[NOTE FROM LARRY JOHNSON — The following is written by a retired former CIA intelligence officer. He prefers to remain unnamed. Enjoy. And my best wishes for the Happiest of New Years.]
The Hill published a December 13, 2022 article by one Christopher P. Costa, Colonel, U.S. Army (ret.). “Reconsidering Jan. 6 in the long shadow of Northern Ireland’s Troubles”, is a near perfect example of the lack of imagination, perception, historical knowledge, arrogance, and gross stupidity so common in the Beltway/Pentagon feeding trough crowd.
Now, do not think that the good colonel comes to us without a resume stuffed full of the usual baloney about his vast background in “counterterrorism”, “special ops”, worked with the Navy SEALs, etc. Hell, he is even in the Special Operations Commando Hall of Fame! He was a Special Assistant to the President for Counterterrorism! He managed to squeeze in several wars and lesser engagements, such as Panama, Bosnia, first and second Iraq, and Afghanistan, among other famous victories. He is well-published, as well, and appears as a subject matter expert or author in such places as the New York Times, the WaPo, MSBC, BBC, ABC, and even Fox. He has the usual bullshit degrees commonly found in the bios of such types.
My own experience in counterterrorism included the actual recruiting and running of actual terrorists, as well as helping to design a largely successful counter-insurgency campaign. I wish to be fair to Colonel Costa, but out of every 100 persons claiming to be a “counterterrorism expert”, two or three have had any real hands-on operations under their belts. I suspect Costa is not one of the two or three. His resume is that of an intelligence bureaucrat, not a real intelligence officer.
Oh, but there is more! He is member of the McCain Institute (yes, that McCain) and is now Executive Director of the International Spy Museum. These last two points speak volumes about Costa.
It is worth reading his article because it will give you valuable insight into just how detached the Beltway crowd is from reality. It would be amusing if it was not so dangerous. These are the people urging us on towards even more direct confrontations with Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, and God knows who else.
Costa seems like a particularly dim-witted example of the type. The smart ones know it is all just a scramble for DOD money (but not smart enough to understand that Putin may view it in a very different way). Clowns like Costa believe their own horseshit. As Napoleon said, the worst officers are the stupid, energetic ones. Costa seems to be as energetic as the Energizer Bunny.
Costa’s point in writing the article is rather simple. The half or more of the population that preferred Donald Trump over Joe Biden is composed of real or potential “terrorists” and “seditionists”. Oh! And political violence is intolerable.
He then goes on to approvingly note that “even during the early years of the Trump Administration”, U.S. counterterrorism policy makers “set the terms for framing a greater focus on far-right extremism.” He goes on to throw in “white supremacy”. He burbles on, saying the Biden Administration, “has made good progress” with its National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism.” Costa and his patriotic buddies can just smell the juicy contract money coming their way.
A pity the “Biden Administration” has not had much luck keeping millions of illegal aliens, including an unknown number of foreign terrorists, narcotics traffickers, human traffickers, and other assorted human waste, from invading the United States. He can’t even keep “urban youth” from looting shopping malls in broad daylight.
But let us give credit where credit is due. The minute the Democrats seized power Antifa and BLM terrorism ceased. Gee, it is almost as if the gang around Biden gave an order.
Cementing his already obvious complete lack of self-awareness, Costa drones on to say that “Counterterrorism practitioners (sic) certainly did not anticipate that a contested 2020 election, fueled by a dizzying array of conspiracy theories, would be an accelerant for violence on the scale of what happened on Jan. 6.”
Flash to Costa. Yeah, people like you were caught with their pants down when hundreds of thousands of decent, ordinary Americans finally pulled their heads out of the sand and figured out the entire system was a scam, and they reacted badly to this unexpected truth.
He goes on to say that American perceptions of Jan. 6 seem to be “entrenched along party lines”. Astute observation, colonel.
But he warns us that there should be an “inviolable redline” against “seditiously conspiring to upend the peaceful transition of power.” This would have been news to George Washington and the Founders. They very directly and frequently celebrated the NEED for political violence, under extreme circumstances. General Howe learned this at Bunker Hill.
As for sedition, I would say inventing the need for mail-in ballots in an absurdly transparent effort to stuff ballot boxes in key districts in swing states, might quality.
He adds that in this, “…hyper-tribalized America….fictive kinship dynamics” could push extremists to do all sort of bad things, because they “perceive their world is under siege”.
He compounds his idiocy by curtly dismissing “replacement theory” as simply a racist fantasy, whereby non-white, non-Christian people wish to displace white Christian Americans.
Hate to be the one to break it to you, Costa, but numerous “non-white, non-Christian”, opinion leaders have declared that the replacement of white Christian Americans is their explicit goal, in the pages of the sainted New York Times, no less. The flooding of the country with millions of non-white paupers, and spreading them at night into virtually all-white states, cities, and counties, sure seems to smell of replacement. Gosh darn, even the hillbillies are waking up to what is happening in the country their ancestors built.
As for “fictive kinship dynamics”, there is certainly nothing “fictive” about the kinship – at least in the cultural and historical sphere, and often of bloodlines – of Southerners like me. After the failed attempt to stop the growth of and then to leave the Federal Leviathan, Southerners swallowed their pride and accepted the judgement of war, since in any case there is no appeal from that court.
Another news flash, Costa. Southern Nationalism is growing as the illegitimacy of the Biden Administration becomes manifest with each new story of FBI shenanigans and collusion of Big Tech to suppress First Amendment rights.
No part of the country has sent a greater portion of its sons to fight the wars of the 20th and 21st centuries. None has displayed its patriotism on its sleeve more than the South. Thanks to the likes of Costa, this is changing. Young Southerners are no longer rushing to the colors and their veteran parents are applauding this change of attitude. Go and fight without solders, Mr. Counterterrorism expert. Or perhaps you will find countless patriotic Gomer Pyles ready to lay down their lives for the Donbas and Gay Pride parades in “Keev”, among the flood of trash flowing across the southern border, eh?
Costa then makes a remarkably unsuccessful effort to demonstrate some relevance of the Northern Ireland/Republic of Ireland situation to the American political scene. In fact, there is no such relevance. The brutal truth is that the majority of the Irish view the Protestants of Northern Ireland (there are few left in the republic) as British, not true Irishmen. Of course, many Protestants see it that way as well.
The Irish problem has no lessons at all for America in 2022. But Spain in 1936 does.
Subversive Marxists and extreme leftists of all types set out to destroy traditional Spain, to include the Church, the army, and the middle and upper classes. The explosion of the civil war in 1936 was only the culminating moment of tensions that had been rising for more than a decade. I would advise Costa to make a careful study of that tragic conflict and the cycle of events that led to it. He may not gain wisdom, but he might gain a few facts.
Costa works with the McCain Institute, an outfit set up by the late senator and alleged war hero, John McCain. On his time as a POW, I am undecided, but the famous Sidney Schaumberg article on his actual conduct as a POW and his cruelty towards the families of MIA’s and POW’s thought to have been held back by the North Vietnamese, gives me pause. Even if his heroism as a POW was real, it does not excuse his later career, both public and private. McCain was a deeply disturbed, angry, war-mongering bastard, by any measure.
He is also Executive Director of the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC. This tourist trap was set up by the kind of “intelligence officers” you would expect to engage in such undignified huckstering.
A glance at the Board of Director and the “honorary board” tells you all you need to know. Phonies like Mike Morrell, Clapper, and Tenet abound (with a few decent chaps and ladies thrown in, to be fair).
It is also the kind of place that would attract the likes of John Sipher, a retired CIA blowhard, who runs a screed for similar Beltway parasites.
