But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.
John Quincy Adams (Prescient man – he foresaw that slavery could be ended only by a presidential decree in a war and that destroying monsters abroad would destroy liberty at home.)
A lot of the people who comment on this blog seem to me to be patriotic Americans. And, it’s clear, if you read the comments, that many of them – probably the majority – want Russia to win the war. This is not because they like Putin or Russia particularly, and certainly not because they’re on the “Putin payroll”. Not at all. These people understand what is really at stake.
These are people who know that the American war party (one of many names – deep state, borg, neocons, one percent, MICIMAC) is responsible for pushing Russia to the decision that it made last February. That it is the war party that expanded NATO despite the promises, that arms Ukraine, that encourages the fanatics driving that country, that blocks all routes to a peaceful settlement, that encourages Kiev to squander the lives of its people. But what really concerns these patriotic Americans is the damage the war party has done to their country.
The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force… She might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit…
An America of war all the time everywhere, of tent cities and full jails, of open borders, disappeared manufacturing, opiates, misery, poverty, corruption. An America with endless money to spend abroad but none to spend at home. (The hundred billion dollars dumped into Ukraine would give a $200,000 house to every one of the estimated half million homeless in the USA!) An America failing, no longer the American they loved, served and believed in. The Twitter revelations show some of the activities of this enemy embedded in the American polity. It’s very late and many fear that it is too late.
How to get this leech off America’s back? Voting can’t make much difference if both parties are manipulated. Is the voting system itself corrupted? Can the judicial system be trusted? Special counsels who report when it’s too late to matter? The managed media? Some may still believe in these things but the people I’m talking about don’t any more.
They can only see one way that the power of this internal enemy can be broken – complete and utter defeat. Defeat that cannot be ignored, cannot be explained away, defeat too big and too obvious for the obedient mass media to bury.
And that is why these people want Russia to win. They don’t necessarily like Russia or Putin or dislike Ukraine – it has little to do with either. It’s because they see this as the opportunity for the humiliating defeat that will shatter the power of the internal enemy. The war party assumed that Russia was weak and sanctions would crash its economy and bring down Putin. When this didn’t happen, they doubled down on their failed bet arrogantly certain they were right because everybody they allowed to speak agreed with them. If (when) Russia scores a decisive and undeniable victory, the perpetrators of the disaster will be revealed as corrupt fools wasting your money on their worthless fantasy.
Russia is also fighting a bigger war against the so-called rules-based international order. This shiny label covers the assertion that whatever America and its allies/subordinates do is right and whatever its opponents do is wrong and is the war party’s license to interfere everywhere. The hope is that the defeat – following on the Afghanistan debacle – will so weaken the war party that it will fall.
This far I have talked of patriotic Americans wanting Russia to win but I believe that every country in the West has people who also want Russia to win because utter, obvious and undeniable defeat is the only way that they can see to get their leeches off their backs.
The West is ruled by corrupt fools who are sending it to disaster – it is circling the drain of history. The hope is that Russian victory will burst the bubble, the internal enemy will be got rid of and these countries will start to mind their own business, care for their own populations and forget about the (mostly imaginary) monsters out there.
Excellent post that sums up my feelings here in the UK. And shared by many more folks across the west.
Cheers Larry.
I cannot but think and hope these comments and ideals are where the majority reside.
The problem here in my part of the UK is that people think that the war in Ukraine is either, being won easily by the ukinazis, or that it is comparable to the Troubles, in Northern Ireland. The Elite is very powerful and manipulates the population at will.
Not sure it’s a majority we’re talking about here Ron – wish it were so, but at least it’s a start
Ukraine has gone fully fascist under the obama financed, planned and funded maidan coup.
Jailing anyone who opposes the “party.”
Banning opposition press.
Banning opposition political parties.
Forcing churches to support the state, or else.
Revoking the citizenship of ukranians citizens who don’t sufficiently support the “party”
Secret police spying on everyone.
Corrupt military and politicians selling weapons and aid for personal gain…
Paying off, then blackmailing US politicians and their families.
Zelensky “demands” money and equipment from the US and those politicians(he has all the documentary evidence to blackmail them) pledge every US taxpayer dollar they can, collected or borrowed, to the 5th generation yet to be born.
Corruption..
Spot on! From a citizen pleb in Canada under the totalitarian boot of Castreau, little potato. Maranatha!
You Canadians defeated two invasions by the American army in your glorious past but cannot summon the courage to deal with a real tinpot despot- shame on you.
Agreed.
Likewise.
And I Grasshopper agree.
I live in SF killafornia which has largely killed itself, and many of the folks who live here are doing so in tents, or on cardboard.
I work all the time but struggling to keep a small apt.
I was born in Moscow USSR and I am Certain Russia must win, she has no choice.
Yes!
Well said Sir; a brilliant turn of phrase.
Here’s another:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSA5C8mQcLQ
Great song from Noel Coward in a review the year Vladimir Putin was born!!!
A fellow Radio 3 listener I guess! We were laughing out loud to hear this song and hope that some of this humour still exists in GB – not much on show these days I have to say.
But seriously: I have been to the US many times and seen that it has fabulous resources, no looming threats and space aplenty to live well with a few problems in wealth distribution. Why for love of all that’s good must it spend so much time causing trouble and mayhem outside its territory instead of fulfilling the promises of such a beautiful country? If it is born of “good intentions” we know where that leads and it doesn’t seem to have been appreciated by a growing number of the rest of the planet. No-one is going to blame the US if they sit on their hands the next time they think some other country isn’t doing the “right thing”? No-one is going to cause you any serious damage (2001 attacks on WTC etc. was a one-off taste of the sort of terror that US forces have dished out day after day year after year and, no, it isn’t very much fun is it?)
Let’s give American Isolationism a go for a century or so – you will probably re-emerge as a great power to be admired but at least it won’t be at the expense of millions of victims…
Well said Sir; a brilliant turn of phrase.
Here’s another:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSA5C8mQcLQ
a good one
The western elite are the monsters
Wouldn’t exactly say monsters. More like dangerous buffoons.
‘Running children you’d never give scissors to’ works too.
No. Monsters. People who goad Ukraine into a war with Russia, throwing its men – young and old – into pointless battles where they’re annihilated all to “weaken Russia” are monsters … or demons.
Psychopaths.
Strange how many special forces officers have PhDs and expensive sites. With all that they come up with shite, absolute shite. Thank you for you cervix and bollox.
OK, you brought me around. Monsters it is.
…Demons – in many cases now openly and explicitly Satanic…
Maybe we’re all just tired of being manipulated, hmm?
We all know by now that a Russian missile destined for another target was intercepted by Ukraine, fell and destroyed an apartment building in Dnipro (Dnepropetrovsk) with heavy civilian casualties, right? It’s even in MSM, right?
Here’s how Newsweek framed it today:
Ukraine officials on Sunday stated which Russian military outfit they believe was responsible for the bombing of a high-rise apartment building in Dnipro that has led to more than two dozen deaths
Standard journalistic fare. Do you like being manipulated? I don’t.
Actually, it isn ot just to weaken RUssian, it is to ethnically cleanse Khazaria’s homeland of the natives and ship in new ones to replace them.
They did it using Stalin Bolshevism against Russian Ukraine once.
I’d say monsters for sure.
Monsters. Cold-blooded monsters. I have seen the venture capitalist and private equity people up close. They have no blood in their veins. No warmth in their bodies. Their smiles do not reach their hearts. All they do is count their profits in the hundreds of millions which, like a miser fondling pocket change, is their obsession. .
“evil geniuses”
Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America Kurt Andersen
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53562067-evil-geniuses
Don’t forget that many of them are transpedo child traffickers and rapists.
Quite. And those are the more approachable ones. I see that the Demoncrats have been working their spells in Thailand. They won’t learn but now they will have to be shown.
Bob Dylan put it well “I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children”
A Hard rain’s gonna fall
We need to stop calling them ‘elites’ because such a name conveys an image of competence and virtue which these fools do not possess. Perhaps someone on this blog has the perfect nomenclature for these incompetents so if you do please let us know! Incompoots? Psychocrats? I’m sure someone has better.
If we arrive at an appropriate terms we can request Larry refer to the term forever more.
True. I did see someone refer to them as philanthropaths recently. I thought that was pretty good in certain situations.
Yep, oligarchs and “philanthropists”.
https://sonar21.com/when-it-comes-to-supporting-international-law-order-the-united-states-is-very-flexible/#comment-106675
I like to think of them as scum of humanity, because scum tend to accumulate at the top.
Neat.
Annointed rabble.
I like Cliff High’s name for them: motherWEF’rs
Leeches, perhaps? Or Parasites? Or skinwalkers? They are indeed parasitic demons that cannot live without a host country, suck the blood off the host leaving the rest impoverished and dying, all the while claiming to be virtuous while they don’t even blink at the millions of deaths they cause. One thing for sure, they need to be eliminated for any chance for peace or normalcy.
Hi Sandy,
I agree, when I think of ‘elite’ my mental image is of a group who are the best at what they do, because they have put in ‘the hard yards’ honing their skills and talents over years and earned their gold stars honestly, I think of champions who set an example worth aspiring to.
The political class and odious types who take a ski trip to Davos each January are not elite, they’re a club of sly, theiving, scamming, thuggish arseholes with access to huge capital and the huge influence that buys, enough arrogance and over-confidence to compensate for their ignorance, a complete lack of consideration for anyone else and an obsession with money which dooms them to an insatiable ‘more is never enough’ mindset and I would suspect dooms them to never having meaningful connections with real people, their only connections are akin to the connection a rapist has with his victim or that a shark has with the remora fish that clings to the shark hoping to catch what ever scraps of prey aren’t swallowed whole by it.
I prefer the late George Carlin’s ‘the big club’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5dBZDSSky0
Thus I would say ‘the big club are monsters, pyschopaths and buffoons’.
I absolutely agree that we need to stop calling them Elites, and for the reasons that you state. It grates on my ears when I hear them called that. They are in fact our rulers. They rule; we follow. The whole Covid experience shows nothing less. We (the citizenry) are now ruled. We (the citizenry) do not rule.
Never have, Joseph.
Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities” has a most succinct description of their world, and view of the peasantry, in the chapter entitled Monseigneur in the City so I vote for aristocrat both for tradition and as a sign of the times. I am of the understanding that one never votes oneself out of socialism so anything short of a return of Mademoiselle Guillotine’s return for a season of international barbering will be a general waste of time in my opinion.
You could just call them jews. It’d be accurate.
Up your ass
I suggest calling them “eleeches”.
I’ll stick with calling them “monsters”. It is a mistake to think they’re incompetent, or foolish, or stupid. They’re fully aware of what they’re doing, they have a plan, and the plan is working just fine–for them. The weapons industries get their money no matter how this war turns out. Those of us on the loosing end may think the plan seems foolish or incompetent, but thats only because we thought there was supposed to be something in it for us. Their plan is working just fine…its just not working for us.
Except, this time, people think maybe they went too far and for once their plan wont work. But they are pretty good at making these plans, one has to assume they already know this war isnt going to be won, and they probably have some “golden parachute” trick up their sleeve…watch for it. They may yet weasel out of any real consequences.
Everything you say is true, and they have even refined their game: No nation is so small that untold billions cannot be poured down the rat hole in the name of “defending freedom.” With Vietnam, it took 60,000 young dead Americans before people became sufficiently outraged, but with Ukraine, for which the equivalent of $200 MILLION PER CONGESSIONAL DISTRICT- so far- has been sucked out of our pockets, where is the rage?-because no American GI’s are being killed the electorate sit on their fat asses!
Not sure about anyone else, but you got me pegged
The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters. -Gramsci
Excellent quote. And scary.
Yes! were can I sign?
I have been to 4 continents and dozens of countries. I met lots of people and in their core they were all the same, dispite different cultures and religions ans so on. Idiots and criminals one can find everywhere.
I do not see, that Russians are evil or Ukrainians. But there is greed and corruption and then there are geopolitical goals like out of an ivory tower. Power and control seem to have gone throu the head of too many people, from rich and succsessfull to wanna be rich and succsessfull, who think that they know better how to live a life than everybody else.
All of it is put in a mixture that is hard to examine to determine what is what.
No wonder that most of the people are being fooled by mass media.
Hope this gordig knot will be opened.
Thanks for everybodys efford to bring it out in the open.
Concise & dead-on accurate.
Amen. My hopes exactly.
Jusqu’à présent, j’ai parlé d’Américains patriotes qui veulent que la Russie gagne, mais je crois que chaque pays occidental a des gens qui veulent aussi que la Russie gagne parce que la défaite totale, évidente et indéniable est le seul moyen qu’ils peuvent voir pour se débarrasser de leurs sangsues. Mais comme je suis d’accord ( But as I agree )
C est difficile maintenant d imaginer une monde sans wokism, sans climate change, sans Les bons sauveurs de notre planete…est-ce que ce sara notre monde apres la victoire russe
Whip the lads bollocks off, mascara, camouflage dresses an unbeatable army. I have no idea how we got to where we are now. I’m old and soon I’ll be off. Good luck and for heavens sake fight back
As the Fonz would say, “Exactamundo!”
AMEN
And may I add
The Occult and Sodom is being pushed on the Western world and it’s children as the Globalist/Satanic leadership trys to push it on the rest of the world. Russia has said NO to Sodomites in the public square year’s ago and they hate Putin for bucking their Sodomite pressure
Good night Larry.
The Greeks hated democracy as the path to the degeneration of the rabble government (ochlocracy).
Because the USA or another country will be different, is it that they are vaccinated against it? When a constitution proclaims religious freedom, they do not do so for tolerance (which is very different even though it seems the same) but to reduce the True Faith Revealed by Christ to a religion the same as, for example, that of the satanists, hey, they are a religion too. This is key because they removed the Christian faith from political, legislative and executive power due to the impious separation of powers between political and religious power, the most diabolical and foolish thing to say. With this, expelling God from political life, the USA has provided itself with the craziest and most absurd laws in history that sink it and will lead to its ruin because the country that claims to be very religious expelled God from public life.
hypocrites.
Then the Americans can have their countries back. Texas etc
‘ Our God will one day soon rule the World with an Iron Rod ‘ – Menachem Begin, first Prime Minister of the Zionist ( shape- shifting ) ‘state’ of Israel.
Read the Talmud, one will find all the motives of evil. Palestinians under eternal silent , violent occupation – F-16’s strafing and bombing civilian neighborhoods, almost daily
Its interesting that and yet very scary that all the ideologies that support a ‘ Rules Based Order ‘ – be it in fascism of Japan, supremacism of Rabbinical Talmudic Judaism, chauvinistic Hinduism ( 7 million poor Kashmiri’s under occupation for what seems forever, until possible liberation by the Just Chinese- terrible violence and treatment of the 250 million of its Muslim compatriots- Racist Australian gov for what it does to minorities, Canada with the Indians ect. , are all of the same nefarious cloth.
Children will sing songs about Putin and Xi( who has yet to enter the fray- as China will have to make a move now rather than later-if they are to survive together)for a thousand years.
mio al 100%
complimenti!
You are quoting Menachem Begin and Zionism/Israel (As well as India, China, etc..) for the state of the Western democracies and the war in Ukraine.
This makes no sense; Israel is not the country providing many heavy arms to Ukraine, as are the US, EU, UK, etc..
In fact, former Israeli PM Bennett was one of the few world leaders trying to convince Zelensky to negotiate with Russia, as far back as March 2022.
There aren’t Israeli”F=16s strafing and bombing civilian neighborhoods, almost daily”.
The problems with the West that Mr. Johnson discusses have nothing to do with Japanese fascism (We are not living in 1944), the “supremacism of Rabbinical Talmudic Judaism” (It is not supreme anywhere, including Israel), or issues that India, China, Australia or Canada have with their minorities.
Wherever there is war and conflict, look no further thann the joos .
‘ The JOOS, they started all wars ‘ …,Mel Gibson,
Also read the great literary giant Eustace Mullins.
I know, the Palestinians stay home for holidays. Happiness, happiness the greatest gift to give the Palestinians, Solomon 🇸🇧, Thais, heteros, those ever-lucky Haitians, step forward Mr and Hilary Cliton and take this bag of money and children.
Why. Other with your absurdly in accurate facts. Just admit you are an anti-Semite. Ps. Drop dead
Pls don’t be anti human and wish people to drop dead. God is already doing that with the waxxine test. Everyone will get a turn, just wait.
The ockers are worried about dark-skinned people from abroad being violent in their interesting country. Didn’t it use to be the other way round. No matter, note books and pencils are needed for lists in the Solomons. Gooday. Sorry blue they were accidents.
“Correctomundo”
Without a doubt Larry, this is your most inciteful post as of late!
You captured the reality of those who care about the future they will leave to their children.
Kudos!!
Larry,
You are spot on (again) with your analysis. I, for one, was not and am not a “Putin lover” but I feel great respect for him (and the Russian MoD and Russian citizens supporting the SMO) for taking on the US/EU/NATO Empire of Lies. As an American citizen (71 yo) , I am, for the first time in my life, praying for a huge American military loss over the debacle in Ukraine. Our so called leaders have squandered our country’s treasures, for decades now, just to fill their pockets (at we taxpayer’s expense) and retain their power. That is NOT what our founding fathers envisioned for our country. I hope they all rot in hell and pray for a Russian victory because without that (perhaps even WITH that) our only other course of action to overthrow these corrupt assholes is another American civil war.
