We now know that the United States played the primary role in sabotaging the March 29, 2022 tentative peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine thanks to the recently published article by Hajo Funke and Harald Kujat, HOW THE CHANCE WAS LOST FOR A PEACE SETTLEMENT OF THE UKRAINE WAR — AND THE WEST WANTED TO CONTINUE THE WAR INSTEAD. The United States persuaded its NATO allies that pursuing the war against Russia, using Ukraine as a proxy, offered a legitimate opportunity to destroy Russia. You want a definition of evil? This is it. Instead of helping end the war between Russia and Ukraine, the United States and its NATO puppets condemned hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers to death in a war with Russia they could not win.
In the course of strong arming Ukraine’s Zelensky into rejecting the peace agreement, the West prepared and launched a propaganda campaign that claimed that Ukrainian military forces defeated the Russian forces and compelled them to retreat. It was a lie. As you will read in the timeline below, Putin ordered the withdrawal of Russian forces starting on April 1, 2022 as a good faith gesture about Russia’s seriousness in complying with the 29 March Istanbul Agreement.
Chalk this up as one more massive war crime by the United States and NATO. They are accessories to murder. I have summarized the timeline presented in the Funke/Kujat article if you do not have time to read it in its entirety. I also am republishing their piece for your convenience. All of the death and destruction experienced in Ukraine and Russia could have been avoided. But the West was intent on dethroning Putin and carving up Russia. Once you understand this point I think you will appreciate that Putin and his Generals are no longer of a mind to give the West the benefit of the doubt. Destroying NATO’s designs on Ukraine is now their chief aim in my view.
March 4, 2022 — Putin and Naftali Bennet speak via phone.
March 5, 2022 — At Putin’s invitation, former Israeli Prime Minister Bennett flew to Moscow. Putin, Bennett said, had made some substantial concessions, in particular, he had renounced his original wartime goal of demilitarizing Ukraine. … .In return, the Ukrainian president agreed to renounce joining NATO. The Ukrainians did not agree to peace because they were not allowed to. They first had to ask the Americans about everything they discussed.”
March 6, 2022 — Bennett and Scholz met in Berlin; on March 7, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany discussed the issue in a videoconference; on
March 8, 2022 — Macron and Scholz spoke on the phone; on
March 10, 2022 — Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba and Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov met in Ankara; on
March 12, 2022 — Scholz and Zelensky and Scholz and Macron spoke on the phone; and on
March 14, 2022 — Scholz and Erdogan met in Ankara.
March 15-19, 2022 — Only a month after the outbreak of the war, Ukraine and Russia agreed on the broad outlines of a peace settlement. Ukraine promised not to join NATO and not to allow military bases of foreign powers on its territory, while Russia promised in return to recognize Ukraine’s territorial integrity and to withdraw all Russian occupation troops. Special arrangements were made for the Donbas and Crimea.”
March 24, 2022 — NATO decided at a special summit on March 24, 2022, not to support these peace negotiations.
March 27, 2022 — Zelensky defended the results of the Ukrainian-Russian peace negotiations in public before Russian journalists
March 28, 2022 — Putin, as a sign of goodwill and in support of the peace negotiations, declared readiness to withdraw troops from the Kharkov area and the Kiev area
29 March, 2002 — Turkiye’s President Erdogan hosted a Ukrainian-Russian peace conference in Istanbul and an armistice agreement was approved in principle.
April 1, 2022 — Putin orders Russian troops to initiate withdrawal from Kiev and Kharkiv in show of good faith in accordance with the armistice agreed to in Istanbul.
April 5, 2022 — NATO was firm in its position that continuing the war is preferred to a cease-fire and negotiated settlement: “For some in NATO, it’s better for Ukrainians to keep fighting and dying than to achieve a peace that comes too soon or at too high a price for Kiev and the rest of Europe.”
April 6, 2022 — Russia completes withdrawal from Kiev suburbs and Kharkiv.
April 9, 2022 — Boris Johnson arrived unannounced in Kiev and told the Ukrainian president that the West was not ready to end the war.
April 25, 2022 — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the U.S. wants to use the opportunity to permanently weaken Russia militarily and economically in the wake of the Ukraine war.
April 26, 2022 — Meeting with defense ministers from NATO members and other countries convened by Austin in Ramstein, Rhineland-Palatinate/ Germany, the Pentagon chief declared the military victory of Ukraine as a strategic goal.
April 28, 2022 — According to Britain’s Guardian, PM Johnson “instructed” Ukrainian President Zelensky “not to make any concessions to Putin.”
BEGIN FUNKE AND KUJAT ARTICLE
Berlin, October 2023
In March 2022, direct peace negotiations between Ukrainian and Russian delegations and mediation efforts by the then Israeli Prime Minster, Naftali Bennet created a genuine chance for ending the war peacefully only four to five weeks after Russia had invaded Ukraine. However, instead of ending the war through negotiations as Ukrainian President Zelensky and his government appeared to have wanted, he ultimately bowed to pressures from some Western powers to abandon a negotiated solution. Western powers wanted this war to continue in the hope to break Russia. Ukraine’s decision to abandon negotiations may been taken before the discovery of a massacre of civilians in the town of Bucha near Kiev.
In the following is an attempt of a step-by-step reconstruction of the events that led to the peace negotiations in March and their collapse in early April 2022.
IN EARLY MARCH 2022, ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER NAFTALI BENNETT UNDERTOOK MEDIATION EFFORTS …
Naftali Bennett had undertaken mediation efforts beginning in the first week of March 2022. In a video interview with Israeli journalist Hanoch Daum on February 4, 2023, he spoke for the first time in detail about the process and the end of the negotiations. This video interview is the basis of a detailed report in the Berliner Zeitung of February 6, 2023: “Naftali Bennett wanted peace between Ukraine and Russia: who blocked? Israeli ex-premier spoke for the first time about his negotiations with Putin and Zelensky. The ceasefire was reportedly within reach.” (Berliner Zeitung, Feb. 06, 2023).
Soon after the war broke out, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had asked Bennett to help open a channel of communications with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin responded by inviting Bennett to Moscow: “On March 5, 2022, at Putin’s invitation, Bennett had flown to Moscow in a private jet provided by Israeli intelligence. In the conversation in the Kremlin, Putin, Bennett said, had made some substantial concessions, in particular, he had renounced his original wartime goal of demilitarizing Ukraine. … .In return, the Ukrainian president agreed to renounce joining NATO – a position he also repeated publicly a short time later. This removed one of the decisive obstacles to a ceasefire ….”. According to the Berliner Zeitung, other issues, such as the future of the Donbass and Crimea, as well as security guarantees for Ukraine, had also been the subject of intensive talks during these days. (Ibid)
In the interview, Bennett explained further: “I had the impression at the time that both sides were very interested in a ceasefire (…). According to Bennett, a cease-fire was within reach at that time, and both sides were prepared to make considerable concessions…. But Britain and the U.S., in particular, wanted this peace process to end and set their sights on a continuation of the war.” (Ibid)
In early March 2022, President Zelensky contacted not only Naftali Bennett, but also former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and asked him to use his close personal ties to Putin to mediate between Ukraine and Russia in hope to find ways to end this war quickly. In an interview published in the weekly edition of the Berliner Zeitung on October 21/22 of this year, Schröder spoke publicly for the first time about his role in the efforts that led to the peace negotiations in Istanbul on March 29, 2022. Like Bennet, also he came to the conclusion that the reason why these peace negotiations were abandoned was because the Americans obstructed them. He said: “At the peace negotiations in March 2022 in Istanbul with Rustem Umerov (then security advisor to Zelensky, now Ukrainian defense minister), the Ukrainians did not agree to peace because they were not allowed to. They first had to ask the Americans about everything they discussed,” and continued: “But at the end (of the peace negotiations) nothing happened. My impression was that nothing could happen because everything else was decided in Washington. That was fatal.”
The Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, who organized the Istanbul meeting at the time, had previously made similar comments. In an interview with CNN Turk on April 20, 2022, he said: “Some NATO states wanted the Ukraine conflict to continue in order to weaken Russia.”
… WHILE PARALLEL PEACE NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN UKRAINIAN AND RUSSIAN NEGOCIATORS WERE UNDERWAY
Direct negotiations between a Ukrainian and a Russian delegation had already been underway since late February 2022, and in the third week of March, “only a month after the outbreak of the war, they (had) agreed on the broad outlines of a peace settlement. Ukraine promised not to join NATO and not to allow military bases of foreign powers on its territory, while Russia promised in return to recognize Ukraine’s territorial integrity and to withdraw all Russian occupation troops. Special arrangements were made for the Donbas and Crimea.” (Cf. Michael von der Schulenburg: UN Charter: Negotiations! In: Emma of March 6, 2023)
To further the peace negotiations, the Turkish President offered to host a Ukrainian-Russian peace conference in Istanbul on 29 March, 2002. During the negotiations mediated by Turkish President Erdogan, the Ukrainian delegation presented a position paper, which led to the Istanbul Communiqué. Ukraine’s proposals were translated into a draft treaty by the Russian side.
The text of the Istanbul Communiqué of March 29, 2022 included 10 proposals:
Proposal 1: Ukraine declares itself a neutral state and promises to remain non-aligned and to refrain from developing nuclear weapons in exchange for international legal guarantees. Possible guarantor states include Russia, Britain, China, the United States, France, Turkey, Germany, Canada, Italy, Poland, and Israel, but other states would also be welcome to join the treaty.
Proposal 2: These international security guarantees for Ukraine would not extend to Crimea, Sevastopol, or certain areas in the Donbas. The parties to the treaty would have to define the boundaries of these areas or agree that each party understands these boundaries differently.
Proposal 3: Ukraine commits not to join any military coalition and not to host any foreign military bases or troop contingents. Any international military exercises would be possible only with the consent of the guarantor states. For their part, the Guarantor States confirm their intention to promote Ukraine’s membership in the European Union.
Proposal 4: Ukraine and the Guarantor States agree that (in the event of aggression, armed attack against Ukraine, or military operation against Ukraine) each of the Guarantor States, after urgent and immediate mutual consultations (to be held within three days) on the exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defense (as recognized in Article 51 of the UN Charter), will provide assistance (in response to and on the basis of an official appeal by Ukraine) to Ukraine as a permanently neutral state under attack. Such assistance will be facilitated by the immediate implementation of necessary individual or joint measures, including the closure of Ukrainian airspace, the provision of necessary weapons, and the use of armed force with the aim of restoring and then maintaining the security of Ukraine as a permanently neutral state.
Proposal 5: Any such armed attack (any military operation at all) and any action taken in response will be reported immediately to the UN Security Council. Such action will cease as soon as the UN Security Council has taken the measures necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security.
Proposal 6: In order to protect against possible provocations, the agreement will regulate the mechanism of fulfillment of Ukraine’s security guarantees based on the results of consultations between Ukraine and the guarantor states.
