The Western public, especially the Americans, while focused intensely on the Israeli war with Hamas and the Palestinian people, is paying little attention to what China and Russia are doing in the region to support Iran. There is strong sentiment among the political class in the United States to take advantage of this moment and attack Iran.
What they are failing to take into account is that China, using a flotilla of its navy, sent a clear signal that it is no longer a passive observer in the war between Israel and Hamas. Six Chinese war ships sailed into the Persian Gulf, spending five days in Kuwait, and then sailed south to Oman. Following their visit to the port of Muscat, the Chinese ships raised anchors and sailed into the Arabian Sea, destination unknown.
This is not a sudden, spur of the moment initiative. China and Russia have conducted four joint military exercises since 2019. Why? China and Russia were warning the West that they would not allow the West to attack Iran or shutdown oil exports from Saudi Arabia and Iran destined for China. It is important for readers in the West to understand that planning for each of these exercises began at least 12 to 18 months before they were carried out. In other words, Chinese, Russian and Iranian military officials began working on the first joint naval exercise in mid to late 2017.
Here is the rundown of these exercises:
Iran, China and Russia began joint naval drills on Friday in the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Oman, in what Moscow said was an unprecedented exercise in naval cooperation and training. . . .
“The message of this exercise is peace, friendship and lasting security through cooperation and unity… and its result will be to show that Iran cannot be isolated,” Iranian flotilla admiral Gholamreza Tahani said on state television.
Chinese, Iranian and Russian forces are to participate in joint military exercises in southern Russia later this month, alongside troops from Armenia, Belarus, Myanmar and Pakistan. India cancelled its involvement over mounting cross-border tensions between Delhi and Beijing.
The “Caucus 2020” drills will focus on defensive tactics, encirclement and battlefield control and command, according to China’s Defence Ministry yesterday. The drills have special significance “at this important moment when the entire world is fighting the pandemic,” the ministry said.
Iranian forces have concluded a two-day naval exercise with Russia in the northern part of the Indian Ocean.
Forces and vessels from the navy divisions of both the Iranian army and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) participated in the drill, which kicked off on Tuesday, alongside several vessels from the Russian navy.
China and Russia, America’s increasingly aligned great power adversaries, teamed up with Iran last month to hold a trilateral naval exercise in the Gulf of Oman and northern Indian Ocean, which Tehran dubbed Maritime Security Belt 2022. While the exercise itself was of limited importance militarily, the drill provides the latest evidence of growing security cooperation between China, Russia, and Iran that should sound alarm bells in Washington, Jerusalem, and key Arab capitals.
The exercise’s stated purpose was to focus on anti-air, counter-piracy, and nighttime maritime operation skills — fairly standard objectives for maritime exercises. It was clear, however, that the exercise had a larger purpose for the three governments, which are unified in their opposition to the United States.
The Global Times, a mouthpiece for the Chinese Communist Party, cited “restrictions on major sea routes from some major powers, especially the US,” as one of the reasons for the exercise. That represents a transparently cynical effort to flip the script given Beijing’s illegitimate territorial claims in the South China Sea and efforts to curtail freedom of navigation there.
March 2023
Naval forces from China, Iran and Russia — all countries at varying degrees of odds with the United States — are staging joint drills in the Gulf of Oman this week, China’s Defence Ministry has announced.
Other countries are also taking part in the “Security Bond-2023” exercises, the ministry said Tuesday without giving details. Iran, Pakistan, Oman and the United Arab Emirates all have coastline along the waterbody lying at the mouth of the strategic Persian Gulf.
“This exercise will help deepen practical cooperation between the participating countries’ navies … and inject positive energy into regional peace and stability,” the ministry statement said.
While it is true that the U.S. Naval presence in the Mediterranean dwarfs the Chinese and Russian naval forces, the Chinese and Russian forces represent a trip wire that the United States and Israel must weigh as they contemplate an attack on Iran, such as hitting its oil refineries.
The Chinese are flexing a little military muscle, but their real power is in the expansion of diplomatic relations with the Gulf Arabs and Iran. China played a decisive role in the rapprochement this year between longtime adversaries, Saudi Arabia and Iran. China’s diplomatic initiative destroyed the U.S. policy of trying to ramp up friction between Saudi Arabia and Iran. The U.S. Institute for Peace (irony alert) tried to downplay the importance of this development in March:
Iran and Saudi Arabia announced last Friday a Chinese-brokered deal to restore relations. After decades of enmity and a formal cutting of ties in 2016, the rapprochement has been touted as a momentous development in the region. But how it ultimately impacts the Middle East remains a very open question, as the long adversarial powers are fighting a proxy war in Yemen and continue to support opposing sides across the region. Amid perceived U.S. retrenchment from the Middle East, the deal is a diplomatic win for China as it increasingly seeks to present an alternative vision to the U.S.-led global order.
It is no longer an “open question” how this affects policy in the Middle East — Saudi Arabia and Iran are siding with the Palestinians and condemning Israel’s actions. They have dethroned Washington, DC as the dominant force in the Middle East.
U.S. military outposts from Djibouti to Syria and Iraq are being regularly shelled and droned in the wake of the start of Israel’s military actions in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria. While it is likely that China and Russia are counseling Iranian authorities to exercise patience and restraint while they pursue diplomatic moves to defuse the war in Gaza, neither of these countries are suggesting that Iran sit idly if it is attacked.
The problem in the United States is not just the fecklessness of the Biden clown show. There is strong bi-partisan rhetoric portraying both Russia and China as enemies of the United States. That kind of hostile language from Democrats and Republicans makes it almost impossible to engage Russia and China in constructive negotiations. If Biden and his inept national security team try to deal with Russia and China, the Biden Administration would likely be denounced as appeasers and sell outs. It is domestic politics in the United States that is adding to the danger of the war in Israel spinning out of control and engulfing the world in a genuine conflagration.
I remain hopeful that Russia and China, through a coordinated diplomatic effort, can isolate the United States and Israel and compel them to back down. Maybe I am just naive.
Nikki Haley is a foolish, dizzy, liberal RINO neocon. Always has been, always will be. Enough with all this sickening, insane warmongering! Bring ALL our troops home and let’s start defending our northern and southern borders!
I’m all for the indiscriminate bombing of Nikki Haley.
Penske, Graham, Rubio and the rest of the AIPAC owned Neocons too!
Pense. Damn autocorrect!🤬
The Bible told Pense that a new Crusade must be launched and that America is not his concern.
Nikki Haley?…….what can one say. Rubber room material.
These frontmen are servile and stupid. But the true power behind these sycophants is being exposed by the current conflict.
BLM can burn down our cities with impunity, but criticize Israel and there is hell to pay.
https://www.unz.com/estriker/the-jewish-crackdown-on-the-pro-palestine-left/
AIPAC owned Neocons?
That would be just about the entirety of Congress.
Actually, not a bad idea!
Hey, don’t get too down on Pense.
He just made the most popular move of his entire Presidential campaign.
Talking a long walk off a short pier would be a great sequel.
I rather liked Penske though I knew at once it was a typo because Pense is not Penske material.
🤣🤣👍👌
How does a BS in Accounting prepare Ikky Haley for the position of POTUS? A double entry accounting system requires only a 4 function calculator and shouldn’t be called a science.
When are Americans going to have leaders who at least know what the word “Geopolitics” means? For crying out loud, how can we rule the World when the US is the only country in the World that doesn’t teach Geography in its schools and knowing more than one language makes One un-American?
How can schools teach sex in schools and math on the job and expect leadership. Iran graduates as many engineers, per year, as the US?
A a nation we are suffering from a severe combination of ignorance and arrogance due to a severe infection of psychopaths.
The first thing the new Speaker mentioned was help to Israel. What about Maui? What about the Americans who pay for their salaries and the endless spending orgies?
We are tired of Israel electing our institutions. Does saying something everyone knows to be true, justifies me being branded as an antisemite? It doesn’t and the bullying must stop.
The role of Israel as the US’ sherif’s deputy is over. Let’s find our talented diplomats and task them with diplomacy after we isolate the warmongering Ziocons. Let’s sing another tune, the boredom is stifling.
Bill and Hillary’s preparation included learning how to deduct used underwear on taxes, and look where that got them.
Thank you for your post, k. talaat.
You stated clearly the reality we here in the USA live in with the psychopaths in charge.
They care nothing for the sanctity of human life. They care about making money from wars, and gaining power and control through wars.
The soldiers they order into battle mean nothing to them. They don’t care about lives lost, nor lives injured mentally and/or physically. I have two older teenaged grandsons. I pray they won’t be forced into wars. I pray for a miracle to remove the power group running this country into the ground.
I would settle for deporting her, if India would take her….
My sentiments exactly. Domestic politics in the USA is a clusterfuk because Americans for the most part are ignorant and propagandized. The vast majority of Americans are afflicted with the manufactured mental disorders Russophobia, Sinophobia and Islamophobia. The manufacturer of these mental disorders is the Whitehouse, Pentagon and CIA abetted by AIPAC which controls Congress.
The American Congressional Military Industrial Complex is made up of Monopolies and Oligopolies and is a Mafia. Military Industries design weapons to line pockets instead winning. The purpose of our military is not to defend us but for profit to enrich the Oligarchs.
Damn right! Close our 800+ foreign bases and clean up the pollution. The US military is the world’s largest polluter. Bring ALL our troops home, assume a defensive posture and protect our borders. Defend our coasts.
Our government spends over a trillion dollars on “defense”. With a defensive posture we can cut the budget in half or more. The savings can be used to pay down the 32 trillion dollar deficit and rebuild our crumbling infrastructure.
The budget of the Propaganda Machine dwarfs the entire budget of WW2. America is the most propagandized nation on Earth.
Chris, thank you for giving me the opportunity to vent.
All good points, Longtrail. Just occurred to me that about the only thing America as a nation is probably No. 1 in manufacturing … are weapons — killing machines. But since we’re now waging a murderous, certifiably insane proxy war against Russia and the Russian people, maybe Russia is now #1 in the weapons game. If they now are, we made ‘em that way. It’s really a crying shame what has happened to my beloved country. Don’t know how much longer America can survive its “leaders”.
“The US military is the world’s largest polluter. ”
Somebody should ask John Kerry about that.
“The US Defense Department has announced that it will develop a new version of the B61 nuclear bomb with 24 times the destructive power of the one dropped on Hiroshima at the end of World War II.
The Pentagon revealed that it would seek Congressional approval and funding for the development of the weapon in a press release on Friday. According to a fact sheet accompanying the announcement, the bomb, dubbed the B61-13, will have a similar yield to the B61-7, which it is intended to replace.
The B61-7 has a maximum yield of 360 kilotons, making it 24 times more powerful than ‘Little Boy’, the 15-kiloton bomb that leveled Hiroshima.
The B61-7 is not the most powerful nuclear weapon in the US arsenal. That title goes to the B83, a thermonuclear gravity bomb with a yield of 1.2 megatons of TNT. The B83 replaced the even more powerful B53, which packed a 9-megaton punch and was retired in 2011.
“Today’s announcement is reflective of a changing security environment and growing threats from potential adversaries,” Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy John Plumb said in the release. “The United States has a responsibility to continue to assess and field the capabilities we need to credibly deter and, if necessary, respond to strategic attacks, and assure our allies.”
The announcement came less than two weeks after the US conducted an underground explosion at a nuclear testing range in Nevada, its first since the early 1990s. The blast took place just hours after the Russian State Duma, the lower chamber of parliament, passed a bill on withdrawing ratification of the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). The treaty was never ratified by the US.”
That sounds all “ominous”. However, that Wunderwaffen bomb still needs a delivery system, a ship, a plane, something…
Exactly how far or close does US think it’s going to get to it target before being blown to pieces?
And what about “speed”?
Even if it does land on something, somewhere, is US ready to pay retaliatory price?
It’s more “my dick is bigger than your dick” childish mantra and an excuse for more MIC funding believing all Americans are plain stupid.
It sounds like a joke. B61 is a regular bomb. In order to drop it on Russia, you need to fly your fancy plane over Russia. Not even Zelensky would consider that feasible.
