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..
I don’t believe that churches are forced. They have been allies of governments since forever, worshipping government instead of God. Do they believe in God at at all I wonder?
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.
“little potato” lol that’s what my Chinese wife calls him… tu doh, the “dirt bean”.
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
Truth hurts , eh?
Ease your butt-hurt by realizing that JEW=KHAZARIAN!
Not the Biblical Judeans.
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?
To thank them for their service, easy. Tears, hand over heart, flag, anthem, wall, nfl.
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:
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.
Exactly right. It’s a bit unhealthy to have to rely on Russia or China to set the US to rights. It has to come from US citizens themselves to command their own destiny, although profiting from an opportunity offered by others has to be the way if that’s all that is on offer. But I warn you all, as a socialist, that we have been waiting on the ‘people’ and an opportunity, for at least 150 years now, with no such thing appearing.
Anyway, here’s a toast to the break-up of the USA, and the new independent states of Pacifica, Atlantica, Centrica, Noristan and Sudestan.
ooops correction, please replace Larry with Mr Smith!
I’d rather watch Mr. Smith go to Washington.
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.