Proposal 7: The treaty will apply provisionally from the date of its signature by Ukraine and all or most of the guarantor states.
The treaty will enter into force after (1) Ukraine’s permanent neutral status is approved in a nationwide referendum, (2) the relevant amendments are incorporated into the Ukrainian Constitution, and (3) ratification occurs in the parliaments of Ukraine and the guarantor states.
Proposal 8: The desire of the parties to resolve the issues related to Crimea and Sevastopol will be included in bilateral negotiations between Ukraine and Russia for a period of 15 years. Ukraine and Russia also commit not to resolve these issues by military means and to continue diplomatic resolution efforts.
Proposal 9: The parties continue consultations (involving other guarantor states) to prepare and agree on the provisions of a treaty on security guarantees for Ukraine, ceasefire modalities, withdrawal of troops and other paramilitary formations, and opening and ensuring safely functioning humanitarian corridors on a continuous basis, as well as the exchange of bodies and release of prisoners of war and interned civilians.
Proposal 10: The parties consider it possible to hold a meeting between the presidents of Ukraine and Russia to sign a treaty and/or take political decisions on other unresolved issues.”
APPARENT INITIAL SUPPORT OF MEDIATION EFFORTS BY WESTERN POLITICIANS.
Proof of initial Western politicians’ support for the negotiations emerges from the sequence of telephone calls and meetings during the period from early March to at least mid-March. On March 4, Scholz and Putin spoke on the phone; on March 5, Bennett met Putin in Moscow; on March 6, Bennett and Scholz met in Berlin; on March 7, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany discussed the issue in a videoconference; on March 8, Macron and Scholz spoke on the phone; on March 10, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba and Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov met in Ankara; on March 12, Scholz and Zelensky and Scholz and Macron spoke on the phone; and on March 14, Scholz and Erdogan met in Ankara. (Cf. Petra Erler: Re: Review March 2022: Who did not want a quick end to the war in Ukraine, in: “News of a Lighthouse Keeper,” Sept. 1, 2023)
NATO SPECIAL SUMMIT OF MARCH 24, 2022 IN BRUSSELS OPPOSES ALL NEGOCIATIONS
But this initial support quickly turned sour, with NATO opposing any such negotiations before Russia doesn’t withdraws all its troops from Ukrainian territories. This, in fact, killed all negotiations. Michael von der Schulenburg, former UN Assistant Secretary-General (ASG) in UN peace missions, writes that “NATO had already decided at a special summit on March 24, 2022, not to support these peace negotiations (between Ukraine and Russia).” (Cf. Michael von der Schulenburg: UN Charter: Negotiations! In: Emma, March 6, 2023). The US president had flown in especially for this special summit to Brussels. Obviously, peace as negotiated by the Russian and Ukrainian negotiating delegations was not in the interest of some NATO countries.
AT FIRST ZELESKY STICKS TO THE OUTCOME OF THE PEACE NEGOCIATIONS
“As late as March 27, 2022, Zelensky had shown the courage to defend the results of the Ukrainian-Russian peace negotiations in public before Russian journalists – and this despite the fact that NATO had already decided at a special summit on March 24, 2022, not to support these peace negotiations.” (Ibid)
According to von der Schulenburg, the Russian-Ukrainian peace negotiations had been a historically unique feature, made possible only because Russians and Ukrainians knew each other well and “spoke the same language and probably even knew each other personally.” We know of no other war or armed conflict in which the conflict parties agreed on specific peace terms so quickly.
On March 28, Putin, as a sign of goodwill and in support of the peace negotiations, declared readiness to withdraw troops from the Kharkov area and the Kiev area; this apparently occurred even before his public announcement.
THE PEACE NEGOCIATIONS UNRAVEL
On March 29, 2022, the day of the Istanbul meeting, Scholz, Biden, Draghi, Macron, and Johnson again spoke on the phone about the situation in Ukraine. By this time, the stance of key Western allies had apparently hardened. They formulated preconditions for negotiations that were in blatant contrast to Bennett’s and Erdogan’s peace efforts: “The leaders agreed to continue to provide strong support to Ukraine. They again urged Russian President Putin to agree to a ceasefire, to cease all hostilities, to withdraw Russian soldiers from Ukraine and to allow for a diplomatic solution (…)” (Petra Erler: Re: Review March 2022: Who Didn’t Want a Quick End to the War in Ukraine (in “News of a Lighthouse Keeper” September 1, 2023).
The Washington Post reported April 5 that in NATO, continuing the war is preferred to a cease-fire and negotiated settlement: “For some in NATO, it’s better for Ukrainians to keep fighting and dying than to achieve a peace that comes too soon or at too high a price for Kiev and the rest of Europe.” Zelensky, he said, should “keep fighting until Russia is completely defeated.”
BORIS JOHNSON’S MESSAGE TO UKRAINIANS ON APRIL 9, 2022: WE MUST CONTINUE THE WAR
On April 9, 2022, Boris Johnson arrived unannounced in Kiev and told the Ukrainian president that the West was not ready to end the war. According to Britain’s Guardian on April 28, PM Johnson had “instructed” Ukrainian President Zelensky “not to make any concessions to Putin”:
“Ukrainska Pravda” reported on this in detail in two articles on May 5, 2022:
“No sooner had the Ukrainian negotiators and Abramovich/Medinsky agreed in broad terms on the structure of a possible future agreement after the Istanbul results than British Prime Minister Boris Johnson appeared in Kiev almost without warning.
Johnson brought two simple messages with him to Kiev. The first is that Putin is a war criminal; he should be pressured, not negotiated with. The second is that even if Ukraine is willing to sign some agreements with Putin on guarantees, but that the collective West is not. We can sign [an agreement] with you [Ukraine], but not with him. He will screw everyone over anyway,” one of Selensky’s close associates summed up the essence of Johnson’s visit. There is much more behind this visit and Johnson’s words than just reluctance to engage in agreements with Russia. Johnson took the position that the collective West, which as recently as February had suggested that Zelensky should surrender and flee, now feels that Putin is not really as powerful as they had previously imagined. Moreover, there is an opportunity to put pressure on him. And the West wants to take it.”
The Neue Züricher Zeitung (NZZ) reported on April 12 that the British government under Johnson is counting on a Ukrainian military victory. Conservative Member of the House of Commons Alicia Kearns said, “We’d rather arm the Ukrainians to the teeth than give Putin a success.” British Foreign Secretary (and later Prime Minister) Liz Truss professed in a keynote speech that “victory for Ukraine (…) is a strategic imperative for us all and therefore military support must be massively expanded”. Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins warned: “Liz Truss risks inflaming the war in Ukraine for her own ambitions.” This, he said, was probably the first Tory election campaign “to be fought on Russia’s borders.” Johnson and Truss wanted Zelensky “to keep fighting until Russia is completely defeated. They need a triumph in their proxy war. In the meantime, anyone who disagrees with them can be dismissed as a weakling, a coward, or a Putin supporter. That this conflict is being exploited by Britain for a sleazy upcoming leadership contest is sickening.”
Following his second visit to Kiev on April 25, 2022, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the U.S. wants to use the opportunity to permanently weaken Russia militarily and economically in the wake of the Ukraine war. According to the New York Times, the U.S. government is no longer concerned with a fight over control of Ukraine, but with a fight against Moscow in the wake of a new Cold War.
At the April 26, 2022, meeting of defense ministers from NATO members and other countries convened by Austin in Ramstein, Rhineland-Palatinate/ Germany, the Pentagon chief declared the military victory of Ukraine as a strategic goal.
The American magazine “Responsible Statecraft,” wrote on September 2, 2022:
“Did Boris Johnson help prevent a peace deal in Ukraine? According to a recent article in Foreign Affairs, Kiev and Moscow may have reached a tentative agreement to end the war as early as April. According to several former senior U.S. officials we spoke with, Russian and Ukrainian negotiators appeared to have tentatively agreed on the outlines of a negotiated interim solution in March 2022,” write Fiona Hill and Angela Stent. “Russia would retreat to its Feb. 23 position, when it controlled part of the Donbas region and all of Crimea, and in return Ukraine would promise not to seek NATO membership and instead receive security guarantees from a number of countries. The decision to let the deal fail coincided with Johnson’s visit to Kiev in April, during which he urged Ukrainian President Zelenskiy to break off talks with Russia for two main reasons: Putin is impossible to negotiate with, and the West is not ready for an end to the war.
In his article, the authors asked questions that have become increasingly important as the war has progressed:
“This apparent revelation raises some important questions: Why did Western leaders want to prevent Kiev from signing what appeared to be a good negotiating deal with Moscow? Do they view the conflict as a proxy war with Russia? And most importantly, what would it take to return to a negotiated outcome?”
In his announcement of the partial mobilization, Putin stated on September 21, 2022:
“I would like to make this public for the first time today. After the start of the special military operation, especially after the talks in Istanbul, the Kiev representatives expressed quite positive views on our proposals. These proposals were mainly about ensuring Russia’s security and interests. But a peaceful solution obviously did not suit the West, which is why Kiev, after agreeing on some compromises, was actually ordered to nullify all these agreements.”
On the occasion of the visit of an African peace delegation on June 17, 2023, Putin demonstratively showed the agreement accepted and initialed in Istanbul ad referendum to the cameras.
CONCLUSION: MISSED OPPORTUNITY
Based on the publicly available reports and documents, it is not only plain that there was a serious willingness to negotiate on the part of both Ukraine and Russia in March 2022. Apparently, the negotiating parties even agreed on a draft treaty ad referendum. Zelensky and Putin were ready for a bilateral meeting to finalize the outcome of the negotiations. Fact is that the main results of the negotiations were based on a proposal by Ukraine, and Zelenskyy courageously supported them in an interview with Russian journalists on March 27, 2022, even after NATO decided against these peace negotiations. Zelensky had already expressed similar support beforehand in a sign that proves that the intended outcome of the Istanbul negotiations certainly corresponded to Ukrainian interests. This makes the Western intervention, which prevented an early end to the war, even more disastrous for Ukraine. Russia’s responsibility for the attack, which was contrary to international law, is not relativized by the fact that responsibility for the grave consequences that Ukraine’s Western supporters that ensued must also be attributed to the states that demanded the continuation of the war. The war has now reached a stage where further dangerous escalation and an expansion of hostilities can only be prevented by a cease-fire. It may now be the last time that a peaceful resolution through negotiations could be achieved. There are peace proposals from China, the African Union, Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, and a proposal developed at the invitation of the Vatican as early as June 2022. On 3 October this year, we presented the German Government our own peace proposal that tried to incorporate all other peace proposals made earlier. See Ending the war by a negotiated peace – Legitimate self-defense and the quest for a just and lasting peace are not contradictory HERE.
Since the failed Istanbul negotiations The course of the war and the current extremely critical timing should be reason enough for a responsible world community and UN member states to rethink and press for a ceasefire and peace negotiations.
https://www.usdebtclock.org/
I find those clocks rather interesting.