The only ones that should be scared are US “allies”. Murican nuclear bombs have a nasty habit of dropping on territory they should be protecting. None of those incidents resulted in explosions, but they might get lucky next time.
“It’s more “my dick is bigger than your dick” childish mantra and an excuse for more MIC funding believing all Americans are plain stupid.”
Compared to Russian junk, the dick they are showing off is of a prepubescent size, which is weirdly in accord with western sexual values.
Members of Congress have insider trading rights -no one else in American society has that. Connect the dots – unending wars are profitable, unproven vaccines are profitable, over-processed food is profitable, excessive healtcare costs are profitable.
Cui bono?
When Money is corrupted, it corrupts everything else in society.
Why is my comment awaiting moderation? Normally it just posts.
@Longtrail
“My sentiments exactly. ….”
Amen. May all the people of the USA tap into this wisdom in their prayers and in their thinking. We can all escape the impending catastrophe only if the people of the USA come to this realization. The responsible people you mentioned are the source of all evil. If you free yourselves from this evil, then you free humanity from the danger of annihilation. And then you and the other peoples can find a way to freedom and a better life.
Most of the people in the USA are focused on insignificant stuff and don’t time or interest in ‘impending disaster,’ let alone ‘annihilation.’
“The vast majority of Americans are afflicted with the manufactured mental disorders Russophobia, Sinophobia and Islamophobia.”[cit]
As if they needed to be mental-manufactured to exterminate the native indians.
They are what they were. Simple and plain.
The debt is simply 1/2 of a balance sheet, with the other side being money in circulation. Pay off the debt and the economy collapses due to insolvency. Time to stop printing money and handing it to the rich, end the Fed, nationalize the banks, tax the rich out of existence (there should not be any billionaires, let alone centimillionaires), and have a debt jubilee for the victims of their pyramid schemes. After that cancel the debt, as the banksters that profit from it will have ceased to exist.
That’s the most sensible post I’ve read in a long time. Everybody’s always whining about the national debt, just nationalize the banks!
That would be communism.
Nationalize the banks. Ding ding ding, we have a winner!
What about using James Woods’ method to make them want to give us their money?
Well said! Totally agree.
And as she issued one after another statement about Russia during her time as our UN Ambassador her dearth of historical knowledge was astonishing. All she knew was what was on that day’s briefing in front of her.
The State Department is where diplomacy goes to croak.
Nikki is Kamala on steroids. There should be a requirement for the US officials of actual work experience, with comments that working for mommy ( like Nikki did most of her life, or being a professional “boardist” or a stint in corrupt and useless UN don’t count. Same for McCarthy, whose only real job experience was as an “intern.” The above “lawmakers” should not be even let in the room never mind let running amok with “finish them” rabid screams. The assets vs salary adjustment and confiscation of their ill-gotten on influence peddling wealth needed for these crooks.
What exactly did Russia do during her rant sessions, other than bloodlessly preempt a NATO move to grab Sevastopol, make some R2P moves to save the Donbass civilians from the fate of the Odessa protesters and then come up with a peace formula that would have restored the rights of Ukrainians in Donbass to participate in their own governance in the face of a banderite fascist pogrom, which apparently after members of the UNSC unanimously adopted the formula and it had served its delaying purpose, threw it in the waste dump of discarded UNSC resolutions, even unanimously adopted ones, as certain members of the Security Council are known to do on a regular basis.
The U.S is toast. biden or whoever is playing/controlling biden has let into the U.S. 7,000,000, mostly military aged young men 20-32 years of age including at least 200,000 terrorist or from terrorism sponsoring countries according to former border control veteran John James Carrell’s book: Invaded: The Intentional Destruction Of The American Immigration System. https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/geopolitical/its-just-our-turn/
Trump or anyone else can never remove these people like he claims he will. U.S. foreign policy is dead because anything they try to do outside this country will be met with terrorism inside this country. Any fool can see what they have done. This is treason at the highest levels.
Absolutely true, Mike. Traitor Joe’s Open Border Policy — an illegal invitation to massive, ongoing invasions by unvetted foreigners — IS TREASON at the highest levels. But aside from the likely sizable contingent of terrorists, there are millions of ignorant, Marxist-minded future “Democrat” voters — who, at Traitor Schumer’s urging, will all eventually get “citizenship,” and who will ALL vote Marxist Socialist — I.e., “Democrat”. To think that you can make good, God and self-reliant independent American patriots and citizens out of lawless criminal illegal aliens is but one more liberal fantasy.
Of course, the wicked, evil “Democrats” know this, but it’s power and money that they crave, the country and our once noble American heritage be damned.
Resource Sermon — “Is the Democrat Party Satanic?”, preached by Pastor Brian Schwertley (the Jack Dempsey of American Calvinist Protestant preachers):
https://www.sermonaudio.com/saplayer/playpopup.asp?SID=1219311543464
Your other 6,800,000 potentials could get annoyed if they don’t get enough free stuff soon enough.
And nutty yahoo said this ….
..
“You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible. 1 Samuel 15:3 ‘Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass’,” Netanyahu said”
Yesterday so Nikky Haley the Sikh turned Christian for convenience is in good company.
Gaza video results of smiting. https://youtu.be/Qi8KR7f6VSg
Surprising: how crowded. Gaza looks like downtown Chicago.
He picks and chooses Biblical passages completely and dangerously out of context to justify his vengeful rampages and savage attacks. And he plagiarizes God Almighty to make it even worse. He’s channeling Khomeini or Al-Baghdadi, all he needs now is a beard and turban and maybe a knife, and holding up one index finger for the camera. But he has deliberately overlooked another passage from God,
“Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord.”
If he wants to go on a wild savage tear, let him have the gonads to own up to it, and not hide behind the Lord’s robes. Leadership on this planet is getting worse by the day.
He’s reeling from a disaster, but still not a good tact. He should have read the entire Book.
“You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possible live long enough to make them all yourself.” Samuel Levenson (?)
Yes, drill Washington’s farewell address into every politician thick scull.
Northern borders? Are you some deluded MAGA cultist or beyond ignorant to think our border is a threat to a nation of mass shootings and killings?
Not Canadians I’m afraid of, Chris. The Canadians I’ve known have ALL been good people. Highly civilized, and their hockey players are probably some of the toughest and best men on the planet. Rather, it’s Marxist-minded future “Democrat” invaders and voters I’m afraid of — for a vote for a “Democrat” is but one more vote for national suicidal — not to mention totalitarian statism … lawlessness… and the ongoing abortion holocaust. And no, I am NOT a MAGA cultist — far from it — for President Trump is a flagrant Sabbath breaker and a supporter of the Triune God-dishonoring… wrath-incurring… family-destroying… homosexual movement — a serious sin that sends men down into Hellfire forever (see Jude 1).
So to answer your question, Chris — No, I’m just an America First, Triune God-fearing Calvinist Protestant Christian and American patriot.
The problem is that during the last election, Canadians for some strange reason thought that they could send a message to Ottawa by staying home because the other candidate was not perfect. They did not understand was that the object of the perverse game was to vote out that violent dunce Trudeau in favor of anyone. Now Canada and the world are all stuck with his obnoxious buffoonery until next time, which might be too late since he has changed the landscape.
It was pretty much over when the legendary Royal Canadian Mounties stampeded the trucker crowd. And is it a sure thing that they were Canadians and not mentally stunted mercenaries brought in because they have absolutely no affinity for Canadians since they were among strangers?
Parties don’t work, they are bought off to one degree or another, the choice is who is least owned, assuming they all are.
estaba laborando en Boeing Co. cuando se unio otra vez al gobierno?
Where is the brainchild of that disastrous Ukraine Spring/Summer offensive, Victoria “Fuck the EU”Nuland? Enquiring minds want to know:
https://jamesburrillangell.substack.com/p/strange-diplomacy-victoria-fck-the
Well, she got her wish with Biden destroying Nordstream leading to the EU getting fucked, eh?
And Nuland got her wish for a war against Russia, too. Only thing she did not factor in the possibility of losing complete control. She was so sure that it would be a walk in the park to the all you can eat buffet. But then what would she know about combat since grifter families are not known for military service unless of course it is a safe desk assignment counting cash and collecting fat paychecks and bennies.
“leading to the EU getting fucked, eh?”
That is the mistaken view of those who continue to live in the moment of stasis.
She’s busily searching the nooks and crannies of the war room of the Institute for the Study of Failure, trying to find that get out of jail free card she lost when packing away the Monopoly game the grand strategists of the Kaganite faction of Neocon Central liked to play to unwind after a long, hard day at failed offensives.
It would be impossible to guess which party in the US was in power based on analysis of their foreign interventions.
They are The Uni-Party.
I am thinking of running against Auntie Maxine here in Hawthorne (home of the fabulous Beach Boys).
But I can’t declare as a Republican or a Democrat because, obviously, neither party cares at all about We the People.
I’ve been considering The All Night Party?!
Deadline to file is November 8th. $1700 filing fee. 😱
Tick, tick, tick…..
I love parties, great idea! Go door-to-door and meet your voters, they will remember you at the polls. Probably have a keg as your party logo. Kids won’t know what it is but they don’t vote anyway. Good luck if you try, I would, can’t get worse that’s for sure and even Hawthorne folk should now realize that!
Best of luck with your campaign. We need people who want peace in Congress. The fact is that the American system of ‘checks and balances’ prevents a president without a base in the congress (and particularly the Senate) from doing anything. People talking about Cornel or Maryanne don’t understand that even if they were the ideal models of a perfect president, they couldn’t so much as get a cabinet past the Senate. As Trump found out, when you appoint swamp creatures to your cabinet, you lose control over the bureaucracy completely. I’m Trumpista, but the man did order the military out of Syria at least twice, and was simply ignored.
I really don’t care what else you’re for, if you’re for peace, I’m for you. Maybe some others will be elected around the country, but there’s no sign of it yet. Gotta start somewhere, though, right?
(unfortunately, I’m in Idaho, so I can’t vote for you. Or anyone else, really.)
Who is Cornel or Maryanne?
Exactly. They are presidential candidates, but they have no power base whatsoever. They couldn’t form a shadow cabinet to save their lives. They want peace though, so yay.
If you going to run against Kerosene Maxine, may I suggest that you use a fire extinguisher as your campaign logo.
Haley is the leading candidate of the war party.
“Let’s drop the big one and see what happens.”
Randy Newman meant that as satire, not official policy.
God help us all.
And lately Trump has come out full support of Israel, as has Vivek and as has RFKJr. There is no alternative: TINA. [Don’t expect people to flock to Cornel or Marianne or etc…; the media won’t even mention their names.]
From 2018, about implanting memories and actions, largely from a “defense” and “security” point of view:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDrVn40YUmE
If we are not there yet, when?
Maybe Haley is right and Newman wasn’t exactly doing satire.
Vivek has a brilliant plan. Make a deal with Putin. We promise to not admit Ukraine into NATO and let him keep his conquests but only if he cuts all relations with China.
Vivek is a clueless fool. Maybe less of a fool than the rest, but a fool nonetheless.
What bargain basement did these people come from?
I think it’s called Harvard. He was also in the bin at Yale Law.
Vivek is smart about finances, business, America first, etc., but has no historical depth so he can be fed anything by the Swampites and he would not know the difference.
He is funded by Peter Thiel
” … smart about finances, business, …”
Aka criminals in suits.
The swampites themselves only make up their history as they go along. Karl Rove started the trend and it caught on like a bad case of smallpox.
Yes I agree –but at least would seem willing to try new ideas.
Half Wit (Dubbya) had never been to Europe and Odumma wanted to
show interest in the Austrian language. However Pence is in a double
digit IQ league all to himself. He takes all the prizes.
“Today, we are all Chechnyslovaniaks”.
You could rub-a-dub dubbya for a week straight and never get a spark out of that dunce.
They all crawled out from the same place, but he is one step ahead in “five stages of grief”. Stage 2 is anger, and stage 3 is bargaining.
I’m still in the anger stage and I have no intention of bargaining.
Pogo, no way will Putin and Xi allow a wedge to be driven between Russia and China. There is already signed/active agreements/trade, pipelines and military cooperation.
