The ignorance displayed in the United States under the guise of educated opinion is astonishing. The American Thinker, with no hint of irony, published a piece by Jacob Fraden titled, “What is In Store for Russia?” Fraden is an electronic engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, educator, artist, and writer. He holds degrees of MSEE and Ph.D. in medical instrumentation. His article is a powerful piece of evidence that a scientist with advanced degrees is capable of writing incredibly stupid nonsense.
Let me give you a few examples of his gross ignorance. Read the whole article for yourself to prove that I am not quoting Herr Doctor out of context:
Instead of the original goal of quickly seizing Ukraine and turning it into a puppet state or a province (the name “Ukraine” is derived from the Russian word for “outskirts”), Russia has suddenly encountered an impenetrable wall of resistance.
Can someone please cough up some coin and get the good Doctor an internet connection? It seems that Russia is steadily advancing in Ukraine and killing scores of Ukrainian troops. I detail these facts in one of my recent pieces, Russia On The Ropes–Part 13; Really? Ukrainian troops pictured in a video in my article tell quite a different story. They are being penetrated and are not particularly pleased. f
At the same time Russia never paid the slightest attention to the development of its internal infrastructure and improving the lives of people.
Really? Take a look at Moscow’s subway and compare it to any subway system in the United States:
Yep, those darned Rooskies are wallowing in filth while New Yorkers travel in high style beneath the streets of Manhattan:
Nothing like a rat on board the train to make you visit to the New York City underground unforgettable.
One could say that Russia has been embedded into the world economy for centuries: it exported raw materials and imported everything else. Today, Russia produces no manufactured goods (except old-fashioned weapons) and is completely dependent on the import of end products.
Dr. Faden claims he visited Russia. Did he have a bag over his head the entire time? Was he locked up in his hotel and prevented from leaving his room? Here are three easily found pictures of products manufactured in Russia (without depending on foreign imports):
We work at the military plants that still produce weapons developed in the 60’s and 70’s of the last century. We know the designs in and out, so we can maintain the production, but there’s nobody to replace us…”
Seems that Fraden’s sources do not get out much. Does this look like last century technology to you?
Faden provides more hilarity with this quote:
Russia has lagged behind other developed countries by at least half a century and there is not the slightest chance of catching up.
Gee, who gave the Russians this rocket? Oh, that’s right. Russia designed and built it.
The United States, unable to produce a rocket on its on (until South African Elon Musk came to the rescue) relied on Russia until 2020 to haul U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station:
On Thursday, a Soyuz rocket carrying three astronauts to the International Space Station is scheduled to depart from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakhstan desert. The coronavirus pandemic means there won’t be the usual crowds of well wishers lining the streets to see the astronauts on their way, but the flight is a historic one. It marks the end of NASA’s dependence on Russian rockets for human spaceflight and the return of crewed launches to the United States. But NASA says American astronauts may still end up hitching rides to space in a Soyuz capsule in the future
I can only surmise that Dr. Fraden is an angry little man incapable of honest, rational thought. Russia may not be a utopia, but it holds fewer political prisoners than the Government of Joe Biden and is the only country in the world truly self-sufficient when it comes to producing food, fuel and the minerals and metals required to build space age quality technology. If Russia sucks so bad, what does it say about the condition of the United States, which has relied on Russia to get our astronauts into space and has failed to deploy an operational hypersonic missile?
Why on earth would Fraden present as fact an argument so easily disproved? If anyone merits the title of Mr. Delusional, I think he is a guaranteed winner. Perhaps the journal featuring his pathetic piece should consider a new name–The American Propagandist perhaps?
I like Larry’s articles/postings, they just click with me. Useful information with a healthy sense of humour.
Talking about info, I never knew that there are people who think similar with me, I started to believe that they forgot me here on earth while my mothership just disappeared, or I did something very wrong on my planet, so, I’m just executing my punishment on the planet earth.
Anyway, I like reading Larry’s articles and postings attached to them.
My beef is not with the Ukraine or other country but with the humanity at large. How, come that after 10,000 years of killing each other, are we still doing it? The only change is the intensity of killing, now, we can do it more efficient. I do believe it’s something wrong with the whole human design. After 10,000 years we’ve learned NOTHING.
Capitalism. It breeds competition competition and secrecy, and doing anything to get a leg up and make more money.