– “Bengahzi aint going away.” –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBjPAqmnvGA
“You want a definition of evil? This is it. Instead of helping end the war between Russia and Ukraine, the United States and its NATO puppets condemned hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers to death in a war with Russia they could not win.”
Absolute Truth.
Perhaps we are looking at the “End Times”. This daily systematic slaughter of helpless civilians in Gaza is an abomination. The US has turned into a monster. In the West people are actually counter demonstrating, equating those who are trying to stop the killings of Palestinians as “anti-Semitic”.
In the words of Yeats, “The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.“
Could be thats exactly what we are looking at.
My question is how many years, decades or centuries this will take to get us to the point the various “leaders” of nations (One Example: the money men behind the curtains) are obviously taking us at our entire planets great peril for nothing other than their further enrichment and consolidation of tyrannical power?
I mean, I feel bad if I accidentally step on a bug or even if I realize I have spoken to harshly to someone. How is it people can even sleep when they begin plotting these kinds of mass murder events through destabilization Ops and wars predicated on falsehoods and other evils? Much less implementing them?
Great comments here, almost all of you. There are just one or two here and there from time to time and article to article who seem off track in various degrees to me. The ones blaming entire people groups on any subject for the actions of a relative few quite diverse group/s of mean ol wicked peeps are far off track IMO.
I dont care if you are blaming Palestinians as a whole, Jews as a whole, Christians as a whole, Muslims, Hindus, Rednecks, Yankees, Whites, Blacks, Americans, Russians, Canadians, Mexicans, or even redheaded albino pygmy’s from the hidden land under Borneo as a whole, you are far far offtrack in your words.
It’s just been my experience that outlaws tend to run with outlaws — of any flavor.
The UK/US has planned this war for at least 30 years when the Wolfowitz Doctrine was leaked. The doctrine requires the US prevents the emergence of any rival, including on the territory of the former Soviet Union, in order to consolidate US global hegemony. Brzezinksy identified the Ukraine as the pivot for destroying the Russian Federation. They have been working on this for all these years.
Helping to “end the war” was the absolutely last thing the US wanted to do after it had planned the war for such a long time.
Back to Ukraine! Thanks, Larry.
The latest on saboteur Bojo, ‘Boris Johnson + Walmart + China = Peace’ – https://mikehampton.substack.com/p/boris-johnson-walmart-china-peace-propaganda
On the other returning UK warmonger, ‘David Cod Cameron is back in an era of fish and chips declining’ – https://mikehampton.substack.com/p/david-cod-cameron-is-back
That DM article by BJ was a real heaping pile, wasn’t it? It sure explained why he slithered into the Ozarks for a visit. I hope the Waltons ignored his convoluted, self-serving nonsense. There is a lot of blood on his and any other helping hands that thwarted an early peace settlement between two neighboring countries.
MTP, he didn’t bother to pretend he doesn’t smell. Entitlement.
Washington DC, operating as an Independent Entity, living rent-free on American Soil, stiff-arming the American People, profiteering for it’s many employees, collaborators, and sponsors, runs it’s own policy of burning the world to the ground.
Back with a wham. I think the article as pdf (below) should be sent to every member of Congress, MP and MSM journalist in America and Europe and asked:
WHY? and WHO AMONG YOU WILL ANSWER FOR THIS INFAMY?
https://michael-von-der-schulenburg.com/how-the-chance-was-lost-for-a-peace-settlement-of-the-ukraine-war/
Aargh! I hated having to read this, for it covered the same ground as a recent video presentation by Alexander Mercouris.
Genocide Joe and his nasty European assistants have a LOT to answer for if a “Christian Judgement Day” ever happens. War criminals all, and low-lifes to boot.
Joseph de Maistre is supposedly the author of the phrase “Toute nation a le gouvernement qu’elle mérite.” Maybe that’s true, but personally I blame the combination of a corrupt 2-party system and the Touch-Screen Computer Voting Machines.
read this as “Toute nation a le gouvernement de merde.” the first time. Need new glasses.
outstanding article, Larry.
If truly TRUE BELIEVERS, you would think all these bloodthirsty war-mongering Zealots, would let God set the End Times time table, not a bunch of blind, deaf and ignorant mice running around in human costumes.
Wake up and dig deeper.
America is owned & controlled by a small group of family dynasties.
Same goes for every other western country.
And until fairly recently the whole world.
All controlled through “their” banks-IMF, Worldbank & BIS- central bank of all central banks.
This is not conspiracy theory.
The information is out there that confirms this.
Once you understand & accept this- you can see “them” behind most everything that is anti-freedom and/or evil across the globe.
Do not take my word for it.
Research and educate yourselves so you know who the true enemy is.
Economist Michael Hudson makes the argument that the US objective was to bring Europe unequivocally into its fold. Why would the European states trade their sovereignty to be under the US’s thumb…the only rational reason could be utter corruption. The other mystery is why the US neocons haven’t had to answer for their actions. Now the ‘game’ has shifted to West Asia. Hudson makes the argument that control over the flow of oil is the object. I am stumped. Who gets to be the next ‘proxy?
Michael Hudson comes up with a lot of good thinking. As to the next proxy, already here – Israel. Israel wasn’t smart enough to look at what happened to Ukraine. Meanwhile the pro-mainland opposition in Taiwan is uniting for the next election there. China’s watching that one closely – if the right people win, it’s peaceful reunification with a big “fuck off” to the US. So I’m thinking we might see Taiwan taken off the table as a potential future proxy.
Reality is that all of US Government and US Congress is dancing to Israel’s tune — not the other way around.
It is the complete reverse of the Ukrainian power situation, with the majority of American citizens filling the role of Ukrainians, to have their lives destroyed to satisfy the genocidal fantasies of Israel.
Of course, there is the common string that those who were driving the US bus on Ukraine are fellows of the Israelis, and those same people are frothing at the mouth to widen the war in the ME, which, aside from the enormous harm in the ME, will cause great economic, social and human damage in the US.
I had no idea that there is $500 billion worth oil supply in Gaza. Now it all makes “sense.”
I wonder if Israel will have any energy without imports. The leverage over the west with petroleum products can reduce us to banana republic the way Moody’s reduced the US outlook to (select an adjective) negative. Everyone wants oil revenue, but cutting it off even for a few days will bring everyone but yahoo to the table to talk about it. We get to see which regional players will affect their oil revenues to stop or cripple Israel and the lackeys in the west. But like always, no one trusts the west based on a track record of betrayal. Their play has to be solid. It will involve many soiled britches in the colonial houses of power.
The delusion seems to continue and the west must really believe the Russians and the middle eastern nations are all wussies because they are. They can’t learn. There isn’t any money in it. Control is slipping further out of the grip of those being enfeebled. And Biden sold so much of our strategic reserve and so much went to China. Taking the line on coincidence is looking like a bad bet.
European leaders hide behind human rights on the one hand and US military power on the other. If they admitted that real reason behind retaining their privileged position in the world is that they are superior to everyone else, the supposed basis of their influence disappears.
Now that US power is on the wane, Europe can no longer exploit their ‘former’ African colonies to support their ‘advanced’ service economies. I think their politicians are afraid of telling their people that the party is over, and there is much hard work ahead of them in the real economy.
“I think their politicians are afraid of telling their people that the party is over, and there is much hard work ahead of them in the real economy”
I am afraid most politicians in Europe don’t really understand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufAHg6hN4OA
In my opinion he is serious about that as many other in Europe are, unfortunately.
The only reason “the party is over” is because of the profligate wars and fiscal pretzel gymnastics to retain power and economic hegemony are, well, expensive. Hence the never-ending rush to borrow $trillions from the Rothschild Controlled Banking System.
If the US/ZATO Central Banks held their own sovereign debt via self-issuance of the money supply, the Rothschilds would have no leverage over them… a cursory glance at the US FED reveals all.
There is more than enough to house, clothe and feed all 8+ Billion of us, if the idiots in charge would stop listening to the Rothschild Class psychopaths that fund both sides of wars, serially destroying otherwise functional civilizations.
Cui bono?
The EU had the potential to wrest free of the post-WW2 chokehold the US/Rothschild Great Gamers maintained. Germany was/is still Occupied, with 10’s of thousands of US troops still stationed there. Ditto for Japan, South Korea and a couple dozen other “strategic” countries. Diego Garcia isn’t just a nice holiday retreat for the US nuke-bomber crews.
But now that the EU is well on the road to de-industrialized serfdom, the US/Rothschilds feel they can control former EU-held colonies directly without any interference from voters in the EU or US.
“you will own nothing…” which means the WEF/Rothschilds will own everything… and rent it back to you in perpetuity.
Puts the term “rent seeking” in a whole new light, eh?
You are so close to understanding the full picture!
Keep digging, so you understand fully.
Encourage others. Get them started.
Only when the enemy is clearly known by many do we have a chance to fix the problem that was not fixed after WW2.
There are terrible times ahead for the “west”- due to “them”.
These terrible times will provide the cover to rid the world of these evildoers- who all reside in the “west”.
@AP
Here we have to ask more precisely.
“You will own nothing…” Which of “YOU” does this mean?
If we analyze this more closely or precisely, we notice and see that this “you” is written in a very general way and can mean everything or not at all. The first thing to do is to find out who (i.e. “you”) is meant by this.
I have a very big problem understanding this. At first I thought humanity, including the chosen ones, was included, without any exceptions, but I noticed that. That doesn’t work because people are extremely suspicious, an asshole and very stubborn. There will be resistance.
Ultimately, I wonder. Does “you” only mean Europe?
So in summary. Who knows who “you” means?
“So in summary. Who knows who “you” means?”
If you are not shure if “you” includes you, then it surely does.
@just saying
That’s not an answer, so answer my question. Who does “you” mean? The world, Europe, WHO?
P.S.: You don’t even need to include me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You'll_own_nothing_and_be_happy
https://odysee.com/@Chilledcommunications:2/Klaus-Schwab-Own-Nothing-Be-Happy:a
“You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy” is made up by the World Economic Forum. They want to rule the whole World, but are not there yet. “You” means people currently under their rule. “You” means the plebs, the people that are not in the club. It’s a big club and “you” ain’t in it.
https://youtu.be/Nyvxt1svxso?t=104
I had no idea that there is $500 billion worth oil supply in Gaza. Now it all makes “sense.”
While Egypt and Israel have been producing gas in the eastern Mediterranean for years, the Gaza Marine field, about 30 km (20 miles) off the Gaza coast, has remained undeveloped due to political disputes and conflict with Israel, as well as economic factors.
Gaza Marine is estimated to hold over 1 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, much more than is needed to power the Palestinian territories and some of which could potentially be exported.
Israeli officials also told Reuters that Israel’s energy minister had decided to hold off on a final deal until after Israel’s upcoming elections in November.
