because the Third and Final Rome was put aside. For so-called Marxists to espouse such talk went right in US analysts’ ear and out the other. Complete ignoramus’. Continues today.
The Russian Federation Constitution fully acknowledges the Church’s vital role. Article 14 makes clear it is a secular state.
(curiously similar to the Irish Constitution…).
There are huge differences not settled since 1465, but a NATO knuckledragging Prof. only knows about chewin’ bones and eatin’ horse flesh.
The Saker blog was run by an Orthodox priest, banned me for showing the Vatican’s Cardinal Parolin was working on Peace.
So Russia will not use Crusades or Third and Final Rome mottos.
Well written Johnson, Bravo.
I will celebrate and gladly join you, MacGregor, Ritter, Magovern, Giraldo, Tucker, and the myriad others that have an objective voice in naming and calling out the parasite that has sequestered our imperfect society ad culture and mobilize a crusade to neutralize it before it is too late.
It will require a monumental effort that illuminates the depth of the rot and most likely be extremely unpleasant.
Can you offer an alternative?
Has history provided an easy solution when reality is finally exposed? If you listen to MacGregor he is being explicit in listing the areas of dysfunction in America, and Europe/UK for that matter. He is right on every mark, as I already know to be true intuitively.
Somebody, somewhere in USA is going to have to draw a red line in the sand and say enough is enough and start the process that puts paid this shit, and that is in fact exactly what it is. This is precisely what Mr. Putin did in Russia starting more than 20 years ago. And why I respect him so much. (Whoever told Americans to disrespect and insult a potential adversary?! Is there no one in America that understands Sun Tzu? Another story)
Lamentably there will probably be blood but America needs an Alamo right now where an individual or group lays it down and is willing to die for it.
Sorry to say, seems to me the only way.
I am a son of the south as I have said here before. I have not lived in the USA now for going on 40 years, more than half my life. I am fluent in 4 languages and operate on 3 continents. I can never forget my personal transformation from an arrogant American to a refined appreciation for diverse cultures and traditions. It did not happen overnight but I can never look back. As a kid I always loved USA and got chills when hearing the Star Spangled Banner. After 11/63 everything changed. I realize now that that tragedy was in the making for at least a half century before.
As mentioned at the beginning of this comment, until the parasite sucking the energy out of USA is confronted and expelled, nothing is going to fundamentally change. It will be same old, same old…. been there seen that.
Take it to the bank.
Shouldn’t there be an official job title for these yarn-spinning academics?
For starters, I wish that just for once, some aspiring PhD student would dare do their thesis on how one justifies defining an ‘aspiring democracy’ as one that overthrows a democratically elected president and then engages in purging the country of opposition parties, jailing its leaders and then criminalizing dissent in any form.
That’d be just for starters, of course.
I think it was Dr Johnson who said
“Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young”
I don’t know what Johnson would have said about an American Irishmen working as a Professor in a Scottish University pontificating about Russia’s religious propensity. I suspect he would have ruled it out as an oxymoron.
“It has been the single most successful security grouping in modern global history.”
Congratulations to NATO for bringing the slave markets back to Tripoli. What a success story.
So much for the Shores of Tripoli… can’t wait to see what they do with the Halls of Montezuma.
….and my old man was in the First Marines at Guadalcanal. Thank God he’s not around to see this clusterfuck we’ve begun.
Here is some geography 101, that way too many people need. Europe is a continent. Europe includes Russia, and Belarus, and other non EU/NATO countries. Writing Europe instead EU is plain wrong.
Larry,
NATO didn’t flex its muscles to bomb brown people. The entire Middle East debacle of the past 20 years was for Israel’s benefit as laid out in Richard Perle’s “Clean Break” plan. Thank the neocons and the capture of the US political process through large campaign contributions.
https://original.antiwar.com/dan_sanchez/2015/06/29/clean-break-to-dirty-wars/
NATO does not care about skin tone. They gleefully bomb all “lesser humans” equally. Everyone gets cluster bombs and depleted uranium rounds.