And Russia would believe the US/Ukraine would fulfill their part of any arrangements WHY? Minsk 1&2, the US/UK scuttled signed peace agreements… fool me once… Both China and Russia have clearly stated the US/ZATO is “agreement incapable”, so that makes Vivek’s idea a non-starter.
Russia and China MIGHT start even picking up the phone for Biden WHEN Ukraine tosses out Zelensky and his band of NeoCon Nazis, a new gov’t signs an Unconditional Surrender and Agrees to NEUTRALITY, severs all military ties ties with the US/ZATO and stops trying to join the EU. The EU is on the verge of collapse anyway, so why get hitched to that broken wagon?
The war in Ukraine has been a war between the US and the EU from way, way back. It became clear to me when Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal. Who lost the most? Germany and France, and hence the EU. Denied cheap oil from and massive new infrastructure projects in Iran, and the opening of a market for German refrigerators there, the EU had to turn around and enthusiastically embrace US-style infinite money supply policies. They were instantly over-leveraged, and now the US has undermined the material basis of their economy. If the Nordstream blast doesn’t tell you the US’ ‘enemy’ is, nothing will.
Sure, the neocons would love to break Russia up and loot the pieces, but it’s just not happening. Devouring Europe, on the other hand, is an achievable goal. Gotta loot somebody to ‘save the economy,’ and the EU is low-hanging fruit.
Its not looking promising with the US Navy being deliberately provocative with Chinese ships in the South China Sea, and the Air Force cruising B-52 bombers right up against the line.
That’s like marching in the street in front of your neighbors house with a loaded AR-15 and claiming you are only exercising your rights on public property.
We have a zombie in the Oval Office and a drmonstrated imbecile in the number two spot.
Who is giving these orders?
What do they expect to accomplish with them?
These butt wipes have well stocked bunkers I’m sure but what about the rest of us?
And check out the assembled flotilla we now have in the Middle East. This would be shooting fish in a barrel.
https://twitter.com/Schizointel/status/1718206918215299362
They’re staying at arms length. There are also some UN / EU monitoring forces, I think they’re a more likely target of a false flag attack. The carriers are irreplaceable, European Navy not so much
The Russians made a point of advertising the fact that they MIGs equipped with Khinzals with adequate range to take them out if forced to do so.
I wouldn’t be shocked to find out the neocons have a plan to provoke such an action.
The sailors are irrelevant to them.
Precedents:
1) Pearl Harbour… over 2,000 dead soldiers/sailors and over 1,000 dead civilians.
2) USS Liberty in particular.
3) While Israel was “created” in 1948, the the ZioTerrorists since at least 1944 had turned their guns on the British soldiers trying to defend the Palestinians, who were still supposed to be protected under the UN Resolution, a measure which stretched back to the Balfour Declaration.
It is now beyond debate that hero-FDR knew the Japanese Fleet was coming, and not to California. And he did nothing… never let a good crisis go to waste.
A couple Israeli ZioCons even called the Oct 7 Hamas raid as their “Pearl Harbour” until someone pointed out the treasonous facts.
The world’s largest future artificial reef.
The goal is to make Russians run out of missiles.
Forcing them drop washing machines instead. But have you ever seen a Russian washing machine?
But thank GOD Kamala will be in charge of AI!
You just can’t make this shit up.
Yes it goes beyond satire.
Theater of the Absurd.
Believe me, it’s a far greater punishment to survive a full blown nuclear attack on the US than to perish in one.
If I survive i plan to be waiting for them outside those bunkerd
“That’s like marching in the street in front of your neighbors house with a loaded AR-15 and claiming you are only exercising your rights on public property.”
One of these loaded AR-15s:
https://www.airsoftextreme.com/airsoft-guns/electric-rifles/ar15-m4-rifle-variants/
The military-enforced toxic jabs are coming home to roost. Insurance industry sees no sign of excess deaths/disability claims easing. In fact, expect it them to worsen.. May they all suddenly & unexpectedly keel over!
2 days ago, General of Marines, member of Joint Chiefs suffered sudden, unexpected medical emergency
“General Eric M. Smith, 58, who is right in the jab-induced cardiac failure “sweet spot” (male, 50-60 years old), is the highest ranking American official to suffer a suspected shot injury. General Smith heads the entire Marine Corps and is a key member on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.”
The US is behaving as if this is still 2001 much less 1991, the years of the 2nd and 1st Gulf War respectively. These two events bookmark the beginning and end of the unipolar dominance by the US when it bestrode the world like a colossus able to mobilize its coalition of the willing against its designated Middle East enemies. It had no geo-political rivals with comparable military and economic might. Today it is far from different. China has a greater economy and Russia has risen from the economic ashes and has a mighty modern army. Furthermore the global south including Arab countries are far more independent of American diktat. Only a country led by madmen or fools can seriously embark on a war with Iran who are now firmly aligned with China and Russia.
“Madmen or fools.” Consider the minds of Obama and Biden, if you can. Any speculation as to what they will do is pointless, unless it leads to personal preparation.
I’d like to consider the minds of Obama and Biden but I’d have to get a well-stocked survival kit in case I find myself stranded in a vast desert wasteland.
After listening this afternoon to Danny Haiphong, Alexander Mercouris, Alex Christofouro, and others, I think Iran will do its best to avoid any military response to strikes from Israel/the U.S.
All the better to get the world’s public opinion on their side.
Show Israel and the U.S. as the clear aggressors (which they are).
Iran should do the opposite of what the U.S. and Israel are trying to provoke.
“UNITE ‘EM AND FIGHT ‘EM” ~ George Armstrong Custer, June 24, 1876
Larry, I doubt that there will be any backdown from the United States, they have forgotten how to do diplomacy & under this dangerous, inept Biden Administration, have not demonstrated any intellect or willingness to do so, they just keep doubling & tripling down & constantly escalating, they have no reverse gear? Russia has shown the way though on how to defeat the US & it’s Proxies like Ukraine & now Israel? Bleed them out slowly by attrition Warfare & make it financially & economically so devastating that they are bleed dry, this is because Russia & even China has the benefit of Time, which the US doesn’t have? This is what Russia has done to the US in Ukraine, bleed them out slowly at their pace with no rush, that’s why Russia hasn’t done any big operations, they are bleeding the West out like a stuck pig, draining them of willpower, weapons, artillery, manpower & money because the US is totally funding not only the Ukrainians War effort but their Govts expenses & now they are going to have to do the same for Israel? Such is the hubris & arrogance of the US Empire who believes that If we can’t rule the World, then no one else can, but they are being outmanoeuvred by Russia & China both diplomatically, militarily & economically. I think the only way I see a way out is for the Middle Eastern Nations, particularly the Saudi’s to cancel the Petrodollar system by dropping the USD which enables the US to endlessly print money to fund its never ending Wars & Military spending without going bankrupt! All Trading Nations should drop the USD & OPEC needs to stop the supply of Oil to the West & the US until a Two State solution is guaranteed for the Palestinians!
A solid crash of the derivatives market would give us another 2008 Oval Office meeting like the one Obama went to. Talk about sobering!
We’ll probably never know how serious THAT meeting was!
As much as I like your sentiments we DO NOT need the derivatives market nor the USD to crash bang. It would mean that we have played straight into the hands of the WEF and their Great Reset. Go and have a good read of this scary and real insight to what has been done behind our backs.
http://www.thegreattaking.com
It is a little difficult to grasp for us non market players so go this for a layman’s explanation.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/On0jfSQcILSc/
Thanks for this book recommendation. It reads like a thriller at times… It is a MUST READ for all of us. For those of us who are not into financial jargon, etc., one can still clearly understand the context. I read it in two days. I do think that “THEY” will conduct a cyber-attack and blame it on Putin or Iran or the Ukrainian who destroyed Nordstream II… They have war-gamed it several times (sound familiar???).
Pay off all of your debt. Take all of “your” money out of the bank.
Must’ve been pretty serious, since we’re still in its aftermath.
Alan Greenspam’s extended-release poisoning of the world’s economy.
BTW: Can anybody explain to me why after receiving so many billions in aid, Ukraine is suffering from lack of medicine and faulty medical equipment.
Is it due to western corruption or to the usual culprit – Ukrainian racketeers, aka – its government.
Maybe it’s a joint venture?
Ukrainian pie goes trough many hands, and everyone takes a bite. By the time it gets to its destination, there is not much pie left.
The US/ZATO will either step down willingly, or they will be forced to do so by force of international condemnation and the real potential of war being brought to the US Mainland. Russia won’t willingly invade European countries first, and may well eventually be forced to choose to drop conventional hypersonics and ultra-long-flight drones on selected remote US Mainland military targets, like nuke silos in Montana.
First, I would warn the US public that at 2AM ET the next day, Russia will drop an unarmed (except for self-destruct capabilities) hypersonic missile in the Reflecting Pool on the Mall. A demonstration of technological military superiority that the Uniparty can’t hand-wave away, a demonstration that even with specific warning, the US is defenceless .
To avoid such events, the EU-supported (what choice will they have?) Unconditional Surrender of Ukraine would be the first domino in that allied-support exit cascade, as saner heads in many countries the US could until recently buy/coerce into acquiescence jump off the US-Titanic. The BRICS+ lifeboats are already in the water. The tide is going out and the US’s $30+trillion debt-bomb is getting hard to hide.
MBS making peace with Iran should have twigged even the thickest of the NeoCons to realize, IT’S OVER. Petro-shipping through the Persian Gulf will still go to China and other supporting countries, but none to the US/EU. No wonder Bribem is already kissing Venezuela’s ass to get heavy oil to make diesel etc. The US’ frack fields aren’t the right feedstock, and the Dem-Green Deal idiocy stops pipelining Canadian Tar Crap for that task.
Putin and Xi obviously know the adage: Never interrupt the enemy when they are making a mistake.
It will never be over with the NeoCons until the day they stop breathing.
fyi, Hamas agreed in 2011 to a two state solution based on the ’67 borders. for those who invoke its charter, recall that the governing Likud factions refuse a two state Israel/Palestine and only recognize The Land of Israel (river to sea). in other words, by default Israeli rulers do not recognize Palestine’s “right to exist.” so Hamas is NOT “the” problem.
Yes. But Israel isn’t the problem. The US is the problem. The US does not keep promises and that has come around to bite.
Neither does Europe.
Think Minsk 1 and 2.
Russia is wise to the U.S. and Europe now.
All trust has been broken.
So proud to be an American!
I think Putin was always wise to the U.S. and Europe. He was just not in any position to be confrontational. He started cleaning house and rebuilding Russian industry and military power as soon as he took office. The west took advantage of Minsk to build up the Ukrainian military, but Putin used that time for the same purpose, + building a network of alliances and economic ties with many countries, and preparing for dedollarization. Meanwhile, the west was bankrupting itself. Putin recognized that every day Russia got stronger and the West got weaker, so he avoided war as long as he could.
You are absolutely right. Every sober adult Russia knew this by the fall of 1999 when Putin came into power.
It’s important to note that from 2007 Munich Security Conference, Putin was warning the West that NATO and the West’s hegemonic drive had to be rolled back. NATO was offering membership to Ukraine and Georgia. By December 2021, Zelensky said they might tear up the Bucharest Memorandum in which Ukraine had relinquished nuclear weapons. Ukraine had considerable nuclear technology, so the atomic bomb threat was serious.
Throughout all of 2021, Putin was making serious warnings that Russian needs could not e ignored.What happened in April 2021 was not covered by any news media, not even the alternative media. Alexander Mercouris mentioned it briefly (very unusual for him to be brief!), but only in late April after the kerfluffle was cooling down. I nearly missed it entirely. The Russians were worried the Ukrainian armed forces might be about to attack, so 100,000 to 150,000 Russian troops had been put on alert and rushed to the borders, but were moved back 1 to 3 weeks later. We don’t know how long it was, because it wasn’t covered. Anyone here is welcome to prove me wrong with a source or two – please. The next item in Putin’s warning was the meeting between Putin and Biden, June 16 in Geneva. Strangely, neither side gave a read-out and never said what topics were discussed. In hindsight it had to be the Ukraine. In October 2021, American newspapers like the WaPo published “CIA leaks” saying the Russians were thinking of “doing something” and the US should be concerned. Putin and Biden had a two hour phone call on Dec. 7, 2021. Again, I don’t believe the public was told what was said. On December 17, the Russian Foreign Ministry published the security guarantees it needed from the West, and Putin gave is major speech on Dec. 21. By then, the Wall Street Journal said 90,000 Russian troops were massing and could invade.