Sipher was one of the infamous 51 “former senior intelligence community leaders”, who seditiously conspired to disrupt the 2020 presidential elections by falsely claiming that the Hunter Biden laptop was likely Russian “disinformation. Some of these fools no doubt believed that or were so consumed with hatred of Trump and the Deplorables that they convinced themselves of it. Others were clearly guilty of several felonies; they had connived with buddies in the FBI who knew perfectly well the laptop was genuine and could have swung the election despite Democrat dirty tricks and fraud.
Seems that Costa’s keen counterintelligence eye missed these conspirators entirely.
Yes, Colonel Costa. You do not need to look to the benighted hinterlands of America to find “domestic terrorists” and seditious conspirators. You need look no further than FBI headquarters, Langley, Congress, the DNC, and the White House.
If you think blustering about “inviolate redlines” against violence will stop what is brewing the United States, your lack of imagination explains your rise to the top of your “profession”.
The author is a retired intelligence officer, who observed the Intelligence Community and DOD clown show for almost 30 years, most of it overseas doing work instead of briefing politicians and taking credit for the risk’s others ran, physical and professional. Mr. Morrell call your office.
“McCain was a deeply disturbed, angry, war-mongering bastard, by any measure.”
This can not be said enough.
Thanks for all your truth-telling and finding your wisdom this last year was one of my bright spots!
I am not a conservative. In fact I am so far “left” that I am end but being “right”. I am also not an American and a natural skeptic and contrarian. . A lot of Republicans and Trump supporters will support Larry’s reasoning here automatically because some of what he says will resonate with their belief systems. I don’t agree with everything Larry says — but overall he is persuasive. If someone like me can be persuaded – -that says something for the integrity and intelligence of his analysis. IMO, in the US, fascism is not on the “right” but rather in the “liberal” “middle”, aka Democrats. Thank you Larry.
I am also so far left that yet wind up sympathetic to those on the honest right. I open this websight every day and with satisfaction. I despise the liberals, the bureaucrats and am thankful that good people like Larry scorn them as they deserve. Also, not an American. Julianmacfarlane, you are not alone.
Left/Right is a circle not a line. Linearity supports narrative and is a flase paradigm.
This article is not written by Larry. Being a non-murican myself, I can clearly see multiple problems in it (which is not unexpected for a retired former CIA intelligence officer).
Among other things, Larry’s article points to the huge divergence between reality and illusion in the US.That is what the January 6 “insurrection” was about. Jan 6 was a lot less violent than your average Spring Break. And, as Larry correctly observes, George Washington would probably have approved. The DNP persecution of Trump and the Jan 6 “insurrectionists” merely underscores America’s delusions of “freedom”.
On my site…. https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/delusions-of-freedom-social-media
My dad was a career naval officer beginning in 1943. He retired in 1969. He knew John McCain. He told me that McCain was one of the biggest screw-ups he ever met. If McCains father had not been an admiral he would have been court martialed long before he was a POW. My dad said that being captured and made a POW is what made McCain’s career.
If McCain’s father, and grandfather for that matter, had not been Pacific Fleet Admirals, he would have been cashiered from the service after he crashed his first aircraft in training. Then again after a second aircraft he crashed on a carrier flight deck, in which a sailor was killed.
Then again, after he wet started the engine on his A-4 Skyhawk, which may have been a causal factor in the immediate, subsequent disaster which took place on the flight deck of USS Forrestal as it cruised Yankee Station, off of the coast of North Viet Nam. For which he was the only sailor transferred off of Forrestal, immediately after the fires were brought under control.
His third crash was his shoot down. Heaven knows how his carelessness and incompetence may have contributed to that.
After his return from captivity, he immediately dumped/divorced his loyal wife when he discovered she had been paralyzed, as the result of an automobile accident, and was no longer the thin hottie he left behind when he went to sea.
He made his money the old fashioned way, when he married the heiress to a beer distributer fortune in Arizona.
So John McCain was, demonstrably, a world class scumbag, war hero or not.
… and he broke both his arms, when the screwup forgot to tuck them in before pulling the ejection handle.
He was also involved with the Keating Five and the Savings and loan scandal.
It is also a coincidence that our sorties netted 60% more shoot downs for the NV, after his own shoot down. It seemed as if they knew the approaches.
The NV gave him the nickname the Canary.
👍 agree, perfectly put on McVain.
That was a painful read but important to understand the thought process or more accurately the lack of thought.
The world of 2023 I think will be much different. Guys like Costa will need to learn to use that milk frother at Starbucks. The gravy train will derail pretty soon.
Happy New Year to you and your Larry!!!
Just think of the thousands or millions of people who hold the same views as this guy. That’s a lot of inertia if you think the US mythology and accompanying narrative will pop like a bubble. The train wreck in slow motion will become tiring to watch for people who have been critical of the BS for years. If US hegemony is in the process of disintegrating, it’s still going to take a long time to unwind all that hypothecated “wealth” because the people who own it are not going to let it evaporate without some resistance.
I’m thinking it will be more of an avalanche, good luck trying to stop it.
I worked as a barista as a student, using the milk frother
correctly is a real skill, however the toilets can never be too clean.
I served in Northern Ireland on no less than seven operational tours.
Not the long 2-3 year married accompanied resident tours but the four & later extended to six/seven month ‘Roulement’ Tours in West Belfast & South Armagh, Co Fermanagh & Tyrone.
I know those places better than my home town in England & could still, to this day, take you to some of the places where I laid in wait, shitting into clingfilm, eating cold rations & pissing into empty large coke bottles whilst we wore locally purchased civilian wellington boots (all to avoid leaving to much ground sign) whilst we conducted covert operations.
We did this on numerous counter terrorist covert patrols, to protect soft targets, to observe illegal Border Crossing Points, known terrorists houses, likely terrorist weapons hides & to covertly but aggressively interdict terrorist activity come rain (lots of it, snow & very little sunshine).
I patrolled both sides of the religious divide in West Belfast – the so called ‘Peace Line’ & we were subjected to an equal amount of aggression, abuse & bigotry from Protestant & Catholic alike. Riots, petrol & blast bombs, IEDs, shootings, violence & danger were prevalent as was sheer boredom & routine daily life as the ordinary people just tried to muddle through.
I have always been convinced that the US … through its 3 letter agencies had a hand in the recent ‘Troubles’.
Great Britain finally withdrew from its last Empire Post ‘East of Suez’ when it left Aden n 1967 – my father – cut from the same Lovat Green cloth as I was on one of the last Wessex V helicopters to leave.
In 1968 the most recent chapters of the ‘Troubles’ began. Our family was based in Singapore. In 1969 my father was deployed there on his first of three operational tours.
Great Britain had one peaceful year after WW2 … I was conceived & born in that year – 1968.
Think about Mr Martin Galvin & NORAID to name but one fundraiser, think about all those weapons shipments allegedly from the Middle East, but most of all where did all the money to fund it come from? Dr Paisley – another trouble maker got his doctorate in religion in the USA.
At the height of the Troubles Op BANNER tied down over 30,000 British Troops who were either deployed or training for a future deployment for a period of about 25 years. It kept us busy & it nearly brought down several governments, it nearly killed a significant amount of one Political Party & it nearly created a financial disaster for the City of London.
In the end, Blair & Clinton et al assisted by a bumbling retired Canadian Army General capitulated to the terrorists on both sides of the Religious divide without a single weapon being surrendered & every Terrorist who was incarcerated was released from custody (some still decades short of completing their sentences) with so called ‘letters of comfort’ effectively drawing a red line under their crimes. They returned to their housing estates as war heroes.
The Royal Ulster Constabulary was disbanded.