Larry, in addition to another post I completely agree with, my eyes teared up as I read it…
U.N.- I feel the same way & am in my sixties, so finding myself hoping with practically every fiber of my being that they rot in hell is new to me, & looking forward to the US losing badly & receive a profound amount of comeuppance is also new.
They’re definitely not elites, have found myself using many many adjectives such as monsters, evil demonic psychopaths, & others, but I haven’t been able to find the one that really really is all encompassing.
Sorry, I forgot to thank Helmholtz Smith, but thank you Larry for posting it!!
Did you want your “boys” to smash Grenada? Why?
Really the western elite, and the neocons in particular, have joined hands to destroy any remnant of western civilization. Russia in my mind represents kind of the last stronghold that is standing up to the satanic west. So Russia is Gondor that is in a last stand desperate fight against Mordor.
Bishop Fulton Sheen had a top prime time television show in America from 1952 to 1957 with 30 million weekly viewers. He won an Emmy Award for his TV show in 1957. This is when America had half the population it has today. My how America has changed, and quickly.
Russia is Order and the west is Gender.
Strange how many special forces officers have PhDs and expensive sites. With all that they come up with shite, absolute shite. Thank you for you cervix and bollox.
America and Europe will be broken. Russia will sell its commodities. China will make stuff. This is what happens after the war ends. Then Europe will raise again without Uncle Sam on its back and ferociously pursue fossil fuels in the South. America will remain broken, on the verge of fragmentation. Russia and China will shake their collective heads and sigh, why oh why, and send their armies towards the European forces in the name of peace.
I believe it is all being done on purpose. The deep state being the Trojan Horse.
As a citizen of the world would it be a big deal if an errant missile made an appearance in Davos this week? Sorry Switzerland, we liked you better when you were neutral.
Switzerland has never been neutral though., The Swiss banks managed the finances of both the Allies and the Axis in WWII.
And the BIS is HQd there.
And women couldn’t vote. You can have guns and various war criminals though.
anyone patriotic to Integrity wants to see the US Empire exit existence.
Sadly, the Borg will simply move on and ignore the loss (as they have always done). They still control the media, Twitter is rapidly returning back to its old games, and those of us (probably a small minority) who realize what is at stake will be at a loss to initiate any kind of meaningful change. The more intelligent will leave the country permanently.
However, it is not the military loss that will cause changes. It will be the economic losses and the move to a multipolar world that refuses to trade in US dollars that will lead to the end of Pax Americana. The fiat debt is sustained only through the massive use of the dollar as the only international reserve currency. This sustains the debt now at $35 trillion. Loss of the international float means that the debt will have to be maintained by the American people and whatever countries stubbornly remain aligned to the US. Just the interest on the debt is enough to bankrupt the US. The seizure of sovereign wealth assets from Russia was an irreversible error that cannot be corrected.
The problem is this cannot be reversed. Seizing assets and imposing illegal sanctions (not authorized by the UNSC) have shown all countries our real national personality and it isn’t nice. Our current state of diplomacy is all threats and we still continue to try and overthrown any government we don’t like all the time screaming about interference in US elections, which to any intelligent observer is a sham at best. They don’t even try and hide it anymore. Peru, Brazil, and Mongolia are just 3 examples from the past 3 weeks alone.
So, the question is what the US people will do when they finally wake up? There is no opposition party and no charismatic leader calling for a revolution in America to create the “New United States”. Typically in history revolutions are led by the intelligentsia and university students. I don’t see a shred of evidence that these people are even remotely close to trying to overthrow the system. What that leaves is a repeat of the breakup of the Soviet Union but without all the communist infrastructure and social support. Americans are a violent people by nature (encouraged by Hollywood) and have been at war for their entire existence (except for a short 20-year period). Sadly, what we will see is a breakdown of society at a level unimaginable. I wouldn’t want to be perceived as wealthy when this happens. Mao’s cultural revolution will pale in comparison.
I see no other end to this except for nuclear warfare. As we know the neocons have no reverse gear and always double down. The only choice when this reaches its climax (I assume a second attempt with China) is to surrender or go all in with nuclear weapons.
Your analysis is bang on and I should have written more myself. An old engineer agrees with an old microbiologist. 🙂
An old dishwasher agrees with both of you. I know I’ve dragged the level of the site down to the plug-hole.
I agree with you about the nuclear outcome; or at least I see it as a very real possibility. I’ve been saying that since last February.
Also agree re; the intellectuals. They are already getting the Marxist revolution that they want. So they are not of any help as they traditionally are. The stage is set for internal strife that looks a lot like the Spanish Civil War writ large.
“However, it is not the military loss that will cause changes. It will be the economic losses and the move to a multipolar world that refuses to trade in US dollars that will lead to the end of Pax Americana.”
That’s the big war that Russia and others are fighting
I think it’s been NATO expansion all along and Russia (and China) would have been OK with $ dominance as a stable guarantor of growth and dedollarization – strictly as a NATO consequence but now recognized as a worthy goal in and of itself.
I was back and forth to Moscow a good bit in the 90’s and the pulse I was reading post ’97 was a growing concern and wariness of NATO’s expansion and predictions even then that if continued without accommodation, it would inevitably end with a showdown. That’s 25 years of warnings a la Kennan, prolonged only because of NATO’s mostly bogus Partnership for Peace program. (Minsk II analog anyone?) Then came 2005’s Yushchenko as an American install to carry out a Black Sea Fleet eviction in 2017, 2008 and Bush’s brilliant predictions for UA and GE and the final coup de grace with Maidan that fixed the writing on the wall.
PS: If you want to witness some backlash from an American change agent insider’s POV, check out some of Jeffrey Sachs commentary sometime. He has gone down hard on some of the very same folks that grab this forum’s attention. Interesting that there is a growing movement of dissent shared by both liberals and conservatives alike. Suggests to me that some major chord has been stricken.
Indeed Helmotz – the Ukrainian civil war is a sideshow to the Global economic war
BTW – powerful hard hitting article thank you
You might find this interesting (and terrifying):
Global Research:
c-17a-has-been-cleared-transport-b61-12-nuclear-bomb-europe/5804558
There are many around the globe who see the war as a strike by Putin against the monolithic powers of the globalists. Although it is a blow against their power, it is not at all obvious that the forces of globalism will be unable to seize the ensuing chaos to impose totalitarian schemes on the world’s populations. Most people seem blithely unaware of the powers of darkness we are facing, since all global initiatives are presented as happy caring practical shortcuts to improving the world.
There is more at stake than American society and geostrategic positioning in the dynamics of power enfolding everywhere.
Unfortunately, students graduating from Western Universities- even graduate students- know not one lick of Russian history, come 1914-17 up till Stalin’s 1954. Where the Satanic ‘ you eat what you work ‘ wiped out millions upon millions. Women, children men stuck in Gulags lifting heavy blocks back an d forth until sure fire death.
Putin himself said that the 1914-17 Revolutionary members were 85% joos. Just saying. Well, those FEMA camps where U.S. rail roads lead are perhaps ominous. If not for sure. Look at the Ukraine in 36-37 where an estimated 6-7 million souls perished in an instigated killing famine by Kaganovich.
Ether pre-empt or suffer the same, as soon , this will be coming to a town near you.
Borg, what has he done. Ok he wiped the floor with a lot of your rich kids. You are too sensitive. Thank you for your service now go get the Solomons.
Yet still the Russians keep living and breathing and fight back against the golden ones. Makes you wonder about population rate, doesn’t it. Makes you wonder where all the ukinazis appeared from and Russians. All that slaughter, all of those births. As for that catholic yank special services, T. V bod, he has heard about kindly fiddling and bishop prick meanderings. I mean it didn’t start this morning or is he , snarf, one of the good ones?
Beautifully written summary of the historical background – only disagree on the inevitablity of Nuke War.
Thank you Old Microbiologist
To be more precise, it was the banning of Russia from SWIFT and freezing of 300 billion dollars which had already been tendered as payment for oil and gas shipments that really shocked the 85% of the world not in America’s orbit.
To a disinterested party, that is outright theft .. perhaps the biggest heist in all of history
It would be great for the world, if not just America, but all other nations take heed of George Washington’s sage advice to avoid foreign entanglements. Another great idea of your Founding Fathers was to prohibit a central bank and limit the activities that banksters could engage in.
Part of the solution to America (and the world’s economic woes) is to abolish the Fed and for the US Treasury to takeover the issuance of currency. The same needs be done in all countries with privatised central banks. They rent us money using interest that they created from NOTHING and generates inflation, robbing the people of the value of money.
I fear that not just the US, but most Western countries need a period of hard times to raise strong leaders.
The West says that Russia doesn’t share “Western values”, which these days means a globalist/woke/totalitarian agenda. I suspect a growing proportion of people in the West do not share these values either, hence the support for Vlad the Invader who is perceived by many as a patriot standing up for his country and traditional family and Christian values.
Every Western leader would be delighted to achieve the economic turnaround that Russia has had since Vlad the Invader first came to power.
Hear, hear! But, I also like Putin! I like leaders who put their own people first. Putin turned Russia around from the Yeltsin years.
I respect Putin as an intelligent, competent leader who does appear to put his people first. Not so sure about “liking” him. A lot of us just want leadership of his quality putting us (Americans) first. Putin isn’t going to do what’s best for America. That’s not his job and may be contrary to his/Russia’s interests. We need to be careful with the “Putin as world savior” meme. It isn’t realistic.
until now no oter world leader appear to do what he dose…after all at this moment he is the only one who stand and fight for his country, but we can get something for us to if neocons are beaten.
5000 nukes + hypersonic weapons, a seasoned 3 million man army helps, that is if all are called to duty.
Reread your comment Eric it doesnt make any sence you just keep contradicting yourself.
“Putin as world savior” meme. It isn’t realistic. Putin doesnt want to be world saviour and he doesnt want you or me to like him but i am sure that he is pleased with his ratings in Russia.
I respect Putin as an intelligent, competent leader who DOES put his people first. Not so sure about “liking” him (your such a mean girl). BUT A lot of us just want leadership of his quality putting us (Americans) first.
There you are you see like many many millions you respect him for what he has done and what he is doing for Mother Russia and its people and Russia and the BRICS+++++ will make the world a better place by ridding the world of this Rules Based Order dreamed up by American greed as an excuse to go round the world plundering and slaughtereing millions at a whim.
No contradiction at all.
Let’s try to start with the basics.
I am American, not a Russian and Putin is a Russian, not an American. Americans have to do what is best for America. Russia has to do what is best for Russia.
Sometimes what is best for Russia is NOT what is best for America, and vice versa.
Hopefully, when there is such a conflict, it can be resolved via diplomacy, negotiation and compromise.
Your problem seems to be that you think the United States is uniquely evil and Russia, China et al are uniquely virtuous, loving, fair and humane – in other words, you are seeing things through a fool’s eyes and living a misguided cartoon. It’s a common problem among America haters. You fail to think even a little bit about your cartoon world position, like there were wars and atrocities long before there was a USA BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD and are all susceptible to the 7 deadly sins and all of that. Power has the same corrupting influence on Chinese and Russians and Brazilians that is does on the elites in Washington DC. Ever heard the phrases, “the king is dead, long live the king” or “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss”?
In a power vacuum there will a new rules based order dreamed up by China. I don’t think you’d like the lack of human rights that order would impose.
Or are you one of those deluded dreamers that justifies worshipping China and Russia by insisting that the millions of citizens killed by their own governments in those countries is just a western lie – and life is actually wonderful there?
The United States has gotten off track lately, but prior to that it did a heck of a lot more good in the world than Russia or China, or Europe for that matter, ever did or ever will do.
As far as what Putin wants to do, have you graduated from the mainstream media mind reading course? Because you sound like them and they’re usually proven wrong as events unfold. Honestly, you have no idea what Putin wants to do. Additionally, Putin is not Russia; nor will he always be Russia’s leader. Finally, the point is that what people/nations end up doing evolves as opportunity permits and influences grow.
I can perfectly well respect Putin for his abilities, style and dedication, but not want to be led by him because I’m an American. Why would I want to be subjected to a hegemony any more than Putin does?
That said, I have long thought that the US and Russia are natural allies and that we should join forces and crush out Islamic extremism + keep a lid on Israel and China as well as keep the Euros from destroying themselves yet again, whether via war or via goofy crap like global warming/Green policies, socialism, perversion, godlessness, uncontrolled immigration and other insanity.
You say : “The United States has gotten off track lately, but prior to that it did a heck of a lot more good in the world than Russia or China, or Europe for that matter, ever did or ever will do.” – – amongst other BS.
Which planet do you dream in ? Yes I know you are American & I also know after reading your BS that you are totally brainwashed. America has killled & maimed many millions over the past 70+ years & destroyed many Countries – -all for Oil etc. Unless decent Americans speak out like many on this site do there in no chance of change for the better.
А можно уточнить, какую именно пользу принесла миру Америка, пока не сбилась с пути? В какой стране стало лучше жить после ее вмешательства? Только не гоните пургу про демократические ценности, мы ими уже сыты по горло! И про какие миллионы убитых правительством граждан вы там шепчете, Сложеницина начитались? Так это ж литературный вымысел, а не исторические факты
And can you clarify exactly what benefit America brought to the world before it went astray? In which country has it become better to live after her intervention? Just do not drive a blizzard about democratic values, we are already fed up with them! And about what millions of citizens killed by the government are you whispering there, have you read Slozhenitsyn? So this is literary fiction, not historical facts
Meet the new boss etc written by a paedophile, the Great Researcher.
Ditto.
Alex, I agree but have a different view.
I have a very good lawyer. When needed, he can be a bastard – but he is my bastard.
The US has not had a leader who was the American people’s bastard for a long time. Instead, we get bastards of the 0.00001%
as a foreigner and Latin American I sometimes get surprised how with little effort I can manage to put myself on the shoes of those Americans. And evaluate how all this could be different IF the system
of rotten individualism could ever be dug and destroyed. The usual sheeple out there are tied up mind ,hands and feet and prevented to see that. Unfortunately.
I started with the position we don’t have a dog in this fight. However, Merkel’s statements about Minsk being a fraud led me to the final conclusion that we are on the wrong side of history in a big way. You also can’t get around the Nazis in the Ukraine either and our funding of this war to them. In a scene like a Mel Brooks movie we had John Stewart ( Jew) give an award to a Nazi at Disney. It’s beyond absurd and just wanted to say as a Jew myself I am disgusted with people of Jewish decent being supportive of this war. I will always be an American before my religion and weigh the righteousness of the cause based on what’s best for our country regardless of ideology or religion. I don’t think I am alone here. I grew up in Christian social areas in the south and even private education with the Jesuits. I have absolutely nothing but love and admiration for their inclusiveness of me. I would also support and defend Christianity with any means necessary. I believe many of my people have turned to atheism and do not have a moral fiber left in their soul.
The defeat of the combined west is going to lead to unimaginable hardships for the western people. Few can see it coming. Unfortunately, it is the only way that the evil that has taken over can be defeated. Will this evil accept defeat and not decide to take everyone down with it?
Thanks for posting this, Larry. It sums up perfectly my feelings regarding the Ukraine War, and many other things. I’m forwarding to friends and family who find my disdain for the “Brave Little Ukraine” narrative so bewildering.
When Hillary lost to Trump, I said I couldn’t be happier, because such humiliation must force the political parties to reform. All they did was get worse. Just saying.
That is so true. I did not know how much power the deep state
had till Trump was elected. There are interviews on Showtime
when Oliver Stone interviewed Putin . Putin said American policy would not change easily because of bureaucrats.
He said bureaucrats are a challenge for political leaders including his own country. He also scolds Stone for
concentrating on negatives in US. Good stuff.
Had my wife buy the sound of music, a must watch the similarities to today are incredible, I forgot about the part toward’s the end when the guy said to the von trap family that every thing should appear normal nothing has changed
I thought that Austria was landlocked. But von Trapp good Austrian sailor up in The Alps. . Julie Andrews was seen as a problem by the Catholic nuns. Really? Hollywood sucks but at least being a Brit I don’t watch not care since Whiplash.
I often find Larry’s comments one sided and anti American but this comment is (IMO) spot on. The America I love and served is buried under a pile of steaming excrement known as the NWO or any other of the names Larry pointed out. Sadly I do not believe that a mighty and decisive Russian victory will cause the fall of this cabal but it will weaken it further and expose it even more. It is, more than anything else, this exposure that brings hope for its demise. It is only as people FINALLY begin to see what it is we are buried under that hope for victory will emerge. No entity can exist without the will of the people no matter how iron fisted. Finally there is a hope beyond what man alone can do against evil and it is in that hope that I place all my hope.
Anti American? Strange, I always thought of his comments as anti anti-American.
The article was not written by Larry. 🙂
From Mar. 2022
Russia declares war on the Straussians
https://www.voltairenet.org/article215855.html
Using the Wagnerians? That’d be an event.
Personally, I’d use the Mussorgskyans, herd them all up Bald Mountain and let the witches have them.
On second thought, forget that. The Straussians and the witches would probably join forces.
Thanks for the Voltairenet link. I’ve read very little to this concept previously, probably because does not want to appear xenophobic but this article clears it for me.
A fascinating read that explains a lot. I’ve long known that ‘something’ was going on. I now have a much better idea of what. Being mid seventies gives me the luxury of knowing enough to know it rings true.
A something no one could make up.
I think a military defeat will be a symbol but the true undoing of this monster is when it loses the ability to print money. I think we are in the early phase of US decline because we actually have the US dollar going up.