Capitalism allows guns to be rampant in a community.
Capitalism allows addiction to form, and to ferment in society.
Capitalism allows mental health to become someone else’s problem.
And mental health, is the sole symptom.. of capitalism. Competition with your neighbors, means you stop caring about them, which leads to a nihlistic view for them… And the circle gets more vicious the more times it repeats.
If you think that socialism, communism, or fascism don’t breed violent black markets, mafias, secrecy, conspiracy, corruption, mental illness, addiction, poverty, indoctrination, murder (mass- and other wise) and a general nihilism, well, then, I don’t even know where or how to begin to help you. But I’ll give it some thought. As for guns…well, they’re the first possessions any authoritative government will confiscate. 😉
My husband grew up in a communist country. It bred extreme corruption and a huge black market. Guns were confisicated largely thru taxing them (tax would be higher than owner’s annual income, plus there was always a neighbor to rat out who owned a gun). Free markets existed from the getgo of humankind.
Free markets from the getgo? You know of communal lands where people worked together and provided for the commune. There were no profits, no capitalism. Capitalism sprung out the separation of the labourer from the means of labour. Labour became wage labour. Bartering was your ”free market”, one pound of flesh for a pack of hides.
That is a great reply to the KGB—FSB trolls!
Phil Rizzuto would disagree…
Generalizing the problem of warfare (which will always exist to some degree, hopefully less in the future) is to simply live in a dream-land utopia, instead of actually helping to establish co-dependency and further the cause of peace.
The NYC to Hawaii high speed rail is coming soon.
Hilarious. Very funny.
Are you a geologist? I’m a trained one. A million years is a short time in that science. Any animal group that lasted one million years is considered a failure.
Geology is a flawed science based on assumptions of slow incremental change with no catastrophic events. I recommend this video. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk1vJ7BN0Xw
I recommend this one highly: How rocks experience geologic time scales. Animated.
https://youtu.be/HOPwXNFU7oU
HA HA HA !!!
Wow. I mean seriously, wow. I went through the entire article, and took about 15 minutes recovering from my laugh/cough fit. This man cannot be accused of living in the wrong century, it must be the wrong planet. I cannot think of any other short article that packs so much prejudice, ignorance, wishful thinking, racism and utter arrogance in such a small space. And the fact that he has a PhD in ANYTHING at all, is a serious indictment of the Western educational system. Even if you’re trying to get a PhD in tropical fish studies, I would still expect him to have a modicum of reality in his thought process. The casual way in which he dismisses India and Iran is more proof as to his racism. The man is literally too far gone for any kind of redemption. I’m still staggered. But a friend of mine, when I mentioned BRICS to him, just chuckled and said ” I’m not impressed” – so I guess it’s a Western attitude that is more prevalent than I ever thought. BTW, first time I’m commenting on your site, and I’m a big fan of yours, Larry!
PhD – Piled higher & Deeper
Brilliant!
(((Fraden))) has some long standing tribal resentments he would like to program the goyim (“cattle”) with. It’s that simple.
It’s an absolute mania with this ethnic group – their hate blinds them. Sad !
Lying like rugs.
As soon as I read the first two paragraphs I knew he was a member of the tribe. The true attitude they have towards the “cattle” sometimes slips out when they’re angry. That he uses Ukraine as the example of “freedom” is laughable. We can see the type of “freedom” he wants for Russians (and all non-jews). A country run by jewish oligarchs who seized power in an illegal coup, who then turn it into the poorest and most corrupt country in Europe while murdering anyone who opposes them. Who wouldn’t want a bright future like that for their country?
Maybe it’s time for Israel to join the world of civilised and freedom-loving nations and stop invading and bombing neighbouring countries and imprisoning non-jews in giant concentration camps in Gaza and the West Bank? Maybe it’s time for the physical end of Netanyahu to put a stop to his lifelong warmongering and lying?
The truth is the reason he hates Russians is precisely because they won’t accept slavery to the jews the way Ukraine and the Anglo countries have. They thought they had conquered Russia through internal subversion back in the 20s, they thought they did it again in the 90s, but those dastardly Russians just won’t accepts their jewish overlords right to loot and destroy their country. Don’t they know they’re “God’s Chosen People”?
Very well said!
Precisely
Completely agree. A typical representative of this ethnic group demonstrating a typical attitude they have towards everyone else. It seems behind every war and every atrocity in the world’s history is this tiny blood-thirsty group with their financial interests and thirst for power.