To this day Members of the Armed Services, now all retired (most of them grandparents) are being pursued by a kangaroo court of enquiry that alleges that actions carried out often over forty years ago (fully investigated by the Police & Army & a Court of Law at the time & still subject to the Official Secrets Act as everything every member of the British Armed Forces did out there will always be) might now be viewed as having been illegal.
Some 2700 deaths resulting from the so called ‘Troubles’ in Northern Ireland – the majority innocent civilians at the hands of terrorists from both sides of the Religious divide & many hundreds of RUC Police men & women, British Armed Forces Personnel, members of the Ulster Defence Regiment & their families remain unsolved.
For the record my late Father was a Roman Catholic, my Mother, a Protestant from Northern Ireland, they met in England in 1964.
From a retired E-8
And then we stood idly by in the Balkans, BOMBED Serbia & I was part of the Invasions of Afghanistan & Iraq.
Quite a read..thank you. IRA: socialist & Republican – Catholic. Ulter, loyalists.. Republican and Socialists. Protestants. Guns from USA Catholics…semtex and arms from Gidaffi. “me little Armalite”… Francis Hughes. Up the Provos.
Police and IRA.. often people from the “other team”…were related by blood..which is still thicker than water..the last time we checked. Your uncles at the check point… you drive right through…
The total dysfunction of the political representation systems… the attempt to keep colonial rule… the poverty. The abject poverty forced on one side by another.
The hijacking of fairly pure uprising motivations…. be it the Specials or the IRA… by thugs, criminals… rapists..robbers… just made it all the worse.
The Dirty War, Martin Dillon.
I would offer that regional/balkanization inside CONUS.. huge political belief and direction divides…and the fair to good possibility of an economic depression by third quarter 2023… could yield us a mess like the Troubles..of our own flavor.
The electric grid is already under consistent attack. Not often covered in the main stream… we see it all the time here on the west coast
Jameson’s and Bushmills would often sit on the same shelf, both North and South and I always thought that interesting.
By then owned by the same company both are very different but the answer ran somewhere in between. Just like the water of life.
“…aggressively interdict terrorist activity..”
news flash Terram, you and your cowardly bastard fellow squaddies were the fucking terrorists. Absolute murderous filth.
The Irish had every right to resist brutal and thuggish British rule according to a certain concept known as International Law. But the scum in London always seem to find thick lowlifes to do their dirty work that undermines the struggles of oppressed and colonised.
And here you are, years later, with no shame bragging about your war crimes.
I suggest looking over your shoulder as your card is surely marked.
Is that Gloria from Enniskillen?
I wonder how many with imagined heritage and others, understood that five word comment?
Something to do with the Remembrance Day bombing?
Absolute bunk. Ireland, the whole of it, has been too long like a schoolyard where someone managed to introduce guns and dynamite. Tthe feud afoot is less important than the lethality of the weapons used but the participants aren’t smart enough to understand that; they’re too busy screaming at each other. They’re also incapable of noticing that their schoolyard has a moral cesspool where sodomy has replaced the shillelagh as a cultural symbol. The nauseous scandals currently rocking the mini-world of Irish dance offer a revealing insight into what has overcome the land my grandparents left many decades ago. It’s hardly a pretty sight.
Ireland overrated and funded and massively subsidised by EU on one side and UK on the other to avoid it falling to the level below Romania where it’s real economy is.
All Irish should thank the Brits for giving the native Americans potato so they didn’t starve and letting them migrate to British colonies like the USA. Even before the ‘troubles’ most Irish wanted the hell out of that miserable existence. Truth is the British made the Irish something and they could well have let the American funded civil war rip the Irish to shreds but they stopped that colour revolution. And better for the Irish that they did.
If there was no England, the Irish would be part of France Germany or Norway. Fact.
Good grief Ash, how could you thinking get so far out of shape?
The British invaded and occupied Ireland, in one form or other, for 800 years. When the Industrial Revolution came along the Irish were forbidden from having anything to do with it. They were to be kept poor, ignorant and backward to make it easier for their British masters to control them.
About 90% of Ireland’s agricultural output was shipped each year as rent payments to British landlords who had stolen the land in the first place. The Irish were left to eat the potatoes only and when the potato crop suffered blight, the population starved. Estimates vary but before the Famine the population of Ireland was said to be eight million and after it there were two and a half million. So five and a half million Irish either dies or emigrated ….. because they had to.
Having missed the Industrial revolution we Irish spotted our chance for a digital and pharmaceutical revolution. We are now the European hub of everything that is happening in both industries and have achieved this once free from Britain.
To set the record straight, the vast majority of Southern Irish get on fine with the British and we hold no grudges today. Your Queen was invited and hugely welcomed to the South in 2011, members of your Royal family regularly visit and Ireland is the only country in the world that you, as an Englishman, may visit without a passport.
How stupid is that?
So what your really saying is that you are very bitter and have a lot to be ashamed of but to died in the wool to admit it. My brother he also served in Aidan as a junior comissioned officer in the Royal Marines he also served in the Northern part of Ireland three tours. In the end he was so sickened by the Alphabet soup that included the British Army that he resigned his commision and went into financial services where he done very well for himself and his family he was a very clever talented man and a very honest one. I could write so much more but i cant be bothered the grandchildren have arrived so i’m of to enjoy some of my remaining life with them. Remember you like myself were sitting in gods waiting room at our age enjoy it dont be bitter over your part in the millions of dead mained people turned into refugees people driven insane you played your very tiny part for wee George mission accomplised Bush and the now multi multi multi millionaire Tony Blair and the multi billions(four trillions?) for the arms industry lololol. (& I was part of the Invasions of Afghanistan & Iraq. Which like Aidan were nothing to be proud of) bye bye.
It amazes me how the English invite themselves into a country, then call the objecting natives terrorists. We Americans do the same.
The only lesson of Ireland is the failure of democracy to come to other terms than war.
That is the lesson of 1916-1923 as well.
This fellow Costa knows less about Ireland then he does about America.
I read it. A study in the minds of our ruling class.
Numbing in it’s torpor and banal idiocy.
The mistakes about Ireland are too many to mention.
Dublin’s ‘Steadfastness’. LMAO. Yes, but no.
I’m Irish American BTW, the troubles 100 years ago bought my family here, AFTER they did their duty to Ireland.
I have done my duty to America as many in my family have.
Kenneth Branagh should know better, but of course he didn’t grow up here, and war is a formative experience.
Contra Costa there certainly was a low level Civil War in Northern Ireland.
As for drawing parallels to Northern Ireland who plays the UK to keep things down to ‘an acceptable level of violence’?
Idiot.
the talk of the “troubles”in Ireland is a perfect example of the blowback coming to the western imperialists.we in the west can’t remember all the death and destruction we have forced upon the world.the victims of those crimes have it burned in thier culture.the grandparents,the parents and,the children remember every bit of it in folklore.The great shunning of the west has only just begun.and it is well deserved.
I can only deeply sigh at the above. Happy New Years and some advice to my friends. Don’t owe money. Save cash. Your Happiness is not dependent upon others. Don’t trust ANY government, church, organization, or belief. Trust yourself. Love yourself. Always have a weapon. Bad days coming. Get ready. Enjoy tonight.
Amen brother. See you in Elysium!
Indeed! Thank you, my friend.
Happy New Years, Curt. I think you hit the essentials. I would only add: convert some cash into gold and silver if you’re able.
After reading the side of a box of Corn Flakes Mr Costa sets forth the policy for eradicating World hunger, to the tune of old MacDonld had an option on class A shares (but keep it under your hat until we fix the price) in an agri production carbon buy back opportunity.
Meanwhile “In the Fields in Frost and Snows” the recovery continues in the NY area. This was beyond the ability of the USA to cope with, it was a Winter storm.