First the other global money printing presses need to break before the mother of all printing presses snaps.
Remember how much inertia is there keeping the financial oligarchy in place. It’s because of them that the rest of the world pays the US military bill.
Once the US actually has to pay its own bills, it’s lights out.
We just might finally get the audit of the gold reserve Ron Paul was trying for decades to get done. I believe it is all gone.
Not just the USA. If I was Argentinian I think 🤔 I would know what to do. I also would not rely so much on former lovers for the codes.
clip from the sound of music, could be applied today https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/ea0592e9-25a9-4e0f-abe6-48bd21a7d7a5
The stupidity cannot end until the US loses its ability to print money. I think that is further way than people want to admit.
(I posted a similar longer comment that disappeared. I find lots of my posts disappear. Perhaps a browser problem?)
They don’t disappear, but can take a while to become publicly visible (especially if there is a link in a post).
Agreed – the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency is what I believe undergirds all these horrors. That, and Godlessness.
Found a video in a Telegram channel this morning that led to a series of YouTube videos going into the real reasons for the regime change in Libya, and one thing stood out above the rest: Gaddafi was about to insist that Libyan oil was to be sold for gold, not dollars. Presumably this was to increase his already vast gold holdings (wonder where they ended up?) to back his proposed Gold Dinar.
Fast-forward to the next century and we have one of the world’s largest oil/gas producers, still happily trading those commodities for dollars, forced off of the petrodollar by sanction after sanction from the US and now quite profitably trading oil and gas in other currencies.
Oh, and putting their own currency back on the gold standard.
You couldn’t make this up…….
Gaddafi wanted more than that actually ( Libyan oil was to be sold for gold), he wanted a gold backed pan – African currency.
That was his ultimate sin.
I don’t think we have too much longer to wait. The US’s star is sinking fast. Having the reserve currency can also be a curse. What happens when the world streams out of the dollar as opposed to streaming in?
What happens when the world streams out of the dollar as opposed to streaming in?
Uh, dunno. Maybe we learn to live within our means?
Oops, just a crazy thought I had. It passed already, no need to panic.
…. What happens when the world streams out of the dollar as opposed to streaming in ?…..
Total Federal and State/Local Gov’t insolvency with mind boggling ramifications
Solution – Vote with your feet PDQ
Agree, it’s the money printing press that keeps this going, the military is second. After NATO(US) loses in Ukraine, they will head over to Taiwan without missing a beat.
Spot-on.
This article “nails it” in terms of what I (a citizen of the G7) know is wrong with all the countries who are subservient to the USA. The USA has become the most corrupt and dangerous nation on earth, using its military to steal the wealth of other nations and lie about it through its MSM, lying about the CO2 caused climate crisis to shift wealth to the new “green agenda” that every member of Congress is personally placing bets in the stock market as being the “winner” over oil and gas, and if you follow the money, you’ll realize the entire US national actions and policies are devoted to making more money by stealing it from their own citizens or other citizens of the earth. And the disgusting policies of social disunity being implemented by the control of social media to divide and conquer its own citizens so they can’t fight back against the cabal, the constant illegal surveillance – it is an endless program of destruction of individual and family security, values and morality. Russia and China, India and Iran, Saudi Arabia and many other countries realize the West has no morals, ethics and cannot be trusted in anything, anywhere, anytime. The evil cabal must be destroyed via these other powerful countries as internally there is no way to fight the rampant corruption and evil from within unless it’s a civil war, at least accordind to the economist Michael Hudson. A great read on this overall topic is “Disintegration ” by Andrey Martyanov.
Whilst the US is the unchallenged winner of the “Most Dangerous Nation” title, there’s stiff competition for the title of “Most Corrupt Nation on Earth”.
The EU, whilst not a nation nevertheless acts as one, is undoubtedly a very close contender for corruption competition. Going back to the 1990’s as I recall, they couldn’t even get Big Six accounting firms to sign off the audits of their accounts.
vero!
VDL( la Guaidò dell’U€) punta a vincere il Nobel…
On target…..on glidepath. Excellent analysis.
Bingo!
The entirely shocking history to all this is that Putin and Russian intelligence was ahead and aware of all the imminent moves and opted for negotiations in December 2021. They were spat on. No one’s spitting now.
Even though room for negotiation existed, I’m pretty sure they knew what the response would be and just wanted it on record.
I for one am frankly perplexed over this controversy of a bust of Zelensky in the Hallowed Halls of Congress.
Will it be in bronze? marble? titanium perhaps (not Russian of course) to show the invincibility of the Ukrainian state?
And frankly, why bother with the middleman at all and just go with a bust of Bandera? A bronze relief mural flanked by his patrons even better. Something like this maybe:
https://stiriinternationale.ro/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/stepan-bandera.jpg
Will it be in bronze? marble? titanium perhaps (not Russian of course) to show the invincibility of the Ukrainian state?
I would choose spider’s silk, as lb for lb it’s 5 times stronger than steel and has all sorts of appropriate double entendres.
Plus, it will never corrode but only unravel with time, maybe catching a few admirers along the way.
I don’t know that defeating this cancer is the most important objective, because it appears to be its own worst enemy. When the ecosystem collapses, the top predators are more vulnerable than the little critters in the bushes and they seem intent on collapsing their ecosystem.
I think what really needs to be considered is the dynamic leading up to this point in time.
Michael Hudson wrote a book some years ago, Forgive Them Their Debts; The Collapse of Antiquity. About how this same dynamic played out, two thousand years ago.
A review in Naked Capitalism; https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/04/the-delphic-oracle-was-their-davos-a-four-part-interview-with-michael-hudson-about-his-forthcoming-book-the-collapse-of-antiquity-part-1.html
To which i would add that government, as executive and regulatory function, is analogous to the central nervous system, while money and banking amount to the blood and circulation system of society.
The irony of America is that having enacted a form of public governance, while leaving banking to the private sector, has left financial interests in control, since they are not subject to nearly as much oversight and don’t have to plan around election cycles.
The consequence is that government has been hollowed out, leaving flunkies to the financial sector to fill the roles. Whose only real function is to create the public debt the banks need to function.
While we think of money as commodity to mine from the economy, it functions as a contract, enabling it. So to store the asset side of the ledger, there has to be a debt to back it. The secret sauce of capitalism is public debt backing private wealth.
When the medium enabling markets is privately held, we are all tenant farmers to the banks.
Here is an interesting start; http://www.publicbankinginstitute.org
The eventual and obvious problem for the oligarchy is that government is the decision making function, so neutering it creates a dynamic that has all the strategic aptitude of bacteria racing across a petri dish. That’s why the wars are so inept and no one is taken out and shot. It’s not really about winning, so much as just creating the debt. They are a burn pit for the actual wealth.
The stage actors in government have devolved into sociopaths, because there is no real responsibility to guide their actions. Children with matches.
I don’t know that defeating this cancer is the most important objective, because it appears to be its own worst enemy. When the ecosystem collapses, the top predators are more vulnerable than the little critters in the bushes and they seem intent on collapsing their ecosystem.
I think what really needs to be considered is the dynamic leading up to this point in time.
Michael Hudson wrote a book some years ago, Forgive Them Their Debts; The Collapse of Antiquity. About how this same dynamic played out, two thousand years ago.
A review in Naked Capitalism; https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/04/the-delphic-oracle-was-their-davos-a-four-part-interview-with-michael-hudson-about-his-forthcoming-book-the-collapse-of-antiquity-part-1.html
To which i would add that government, as executive and regulatory function, is analogous to the central nervous system, while money and banking amount to the blood and circulation system of society.
The irony of America is that having enacted a form of public governance, while leaving banking to the private sector, has left financial interests in control, since they are not subject to nearly as much oversight and don’t have to plan around election cycles.
The consequence is that government has been hollowed out, leaving flunkies to the financial sector to fill the roles. Whose only real function is to create the public debt the banks need to function.
While we think of money as commodity to mine from the economy, it functions as a contract, enabling it. So to store the asset side of the ledger, there has to be a debt to back it. The secret sauce of capitalism is public debt backing private wealth.
When the medium enabling markets is privately held, we are all tenant farmers to the banks.
The eventual and obvious problem for the oligarchy is that government is the decision making function, so neutering it creates a dynamic that has all the strategic aptitude of bacteria racing across a petri dish. That’s why the wars are so inept and no one is taken out and shot. It’s not really about winning, so much as just creating the debt. They are a burn pit for the actual wealth.
The stage actors in government have devolved into sociopaths, because there is no real responsibility to guide their actions. Children with matches.
Unlike Trump, who always talks a good game and ad nauseam talked up a draining of the swamp but once elected was instead pushed or jumped into it, I think Larry is trying to hold firm. It’s a tough job but thank God somebody still wants to do it.
Not sure 1st post made it.
So again
AMEN
And may I add
The Occult and Sodom is being pushed on the Western world and it’s children as the Globalist/Satanic leadership trys to push it on the rest of the world. Russia has said NO to Sodomites in the public square year’s ago and they hate Putin for bucking their Sodomite pressure
Germany – can’t wait to see the warmongers go down the drain.
My post vanished as well, so here it is without links and in sections.
I don’t know that defeating this cancer is the most important objective, because it appears to be its own worst enemy. When the ecosystem collapses, the top predators are more vulnerable than the little critters in the bushes and they seem intent on collapsing their ecosystem.
I think what really needs to be considered is the dynamic leading up to this point in time.
Michael Hudson wrote a book some years ago, Forgive Them Their Debts; The Collapse of Antiquity. About how this same dynamic played out, two thousand years ago.
To which I would add that government, as executive and regulatory function, is analogous to the central nervous system, while money and banking amount to the blood and circulation system of society.
Excellent essay. Well said. Accurately describes some people I know and, I guess, to a slightly more lukewarm extent, me. Why lukewarm? Because I think the deep state would just spin away and double down.
Also, my real concern is that the deep state will not permit a loss so catastrophic that its power becomes threatened, either internally or on the global playing field. IMO, when Ukraine begins to collapse so badly that it cannot be denied (this Spring?) the US will simply jump off WW3.
Finally, US patriots waiting for Russia to do the job of exposing and ruining the deep state is a happy thought. It would represent a bloodless political revolution in the USA; which seems too good to be true – so it probably isn’t realistic. I’m a skeptic.
Thoughtful insights Larry…I can’t speak for others but you hit my sentiments on the head.
The difference between Xi and Putin as opposed to the US political elites is that Xi and Putin are first and foremost Nationalists genuinely focused on the well being of their respective citizens and nations–their global aspirations though important to peace and commerce are tertiary. The US political elite is nationally divisive, war mongering, and globally hegemonic.
I came across this quote the other day and while I would argue that the US has in fact lost wars, the message of the quote still resonates:
“Never has America lost a war…But name, if you can, the last peace the United States won. Victory yes, but this country has never made a successful peace because peace requires the exchanging ideas, concepts, thoughts, and recognizing the fact that two distinct systems of life can exist together without conflict. Consider how quickly America seems to be facing its allies of one war as new enemies.” — Vine Deloria Jr.
They did smash imperialist Grenada. They won’t do whatever it was that they did, again. I believe that Clint was the hero in this film of 15000 heroes. Lawdy, some of those mentally ill patients were a bit obnoxious. Got what they deserved!
I still hang my hat on that Pat Buchanan refrain from years ago of:
“Are we an empire or a republic?”
….and still waiting for the final verdict.
Here is my logic – I am moving to south of Mexico. Why? Because if I am going to live in a 3rd world country shithole: a) I don’t want to pay taxes for something I am not getting, b) I want my country not to be involved in the misery of others and c) quality of life.
Between my wife and I we have options (passports) but the one I feel now and in the future will not be worth the toilet paper it is printed on is, well, you guessed it already….
Good logic on the surface. Things you will need. Spanish for starters. Money will help. If you do not have a pot to piss in now, well good luck. What country south of Mexico has not been dicked around by the US government? Locals put up with ex pats for now. But as wealthy “gringos” flee and drive up prices in their back yard attitudes change. But if you are fortunate enough to find that place and can lay low keep it that way. Do not be like one of those Youtube ex pats and advertise how great it is where you are at now. Otherwise you might price yourself out. Always found the most naive people in any country were the ones that were on my inbound flight. Hope this helps.
Sorry, meant to say south of Mexico (as in southern Mexico). All else is in hand (money, language….).
Wife and I looked at Merida not long ago. New villas at half the cost of same in US or EU, but it’s so damn hot year around, worse than Florida but if you’re a shrimp lover or amateur archeologist, paradise on Earth.
Silence is golden eh Grant
Should heed my own advice from time to time. Thanks
Welcome to my world. I have a 9-year-old Belgian Malinois. I honor my commitments, and I will stay until I lose my beloved Stella. I have a large gun collection to sell. And then I am gone. I have travelled extensively in Mexico. I laughed at people for years that said it was dangerous. But the cartels actually are. I have scratched Mexico off the list. (And Mexican women are the only Latina’s that aren’t hot). Central and South America are still on the short list. The Philippines are high on the list. 95% English usage there. I loved the Czech Republic the last time I was there. But they are infected with the NATO death wish. So, I need to investigate Hungary and other ex ComBloc that have not drank the US death Kool-Aide. And of course. Thailand. I just know me. I am not sure I could survive Bangkok for longer than a month. I will probably just wander. Being Infantry I learned to travel light. Maybe stay somewhere until the new and shiny burns off and move on. Fortunately, I got a government job after the Army. So, two pensions, and Social Security when I decide to take it. 62 now and going to wait till 68. That ought to put some young ladies thru hair and nail college.
Serbia is a good choice; put on your short list.
BTW – Mexico is by no means 3rd world these days.
Serbia is on a short list for another US induced war.
Wouldn’t be surprised. Serbia’s accusing Kosovo’s head honcho of maneuvering to be another Zelensky.
If anyone’s seen the great ’85 flick ‘Runaway Train’ with Jon Voight, I think that sums up pretty well that we’re on one in the West.
Also interesting that Russian born Andrei Konchalovsky was the director, since returned to Russia and basically a dissident. With Runaway Train, he may have been prescient.
How dissident, I don’t know but “In 2012, Konchalovsky wrote, directed and produced The Battle for Ukraine, which provided an in depth analysis of how Ukraine to this day struggles to escape from the close embrace of its former big brother, Russia.”
I’m curious to see how he reconciles Ukraine’s ‘struggle to escape’ and its ’embrace of fascism’ to do so. Russian dissidents, much like the West, always seem to find a reason to avoid this question.
I remeber watching that movie when I was a kid, but not much more than that. Back in the day Yugoslavia had 2 TV channels, and better program than whatever there is nowdays on gazillion channels available. We were mostly pro West, until the West came. Lots of people were dissidents in one way or another because the grass is always greener on the other side.
They did smash imperialist Grenada. They won’t do whatever it was that they did, again. I believe that Clint was the hero in this film of 15000 heroes. Lawdy, some of those mentally ill patients were a bit obnoxious. Got what they deserved!
I feel anywhere and south of Santiago de Querétaro is alright. Cartels are dangerous but I feel they will be nothing compared to the level of violence that will happen in USA in 5+ years from now. This country has nothing but dark times ahead of it. Nobody wants to work, 1/2 of the population viscerally hates the other, debt levels off the charts and fascists in government. Impoverished population drowning it debt but also armed to the teeth, crime rising, dissatisfaction rising. Paying taxes to support that? Nah thanks.
Expats are still obliged to pay the Fed’s taxes on income. Keep in mind that if you live in an income taxing state and emigrate, the state can still tax you based on your last US domicile being in that state. They just don’t like to let go.
Think Brazil. Way south of Rio, Porto Alegre. English and German and Portuguese spoken there. Low diversity there also. As BRICS becomes ubiquitous I believe Brazil will become quite successful the next 10 years or so.
LOL Curt I like your style…I’m a retired Engineer Officer so of course I’m more refined than you grunts—barely…
Philippines hell yeah
Thailand yeah
Everywhere in Europe is shitty right now
I’m living the triple pension life now it’s frickin’ awesome
Left 12 years ago to Central America. Never looked back. Stay awaycfrom the countries with strong current and historical ties to the U.S. Just across the border from Larry’s earlier haunts.
My express thoughts, exactly. Thank you, Mr. Smith.
All true. What is most saddening for me is that the American people have failed to restrain their government and foreign power(s) is our only hope for emancipation. I expect evil acts of desperation and depravity from the crumbling empire. But it must be for the world to be free.
Yes, Larry, that sums up exactly how I feel, and why I feel that way.
I’ll go further. I admire Putin a great deal for his statesmanship, restraint and patriotism. I wish our scumbag overlords understood and loved this country as much he loves Russia.
Of course, in hindsight it’s easy to argue he showed TOO much restraint, that Russia should have invaded Ukraine in 2014, to derail the Nuland project. But I think he made the best decision he could, with the information he had at the time.
Above all, I don’t think he realized until rather recently that American policymakers – particularly the ‘war party’ that dominates The Blob – aren’t rational actors. They aren’t just sociopaths, though they’re surely that: They’re psychopaths too. They not only don’t know what they don’t know, they fervently believe a lot of stuff that is demonstrably untrue. And they’ll do their best to silence anyone who tries to tell the truth.
What I have been struggling to picture is this: Suppose we luck out. Russia wins swiftly and convincingly, and our Caligulas balk at starting WW3. What does getting rid of them look like? How does it play out?