And it is not surprising such “geniuses” write this type of garbage and various publications publish it — this ethnic group now controls all media (news, social, or otherwise), Hollywood, and all election campaign funding.
I am pretty sure the amount of sewage like this will be only increasing in the years to come and the so-called “elected” politicians will continue dancing to their tune (He who pays the piper calls the tune).
It’s disturbing. The most avid facilitators of latter-day Naziism are of eastern European Jewish background: Victoria Nuland (Nudelmann), Zelensky himself, Alex Vindman are the first that spring to mind and now – apparently – this guy, assuming he is indeed Jewish, as his name suggests.
Virtually all the neocon interventionists, and many of the suddenly warlike US ‘progressives’ are American Jews.
When Russia invaded, literally every progressive Jew among my personal friends (I know a few!) was running round, hair on fire, screaming ‘F*** Putin’ and ‘Slava Ukraini,’ with zero awareness of Russia’s and Ukraine’s recent history.
Same with conservative American Jewish commentators like Andrew Klavan, Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin.
Can anyone explain whence the irrational Jewish Russophobia sprang? Is it the association of Orthodoxy with the pogroms in imperial Russia that drove many to emigrate to the west, alongside the partnership today between the Church and The Kremlin?
Is it just because most American Jews are knee-jerk Democrats, and have remained obsessively partisan – even as that party transformed itself to represent almost the opposite of what it did 100 years ago?
Some of both? Are there factors I’m overlooking?
Don’t forget a bunch of other neocon rabid-warmonger Jews:
– Blinken (with ancestors from Ukraine, Russia-hater).
– Wolfovitz (from Poland, Russia-hater)
– Nuland’s hubby (rabid neocon, co-founder of PNAC, rabid Russia-hater)
and in Ukraine, after the 2014 coup d’etat (there were a few more organized by Americans and their European lapdogs before 2014), here is a lineup of “elected” (US-nominated) “Presidents” of this poor country:
– Poroshenko (real / jewish name is Waltzman)
– Prime-minister Groysman (under Poroshenko)
– Zelenski (the current president)
and don’t forget the biggest fascist of them all Kolomoisky, who put Zelenski into his position. Kolomoisky is a billionaire who organized and funded a bunch of a neo-nazi / neo-zionist extremist terror battalions, including Azov, Kraken. He likes to call himself “Zhido-Bandera” (literally Jew-Bandera — where Bandera is the Nazi / Hitler collaborator who murdered 100,000’s of Russians, Poles, and…Jews)… Here is what jews wrote about this neo-nazi jew back in 2014 (https://www.haaretz.com/2014-10-18/ty-article/.premium/the-most-powerful-jew-in-the-world/0000017f-ea28-d639-af7f-ebffe41b0000)…
Jews are 0.13% of the Ukraine population, but they have all the money, all presidents, and all prime ministers, funding all neo-nazi battalions aimed at… who else, Russians.
And these are not the religious Jews. Their willingness to align themselves with modern day Nazis who still believe Jews are subhumans is a real curiosity.
Not just align, Larry, create and fully fund the neo-nazis, and lead them to ensure their hatred and murderous nature is directed at Russians and Russia. And somehow these neo-nazi jews in Ukraine saw 100% eye to eye with similar neo-con jews who own the US government and they worked together on creating a neo-nazi state and arming it to kill as many Russians as possible.
As time passes, I do believe in the truly free world (and I don’t include US and Europe in that list any more for quite some time now) they will write history of today’s atrocities and in that history that branch of jewish American-Canadian-EU-Ukranian nazism will be identical to Nazism and Fascism of Hitler and Mussolini.
The formation of pre-9/11 neocons was established by the PNAC and its signatories – who can be traced as policy planners of 9/11 War on America and the Iraq/Syria Wars. They were all all over the Bush and Obiden Establishment. Bill Kristol supports any political party that will have him. He’s a real bellwether, the reason I gave up on Dems forever when Trump came in – “the enemy of my enemy, as evidence by the corporate zioneer media.”
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Project_for_the_New_American_Century
Not only overlooking, but simply not able to assess the situation and its roots.
Sorry for upsetting you, but the truth is not on your side.
Jew?
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Nailed it. Pay no attention to the tribe behind the curtains.