You are on the right track and more to the point, the right side of the track.
Happy New Year Mr Johnson.
Yhere is a Great Reset coming. It is up to us to make this come out the way to freedom and enlightenment. This is no time to get depressed. We have a lot to do. We will survive.
You bet! My first New Years Eve when I feel apprehension rather than celebration. 2023 will be stormy.
I firmly believe there will be a time for celebration. It will be a hard road but this is our calling. Our children and grandchildren are counting on us.
Clowns like Costa and his ilk will be irrelevant in the long run.
“Remember, the future may be in turmoil, but to reach the promised land of reform, we first must go through the crisis that opens the door for the opportunity to create a whole new world.” – Martin Armstrong
In the ancient world, the lack of a clear transfer of power led to civil war – whether too many or too few sons.
Clowns like Costa are a symptom, and an attempt to return to irregular transfer of power, and they are not irrelevant in the long term unless they are made to be irrelevant.
But it is typical in end-of-empire days that internal divisions are amplified as different aristocratic factions struggle for power, often driving revolts, rebellions, and civil war – and former satrapies of the empire feed their own resources into these power struggles.
I recommend the Fall of Civilizations podcast on youtube. Helps with perspective.
Larry, quickie suggestion for your friend – A Nom de plume?
No one has ever been able to create a whole new world and no one ever will.
I don’t worry about resets etc. There is really nothing new the current times are just repetition of a tired past humans can’t move beyond. So maybe mad Musk giving life to AI machines and hybrids will do the trick.
This is just what the fall of empire and clash of civilisations looks like. Horrifically violent and ugly.
Just go to any big city supermarket and you will see that white replacement is real. The kumbaya crowd wants us to sit down and shut up, but we won’t. They can call us racist as many times as they want. Most of us don’t care anymore.
Jesus said on the Mount of Olives
Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called the children of God
(Christian’s Muslims Jews Hindus etc etc) these peacemakers are called the children of God.
So
Whose children are these warmongers??
Some parent. Some people feed the wrong wolf..and some should have been eaten by their mother. We need natural selection as well as morality and good judgement. Just remember that it’s often difficult to understand because we don’t like to face that we all have that potential. Some are raised effectively and moral and others are left to become a product of a world with a very nasty dark side.
Be the light. But know to see light there must be darkness. Keep shining bright.
China and Russia see this new America; thus, they’re making a move on the Empire. 🥴
PS Costa coffee is the best! 😉
Nope. All big empires crumble from the inside. The Empire is making a move on itself. Russia is defending itself from death throes of The Empire, and China is just standing on the sides waiting for the shitshow to end.
As is typical in describing someone like Costa, he’s either an idiot, corrupted, or a combination of both. Comparing The Troubles with J6 is insane on so many levels, especially with respect to the level of violence. As a lowland Scot/Northen Ireland descendant of the Protestants who massacred hundreds of Catholics on Islemagee in the 1700’s, I grew up listening to the Northern Ireland side of things. On the other hand, it was the pre-meditated and planned violence of people like Michael Collins which brought the English to the bargaining table in order to form The Republic. It just so happened that six counties desired to remain with the UK. Violence is one means to a political end, which was ultimately successful for Ireland…
and which Costa completely missed.
There is no comparative value between the govt instigated “playtime” of J6 and the centuries of high violence on the island called Ireland. Only a “know nothing” could make that attempt.
Just a slight correction Rogue.
You are inaccurate when you say, ” It just so happened that six counties desired to remain with the UK.”
The Province of Ulster, (one of four in Ireland), is made up of nine counties. At the time of partition, the North Easterly six of those counties were the wealthiest and as importantly, they were two-thirds Protestant thus guaranteeing a ‘democratic’ majority, arf, arf.
It was, as their first leader proclaimed, “A protestant country for a protestant people.” This was the clear signal to treat the catholics as sub-human and decidedly second class. The seeds of conflict were plated by Britain at the foundation of that failed State. Sad to see it took the British 100 years to realise it.
Happy New year Larry.
“the famous Sidney Schaumberg article on his actual conduct as a POW”
It was Sydney H. Schanberg .. Sept 18, 2008
nationalalliance.org website
BTW, “Winning Insurgent War”, FMSO Ft Leavenworth, is absolutely superb and goes completely against the grain of mainstream mouthpieces.
Yes, Happy New Year! Regardless of our surroundings and historical time, we have to remain more than civil in a rapidly deteriorating society.
John McCain was a USAF pilot, part of a wonderful heritage of killing 2 million or so Vietnamese civilians. Had the US been a signatory to the Geneva convention, he’d have qualified as a war criminal. The US pretty much perfected the art of bombing civilians.
Does bombing civilians from a few thousand feet up qualify you as a hero? If the enemy shoots you down and treats you rather harshly for killing their families and friends, does that make you a hero? I don’t think so. Trump was right – McCain was no hero.
The neocon bullies, complete with their yap dogs like Col. Costa, will likely get their due this year as Russia and China show them to be toothless on the battlefield, and lacking any semblance of sophistication on the larger, combined economic battlefield.
A good article I read stated that Russia and China are civilizations first, with political/economic systems. The US and the west are an economic system with no civilization. There is no unifying glue. Col. Costa is a representative example of this failing as he is of the system, and devoid of anything resembling being part of any civilization.
Nope. He was in the Navy, not Air Force.
“The US and the west are an economic system with no civilization. There is no unifying glue.”
There was, but the Hart-Cellar Act has destroyed it, and the latest scumfucks are just reaping that foul harvest.
Happy New Year!
Makes all the difference in the world to find normal intelligent community here on Larry’s blog ( thanks, Larry!), who see what’s really going on and fight Brandon & Politburo’s narrative.
Larry, you need to see this and comment on this
https://usawatchdog.com/last-failsafe-to-fix-2020-election-at-supreme-court-brunson-v-adams/
This could be the disruption that Martin Armstrong’s computer has predicted for 2023
Its hard to be optimistic regarding the courts. Its obvious what the right thing to do is going forward. The courts would make history. I think it is always better to be remembered for your integrity and courage than to be forgotten in obscurity, possibly cursed later for being too cowardly to act.
The case sounds solid, but the justices are flaky. Robert’s was an FOJ – Friend of Jeffrey. Ketangie-Whatever would never defy the Administration, Sotomayor is a moron.
We can hope, but hope is not a strategy.
I’m not sure we are going to get out of this that easily.
Thanks for sharing! This is super interesting, and I looked up the case. It could be the “drain the swamp” we all are praying for!
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-380/243739/20221027152243533_20221027-152110-95757954-00007015.pdf
https://www.uncoverdc.com/2022/12/30/the-truth-about-the-brunson-case/
Costa is quite the ignoramus. He has no understanding of Irish history. From the time of the protestant revolt and persecution of Catholics especially with the onerous penal laws whereby one couldn’t own land or be educated if one wasn’t protestant. The Earls of Ulster rebelled and as long as they has the support of Phillip II of Spain there was some hope of throwing off the English yoke. In retribution, the English replaced or should I say displaced the native population in Ulster. The potato famine need not have caused starvation but was used by prime minister Travalion to reduce the Irish through starvation by shipping the food ( grains, dairy, meat, fish) to England which had its own potato blight. The dislike has deep historical roots which Costa knows nothing of.
My parents were legal immigrants from the republic of Ireland and dad and my uncle served in the US Army.
What an article to end the year on. He uncovers the motivations for the vile actions we see every day in the US. People like Costa live by and live in lies as they dehumanize and demonize everyone who loves this country, redefining key words that affect our liberties.
Those lies and the liars that utter them are how they conduct domestic and foreign policy.