The picture is clear. At every step, the Biden administration rebuffed the Russians and top officials of all stripes vehemently said the Russian demands were unacceptable. It’s what Australians call shirt-fronting. Zero thought that the West should have kept its several verbal promises to not move NATO “one inch forward”.And as we now know from the oh-so-casual confession of Angela Merkel, MInsk 2 was not only never implemented as the UN Security Council ordered, but the Agreement was used to buy time to build up the Ukrainian army.
The American and British neocons were – and still are – running the joint and are helll-bent on war. They are supremely confident that Russia will be defeated. They are gambling with other people’s money and other people’s lives. So of course they are reckless.
@ JessDTruth.
You are half correct about the Russian mobilisation in April 2021.
I did happen, but it WAS also widely reported at the time.
But many may have missed it because the reporting was far less hysterical (merely, ho-hum, the Russians have mobilized, no biggie) than the reporting about the Russian mobilization later in 21 and early 22.
I wonder why?
Perhaps because the April 21 mobilization successfully deterred a planned Ukrainian offensive?
But in Feb 22, the was the Russian boogeyman hyped up as a cover and distraction to conceal planning for the Ukrainian offensive planned for March 11, 2022, artillery preparation for which appears to have commenced on Feb 16, 22?
I believe that in late 21/early 22, UKR/NATO did not expect a Russian attack, and that the Russians did not have a firm intention to invade, did not have a firm invasion plan, merely various contingency options, and the mobilization was intended purely as a deterrent.
But, sometime in mid-Feb 22, likely as late as Feb 16 when the artillery prep began, the Russians learning of Ukrainian intention to attack in March, that deterrence had failed, hastily dusted off their contingency plans (hence reports of inadequate planning by Russian units in the early days) and pre-empted the Ukrainians.
Have either Merkel or Hollande committed hari kiri yet?
In this case the US is the problem to the extent that Israel is its own problem big problem. It started as a boil which, long untreated, has led to septicemia.
Losing a four front war burns it all down the best and Obraindead will bumble right into the Sun Tzu trap.
Good, good.
End of the line for the sodomite sewer pipe abomination?
HAMAS DREAMS OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE!
THE MORE THINGS CHANGE , THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME- Bernoulli,1720
https://www.bitchute.com/video/6ssXNiGwHhFF/
PALESTINE IS THE MIDDLE EAST UKRAINE, BUT THEY’RE NOT THE SAME NAZIS 😉
Excerpt: “Germany’s Palestine policy between 1933 and 1940 was based on a fundamental acceptance of the post-World War I status quo in the Middle East. For different reasons, the Hitler regime continued in the footsteps of the various Weimar governments by identifying German interests with the postwar settlement in Palestine. That settlement embodied a growing Jewish presence and homeland in Palestine, as well as the establishment of British imperial power over Palestine and the Middle East. It also represented a denial of Arab claims to national self-determination and independence in Palestine and throughout the Middle East.”
https://www.museumoftolerance.com/education/archives-and-reference-library/online-resources/simon-wiesenthal-center-annual-volume-4/annual-4-chapter-17.html
CEP IS TAKING ACTION:
CEP CALLS FOR ADDITIONAL SANCTIONS ON HAMAS FINANCIERS, INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO.
(New York, N.Y.) — On Monday, Counter Extremism Project (CEP) Chief Executive Officer Ambassador Mark D. Wallace called on the U.S. Treasury Department to sanction the entirety of Hamas’ $500 million investment empire, following new U.S. designations against Hamas financiers at Turkish real estate investment firm Trend Gayrimenkul Yatirim Ortakligi A.S. (“Trend GYO”). On Friday, Trend GYO principals Alaeddin Senguler, Gulsah Yigidoglu, and Arwa Mangoush were each sanctioned for having provided “financial, material, or technological support” to Hamas.
CEP wrote to Trend GYO on May 16, 2022, noting its role as a primary vehicle through which Hamas controls a vast portfolio of real estate. CEP expressed its alarm that one of the most senior officials in Hamas’s worldwide funding ventures, Hisham Yunis Ichiyeh Qafisheh – who has Palestianian, Jordanian and Turkish citizenship – also served on the Trend GYO Board. One week later, on May 24, the U.S. Treasury Dept. sanctioned Trend GYO and other entities responsible for administering Hamas’ Investment Office. Hamas business operations are ultimately controlled by Hamas’s Shura Council and Executive Committee.
Ambassador Wallace stated:
“We applaud this most recent round of sanctions aimed at degrading Hamas’ financing. Hamas’ vast real estate empire is a major revenue stream and all the more troubling due to its ostensibly licit character. We urge all national jurisdictions, especially where Hamas is already sanctioned, to sanction Trend GYO. It is also critical to note that this Turkish entity is only one piece of the Hamas funding puzzle.”
Recent reporting reveals that Hamas leadership abroad has amassed a fortune of around $700 million, mostly housed in Hamas-controlled companies in Turkey, Qatar, Algeria, the United Arab Emirates, and Sudan. Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh, Khaled Mashal, and Abu Marzuk are each reportedly worth $3-4 billion.
Haniyeh planned and celebrated the October 7 Israeli massacre from his safe harbor in Qatar. That day, Hamas committed an atrocity of unparalleled savagery, surpassing even ISIS in its brutality – subjecting whole families, women, children, grandparents and babies to rape, torture and butchery. More than 1,400 persons were massacred, while Hamas currently holds some 222 hostages inside the Gaza Strip.
Hamas is variously subject to outright or partial bans, assets freezes, and other proscriptions in the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Japan, Paraguay, and the United Kingdom.
I CONCLUDE WITH SIR IVOR ROBERTS ARTICLE IN THE TELEGRAPH JANNUARY 2023
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/26/a-colossal-israel-iran-war-is-much-closer-than-anyone-imagi/
THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO COMMENT.
KIND REGARDS. S
From your last link:
*** “The US decision to send two naval task forces to stand off Lebanon is clearly meant as a deterrent, a warning to Hezbollah and Iran not to get further involved.” ***
Mr. Johnson’s conjectures about interventions by Russia and China were interesting, and I hope they’re mostly right. Somebody needs to rein in the nutballs in that arena. My searches for what the other two superpowers might be doing came up empty. But since I can’t believe they’re sitting on their hands, some speculation is in order. Just guessing now, but I suspect both Syria and Iran have been labeled as “out of bounds” for attacks by the US. That would leave all those US Naval Ships “deterring” Hezbollah. If Hezbollah is compelled to join the battle, would the US Air Force and Navy do any better attacking that organization than the IDF has in the past? I don’t know the answer to that one.
One thing’s certain though – the Apartheid state bombing the hell out of Gaza at the same time the US is turning Lebanon into rubble would be a disaster in terms of general world opinions about us, especially in the Muslim world.
You forgot to mention the beheaded babies. You did mention raping babies though… After beheading, I hope
You’d think they could have used pitchforks, like Bandera’s original gang.
Susana, Apparently, you support the Bush, et al., neocons or you neglected to check Counter Extremism Project funding sources. Please see the “Foreign Policy” section of Wikipedia page for Thomas Kaplan, who is the only acknowledged major source of CEP funding. Kaplan is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and aligned with David Petraeus as well as Sheldon Adelson, well known for his work with with the Israeli Lobby and other anti-Islamic groups.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kaplan
Hamas are arab salafi wahabbis , Turks are the inheritors of the ottoman Empire they are Sufi Turkic Muslims.
So its impossible for hamas to dream of an ottoman empire.
For. God’s sake first learn some basics about your subject before dreaming up stories about them.
Larry I totally missed this. *Greater Turkiye and nations east* will be entering the war, in addition to Iran, unless the US shuts Bibi down NOW. 1.5M person demonstration, Ergodan’s hand will be forced. Must see: Col Macgregor’s latest,
https://youtu.be/PabGlfduLJE?si=0issYlQw_xwa-Ugn
Not to overlook Palestine/most Arabs were occupied by said Ottoman Turks.
Don’t get into too much of their history or Jake Sullivan might blurt out ‘they’re on our side’ during a Syria nostalgia moment.
The war in Gaza is like a slow burning fuse inching towards a powder keg. If the warning postures from Russia, China and Iran are able to slow down the progress of the flame, there is some hope that the big destruction would be avoided. But that implies that the suffering the Gaza cannot be put to an immediate end. It is like choosing between a smaller evil and a bigger evil.
Just like the Middle-East is a distraction from Ukraine, may be another distraction from both Ukraine and Israel could be useful. Suppose China suddenly ups the ante in Taiwan? Starts making theatrical moves against Japan for discharge of radioactive water in the sea?
The point is: when the whole world is watching, political compromise is tied up with loss of prestige. When the attention is distracted and the US warmongers rush to support Taiwan rather than Israel or Ukraine, Israel could be persuaded that now the situation has changed and a political compromise can be reached without loss of face.
Surgery can be made painless using anesthesia. The same principle could be applied for what is essentially cancer surgery on a geopolitical scale.
The point is: when the whole world is watching, political compromise is tied up with loss of prestige. When the attention is distracted and the US warmongers rush to support Taiwan rather than Israel or Ukraine, Israel could be persuaded that now the situation has changed and a political compromise can be reached without loss of face.
I respectfully disagree. Israel has just basically announced that their war will run for at least six months. To me, this suggests constant destruction but at a slow enough pace that people eventually just lose interest in reporting on it.
I keep thinking about the wild Old Testament lingo Netanyahu has been spouting: “We are the Chosen! The light unto the world!”
And Israel’s 300-500 nuclear weapons (a secret!) and their “Samson Option”. Their “Hannibal Directive” is another doozy.
Why no mention of this?
It all comes down to the old school yard brawl. “My Dad is bigger than your Dad.”
Bibi:
“My God is bigger than your God.”
God is weeping.
God is weeping? Which God are you referring to? There are so many to pick from.
“the US warmongers rush to support Taiwan rather than Israel or Ukraine”
Rather than Ukraine, yes. Ukraine is a failed project that will continue only at the level of terrorist and sabotage acts to annoy Russia.
Rather than Israel, no way! If Israel is supported far and above the US’ interests, do you think Taiwan ranks above?
“will”
Certainty is the greatest weakness.
“It is like choosing between a smaller evil and a bigger evil”
What a stark choice, go in an attempt to save another 10K – 100K Palestinian lives, and risk the Zionist/NAZI scum going full retard and have millions of deaths.
So the scalpel is in Biden’s hand being told by somebody what to do, and when. Remind’s me of a surgery in which somebody forgot that anesthesia was to precede the first act.
Why does the US have such low quality political leaders? “Our precious Democracy” sure produces a bunch of dirt bags.
We have a constitutional republic.
you misspelled “had”
and prefixed it with “a very long time ago”
Sorry. I keep thinking about the way it was. I’ll have to watch some dystopian movies and get my head straight.
Once Upon a Time in America. Either that or Gangs of New York.
Both on Netflix
This guy may have your answer; it’s deliberate and it’s an inside job.
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele with Tucker Carlson:
“The demise of the USA has to come from within. No external enemy can cause so much damage as an internal operation.”
“I am from a 3rd world country and I see cities in the US where I wouldn’t want to live now. When you see cities in the US eroding so fast, this has to be by design.”
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1716574972955492435
Missed that. Thanks for the link.
(1776 interesting date)
But Netanyahu’s IDF Reservist son is having a fun time now frolicking on the beaches of Miami!
The best whores that $$$$ can buy.
Not the best but the cheapest. As an Israeli once said: A US senator is cheaper tobuy than a Merkava.
You can have a Menendez for the price of a used Toyota.
As usual people are 50 years late to the phraseology.
A used Toyota is quite good and valuable. A used Ford though is quite cheap.
Ariadna,
¡Bien dicho! Excepto, ahora con precios inflados….
Claro. Pero depende tambien del juego entre oferta y demanda. La oferta esta mas grande que nunca ahora.