We’ll still be stuck with rogue intelligence and federal law enforcement bureaucracies, with the same old do-nothing Congress, the same old Big Tech mafia covering for the regime. The Afghan debacle showed us they’re beyond accountability, and that the public doesn’t care enough to hold them accountable. Maybe the Borg will install a new president, but it hardly matters, s/he won’t be in charge any more than Biden is.
How do we disempower a regime like that? They’re not going to leave voluntarily. And as far as I can tell, the public is way too quiescent to undertake their ‘mostly peaceful’ defenestration.
It’s going to take more to get people out in the street. Someone in a prior comment mentioned currency collapse. It might take something like that.
ooops correction, please replace Larry with Mr Smith!
I’d rather watch Mr. Smith go to Washington.
https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/smith.jpeg
Larry too.
The article provides a lot of good back story, some I was aware of, some not. I only wish it was better written with more references. Whether we call them Straussians or neocons it does point to how a small group of ideologues have subverted US foreign and domestic policy for their own selfish and tribal interests.
I would also suggest Israel Shahak’s book “Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The weight of 3000 Years”. It explains what motivates these people.
“Defeat that cannot be ignored, cannot be explained away, defeat too big and too obvious for the obedient mass media to bury.”
Yup, that’s the way I see it. It’s the last chance for America, and it ain’t a very good one, but it’s better than the alternatives, which I see as either total collapse or nuclear war. Or both, as it seems quite logical to assume that former, will likely lead to the latter.
We need Vladimir Putin to do us a solid, and order an offensive – or three – that will streamroll Ukraine as if it wasn’t there.
Shock the shit out of every American who is even remotely paying attention.
“Hey, what happened? Just yesterday I was told we were winning!”
Many believe that a domestic political tsunami may accompany a Russian win in Ukraine. Maybe, maybe not. Either way, is it wise to put all of your eggs in one basket, cross your fingers, and hope for the best. What if voting harder doesn’t work and we just elect a new bunch of scoundrels? Is there a place for contingency planning? And if so, what is a reasonable fallback plan? Why not put some brain power into potential remedy as opposed to endless erudite analyses and/or simply documenting our demise? Are we smart enough to define the root problem with accuracy and then devise practical solutions that actually have a chance of success? Methinks too many Americans have become addled by prolonged affluence and prefer to remain on the couch hoping for a miracle or, at the very least, muddle-through once again.
Hear, hear. Every word!
Especially the part where we’ve become ‘addled by prolonged affluence.’
The excellence in manufacturing of the Great Republic, the bedrock of her post WW2 hegemony, had begun hollowing around the late 80s, the capacity moved to the Far East mainly to China when the Middle Kingdom opened up for inward investment after the death of Mao in 1986. The key reason was cost of labour, in China a fraction of that in the US.
What remained in the US however was the design, manufacture and servicing of the tools of war, from big items like the tanks to ammo, it’s still largely onshore, one finds it in each of the 50 states of the Republic, the sector employees in the broadest definition some 15% of the workforce (including the military personnel), each and every 401(k) pension plan has in it the shares/bonds of the companies engaged in it (anyone lucky to buy a thousand bucks worth of shares in Martin Lockheed in 1980 is a millionaire today).
The manufacture of the military hardware was retained onshore because the buyer of it isn’t Mr. Smith who choses mostly on price, but the government which doesn’t have to care about the pricing for ultimately it’s the tens of millions of taxpaying Mr. Smiths that foot the bills.
To top it all, many retired politicians and federal or state apparatchiks sit on the advisory boards, run research outfits or in some way are coupled with the sector advising the makers of the tools of killing.
How could anyone expect the American Governing Elite to behave differently, to give up on igniting regional wars, to embrace making goods for the enjoyment of the people rather than for killing them, how could one think that the Governing Elite will abandon the only remaining sector that delivers for the one percent of Americans that owns half of the country’s wealth as well as for the 99% of the unwashed owning the other half, how could one hope that the resources currently making tanks, fighter jets, missiles and stuff get switched to making chairs, toys and warm underwear?
Just as the Bolshevik nightmare of the East collapsed so the current regime of the once great American Republic must implode for a new society to emerge.
That’s so on the ball Larry, the one thing that so many people of different race, ethnicity, religion and temperaments want is the end of the corporate ruling classes who have made life on Earth miserable.
We can’t all be wrong.
Helmholtz Smith thank you. You have put into words what I have been feeling in my gut, heart, mind and soul.
Perfect. Thank you. My sentiments EXACTLY. “Democracy” is a false, pagan “god,” and “American” politicians who voted to finance this ongoing, continuous slaughter of the Ukrainian people are idol-worshipping FOOLS. (And the sad thing is, they’re too stupid and ignorant to know it.)
I think they know it. It is just more profitable to play stupid and ignorant.
Or else…
Perfect analysis of the situation in France where many would gladly trade a Macron for a Putin. Not so because they love Putin and Russia, but because they are tired of having un-patriotic felons (Sarkozy, Holland, Macon) as presidents.
Spot on – I’m a UK citizen, sick of it all, and really appreciative both of this article and of the rest of your work. Thank you.
What does defeat by US look like?
I am not so sure there have not been active US military in Ukraine
and the numbers are so small they can be manipulated( erroneous reasons given to family). The Bidens, Obamas, etc..
are slimy heartless people. I put nothing past them. Love to see the underground pads these demons have built for themselves.
A renegade US government, dangerous indeed. Thanks, Mr. Smith for the article, and kudos.
A renegade US government, dangerous indeed. Thanks, Mr. Smith for the article, and kudos.
Dear Larry, any chance for you to grant permission to post this commentary by H. Smith in my substack so it may reach my friends across Canada who reads me. I will of course acknowledge with thanks your blog for permitting me to post it. Up north of the 49th parallel it is deep frost year round when it comes to the mainstream news and analysis, for it is all narrative and Canada is practically owned by the WEF oligarchs. The Deputy prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, granddaughter of a leading Banderista and who worked for Goebbels during WW2 in Poland (all of this is on record) sits on the Board of Directors/Advisors of the WEF and is now headed for Davos annual fest, and no one questions the obvious conflict of interest in the highest reaches of the Canadian government. This piece by Helmholtz will at least get my readers to smell the salt and awaken to the grim reality of the war in Ukraine in which our government dutifully as a WEF laboratory is fully committed. Many thanks, if you grant me your permission. God bless.
Feel free on my part, but Larry owns the blog
Thanks, Mr Smith. You are right and I will wait for Larry’s permission.
Ask then your Conservative MP about the stance on Ukraine? Pierre Poliviere is making the rounds. MP Melissa Lastman seems on board with the Project Ukraine. And she is Jewish. Go figure. Not one member of Parliament in Canada opposed. The lone wolf is Alberta Premier Danielle Smith who had to walk back statements about talking peace at the beginning of this fiasco. Sorry to say that Ukrainian National Congress money seems to go a long way. Of all my Ukrainian friends that I have known in the last 60 years NEVER have I come across any hint of this NAZI bullshit. Stay tuned for Canada’s new symbol for hate. The Provincial flag of Alberta.
Don’t forget that Freeland is also supported by the US to succeed Stoltenberg as head of NATO.
What in hell are these people thinking?
Excellent post. I am an ex E-5. I have seen my countries bloodshed. I have seen the results of my countries policies. And I see my country collapsing around my ears. No clean water in Flint, Michigan. Are you shitting me? 100’s of Billions to Ukraine, and Flint does not have clean water? And also. My country has become evil. Children are openly worshiping Satan. Drag queen shows for 7-year-old children. Legalized drugs everywhere. Churches in horrific decline. And the ones that exist are big screen TV freak shows. And my old enemy. Russia. I joined to kill a commie for Mommy. Russia outlaw’s sexual perversion. They embrace the church. Look at YouTube videos of the Moscow subway system. Clean. No Panhandlers. Junkies and drug pushers thrown into horrific jails. We went to sleep on a Thursday and then Freaky Friday came. The Russian turned into the good guys, and we are openly evil. I literally stand agog.
From your keyboard to God’s Eyes.
Lord, hear my prayer.
Thank you, Larry
Right out of my mouth; you took the words right of my mouth.
I lack communication skills to describe the level of disdain and the utter loathing I have for this rules based system of the Empire of lies.
Yes, May God bless the efforts of the Russian people’s army to beat back the very worst of human nature.
May God give Russia grace for victory and power against the evil that threatens good men everywhere.
“It is God after all who raises up and brings down governments of men.
Who turns a king’s heart like streams of water. “
Great essay. Unfortunately, only 10% of the US population has the brains to understand it. Sad to say, but America’s best hope for redemption lies on the far side of a decisive US military defeat beyond our borders.
“The Russian turned into the good guys, and we are openly evil. I literally stand agog.”
I puzzle over that irony every day Curt I mean really WTF
Wow! The light of truth here is almost blinding!
“If (when) Russia scores a decisive and undeniable victory, the perpetrators of the disaster will be revealed as corrupt fools wasting your money on their worthless fantasy.”
Most Americans are keenly aware Washington politicians and bureaucrats have been corrupt fools for decades.
That doesn’t speak to a peaceful and democratic transition we’d all hope to view when the financial system collapses and Russia maintains control over Ukraine and hopefully, an enlightened Europe and the United States will seek peace.
I’m betting on a worst-case scenario because an optimistic one hasn’t presented itself.
This is exactly my feeling and hope. Thank you Larry, well said.
This is the Samson option for Americans.
We are willing to endure the collapse of this damned temple in order to destroy the evil within.
“Blessed are those who suffer for Justice sake”
#LogosRising
Perfect. I would say probably I am a little jealous that Russia has a leader who loves and protects her above personal goals. Probably Putin is not 💯 corruption free, but Russia for him comes first. He thinks years ahead. I wish we had someone like that. He/she might run for president but stay behind and drain swamp. FBI, CIA ,DOJ must be cut in half, also nationalize 75% of military industrial complex.
Oswald was a patsy.
The corollary is that the unwinding won’t be pretty and carries its own risks. The Davos crowd wants a controlled destruction of America as part of their Reset agenda, as the US Constitution is an impediment. The MIC and Fed maybe at odds as they want a strong dollar and plan on defending it as much as they can. The “elite” is not one big happy, unified groups, as there are competing interests there too. Russia winning tips over some dominoes and gets the process started. It needs to get started, but we also need to be aware of the unintended consequences.
The elites have tunnel vision with set agendas and no idea of any unintended consequences either. We’re at a cusp, and it’s dangerous times all around from the global to the local when it falls apart. The establishment has worked to destroy our common values and sense of community, those things that unite us in crises. We’ll need to find that in a hurry again.
As to what’s happening, there’s a key Systems Dynamics concept: to see what a system was designed to do, you look at what it does. The “system” has evolved due to concentration of power (that always happens everywhere) and is not sustainable. Ultimately they can’t hide things anymore, and that’s where we’re at now. Russia and China will neuter the hegemon, then things get interesting. As Galbraith said ages ago, those with power and privilege will do whatever they can to try and keep it. That’s where the danger lies.
Excellent post!
It jells nicely with what I told my fellow Africans in a post few days ago:
No, as an African, your concern shouldn’t be whether or not you like or hate Putin or Russia. It also shouldn’t be about the state of the health of Putin.
Those are jejune emotional considerations.
You should ask yourself the following questions:
1. Has the last 500 years of Western domination been good to me or to my society?
2. Should Russia loses the war with the West, who is to stand between the West and the reconquest of Africa?
Femi – please comment more. Your point of view is illuminauing for us that have nil idea of African society. Thank you
Right !
I’m writing from France same situation many people hope russian victory against NWO
Regards
My thoughts exactly. I’m a conservative, some might say, very conservative American who is nauseated by what I’m seeing all around me, especially the cretins mouthing anti-Russian bullshit lately. My country is imploding and these bozos are cheerleaders for its destruction. It’s come to the point where I tell family and friends that the only justice remaining in the world is an Iskander missile headed west toward targets in Ukraine. I want a crushing Russian victory perhaps more ardently than even President Putin himself.
I served my country for 30 years, 3 in the military and 27 in the intelligence community. If you had told me in the mid-1970’s, when I signed up, that 40 years later I would be praying for the defeat and humiliation of the USA, I would have punched you in the nose.
Age brings wisdom. It is now obvious that only a true foreign policy disaster followed by economic collapse will allow us to rebuild this country. A clear Russian victory in Ukraine followed by the loss of the dollar’s reserve status may be our last chance to save what is left of the republic, but at what a terrible cost.
There is a silver lining. The collapse will bring about a lemming-like rush for the exits by the aliens who have invaded our nation. The immigrants who love America and whose hearts are only here, will stay. The others will pack their shit and leave, before they are tossed out. No more Chinese or Indian H-1B’s, the criminal class of Latin America will return to their homes, the Haitians will float back to their own special hell, hopefully taking KJP with them.
Then there will be a reckoning with the “Americans” who have tried to destroy our country, and it will not be pretty. To all you Woke folks and corporate CEO’s and HR nebbishes denying white people work, to all you suburban soccer moms who voted for Biden, to the nitwits who still vote Democrat, you will have a long row to hoe.
Time is short but the moment of critical mass approaches.
Sage you sum it up well ….I am with you: #NationalDivorce.
As a Patriot, I don’t remember the date or the time, but one day it finally dawned on me that the US was no longer the Good Guy. Like all bullies, this corrupt government only victimizes those perceived to be weaker than them, including American citizens, with blackmail, coercion, and threats of violence to get their way. A complete Russian victory would be a good thing for everyone, even the Ukrainians.
You nailed it.
This article describes exactly how I view the war as a Canadian who has woken up to find that I am no longer living in a democracy.
Exactly right. I am liking Putin and his team through all this. A pretty intelligent and upright bunch of professionals.
But I DO prefer Putin. Because when I compare Putin to Biden, I see a man who doesn’t imprison political protestors, doesn’t raid his predecessor’s homes, doesn’t pimp out his own children as political prostitutes, doesn’t defile his pants.
Given the depraved dishonest demented Biden, it’s very easy to prefer Putin.
We have always been at war with Eurasia.
I agree.
Only a big HUMILIATING defeat will regime change those leeches and we can see a true populist movement that will focus internally. Especially when externally they have nowhere to do business.
Sure, there will always be a 0.1% who will reign on the mass, but when their business model in directed internally (versus externally as the globalists are doing), the crumbs fall inside and we (the people) can lick a tiny bit of it.
Great post. A decisive Russian victory would definitely increase the resolve of Americans to remove the criminal regime who are currently in power.
Resolve and intent are good. Unfortunately, they’re not enough. From a logistics perspective, nothing can change in the US until elections and voting are secured. Right now, elections are being rigged in plain sight. ‘America’ is a banana Republic, and it’s legitimacy as a genuine nation state is draining away, 24/7.
A genuine election would provide leaders that have been chosen by the people. This would at least restore some legitimacy to the United States / Washington DC again. However following that, there would need to be a reckoning with the bureaucracy that is infected with corruption across all agencies. How to fix that is anyone’s guess.
There are of course other methods that can be used to achieve change in America. The one vulnerability many organised crime gangs have is that typically their ideological inspiration – and operations -depend on a small group of key people. Below them are loyal servants, however their loyalty and that of those lower down the chain tends to dissolve, once the capos start to fall.
History shows that taking action to make it too risky to associate with these people ( the capos) if not action against the capos themselves, is often an effective way to collapse their house of criminal cards.
It really is up to the American people. Sadly their failure to do anything meaningful so far worsens their position, and those of their children.
I’m not sure if most Americans truly understand the damage that was inflicted on their nation on that terrible night of 3/4 November, 2020. Or that the rest of the world will move on without the United States, a process that has started in earnest. This includes the West, who will do so last, after there is no other option available.
They’d better wake up, fast. The people who stole the United States from the American people are evil. Far worse disasters are coming, the longer the rot is allowed to fester.
Greetings all, from Kanuckistan
Canada has a lot of the same problems as USA; vote for tweedledee or tweedledumber, Russia bad, FIRE (finance, insurance & real estate) economy natural.
In the developed west, we cannot afford to let the fire economy keep running down Wall St. It’s going to crater, the longer it runs, the bigger the crater!
I’m pretty sure the Russian army & air force is about to dice the Ukraine into bite size pieces. The possibility of a stupid, or accidental nuke is terrifying.
Also, I’ve studied ww2; Hitler was a fringe kook on the German scene for years, when the great depression hit, & Berlin made bad choices, the result was 50% unemployment. Germans became willing to vote for the Nazis because tweedledee wasn’t feeding their kids anymore!
I’m not a Christian, but the biblical descriptions of demonology make the most sense for what has happened to the West. “We” have not tempered ourselves at the top and demons have set in.
There is a real cost “to if it feels good do it.”
I believe that Americans – and everyone in general – who comment on Larry’s blog are not just concerned about America or their country! Which was not enough. I think they clearly distinguish between good and evil and have long understood who provoked this conflict the most! And it continues to fuel the death of hundreds of thousands more human beings. As well as Millions of refugees adding to the 40 Millions at the beginning of the century alone. If this is not the ultimate evil, what is? But I admit that the sound bite – The hundred billion dollars dumped into Ukraine would give a $200,000 house to every one of the estimated half million homeless in the USA – hits hard!
And the picture is also deep! Is it the high-tech unicorns when they go out at night without a mask?
So, why don’t we have blood in the streets in America since this proxy war against Russia is being staged out of the Anglo-American sphere?