They explain to a significant degree the chaos from the southern border to Ukraine. It is no wonder that there is a BRICS and no wonder why nations are recoiling in horror at the government of the US.
Probably 400 million firearms in the US. Somehow everyone forgot to bring any of them to the January 6th “insurrection”. Lmao
I will say this though, I do think it scared the shit out of them. If those people there had actually been intent upon doing harm, not a power on earth could have saved the congress critters that day. They would have been torn limb from limb Bastille style.
I think it was the preceding gun rights march in Virginia that preconditioned the fear of these DC creatures. iirc VA state police estimated 40,000 and the Richmond police estimated 110,000 Virginians with rifles marching peacefully but with rifles in hand or on shoulder, several hours car drive from DC.
I know I’ve largely failed in my attempts to make sense of the malevolent psychopathology of these people, but it is clear at this point that they have trouble with elementary reality assessment. I suspect that it is something like “the million Trump supporters could have had guns like the VA marchers, and therefore for purposes of self-assessing the legitimacy of our reactions we are entitled to treat the Trump supporters as if they all did show up with guns.” … even though not a SINGLE ONE DID. They are corrupt, insane, and in the general meaning of the word stupid meaning lack of pattern recognition capability, in spite of high IQ test scores and vaunted paperwork credentials, they are as stupid as rocks. Emotion (fear, racial, ethnic and class hatred, etc) has shackled their reasoning minds.
Another take is that it is the case that they really, really do mean us harm. They hate us (maybe not intrinsically but conditioned into them by their masters) and want us dead and gone because our mere existence is a threat to the lunatic totalitarian dystopia they are building. So perhaps it is kind of a projection. If the roles were reversed, and they were on the outside petitioning for redress of grievance against people (that they actually are) who mean to make THEM vanish from the pages of time, they would have brought guns. Therefore, they are going to react to any resistance as if it were armed because in their minds they already know that it eventually will be.
The Bundy Ranch showdown scared them crapless as well. But you never hear it mentioned.
I understand your exasperation with all of these deluded, corrupt, lying, traitorous “Gov Officials “….
But let’s all face reality…The “Judicial Branch” has long been the lynchpin & catalyst for the end of the US. “Secret FISA Courts”… runaway corruption & lawlessness with zero accountability.
It’s simple: The “Judicial Branch” failed America & Americans. It didn’t counter check and hold the other 2 Branches accountable as it was designed to. It’s becoming pointless to reference this or that event or person or “a party”…the “propaganda” is as pitifully stupid as all of the rest of American ideology these days. One day, Americans will quit putting up with all of it.
One small niggle: wasn’t Napoleon.
“I distinguish four types. There are clever, hardworking, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and hardworking; their place is the General Staff. The next ones are stupid and lazy; they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the mental clarity and strength of nerve necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is both stupid and hardworking; he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always only cause damage.”
Generaloberst Kurt Gebhard Adolf Philipp Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord
The Quote with the stupid energetic officers is not from Napoleon but from Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord, a German General from the Weimar Republic who opposed later the Rise of the Nazi Regime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_von_Hammerstein-Equord#Classification_of_officers
“I distinguish four types. There are clever, hardworking, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and hardworking; their place is the General Staff. The next ones are stupid and lazy; they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the mental clarity and strength of nerve necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is both stupid and hardworking; he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always only cause damage.”
The fluoride in the water has done it’s job….the Great Experiment has failed…..the Republic could not be kept. The globalists and their dreams of a world totalitarian State run by private enterprise have taken absolute control of the message and therefore create reality for the majority. The millions of illegal immigrants pouring across the U.S border and into Western Europe are not only a voting block manipulated by the Left but also a willing army…..whilst self loathing effeminate males of European decent are cuckolded into irrelevance. Look at the masses and see how many are single military aged males with cell phones…
They haven’t won yet….
The fluoride has indeed done its job, but not quite everyone…
As soon as we all figure out that there is no voting our way out of this, and as soon as the invaders figure out that the welfare payments won’t be enough, then the fun starts.
“..a world totalitarian state run by private enterprise..”
People across all economic hierarchies and across all national borders who engage in voluntary trade with each other is a description of free enterprise. We as customers voting with our money decide who succeeds and who doesn’t.
“Oligarchy” would better describe what you are saying. Free enterprise in the real world is tainted by the massive intervention of the state into the general economy which has the effect of privileging the large corporations at the expense of the small business owners. The latter don’t have the financial and political pull to influence Congress that the former do. The people(customers) in this system have less and less influence on economic outcomes while the state in a symbiotic relationship with big business(oligarchs) have more and more influence over who succeeds and who doesn’t.
Plutocracy would have been just as accurate but I like to use simple words…. Enterprise as in business… corporation or a company……big business or very big companies who are in turn owned by bigger companies…. corporations that have tricked most of mankind to surrender their sovereignty under mercantile laws…. Definitely not proportional representation or rule of the people for the people and by the people….protected by rights given by a power greater than any man or business and therefore cannot be taken away by man or corporation….
Yes, all the effeminate hair-bunned Euro men are a joke and scare no one.
Soy-Boys
Soy milk contains isoflavones that mimic human estrogen and yes they are little twinkle toed commie co¢£suckers
The McCaine Institute — I wonder how much money they got in covid relief funds — Madeleine Albright’s = Albright Korbel Institute For Global Affairs got over $400,000.
These Institutes have exploded in number there are over 6,000 of them in DC half of them formed in the last 15 years. There is a whole economy of them — they employ the legions of idiot phd political science majors pouring out of dumbed down colleges.
Many get direct grants from the State Department — many employee ex generals who like to think of themselves as academic scholars and I am sure the money is good.
General Petraeus founded one.
We are squandering the wealth of our country on these type things. Not one word of the petabytes of books and scholarly research they spew out will be looked at in 5 years.
It seems the more the DC neocons get us involved in wars abroad, the more determined they are to wage war on Americans at home.
“at home.”
Next you’ll write “Our country” ? – how very naive.
Makes you wonder why the government is so hell bent on destroying the military. I’m a 65 year old vet and I’ve never seen the military in such a sad sack shape. Lower the physical fitness requirements, lower the intelligence requirements. Allow trannies and the whole gaggle of LGBT qrstuv whatever you call them. Then inject them with some experimental clot shot and mix well. Me thinks the government might just be a tad bit more worried about a competent military at home than a enemy military abroad. Now ask yourself why that is?
It’s profit, just like it always was. US does not need competent military to defend itself, because no one is interested in attacking. China and Russia just want US off of their lawn. The new LGBT-US army might be a good thing in that regard, because they wouldn’t mind turning their backs towards the enemy.
Allow trannies and the whole gaggle of LGBT qrstuv whatever you call them.”
As if adding women to the mix wasn’t bad enough for teamwork. My gig was naval air in a squadron aboard Nimitz, mid 70s-early 80s. Things were pretty tight back then. Half your enlistment contract was about not being a homo, the other half about not being a commie. For the Alphabet Soup of Sexual Depravity these days, every night aboard ship is Saturday Night. Also today, Petty officers can’t give orders, the “groups” can claim anything they want in the way of oppression and they get a skater’s free ride. I don’t know how they run a flight deck anymore with some of the personal accounts I read about active duty military. It’s also clear to me that the unpleasant tasks are going undone these days when I see these ships coming in, all rusty and shitty looking. They can no longer order these tasks done aboard ship while at sea as they used to. A skipper should be ashamed bringing his ship back to port looking like they do.
i agree raven 6 . john stockton is my favourite basketball player of all time and besides his talent this is the other reason.
https://republicbroadcasting.org/news/nba-legend-john-stockton-claims-thousands-of-athletes-have-died-from-the-vaccine/
happy new year
ralph
The Hill is a Neocon junk yard.