Regarding the Ukrainian war, Russia is using what looks like a soft power war, which of course is deceiving. Because it inflicts long time damages to the enemies.
The idea to destroy few areas, and towns (already destroyed) for the grinding work is perfect. Why would you run around a country after her military if they’ll come in the front of YOUR artillery by themselves.
Also, the idea to start paying the pensioners in ruble, so they’ll get some income, is a good one.
Initially, they were around 600,000 Ukrainians (and NATO friends), and 200,000 Russians (and people from Dombas). Regarding the idea of attaching with 1/3 of the forces as opposed to 3/1 as per military wisdom is a first.
The 200,000 of Russian forces versus the defender 600,0000 managed as today to kill or disable at least 200,000 Ukrainians, which were the trained ones, destroyed ALL the Ukrainian aviation, and about everything that looks like a gun.
Now, they have shovels.
Point of clarification regarding ground forces. Hard figures are not in public domain for obvious reasons but the rough order of battle for ground forces seems to be:
60,000 DPR militia
30,000 LPR militia
45,000 RF Army
15,000 RF Army Ukr born
10,000 foreigners
The vast majority of fighting has been by the DPR/LPR militias. Mariupol for example was liberated by the DPR militia.
Forgotten/unaware in all the discussions regarding force ratios is that it is not simply a manpower ratio.
Properly calculated, it encompasses the total firepower of manpower, armour, artillery, air power, availability of PGMs and a factor for the relative combat effectiveness of each side.
While Ukraine had thousands of legacy Soviet systems, few of these were upgraded to modern standards. In contrast, the Russian systems, especially artillery and PGMs have all been significantly upgraded. Thus, for example, the Ukrainian BM-30 Smerch systems on Feb 24 were individually significantly less capable/effective than Russian BM-30 Smerch systems with more advanced missiles/warheads.
Taking all this into consideration, the actual effective force ratio at the start of the campaign likely exceeded 1:1 in favour of Russia. Since then, as the Ukrainian army has been ground down, equipment destroyed and mostly not replaced, trained experienced men killed and replaced with less well trained and experienced men, the force ration has surely increased considerably in Russia’s favour.
For good discussions on force ratios, see Mystics & Statistics by Christopher Lawrence of the Dupuy Institute.
http://www.dupuyinstitute.org/blog/
It looks from the videos that a lot of the RF Army are specialists.
Now the poor man may not get out much to see the world. He appears to be fearlessly informing his readers that he is a real tool, not just aspiring tool. It is as though the real fellow went on vacation and the NYT altered their earlier story to fit a new acclaimed author in a search for truth that spins a yarn of fiction.
Sad about the destruction of the NYT. They were once on a par with the Washington Post for finding real news and now both are circling the drains in their perspective slums. They have chosen propaganda that the rest of the world knows is nonsense.
The best that can be said is you can still wrap a fish in it. The fish is ashamed.
Greer refers to NYT as Izvestia on the Hudson, and WAPO as Pravda on the Potomac.
Not Russia is 50 years ago, but Mr. Fraden.
It struck me here in Germany that the academic baby boomers and their successors get most of their information from the pro-government media and have little doubt about their journalistic work. academics. One should expect more independent thinking and critical source analysis from them.
It’s pretty clear from reading the CV of this Fraden chap that he is no journalist, but a scientist with a focus on things like the spectrum of the electromagnetic waves. He strikes me a someone who has very little knowledge of history or current affairs; that’s fine in itself, but as a good scientist should an an enquiring mind and at least question all the absurd Russiaphobic nonsense that is daily shovelled out by MSM in both the US/UK . Sadly, he seems to have swallowed everything that people like Max Boot regularly trott out and worse still, wrote a paper full of it all, demonstrating that he cannot be much of a scientist. I suggest he stick to painting
Terence Reeves-Smyth:
Since motives are necessarily a matter of judgement and conjecture, we can only speculate on whether Fraden’s gross mis-characterisation of reality is honest ignorance or intentional misrepresentation.
On the face of it, he’s just regurgitating what is, as you note, endlessly showered upon the peoples of the US sphere by our media and tech elites. But in support of the latter is the fact that it seems simply impossible for a scientist working in the field of cutting edge sensors, as he does, not to be aware of Russian advances in military technology.