Si sabes algo del Intercambio Mercantil de Chicago sabes que en el listado de valores “Congresista EEUU” esta bajo “panzas de cerdo” (o se dice’ veintre de cerdo,’ no estoy segura?)..
Creo que están en la lista de culos de caballo.
Once could be an accident, but at by now its evident that its the system.
“Follow the money.” for your answer.
George Carlin had some insights, too. Its a big party and you ain’t in it.
Not THAT big a party in reality. There’s 8 billion of us and perhaps a few thousands of the Rothschild Class and their committed agents/sycophants. The fancy tap-dance the Trudeau/Freeland Liberals are playing to try to keep the Canadian Muslim Vote is a demonstration of how easily the WEFers can appear to change their spots.
“All wars are bankers’ wars.”
“War is a racket.”
Smedley Butler.
https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/butlersd-warisaracket/butlersd-warisaracket-00-h.html
81 million honest votes confirm your concerns.
Why does the US have such low quality political leaders?
A consequence of our low quality political process.
Who buys the bullshit about unprovoked attack on Ukro-Nazistan and unprovoked attack on Zio-Nazistan? Haley and Pense are full of shit!
Those that have been buyin’ similar bullshit all along. It’s not like this nonsense started yesterday, or in this century.
Well, I wouldn’t exactly compare the two but you’re close.
If there are Americans that are hell bent on summoning the end times – in this completely artificial way btw! – surely there are other Americans just as determined to stop them.
Here is what I don’t grok about all these Old Testament Evangelicals, especially since Isaiah says, “Once the Messiah has come, the Old Testament will be OBSOLETE.”
Netanyahu likes to site the book of Isaiah saying this and that about Israel.
But the same book of Isaiah also talks about a Messiah being born in 700 years!
Well, lo and behold, Jesus showed up and the Jews denied He was the Messiah they had been waiting for!
Which is why the Hebrew calendar is stuck on 5487? and the rest of the world is in 2023!
I am a Christian and I truly don’t understand how all these “Evangelical Christians” have missed ALL the writings in Isaiah as the Jews have.
Maybe somebody can ‘splain this to me? There is just something about “Love one another as I have loved you” that Jews and Evangelicals just don’t get.
If you are going to accept uncritically Isiah then you must accept uncritically the genocide in Deuteronomy, which justifies the Sampson option, which could end all human life on this planet, and which only the Evangelicals welcome.
I would prefer to refer to the Geneva convention and insist that it be applied universally. Including to Western leaders.
“If you are going to accept uncritically Isiah then you must accept uncritically the genocide in Deuteronomy”
No. They are two different religions. Not only different, but incompatible. One led to Christianity, the other to Talmudic Judaism.
The Third World War will decide which survives, and which is eradicated.
No you don’t. Assuming they existed at all, the Amaleks were punished because they did not adhere to the Covenant of Noah.
In the Levant today, who is violating this covenant? Is it the Palestinian Muslims, Christians, and Jews? Hell no. It is the European transplants.
Scofield Study Bible; a late 19th century project of the Zionists, to counter what Isaiah and Revelations actually say.
“Scofield Study Bible; a late 19th century project of the Zionists, to counter what Isaiah and Revelations actually say.”
Thomas Jefferson described the Book of Revelations as “the ravings of a Maniac, no more worthy, nor capable of explanation than the incoherences of our own nightly dreams.”
There’s a whole lot in that collection of books that I would say the same about, though I am definitely aware of what you are referring to as regards Scofield(and those who funded his project). Wonder why the supposedly all knowing all loving all perfect and infallible Bible-god somehow just can’t seem to stop all the changes made to those books over the centuries as well as the various interpretations? What are there, like 30,000 different denominations of the Christian religion? And Bible-god isn’t the “author of confusion”? Indeed!
Calvin had the theory that we live in a world of total depravity. This cynical view of humanity was necessary for the development of capitalism. After all this is how they justified removing people from their traditional peasant way of life – via phenomena such as The Enclosure – and throwing them into factories like animals. Not a criticism, just an observation. In some sense I suppose it had to happen.
The problem is these ideas have lived on well past their sell by date. After all what is more cynical than monopoly finance capital? They don’t even print money anymore! They simply make changes in a ledger somewhere.
What is more cynical than a Hagee or a Copeland (the latter clearly a DEMON) winding up their flock for the end times just to funnel more money to the MIC and the Deep State?
Like everything else, the form of religion goes with the mode of production. The longer we cling on to Unipolar Imperialism (Globalism) the more depraved our circumstances.
‘No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.’
A less united states could hardly be envisioned.
Divide and conquer from within.
This stone was rolling down hill 30 years ago. The colleges, universities and schools did the seeding.
NIKKI-[CERN~OPPENHEIMER: ‘I-AM-DEATH-!’]-HALEY-IS: TRUMP’s-U.N.-O’-1789-JERU-SALEM-[TRUMP-!]-NOAH-7-HYDE-! = THEE-JEW-HEAD-LOPPERS-! ~ 4-THEE-UNCLE-SAP-GOY-I-AM: A-JEW-DOG-2-THEE-JEW-PNAC-NWO-OWN-C.O.G.-HITLER-HOLOCAUST-SLAUGHTER-! =
MOSHIACH-BAPTIST-ben-ovr-TRUMP-! =
JEW-AUMF~9/11-01-! = ‘opening-volley-!’ ~ WORLD-WAR-III &
MOSHIACH-ANTI-CHRIST-ben-ovr-BEBE-! =
JEW-AUMF~9/11-23-! = ‘act-o’-war-!’ ~ WORLD-WAR-III =
C.I.A.-ROSWELL-HUAC-UFO-C.O.G.-4-THEE-JEWS-! = THEE-ANTI-CHRIST-! =
HOR-U.S.-0′-ISIS-0′-IS.-BEBE-! +++
The crisis in Palestine, like the war in Ukraine, are just chapters of the transition to a NWO. With the HAMAS attack still shrouded in much mystery. But curiously enough, it was the coup d’état in Ukraine that prompted Russia and China to kick off an NWO. Which would always happen in this neoliberal order that is completely parasitic on all global wealth and especially on nation states. But the coup d’ état in Ukraine boosted and brought forward the kick-off by at least more than a decade. A major mistake by the US only equaled by the theft of Russian reserves which caused an immediate loss of confidence cross the whole world in the current US dollar global financial system. Regardless of much already happening, as is normal in a dynamic world where many changes we have seen in recent years are already irreversible. Like the US loss of power in the Middle East.
And Larry is right when refers to the nonsense of many analyses, like a war between civilizations. Nothing more wrong. All we are seeing is a pure and harsh economic war to put an end to US economic hegemony on land, sea and air. And China or Russia do not want to replace the US as owners of the world. They simply want to say that the world has no owners and all economies can develop without the usual constraints of the bully. And as is normal in Russia and China, they have been doing their homework for a decade. And in several aspects. Putin also began to fly to China more insistently precisely on the eve of the coup in Ukraine. Like the Chinese BRI after 2015/16, for example, replaced major infrastructures that were more complicated to operate in wartime for smaller infrastructures. But the NWO is also irreversible.
On land, sea and sky, the unipolar world and order according to US rules are over. Which has always been characterized by a period of non-stop wars since the end of the USSR. Something that also greatly disturbed Russia and China due to the global instability it caused. And one last note to say that we are also witnessing the return of nation states with more conviction. In some countries, even the return of nationalism, as I still heard Colonel Mcgregor talking about Turkey today. But Erdogan, contrary to what the Colonel said, is not fighting for the return of the Ottoman Empire but rather trying to respond to double-digit super inflation for more than a decade that has destroyed the income in Turkey.
It’s always economic crises that appeal to nationalism. As for Erdogan’s other messianic ambition, as the leader of the Sunni world, I do not believe that it benefits Turkey in any way. Finally, Larry is being unfair to China’s purely cyclical behavior in the South China Sea. The flank where China is most vulnerable. Due to the hypothesis, for example, of the US starting a war in Taiwan. Or to use other allies like Japan or the Philippines today. It’s the US, as Larry knows very well, that dominates all the world’s sea routes like a huge Navy. They dominate and verbally boast about their dominance that they can stop supplies. That will also have to end, including with the emergence of new routes such as the Arctic.
The US does not own all the Oceans so they can strangle the economies they want. The Oceans and international waters are a common asset on the planet. The US, if not an imperialist country, had a Defense Navy sized for its coast. But since many people in Washington, including the new paradigm of financial oligarchs who took over the US, think that the US is the master of the world, it’s also normal for the US to be the biggest losers in a NWO. And its EU/NATO allies. And this is the big reason for so many conflicts today. The US is not willing to give up economic hegemony. But they will be forced to give in. They are already being forced every day.
Agree, but it goes further.
The US oligarchs cannot accept the change, because the US doesn’t produce enough wealth to pacify the (restive and well-armed) population and support the billionaire class – that requires the wealth flow from empire (dollar trade). This once was true – say after WW2, but no longer.
Once the dollar trade is lost, the pitchforks will come out, which is my opinion of why the transfer of all the military hardware to the domestic police – to try and keep order.
Of course, the uber-wealthy will relocate to New Zealand, leaving the US impoverished – will the US be able to feed itself once it no longer can pay for imported tractors and logistics equipment with worthless paper (dollars), not to mention drugs and medicines, and well, everything?
Idiots say we can just build a factory. I say, everything can go to heck a lot faster than a factory can be built if you can’t make machine tools and there are no students of manufacturing / engineering because all the professors retired and passed away and the department was closed or only does designer drug biotech.
You are right. It is never easy to completely reconvert a service economy. Especially with the debt of the US economy. I would say that it is completely impossible without debt forgiveness for sectors such as healthcare. It takes courage and great rulers. Rulers of the people, by the people and for the people. The oligarchs must be expelled. Putin expelled many and that is why he’s the most hated man on the planet. And in my opinion I should have expelled more and earlier. But Putin, as everyone has probably noticed, is a fan of velvet revolutions. And let’s hope Russia isn’t spending too much on weapons again.
” are just chapters of the transition to a NWO.”
Your framing is understandable but wrong.
From the initiation of the Russian Federation the purpose has been the transcendence of the coercive recurring “New World Order” by federated cooperations through choice for mutual benefit, facilitated by developing to each according to her/his needs and from each according to her/his abilities, transcendence being a lateral process whose variables include but are not limited to trajectories and velocities.
” The US is not willing to give up economic hegemony.”
The above is too limited in scope.
“The United States of America” is not willing to be transcended which has already been in progress since at least 1969, with lateral inflection points not restricted to the notices of intent included within Presidential Decree number 355 of the Russian Federation signed into law on the 2nd of June 2020, or the notices of intent delivered by the People’s Republic of China and The Russian Federation to “The United States of America including NATO” in December 2021.
“From the initiation of the Russian Federation the purpose has been the transcendence of the coercive recurring “New World Order” by federated cooperations through choice for mutual benefit, facilitated by developing to each according to her/his needs and from each according to her/his abilities, transcendence being a lateral process whose variables include but are not limited to trajectories and velocities.
“The United States of America” is not willing to be transcended which has already been in progress since at least 1969, with lateral inflection points not restricted to the notices of intent included within Presidential Decree number 355 of the Russian Federation signed into law on the 2nd of June 2020, or the notices of intent delivered by the People’s Republic of China and The Russian Federation to “The United States of America including NATO” in December 2021.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/10/31/chris-hedges-the-exterminators/
“‘Strategy of Tension’”
“of a strategy dating from the aftermath of the 1973 October War and rise of U.S.-Israeli ties.”
Strategies of Tension have existed and been implemented in much of coercive cultures through time.
One example of its implementation were the efforts of Mr. Stangl and his associates to restructure Treblinka death camp from 1942 onwards to increase productivity, in part through emulation of some of Mr. Taylor’s observations in “Scientific Management”.
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/10/31/scott-ritter-john-kirby-versus-russian-military/
I just listen to Kevork Almassian and his concern of the blantant dialogue coming out of the neocons to finish off Assad with another assassination attempt. Thoughts?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hys6pU9uZ7c
Assad is under the best of Russian protection so good luck with that.