Draft Larry 2024! OK, maybe a longshot but there is no better choice IMO.
“GUYS LIKE THIS ARE BRINGING AMERICA TO ABSOLUTE RUIN ”
Understandably as a function of coercive social relations the dividing and ruling practice of blaming the other in order to deny your own complicity is a keystone, and hence a significant facilitator of the continuing sustainability of coercive social relations and “agreement incapabilities”.
Some like the politburo of the coercive social relations self-misrepresented as “The Soviet Union” tended/tend to harbour illusions based upon their misguided hopes of their own sustainability including that the derivatives of coercive social relations are “reformable” and this ignorance can be used in interaction to facilitate the complicity of all in their own transcendence – which requires growing understanding of what are the coercive social relations and how are they facilitated, which is circumvented/precluded by blaming the other in order to deny your own complicity/shit in which you are drowning.
Stepan Bandera was the leader of Ukrainian Nazis in WWII. He continued his work after it’s end, with generous help of the USA (until KGB snuffed him). In 2018, the Ukrainian Parliament designated 1 January, Bandera’s birthday, as a national holiday.
1 january 2022
Zelensky: There will be no fireworks for our biggest national holiday.
Surovikin: There will be.
“with generous help of the USA (until KGB snuffed him). In 2018, the Ukrainian Parliament designated 1 January, Bandera’s birthday, as a national holiday.”
According to Mr. Sudoplatov it was a joint venture game of volleyball – some did the set-up and some did the strike including other “representatives” of “Ukrainian nationalism”, since when one shark undermines the “environment” the other sharks undermine one shark – the “Cold War” was never cold and this practice was not limited to the “solution” of Mr. Bandera.
This is not general knowledge with the “help” who hold Stepan Bandera in “high esteem” who would be “disgruntled” by such discovery, and a component part of why “The United States of America ” smiles at crocodiles in hope of being “exceptional”.
Time to put away childish things and learn from W.C.Fields namely:
There comes a time in the affairs of men when we need to grab the bull by the tail and face the situation – since the cascade of shit will likely affect many not limited to a specific geographical location through catalysation of various lacks of considering “What is for afters ?”.
Self delivering postcard.
https://t.me/zoka200/5996
Ouch!
Good to see the Brits getting a shoeing. They will never change.
My own experience. I had reason to write to HE Kofi Annan some eighteen years ago, about the Iraq Travesty. My words remain as relevant today as the day they were written (July 4, 2004). With your permission, Mr Johnson:
Futile? Hardly:
Iraq war was illegal and breached UN charter, says Annan
Ewen MacAskill and Julian Borger in Washington Thu 16 Sep 2004 02.28 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/16/iraq.iraq
Cognitive infiltration for beneficial cognitive diversity. Without an understanding of this line we are forever to bounce back and forth like AIR HOCKEY! Prometheism(sp?) that’s training terrorists and unleashing them on a target population, speak to this Larry afterall it was Polish Pilsudski its originator. Also this guy helped get CARLOS GHOSN leave JAPAN:)
If I remember correctly, John McCain was shot down while bombing a power plant. It would be top notch comedy if McCain Institute made some statement about Russians destroying Ukrainian power grid.
Staying on topic of terrorism, McCain, and unintentional comedy. In the early phases of Syrian war, he went to visit his terrorist buddies there. Someone asked him about the possibility of Russians joining the fight, and he was sure that it can’t happen. It seems that all of the US plans include “Putin doing nothing” as an essential part.
Biden and Costa don’t work in a vacuum. This war in Ukrainian wasn’t welded by the Democrats alone.
There is really only one party in Washington, the Oligarchs party. I don’t want too place my bets on the Red or the Blue slots, because it’s stacked just like any gambling house. This game is to pitted American against American so that the Oligarchs always win.
The CIA and their NAFO operatives on Twitter are posting CGI-created videos that they believe to be funny. Like destruction of the most iconic Christian cathedral in Russia, The Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed (St. Basil’s Cathedral). Consecrated in 1561. The Western intelligence agencies have gone full demonic.
https://twitter.com/Kiborgzzz/status/1609159551256772609?s=20&t=x7ijKRYA0LHCBZZ3x6FJAQ
ZH posted this interesting observation. Food for thought for sure.
“Once the Democrats finally decide that Biden has outlasted his usefulness, their reasons for installing him in the first place may become clear. When Barack Obama was overheard telling a Democrat donor “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f**k things up,” there is a good chance it was a sales pitch more than a warning.”
Yes – Spanish Society from circa 1910 to 1936 should be carefully studied. The most likely path for us.
We have so much BS in America now.
It is a way of life and unfortunately many are not able to see the truth or at be receptive to other narratives and interpretations. Climate, Critical Race Theory, Gender multiplication, Ukraine, Hunter Biden.I imagine as the US continues loses its predominance it will go into overdrive.
I wonder if anything can stop the decline.
A big military defeat now would have a diversity first panel to analyze. Transgenders, pedophiles, illegals are encouraged to join chaired by the Rachel Levine chosen by friends of Michelle Obama.
mr. johnson- happy new year
i think this song sums it up.
Fleetwood Mac – Little Lies (Official Music Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCGD9dT12C0
It’s a good article in that you get a view of what the deep state thinks…those of them that do. I’m also thankful for clarifying the quote from Kurt Von Hammerstein-Equard. I first heard it in Kenneth Robert’s 1930 novel Arundel, dealing with the American revolution. Roberts made no source for the quote; he just had a character say it.
Ireland…it can be said to an Irishman, a hundred miles is a long way and to an American a hundred years is a long time. I recall an address I went to in the 80’s where an IRA speaker, an old man, described the troubles going back with centuries of references. He also objected to the idea that N. Irish were British. “You know,” he said, “I tell the northerners when you go to England, do they think you’re English? No, you open your mouth and they call you a mick. You should join us.”
As for McCain, I was in Boston and happened by a McCain rally when he was running for president…next to his bus called “the straight talk express.” Remember when he was “a maverick?” Rush always had a good laugh over that. The crowd of supporters were SMALL…mostly old guys in leather flying jackets and Vietnam/military type baseball caps. Someone once said he stayed in office because of all the gullible retirees in Arizona. That, and, as Michael Collins Piper noted in The New Babylon, McCain married into the Hensley family, who were big frontmen for the Bronfman crime family. I always thought he was kind of sleazy, but his colors came out when he basically threw the presidential election on purpose…and of course his flunkies blamed Sarah Palin.
Comparing Jan. 6 to Ireland’s troubles…I’m reminded of Harold Covington’s observation that America needed to discover the Irish saying of using the argument of the gun. There’s an almost Biblical tenet here that YOU MUST NEVER USE VIOLENCE.
As for a fight between Costa’s type and our presumed aroused “patriots”, I thought the results might be like the neglected movie The Hunt. It’s actually a thoughtful and funny look at blue staters going to war on red staters. I wrote a review of it March 5, 2021 for Countercurrents.
Are we still on the subject of terrorism? It seems it’s outlived its purpose to cower and unite the masses. Now, climate change and covid have taken over, as Robert Kennedy observed in his book The Real Anthony Fauci.
I share most of the writer’s views. I hope he is right about ‘what [he thinks] is brewing’ in America. But I kind of doubt it.
Leo Trotsky was a Bolshevik, but far from an idiot. Not long before his murder, in the preface to a book written by an English Marxist on the revolution in China, he observed:
‘Despite all the indisputable greatness of Anglo-Saxon genius one cannot help observing that it is precisely in the Anglo-Saxon countries that the laws of revolution are least understood. This can be explained on the one hand by the fact that the phenomenon of revolution itself in these countries relates to a far distant past and evokes from the official “sociologists” the condescending smile intended for a naughty child. On the other hand the pragmatism so characteristic of Anglo-Saxon thinking is of least avail for the understanding of revolutionary crises.’