As for a likely motive, his background (born in Russia) seems very similar to that of many of the worst pushers of confrontation and aggression towards Russia in the US sphere – the “neoconservatives” and liberal interventionists. Not all of them are jewish, though may are, but most of them seem to share a family background in eastern Europe or Russia that presumably explains a seeming visceral hatred of Russia.
Some day our Media Apostles and Military Apostles with ranks of General will figure out that Russian Special Military Operation is also a counter-insurgency operation simultaneous with the SMO. The counter-insurgency is part and parcel of this SMO.
Col. Lang stated in late Feb. 2022 his support for US-funded insurgency in Ukraine against Russian military, an insurgency to last for as long as it takes, . . . and so the SMO, this long and methodical, thorough cleansing of Ukraine of its armed forces, be they regulars, irregulars, or counter insurgent/bandits/terrorists. . . has no timetable to be completed by.
Despite the “out of thin air” statements that Russia has this deadline or that deadline to complete SMO — these western out of thin air statements are a wish that Russian SMO has such a timetable. They want Russia to have a timetable.
Maybe they do, and maybe it is at least ten years, maybe twenty, maybe longer. . . Russia’s methodical approach has liberated a lot of area, and in those liberated lands, a loyal and patriotic citizenry is in place. . . the exact opposite of fertile ground for bandits/insurgents/terrorists to try and gain any foothold.
Western military “experts” that harp on Russian “time table” to complete SMO — I’m guessing some of them might now realize there is no time table, and the SMO is also at its core anti insurgent campaign, that will continue for as long as it takes.
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I think Russian SMO aims are expanded each time a Nazi supporter opens his mouth in EU/US/NATO.
AFAIK WWII learned the Russians lessons they will never forget: Never trust a Nazi. Never negotiate with a Nazi and let him set up shop on your borders.
It just freezes the conflict until enough Nazis are produced so that they feed off each other’s BS and convince themselves theu are the best. Delusions then manifest themselves invariably with a ‘Drang nach Osten’.
Bring back Boris Johnson.
He was born in New York, so he could be Brandon’s running mate in 2024. Or do the “switch a roos”. Global America : in black, blue and brown hats . The Donald wouldn’t stand a chance.
Mr Jacob Fraden would make the perfect campaign manager or Secretary of State.
Why not , the crazy fu*kers cannot top the Florida flop.
Boris Johnson would be an unwelcomed running mate for Biden because he is a WHITE guy.
Anybody wanna talk about RACISM in the United States?
I didn’t request to be born white in upstate Ohio, but I was.
Now I am supposed to “feel badly” because I happened to be born Caucasian?
Incredible.
It seems to me that some feel that they must pay to be accepted, and this is Mr. Fraden’s way…
Well done, excellent observation. These pleasing accolades are a personality fault that thrives within western academia and governments. Many, like Fraden, want to please and be accepted above all else; common sense be damned.
It is quite possible that Dr. Fraden is knowledgable enough in his field of scientific expertise, but that doesn’t impart insights or wisdom in other fields. Just like Andrei Martyanov says people shouldn’t let him perform an appendicitis operation, because it is not his expertise, Fraden should stick to what he knows and keep away from spouting uninformed vomit about things he manifestly is almost completely ignorant about.
More humility and less hubris might keep people like Fraden from producing rubbish like this piece he wrote for the “American BS-er”.
His paintings are a bit bizzarre
http://www.fraden.com/paintings
and he is fluent in Russian – I am guessing big time Atlanticist. A shame – he should be shilling for Raytheon or ISW – instead I guess he spends enormous psychic energy creating a unicorn world for free?
I’m no art critic, but my initial sense is, he’s just a Picasso imitator.
Of course Dr. Fraden knows better than that what he writes. He MUST give his name to such propaganda or else …
The same applies to the tens of thousands of propagandists in the West. They know their Western values but they know even better the value of their lifes.
Remember: The shriller the propaganda the nearer the final defeat.
One of the first lessons of studying the history of the Roman empire is: never ever underestimate your adversary. Suppose that the leaders of Rome would have mocked with denigration at Carthage, with derision laughing their heads off just as is it now being cultivated in ‘the West’ (- strange, how ‘the West’ is itself an ideological concept, seemingly intended to show the sharpest contrast with ‘the East’-). The only reason why Rome was able to prevail against Hannibal was the fact that the Romans with modesty and humbleness were enabled and willing to learn from their adversaries. When you keep yourself aloof with hubris in a mood of sheer mockery and derision, you are disabling yourself from learning anything at all.