The one thing that has amazed me about this whole tragic affair, is how many people have less than a glancing blow with reality. Been a real eye opener. (Ex) Friends who I considered intelligent and capable of critical thinking and observation stunned me with their vehement embrace of the most ridiculous statements and lies and refusal to consider they could be misinformed.
Rather scary …..
Irish-American practicing (daily Mass-going) Catholic here. I support Russia 100% and at every Mass I pray to St. Michael the Archangel to protect Russia and its people and soldiers.
Here’s a hero of mine, the Venerable Fulton J. Sheen:
One of the highest-ranking Vatican officials whose been in the position of senior diplomat (Secretary of State) at the Holy See, Archbishop Carlo Viganò, has a position on Russia which is somewhere between Medvedev’s and Putin’s.
I know my Orthodox brethren are 100% hostile to the Catholic Church. I get it and would probably feel the same if I were Orthodox and was subjected to the obvious ongoing persecution by the Western world. But the Catholic Church has also been targeted though just in a different way (the psyops to destroy the Catholic Church is off-the-charts). But nonetheless I will still pray for my brethren in the historical Apostolic Church, Orthodoxy, that they remain strong against the global demonic forces directed against them.
Great post Larry. I’m a long-time lurker, and first time poster here – I’m an Englishman living in Brighton (on the Channel coast due south of London). I have been engaging as much as I can with Professsor O’Brien and his little substack echo-chamber. His sources run the tiny gamut from the Ukrainians themselves, to the Pentagon to the Institute for the Study/Starting of Wars. I’ve asked him repeatedly to justify his reliance on the ISW given the Kagan’s atrocious track-record (from Central America, the Horn of Africa, through Iraq & Afghanistan, to Libya, Syria & Ukraine), but to no availl. There are plenty in the UK Ukraine-commentariat who follow only the Professor and the ISW – including the ‘number one’ podcast on the war here ‘Battleground Ukraine’ – consequently their output is as depressing as it is predictable. He’s a neocon, in sheep’s clothing.
I’ve even suggested that the Battleground Pod might like to give you a call, but I don’t think they like me. Keep up the marvellous work.
Thanks for your efforts to try to educate the dolt.
Dolt😎
It is clear. These people, singularly and as a group, are sociopathic, bent upon their own objectives regardless of any harm they cause while justifying their actions with specious arguments.
They are furthermore, cowards, deeply inflicted and hopelessly entrenched with the entire range of personality disorders to an extreme degree.
The fact that the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is opening shop in the Pacific region tells you all you need to know about this absurd white elephant.
The whole point of NATO post 1990 is to perpetrate the neocolonial “rules based system”: an international pecking order that attempts to maintain the unipolar world, with the US as hegemon.
With the multipolar world now in full swing via BRICS, NATO has never looked more ridiculous, and the fiasco in Ukraine marks its final death throes.
These increasingly ludicrous puff pieces by “experts” from Western institutions claiming that the unipolar world is going from strength to strength are totally delusional.
In fact, the best thing for the west would be a leader like Trump who is committed to putting nation state above globalist adventures the west can no longer afford, and the wider world has no need for.
There is a homology between the ‘blocking units’, that is, Nazi centurians whose job is to fire a bullet into the backs of any soldier trying to surrender or get out of the meatgrinder and their intellectual brethern in the Western media whose task is to ‘cancel’ any voices who contradict the essentially racist and genocidal narrative. I used to think there was a world of difference between Nazi doctrines of the Master Race on the one hand and ‘European Values’ on the other. But these days it’s hard to see much daylight between the two. Or maybe it’s my eyesight. Nazi’s have these peculiar ideas of how the Jews are leading the uttermensch against Aryan Europe. These days Europeans are nice to Jews, or pretend, but still recoil in racial horror against the spectre of the uttermensch. Not much has really changed.