I hope you are right. The big kids show up and maybe the twerps will stop acting like Ghengis Khan at the day care.
I agree, thanks Larry for letting us comment.
“I remain hopeful that Russia and China, through a coordinated diplomatic effort, can isolate the United States and Israel and compel them to back down. Maybe I am just naive.”
Hope you’re not, but maybe I am also naive.
Would like to think that there is some serious behind the scenes manoeuvering going on. Time will tell.
Simplicius 76 has summarized and added his own commentary some important obervations by Alistair Crooke and French Prime Minister Dominique De Villepin. Croke, with ties and long expertise in West Asia is more pessimistic of avoiding a wider kinetic front, while de Villepin gives a broad analysis and also recognizes that the past 75 years of zionazi ethnic cleansing has reached a culmination point. Simplicius recognizes the pushback in US/OTAN as being significant enough combined with broad global condemnation of the Israeli zionazi/mizrajoi regime’s ‘final solution’ to pull back US/OTAN from a major kinetic escalation. This would still engender and escalate the collapse of the 500 year ‘rulez-based -ordnung’, as he describes in his 29 Oct post.
Am not so confident.
De Villepin was Chitac’s Prime Minister when France opposed Bush-Cheney on invading Iraq
Maybe you should reflect on how US reacted to that and what the results were of US Exceptionalism
Maybe you shouldn’t be an ignorant pompous ass, troll.
Honi soit qui mal y pense
Souffle sur les chiens morts, troll.
and what the results were of US Exceptionalism
Hard to tell, The world is still feeling its aftershocks for a decade or so more.
A grift that just keeps on griving.
Nikki is a sick Sikh and her shrill barking doesn’t count.
No amount of “diplomatic pressure” from Russia and China can stop Israel from continuing the carnage in Gaza and the US from supporting it while whispering “moderation” (like what: reduce the killing of children from 200 a day to 100?)
Israel doesn’t care about Russia. Its hounds threaten it publicly fkr daring to mention the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza even if prefaced bu the required Introductory castigation of Hamas (“Russia will pay!” They don’t care because they see how much they can get away with in Syria while Russia does not respond.
Larry’s optimism is unfounded. Will Russia really intervene if USrael attacks Iran or will it be more “diplomatic pressure.”
Each day that passes with self-righteous “diplomatic pressure” thousands more Palestinians die. Each day that the blockade is not lifted is another day of shame for those who profess to care.. diplomatically. Why don’t Russia and China announce that if the bombing does not stop and the humanitarian trucks are not allowed to enter in Gaza they will break diplomatic relations with Israel?
Israeli bigmouths wave that carte blanche the US issued
American corpses will honour those wild statements from Israel
US voters will see living standards collapse to Mexican levels
Anti air systems and missiles to reach cities of Israel are all that are needed to empty Israel and bring it to it’s knees economically and eventually militarily.
Russia doesn’t have to take things directly. China and Russia joint manufacturing of these systems to 10-20 times of current production. Then there are a few million muslim men waiting to be trained in their usage.
My SWAG is that in the background Russia is working to swing Arab nations to BRICS and Russian military-technical support, in exchange for “refusing to sell oil to Western Israeli enablers,”, but really swapping oil clients in the west for Chinese clients (via sign long term contracts so the sales do not return ever to the West). That is a long-term solution, not a short-term bandaid, that does not ignite WW3.
IMHO, the real war has always been economic and the West (and Israel) are losing – with Israel just having shot themselves in the face.
Yes, thousands are dying every day, but set off WW3 and no one will even recall. And breaking diplomatic relations is an empty gesture – Russia still maintains diplomatic relations with the US. Can you guess why? They hope that someone other than clowns will take control of the state department one day.
I’ve heard that they breed Sikhs for their nastiness, like pit bulls.
“And there is no guarantee that an aircraft carrier will escape being sunk.”
From TASS, titled Lukashenko warns Israel, West against initiating war on Iran lest it trigger World War III
https://tass.com/world/1698045
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Hisbollah has Yakhont so US carriers stay well away………their F-35s are rendered ineffectual by the additional range……..
Iran has Khalij Fars and Noor anti-ship missiles which give it strategic autonomy in Gulf of Hormuz
US carriers do not need to be sunk to be rendered ineffectual
We have to check out John Mearsheimer latest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62FCVJycwSA
And, of course he is right.
Also note that the new speaker of the house, Mike Johnson, is all out for the military industrial complex money of a 106 billion for both Ukraine and Israel and was THUS picked by our greedy, soulless congress members to continue to FUND the 106 billion war effort, all this in exchange for continued cannon fodder of humans in Ukraine AND for complete and utter genocide of the Palestine people in the Mideast.
NO-body is joining the US military for this reason, and NO Military Draft is going to save these ugly people in Washington DC.
I haven’t checked out Mearshimer’s latest, and I don’t have the time. This year I saw the professor dancing all around several “elephants in the room” and pretending they don’t exist. I have to believe he is fully aware of those invisible elephants, but he has tamed, punished for saying too much in the excellent 2007 book which he and John Walt published, “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.” So now Mearshimer is afraid to say very much. Consequently he isn’t worth the time when others are saying quite a bit more. Larry Johnson, Norman Finkelstein, Thierrey Meyssan, Scott Ritter, Boris Rhezin, Andrei Martyanov, Pepe Escobar, etc.
Quite true.
He neglected to mention that to the Israeli regime “Lebensraum” has always been more important than peace. He only considered military matters and didn’t consider economic ones. He didn’t mention that Israeli politicians are now talking about a Final Solution to the “Gaza problem”. He didn’t say that the first Rule of the “International Liberal Rules Based Disorder” is that the US and only the US decides which Rule is to be applied and how. Example: Crimea is to remain within Ukraine – borders are not to be changed — Kosovo is to be cut out of Serbia – people have the right of self determination — The Northern part of Kosovo cannot be cut out of Kosovo – borders are not to be changed.
Doug MacGregor’s not anti-Israel but he came right out and said it: “Israel owns Congress”.
Straight talk is refreshing.
Ah, Mearsheimer always has China on his mind, like a love-sick puppy. He’s getting stale.
Was bored, so I decided to listen to Mearsheimer’s (in depth) explanation for why the war in Ukraine broke out.
He left so many relevant moments out (for his simple-minded Aussie audience perhaps), that I thought I was listening to Wolf Blitzer.
If Mearsheimer’s considered a guru in some circles, then we’ve got more problems than even I thought. I give the guy a C+ for having left out 90% of cause and effect, maybe because he didn’t want to strain too many Aussie minds, or he desperately wanted to come across as one of the ‘good guys’.
I cut his spiel short, well before he came out with the big Chinese octopus poster board, spreading its tentacles across the world and with a sputtering fuse stuck out of its head.
As someone who did sail through the Gulf in Naval Convoys – I have to say that what CHN are doing is quite reasonable.
IRN, UAE, and KSA are in the BRICS/SCO/SilkRoad Trading Blocks.
IRN host CHN_PLA and PRK_KPA Military Advisors as well.
IRN purchase RUS Military Platforms; and RUS are able to fly into IRN to back them up, or simply launch Hypersonics overland into the Gulf with IRN’s Permission.
IIRC, IRN claimed to have Hypersonic Missiles under development. Ditto PRK. CHN already have them.
Add to this, IRN successfully circumvented the PetroU$D by accepting payments in Major Currencies.
I wished IRN and ISR wouldn’t antagonize each other; and sign some sort of Non-Aggression Treaty. However, Imbeciles like Trump/Bolton/ISR_Operatives pulled off the Assassination of General Soleimani – the #2 BMOC in IRN, in line to be the President.
IIRC, I read that IRN managed to hunt down and kill the Israeli Operative who coordinated the Assassination; but Iranians were talking about Crowdfunding a Bounty on Trump in Public after Soleimani’s Funeral Procession.
IRN will be militarily supported by RUS and CHN. Will CHN send in Troops? Perhaps to defend their shipping. It may be a matter of time/circumstances for CHN or PRK to station TBMs, Hypersonics, and Supersonics along the IRN Coasts. IRN Shahed and Arash Drones may do much damage to Forces in the Region as well as ISR Proper.
Perhaps Major+Regional Powers will realize their Territorial Influences and Limitations.
For now.
I may sound like a broken vinyl record player; but Israel are on course to repeatedly Double their Population every 25~30 years.
Global and Regional GeoPolitical Dynamics will have shifted beyond our recognition during that time.
Here’s another take in Iran. Make of it what you will
https://nitter.net/pati_marins64/status/1718274705537261732#m
It seems to me the real plan is to destroy the collective west at the behest of the people who actually run it … I guess they are going to drive their silly one world government plan off the cliff like Thelma and a trans Louise. The CCP has way more influence in the west than people think.. The CCP owes the cliff, the car, the gasoline, and the cops chasing them to ensure the explosion to end the movie. ( if you are wondering who sold all that influence to the CCP, check the movie credits (any movie) for some clues
Not quite. The economies that are being run off the cliff mostly have Rothschild-controlled Central banks. China, Russia, Iran currently have defenestrated or ring-fenced their Rothschild Central bankers/Oligarchs and soon I’d be guessing most BRICS+ banks will follow Putin’s recipe for freeing their economies. Keeps the profits in the country instead of in Rothschild pockets.
I haven’t looked recently, but during the 2008-10 “Debt Crisis”, the US was taking about $80billion per month in currency transfer fees (a major reason why the Petro$ exists), and was handing out $80billion/mo in “Quantitative Easing”. A coincidence? Thinks that make ya go HHHHMMMM… But as de-dollarization gains momentum, the transfer fees will drop, especially as the US loses cooperation on its sanctions screw-up.
Add in little missteps like planned US-skimming off the top of Iraqi oil revenues post-invasion were supposed to cover the cost of the Iraq and Afghan invasions… OOPS! 10% for the Big Guy is chicken feed in the larger scheme of things.
If this is not the ultimate red line. what is?
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/leaked-document-shows-israeli-govt-option-ethnically-cleanse-gaza
No diplomatic chiding, no more “tsk, tsk, not nice of you, moral arbiters of the world.”
Short of hitting Israel militarily, breaking diplomatic relations with the terrorist state, boycotting all commerce, closing airports to El Al flights, not even acceptance of Israeli athletes in any int’l competitions, every measure that treats it like a pariah state. Sanctions!
\Will Russia and China have the stones to do at least that much? If they do, many others will follow.
Larry,
The Russian and Chinese naval cooperation with Iran is significant, as are Russian air defense systems in Syria and Iran, but the real kicker here is Turkey. Turkey can bring vastly more force to bear on Israel than Russia or China or Iran, especially when it comes to boots on the ground. Erdogan has pretty clearly dropped his attempts at diplomacy toward peace and is poised to take stronger measures.
The strategic posture of the EU has no ability to resist the flood of immigrants if Turkey opens its border, and no way to force Erdogan to close it. Can US carrier groups survive an encounter with Turkey? I’m not confident they can survive an encounter with Hezbollah.
Erdogan is simply posturing for leadership of Moslem world in the region a d to depose Egypt as key player with largest population. The real danger is the overthrow of Abdullah in Jordan and of Sisi in Egypt
Erdogan funds Hamas and it is based in Turkey.
If the Arab Street revolts and Egypt revokes treaties with Israel the game changes
Russia feeds Egypt and is investing in industry there and Russia tourists bring revenues
Sharm el Sheik the former Israeli resort in Sinai is essential to Egypt for currency and that does not need Palestinian tent cities
Eh? I thought Hamas leadership is based in Qatar?
And it has been revealed from gov’t sources that Mossad and Bibi were instrumental in setting and Israeli-gov’t funding Hamas up to take power from the PLO.
Has Bibi lost control of his Hamas Project, or is this just Standard Operating procedure in ZioCon land?
Do they throw Qatari babies out of incubators?
Neocons and Bibi want war with Iran, but I think Turkiye is more significant. A powerful wild card.
Ergo may be forced to act. And i think he’s half as messianic as Bibi.
Will ecomonic warfare instead of military assuage the masses of Moslems?
If the U.N. does not figuratively put someone’s head on a pike for genocide real soon, it loses its reason for being.