Instead, all we see are dumbass American mercenaries gearing up and fighting in Ukraine for $72,000 a year who are now trapped in Bakhmut. Are people stupid, are they ignorant, do they even understand what they are doing? What can explain this?
There are an estimated 900,000 Russians living in America. Now we have Americans going to Ukraine to kill Russians? There is no hope for this species. We have white Europeans, namely the Slavic people, killing each other with white Americans going to Ukraine to kill whites (Slavic).
I personally have no sympathy or empathy for American mercenaries fighting in Ukraine. Americans are retarded. They really are. As soon as they hear Ukrainians are “fighting for freedom,” they whip out their blue and yellow flags and are ready to go fight. That is not a stable or healthy outlook on the world. Honest to God, there are actually Americans who bring the Ukrainian flag to NFL football games and wave these flags like trained idiots.
Americans need a slap down. And when they are slapped down hopefully they will drag these Neocons out into the streets and publicly humiliate and shame them.
You don’t have to be patriotic to be a decent human being to understand what is going on here. Stop rallying around these god damn flags. Stop picking sides like this is some kind of a sports game with winners and losers while DPR militias are in trenches in hand-to-hand combat with Ukrainian cannon fodder dying for NATO.
Strange situation. Either a liberated world, or a nuclear end.
Or nothing will happen. Like the last few months. It will continue, will be so slow…. that we don’t see anything moving.
Right on! Destroying Monsters is why the rational want Russia to win!
I am an Australian and this post accurately reflects my feelings on the matter
I am an Australian and this post accurately reflects my feelings on the matter.
Well said.
Yeah, H. Smith, hehe, its a honor after all this years, to be able to coment on something you are writing, and above all, you are I am afraid, right.
I have gone from euforia to deep anger thru the years, because of the almost impossible figth against a information wall.
But.
What really happened after the war on Afg. nothing.
After Iraq, despite the Cilcot Iquir report whom exposed the ZATO propaganda, and somehow its stil by large unknown, but overall, it changed nothing.
Libya, nothing changed, after years they stil pimp their own propaganda.
Syria, nothing changed.
Armenia, where even alternative sites suddenly echoed the western prestitutes.
Mali where they couped the Gov and installed their own, etc, etc.
Nothing changed in the despicable western MSM,and since they run our ugh… perseption managements, aka reality, nothing will change.
I could go on for much longer, but I am certain, HS, but you get the drift.
And somehow, some cant undestand or wont, that propaganda works, I find it almost unbelivable how deep it goes sometimes, the people stil dont get it, they lie and have lied about everything, all the time, and backwards for centurys, how much is true, very little, if anything.
Regarding Ukraina, and nukes, despite the insane hyped rethoric from the lunatics in the west, I dont think they are that stupid, but you never know. But the main force is information, and I know already that, Ukraina, when the war ends, will be forgotten, in a week or two, because of the MSM whom will simply ignore it, and who is going to change that, anyone, nobody is.
Despite me resevations in some aspects, I “hope”, since some of us have watched wars upon wars where the west had the control of informantion, that the only solution was Russia, I have awaited this for years, I hoped for a long time, I even managed to denie it for my self that wars was creaping increasingly closer and closer into the European mainland, and now, here we are.
To run it off, anti-american, huh, anyone whom uses that a an argument is an ignorant fool, or payed to say something else, dont insult our intellegence with idiotic rants, I have warned you for bloody decades, and you didnt even bother to learn anything, back then it was Muslims and enviroment eh…. terrorists and you where happy, despite the warnings about the inevietable coming future, like the Patriot act.
And yess, I count the 9/11 as the start of world war 3, when the Imperial banana republic layed the fundation for what we have running amoc this days.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-report-of-the-iraq-inquiry
peace
“they doubled down on their failed bet arrogantly certain they were right because everybody they allowed to speak agreed with them.”
Just a bit more to it than your accurate words on patriotic folk. Seems to me our crowd has a bigger loyalty than patriotism implies. I feel an intense loyalty to humans that care about other humans and that do unto others as they would have done to them.
It’s one thing to fight to protect your fellow citizens and something completely different to fight for a mirage created by hidden agencies that want to rule over all humanity.
One other point. About those who speak for all of us, wave our flag and jam our beliefs down our throats for their own selfish needs. In reality they are not at all truly patriotic! They are parasitic.
Is that a real photo of Bandera in German uniform ? I thought he was a pro-German newspaper editor ?
Thanks
Is that a real photo of Bandera in German uniform ? I thought he was a pro-German newspaper editor ?
If you mean this then yes, that is Bandera in the middle.
https://stiriinternationale.ro/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/stepan-bandera.jpg
The newspaper editor was Freeland’s grandfather, Chomiak – who was gifted a print shop by the Nazis, confiscated from the previous Jewish owner.
http://coat.ncf.ca/research/Chomiak-Freeland/C-F1.htm
Desde España, un país sin soberanía, al servicio de los intereses del imperialismo, yo también tengo la esperanza de que Rusia gane, y acabe con todos estos criminales occidentales.
You are a first rate writer and thinker. Thank you. Here you set up the real obstacles domestic politics presents yet don’t seem to me to provide a path away from our own political state and its firmly established disabilities.
Chicken-cooped on detestable Twitter for offering a way forward, I was silenced there–though, gratefully, my writing if no my ideas have had wide publication.
I don’t have a complete answer for overcoming the dead end we have reached but I do have a name for what I am talking about and an inkling of how to manage to get there:
Issue Solidarities.
Though solidarity rarely is pluralized this is no mistake of grammar. Dividing the electorate into 2 minorities and, thankfully, a growing unaffiliated independent cohort can be reconciled by joining on issues and consequently lessening divisions that offer feckless minority stands that put the political transmission in neutral.
I won’t say more here but I know your readers will see that establishing majorities for commonly admired positions–privacy, free speech, etc. is achievable. How this works out won’t be at the election booth but in holding, by common majority consent, single elected officials to their individual declared policies. As it is, the two party farce derails most anything. . .bypass these actors, make real majorities, hold the elected to their sworn positions. This gives majorities the power they are entitled to issue by issue. It’s a better way to progress by throwing out the bums through the court of majority opinion, issue by agreed issue. Issue solidarities. Majority rule, issue by issue, is probably imperfect but forming powerful majorities beats running in place or losing ground–which is happening before our eyes. I remind you the now president and the one just before him are both draft dodgers in a country where war is somehow always on the agenda.
Sobering. The 80% of the world that is not supporting the West in this endeavor aren’t necessarily fans of Russia, China or India either. I see them in the same category of the founding fathers. Folks who were willing to risk all for the chance of freedom. And many of them lost all. No guaranties. No promises other than a chance. I believe that there are a lot of Americans who believe that the reclamation of America is worth their risking all for the chance. Not sure if it is enough Americans though. Too many selfish, self centered people.
Yes, I am a patriot, loyal American and yet, I pray that Russia not only wins but that Russia proves to the world that America and Europe are useless, old countries that need to be sent to their room. Our petro-dollar, back by nothing but debt and the stock market has finally come to its end. Driven by a colonial mindset that never really left America or England. Fueled by the lust for money and power. Will finally be destroyed by its own arrogance…at the hands of Russia.
The non-western world, which is pretty much most of the world has now seen first hand the thieves that they have entrusted their money and lives to. They now know that Europe and America will gladly steal your money from their banks, confiscate the sovereign property of another country and do it with the utter arrogance of a king.
What I can only hope for is that Americans and European citizens finally come to their senses and toss out these vile political parties and governmental agencies that are controlled by corporations and thieves.
It is my sincere hope that Ukraine is utterly destroyed as a nation. That all that remains of Ukraine is a memory of its corruption, corrupt officials and the Kiev oblast remains as a testament to the kindness of Russia to not have completely destroyed Ukraine. Past that I do hope that the remainder of Ukraine goes to Poland, Romania, Hungary and of course, Russia.
America will fall, Europe will fall…this is inevitable but, we can only hope that remaining patriots of both America and Europe will rebuild and elect leaders as capable as Vladimir Putin and Sergey Lavrov.
It seems that we can’t find the ‘happy’ common middle ground. This seems to be a human species defect, ?from design. We pendulate from one extreme to another, and make up with BS for ANY of our actions.
Plus, we are ‘infected’ with cognitive dissonance. How else can you explain that the anti-war grand-mas from the 60ties are now pro-war with Russia, the ‘greens’ are for war spending and war machines, which are anything but environmental friendly. A single company of tanks wipes out all the carbon taxes paid in one year. A failed ideology Nazism that killed 60+ million people in ww2 is promoted again as democracy, while another failed ideology Communism that killed more than 100+ million people is promoted as the panacea. This while we are actually going back to feudalism.
So, NO, both US and European countries are useful, however, they have to start dealing with the reality, and not some cartoonish ideas of good and evil.
Plus, we are ‘infected’ with cognitive dissonance. How else can you explain that the anti-war grand-mas from the 60ties are now pro-war with Russia
Manufacturing consent. It ain’t just a book.
Control the media and you control the public. Not exactly a new notion.
It seems that we can’t find the ‘happy’ common middle ground. This seems to be a human species defect. We pendulate from one extreme to another, and make up with funny ideas for ANY of our actions.
Plus, we are ‘infected’ with cognitive dissonance. How else can you explain that the anti-war grand-mas from the 60ties are now pro-war with Russia, the ‘greens’ are for war spending and war machines, which are anything but environmental friendly. A single company of tanks wipes out all the carbon taxes paid in one year. A failed ideology Nazism that killed 60+ million people in ww2 is promoted again as a democracy, while another failed ideology Communism that killed more than 100+ million people is promoted as the fix for everything. This while we are actually going back to feudalism.
So, NO, both US and European countries are useful, however, they have to start dealing with the reality, and not some cartoonish ideas like good and evil.
” …Communism that killed more than 100+ million ”
Nah, that is pure bullshit. GBII (Little Bush) invoked that number when he was the puppet prez.
Pure projecting of numbers of victims of US “democracy/freedom/capitalism to the ‘enemy’.
You do yourself no favours repeating lies as if they were facts.
Yep. As I’ve ben saying, Eurotrash socialist from MoA. Radical, incapable of nuance. Scum. Always nice to know that my profiling abilities still work well.
Eric,
Thanks for hanging in there. You are provoking an energetic discussion. I would ask that everyone try to refrain from personal attacks and insults. Address the substance. I understand that passion sometimes gets the better of us.
Sadly the Host just moves to a different body. It’s purely EVIL!
The vast majority of people in the west have shown very little understanding or interest in the wars launched by their governments over the last 30 years. They don’t see through the deciept, treachery and lies used time and again to launch and justify wars of aggression (an act deemed by the Allies at the Nuremberg trials as the ultimate crime any state can commit).
Society in the west is focused on consumption and materialism. Most westerners are not only indifferent to the terrible injustices and suffering caused by these wars, they also repeatedly accept the excuses used by their leaders to deny any responsibility in starting them or when whitewashing related war crimes.
Most people in the west are ignorant of the situation unfolding in Eastern Europe today. They are unaware of the fact it is actually their governments that conspired to launch another war of aggression (this time by proxy), not just against a nuclear super power, but one that has escalation dominance to boot.
NATO expansion up to Russia’s borders, systemic human rights abuses, repeated military provocations, cultural demonisation, economic piracy and state terrorism. Russia has taken it all and been very restrained. They’ve let us take a good long look at how the collective west treats other countries, how it treats ‘allies’ and how it ignores international law. Russia is now going to permanently rearrange the collective west so it cannot conduct wars of aggression for a very long time. People in the west who see this coming, recognise its necessity and they don’t blame Russia. Russia’s leadership demonstrates dignity, responsibility, compassion and they have moral compasses that work.
I cannot but think and hope these comments and ideals are where the majority reside. .
The Plan to Carve Up Russia, by Mike Whitney
https://t.me/fred33flint/247
https://www.unz.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/BrokenUpRussiaMW-1024×555-600×325.png
It’s true. I didn’t believe it until I saw it on a Ukrainian physicist’s website. I’d post a link but I don’t want to cause him trouble. He is brilliant, delves into the shadowland between theoretical physics and mysticism. I found his work after I got curious about the salt cave mystery in Larry’s earlier post. I was looking for a possible weapon technology that might be linked to the salt mines. One of the scientist’s papers described the potential that a particle he discovered was possibly remotely linked to the Nazi Bell Project.
I’d never heard of that before. He has photos in the paper of the unusual damage the Bell device did to life forms and details about the scientists who worked on it dying from strange illnesses. He didn’t know what the Nazi’s real aim with the experiments was, but he’s built a reactor that he thinks is creating the same particle radiation as the Bell for the purpose of using in the production of biodiesel. He also said a German company may be using the particle technology at what he describes as ‘peculiar facilities’ for what he was told is for the purpose of water purification.
I found that fascinating so found his personal website but was horrified to learn about the Arrata belief system he subscribes to in a long paper there. The theory believes Ukraine is the center of human civilization and all that is good has stemmed from there. He even claims that Tadeusz Kościuszko was a Ukrainian that the US actually just adopted the Ukrainian Constitution in 1788!
There’s a disturbing focus on lineage in the Aratta theory. He thinks Finns, Hungarians, Russians, and Estonians are from another tribal lineage and the theory clearly perceives that lineage to be inferior and dangerous. (He even mentions a cannibal practice in the distant past – talk about demonizing!) He ends up with a call for expanding the border of Ukraine to the Don River, moving Russians away from the Black and Azov seas returning the Kuban to the Ukraine.
That’s just for starters. Then he gets to redrawing borders for all the countries bordering Russia, taking all Russia’s weapons away, including nuclear, and then dividing up Russia into smaller countries. I wondered what the Arratans will have in store for the Constitution copycats in the US?
Is he a professor? Ukraine, the centre of the world. Thanks. Must dash, workers to feed. Wait till I tell them that their tattoos and flags in North Yorkshire have not been in vain. There will be a field in Eastern Europe that will forever be a paradise.
Hi, I am from Brazil. I am Brazilian. I am from South America. It means I am American too. U are from USA. U are from North America. It means u are US-American. Through this “American ” term U show how u see America as ur country. America is a continent divided into 3 sub-continents. Its time to start to change this old perception.
I wouldn’t be offended. US-Americans know of all the other American states (well, some anyway).
It’s just mostly a consequence of the country’s name ‘United States of America’. How do you shorten that?
You can say Canadian, Mexican, Brazilian, Peruvian, Panamanian, but it’s pretty tough to say Unitedamericanstatser. Just doesn’t work.
Course with this ‘exceptionalist’ business, Monroe Doctrine and all the rest, I can understand how some think of it as just usurping control of two/three continents, which Washington is always trying to do anyway.
Ask an average American what the stripes in their flag stands for. Interesting answers if anyone cares.
Your patriotism is admirable however you have been lead you into accepting a historical fallacy. The United States did not simply appropriate the appellation “American” for its residents or “America” for its territory during the 18th,19th, or 20th Centuries. It’s not an expression of Manifest Destiny, Wilsonian Imperialism, or Post-Cold War Hegemony, or whatever line some marxist college prof. might have dropped to stoke resentment. Virtually from the founding of the first English colony, certainly within a generation, the terminology came into common usage in England specifically, and Europe generally, for the original 13 English colonies and their citizens, and it wasn’t meant as a compliment. It was used much the same way that a Roman, circa 100 B.C., would have used the term Provence to indicate a rube or rustic from the hinterland not a “real” Roman; but it stuck, for near 400 years now.
The other colonial powers utilized the terminology America or American, if at all, as a thoroughly generic term, like saying European, for all three subsets of what they considered to be one continent. I do not know if it ever was commonly used for any other colonies, or their descendant nation-states, but we have been Americans of America in common world-wide usage from literally the beginning. If you wish to be referred to as American then by all means I know of no one that would have any brief with that. I know we certainly have bigger fish to fry up here, and, from what I have seen on the news, you all do to.
Yes, the author sums up my position.
But to extend it, I suggest the United States has to transition from demanding & enforcing a uni-polar world. The imperial over-stretch of maintaining a uni-polar world with the United States at the hub is happening now… the Ukraine Project is part of Uni-polar ambition.
America can thrive in a multi-polar world… it’s not something to be afraid of.
America does not have to dominate the world… let alone rule the world for the U. S. to be successful and her people to enjoy peace & prosperity.
The “Yankee Spirit” of vigorous engagement and deal making based on making a tough, but fair bargain… one where the other side also sees it as beneficial and is open to further bargains… ongoing trade & diplomatic relations.
America can do it.
Be not afraid of a multi-polar world… embrace it.
This is an excellent post. My only issue with it is why are good patriotic Americans hoping that Russia will do out job for us it is not Russias job to kill the leech. It is ours. If we are not willing to stand up for our own freedoms, only hoping a foreign actor will, then do we really deserve those freedoms?
It’s a quandary.
The enemy is powerful, way more powerful than any one of us, but when do we the real Americans take our stand while sit idly by watching our tax dollars used against our erstwhile saviors?
I cheer on Russia, cry for the dead on both sides, yet what am I willing to do?
A question we all need to ask ourselves I think.
Ronald Reagan said the America was the last bastion of hope.
It appears that Russia has that title now.
USA is still the last bastion of hope for those like Ronald Reagan. He was sending Stingers to terrorists so they could kill Russians/Soviets, and even brought some of them to White House (although fact-checkers are still calling them freedom fighters). USSR was actually trying to build stuff in Afghanistan. Reagan didn’t like any of that, because there was no profit for USA in it.