This O’Brien story. We seem to be witnessing something on the order of a mass psychosis. People are flipping out, lots of em. It’s encouraged. More, it’s mandatory. You can say anything, make stuff up, doesn’t matter. But you’ve got to chime in with the psychos. Misery loves company. It’s ‘existential’. I guess it really is. If Russia is victorious, it’s curtains for what was always a latent psychotic ‘exceptionalism’. It’s pretty heady stuff, all the more so insofar as we are seeing what appears to be symptoms of suicidal behaviour.
All totalitarian systems look alike. Technology have changed over millennia, but human nature have not. Mass psychosis used to manifest in literal witch-hunt. Now it’s metaphorical.
Not symptoms of suicidal behaviour, as much as of declining empire. Barbarians are at the borders of Rome, and they have tanks and hypersonic missiles.
BTW, it’s untermensch, and übermensch.
unter – under
über – above
Your only mistake, Larry, was taking anything in The Atlantic seriously. That magazine long ago became the province of the unhinged and crazies from the left. The appearance of this article only confirms that those in the deluded far left are beginning to panic.
‘Ukraine’ does not exist – it was usurped and destroyed by Western powers supporting a coup by ultra-nationalist groups that strove to violently remove the large Russian-speaking segment of the population and then to prepare aggressive military action against Russia. All that remains is a military junta serving as a proxy for NATO that is now a spent force flailing in impotence. ‘Professors’ can be paid to write twisted rhetoric trying to gin up public support, but they won’t influence the outcome of the conflict which will be determined by Russia’s indomitable force on the battlefield and by revolutionary macro economic trends that have taken root in the East.
Neocons are never of the left – hard or soft. They may be socially liberal, but please don’t paint us with their horrible brush. O’Brien is a Kaganite neocon, not a leftie.
Well, they were born from trotskyiist lefties, with a penchant for mastering the universe, like their guru.
Larry, I wonder if you’d reconsider this outtake…
“The fact that Europe’s security did not hinge on what happened in Iraq and Afghanistan is ignored.”
Isn’t it the inverse. Europe suffered an influx of refugees the longer the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan persisted. In other words, the military action in those countries were destabilizing to Europe.
Certainly, the status quo ante bellum of those countries did not affect Europe’s security. Yet, by prosecuting war in a far-off land, Europe became subject to all the consequences of war.
Larry, I wonder if you’d reconsider this outtake…
“The fact that Europe’s security did not hinge on what happened in Iraq and Afghanistan is ignored.”
Europe suffered an influx of refugees the longer the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan persisted. In other words, the military action in those countries were destabilizing to Europe.
Certainly, the status quo ante bellum of those countries did not affect Europe’s security. Yet, by prosecuting war in a far-off land, Europe became subject to all the consequences of war.
He should be ashamed of himself. Does he not know what British Imperialism did to Ireland? What its successor is doing to people today?
There is nothing worse than being a traitor to one’s own people.
>>There is nothing worse than being a traitor to one’s own people.
It can pay well though.
Once again this college drop out is amazed at the ignorance of the experts. Even those who are not interested in world affairs that I have spoken with know of the resurgance of Christianity in Russia. The professor is either shockingly lacking in knowledge or is a liar.
Here’s Boris Johnson, the great admirer of Ukraine getting an honorary degree in Lvov a couple of days ago, a rather strange way to show his gratitude from a man of allegedly democratic credentials:
https://twitter.com/VasylKrutchak
Pashinksy, producer of the Heavenly Hundred sniper shootings leading to a successful 2014 coup, is being thrown under the bus:
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/09/06/ukraines-arms-supplier-maidan-massacre/
implications?
So many inspiring and inteligent comments, on 11-th of September, yet no body mentionet 9/11
And you had to spoil it.
Another irony of the “democracy-minded” idea is that Zelensky banned about a dozen political parties, all of which were non-Nazi and anti-Nazi parties. He banned none of the neo-Nazi parties. The remaining parties then proceeded to turn Russian speaking Ukrainians into second-class citizens. That is far from “democracy-minded.”