Today the Russian news site Vesti features an article about the ‘western’ trophies that have been captured during the SMO. Minister Shoigu stresses that all this western material is closely being studied in order to improve Russian weaponry. That’s the true spirit!
Amazing as it seems, the more thousands of Ukrainian troops killed, billions of dollars of weaponry destroyed – and the more Ukrainian territory gobbled up – the more Americans seem convinced that Russia is being humiliated.
IF there was still a free press you’d expect an honest narrative however we are now living in the corporate press era where interests of the investors trumps honest reporting. What used to be the “free press’ is now the PR department for corporate America. A narrative where Russia is winning against a NATO trained army supplied with US weapons doesn’t exactly inspire consumer confidence at home or sell a US protection racket abroad.
Absolutely love your work Larry. I have told this to people for years. A gas station with nukes. Yeah. And they have the rockets to take our people into space. I also tell people we had a freaky Friday. Except we didn’t change bodies, we changed countries. We woke up one day, and the USA was a communist, government controlled, economy with thought police. And the Russians were free enterprise. Gas station with nukes my ass. Have we launched a hyper-sonic and got it into military usage yet? The state of the military? I am ex Army E-5. They don’t even need GED’s to get in now. They are also blowing off marijuana usage, etc. And they still CANNOT make recruitment quota. I have several friends with 30 to 40 year old children in the services. They say the new recruits are dregs. And we have set up a debacle where the Russians are battle hardening their troops (on a rotating basis) finding what officers fight, and testing their equipment. And learning to counter ours. Everyone better hope to God this buffoon in the White House does not manage to get his hot war he wants. Because we will lose. Rant out.
Curt Nichols:
“We woke up one day, and the USA was a communist, government controlled, economy with thought police. And the Russians were free enterprise.”
Not just free enterprise, but Christian. And relatively sane.
https://eng.globalaffairs.ru/articles/the-right-to-insanity/
Similar can be said about Russian propagandists, calling the country a 404, nazi infested etc. For example Ukrainian metro stations are equally breathtaking.
Here’s one picture
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/bd/26/57/bd26572d9b642b4234b911fb306b5a57.jpg
Or the new Dnipro metro stations whose construction began weeks before the war:
https://www.dezeen.com/2022/02/03/zaha-hadid-architects-dnipro-metro-stations-ukraine-architecture-infrastructure/
You can always find beautiful and ugly in any country, depending on what you want to focus on.
How are these articles commissioned?
Perhaps he was forced to write it under threat of unemployment and deliberately wrote bull sh-t which he thought would be recognised as such. It would be one way out of a difficult position.
I do not believe these propaganda articles are spontaneous submissions.
Jacob Fraden wrote at length his thoughts on the Russian people here:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/05/national_character_and_the_quality_of_peoples.html
A sample:
Remarkable.
If an author were to write that sentence,
but substituting “Jewish” or “African” for “Russian”,
his work would not be published and he would likely be banned and cancelled for life.
But writing such about “the Russian people”
is perfectly okay in today’s culture.
As I said, remarkable.
The argument that Fraden may have been pushed to write such nonsense (in 2022!) may apply to the longer article too.
The comparison of the New York subway and the Moscow underground (and especially the nice photos of the latter) reminds me of an old story. It is no doubt apocryphal but it is marvelous nonetheless.
In the late ’50s, the US and USSR attempted a series of cultural exchanges. In 1959, VP Richard Nixon went to Moscow, where he and Nikita Khruschev had their famous ‘kitchen debate’. Another event on the tour was a visit to the metro, maybe even one of the stations depicted above. The guide was very thorough, explaining in detail the ins and outs of the various designs and art presented, the source and production of the marble used in the construction, etc., etc., etc. After a while of this, Nixon spoke up. He said, ‘Yes, it’s all quite magnificent and everything — but we’ve been here for a half-hour now and I couldn’t help but notice that there haven’t been any trains!’ Without missing a beat, Khruschev snapped back: ‘Oh, yeah? Well, what about the Negroes in Alabama?’
Leonid Brezhnev was showing his mother around his new dacha, with dozens of rooms, luxury vehicles, and a large staff of servants for cooking and cleaning. His mother observed, “but Leonid, what if the communists return to power… ”
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It seems obvious that Fraden must know better, therefore he is clearly lying and misleading his audience. The question then arises, to what end?