IDF just dropped a whopper of a bomb on a refugee camp, trying to get one Hamas honcho. They’re not sure if they got the Hamas honcho but they killed a ton of civilians.
They’re out of control. Could be rabies.
I can’t imagine how anyone can imagine a land war in the Middle East today. Especially military personnel like Mcgregor. With toys that travel much faster with terrible precision that do much more damage than an entire Division of tanks. Which is another problem, the US alone, despite having many weapons in several military bases in the region, needed 1 year to transport all the necessary logistics for a land war. There is a land war going on on Russia’s border because Moscow never intended to destroy Ukraine but to demilitarize Ukraine! In addition to not wanting a pile of rubble and its consequences, such as instability, on its border after the war.
Erdogan is a populist who always plays on several boards. If Erdogan really wanted to declare war on Israel, he wouldn’t do it at a rally more for Central Asia than the Middle East. Where he wants to interfere with the interests of Russia and China, taking advantage of a huge Muslim population. Not to get in war with two great powers but to achieve very objective advantages through blackmail. A word that defines Erdogan well.
If Erdogan really wanted to declare war on Israel all that was needed was to slam NATO’s door in the face of Israel’s main sponsor. But Erdogan didn’t even do that. NATO’s easternmost partner, worth more than 100 Swedes. Regardless of the comatose state of NATO today. After losing all dreams about the Black Sea. But let’s not forget that the US may not have been able to overthrow Putin and hit Russia or China but they managed to cut off Russian gas from the EU. Which was also always a main goal of the Ukrainian war. A simple statement from Pakistan about nuclear weapons, the US whore in South Asia throughout the Cold War, was more important than anything Erdogan has ever said. There are those who call him cunning, but there are also those who call Trump cunning. Maybe on TV.
As I already wrote here and don’t ask me how, this conflict in the Middle East was not born out of a vacuum. And the same is to say that the HAMAS attack was not born out of a vacuum from the point of view of an 80-year-old conflict, but neither was it born out of a vacuum in terms of timing. That it was approved and even expanded by the IDF should already be clear to everyone. But even the CIA or Mossad can provoke a HAMAS attack. And I’m not saying that’s what happened because there is still no proof and there may very well never be one like other wars, but this conflict arose as a ramp for the US to exit Ukraine and to try to save Netanyahu’s political corpse in Israel, where even his PM Cabinet remains completely divided.
And let’s be clear that we are not witnessing any clash of civilizations. A completely unfounded analysis. And in recent days there has also been conflicting information about Israeli support for the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip. With analysts saying that the majority does not support Netanyahu but supports the total destruction of Gaza? I find it difficult.
Of course, Netanyahu and his coalition of extremists have their own objectives, such as the extermination of the Palestinians in Palestine, but it is not the Palestinians who are moving the great powers, the US, Russia and China! In how many Israel-Palestine conflicts has China moved its Navy to the Middle East? Which has always been about oil and this time about the recent power of influence that China and Russia have gained in the Middle East. Which the US wants to remove, obviously!
In short, it’s all about the NWO in a region fundamental to the global economy over the last 100 years! With the Middle East moving away from the US. And the story that the US is containing the Palestinian genocide that many observe is another fallacy. As I also wrote here, at most Biden told Netanyahu to do it quickly. Because today there is another aspect of conflicts that was not considered 30 years ago. The moral! Moral victory as we see Russia achieving it in Ukraine. And what the US didn’t worry about 20 years ago in Iraq, when it controlled all the journalists and all the war images that left the theater of operations and could be published in the media. Until the Wikileaks leaks appear that are killing Assange today in a British prison. And today there are smart phones and social networks. But please realize that conflict is ongoing in the Middle East today. China is in the Middle East to defend its oil. And obviously, defending the stability of the region, like Russia, which is important to its recent power of influence and its oil! And the US wants to destroy the new order in the Middle East. Starting with Iran.
Some-one is going to have to run on the slogan “make America RESPECTABLE again.”
That does not mean making war with all and sundry. It means restoring the mechanisms of international trade to their rightful place and an end to their weaponisation. It means an end to all those sanctions. It means insisting on the two state shared Jerusalem solution as a precondition of continued US support for Israel. Most of all, it means bringing to an end the Big Donor System of doing politics in the US (which Israel exploits) and that so undermines democracy.
This latter is the real swamp to be drained. This, Joe Biden, is the shape of the NWO. Defang the donors. You can’t do it. You are too compromised. Who can?
“Some-one is going to have to run on the slogan “make America RESPECTABLE again.””
Excellent. It’s amazing that I have never seen anyone say this before, yet, it’s essential. As things are, we’re subjected to endless political noise involving squabbles between variations of different kinds of delusions and mighty hubris.
“Some-one is going to have to run on the slogan “make America RESPECTABLE again.”
Except as a myth, not an option since continuing to conflate a continent with a temporary ideological construct is not respectable.
Jullianne: Like the East/West Germany and a shared Berlin, the 2 state “solution” cannot last. A house divided and all that.
The Jews (as opposed to the Zionists) had an ideological opportunity to comprehend that the land-based prophesies in the Abrahamic Texts were apocryphal (see what I did there? LOL), not literal. They could have coexisted peacefully in Palestine with the majority Muslims/Arabs and minority Christians already living there. But like the US/ZATO cynically inflaming the Sunni/Shia divide, they tried to pull the same trick in Israel. It has blown up spectacularly and will eventually lead to very difficult negotiations as Palestine is restored as a neutral single country. The Arab League can live with a neutral Palestine, but not with a can’t-be-neutral Israel/Palestine.. The US is too many thousand miles away to project power in the Middle East for much longer, and will completely bankrupt itself if it tries.
Ukraine will not be divided on the 2-state, differently-aligned E/W Germany/Berlin model. There will be an Independent Republic (or 2, 3?) that is part of the Russian Federation, and a neutral rump that will constitutionally remain 100% neutral in all respects. No EU or NATO membership for that “Ukraine”.
And now, from Scott Ritter… telling it straight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MnwX49UDiM
Alexa, one of the most powerful computing systems in the world, if not “The Most” has concluded that the 2020 presidential election was “Massively Rigged”.
So, with that in mind, let’s just entertain for 2 seconds what would the entire world be talking about… there would be NOTHING to talk about, except, perhaps what to do with all the money DJT had allowed us to make, just like he did (I’m speaking for myself) on his first term in office, ha!
America and Israel are behaving like rabid beasts. I see no sanity in either of them. Furthermore, Hamas sees this as a religious war, and so are more and people in the region. America has proven itself as a loyal supporter of Israel, perhaps to the point of being destroyed.
There is an interesting radio interview with former French Prime Minister Dominique De Villepin on Moon of Alabama.
I would say: to the point.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/10/interview-with-dominique-de-villepin-as-translated-by-arnaud-bertrand.html#more
The two countries with a history of high-grade Arabists were UK and France and that goes back a long way……….
The political establishment was re-oriented by Israel and US and set out to sideline Arabists to further political objectives favourable to Israel
That is why the Russian Foreign Ministry is today foremost and Europe has been reduced to the level of Branch Offices of DC
LOL! the english and France were and are high-grade racist colonial mass-murders wherever they went killing, exploiting local populations, enslaving and stealing resources. West Asia will long bear the scars of the phoney borders that the ‘high-grade’ Anglo-Francs drew after the collapse of of the Ottomans. The Balfour-zionazi dismenberment of Palestine is the most egregious war crime against Arabs, but only one of many throughout Asia, North and South America, Africa, and on and on…
The brit 77th Brigade troll-farm really should get some better trolls! Your genocidal murderer hero ‘Bomber’ Harris would not be pleased! Remember Dresden!
https://balfourproject.org/bp/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/extract.pdf
https://www.brandeis.edu/hornstein/sarna/americanjewishcultureandscholarship/Archive4/LouisD.BrandeisZionistLeader.pdf
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/martinkramer/files/forgotten_truth_balfour_declaration.pdf
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/who-wrote-the-balfour-declaration-and-why-the-world-war-i-connection/
Thank you so much for providing the opportunity to post this verifiable analysis of perfidious Albion’s murderous machinations on Arabs for over a century:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1394525233722232832.html
Don’t expect you to understand or even read the material, let alone verify it for yourself, but hope some others who may be ‘curious’ might look deeper in to causes and not be fooled by silly, transparent disinformatzia.
I fear that yoiu may be in danger of losing your stipend from the brit 77th Brigade troll-farm. They really should get some better trolls! Your genocidal murderer hero ‘Bomber’ Harris would not be pleased! Remember Dresden!
Souffle sur les chiens morts, troll.
Yes, that is the one I mentioned in an earlier post that Simplicious76 summarized in his 29 October post on the eschatological turn in Palestine. He also referfenced Alastair Crooke’s 26 Oct “Escalations Cannot Be Stopped” post on strategic-culture.su. Also well worth reading and considering.
From MOA:
“Ukraine is losing the war with the Russian Federation due to the inadequate perception of the situation by society — commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine” – Strana.news – Oct. 30, 2023
Inadequate perceptions are what you get when you’ve been feeding your population non-stop bullshit for ten years.
Pvt. Ori Megidish………is apparently one of the “civilians” kidnapped by Hamas
One of the more frightening things I’ve heard:
LEE FANG: Is Biblical Prophecy Driving GOP Israel Support?
https://rumble.com/v3s3ngh-lee-fang-is-biblical-prophecy-driving-gop-israel-support-system-update.html
Glenn Greenwald interviews Lee about his Q&A with several members of Congress.
Nutcase Christian fundamentalists in Congress are being guided by their own misguided beliefs about Israel and the Second Coming. They’ll shovel as much money and weaponry to Israel as it takes to bring about Armageddon, when they believe they’ll be raptured out of their socks into heaven. Their astounding ignorance is, of course, encouraged by Israel, which loves these morons.
Apparently, supporting and defending the Constitution isn’t their top priority.
I’ve a fundamentalist friend who insists that she is taking her socks with her.
Could be she has ‘cold feet’ about where she is going post-rapture?
Ha ha !
Judging by their impressive numbers (some put it at 40 million) the “rapturists” make America one of he more obscurantists nations on earth.
Lots of Evangelistic Christians read Bible prophecy wrong.
They are a like a cult.
It doesn’t mean the Bible is wrong, of course.
It’s their discernment (by wishful thinking) that’s wrong.
No one acting against Christ will be “raptured” (which is not even a word in the Bible).
But Jesus will surely come back, as He said so Himself. Even Muslims believe this.
If you’d like to know the approximate timeframe, start here:
https://revelation13.substack.com/p/jesus-return-part-1
Spoiler alert: It won’t happen for another few hundred years.
I actually wonder how many in Congress believe the pyramids were built to store grain, the Earth is 8,000 years old and the border of Donbass and Russia has mountains as high as the Alps that only tanks and elephants can traverse.
“CHINA AND RUSSIA PLAYING MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC CARDS”……The leadership of the “resistance” has been magnificent. At the risk of some repetition of messaging on my part, something important can be pointed out about the Russians, embodied in Vladamir Putin and the group around him. They have cracked many tough nuts. There was the recovery achieved from economic chaos in the 90s. Then there were the monumental economic and “lawfare” attacks, all brushed aside in the wake of new partnerships with bind boggling implications for the world.
The above things are impressive, but the list is not complete. The Russians have confronted Western hypocrisy and predation in Syria and again in Ukraine, with the sacrifice of much blood. The Russians will honor those who sacrificed for them, while the West will quickly forget about Ukraine. Now there is a confrontation over the toughest nut of all in the form of the long running Palestine/Israel conflict. It is a remarkable asymmetric action. One day, Russia is embroiled in combat in its borderland with no apparent end to Western funding of the conflict; the next day Western hypocrisy and predation is being tested to its core in Palestine/Israel.
The Russians and Chinese will put diplomacy first and will seek the mutual security and wellbeing of all parties, and also some measure of justice for Palestinians generally. Take a lesson from Syria and Ukraine. Western military posturing is unlikely to change things. There is a possibility for the first time, that the “toughest nut of all” is about to be cracked wide open.
“Israel’s war with Hamas AND THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE”???
Never heard Larry write: “Russia’s war with the Ukrainian Defense Forces AND THE UKRAINIAN PEOPLE”.