Cairo has also been in contact with officials from the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, which has run Gaza since 2007, over the gas field, according to a Palestinian official familiar with the issue.
“Why would the European states trade their sovereignty to be under the US’s thumb …”
What sovereignty? Western Europe have been under US occupation since the end of WWII, and additional territories have been acquired after the end of Cold War. NATO and EU are shackles painted in rainbow colours.
Canada, for refusing to build the Keystone Pipeline.
Canada should have known all along the U.S. wasn’t serious, so now Canada will pay.
-don’t question my logic, the U.S. Government has thousands of cretins, and media savants, capable of making and fomenting the above argument.
Canada, just like America and every other western country are owned & controlled by the same group of family dynasties in Europe & America.
Canadian oil remains landlocked as a reserve for “them”.
If you look at a list of crude prices- Western Canadian select- is 30% to 50% below every other crude.
Why?
The only pipelines allowed go to America.
If there were export pipelines to tide water Canada would get world price.
As Gonzalo says- “know what’s going on”
Most European leaders or nothing but US puppets.
….and Scholz the biggest of them all. Brits are intermediary hybrids, thinking of themselves as half puppet, half puppeteer but Scholz and the Germans? Lackeys, through and through. Neutered to nothingness.
Good summary for those who haven’t been paying attention and fills in some blanks for those who have. Hoping this helps any hesitation for reaching for the ‘red pill.’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE7PKRjrid4
Thanks to NATO Putin was prevented to betray Russians under Ukrainian rule, living on historical Russian land inside Ukraine.
He wanted to do this even after the disastrous Minsk 1 and 2, throwing away a historical opportunity to reunite Russia and reverse the USSR’s callous territorial crimes against historical Russia. He’s still suspiciously left the Kharkov and Odessa area under Uki control even today and recently hinted that if the Ukies promise to treat the Russians well, Russia may not will take them. No wonder I no longer trust him. He’s capable to snatch a strategic defeat from the jaws of victory. Or he just wants give that land with sea access through Odessa to Second Israel!
I read that he’s yet undecided whether or not to run for re-election next year. I hope he will not! I admit that he did a lots of good things for Russia in the past. Now he’s seemingly willing/capable of undoing many of his good deeds either due to extremely soft, kneejerk policies or working for Second Israel Project in part of Ukraine!
Unlike Biden Putin is not the man making decisions alone
He has a STAVKA and they debate and decide
Russia expects a U.S. attack either before US elections or thereafter
Trump will change nothing
The Israel Vernichtungskrieg shows the true face of the West as in Operation Storm in Croatia and Donbass and it is clear war is inevitable
Does Biden really make decisions on his own?
And all the mega economic, media, military, intelligence, etc. bodies let him do it? bah!! I often appreciate your comments, but this one seems far-fetched to me…
Biden can’t decide which door to go through, let alone run a country.
He’s running it all right…….right into the dirt. Must be in the genes, considering the rest of the family.
I dare say Putin will bravely manage to survive your lack of trust, while continuing a 20 year run of the most effective, constructive and beneficial leadership of any country in the world.
Jeff Cox
Sir, I am sure that Putin will not take advantage of your harmful short-sighted recommendations and will not give a damn about your distrust of him.
Putin has already said in passing that the issue of reunifying historical Russian lands is an issue for decades (10 – 50 years). This issue cannot be resolved quickly within the framework of a special military operation. Because the question of annexing the territory of Ukraine, which 100 years ago belonged to the Russian Empire, is not a question of military violence, occupation, etc., it is not a question of Ukraine’s access to the sea through Odessa and Nikolaev, it is a question of the mental (cultural, spiritual) reunification of the Russian people.
Russia will not return historical Russian cities through cleansing and genocide of the local population, as Israel does in Gaza.
Be patient and believe – no, not in the wisdom and patience of Putin, but in the wisdom and patience of the Russian people, whose son Putin is.
Putin has already decided to run in 2024, which has been announced. Check out the news feed.
grazie.
sono convinto al 100% e ho speranza che influirà sul cambiamento dei valori e delle leggi che regolano i rapporti fra nazioni.
Thank you.
I am 100% convinced and I have hope that it will influence the change in the values and laws that govern relations between nations.
Yes!
I love Italy.
Me too…
I love Italians a little less (especially politicians)
anche io…
un poco meno amo gli italiani (specie i politici)
I did not expect that Putin will read my post, but I expected that sane people will read it as an argument, based on some of Putin’s questionable decisions and convince me that I’m wrong. I want to be wrong about him! Unfortunately and idiot, you, also read it.
“Putin has already said in passing that the issue of reunifying historical Russian lands is an issue for decades (10 – 50 years). This issue cannot be resolved quickly within the framework of a special military operation.” So, an already ongoing war/SMO, provoked by the side owning historical Russian land and losing that war is NOT the event to solve this issue? Will the Ukies willingly give up Russian lands a few DECADES in the future?? You must be/are really deranged. I don’t even argue with your other idiotic points. I’m not entering your asylum.
You forgot to complain about “foul language”, after calling her really deranged.
but I expected sensible people to read this as an argument based on some of Putin’s questionable decisions and convince me that I was wrong.
If Putin could not, through his actions, convince you of the incontrovertibility and effectiveness of his decisions, then no one will be able to set your mind straight. Just sit there and continue to doubt. Good luck with that.
You don’t understand Putin at all.
It’s stupid to rush into an embrasure. Funny and stupid.
Putin has already said in passing that the issue of reunifying historical Russian lands is an issue for decades
Do you understand that 1) Putin has never said or implied exactly that and 2) how loaded a statement that is, as it implies a reconquest of former territories and a direct path to WWIII?
Are you a neocon or their agent by chance?
Putin has never said or implied that, because he’s a diplomat. We are already in WWIII. It won’t end before USA/NATO leaves Eastern Europe. Fasten your seatbelt, because it’s going to be long and bumpy ride.
“1) Putin never said or implied exactly this”
Putin said this. He who has ears, let him hear.
Putin’s words sounded something like this (from memory): We are working for the long term, for decades to come. Ukraine will sooner or later return to Russia. This is a question for 10-50 years.
And who heard what and who understood what – these are our subjective problems.
For some time now, I have made it a rule to listen carefully to Putin, because he says the most fundamental things once and by the way. 90% of people at this time flap their ears and cannot hear. 10% think about what these words mean.
2) how convincing is this statement, since it implies the reconquest of former territories and a direct path to World War II?
This statement does not imply anything of the sort. On the contrary, a special military operation is one of the ways to prevent a hot world war – as I understand it, this is my opinion.
At the beginning of the discussion, they talked about the need to recapture Odessa and Kharkov. I do not dispute the need to return these cities. The only question is when and how to return. Carpet bombing, total destruction of these cities, massacres of civilians is an unacceptable method for Russia. Only voluntarily with the consent of the majority, only through a referendum. We will cook the frog slowly in boiling water – “as long as it takes” 🙂 Again, this is my opinion. Nobody knows what Putin plans to do.
“Are you by any chance a neocon or their agent?”
No.
Strelkov, is that you?
It’s a Hollywood remake of Strelkov.
Lenin didn’t give Novorossiya to Ukraine out of the goodness of his heart. Russian leaders wanted a buffer state with a Russian majority. It backfired.
That’s exactly what happened in Yugoslavia, when half Croat, half Slovene Tito opened its southern Kosovo border to Albanian immigration in order to suppress a greater Serbian influence within the state.
That time, it worked out well for western intrigues. This time around in Ukraine, not so well at all.
How do you know what Putin wants and thinks? Do you have a copy of Putin’s playbook, like all the Western politicians do?
More importantly, who the fuck are you to trust or not trust Putin? You don’t sound like Russian to me, but like one of those Muricans thinking that the World revolves around their fat asses, and that others should do what fits them.
How do YOU know what Putin thinks? You must have a copy of his playbook!? ..”who the fuck are you to trust (or not trust) Putin?” I just voiced suspicions, which even Russian citizens are also voicing, according to Russian news media posts! I read English translations of Russian media and I found that even Russians have issues with some of Putin’s questionable decisions, including even the military brass! I wish Russia and Putin success, but I’m not a simpleton like you! You must be living in a low IQ bubble without sensing real reality and possibilities. People like you are happy, naive, blissfully unaware of reality around them.
Anyway I’m not here to push anti Russian BS, I’m with Russia in this struggle and I absolutely do not appreciate your faul language for having a different take on events!
You did not just voice suspicions, but boasted your entitlement, and acted like Putin owes you something, and he somehow betrayed your trust. It sounds bordeline insane. No one appreciates that, and you got harsh reactions. It’s not about having a different take on events.
You know nothing about Russian citizens. They don’t need you as advocate, quite the contrary. They want you to mind your own business.
“I wish Russia and Putin success, but I’m not a simpleton like you! You must be living in a low IQ bubble without sensing real reality and possibilities. People like you are happy, naive, blissfully unaware of reality around them.”
What kind of balderdash is this? You are incapable of even figuring out what continent I am on, yet alone what my native language is, or how many wars or universities I have been trough. You just sling some run-of-the-mill insults expecting that they will make you win an Internet argument. How ignorant is that? You must be Murican. You people really think you look smart while writing this semiliterate shit. You genuinely think that you are smarter than Putin, and are eager to show your wits to the World. I’m sorry to be the one to break the bad news for you.
No, you don’t wish success for Russia and Putin. Self centered know-it-alls like you only wish success to themselves. You just pretend to like Russia and Putin, because you see that they are somehow on the winning team. Switching to their side requires more effort, and your current spiel ain’t fooling anyone.
“I absolutely do not appreciate your foul language for having a different take on events!”
You mean me calling you a simpleton living in a low IQ bubble without sensing real reality and possibilities, happy, naive, blissfully unaware of reality around them. Oh, wait, it was you that wrote that, and probably got hurt by accuracy of self inflicted insult.
Regarding foul language; “Who the fuck you are..” Is this a nice language to you, asshole? When did I say/imply that Putin owes me anything, you imbecile? You are a low IQ faqing simpleton. You are like a fanatical religious nut that feels offended even if someone worship the same god you do but in a different way! F.U!! Please don’t reply! I despise mindless fanboys like you even more than the enemy.
@just saying
Jeff Cox called us idiots, assholes, brainless fans… and cried :).
I’m pleased to be in the same company with you, “just saying” 🙂
It’s a company of Slavs with attitude. The US taxpayer guy who repeatedly tries to insults us (poorly), says that he support us. That’s some high IQ stuff, akin to Blinken level diplomacy. He must be of Jewish-Ukrainian origin.
The bottom line, as expressed, is that there is no incentive for Russia to negotiate anything, as there is no possibility of any good faith agreement of any kind. At minimum Ukraine will end up unconditionally surrendering, and I suspect that Putin is looking to dismember NATO as well. I’m not sure what the plan is there, but there are lots of possibilities from a straight on attack to crippling the US via Iran.
