After 8 years of arming and training Ukraine’s army and air force, spending billions of tax payer dollars, the United States no longer has a viable strategy to defeat the Russian forces and compel Vladimir Putin to accept a humiliating defeat. Yes, the U.S. and NATO are pouring a large amount of HIMARS, Army Tactical Missile Systems (aks ATACMS), tanks, vehicles and aircraft into the fight, but this is only prolonging the inevitable surrender of Ukraine. Worse, it is poisoning any chance of restoring normal relations with Russia.
Readers younger than fifty have little or no memory of the Cold War. During the 45 year period after World War II (1945-1990), the United States and the Soviet Union fought each other in proxy wars–Vietnam, Angola, Nicaragua and Afghanistan were major battlegrounds. Yet, despite the fighting and spying by each side in their respective efforts to subvert the other, the United States and the Soviet Union kept diplomatic channels open and succeeded in reaching critical nuclear weapons disarmament treaties. Both sides realized that a nuclear war would be a nightmare neither was likely to survive.
When the Soviet Union collapsed, the United States took a victory lap. But instead of promoting policies to help restore the Russian economy, western entrepreneurs, with the willing help of Russian oligarchs, succumbed to greed and tried to loot Russia of its critical oil, gas and mineral deposits. A number of American capitalists and politicians made money off of that. Russia was still a nuclear power, but western leaders calculated they could bully Moscow without fear of retribution.
Throughout the period from 1990 to February 24, 2022, there were still people in the Russian political leadership who believed that negotiations with the United States and Europe was a viable option. That is no longer the case. Whether the United States and Europe want to believe it, the Russian leaders and people now believe that the west poses an existential threat to them and they will do what is necessary to defend themselves and survive.
I am old enough to remember a time when the freedom of the press and freedom of speech set the United States apart as a special place. American culture and economic prowess was something that many in Russia and the rest of the world envied. But that was then.
When foreigners now consider the state of America they see something radically different. Freedom of the press and freedom of speech are now under regular, sustained attack directed at Christians and conservatives. I remember when the Soviets labeled dissidents as terrorists. Now, America’s own Department of Justice is doing the same to parents opposed to critical race theory and outraged over their daughters being asked to shower with males who claim they are female. Many U.S. citizens who entered the Capitol on January 6th at the invitation of U.S. Capitol Police, were arrested and incarcerated without charges being brought. A clear violation of the 6th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution:
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.
Many of those arrested are being held without access to legal counsel for more than a year. That is not speedy. But the Biden Administration justifies this because it labels these citizens as “terrorists” and “insurrectionists.” In the aftermath of 9-11, the American public has been anesthetized to ignore the Constitution in order to punish terrorists.
American culture is now awash with filth. Child pornography, pedophilia and transgenderism is being touted as normal. Anyone who dares challenge these things as abnormal are tagged as racists and hatemongers. Comedians like Dave Chappelle are attacked physically and verbally for daring to ridicule a testosterone laden man who insists he is a woman that can get pregnant and have a menstrual cycle. Most people in the world, not just Russians, see this and can only conclude that the United States is in the grip of mass psychosis.
In the aftermath of the horrors of World War II, the United States eschewed exterminating its enemies–Germany and Japan–and helped rebuild those societies. Let me posit a hypothetical. Let’s suppose that Ukraine, through some miracle, defeats Russia and retakes all of the territory in Ukraine. Do you think that the Biden Administration or the people of the United States would be willing to treat a defeated Russia as it did Japan? I do not think so.
And that is the point. The Russians do not think so either. The previous perception of America as a potentially benevolent partner is dead. Kaput. When Russia secures its victory in Ukraine–regardless of how much time and bloodshed is required to achieve that end–it will be committed to building global relations that exclude the United States. The era of the United States as the supreme military and economic power in the world is over.
I am an American patriot. I love this country and what it is supposed to stand for. But the actions of the Biden Administration are weakening dramatically the U.S. economy and military. The weapon systems that are flooding into Ukraine are being destroyed by Russia or sold on the black market by Ukrainian profiteers. I fear that when the war in Ukraine is settled that the United States will have burnt all bridges that could have led to a reconciliation with Russia. I hope I am wrong.
Larry,
Another powerful essay. Thank you
One recalls during Cold War 1.0 – the American Cultural Center usually attached to out Embassy was where all the cool kids hung out. Not the case today
Alas, you are correct.
Just noticed a report citing a peace memorandum having gone from Moscow to the Ukraine, but with no response, and with Kyiv saying that it has no motivation to negotiate with Russia. That also looks like a nation Hell-bent on national suicide.
Somewhere–perhaps from your site, can’t recall–there was a map that shows Kyiv Oblast and the city of Kyiv beging the only thing left from the Ukraine, with one oblast going to Hungary, two going to Romannia, seven (I think) going to Poland, and everything else going to Russia.
Is that in the cards?
With NPR now slagging the Ukraine, how long before the U.S. or Zelensky’s own Nazis take him out?
Thanks for all your good work!
That map was on Medvedev’s Telegram. Pretty ominous.
But should we celebrate the prospect of NATO members Poland, Romania and (even) Hungary gobbling up Western Ukraine? Unless those nations resume neutrality and leave the alliance it will move NATO’s border east towards Russia and expose the southern border of Belarus.
I’m not celebrating. It is just a consequence of the train wreck that is Ukraine policy.
Exactly. Russia has been falling in love to United States during Perestroyka after Cold War, but US treating Russia just like another Mexico.