Has Larry showed his hand?
(Kiev is not in rubble. Gaza city is not in rubble. (Hek, “the” hospital is still standing.) Both could be…IF they were wars against those people.)
50% of Gaza buildings are destroyed. You have showed your hand here. You are a lying ashkeNAZI scum bag. No one is buying your lies.
He lives in an echo chamber with his buddies who all think like him. They all believe in the collapsing American Empire story and have practically no exposure to diverse opinions. In some cases they don’t even know the history or the current facts: he still doesn’t accept that the Islamic Jihad bombed a parking lot near the Gazan hospital…
I read such blogs to force myself to consider their arguments and theories so I won’t fall into this groupthink trap. We’ve seen what a disaster can happen when intelligence services do that. But wait, I guess Larry and most of the commentators on his blog still believe there must have been some conspiracy leading to the Israeli intelligence and border fence failure…
By the way, I am still waiting for the announcement about horrific casualties to Israeli and US special forces they all spread after at the instigation of Col Douglas Macgregor…
Special Forces KIA are never announced but booked down to “training accidents” or “blue on blue”
I have no doubt there are dead ones
Sure, keep promoting conspiracy theories.
How much of a retard or a a shameless shill must one be to deny that Israel is at war with the Palestinian people?
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/leaked-document-shows-israeli-govt-option-ethnically-cleanse-gaza
Dear ariadna, didn’t you know that Israel is fighting a terror organization called Hamas? This is what Hamas Official Mousa Abu Marzouk had to say about the civil population in Gaza:
https://twitter.com/MEMRIReports/status/1719050069553623173
Do you think your government will say something like that about you? So I guess the answer is no, Israel is not fighting the Palestinians. Just as Putin prescribed, Israel is planning to deNazify and deMilitarize Gaza. It is also planning to free more than 200 hostages.
You make me repeat my rhetorical question:
How much of a retard or* a a shameless shill must one be to cite MEMRI as a source of info about anything related to the Terrorist State?
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* not mutually exclusive
Dear ariadna, I guess you are too angry to think straight. If the voice and image and video are Mousa Abu Marzouk’s then I am citing him, not MEMRI. If you doubt all information that you see when it doesn’t fit your prior beliefs and the narrative you’ve adopted then you won’t hear or understand much of what I say anyway.
Russia is not in war with “THE UKRAINIAN PEOPLE” because most of “THE UKRAINIAN PEOPLE” are Russians. That’s why they call it special military operation. That’s why most of casualties are actual soldiers, a thing unheard of before.
What a silly goose.
Well, it is Halloween after all.
“I remain hopeful that Russia and China, through a coordinated diplomatic effort, can isolate the United States and Israel and compel them to back down. Maybe I am just naive.”
No mention of hostages. What does “backing down” look like in their regard?
Israel will never (SHOULD NEVER, in my opinion) deal with Hamas again as a counter-party to any resolution of the conflict (both the current and long-term conflict). If “backing down” means that Hamas continues as a possible (much less viable) player in Gaza an Palestine generally, Larry is being naive (and more than a bit foolish).
So says Weiner Schnitzel the hasbara clown.
Hey, Schneider!
You never answered my question, why should the U.S. pick one side over another in the Israel-Gaza war. C’mon Man!
Yiztak Shamir and Menachem Begin were terrorist killers
Thank God they never got into office in Israel
One of the better jokes I’ve heard recently.
Thanks
It is interesting to see what intellectual contortions an analyst has to make to ignore inconvenient facts.
Do you think the rift between the Saudis and Iran is mended to the point that KSA will be on Iran’s side in this conflict? Did you notice they were already increasing military readiness for attacks from Yemen (=Iran). Do you think KSA doesn’t understand that they too are fighting for their way of life against Iran? Why did they execute the Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr back in 2016? Do you really believe the KSA will just roll over and let Iran take over like they did in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and Yemen?
Do you think KSA is the only Arab country weary of Iran’s world domination plans? There is no unity between Middle Eastern countries against the US and Israel. In fact many of them are asking for help and reinforcements. Yet more interesting, their media is condemning Hamas and Iran rather than Israel and the US. Given all that you still believe Russia and China will risk actively siding with Iran?
Dear Ms Stern
I find your concern about Iranian plans for “world domination” troublesome…….how can Iran presume to usurp Zion as the Hegemon before the peoples of the world must know-tow ?
Only Zion has the right to demand fealty from the minions of the world and Netanyahu is High Priest of The Cult
My English isn’t good enough – no clue what this rant is about. Blah Blah Zion bad, Hegemon bad, Netanyahu High Priest, Blah Blah world must know-tow… too complicated for my limited intellect.
It’s too bad that your admittedly limited intellect doe not prevent you from typing
Thank you ariadna for your kind and encouraging words. Knowing that you care is such a pleasure.
Did I remind everyone today that I’m Jewish?
BTW: I’m Antony….
Not Anthony
Not Antonius
Not Anton
Not Antoine
Not Antonio
Not Marie Antoinette
Gotta keep people guessing sometimes.
Yemen war was about KSA plans of domination, the decades long stalemate in lebanon is because of saudi asset and national Hariri being the top candidate for PM of Lebanon. The Syria war one of the components was Saudi attempt to be an hegemon.
Iran’s world domination plans? First that has ever been stated.
I dare you to show the proof of that statement.
Iran’s world domination plans? First that has ever been stated.
I dare you to show the proof of that statement.
Absolutely….I refer you to the history of the Persian Empire.
That’s more than enough proof for simple minds.
America faces insurmountable complex situation in dealing with the ongoing war in Gaza and its huge support of the Zionist regime occupying the Palestinian lands. This whole US endeavor is centered around maintaining its so called Rules Based Bullshit, that’s aimed at checking both major powers China and Russia. But in order to impose its will on Russia – China the US-NATO must basically conquer Iran using a multi-million strong ground troops as well as military hardware that can take over the entire country. Anything short of that grand undertaking is militarily meaningless and futile. A limited offensive against Iran, for example hitting oil installations would be like shooting oneself in the head, because Iran could always retaliate by hitting hundreds of major oil/gas installations across the region, close the strait of Hormuz…etc. bringing the world economy into total stagnation lasting for years. Now there’s Russia position which according to geopolitics under no circumstances could allow a NATO-controlled Iran pushing northward towards Moscow. So the US faces this impossible dilemma i.e. launching a limited aerial strike a la Libya, at Iranian targets which is totally stupid or conquering it which is simply a cloud-cuckoo-land.
Iran is almost 3-times the size of Afghanistan with 83 million people
US does not even have enough troops to occupy Germany a smaller country
la germania è già occupata così come l’italia; dal 1945
sono due WC occupati.
l’ultimo tiri lo sciacquone…
Germany is already occupied as is Italy; since 1945
there are two toilets occupied.
the last one flushes the toilet…
A country that sent volunteer human wave attacks against Iraqi forces through Dow-donated chemical clouds of death. And the US is going to have another go at it? Be still my heart.
Nikki Haley is a zionist whore
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Simple question to y’all.
If we couldn’t win in Ukraine, with hundreds of thousands of Ukie grunts at our disposal, how in the hell do you think we’re gonna win in Iran?
For those of you who weren’t born then, and for those of you who’ve forgotten, flying off carrier decks at Yankee Station led to whole lot of our guys being put up in the Hanoi Hilton. As I recall, a lot of those NVA ack-ack operators wore sandals too, just like the Taliban. Jane Fonda took souvenir pix with those guys.
Makes me wonder what kind of “room service” our guys are gonna get at the Tehran Double-Tree. I know I wouldn’t want to be one of those unfortunates who’ll find out.
“PLAYING”
It is a season of myths and mellow fruitfulness,
“If Biden and his inept national security team try to deal with Russia and China, the Biden Administration would likely be denounced as appeasers and sell outs.”
Even Biden and his cronies aren’t that stupid, probably. Not because that they’ll be called “appeasers and sell outs”. But because, even if they consider negotiating with russians or chinese, they’ try to do so from position of strength (they simply don’t know better) which they no longer have. The chinese probably will cancel negotiations. The russians probally will call american’s bluff.
First, Saudi Arabia & Iran may be “paper allies” but still, have little in common & Saudi, like Turkey, is enjoying its whoredom of self serving interests with whatever nation they please.
Second, this proxy Israel thing was always about oil, and Russia/China.
The ME could do itself a favor, unite… one united “boycott” of oil or “sanctions” or dismissal of all Israeli ambassadors or something like that and it would at least make US/Israel think twice.
Not sure what Russia/China ME thoughts are, but Iran recently stated that war would hit US mainland.
So, Hamas “surprise” on Israel will likely pale in comparison to whatever the “resistance” has cooked up and ready to go here in the U.S.
I can easily see 10 or more US oil refineries going up in flames at the same time across the U.S.
And none can underestimate Turkey, North Korea, Yemen or Pakistan. They are way angrier at US and aren’t particularly interested in the “strategic patience” thing Russia and China are engaged in.
Hezbollah will not engage solo this time. Unless all of Lebanon & Syria all with them in confrontation against Israel, they will continue to protect any encroachment and/or return fire and nothing more.
All I’m saying is that the military response, if any, will be united in a way that the U.S. will not be able to survive in the ME.
Of course we could all be played for fools, and this global map “reorganization” and “multipolar” world is all part of the fiscal “reset” long planned, current orchestrated masterpiece deception & all of “them” are laughing their heads off while populations are being reduced & banking systems coordinated.
China’s and Russia’s favourite strategy to curb the US’s nuisance potential is de-dollarisation. They favour diplomatic and economic over military means to achieve their goals and won’t go to open war unless the West really forces them. Aircraft carriers are floating caskets but sinking just one of them could lead to the lunatics in charge in Washington DC going nuclear. So far, the Chinese and the Russian are playing a game of dissuasion but how long is it possible to dissuade morons from doing something truly moronic?
It’s easy for the neocons to escalate the escalator as there are not enough of that gray thing between their hear to realize their little protege has united the Islam as never since the Prophet times.
If Israel is the US proxy, the whole Ummah might be the BRICS one soon.
If this will make this war till the last Palestinian into a war till the last Israeli locally, this can also be the beginning of a worldwide terror campaign. Will Nikky put her Louboutin on the ground ? Nah .. she would have been killed in a VBIED attack before that 🙂
We in Europe learned a thing or two about religious wars : Never again and Don’t. But the kids never listen …
You have learned not to start religious wars in Yugoslavia and Ukraine? Not to mention Islamic uprising that is bound to happen in multiple EU countries in future decades. Yea, many lessons learned indeed.
You badly cherry-picked your wars , cause I should have missed the part where NATO has an European mastermind and was a religious thing.
Then an Islamic uprising in EU is as less and less chance happening the time passing. Just to give you an example , there were 5 millions Muslims for 45 millions total population in France in 1965 , now there are 6 millions Muslims in a total of 68 millions french. I let you dot the math : there is no “great replacement”. It’s political fearmongering.
Nope. I’m not trying to prove a claim, but to disprove one by showing examples that go against it.
You claimed that “Europe” learned things. I say that “Europe” has not learned anything, and is getting dumber as time goes by. “Europe” is going downhill fast. Religion, and religious wars, are essential part in that downwards spiral. Almost every country in Europe will get to have it’s own Kosovo, at home. Some alredy have no-go zones that are increasing in size. None of this is a secret.
Keeping eyes firmly closed, and hoping that some miracle will reverse the process, is not the smartest strategy. I wonder how long it will take for you in Europe to learn a thing or two about that.
Nikki the Hillbilly from Hell. Michelle Bachman on steroids.
What is clear is that Hamas has already won the population of Israel will decline moving forward as who would want to emigrate there with the constant threat of rocket and missile attack.
The ultimate long-term effects will be that a number of muslim states will decide to invest in a future military infrastructure near Israel to cause enough damage to Israel to take down it’s myth of invincibility and make daily life difficult and dangerous for Israelis. This will make it economically unviable for it to survive as a normal state. Also there will ve sociological impact. Young people will move away leaving behind poorer older people. This will further diminish Israel further leading to a downward spiral till it is prepared for substantial compromises.