It would be ironic in the extreme if Russia used Iran and/or Syria in a proxy war against the US. That would be poetic justice. Imagine if you will Russia “lending” Iran some of its best hardware. That would even cause MBS to do a Biden and shit himself.
We can count on Russia and China playing the long game and having strategies and contingencies in place to take on the US. I’m guessing that as long as the US continues its own self destruction they’ll sit back and watch. No sense giving Americans any reason to unite on anything just yet. The Keystone cops look like a well oiled machine by comparison to FJB.
In my opinion, the west is finished anyway. Not much to be done here for Russia. Just look at the financial situation of the, so called, combined west. They are all bankrupt. Yet, they decide to prolong the financial catastrophe by printing more debt, worsening their already bad situation. This will not change the outcome. There is just no other way out, as to declare bankruptcy at some point.
The US debt service will hit 1B $ this year. Investors all over the world know what is happening too and they are all dumping US bonds and other securities. Soon the US will be only able to borrow money from itself. This is where the $ will really go into hyperinflation. The US-deficit cannot sustain debt-service of 1B $, regardless of the bigger picture. The higher the debt, the higher the deficit, the higher the debt. The US is already borrowing just to cover the deficit. So their deficit **is** already, mainly, debt-driven.
For the last 10 years, banks all over the world went onto a buying spree to increase their gold holdings. They all know very well what is coming and so they do the only logical thing, buying hard assets to insure they will survive the collapse of the monetary system.
No one is making any secret of what is happening there. But ordinary people have forgotten how “money” really works.
Russia and China don’t need a direct or by-proxy war with the west. They just have to exist peacefully, increase the development in trade and others civil spheres and simply wait.
According to Washington Post, 10/20/23, in a piece by Jeff Stein, interest on the US debt for 2023 is $659 billion up from $352 billion in 2021.
Sorry, I meant 1T $ of course. The numbers are so huge, one gets easy lost in billions instead in trillions.
The 659$ you mentioned was a figure for the time being, my guess. The estimate is around 900 billion for 2023. But people are already rounding up to 1 trillion. You can find that number in the official Treasury Monthly Statement. I read about that in July at Zerohedge. This is where I got the number.
I thought that’s what you meant. What is startling is the almost doubling of the interest in the last two years.
I wonder if people born after WW2 ever understood the nature of money. I was born in ’42. I had to learn it on my own. Keynesian economics dominated higher education when I was in college. and I found it boring, not related to the real world I lived in. Then when I read the Austrian school of economics their explanation made perfect sense to me and suddenly economics became interesting because it explained economics in terms of ordinary human action, my actions and interactions with others.
Replacing the gold standard with the fiat standard replaced an honest money that was universally valued for thousands of years with a legally counterfeited piece of paper that was imposed on us and that was backed by nothing more than the promise of the government that imposed it on us. We are now witnessing the destructive consequences of that monetary policy as you point out.
Just imagine if the fed have had hiked to 8 or 10%, like anyone would expect in an healthy and functioning economy.
Money after 1971 became a ponzi scheme anyway. You can only inflate the debt as the growth stays slightly above it and the deficit stays below it. It is still very fragile and any crash in the markets can unbalance the whole thing, which in this case it did in 2008. A lot of that stuff the FED and the other fraudsters are running is just pure financial BS to prolong the inevitable. The same we can see in the EU, where they basically allow their weaker members to interact with the central bank to reshuffle their debt, which they still state is not happening. They basically redefine everything they can’t hide anymore, see vaccines, recession, etc. It’s pretty much game over when the inflation will run away, which I believe we could see soon. They can still slash the interest rates to zero and below, but they can’t fight inflation with more debt, they can only slow it down, which they also might do. But this will only push most people into poverty and erode the society.
People can prepare and try to manage as good as they have ability to do. There is a reason they do not educate people to be self-sufficient, strong in character and well informed about their identity and heritage and also those simple things like common knowledge about anything of importance to be able to sustain on their own. They teach them to be rather dependent, mostly uneducated (besides lowest forms knowledge, needed for existence/functioning), obedient and afraid servants to the state. Long time ago it was different, back then, the state was **the people**. To be great, the people had to be great and they were.
Send the difference to Ukraine. They don’t know how to add or subtract in Washington anyway.
Plus, Larry did not mention it, but there is precious little of negotiators for Russia to talk with.
Western spec-ops track down and assassinate those who try to Kickstart serious negotiations.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-spy-or-ukrainian-hero-the-strange-death-of-denys-kiryeyev-11674059395?mod=hp_lead_pos5
The purpose of the conflict was to divide Germany from Russia and BRI with China.
Without Germany as Drehscheibe US ceases to be global power and U.K. is peripheral
Ukraine was used to make NATO master of EU
Exactly. This is a war against Europe. Any gains to be had vis a vis Russia were always just gravy. The first major attack was Trump killing the Iran Nuke deal. The beneficiaries of that were all European and especially German- markets, infrastructure projects, cheap energy. Without Iran, the EU turned big time to printing Euros, and the rest was inevitable.
I really have no idea what Trump’s intentions were when in office. He seems to have tried to restrain the hawks, but wasn’t very effective, the pentagon just ignored his orders. I think he may have authentically desired a treaty with the DPRK, but the neocons torpedoed that. The permanent state controls policy, with or without the consent of mere presidents. That’s the American system of checks and balances.
In any case, this war to weaken the EU has been going on for a long time. I think that Europe has pretty much lost- when their defeat is sufficient to satisfy the neocons and neolibs, somebody will make peace with Russia.
Trump ran a family business essentially small with no great staffing issues
In DC he did not know who to hire and rented snakes
He made decisions good and bad on wrong criteria
I think Trump’s instincts were right, but he didn’t have cadre to fill key positions and the deep state planted own people and sabotaged Trump at all turns. Also he’s inconsistent, prone to flattery and didn’t do the right thing when could – open JFK’s files, free Assange, just a few. Hopefully, he’ll do better the second time around. But what choices we got? Baby Kennedy has a multiple personality disorder , Vivek speaks well but is untested, Nikki is rabid, Ron is wishy-washy. I’ll close my eyes and pinch my nose, and vote for Trump with , even if he annoys me to no end.
la NATO è sempre stata padrona dell’U€ così come gli U$ sono sempre stati padroni della NATO
ora ,quello che restera dell’Ukraina con tutti i suoi disastri e debiti entrerà nell’U€:
perchè non negli U$ o meglio nel Commonweath?
True dividing Russia and German/Europe is the only achievable object of the Ukraine war. To defeat Russia was never a realistic option. Following the axis Russia/German/France against the Iraq war, the US need the Ukraine war to divide Germany and Russia. The economic zone from Lisbon to Vladivostok proposed by Putin would have made the US superfluous in Europe. Rather than lose Europe, the US decided to ruin Europe.
America and NATO must not appear alongside the word peace. That word has all but disappeared from its post-WWII lexicon. Simply add up the numbers of fatalities from unprovoked wars in that era and you will see why. The numbers exceed the totals for the rest of the world combined.
The US and its sidekicks did Russia a good turn. by sabotaging the peace back then. Not intentionally, of course, but by miscalculation and idiocy.
Just think what the result would have been if an agreement had ben reached whereby Russia retained the territories taken UNTIL THEN and Ukraine makes firm promises (“Cross my heart and hope to die, Vladimir Vladimirovich!”) to not join NATO. No regime change in Ukraine. No Odessa (coming up) and a de facto junior membership in NATO for Uraine.
Not to mention the Russian military being forced to reform and adjust the many organizational disconnects and inefficiencies that had built up during peace time. Then there’s all the new hardware and attendant skills that have been brought forward, tested and honed under real combat conditions.
As land armies go, Russia now stands head & shoulders above whoever might currently occupy 2nd place. They ain’t bad in the air and on the sea either. What’s more, the war has crippled the militaries of Russia’s erstwhile enemies.
Win-Win, with both wins on the Russian side.
Necessity mothered some advantageous economic developments as well, creating a robust, self-sufficient economy based on indigenous resources and talent, and trade with unassailable partners. As a bonus, the sanctions boomeranged back on the West crippling their economies, with a few being damaged beyond near term recovery.
Win-Win, again.
By the time this ends, they’ll have lost all the Ukraine worth having to either Russia, or to a new state allied to Russia. With that, they’ll have lost their century old dream of gaining control of Eurasia, along with a century of preparing Ukraine for its pivotal role in the attempt.
Win-Win, yet again.
How such a misbegotten collection of blowhards and wankers came to lead the West at the end of its golden age will keep future historians busy. Tragically, half a million Ukrainian men died and 1,000s more will die before the strange case of Ukraine is finally closed.
Could not have said it better! Thank god for the Empire of Stupid.🥂
Mr. Johnson,
You want a definition of evil?
1. What the fanatical Jews are doing to Gaza.
2. The cover and green-lighting provided to Israel by most Jews in the USA, and these Jews control US foreign policy via AIPAC, etc.
3. What the US did to Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan, again mostly by US Jews.
4. What the US did to Ukraine, again mostly by Jews and Zionist tools such as Graham.
5. What the US intends to do to Iran.
It’s past time that we started telling the truth about who it is that causes all these evils.
I believe Jews like Muslims get bullied by „community leaders“ into filling coffers with tribute
Much like Bernie Madoff being a pillar of the community raising money – intimidation – and supine acceptance until it becomes anathema to core beliefs and revolt ensues
I am surprised that Russia is not taking control of the whole of Ukrainian territory since I would believe that the US would take what was left and still turn it into a NATO member.
Putin said that the US can not be trusted, and so if whatever is left of Ukraine doesn’t like Russia, it also seems to not want to fight a war against Russian any longer.
I also don’t see Russia wanting any US picked government left in charge of any peace settlement with Ukraine.
Perhaps Putin is hoping to tie the US up in the Mideast, while finish his business with Ukraine on his own terms. He did say he would demilitarized and get rid of the NAZI elements.
Putin is doing what Putin does best, keeping Russia’s own counsel and pursuing the best interests of the motherland.
Of course he gave peace a chance, even though it cost Russia dear. That cost will rightly be redeemed. Putin is a righteous leader and Russia is involved in a righteous fight- which is more than you can say for the west.
Most of Ukraine will become part of the Russia Federation by the end of 2024.
Putin/Russia act with strategy & patience.
They are not only thinking about the end result in Ukraine, but also ensuring the economic collapse of the EU, UK and America.
In playing the long game and bleeding America & its vassal out- they allow America & its vassals to expose themselves as the evil colonial exceptionalists they are.
Within 24 months EU countries will be on their knees in Moscow begging for Russian commodities.
America will be an isolated pariah state.
I see a possible scenario, (anything’s possible I suppose). An internal coup in Kiev, those ‘sane people’ Russia speaks of taking control of the government and the banderite fascist crowd doing a reverse Donbass and seceding from their failed project with now Lviv as their capital, only to find that 1) Fico of Slovakia has already called them out for the fascists they are and will quarantine them 2) Poland, with a new found national pride – finally calls them to task for their genocide of the Poles and decides, now that they’re no longer of any use to NATO and just troublesome mongrels on THEIR border now, to deal with them once and for all and even take back Lwow as a consolation prize.