Current USA politicians are sending Stingers to terrorists, and bringing some of them to Congress and Disney World, while talking about turning Ukraine into new Afghanistan for Russians. The main difference is that there was no Internet in 1980s, and that made it hard to go around mainstream media.
You are 100% correct. The US funded, trained and armed al Qaeda in Afghanistan to fight the Russians and one of the big reasons is the Russians were building schools and allowing women to attend classes
Larry, you have succinctly said what I have been feeling and I want you to know that you are right in what you say. If we continue to insane ideology of save the world for democracy than I don’t believe the world will be saved but just the opposite.
Thanks for making my day and don’t give up the fight for liberty and the real American way.
Roaming abroad “in search” but also *to install* monsters. Ukraine (2014) being the prime example.
All with you guys in the pulling back of American power. The wasting of blood & treasure. All on board in turning the planet into a multi-polar world: the BRICS, if not perfect, a good sign. With the folks here (i hope) in exchanging a universal fiat currency regime into a gold/commodities one. Count me in on the urgency of calling for the utter reformulation (or elimination) of America’s security overloads. The CIA/NSA/State Dept./Five-Eyes crusading brigade going about toppling nations for regime change is long overdo for its day of judgment.
But I am a bit confessed. Yet, maybe not, for human beings are never 100% consistent. We are all hypocrites when it suits – especially when brute facts do not square with deeply held worldviews.
Help me out.
Parallel to our conversation about Ukraine is another which is not being had – Brazil.
We are much informed regarding the Security State’s capture of Ukraine. Done to set the board for the downfall of Russia. We know the tiniest detail of that story down to its nastiest detail.
But when the same narrative with same nasty characters perform their plot in Brazil with the installation of Lula we are silent. The CIA/NSA/State Dept. (with their snarling NGOs, Media & Silicon Valley lapdogs) have just pulled off one of their glorious Color Revolutions in Brazil. And not a peep. Why? Just because Brazil is the “B” in BRICS.
We better be careful or the Collective West will swallow it whole by nibbling on one letter at a time. Apparently it just swallowed its first.
Not only America, but the days old Color Revolution in Brazil was also the doing of the World Economic Forum (WEF). Brazil just became a battlefield trophy for the gents scripting Agenda 2030. Or – hate to say it – have some *on our side* tucked in their pants a penis envy of the arrogant Hegelian world force the WEF represent (and puts into play). Are we somewhat in awe of how Washington, London, New York, Silicon Valley and Soros (wherever he makes his bed) pulled a fast one on us.
And please, do not refer me to Pepe Escabar’s recent report. Was not convinced. The man does have his blind spot. The Vatican does not. It is utterly tickled pink with Lula’s ascendency.
With Brazil Corporatist Fascism just hung another head on its trophy wall. It will be dripping blood for years to come.
I’m aware of what just happened to Brazil and note the similarities to the US 2020 presidential election, but as with many other topics, unless Larry chooses to address them I feel it’s better to leave them be.
I have my doubts about Mr Escobar’s journalistic integrity when it comes to PRC. His cheerleading for Lula is tragically funny, but it does raise questions about the Party’s stance on Brazil, if it’s so easily fooled by the socialist label. Interesting about the Vatican. Washington, military capitol; London, financial capitol; Vatican, religious capitol of the hydra (to which we should add: Brussels, political capitol).
India seems a positive here. It has its troubles, but who doesn’t? Indian commentators are quite wary of both the US and China, which I find encouraging.
I was wrong about Bandera being a newspaper editor.
I mixed him up with the grandfather of a powerful political figure in the West.
Apologies folks – my bad…
Michael Chomiak, Chrystia Freeland’s grandfather.
My sentiments about Putin, but I doubt a Russian victory will ‘shatter’ the internal enemy that plagues us. Rather I see a NATO humiliation as another foothold smashed into the sheet ice wall we are climbing. Each deception prompts more people to question the Deep States ‘truths’, and the higher we climb the more nervous they become.
You lied to us about the Deep State
You lied to us about COVID
You lied to us about Hunter’s laptop
You lied to us about Jan 6th
You lied to us about Afghanistan
You lied to us about social medias involvement in all the above
You lied to us about Ukraine
Why would you not be lying about climate change?
They lied to you about Syria, Libiya, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Yemen, and every single war that happened. Those lies shaped the worldview of majority, and will remain.
Perfectly stated, I struggled with how to explain it w/o sounding like I’m not patriotic.
But I liken it to a love of a family member, and while it breaks your heart, you must turn them in for crimes committed before you lose them forever.
Succinct and straight to the point article by Mr. Smith
Not only patriotic Westerners with sense of Right and wrong, the entire Global South, colonized and oppressed for hundreds of years yearn for Russian victory, because it will be their victory also.
Russia can not and will not lose. When the NATO loses, the West saddled with unplayable debt will start collapsing like falling dominos.
The World will never be the same provided we dodge a Nuclear War and we’ll will ever be thankful to Russia for standing up to the bullies and punched them in the nose (Many Western Generals are much bigger and taller than Putin physically)
Well said. Hell, I don’t think Putin even wants to “win” in the sense of a messianic goal to destroy America. Like the patriotic Americans you describe he just wants the empire to end. A year ago he would have settled for kinder and gentler.
What Adam’s gets at is empire. America is of empire. Arguably it has always been an empire since “abroad” would have included west of the Ohio river at one point. But his argument stands. It is not possible to be both a republic and an empire. If nothing else, an empire requires political stability and continuity at the center, while a republic requires regular changes of government based on the people’s will. Now the people can be sold on giving up a republic for an empire early on because it provides benefits.
Bread and circuses flow into imperial centers. But empires have to grow to maintain the inflow of bread and circuses. Constant growth requires all the attention of government once the easy conquests end. The government becomes primarily about holding onto what it has because of diminishing returns, and then it must maintain the empire at all costs when contraction begins. The imperial center gets self-consumed to maintain the empire eventually. Time wasn’t even the imperial center when Alaric sacked it much less by the time the western empire “fell”. The bread and circuses had dried up. The oligarchic senatorial class had retreated to their estates with peasants and slaves to kick off the dark ages.
Empires have to end. It’s in their nature. What patriotic Americans are hoping for is the end of the empire. They’re running out of time for it to end without collapsing in on us. Putin recently said history is not a teacher, but a supervisor. History is unequivocal on the subject of empires.
You forgot normal humans ie those to scared to speak up. Refuse to wear the face rages : no to the jab. Get sacked or a GP looks you in the eye and say “are you a jab denier?”
Everything around us is a symptom, the disease is war.
Who would have guessed that a Russian, mild mannered gentleman, would stand up for the world against the rainbow beast.
The Netherlands. Thank you for a good article.
Bingo! Thanks for a great guest post, Larry!
Mr. Smith nails the sentiment rising in the lands – far and wide.
Mr. Cohen did too, a few years back:
DEMOCRACY
It’s coming through a hole in the air,
from those nights in Tiananmen Square.
It’s coming from the feel
that this ain’t exactly real,
or it’s real, but it ain’t exactly there.
From the wars against disorder,
from the sirens night and day,
from the fires of the homeless,
from the ashes of the gay:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
It’s coming through a crack in the wall;
on a visionary flood of alcohol;
from the staggering account
of the Sermon on the Mount
which I don’t pretend to understand at all.
It’s coming from the silence
on the dock of the bay,
from the brave, the bold, the battered
heart of Chevrolet:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
It’s coming from the sorrow in the street,
the holy places where the races meet;
from the homicidal bitchin’
that goes down in every kitchen
to determine who will serve and who will eat.
From the wells of disappointment
where the women kneel to pray
for the grace of God in the desert here
and the desert far away:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
Sail on, sail on
O mighty Ship of State!
To the Shores of Need
Past the Reefs of Greed
Through the Squalls of Hate
Sail on, sail on, sail on, sail on.
It’s coming to America first,
the cradle of the best and of the worst.
It’s here they got the range
and the machinery for change
and it’s here they got the spiritual thirst.
It’s here the family’s broken
and it’s here the lonely say
that the heart has got to open
in a fundamental way:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
It’s coming from the women and the men.
O baby, we’ll be making love again.
We’ll be going down so deep
the river’s going to weep,
and the mountain’s going to shout Amen!
It’s coming like the tidal flood
beneath the lunar sway,
imperial, mysterious,
in amorous array:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
Sail on, sail on …
I’m sentimental, if you know what I mean
I love the country but I can’t stand the scene.
And I’m neither left or right
I’m just staying home tonight,
getting lost in that hopeless little screen.
But I’m stubborn as those garbage bags
that Time cannot decay,
I’m junk but I’m still holding up
this little wild bouquet:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
Leonard Cohen, 1992
I thought he was a Canadian. See, not special forces or phd just a dickhead.
It doesn’t matter who tries to control the world; free people will always fight against the universal dictator. Freedom is within the human being.
Once you go through the process there is no way back. It is not something that begins on TD – 1. It begins as a small child, being influenced by the adults which surround you. As I stepped off the parade deck in my ´Charlies´ on PI, I was ready. My existence was a mess, full of questions, doubts and fears, yet I swore allegiance to my people, my countrymen and the principles that form us in our constitution.
Destructive behavior that was within, continued ……… only it had been amplified with knowledge and drive to persevere no matter what befell me. When the life or death stuff comes, you handle it, even begin to like it and at worst, having a part of you find the highest form of joy surviving the kill order from the universe and continuing to don the mean green the next morning. All of this is for what? Decades later a deep sense of shame remains, at having been part of it. Whether having killed or not, your were a very willing participant to whatever would have been put on your plate and nothing can wash that away.
But, the oath was taken. Hence, my refusal over the years to remain silent. This article hit it right on the top/center of the head. These are clowns who are running us. They are lost and venial. I do not consider them as Americans, fore they love nothing of our nation. Their whole reality is lies, paid for by so many, whether through harm in uniform or by struggling to raise a decent family in an increasing environment of mayhem at home.
What you wrote was brave Larry. Straight talk is the right place to live but, few care to exist there. I thank you. My best wishes to you and yours.
John
From DCW
There has been very little mention of the fact that Sberbank, the Russian Government owned savings Bank issued a digitised blockchain token backed by gold on 26th December. By all accounts it has met with great demand and has already been banned by the EEC!
The Russian and Chinese Governments are both fully aware that the US can be defanged by the rest of the world turning away from dollars and that easily transmitted gold is the only thing that can replace it quickly. Remember it is still a part of the US constitution that only Congress can issue money and it can only be in gold or silver. Your Federal Reserve Notes are unconstitutional. The use of honest money generates honest men. The use of credit money generates shysters, tricksters, and Government creatures. If you want to end wars go back to honest money. The world came off the gold standard to fund WW1 and behold the next 100 years!
where are my comments?
or is this a cancel culture website. boy, and we want freedom my …….
im starting to think this website is fake.
I’m starting to think our government is fake.
my comments are being deleted. this IS KANYE.
You need to chill out.
There’s a crap ton of long comments. They may be learned, I don’t care.
I have briefly contributed here.
I will reassert that that I am a proud American who truly believes in my country’s exceptionalism even though I recognize my country hasn’t been that way for some time.
It’s not the posts mostly of Mr. Johnson that I have issues with. It’s many of the replies. Sorry, guys, but if you want to hate on the United States, you better look at your own country first. While my country has done bad things, so has yours and I’ll bet it’s worse.
If push comes to shove, as I stated before, I will support my flag and my constitution. Period.
Yes, I recognize that my country has made things worse, especially with Ukraine/Russia.
This is for the leaders of my country and the leaders of others…
Do not make me make this choice. Just do not. They may not like it.
Yep, I can hate the leaders of my country and still believe in my country.
News flash Texas trailer trash; the USA is not exceptional and to believe it is so is a sickness of the mind, an arrogance borne of a deluded self belief that one is better than all others.
This pathetic flag waving trailer park resident from Texas is indicative of this illness.
He states other countries have done worse than the USA showing a total disconnect to reality..
He is the type that needs to be put down with all the other fascist rabid dogs that believe the propaganda “My country right or wrong, hoorah!”
He displays a total absence of how ridiculous his uneducated diatribe is.
Yes, young Skywalker, let the hate flow through you.
You mean hate for those that are not exceptional, and have to be invaded and killed/enslaved in the name of freedom/equality/democracy.
If you like, sure. But we should organize our hatred, because everyone knows hate is more effective when more people join in. Maybe… maybe if we specified a time of day for our efforts, a time of day and a fixed period–not too long, just enough to really focus our collective bile, something like two minutes. Yeah, a daily two minutes’ hate, that’s just what we need.
And for maximum effectiveness we need someone to organize this two minutes’ hate, someone trustworthy, like a “big brother” figure, just to be sure we are all on the same page and hating someone really hate-worthy. Big Brother. Two Minute’s Hate. I like it.
TexasDude – sorry to strain your reading abilities with a long observation below by de Tocqueville, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of France in 1831-
“The Americans, in their intercourse with strangers, appear impatient of the smallest censure and insatiable of praise. The most slender eulogy is acceptable to them, the most exalted seldom contents them; they unceasingly harass you to extort praise, and if you resist their entreaties, they fall to praising themselves. It would seem as if, doubting their own merit, they wished to have it constantly exhibited before their eyes. Their vanity is not only greedy, but restless and jealous; it will grant nothing, while it demands everything, but is ready to beg and to quarrel at the same time.
If I say to an American that the country he lives in is a fine one, “Ay,” he replies, “there is not its equal in the world.” If I applaud the freedom that its inhabitants enjoy, he answers: “Freedom is a fine thing, but few nations are worthy to enjoy it.” If I remark on the purity of morals that distinguishes the United States, “I can imagine,” says he, “that a stranger who has witnessed the corruption that prevails in other nations would be astonished at the difference.” At length, I leave him to the contemplation of himself, but he returns to the charge and does not desist till he has got me to repeat all I had just been saying. It is impossible to conceive a more troublesome or more garrulous patriotism; it wearies even those who are disposed to respect it.”
“It is impossible to conceive a more troublesome or more garrulous patriotism; it wearies even those who are disposed to respect it.”
No longer impossible. One word…….. Ukraine
2 words. 4th Reich
Another 2
Operation Paperclip
Note – when people hate on the United States; they generally mean the federal gov‘t in DC – not ordinary citizens.
As a Texan you should understand this 😃
Yep. Your whole identity boils down to a rag and a piece of paper, and killing/enslaving all of those with a different rag.
People worldwide are using the Russian flag at protests as a symbol of freedom. If Russia had not attacked, our own total enslavement would not be failing so well. The price is abominable.
People in Africa waving home made Russian flags is a sight to behold.
I’m not quite sure my observation is correct, but by every important turn of Pre-modern and Modern history, Russian blood must always spill for the sake of the world (civilization and religion as a whole), Napoleonic era, WW1, WW2 and now this. Every time Russian spill blood, the world turn, for better or worse is up for debate, but they to turn.
I live in South Asia. My country had 4 military coups. Every time, it was propagated that the civilians were corrupt. After a few months, they induct the same corrupt lot to legitimize their rule. The brass starts to follow in the footsteps of those whom they overthrew. For nearly 8 decades the pattern has been the same. At the military’s back was Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam is besotted by the idea that by gaining leverage over the rulers, whether military or civilian, they as mater puppeteers, could encircle China and ensure that the former Soviet Union and present Russia do not gain influence or foothold.
Meanwhile 90% of the population toil and suffer and slowly sink into poverty and a vast many into abject poverty. Uncle Sam does not care. He only wants subservience.
That tragedy is repeated in 3rd world countries in South America, Africa, and in Asian lands.
Japan nuked and forced into a constitution imposed by Uncle Sam, South Korea to become an appendage along with the Philippines, India to be inveigled into a quasi ally, all to satisfy the inexhaustible appetite to control and make subservient every nation to their commands.
Thus the blowback has now turned nearly half of the citizens of USA to rebel. Medvedev has recently predicted that California will become independent. Texas will join Mexico. Imagine this scenario that will destroy the nation of immigrants which at one time was looked upon by the world to be a beacon of hope.
This article gives hope that the people will awaken and bring back sanity. Though much water has passed under the bridge, America can regain its true place in the comity of nations and turn itself to be a righteous one where normality will prevail instead of the insanity imposed by the cabals of both parties replacing one another every 4 to 8 years.
I too am hoping Russia wins, not because I hate my country but because I believe it may be the only way to save it. At the age of 68, I may not survive a total crash, but if it created a chance for my grandkids to rediscover freedom, I could accept that fate. My generation did a great deal to screw it all up, and karma is a witch. These lunatics have already started doing to us what they do to other countries. Wondering what is next keeps me wide awake at night, praying.
“These lunatics have already started doing to us what they do to other countries.”
Change is a constant with varying trajectories and velocities.
Hence I suggest a more relevant observation on your part would read:
“These lunatics continue at greater velocity and increasing trajectories doing to us what they did do, but with lesser opportunities still do, to a decreasing number of countries, since practicising vindictiveness for some is momentarily very pleasing in masking their constant insecurities.”
So some others whom were fortunately thought to be lunatics, and hence were underestimated, used the complicity of other lunatics as force multipliers of their own efforts, including but not limited to the efforts of “My generation (who) did a great deal to screw it all up (including continuing to believe that “karmas going to get you”), to transcend the attempted cannibalisms of “The United States of America”, not to emulate it,through co-operation including by not seeking individual attribution for the efforts in varying forms of probably billions of people to date, which included but was not limited to “My generation (who) did a great deal to screw it all up”.