He then explains how our ‘pragmatism’ and our ‘common sense [that] regarded society as the product of a reasonable “contract” ‘ form the basis of Anglophone political thinking and argues, ‘a secure society which has lost the habit of upheavals and has grown used to uninterrupted “progress” is incapable of understanding the dialectic of its own development.’
So here’s our problem: The usurpers who have openly seized power – after decades infiltrating the corporate and government bureaucracies – understand the laws of revolution all too well. They will say anything, do anything, ignore every law or formulate unconstitutional new ones to achieve their goals. And about half of our neighbors, friends and coworkers are just fine with that.
The other half – the good citizens whom they oppress (eg MAGA types, vaccine-mandate dissidents, angry parents at schoolboard meetings) mostly remain spellbound by their devotion to ‘rule of law,’ the ‘social contract’ and other ‘pragmatic’ Anglo-Saxon ideas. They can’t or won’t develop even a guerrilla or a saboteur mindset, let alone a [counter]revolutionary one. ‘We mustn’t sink to their level,’ you’ll sometimes hear them say.
So while I sure hope something is ‘brewing,’ I remain profoundly unconvinced.
My paternal grandfather fought and died in the civil war.
People believe that Franco had the military numerical majority, totally false. He was isolated in the Canary Islands as a deportee. He escaped by plane and landed in North Africa, on the other side of the strait. along with 12,000 legionaries, but the Strait of Gibraltar was blocked, the navy was controlled by the communists.
The answer was to airlift all the soldiers with anything that could fly and it was the first time it had been done in history.
We won the war. The communists burned churches with their libraries of historical value, after Russia (by order of assassinations) the communists murdered 7000 religious, priests, bishops and nuns for their anti-Christian hatred, raped countless nuns.
With Franco, Spain became the eighth industrial power and now Mexico has surpassed us, leaving us in 16th place. Our “democracy” is actually Dpemocracy limited company
Until one knows all the words to:
The Foggy Dew
Four Green Fields
Johnson‘s Motor Car
Then kindly refrain from commenting on the Irish topic 🙂
You could use the same logic for commenting on Ukraine and Russia. Ireland is fair game.
We cannot talk or vote our way out of the mess we’re in. With millions of illegals entering unfettered across a non-existent southern border, persuasion will not rally a grassroots political change and the Democrat “Fortified for democracy” strategy guarantees that vote-rigging will be decisive going forward. And it is defeatist to merely document our decline. So what is a better use of our brainpower in these times of moral degeneracy and ethical crisis?
The goal should be to fight this scourge smarter, not harder; because the latter just results in a lot dead innocents. And this means maximizing your positives and minimizing your negatives. Societal anonymity will become an existential necessity as we go forward into the Brave New World of GEF covert tyranny. You must become the nobody that nobody ever notices. And what they fear most is the bolt from the blue; the unexpected, from somewhere unanticipated, and exploiting the element of surprise. Finally, they are cockroaches and will scatter and flee with proper motivation. That is how you restore sanity.
J6 was a deep state setup to prevent Congressional examination of the 2020 election fraud. 100+/- Congressman wete not going to certify their respective state elections. That all changed when the deep state opened the doors, and it was the excuse for the fearmongering to move the certifying process along, regardless of the fraud and corruption. FBI was rewarded for their allegiance in the latest Omnibus bill with more funding and a new building. That latest Omnibus bill also added a law preventing Congress from actually examining and certifying elections. That new law would not have passed in the new Republican House. Another deep state coup.
Larry: From my country, Mexico, I appreciate your efforts to provide truthful information and lucid and pertinent reflections. For you and for the community of readers, I wish 2023 to be full of achievements, well-being, satisfaction, and challenges. Hugs!
Happy 2023 all !
Anyone from Ireland please correct me if I am wrong but the main “Irish Troubles” issue was the English Empire’s occupation and tyrannical rule of Ireland not merely a Protestant vs. Catholic issue. If that is the case then Costa’s JAN 6 premise is fundamentally flawed because the US is not occupied or ruled by a foreign empire (unless you qualify the UN and WEF as foreign empires).
I too am a retired Army Colonel but: (a) I am not a director of anything except my deer hunting blinds and my Labrador; (b) not a service academy ring knocker…I was prior enlisted/NCO then commissioned through Officer Candidate School so I am not as “intelligent or capable” as other officers like Costa; and (c) I don’t know anything about counter-terrorism…I do know a lot about the US Military’s failed counter-insurgency strategy(s).
Bottom line…the US Military is poorly led and there will be a reckoning. Costa is a model Field Grade/Senior Officer typical of the officers the Command and General Staff College(s) and War College(s) are developing…the leadership problem is institutional and nearly irreparable. If I were Emperor for 2023 I would fire/retire or re-vett all 06 and above officers as a good start…truly General Officers are un-elected politicians–that is their job in a professional army.
In defense of my fellow officers…there are many of us that never bought into the institutional bullshit that we were required to endure through training stand downs or required professional military education.
Essayons!
If anyone wants a good read that is incredibly apposite you can do worse than to read On The Duty of Civil Disobedience by The incomparable Henry Thoreau
Subversive Marxists and extreme leftists of all types set out to destroy traditional Spain, to include the Church, the army, and the middle and upper classes.
Have to say this phrase caught me of guard Larry. Not sure what you mean by extreme leftists of all types. As far as I understood the left where just Socialistic Libertarians. Looking for a fair deal. They became violent in the protest but so where the patriots in the American Revolution. The American Revolution was an ideological and political revolution. So was the civil war in Spain of 1936 to 1939. Spain had a feudal system and the people wanted a more fair system. The Americans basically wanted the same. So where they also extreme leftists. At the end the Republican Government which where an elected government lost because they where fighting against Catholic church, the Fascist Franco “Spain”, Fascist Mussolini “Italy” and Hitler “Fascist Nazism Germany”. Also Marxism “Communist Stalin” which was also fighting the “Leon Trotsky Communist”. The West with their hypocrisy embargoed Spain which couldn’t buy weapon’s. Also other supplies. Russia helped but at a high price. Both sides of my family where Republicans. Only my Father and his brother where combatants. His brother died as a prisoner under Franco. My Father and my mothers family left Spain as refugees. My father and mother met latter in France, 1947.
I’d like to add that unfortunately history has neglected their contribution in the second world war. France has done some atonement on what they did to the 500,000 Spanish refuges mostly of them combatants.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/spanish-civil-war
France’s Atonement
https://www.france24.com/en/20190209-france-spanish-civil-war-republican-refugees-la-retirada-80th-anniversary
Spanish (extreme leftists) refugee’s contribution to WW II Allied side.
https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/10/11/inenglish/1476196791_317656.html
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/churchills-spaniards.html
Spanish people in the French Resistance and the great contribution they brought
https://libcom.org/article/1939-1945-spanish-resistance-france
A quote on history and how true it is,
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Larry Johnson I really appreciate your work. Best wishes and take care of your self and family.
Jaz
Most of the elites or people in charge from the West study social science, whereas, in the East, they study STEM; that is the difference. The East values meritocracy compared to “privileges” or genetic preferences in the West. It is also helpful when its population is homogeneous.
East has tonnes of nepotism and corruption too.
The West is still more of a meritocracy. That was always it’s appeal.
It’s still more of a meritocracy, as long as you don’t count all of those new requirements for sexual/racial/ideological/whatever suitability. Cancel culture is as meritocratic as it gets.