Stranger things have happened.
The West was encouraged by the Ukrainians (and their ‘intelligence’) to believe the stupid narrative that Russia would implode if nudged. The peace talks the Ukrainians entered were always meant to be a threat to galvanise the west. Ukraine was threatening the west that in doing the deal it would ‘have’ to do, the west would have Russia on NATO’s border by the end of the decade, if not before. There is an irony here since what the west has done has ensured this will be the case when it would not have been before. It has also destroyed Ukraine.
Ukraine wanted to fight NATO’s fight, not its own, believing that NATO power would roll in and would defeat Russia, or rather Ukraine, its noble proxy, would do so with this fabled might. Ukraine’s fatal flaw has always been its belief in the wonders of the west, military and economic. It was encouraged in this belief by Johnson, specifically assuming the role of grandstanding all over the european stage cajoling les autres into buy into the plan and going all in.
So, here you have it. The Ukrainians themselves, strong-arming NATO in, wanted to be assured they would get everything they needed to fight NATO’s fight and they assumed if push came to shove, there would be a direct NATO intervention . What not to like?
We can debate the foot dragging on the arming issue as the europeans wilted under the threat of the extraordinarily disciplined Russian tit for tat that would start taking out bits of their own territory If not a whole city, if they were not very careful, but don’t think the nutty Ukrainians were just Biden’s poodle. Ukraine knows the truth and restricts its blame game to NATO’s failure to fulfil its promise. Already it is trying trying to move in on the next US president, selling some new version of its perpetual war policy all funded by humungous western bungs. Ukraine has never been interested in peace with Russia, and certainly not in 22. It had been waging that vicious illegal civil war for a decade before all this blew up. It is a menace and better back under the Russian iron fist.
I am not saying that the cynical self serving west was not enchanted by the idea of all those Russian resources it had hankered after for so long, and that the US was not tipped on the prize of killing off NS2 and generating at long last a fat market for its gas. But here is the nub of it. The west has been led by a stream of weak silly leaders whose vanity Ukraine has swallowed its bile to stoke. Ukraine had agency in all this, far more than the vain silly west ever now wants to admit. It would rather be seen as the grand actor, the duplicitous snake, behind this disastrous war (after all it has form here, and has shrugged the opprobrium off), than what it actually was, Ukraine’s poodle.
That’s why Russia needs to take Odessa, Kharkov, Sumy and Transnistria – to show what happens when a country counts on America for protection. Russia’s like “we coulda had a nice compromise, but you wanted to do this the hard way. “
“That’s why Russia needs to take Odessa, Kharkov, Sumy and Transnistria.”
Patience is a virtue “to show what happens when a country counts on (America)/”The United States of America” for protection”, except to the West-Asian book-end Israel being a component of “The United States of America” in facilitation and protection of “The petro dollar” and “The Indian Wars” which are hoped to be emulated/enhanced in different forms to sustain “The United States of America”.
I would hope they take all of it, with the exception of Galicia which I hope they give to Poland for safe keeping 🙂
There is one very important data point missing from the timeline reported.
It was on April 13 that Russia massively increased its artillery bombardment of Ukrainian positions, as reported by Russian MOD.
In the week starting March 31, 403 such attacks were reported.
In the week starting April 7, 1,013 attacks.
In the week starting April 14, 7,043 attacks.
The initial assault was carried out by BTG’s using only their organic artillery with only limited heavy artillery support. Mobilization and deployment of the additional heavy artillery forces will have taken some time and likely commenced as soon as the order to attack Ukraine was issued. Therefore, these forces were likely not in position before early April.
But at some point before April 13, the Russians clearly understood the full implications of NATO interference in the peace negotiations, took the gloves off and unleashed their artillery.
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According to Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande, they have declared that the plan against Russia had been developed since 2008 and that everything dealt with in 2014 had been a farce against Russia, the West was not going to back down with billions of dollars and euros at stake that would enrich many of them. they.
The sale of weapons “donated” to Ukraine is a clue from which it can be deduced that much of the money “donated” to Ukraine also ended up in the wrong accounts in tax havens.
And although prudence dictated being very careful with the Russians, personal business with the war decided everything, in any case the deaths and destruction would be for Ukraine, which, as the Israelis say, are “human animals” and are worthless.
The astounding takeaway from the provisional peace agreement of March 2022, is just how breathtakingly good it was for Ukraine. I remember a Russian friend at the time telling me that he & many Russians were fearful in March, that Putin would sell out. Those fears were fully justified. Seems Ukraine only had to renounce NATO, and promise to implement Minsk (again), and it was happy-ever-after time. Oh, and they got a bonus prize of opening up Crimea as an issue. The RF delegation must have been headed by Coco the Clown. Here is the irony……. Had the West signed off on this super-deal for Ukraine, they would likely have achieved their stated goals of destabilising Russia, achieving regime change, and perhaps the eventual breakup of the RF. Now, instead, they will end up with a rump Ukraine, de-militarised West, fatally weakened NATO & EU, and a RF that is immeasurably strengthened militarily, economically, and diplomatically. Boy – I’m sure glad the Biden Admin was on watch.
I’d have to reread the negotiations but I believe since Russia had already recognized Donbass’ wish to join the RF, there could be no return to Minsk II.
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“Since the failed Istanbul negotiations The course of the war and the current extremely critical timing should be reason enough for a responsible world community and UN member states to rethink and press for a ceasefire and peace negotiations.”
There is nobody to negotiate with. There is nobody in the western ruling class to trust!!
I am not losing my country again to American foreign policy.
American led rules based order refusal to protect Palestinian civilians right to live is another reason the west is now definitely our enemy.
Keep your fantasy of negotiated settlements. Western ideology is a threat to us and all of humanity.
We are constantly faced with statements that cause either bewilderment or ridicule among Russians: the West acts and speaks as if the initiative for negotiations and control over the situation in the world belongs only to them.
However, the United States, NATO, and the West lost unconditional control over Eurasia in 2008 after the five-day war in Georgia and finally lost it at the beginning of 2014, when Victoria Nuland was distributing cookies in Kiev, which, it seems, none of the Western leaders are aware of.
Brzezinski and his “chessboard” should have been sent to hell.
Natalja,
In your opinion, do you think Russia will allow the USA to self-immolate? Or will y’all visit us to secure our nukes to keep them out of the hands of rogue actors?
I’m not Natalya, but let me answer.
I like the way you think. I have a suspicion, or a hope, if you will, that the Russian leadership is working to have a proactive capability to neutralize nuclear weapons in the United States and other hostile regions of the planet. To do this, Russians do not need to come to you.
That is the same question I have had for some time; if the US goes down, who would control the nukes? Davos?? That’s scary.
In which case, I could see a joint Russian/Chinese peacekeeping force show up on both coasts simultaneously.
Thanks Guys for offering your opinions.
Guess they threatened ze with death along with his family because making a uturn like this can’t be accomplished by promising only money – The threat to family can make a man do strange things
Have you ever considered that Z is simply a classic coward and the Biletsky’s threat of a pointed stick coupled with Bojo’s threat of a pointed carrot were more than enough to turn that comedian?
That reminds me of the Wizard of Oz who in an alternate script, promised a spine to the lion but could only provide some recycled cartilage.
This was predicted in 1993 in a paper by the one and only George Soros, https://archive.org/details/toward-a-new-world-order
He suggested using an Eastern European country to provoke a proxy war with Russia. Using their soldiers as fodder as Russia was destroyed. The main goal was to keep NATO relevant — and profitable.
Sadly the idiots in charge in the West still go by John McCain’s “Russia is just a gas station with nukes” comment. Worse it only takes a cursory search to realize most of Russia’s economy is internal. Sanctions would have little effect. They haven’t learned and still think it’s 1991.
One really important fact everyone seems to be missing is that by using its passive/ aggressive style of war Russia has had the opportunity to study and learn about all the variations used by all the NATO countries militaries. Anyone with military experience knows that each country trains its soldiers slightly differently. By facing troops trained by all the different NATO countries Russia has learned to note the variations and how to counteract each variation the most effective way. NATO would still have to learn how to fight against Russia’s style of war while Russia already knows what to expect from NATO if this proxy war stops being a proxy war and becomes a full-fledged open field continental war.
I actually knew someone who worked for Radio Free Europe in the 70’s and actually met Soros in the offices and described him as a truly nasty jerk.
Thank you, Mr. Johnsson, for the timeline; On April 28, an essential event was missing for me in this whole Machiavellian plan put in place by Biden, Johnson, Stolten and all the other useless accomplices: Sabotage of the Nord-Stream gas pipelines is missing Sleepy Jo had threatened him before the “Russian invasion”: “We’re going to blow him up; We have the capabilities and we will.” This has forever divided Europe’s manufacturing industry from its natural and economic source of energy while simultaneously harming Russia. Prior to this date, NATO is “not ready to negotiate…” but after this date, unfortunately for us and the Ukrainians, Russia “is not ready to negotiate”
grazie signor Johnsson per la cronistoria temporale;
alla data del 28 aprile mancava un avvenimento per me essenziale in tutto questo piano macchiavellico messo in atto da biden,johnson,stolten e tutti gli altri inutili complici:
manca il Sabotaggio ai Gasdotti Nord-Stream
sleepy jo l’aveva minacciato prima delli “Invasione russa” : “lo faremo saltare; ne abbiamo le capacità e lo faremo.”
Questo ha diviso per sempre l’industria manufatturiera europea dalla sua fonte naturale ed economica di energia danneggiando contemporaneamente la Russia.
Prima di questa data la NATO “non è pronta a trattare…”
ma dopo questa data,purtroppo per noi e gli ukraini, la Russia “non è pronta a trattare”
Larry, your description of events is no less than the classic depiction of the chaos theory.
“Chaos theory describes the qualities of the point at which stability moves to instability or order moves to disorder. For example, unlike the behavior of a pendulum, which adheres to a predictable pattern a chaotic system does not settle into a predictable pattern due to its nonlinear processes. Examples of chaotic systems include the behavior of a waft of smoke or ocean turbulence. Chaotic systems are characteristically sensitive to initial conditions. Therefore a slight change in the initial condition could have a vast impact on the outcome.”
Extrapolation of logic from chaos is an art form – and then there’s the “piling on.”
Sheer evil does have a tendency to cause chaos, and 500,000 KIA.
the USA+ could only have done it with buy in from greedy corrupt ukrainian politicians,and the indoctrinated population.If the general population was not in on the hostile treatment of the Russian minorities, their politicians would not have gone along.They are still fighting in their lost cause.Everybody was in on it,so they have the consequences incoming.They had the Maidan Revolution as a guide.Fill the square with anti-war protestors and the politicians would be cooked.They didnt do it,dont bitch about is now and kiss your cease fire goodbye.Americans watch as millions of illiterate ,unemployable 3rd world migrants flood the country,there will be consequences.All the huffing and puffing about the 2nd Amendment being for self-protection.Its not working.That blowback will also be well earned.