It sounds like someone who is trying to get the collective west to fight Russia by promising that it would be a cakewalk. That kind of propaganda easily attracts paymasters.
I’m going to guess that by “several years ago” he means “several decades ago.”. Otherwise, the dude’s doing some serious drugs…
Today’s American liberals and neoconservatives like this author are obtusely ignorant. I use “obtuse” because their ignorance is purposeful. They’re afraid of seeking out, and knowing the truth cuz it will make them social outcasts. Basically they’ve chosen their circle of brainwashed ignorant friends over reality, and won’t start to get over it until reality hits them in the face, assuming they survive the experience.
Fraden is merely an old fart who got intoxicated with the whole “US vs Soviet Union/Russia” propaganda (of both past and current times).
To be fair, yes — Russia, as similar in many countries, also has its issues with internal corruption and the such. The difference is that the Soviet / Russian folks understood this as ubiquitous “business as usual”, whereas Americans are taught that “This is not right! This must not stand and must be obliterated!” However, the problem is that there is actually wisdom in that Soviet/Russian folks’ worldview, yet which Americans and naturalized folk like Fraden, due to American propaganda, believe they must vehemently oppose and deny.
So, in Fraden’s case, upon moving to and living in America, he gleefully wished to disown that wisdom for the much more “comfortable” American “view” on things (a more “pleasing” view of “human nature” too, and the such). And so, with the problem being, of course, of turning a blind eye towards the corruption of the West…
And neither should this surprise anyone in any regard, actually for that matter either — after all, why *would* an immigrant finally happy to escape from communist Cuba to the US be expected to pay any thought to the internal corruption / affairs of his/her new nation?
*Not that Fraden is from Cuba of course — he is from the Soviet Union. But, you know, I was just hoping “communist Cuba” would sound like a better, more familiar and generic example to the Americans of a general “immigrant from a destitute place” over here….
So it’s no secret that the West has unleashed considerable assets to try a form public opinion to correspond with the fictional narrative they are spinning as part of their war fighting…. An information psychological special operation as part of an overall undeclared war on the vast resource rich mother Russia. I also believe after being shadow banned on the internet that AI may actually be publishing articles in real peoples names…just a thought….and while I’m thinking out loud…if the majority of combatants on the ground are Ukrainian forces from Donesk and Lugansk….why is this a Russian invasion and not a civil war as per Syrian conflict?
OFFTOPIC but got to it by reading all the above , and the article itself, which are my real interests.
If the US needed Russian rockets to get to the Space-station till 2020, how then did they make rockets to get to the Moon 50 – something years ago? Anyone know?
No, I am not a Flat-Earther , but I am intrigued about why the US needs Russian rockets at all ?
As always I love your honesty and cynicism to say things as should be sad. Thanks
If you ever wondered why did Epstein pursue scientists, this might be the answer. By the way, Epstein is not the only tool used for this purpose.
One of the most best articles I have read this year. Larry, you’re the dogs bollocks (English superlative)
Fraden is describing a fantasy world in his head. The reasons for that could be interesting. I can see money, consumption of US media, a need to belong to his social class, social pressure, psychological problems like a superiority complex, cognitive dissonance etc as possible reasons. Why do people start fantasizing?
Why the surprise? The increase in his standard of living upon moving here back then from the Soviet Union made him turn a blind eye to the corruption happening here in the US.
The best part over at “The Thinker” is, for $69.99 you get the privilege to leave a comment.
He proceeds then to maul the sheer idiocy this Dr. Jacob Fraden produced about Russia while having no clue about the subject he is writing about. But… wait a minute, wait a minute, even the brief excurse into this Fraden’s bio reveals that he is actually from… Russia. Namely from Yekaterinburg and he is a classic, Exhibit A of a STEM educated Julia Ioffe or Masha Gessen. He is a Soviet Jewish immigrant with scores to settle with Russia, and because of that he, same as dumb Rebekah Koffler (granted of German ancestry), or Mikhail Khodorkovsky, inserted himself into the lucrative “Russia Study” field by drawing (evidently he is also an artist) a caricature on Russia as many before him did. Not all Jewish though. Alexander Solzhenitsyn was not Jewish but amount of excrement, revered primarily in the West, he poured on Russia and Russians is huge.