Not even sporting events are spared in this Brave New Western World. Best tennis player in the World was not allowed to play on Australian Open last year, because he dared to challenge the Pfizer narative. Russians being banned from all the competitions have become normal for meritocratical West. On the other hand, ex-men competing against females is fine.
It all looks like a comedy sketch that could end with a punchline:
“The West is still more of a meritocracy”.
This is easily the worst habit I see on all the non-mainstream sites around the web: “If it’s not from ‘The West’, it’s TOTALLY FUCKING AWESOME!”
Just stop. The world is still occupied, end to end and top to bottom, with fallible, often selfish and ignorant, humans and they will never create anything on this Earth except maybe something kinda workable. Sure, the filth in charge of the West are truky awful, but their like can be found most anywhere in the world, and you don’t even have to look that hard.
Your strawmen is so weak, that it’s possible that you have unintentionally posted in the wrong place.
The McCain Institute is basically a far west outpost of Klaus Schwab’s Young World Leaders school. David Kramer, who once was Senior Director for Human Rights and Democracy with The McCain Institute, is the guy who got the Trump dossier from Christopher Steele and delivered it to McCain.
But you won’t find Kramer there anymore. These slippery people keep on slipping through revolving DC doors. David J. Kramer is now cooling his heels as Managing Director of Global Policy at the George W. Bush Institute. One can only imagine what kind of grifting goes on there. No doubt Colonel Costa will be there, or at some similar Globalist Uniparty front, in the near future.
I would say that people like this are always one step ahead of the law, but they’re not; they’re three steps above the law.
From the presidential administration “without scandal”
Today, from M.K. Bhadrakumar:
[[Obama had to depute then CIA chief David Petraeus to visit Turkey twice in 2012 to persuade Erdogan to engage with the US in operational planning aimed at bringing about the end of the Assad government. It was Petraeus who proposed to Ankara a covert program of arming and training Syrian rebels.]]
Mid-east expert Joshua Landis long has argued that E. was doing in Syria what Obama etc. wanted, and got jilted and jilted: was betrayed. E., of course at the time spoke about returning/regaining Ottoman Empire.
Bhadrakumar essay published today well worth reading, at:
https://www.eurasiareview.com/01012023-russia-and-turkey-collaborate-in-syria-to-uncle-sams-chagrin-oped/
All the more so as Larry’s post today is about guys [and dolls] bringing our country to absolute ruin.
Obama/Petraeus etc. machinations viz. Syria also premised on destroying Lebanon sovereignty and its resistance [Hisb Allah], thus weakening Iran, too; and bolstering gulf Arab states and statelets and of course wiping out resistance to Zionist project in the Arab east.
All this, decade later, all up in smoke. These developments, partly why Israel doesn’t dare cross Russia viz. Ukraine; and knows handwriting on the wall does not bode well for US protecting Israel, anymore.
At Russia’s annual human rights assembly earlier in December, Putin remarked, in context of western Ukraine, to the effect that: only Russia can and has guaranteed Ukraine’s territorial integrity. Lots here to unpack. . . .think about its meaning and all while pondering what is coming. . . .
At his new year’s eve address last night, he referred to areas being rebuilt as “Донбасс и Новороссии” that is: “Donbas and Novorossiya”.
See: https://i.redd.it/vo3ktxfkbbs81.jpg [this map includes excerpt from Putin 2014 statement]
This Новороссии would roughly translate to most of land west and south of — drawing a line bit north of Kharkiv, with boundary more or less extending ~45 degrees west and southwards, towards and including Transnistria; the region south and west of this boundary.
Feb. 21, 2014 demonstrations erupted all over this region, whether Obama realized it or admitted and acknowledged this or not, ditto NATO/EU etc.
Their response is no different than now: it’s all Russia’s fault.
Below essay, from the time, shows what I’d call Europe’s completely deranged response, circa 2014. . .I’d call it Nazi-esque. It seems at the time they too were chomping at the bit for war with Russia. Of note is EU knew Maidan assassinations carried out including from those in the interim government that seized power when European states including Poland — had previously agreed to plan for new election that Yanukovych agreed to [Europe did not honor this commitment]. . . instead more violence and he fled the country Feb. 21, 2014.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/04/08/ukra-a08.html
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” It seems at the time they too were chomping at the bit for war with Russia. ”
So premature ejaculations were unwise, whilst “old guys” taking tea to maintain a “clean sheet” was wise.
Chomping based on “emotionalism” is unwise; the STASI no longer “being” around to pass judgement since judgement was already passed , whilst some others remain reluctant, since Erica de Jong was mistaken – there is no such thing as a zipless f*uck.
Prior to Biden leaving office, Blinken will lead the campaign to vote create an EU of North America.
There is already significant work being done on this.
The union will have open borders ofcourse.
So the current open borders help, you know, to get people used to things.
In the end though, Southern Americans may find in more conservative South Americans, other immigrants and Mexicans, allies against woke which will otherwise destroy the white christian old America.
So it may well be that these foreigners save the South and the conservatives rather than destroy them. Ofcourse they look a bit different and culture differs but it’s everyone needed against the woke and neo cons or America dies.
The “natural conservative Hispanics” is a stupid, lazy lie that hasn’t played out in the least to this point in the US, and certainly won’t in the future.
NOBODY IS COMING TO SAVE YOU.
It really is remarkably retarded. There is NO such thing as a ‘Hispanic’ conservative. There are Mexican conservatives, Cuban conservatives, Venezuelan conservatives, etc, and they are interested in conserving THEIR OWN PEOPLE, THEIR OWN CULTURAL MORES, THEIR OWN CIVILIZATION, in whatever lands they find themselves. Moreover, they are morally right to do so.
The notion that they are going to hitch their wagons to the civnat crazytrain of Establishment Republican crony cartel corporate ‘conservatism’ is beyond ludicrous. These civnat eGOP people are at least as detached from reality as the most vapid marxist.
Technically, these people we are discussing are not “hispanics”. They are mestizos, mulattos – speaking some or other dialect of Spanish.
One conclusion from the holidays is that comments that Russia is winning in Ukraine and that I do not drink alcohol anymore
both end a conversation.
Which is not necessarily a bad thing. 🙂
“No part of the country has sent a greater portion of its sons to fight the wars of the 20th and 21st centuries. None has displayed its patriotism on its sleeve more than the South”.
Definition: The enemy is anyone who can get you killed. Few think of these things in these terms.
Step into your place . . . https://les7eb.substack.com/p/great-game-ukraine-long-proxy-war
“GUYS LIKE THIS ARE BRINGING AMERICA TO ABSOLUTE RUIN”
No Brasil is doing ok under the circumstances.
Perhaps guys like this should try harder ?
Thanks for publishing this!
McCarthy was right. The (((enemy))) is ZOG.
I’m guessing the Russians are not going laugh this off
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-strikes-russian-forces-in-donbas-as-kyiv-repels-more-drone-swarms-11672665144
The Evil Ones have too much on their plate and are juggling new fires at every step. There is a big difference between attempting to control the world and the actual implementation. FAFO
The big picture is becoming clearer. And it ain’t pretty.
https://archive.md/2022.12.31-014220/https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/12/no_author/evidence-of-the-conspiracy-to-commit-mass-murder-by-the-dod-hhs-sasha-latypova/
https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/intent-to-harm
History. Note the years approaching 2020 and how the groundwork was laid innocuously.
https://bailiwicknews.substack.com/p/american-domestic-bioterrorism-program?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web
Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of them. The dumb and lazy ones I give mundane duties. The smart ambitious ones I put on my staff. The smart and lazy ones I make my commanders.
Erwin Rommel