Though it is not actually funny, I still have to laugh at how history does indeed repeat itself. This entire thing is nearly identical to how the allies, particularly the US, manipulated Poland into rejecting any and all offers by the Germans vis a vis the Danzig Germans thus guaranteeing Germany would finally feel compelled to act militarily. There is an evil that has been at work within the corridors of power in the US for quite some time.
Wow! Pointing to the ZOG is becoming more wide spread.
“No one I know of in the mainstream media or at the think tanks dares to insinuate that the Zionist elites are behind much of the conflict and wrongdoing that goes on in the world today.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2023-11-14/what-vladimir-putin-would-not-go-so-far-say
Might find these interresting:
The Invention of the Jewish People, Shlomo Sand
https://archive.org/details/the-invention-of-the-jewish-people-shlomo-sand_202109
The Israel Lobby And U. S. Foreign Policy – John Mearsheimer & Stephan Walt
https://archive.org/details/the-israel-lobby-and-u.-s.-foreign-policy
LInks arr to free pdf and e-book that can be downloaded and sent to e-readers.
All this suffering and death inflicted on people through the scheming ambitions of dead men. The people who blindly follow after these ambitions will will find their reward dreadful and bitter..
Imagine a world where Ukraine had become a strong independents neutral state able to do business’ with and arbitrate mutually beneficial deals between east and west. Imagine the prosperity and opportunities such a state would of been able to provide to its people.
The enemy of Ukraine the enemy that killed the Ukraine that could of been was not Putin and Russia but the Ruling class of the West whose constant lust for power cannot abide the prosperous existence people who are not under its direct control. Russia will morn the loss of what could of been with its own losses while those who created the conflict will rage and blame its victim’s for its own crimes..
“cannot abide the prosperous existence people who are not under its direct control.”
They obviously can’t abide the prosperous existence of people who are in fact under their direct control either.
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Bennett is a g-d liar and always has been. His “after the fact” ( as well as others”revelations” as worthless and as far as I’m concerned, never happened.
This is a bunch of made up timeline conversion bs.
The U.S./UK are neck high & coordinated the war against Ukraine/EU, both.
Biden is the worst divorce lawyer in the world, every-time a country have a problem with it’s ex partner , he counsel a war process to settle the divorce thing.
– 404 have some problem with Russia since Russia quit drinking ? WAR !
– Israel have some recurrent problems with his abused Palestinian mistress ? WAR !
– Taiwan want to be back with China after it failed to sign for divorce ? WAR !
And now he’s losing all these lawsuits… he will end up broke : none of his clients can repay his fee after the trials he “helped”. 🙂
“We now know that the United States played the primary role in sabotaging the March 29, 2022 tentative peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine”
Strange :
April 9, 2022 — Boris Johnson arrived unannounced in Kiev and told the Ukrainian president that the West was not ready to end the war.
Why is Gen. Kujat pulling punches for Boris Johnson’s British War?
Funny how even well meaning US commentators cannot admit the US is brawn for British “brains”. Even polish aristocrat Brzezinski took everything from longstanding head of the British Arab Bureau Bernard Lewis.
When Bernard Lewis descended to one of Dante’s hells, Mike Pompeo (remember Trump’s goto guy) wrote :
“the world lost a true scholar and great man, Bernard Lewis, this past week…. I met him only once, but read much of what he wrote. I owe a great deal of my understanding of the Middle East to his work. Mr. Lewis was a hard-nosed defender of democracies around the world—including in the Middle East. He was also man who believed, as I do, that Americans must be more confident in the greatness of our country, not less.”
Pompeo took tea at the Royal In and Out Club, took orders from London’s Henry Jackson Society, and is a Rapture nutcase.
Pompeo, the USA in a nutshell.
The people running the west have a deep hatred of Slavic people as they have been trying to destroy them for the last 300 years without success and they are super pissed about it…
I believe their plan was two fold
a) try the old defeat Russia/split it up plan (which they will never abandon, but understand it sorta of a pipe dream). They had their chance in 91 and blew it
b) kill as many Slavs as possible no matter which side they are on… (this is why they didn’t want the war to stop) … it eliminates white faces off the earth in their depopulation plans and it would give them the opportunity to flood the Ukraine with immigrants from 3rd world countries. It would also allow them to experiment with their military and biological weapons…all the while depopulating a Slavic country
the people running the west never have just one goal in their plans…they have completely destroyed Ukrainian society and dispersed more emigrants into Europe in order to further their plan to subjugate Europe to behind the current masters
So much $ was laundered to enrich the few who profit from death.
You say the west is losing, I say they have already won by stretching this out long enough to accomplish many of their goals… criminals indeed… will never suffers consequences
The west is infected with the Mackinder Disease : Russia is the World Island – who controls the World Island controls the World.
The gleam in the eye, a woke stare, beyond all rationality, means Mackindergarten tantrums are dangerous!
Putin et. al. know they what they are dealing with.
Why is that “Mackinder Disease” and not “Mahan Disease” ?
Mackinder gave a lecture which had some academic merit. Mahan had a maritime doctrine of control of the world’s oceans.
Funnily enough USA has two coasts and GB is an island – naval power appeals to dominate seaways and coastal nations.
Russia is more cut off from coastline than is China which is the principal reason China was invaded and now has a strong export industrial base and needs a naval force to ensure its security.
Russia never needed aircraft carriers – it never needed to project force to overseas colonies or protect sealanes.
Mackindergarten tantrums belong to a thalassocracy, admittedly 100,000 years dominant.
Which is why the US completed continental rail even during war, and why we have the TransSiberian, and China’s incredible 30,000km of modern rail, and the highest of all to Tibet.
Ironically, it was Colorado first Governor Gilpin that first mapped the Cosmopolitan World Rail :
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Now, look at the Belt and Road Initiative maps. Rail and maritime.
The basic division of the British Empire, historically, has been this “East versus West” divide that many even in Russia too, copy.
Rudyard Kipling, one of the “geniuses” of the British imperial age, had the famous saying, that “East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.” – two “species”.
It is incredible how this British colonial mantra has seeped into Asia, USA, Europe. Medvedev refers to this Kipling imperative making dialog impossible.
Something like Trump talking to Putin, Xi, and NordStream just will not do!
The new BRICS11 are all aware of, or were subjected to Kipling’s yoke and sword.
Save that Kipling was in India when he produced his works
Despite NATO meddling in Ukraine , Zelensky was /is the president of Ukraine . The responsibility of sending Ukraine into battle with Russia rests upon him . It is he who allowed Ukraine to be used as a battering ram against Russia . Zelensky had the Minsk accords and apparently several other peace agreements presented to him but chose to fight Russia instead . Why would anyone listen to such a clown like Boris Johnson ? Despite this Z still longs to join the EU and partner with those who act in their own intestests and not Ukraines . He behaviour is worse than that of a battered wife .
Compare Z to Netanyahu . Does anyone think a Ukrainian Netanyahu would have fought Russia for NATO ‘s interest ?
It’s all pretty well known, and in fact I remember many of the articles quoted. There is no doubt the USA/GB acted in a cynical, likely morally reprehensible way.
However, it is really time to stop throwing accusations of “crime against humanity” like they are confetti. It is unprofessional and, frankly, childish.
Ukraine is a sovereign state. They have made their decision. They must now live with it.
It’s not that the Ukrainians were forced, either. They were very enthusiastic about it, as long as they thought the Russians would be the ones who die.
Beds and lying in them come to mind.
Ukraine sovereign – surely you frankly jest!
It is the US 51st State. Plenty of Reps in Congress.
Let us see this from the other side.
In a parallel world, Finland has a total hatred against Nay see Germany. They ask Stalin for help in their righteous war against Nay see land. Stalin knows they have little chance, but he also knows they will give the Germans something to chew.
Do you think Stalin would deny them weapons and assistance of other kind, just because he realises they have a death wish?
Why then did Finnish airforce tailplanes and military sport the swastika from 1919 to 2020?Why then did Finnish airforce tailplanes and military sport the swastika from 1919 to 2020?Now this pair joins NATO – Russia says there is no junta running them like Ukraine.
https://canadianpatriot.org/2022/10/15/why-is-it-so-hard-to-finnish-nazism-natos-growing-suicide-pact-threatens-to-light-the-world-on-fire/
“Ukraine’s decision to abandon negotiations may been taken before the discovery of a massacre of civilians in the town of Bucha near Kiev.” (Funke and Kujat article.)
Do they mean the massacre carried out by Ukrainian soldiers? I think Ukraine knew about it.
Why then did Finnish airforce tailplanes and military sport the swastika from 1919 to 2020? They got that from Sweden.
Now this pair joins NATO – Russia says there is no junta running them like Ukraine.
Shining light on that got Scott Ritter banned from YoYoTub.
HUGE news from Taiwan. The two opposition forces (friendlier to China) have joined forces before the January election. It is evident that the Taiwanese do not want to be the next burning outhouse like Ukraine. And this is an outcome of Ukraine.
Would you like to be the USA and NATO’s new science experiment? And watch your country and future destroyed? And this was their plan. We have no one joining the military. I would slap a child of mine that joined. So, the plan was to get OTHER people to die in our wars. But after the Ukraine decimation who the fuck will go down that path now?
Good news today!!
Just heard there will be about $11 billion package for Taiwan military, while none for Israel, Ukraine. That just as Xi is about to visit SFO.
Here is RFK,Jr letting the mad cat out of the bag :
https://twitter.com/SprinterX99880/status/1722205167993725111
srael is a stronghold for us… It’s almost like having an aircraft carrier in the Middle East. This is our oldest ally.
If Israel disappears, Russia, China and the BRICS+ countries will control 90% of the world’s oil, and this will be a disaster for US national security.
Alastair Crooke writes that Israel dropped 25,000 tonnes of bombs on Gaza, while Hiroshima got 15,000 tonnes equivalent.
Second number is TNT equivalent, and first one includes mass of steel + explosives. Just saying.
I have read comments elsewhere, that Naftali Bennet denied that there was never any peace deal. Is this true?
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/romestat.htm
Body Count of the Roman Empire “Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant”
“Where they make a desert, they call it peace.” (Galgacus, Caledonian chief, from Tacitus: Agricola, 30)
This is what Oligarchy does . look at the numbers during just Rome – and they had no airforce. Population then 50 million.
As some say here Slavs are obviously on the hitlist. Palestinians are openly slated for extinction.
War, the Oligarchy, and the Ancient Myth of Overpopulation by Theodore J. Andromidas
https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2013/eirv40n18-20130503/34-41_4018.pdf
People today have no idea whatsoever of this barbaric brutal history, are horrified at what’s going on on social media. If Homer’s Illiad was allowed in schools they would not be surprised – that was genocide as Homer warned. Which is why Homer is not allowed.