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/08/larry-echoes-sentiment.html
Solzhenitsyn was certainly very anti-Soviet, but what did he ever write against Russia and Russians?
What’s needed is some enterprising parties to make website collecting, following, analyzing all the Partied Identified making all the lying stuff. We could sort them – religious wackos, union mobster, racketeers, cliques, factions, tendencies. Intelligence Central
well said…one minor point, though: musk’s spacex was saved from complete abject failure by a NASA bailout engineered via a single inside connection.
https://www.republicworld.com/technology-news/science/nasa-2008-contract-saved-spacex-from-fourth-straight-failure-admits-elon-musk.html
https://www.livemint.com/news/world/a-1-5-billion-nasa-contract-saved-spacex-elon-musk-says-it-s-true-11628081421998.html
i know musk has an army of stans and appeals to the randian “derp public BAD private GOOD durrrrrrrr” types but he’s always been a parasite of the tax paying public.
I’ll let someone say it…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEmlOjKmL68
Holy cow, another moron with a PhD!
Larry’s way of expression is entertainingly educational. Thank you for picking this piece.
It appears that Mr. Jacob Fraden is from a different planet. The mix of his ‘academic qualifications’ is as risible as his ‘thoughts’.
https://www.industryweek.com/talent/article/21998889/the-countries-with-the-most-stem-graduates
and on the foreign educated
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2021/10/07/immigrants-keep-winning-nobel-prizes/?sh=5d48c6df121a
It is a feature of jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union to bash Russia mindlessly without facts or evidence; gessan, boot, Ioffe, et al. They come across as extremely angry, bitter, but they play well to the garbage dumps at nyt, wapo, atlantic, and obviously they are well paided.
Not first generation immigrant but nuland, blink’s grandparents come from area of ukraine, and reportedly gained their mindless hatred of russia from grandparents.
Just to add an amusing dimension of Fraden is one of his paintings and the comment about it: http://www.fraden.com/paintings. Surely, one can see how he “thinks” from his painting (sarc).
What do you think about these explosions in Crimea ?
Have the US finally delivered long distance Himars rockets to the
ukranians ?
Larry,
How do you do it?
Every time you step to the plate, “Crack!”
Home run.
Obviously, Mr. Fraden is truly a rat of a human being.
But as to that rat on the subway train, I’ve gotten information, unconfirmed, that said rat had paid his fair and wasn’t bothering anyone.
Just sayin’….
Blessings
L
“Why on earth would Fraden present as fact an argument so easily disproved?”
Larry you are normally very astute but you seem to be consistently flabbergasted by the irrationality of the woke crowd.
You need to fully comprehend that you live in a different world and have a different value system that people like Fraden.
In their world there is the narrative and then there are lies and evil. He likely knows no one (intentionally) who disagrees with him because he doesn’t want to be around stupid, evil people.
He is educated and has likely a high IQ. He wants the status of being smart. To be perceived as smart by the people who matter to him, he must believe in the narratives. Smart people who are good at one thing, tend to believe that they are smart about everything else.
Then add in being Jewish which he likely is. Jews see themselves as superior to goys like you and have an irrational hatred of Russia going back to the Tsars. Reason will not work with him.
I used to think the same about Russia/USSR when I visited many times in the 1970s & 1980s. I think this guy is trapped in that mindset.
In case you missed the real war, no propaganda, no BS.
Antonov Airport, Feb 24-25, Gostomel.
https://youtu.be/zSuZ8CEmowU
Why was my comment deleted? Here I’m scratching my head, thinking did you misunderstand what I wrote?
My original comment: these posts are not aimed at the rational thinkers. Think of them as booster shots for the “bubbled” masses.
And I see what the problem is here. What I should have written was *these articles by Mr. Fraden and the likes*.
That should clear up any confusion.
If such a prize, HONOR, academic, business, champion in good old USA shows so many grotesque fairy tales and misinformation about an important place like Russia, what would we say of the man-on-the-street in NY, Salt Lake or Neverlandish, Oregon?
Absolute dismay.
But this is the concrete proof of what shitmanship our commercial MEDIA in the west can do with the ordinary citizen.
I don’t take any opinion from anyone with blue hair seriously (see his website), and especially if they if they are Jewish AND bloviating about any one of the countries that benefitted from their presence for centuries.