Thank you for your co-operation, a skill which will likely be beneficial for the future.
” Wondering what is next keeps me wide awake at night”
Neither you nor the would-like-to-continue-be- cannibals will work that one out, since it is both lateral and more than one, so relax and enjoy your sleep, since not all are cannibals whose diets and continuing “well being” depend on the deaths of others.
@Gunner451:
“In Russia there comes the hope of the world, not as that sometimes termed of the Communistic, of the Bolshevistic; no. But freedom, freedom! That each man will live for his fellow man! The principle has been born. It will take years for it to be crystallized, but out of Russia comes again the hope of the world. Edgar Cayce, June 1944.
It seems Edgar was on to something.
Edgar, wonderful. I can feel my mop cleaning the floor at mach 7. Not a western mop. A uplifting post. Thanks mate. X from North Yorkshire
And I’m willing to bet all of us here could thrive after an EMP.
Helmholtz: Bravo! As many have already said, you’ve truly captured the Zeitgast for a great many here, including me.
The “Monster” in this case is indeed internal, as you and Steppenwolf have so accurately described.
I am British, Listening and seeing what America has become is sad but you let it happen and you deserve what ever comes. Marilyn Albright was the pinnacle of evil but there are many more Americans over the years who deserve that title. This will not end without nuclear war and I hope some small part of the world can survive to start again but should not include the A’holes in their bunkers below the White House and below their private mansions. You have done evil all over the world since WWII you cannot be allowed again to walk away scot-free from what you started in Ukraine and what you have already started against China with your corrupt trade practices of denighing technology and building up Taiwan, Japan and Australia for war in Asia
Hopefully, you’re not a British pot calling the kettle black.
Nope I believe the UK is also evil and the Anglo-Saxon race has killed multi millions of people around the world, Just look at Australia killing Aboriginals and calling it legal for them to be murdered, they are no better now, they have just progressed from their racist attitude to blacks to wanting to kill as many Chinese as they can to keep American evil empire going
Financial corruption and moral bankruptcy.
This is full-fledged tyranny, endangering the future of our countries both the body integrity and the brain ability of the young through brainwashing, diseducation, chemical addiction and the rest.
President PUTIN is the man of the century. He is overthrowing the WALL MART /WALL STREET system. I’m French and I hope Russia wins.
I’ve been saying since the early 2000s that “Putin is the 21st Century’s Bismarck.”
I’ve since come to the view that I will soon have to invert that to: “Bismarck was the 19th Century’s Putin.”
Having said that, we must also acknowledge that he is surrounded by a team of extraordinary individuals, any one of who would make a better President or Prime Minister than the petty grifters and liars that the West puts up. Post turtles all.
I echo the many other comments appearing on this post. Your write-up represents my thoughts and feelings accurately. However, all empires and the people within it, aren’t aware of their faults and mistakes until it’s too late to do anything else about it.
Thank you for this article Mr Smith. Perhaps I think the beast we face at our hearths is older and more cunning than you do, but you’ve captured my position.
V Putin’s navigation of the Syrian and Maidan crises was astounding, and earned my admiration. I wish him and Russia well. If we cannot be friends I would still convey to Russia my respect.
I like the Russian Federation and the values for which it stands; a multipolar world is a just and fair world, because it always offers alternative ways of living for those suffering from discontent and it never allows one pole to predominate. The RF is a state of many nations and religions, which again enables its strength. The RF champions the principle of indivisible security, which assures the right of existence to all peoples the world over. Again, fairness in theory and in practice.
I respect Vladimir Putin for being the exemplar statesman of the modern world. He is intelligent, articulate, thoughtful, moral, considerate, and patriotic. I cannot say the same for the utter scum that populates the capital cities of the collective Western states, who are in politics for the greed and glory or for the earthly rewards of serving Moloch.
I want the Russian Federation to win this conflict, because it is existential for all of us. Thank the heavens the vast majority of humanity is onside, too. Compare the vision of the future offered by the Russian Federation and its numerous (though many silent) allies to the one offered by the collective West. Hint – the latter offers no vision at all, just punishment and slavery by all means other than physical. Heed the warning of Aldous Huxley:
“As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensating to increase. And the dictator (unless he needs cannon fodder and families with which to colonize empty or conquered territories) will do well to encourage that freedom. In conjunction with the freedom to daydream under the influence of dope and movies and the radio, it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.”
Unfortunately most lacking in most comments is no mention of Christ Jesus, who gave His life to redeem fallen man. Any greatness in US, or Russia is solely by His grace and happens when He is exalted and magnified. If Russia wins, it is likely just more of the kingdom of man, unfortunately. I trust them and their leader no more than any other people/leader in today’s world. We’ve all turned aside and gone our own way. Sorry, to break the news to you all. He, and/or the hope of knowing Him is all that makes life worth living anyway. The fields are white He says. Making Him known where ever we end up is what we should be concerned about, and this remains within all our reach. After all, He said “Fear not … (look up the rest)”. Just saying.
The typical Eastern Orthodox Christian has a conservative outlook toward what the society should look like, but isn’t necessarily a religious fanatic. They’re typically family-oriented, decent people.
A lot of Americans are still like that as well, but they’ve let those who aren’t that way run amok. Again, it’s about that “enemies from within” thing the article spoke of.
So the way I see things, if God is going to choose which society to favor at this point and the choices between Russia and the current debauched version of the United States, it’s Russia hands down.
It is high time that Americans begin to learn that democracy is not a “One size fits all” system, that can be established in every country on the planet, much less that a democracy will ever work in a society where people are dishonest and do not fear God.
I went to sleep in a democracy, on March 30, 1954 and woke up in a military dictatorship on the very next day, which lasted for 22 years, during which time, my country of Brazil experienced the greatest period of prosperity, albeit without all the freedoms (and corruption) that preceded that period. That had to happen, in order to keep the country from descending into chaos.
It is also high time that Americans begin to understand that Russia, in order to survive and thrive, had to have a Vladimir Putin, a brilliant strategist, businessman, who managed to keep, with an iron fist, a post-Soviet Russia together. A country that experienced a myriad of invasions, turmoil and revolutions, could not have survived a political system such as we are witnessing in America today.
I, for one, admire and respect the leaders of Russia and wholeheartedly believe and hope that America, NATO and the EU “WILL” suffer a most humiliating and well deserved defeat in a war that they instigated.
I have followed, play by play, what has been unfolding in that part of the world. Vladimir Putin sincerely tried to resolve the issue peacefully, but was instead played for a fool by satanic, conniving , pathological liars from the combined West.
Maybe then we will begin to re-learn the basic principles of a true and enduring democracy which are honesty and the fear of God.
I generally like Helmholtz Smith’s observations, and in this post here I share his appreciation for John Quincy Adams’ disdain of foreign interventionism on the part of the United States.
But Smith’s thesis here, that Russian victory in Ukraine will all by itself lead to the demise of the arrogant and corrupt Beltway ruling class and its Deep State superstructure and accompanying bottomless reservoir of controlling bureaucratic resources, is naive, and frankly nonsense. YES, we all hope Russia rolls on to victory here in the next few months — and absent the insanity of direct kinetic American intervention, that will be the result. But that will hardly cause the collapse of the inerconnected power centers of the thieving parasitic Beltway elites. They’ll blame their usual gaggle of scapegoats [e.g., the Republicans didn’t move fast enough on needed aid for Ukraine!] and move on, to Taiwan, Iran, more harassment of Russia, etc.
The cancer in the Beltway will live on because it is metastatic. Smith alluded to the truth here: it is now too far gone in Washington. Surrender to the Leftist statists, or revolution and #NationalDivorce are the only options now.
The pattern (or scenario) has been a self-destruction of the collective West since 1914.
The attempted colonization of the whole world by a handful of nations, in a fit of hubris led by Britain and followed by France, Germany, Italy, Japan, was followed by terrible backlash throughout the XXth century, and many symptoms of internal disintegration. The process is well advanced by now but it may well take hundreds of years to complete.
In the broad perspective, the current Ukrainian conflict is but the latest episode. The West has still plenty of resources to achieve its own doom.
Thanks Larry, brilliant analysis! Your piece truly captures the sentiment of most of us reading your blog.
In addition to the untold misery that this war is causing, especially for the Ukrainian population, the horrendous waste of money is mind-boggling.
Quoting from your article: “An America with endless money to spend abroad but none to spend at home. (The hundred billion dollars dumped into Ukraine would give a $200,000 house to every one of the estimated half million homeless in the USA!) An America failing, no longer the American they loved, served and believed in. ”
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Very sad!
The conflict as many commentators realize is not just Team A versus Team B. Bigger stakes. Russia and even China are keeping alive the intellectual and moral foundation of the Enlightenment. Math is a racist construct. Basic biology is denied for the sake of politics. The worst anti-Enlightenment values of some religions and societies outside the West are now to be accepted and given legal protections. Traditional and collective family structures are demolished leading to entire alienated generations of men and women. The lead military assault on the Russians is a regime that embraces the racist and genocidal tenets of Nazi National Socialism. Education is no longer the leading spear tip of the Enlightenment but a mechanism to attack the very foundations of the movement.
100% agree with this. The leadership of the West is a combination of unspeakable evil and criminal insanity. Russia is the only thing standing between them and control of the entire world.
Dear Helmholtz (and Larry), a wonderful summary of our times! I really wish that there was a way out of this mess – and not just this war (I do not live in the USA). But I am afraid that this might sum up our predicament: “The hope is that the defeat – following on the Afghanistan debacle – will so weaken the war party that it will fall.” After so many debacles and lies………nothing…… Even the Left, whatever this label might stand for now, has become a cheerleader for wars!
Thank you for all your work.
Dutch:
Vernietigen van monsters
https://www.frontnieuws.com/vernietigen-van-monsters/
Your article sums up very precisely what a great deal of ordinary people think albeit most likely quietly to themselves.
I live in Northern Ireland and despair at what “my world” the one I grew up in, I’m 55, has morphed into.
Should someone had told me 20 years ago that one day I would be hoping for a Russian victory against the west, or that I would be hoping for an Iranian or Chinese victory against the west I would have laughed – but not now!
This “rules based world” has to change to a fairer more balanced one and the sooner the better for all our sakes.
Yes I want Russia to win, and for some of the reasons you suggested. Pop the bubble. But I also want them to win because, one, I admire Putin and the Russian people. Before this war, I didn’t much care for Putin, but as it turns out I had been brainwashed by the western MSM about him. SInce I started following the events of the Ukraine war, I have read several books about Putin. Yes, he has some faults. But I would much rather have the caliber of person he is as my President now that I know the truth about him. As for Ukraine, I want them wiped off the face of the Earth. Ukraine is a cesspool of corruption and Nazism. Like JFK said about the CIA (which is one reason he was killed), it should be “splintered into a 1,000 pieces and scattered to the wind”.
Same with me. The more you read real history books and articles like that one the more you realise how much we have been fooled and lied to in the past.
As we say in Memphis, “Larry, U da MANE!”
I have an ancestor that fought the British in the Revolution. Another fought for Southern independence in the War of Northern Aggression. My dad served in the Army during Korea and my son is a Marine vet who served in Iraq. My quandary is that I consider myself an American patriot. I love my country. That said, I despise the United States government and all it’s institutions. They have declared me their enemy. They have proven they care nothing for our country or our people. So … I’m one spoken of in Larry’s post. No USA USA for me. I pray that Russia crushes NATO. Hitting Davos with one of their hypersonic toys would also be much appreciated.
well said. it isn’t about whether westerners “like” putin or russia because neither are any of our damn business. it is very much about the factors you mention but i’d add my personal take: i (and i assume many who read this article and agreed with it) have a very, VERY strong reaction to “gaslighting”. or, put another way, to the people who quote groucho marx with cynical malice and sincerity: “who are you gonna trust? me or YOUR LYING EYES?”
“unprovoked” and “russia is running out of missiles” are a short step from “a guy in a dress is a woman” and “we’re in afghanistan to protect schoolgirls” or “january 6th was an ‘insurrection'” or “single payer health care will cause the sun to collide with the earth” (only a slight exaggeration of the discourse around that subject). it’s one thing to be delusional but to use the levers of power to force your delusions on others should be a one way ticket to a f_cking work camp where these vermin can spend the rest of their useless lives at a safe distance.
DC needs to go. langley as well. whether by peaceful means or smoking craters doesn’t matter to me. as long as i can live any part of my life without dumb f_cks screeching “2 + 2 is FIIIIIVE!!!!!” in my face. plus, the US is already balkanized so let’s just make it official.
Nailed it!
When we see citizens of other countries waving the Russian we must acknowledge the lingering hate and disgust that citizens of this world have for the U.S. and its Western puppets. It is a hate that America and Europe is well deserving of.
American is my country, I will defend its Constitution but I will not deny the truth of the evil that America, Britain, Belgium, France and Germany have done to the world. Lets not forget the evil from Spain and Portugal that were perpetrated on Central and South America.
re: “They can only see one way that the power of this internal enemy can be broken – complete and utter defeat”
If only that were possible.
The mass murdering psychopaths who rule us are not about to give up the power and money and lifestyles that normal citizens cannot even begin to fathom.
I taught my kids this: Whatever the most heinous, perverse thing is that you can conceive of our rulers doing, multiply it by 1000 and you still won’t even be close.
We’ve been in the grip of fascist forces for a long time.
They killed JFK, RFK, MLK and others.
They’ve given us wars that have killed, maimed and displaced literally millions of human beings.
They’ve propped up some of the most despicable dictators and trained their secret police and death squads.
As Harold Pinter said in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech:
“The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.”
They spy on all of us and try to censor us and manipulate us with PSYOPS.
9/11? Massive jet aircraft going POOF!? Massive skyscrapers crumbling into their own footprints just like controlled demolition? Pentagon cameras capture nothing? MSM all singing from the same hymn sheet? “WMDs!”?
Everything you think you know is wrong. Power corrupts and the kind of power these creeps have amassed is almost God-like. They will take all of us down and turn the planet into an ash tray before they give up power.
“It’s a big club – and you ain’t in it.” – George Carlin
Agree with most of what the OP wrote. For many years now, I’ve tried to get people to understand we live within the Outlaw US Empire, which has been an Intenational Outlaw since October 1945 when the UN Chater went into force–and–also violated the Constitution, specifically the Supremacy Clause which says ALL ratified treaties become the law of the land. Those are two very important facts obscured for far too long and well before the current Neoliberal Parasitism took hold. I’ve spent many years researching the Why and How and have come up with answers but find very few are willing to face the reality of the past for it’s beyond ugly. To know the whole story one must go back to 1876 and the corrupted presidential election that occurred that year and the events that transpired going forward from there. No one monograph’s been written about it all; so, it must be painfully pieced together. The path to today could have been different, but what the OP calls the War Party existed well before today, before the 20th Century even. And that’s one reason why that Party’s roots are so deep and difficult to uproot.
Another Lune of Alabama anti-America heard from.
You people should get something straight. We, patriotic Americans, are not your friends or allies in this and we sure know you are not ours. We don’t want the destruction of the USA that you do. We want the destruction of the usurpers in Washington DC, along with their pals in the media and state governments. We do not want a weak USA, like you do. We do not hate our country, like you do. We do not believe that Russia or China or any other nation or people have behaved any better or would behave any better. We know that these other countries, including Russia and China, would impose empire on others if they could. That is human nature and it is their nature.
We know that the USA has been a necessary check on others’ ability to dominate others and impose crappy systems that result in loss of freedoms and loss of prosperity. Russia, during the Soviet era was abominable with regards to iron fisted expansionist rule and human rights and quality of life. That characteristic is still alive in the Russian psyche. Putin is 70. He will not always be the leader. There are many who are hardliners waiting in the wings. There are many who would like to return to socialism. China is an abysmal system. Islam and sharia? Really? Aggressive imperialism for centuries and hideous human rights. But you want to point a finger at the USA. You make me laugh with your predictable sermons and “evidence”.
You and your “outlaw empire”, twisted, selective history rhetoric aren’t fooling anyone of consequence; your Coffee house slacker Che Guevara T-shirt wearing buddies? Sure. Have them. They’re useless and powerless.
Know that Russia will take Ukraine, but that event isn’t going to change the power structure in the world at all. In fact, if it causes the downfall of the globalist “woke” elites in the USA, then the USA will be back bigger and stronger than it has been in decades. It will be a force to be reckoned with and one that Russia cannot reckon with. Russia will take a second seat, where it belongs, as will China.
P.S. I know your type. You are all for the very rotten ideologies (e.g. Marxism, atheism and nihilism) that have damaged the USA and allowed degenerates to take control. If your wet dream about the USA collapsing were to come true and Russia or China emerged as the dominant world power, you’d be aiming your corrosive vitriol at them. You aren’t interested in anything like peace and justice like you pretend to be. Your type has always existed. You’re more like rust than salve. Always focussed on the negative no matter how hard and deep you need to dig to find it. Always looking to subvert, occasionally tossing a bomb here or there (more likely encouraging others to do it for you). Ultimately, yours is not even an ideology. Rather a desire for anarchy arising from your deep seated personal envy and hate, merely masquerading as a concern for social justice.
If you cannot appreciate the great advances in quality of life for most all humanity created by the western world – and especially the USA – over the past hundred/hundred and fifty years, that blindness is caused by the aforementioned hate and envy.