When you feel an evil sense is lurking but you just can’t put your finger on it. You try to look to a brighter tomorrow but the images of today cloud your vision. You push the feeling of no hope away because of the consequences. The end must be near. How great is that darkness? Dante said of the inscription at the gates of hell, “Leave all hope behind, ye who enter here”.
If you ever considered becoming a faithful Christian. Not a follower of some rosy cheek, sweaty palmed, preacher boy. But if you dare to know the truth… Take a few minutes to the salvation of your soul and help your family prepare to meet your God! What has a man gain if he gains the whole world and loses his soul?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tehsb6s2-lE
War supporters have claimed that this is merely pro-Putin propaganda. That seems to be their standard smear for anything that does not support their rabid ambitions.
“the United States and its NATO puppets condemned hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers to death”
Let’s narrow that down a bit, because I certainly didn’t vote for any of this.
The primary guilt lies with JOE BIDEN and his neocon henchmen, starting with that fat pig Nuland.
But I’m not holding my breath waiting for justice – in this world, anyway.
Larry wrote:
“You want a definition of evil? This is it. Instead of helping end the war between Russia and Ukraine, the United States and its NATO puppets condemned hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers to death in a war with Russia they could not win.”
In short, to the US of A, the above is a great success, in the same way that Afghanistan was a success. Just listen to Graham and McConnell and all the rest. They mean what they say.
In September of 2021 Michael Hudson was interviewed by Max Keiser on the second halves of two episodes of “The Keiser Report” on RT (remember Max and Stacey?).
Part 1 is here:
https://www.rt.com/shows/keiser-report/534242-zero-rates-causing-deflation/
Part 2 is here:
https://www.rt.com/shows/keiser-report/534465-security-industry-profits-attack-september11/
My favorite words from Hudson:
“… the (US) trade balance and the investment balance really isn’t the problem. Almost the entire problem with the American balance of payments like the budget deficit is the military spending. Well, regarding your question about Afghanistan, that was supposed to have cost two trillion dollars. Hardly any of this was given to Afghanistan. It was all spent in the United States. So, basically, the cause of all of that is the military industrial complex. And the military industrial complex operates on a cost-plus basis. In other words, it maximizes the cost of the weapons it produces .. like the F-35 ,,.ah and the mark-up on how much it’s able to spend. So, ah, the military industrial complex told the government two things. We need to make our profits and employ labor by building these weapons……………you have a choice. You can either drop them into the Pacific Ocean, or you can drop them into Afghanistan. So we dropped the weapons into Afghanistan. And, as far as the military is concerned, OK, we’ve already spent the money on the weapons, given the profits to Raytheon, Boeing and ah the other US companies, so it doesn’t matter what happens to them. So, they’ve left them in Afghanistan and who knows what Afghanistan is going to use them for. It certainly is not going to use the airplanes or helicopters to attack the United States. The US doesn’t care. All it cares (about) is that it paid campaign contributors … the military …. for these weapons …….. and it’s sort of a circular flow between the US government and the military producers and all of this … and the contractors and all of the generals who got rich off all of this.”
Mr. Hudson is far from the first person to have noticed that there is a relationship between government spending borrowed, printed-out-of-thin-air, “money” (money by fiat) on the military industrial complex and perpetual war (which, in order to continue, absolutely requires fiat money). George Kennan explained exactly why the US vitally needs perpetual war just a few short years before the end of the Soviet Union. What he said is even more true today.
“Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy.”
To drive home the true seriousness of what Kennan said decades ago, the two options that Mr. Hudson said that the war corporations offered to the US government were to “either drop them in the Pacific Ocean or you can drop them on Afghanistan”. Why didn’t “the government” choose to drop them into the Pacific, perpetually, instead of conducting perpetual wars — wars which are going to lead to all-out nuclear war that’s going to pretty much destroy civilization and could very well lead to a dog-eat-dog existence among any survivors?
It didn’t choose to drop them into the Pacific Ocean because this bald-faced insanity would be noticed by everyone who had even one single functioning brain cell and they’d ask “why are you doing that?” And then some living VIP would have to say exactly what Kennan said back in the mid-1980s — that the US economy would be unacceptably shocked without that “defense” spending of fiat USD going on forever.
Perpetual war is a dystopian jobs program in a collectively psychopathic nation. The US military literally forces other nations to accept fiat, printed out of thin air USD as payment-in-full for their REAL products and natural resources.
If China, Russia and other nations were to stop selling their natural resources and manufactured products to US consumers for freshly printed USD and instead only accept, say, gold (as final settlement), or proceed from this day forward on a strict barter system (for example, a certain weight or volume of oil for a certain weight of, say, wheat), the US’s war-based economy would collapse literally overnight.
It certainly does not help the cause of stopping the US’s behavior that investors of all types, and from many places around the world, continue to buy US treasuries and, knowingly or unknowingly, by so doing invest in US war corporations (or mutual funds and other investment vehicles that invest in either treasuries or US war corporations).
https://www.rt.com/business/586946-us-treasury-market-problem/
Anyone who does this is enabling and actually assisting the US to continue carrying out world-wide murder. Doing so is a real crime and would be punished as such in a real court of law ……………. if any independent, omnipotent court of REAL justice still existed…….. that also had an omnipotent force to carry out it’s guilty verdicts’ sentences.
What the leaders of other still-sane nations have to finally accept is that the US is politically incapable of stopping itself. Like Nazi Germany in the mid-1930s to the end of WWII, the US is never going to stop its horrible, illegal behavior until it is stopped by outside forces. The sooner the rest of the world realizes this, and acts upon this knowledge effectively, the better. “Effectively” means to stop feeding the insatiable Great White Shark that is the US. Stop living as a shark’s pilot fish.
The dead generations will remain dead and will not speak any new words of guidance to their living descendants. Living human beings have to manage themselves…….. to live their lives of eating and sleeping and doing an absolutely amazing variety of other, vitally-unnecessary, things until they, too, die.
Believers may disagree with this, but atheists will ask them, “how is humanity’s direction going so far under your particular God’s guidance?” I intend absolutely no insult to those who believe in a god. It is a purely academic question ……. that, if taken as such, will no doubt lead to some interesting, very lengthy answers.
I’ll just stick with “humanity has to manage itself.” To which believers may very well reply “humanity can not manage itself. Quite obviously, humanity needs divine guidance.” To which I would reply “all humanity has to do is follow one man-made rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”; and everything will turn out just fine. After all, if an omnipotent God simply gave an order (a single commandment) to his creations that they must follow, and they actually followed it, what better order could that god give?”
The truly sad thing is that some people actually live their lives guided by the golden rule and then along comes the Great White Shark (with its “investment opportunities” and their WMD-guaranteed rates of return). What should they do? Why, defend themselves, of course! How should they do that? Again, by not, in any way, feeding the Great White Shark! Starve it! BDS! Do not ever buy even one US Treasury War Bond, regardless of what percentage its rate of return is. Believe it or not, there are better things to invest in than perpetual war.
If you’re living in the US, quit your jobs at all the war corporations and their domestic or foreign subsidiaries. You are already suffering in its death throes, but unless your nation breaks its addiction to war, life will become much more difficult.
(Yeah, I know ….the Great White Shark is politically unstoppable by those making their livings inside the body of the beast. People are NOT going to quit their jobs at all the war corporations, and if a few do, there will be people grateful to take their places. It doesn’t take a genius to understand that tens of millions of voters are not ever going to vote for peacenik candidates who promise them nothing but unemployment. So those millions are going to continue to vote for Number 1 — More War — and pray to someone every night that that war will never come home to them.)
Max Keiser et al. walked out of RT because they did not agree with the SMO.
Showed their true loyalties.
No mention of Derivatives in that meandering report.
It was always so clear who caused this war. Nuland boasted in Congress how he spent 5 billion on the UA to destabilize Russia. After the failure of Georgia with the same US ambassador, Pyatt. Which Mikheil Saakashvili also denounced at the time. First how Rice planned the coup to destabilize Russia and then how the US abandoned Georgia. Like today Burns went to Ukraine. On the day-z of this proxy war.
Before the coup, 80% of UA never wanted join NATO according NATO docs. NATO is the real and only invader of UA, which violated the Budapest Treaty and a threat to which the whole world knew that RU had to react. Like US to missiles in Cuba. Point 32:
https://nato-pa.int/document/2011-172-cdsdg-11-e-rev1-ukraine-malan-report
Today November, 15th is Day Z of the War. CIA chief Burns will arrive in Kiev for urgent meetings with Zelensky. Why? Because UA is imploding. UA has suffered too many casualties to survive much longer. UA will have to make a deal with RU or face internal rebellion. That has already started.
Zelensky wants to purge Zaluzhny firing three Generals after killing his deputy. After Zaluzhny said that its time to think in the best interest of UA in a war that only benefits RU. The UA has gone through three armies and is already sending women to the front to stop RU. Without rush to bleed AFU to create a political crisis in Kiev. So advanced that it surprised US, who sent Burns in a hurry to day-Z.
Does anyone know if the comedian asked Burns for a ride this time?
“UA will have to make a deal with RU”
Good luck with that.
It is a crime of gargantuan proportions we have committed against the people of both the Ukraine and Russia.
And even with Ukraine almost completely destroyed, with untold numbers of dead and permanently crippled, the flow of war propaganda on the home front never ceases, constantly attempting to convince the American public that Ukraine is winning this bloodbath. Each time I turn on my Windows computer, a screen full of news stories from Microsoft pops up and today, like most days, about half the news stories / videos have headlines like today’s “Partisan uprising against Putin” or “Russian SU-25 shot down” or “Russian convoy trapped and destroyed.” Of course, the fine print in all the stories always points out that the video’s accuracy or the cited enormous numbers of Russians killed, planes and tanks destroyed, etc., cannot be verified, as it all comes from Ukrainian sources.
It’s nonsense, of course, but anyone who is exposed to all this 24/7 mainstream US news (war propaganda) would find it hard to believe that Ukraine isn’t winning the war, and just needs a few more billion$ of aid to drive the Russian beasts out of Ukraine and Crimea. Thank heaven there are a few honest sources like Larry or Colonel MacGregor providing reality checks, for people look for second opinions and who don’t automatically believe everything they are told by the large glowing screen in their living room or the computer screen on their desk or phone. It seems the worse and more hopeless Ukraine’s position becomes, the more intense and rabid the lying propaganda storm becomes. Like everything our government/media complex puts out, all the “war news” these days is utter rubbish, meant to deceive, about as honest as clickbait ads.
Americans, like the rest of the world, are too busy watching sports and paying attention to meaningless celebrities and the so-called “entertainment” gulags. People in the aggregate are dumber than brain damaged ferrets. My apologies to innocent and noble ferrets.