Why don’t commemorate, today
11/9 1973 the US-instigated fascistic coup d’ etat in Chile, 50 years ago, the killings and torture, with CIA and Henry Kissinger, Pinochet, their first putsch came June 28. Today a tv movie Svarta nejlikan/ The black pimpernel, about the Swedish ambassadör Harald Edelstam, in Santiago who saved many Chileans from Pinochet’s death squads.
US then still in hot war with Vietnam, but could still execute deadly strikes against the left, in Latinamerica, the Monroe doctrine, 1961,1962, as 1973.
But US is not a better nation today, but a danger for the whole world. Today even, 20 years ago, the Swedish Foreign minister Anna Lindh was murdered in a ware-house, without any protection, just like Olof Palme, 1986. A failed secret police without compare-ment, and today they offering Ukrainian soldiers education and knowledge of Sweden, and possible terrorist cells actions, when Ukraine losing the war, maybe with an declaration of war with Russia.
Tonight, tv, worse than anything else, Anna Lindh and Jens Stolten-berg together inaugurated a school in Nicaragua, 1986, for the Sandini-stas.
Lindh dead and buried and the Nato-Quisling, Stoltenberg, leading the asssult on Russia, that Sob who lost his whole Arbeider-parti’s youth-section in the Utöya killings 70 children, that was the little innocent Norwegian fascist nation-alism, who acted, its the same when that sob, said: You will
have more Nato – not less! That’s
all we need to know about fascist Norway, they even took out Nord-stream.
Three important news about Russia:
Kim Jong-un is headed to Russia by train. Meeting probably in Vladivostok
Russia’s container ports are booming. Despite all sanctions, throughput reaches pre-war levels again
“Open Mobile Platform” and VK have started development of Russian Android RuStore for domestic operating system “Aurora”.
Own operating system for cell phones.
EU IT is fully dependent on the US because it has nothing of its own.
The “rocket man” is on his way to Putin.
Image
https://t.me/tassdenews/73073
The North Koreans have coped well with the sanctions and live as they please.
As have Iran!!!!, Russia, China, India and many others.
By the way, Modi has already been sanctioned by the US as well.
The G7 will soon have to sanction each other for subtly undermining their own sanctions.
Errant and duds.
“Ukraine’s admission into NATO), leading to security on the continent”
an example of an oxymoron – from a first class ……
ethnic Irish man born in Boston
Or in other words someone from the USA. Otherwise it looks like he’s from England. I don,t think there is a Boston in Ireland.
Can anyone help me here?
100% right, Larry. O’Brien is a clueless clod. What the war in Ukraine is increasingly showing is that God’s judgment is on the woke, post-modernist, globalist West which has largely lost the Christian faith and on the supremely corrupt, godless Ukraine. Just look at the unbridled lying on the part of the West and of Ukraine. Jesus Christ called the devil the father of lies. It is obvious to see that the devil is also the father of the current Western and Ukrainian regimes. This conflict is, above all, a spiritual conflict!
The West lost the Christian faith in 1054, and have been trying to destroy Orthodox Christianity ever since. Constantinople have fallen. Moscow, not so much.
What is it about universities and fuckwits? Seems to be it is a requirement to get a professorship.
Some universities teach science and engineering, and others teach ideology. First kind can tolerate non-fuckwits, as long as they are good at science stuff. The second kind is all about fuckwittery, just like politics, or religion.
Like you say Larry, “More Cowbell.”
One of my favourite lines that I am trying to get into the public consciousness is
THEY ARE PAID TO BELIEVE WHAT THEY BELIEVE TO BE PAID
In short, it’s a process. Likely candidates are selected, tested, assayed and, if they pass, pass to the next level. The wrong ones don’t make it to the next level.
After a few iterations, everybody who is in the right position is saying the right thing and, for the most part, believes what he’s saying.
And the attractions are very big — money, TV time, promotions, book sales.
The alternatives? Yelling at the computer screen and an “adjunct” position at a different university every year and looking forward to saving up enough to buy a camper van to sleep in.