It isn’t the USA’s fault that while it was enjoying great prosperity, expansion and freedom that much of the world wanted to be a part of, Russia and China were busy hunkering down on the losing, dismal, murderous ideologies of communism and, thus, falling behind. While people sought to come to America by the millions, people sought to flee the communists countries, risking their very lives. For Chrissakes, even Mr Rah Rah Russia Martyanov lives where? Hint, It ain’t Russia.
” We don’t want the destruction of the USA that you do.”
Thank you for your polemic illustrating your fears based upon your assumptions and ignorances in limited illustration of : What are “The United States of America” and how are they facilitated ? including “blaming” it on others by:
” I know your type. You are all for the very rotten ideologies (e.g. Marxism, atheism and nihilism) that have damaged the USA and allowed degenerates to take control. “
I’m European (Spanish).
I do not hate USA.
I hate USA foreign policy. (The same I hate Spanish colonialism, English, French …).
I do not hate USA citizens.
I dislike some USA citizens. (The same I dislike some/many of my countrymen).
I would never be happy if aaaaall USA citizens were punished for the sins of some/many of them.
I just would like you to stop messing (bombing) around.
Dismantle the NATO, and all the military bases to start.
Just do business, not war.
PS: it’s funny to see how many people believe that this article was also written by Mr. Johnson.
I do not think Mr. Johson had written:
“(The hundred billion dollars dumped into Ukraine would give a $200,000 house to every one of the estimated half million homeless in the USA!)”
Because this is communism. (At least, “communism” way of thinking).
To this article I would add a few things that motivate people like me.
1. The Soviet Union is past tense and has been for almost 30 years now. Russia is predominantly a Christian country and there is no need to have hostility between two predominantly Christian countries.
2. (Related) This hostility is largely, I believe, driven by the Jews in our foreign policy and defense establishment. (Maybe the Anglos as well, but from what I see, it’s mostly the Jews that have a hard-on for the Russians.) I think their grandparents told them too many bedtime horror stories about the “Rooskies” and projected their own PTSD onto their grandchildren.
3. Russia stands firm for traditional values and against the perversion being normalized by world elites aka globohmo. The Soviets may have been communist, but they still maintained a conservative societal structure.
4. Let’s face it. The banksters are mad that they aren’t allowed to sink their tentacles into Russia. They’ve run out of things here to financialize and Russia won’t let them destroy their financial system, which, intern, enslaves the people.
5. I don’t like the way the USA has been mucking around in the Balkans either. (My heritage is from there.)
” Russia is predominantly a Christian country ”
I don’t know how much/deep you know Russia.
Maybe. But maybe there are more atheists there than what you think. (I don’t have many friends there, I admit it, but I think most of them are atheist. They are young -under 50-, cultivated .. they don’t like Putin).
“there is no need to have hostility between two predominantly Christian countries.”
I don’t know if you are naive, or ignorant (of History).
Religion was never a deterrent for European christian countries to fight each other.
(I think that Muslim countries do not have this “problem” either. On the contrary, I think that Sunni and Shia Muslims love killing each other).
“but they still maintained a conservative societal structure.”
Just like you.
That’s why when I tell my Russian friends that many of them are more similar to USA citizens than what they would like to admit, they agree with me.
Russia tried to join the West at the beginning of Putin’s mandate.
USA rejected that.
Reasons are many. None of them have to do with religion.
PS: I have seen in the news that many many perverts are very pious and religious before they are caught.
I think you should really stop talking about perversion that way.
Russia has pro Westerners. Just like USA has pro Ukrainians like Vindman Nuland, and pro Nazis, and pro Marxists.
I’m not sure you understand the reality of geopolitics here.
100 million people voted for Donald Trump, and you can name as many transpedo rapists in America as you can of pro Westerners in Russia.
I just picked that example to show what an absurdly huge amount of money that was and how much use it would be to actual Americans if it was spent on something at home.
Don’t worry HELMHOLTZ SMITH, nobody is going to think that you are communist ,)
“if it was spent on something at home.”
That something .. be “public” (a better health system, better railway system ..), or “private”?
But again don’t worry. Nobody is going to do that, and nobody is going to protest because of that. So nobody is going to be accused of communist or socialist in USA ,)
i think this is the best short and 2 the point article mr. johnson has ever put out.
i do not have an incredible love for russia; one of my grandparents barely got out of russia with their lives after the bolshevik revolution of 1917-1918 and they told me all the stories of what happened to people and trust me they are horrendous .
But i think the russia that has emerged from the 90`s is a totally different one from the one 70 years before that. they seem to have thrown off the ideals of bolshevism while meantime in the west we seem to have embraced those evil ideals as almost all 10 planks of the communist manifesto have been implemented in all western countries. Anyone in the west that thinks we still live in free countries in my opinion is either clinically insane, totally brainwashed or both.
In order for positive change to occur in the west i believe russia needs to win and show the west`s wizards of oz leaders for what they truly are.
i remember watching the movie topgun in 1986 and fully being behind the ideals of the america it portrayed. I cheered during the 1st iraq war as the bombs and missles rained down on a nearly defenseless iraq. I cheered as nato took out those evil serbs who in reality were just trying to defend their country from an evil NATO who was flexing its muscles.
after 911 i began to realize that things were not what they appeared to be and my attitude has changed. i just watched the new topgun that came out last year and enjoyed it ; but i understand it is just a propaganda movie showing an america that does not or perhaps has not existed since the vietnam war. Had read all the jack ryan clancy books so just watched the new amazon series jack ryan season 3 showing the cia to be the saviour of world peace and the propaganda on it is so blatant; it is farcical. The new jack ryan instead of just being a very good ex marine analyst who sometimes gets in harms way is know jason bourne incarnate which is hilarious.
these are some links
these are the duran guys on this new platform where their vids are posted 1st.
https://www.rokfin.com/TheDuran
i just found this podcast when looking for doug macregor interviews. they post the links they talk about in their podcasts which is a good thing.
https://savingcanadapodcast.podbean.com/
https://rumble.com/c/c-1302873
this was the latest and it is quite interesting. At the 41 minute mark they talk about the economic chaos all of the ukraine refugees in poland is causing that country
https://savingcanadapodcast.podbean.com/e/scp180-foia-documents-show-us-dod-planned-pandemic-from-2013-poland-collapsing-under-refugees/
https://rumble.com/v2560iv-scp180-foia-documents-show-us-dod-planned-pandemic-from-2013.-poland-collap.html
this is an interview from may 27th 2022 with douglas macregor . in it i thought he gave a pretty explanation starting at the 20 minute mark of how the modern ultra nationalist n-a-z-i movement in the ukraine came about. He also gives a pretty good explanation of why the us army is having a hard time recruiting people.
https://savingcanadapodcast.podbean.com/e/scp88-interview-col-douglas-macgregor-the-real-ukrainerussia-for-politicalmilitary-insiders/
https://rumble.com/v16eafh-scp88-interview-col.-douglas-macgregor-the-real-ukrainerussia-for-political.html
this is a pretty good short 2 minute clownworld
Kaufman Institute for Coincidence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZZFnNwdgqQ
or in case yt removes it
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Hq3eu8pyw36Q/
regards,
ralph
Do you know who the Bolshevik leaders were? Ashke Nazi Khazarian Mafia.
Do you know who killed the Js in RUssia to make them hate Russia? Khazarian mafia.
DO you know who killed the russians and ukrainians? Khazarian mafia backed Stefano Bandera.
The linkage with the 4th and 3rd Reich are interesting, but more nebulous. Certainly in this timeline, we see 4th Reich do to america what the khazarians did to Russia with the Bolsheviks.
Beautifully summed up Larry. Thank you.
To this article I would add a few things that motivate people like me.
1. The Soviet Union is past tense and has been for almost 30 years now. Russia is predominantly a Christian country and there is no need to have hostility between two predominantly Christian countries.
2. (Related) This hostility is largely, I believe, driven by the Jews in our foreign policy and defense establishment. (Maybe the Anglos as well, but from what I see, it’s mostly the Jews that have a hard-on for the Russians.) I think their grandparents told them too many bedtime horror stories about the “Rooskies” and projected their own PTSD onto their grandchildren.
3. Russia stands firm for traditional values and against the perversion being normalized by world elites aka globohmo. The Soviets may have been communist, but they still maintained a conservative societal structure.
4. Let’s face it. The banksters are mad that they aren’t allowed to sink their tentacles into Russia. They’ve run out of things here to financialize and Russia won’t let them destroy their financial system, which, intern, enslaves the people.
5. I don’t like the way the USA has been mucking around in the Balkans either. (My heritage is from there.)
When the monster is identified, it would be easy to fight and defeat it. What this relevant text has well illuminated.
I agree wholeheartedly that the American empire is on its last legs, but I am less certain that neocon warmongers will withdraw or be removed from the halls of power. Who is there to hold them accountable? Certainly not Congress or the mainstream media, both of which have ridden the war wave for all it’s worth. Those folks will not accept responsibility and fall on their swords. What about the “People?” Ha, there is no meaningful anti-war movement in the US, and most Americans have lost interest in Ukraine.
Sadly, I fear that there are more misbegotten wars in our future.
Taiwan, Thailand, and South Africa (if they have the bollocks for a hell of a bush war) take your pick.
“They can only see one way that the power of this internal enemy can be broken – complete and utter defeat.”
These.Couch.Patriots want the Russians to do our Dirty Work?
Such a people can never be free.
Won’t work anyway. Everyone knows they’re corrupt fools already.
They do nothing.
As long as America won’t fight, they’ll be slaves, or dead.
The only defeat that would work is the leeches surrendering to the only people who can get to them – Americans.
But that means risk, real risk, and that’s ruled out.
Exactly. While Mr. Smith has accurately described the sentiment of many Americans, it doesn’t make it a good plan. Russia will do what is best for Russia, not what is best for America. If Americans want freedom and wise leadership, then we they need to fight for that, themselves – or else they don’t deserve it and won’t have it.
Amen, Larry! My feelings exactly.
Native Californian here, descended from Russian Ukrainian emigrants from Odessa, arriving in San Francisco in 1908.
I reluctantly voted for Trump in 2016 because Hillary was unthinkable. And I felt that as a DC outsider, independently wealthy, Trump was our last hope for peaceful change in Washington.
But the Swamp was too deep, Trump was too naïve about how DC worked, and his hubris severely impeded his effectiveness. (Bolton as National Security Advisor? WTF?)
But he did expose the DC corruption, hypocrisy, and sheer lunacy for all to see.
Now, I feel like Putin and Russia may be the last hope to save our Republic from the clutches and control of the Globalist bankers. A few well-placed decapitation strikes might give us the chance for a reboot. A Civil War simply won’t happen at this point, as too many of the USA citizens have been completely brainwashed and gaslit by the fake woke propaganda.
thor – if the russians launch one of these torpedos against new york city, washington plus london and they actually work as advertised – then you will get a reboot in a hurry. They could also launch hypersonic missles against langley, quantitco, fort meade etc for pinpoint strikes against the usa alphabet agencies.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russias-giant-nuclear-torpedo-carrying-submarine-declared-operational/ar-AAZmUSw
regards,
ralph
Estoy de acuerdo.
Somos muchos los ciudadanos de otros paises que queremos que Rusia gane.
Y que gane sin debilitarse demasiado para que no haya guerra en China.
Horror! Poor Russia.-))
Before, when some residents of border countries told me that Russia has a special mission to save the world, I protested – let the Russians live quietly for a while, without war and upheavals.
But it did not occur to me that the Americans, Europeans and even the Chinese would place such responsibility on Russia.
Some say that with great power comes great responsibility. Regular people can not slay the dragon by themselves, and need help from Saint George.
St. George the Victorious, to be more precise-))
You could just call them jews. It’d be accurate.
A great country begins to fall when its own citizens begin to feel disenchanted with it and start to hate it and wishing its defeat. It’s a sure sign of what’s to come and I believe that the patriotic Americans are voicing their bitterness at the sight of their unjust warring homeland sowing strife and mayhem across the globe causing the death of humans by the millions. It is a waking real-life nightmare for them to witness the downfall of their once proud nation into the pit of ugliness, befriending gutter Neo-nazis and selling their soul to the devil for 20 Drachmas of gold. They are keenly and painfully aware that America has become the most hated nation on the face of the Earth, and that the vast majority of Humanity, even amongst the so-called friendly nations of Europe, prays to see it cut down to size while hoping to live free at last from the American yoke they have endured for decades. It is never an easy experience to hate your own country by hating its government; it is a feeling akin to self-disgust. Everybody would rather be proud of its homeland and nation.
They will witness what happens to a nation that obeys the 4th Reich and the Khazarian mafia. What the KM did to RUssia using Stalin and Bolshevism ashkenazis, America will experience first hand.
They were given a test by God and America was too busy with transpedos and promoting that stuff by cutting off genitals, to take the test seriously. There are consequences to waging war on god’s own even if undeclared.
Absolutely true post, thank you for that.
Here in Greece and Cyprus well over 82% support Russia in the American PEW polls and this is no doubt under-reporting. The remaining 18% are (in order) anti-war, don’t knows and about 4% pro-“West”.
The same and more applies across the Balkans, Georgia, Armenia.
Majority 60-75% (according to PEW) are pro-Russia in Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Slovakia, Czech Republic……let’s face it, the great majority “gets” it.
For us, it is about finally regaining our sovereignty, forever ending NATO, EU and US domination. Kicking out Soros. Crushing Davos.
For the Orthodox countries trapped in EU / NATO Russia MUST win or we shall be destroyed. After Russia we are next in line. Nobody hates Orthodox Christianity more than the Neocons since they are unable to crush it.
One of the most counterproductive events of the 20th century was the fall
of the USSR. With no other superpower remaining, there were none left
to protect us from ourselves
– Roman Freedman-
“And that is why these people want Russia to win. They don’t necessarily like Russia or Putin or dislike Ukraine – it has little to do with either. It’s because they see this as the opportunity for the humiliating defeat that will shatter the power of the internal enemy.”
‘. . . No, no, no, as you are aware, I do very strongly feel that each nation should govern itself. It may be said that the Irish have not been very good at it—the annals make the saddest reading in the world, and an O’Brien, no less, Turlough O’Brien, King of Thomond, sacked Clonmacnois itself. But that is not really to the point: my own house may be unswept in places, but it is my own, and I will thank no stranger for putting it in order: least of all if he is an ugly, false, impious thief of a black Corsican.’ — Dr Stephen Maturin, in Patrick O’Brian’s The Commodore
Russia has never done anyone any favors at any time. Russia itself consists of a series of imperialist acquisitions and the entirety of the last 100 years has been corrupted by Russian influence operations on the west. So if they don’t like how it’s working out for them, they have only themselves to thank. The ideal termination of this conflict will lead to the dissolution of the Russian Federation and devolvement of power to the regions. When what was Russia becomes the Duchy of Moscow, there will be much less trouble in the world.
Nichevo shows a kind of old european transpedo qabal bloodline chauvism and ignorance here.
The Russian Empire helped the US in the Revolutionary War quite well, but the past is forgotten as a new 1984 history is written.
TOo many Fauci shots and transfection from the waxinated also contributed to the crippling of the blood brain barrier. They have literally been lobotomized.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgX5XaLb_Z0&t=2s
I was going over the War thunder simulation/game stats and combat meta for the Russian vs American tanks.
A single BT 7 is able to penetrate the early Abrams M1 armor at the weak points and sides.
A BT 7 is pre WW2 era tank prototype era. I wondered how this was possible but I did remember that the old Abrams M1 armor had some issues and it was uparmored. War thunder wiki has the penetration stats of the NATO vs Russian rounds on the post cold war equipment and tanks. As well as the equivalent armor in mm that can withstand each round.
This is modeled after a lot of times, open source info and even leaked classified documents concerning the details of the militarys pecifications (which are usually far higher than what is released to the public).
Generally, Russian federation has a different flag than the SOviet Union but one can see some tank philosophy carry through. Extremely heavy armor to protect the crew, a favorite approach of saving the lives of Russians (helicopter has ejection mechanism, nobody else does).
Marine 1 is a Sikorsky. Sikorsky was a famous Russian helicopter designer. Soviets also obtained a lot of lend lease vehicles, meaning P47s and Sherman tanks.
While “game” simulations cannot be relied on its own, there is enough technical information to understand that the Russian federation military is extremely feared by the transpedo WEF Natostan forces.
It is why they tried “soft power” sanctions first and military actions last. That isn’t a strong horse there. In another way, it is the 4th Reich using AMerica to fight Russia.
Gaijin entertainment is a East European company, but started in Moscow. They have all the data banks and language skills to decipher what SOviet tanks were capable of and I suspect they are even downplaying the actual stats of the Russian war machine. Even in the game, they have continually had to nerf Russian designed vehicles as they are too powerful in performance when simulated.
An incredible focus not just on armor but also on firepower. The French tanks were designed as heavy armored knights, even their “light” tanks back during the same prototype era. The bis heavy tank.
The American focus was on maneurability and high tech to stabilize the accuracy of the turret (shermans). Thus the M1A2 Abrams has a high acceleration (armor issues against even simple HE weapons like RPGs) and turret accuracy stabilization on the move.
So for those betting on Russian Federation…. they don’t fight wars the way the USA under the 4th Reich has fought wars. Russian federation flag has the same colors as the old USA and fights much like the old USA too.
But what if a Western defeat in Ukraine is hidden from Americans?