As result of wrong politic, millions of people has been died because of drugs, alcohol and starvation during 1992-2000.
There is no trust to West anymore, and this is extremely dangerous situation.
No, you are not wrong, sadly. Europe too is burning bridges they absolutely cannot afford to burn. GOD has allowed the decadent west to be run by psychopaths and we are seeing the result. I still have hope for America but ONLY if we repent.
You write and analyze well, Mr Johnson.
Bless.
My hug-eared “Brother” Obama was said to have opined that: We can trust Joe to mess up everything he touches.”
Alas, He’s being proven right!
As a student of history and geopolitics, it’s difficult for me to make any sense of what exactly is driving the current US administration’s policies – domestic and foreign.
I am not an American citizen, so US domestic policies are none of my business.
As a rational and thinking human being, the question on my mind when I consider the totally insane manners the Biden administration is attacking the world is: What is the logic or the strategy behind all the militaristic onslaught on the rest of the Non-Western world?
What happened to Diplomacy? What exactly do they teach at American Diplomatic schools? Why the juvenile and uncultured desire to talk to other people from “a position of strength”?
One would expect even an Hegemon to think twice before it simultaneously attack Russia and China.
From what my long-time classmate who’s an about-to-retire analyst at the US Department of State, recent graduates from Georgetown, Harvard, et al. (at least since the 1990s) are all neoconservatives.
Apparently no realists left in the new cohort.
well done FEMI your analisys is spot on!! congratulations.
US domestic policies and every country’s policies are all our business.
The world is networked.
LEZ… NO they are NOT, Put your own house in order first. When all your citizens have access to the best education, healthcare and social housing. When all your citizens have the chance of a meaningful job that pays a LIVING wage. When all your citizens get along with one another, despite colour or religious preferences. When all your citizens rise up against public pornography and put the moral welfare of their children, above all else. When all your citizens learn to differentiate between lies told by the Deep State funded MSM PRESSTITUTES and Independent Journalists like Patrick Lancaster, Eva Bartlett, Vanessa Beeley. OR commentators like Scott Ritter. Jimmy Dore, Redacted, Retired Colonel Doug McGregor, who are consistently are sidelined, discredited and de-platformed..to prevent you ever learning the TRUTH. It has never been more important to seek the truth.
The agenda is far more SINISTER THAN YOU IMAGINE. The Plandemic was designed to see how quickly the populace could be controlled, and for how long? (Belarus was the only country that refused the $940 Billion bribe? And they are now third on the CIA/Deep State hit list.) THE Vaccines were intended to create a cull, by damaging us. The Gender realignment Issue is designed to eliminate sex identity and produce a generation of impotent, sterile automatums, unable to further produce children. But heavily invested in the pornography shoved down their throats daily. Thankfully there has been a backlash.. The Tavistock Institute who were head of the deviant team, have been sued, and closed down. Come on people… WE ALL NEED TO WAKE UP…
War and Hatred is designed to create mentally unstable populations reliant on the lying propagandists, and cocaine that was stolen from Afghanistan. etc.. etc..
I guess its all about money..
Excellent read. God bless you.
For a long time thought I was the only one who could see the awful truth for what it is.
You can add total intolerance for anyone who believes in God or simply lives by the 10 commandments.
No lock down for the drug plague because there is more money to be made than the Covid Shake Down. (Don’t mention the monkey pox because the queer community does not approve of reality. Feeling may be bruised )
As I sent you earlier today, it is worse than that! The Ukraine is committing European Jonestown hari kari by shelling the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant: https://www.rt.com/russia/560971-ukraine-bombs-waste-containers-zaporozhye/
Thanks for articulating so well what people everywhere are thinking. America is sick, maybe beyond saving. I’m from an Anglo country and a friend.
“In the aftermath of 9-11, the American public has been anesthetized to ignore the Constitution in order to punish terrorists.”
Hoist on their own petard. How many now being victimized by this categorization of “terrorist” were content when it was used against those they considered their enemies? It was easy to see, at the time, that the US government was establishing dangerous precedents in the aftermath of 9-11 which would in time be used against America itself. But how many failed to see this?
Too late, I fear, to close Pandora’s box, opened by willing Republicans. But schadenfreude provides some grim consolation.
The correct translation is Pandora’s jar.
What grim consolation does schadenfreude provide?
Your last clumsy paragraph gives the game away.
“What grim consolation does schadenfreude provide?”
Schadenfreude is emulative and popular; hence is self-defeating.
Schadenfreude is part of the self-indulgences within some social relations, and hence schadenfreude tends to “enjoy” half-lives of utility of complicity in facilitation of its own transcendence.
Pandora’s jar may be the correct translation, but the sixty-three-year old American has always heard and said, “Pandora’s box.”
nice one Larry
The Saker came up with a sentence that describes the US – “non agreement capable” (недоговороспособны)” and as Putin stated recently, “if our “partners” (sarcasm) are not agreement capable, then the time has come for Russian unilateralism.”
Zone B has cottoned on. Zone A is toast.
Seems likely we are watching a historic turning point. The end of two and a half centuries of global domination by first Britain and then the US – essentially one bloc, with the British elites folding fairly seamlessly into the new US elites after WW1. They saw off challenges along the way from the French, the Germans, the Soviets, but the essential vitality and raw sanity that empowered them to do so no longer seems to be there, replaced by cultural decline into insanity and incompetence.
The US elites could have settle for a peaceful transition and slid relatively smoothly into joint top place in a new multipolar order, but they seem incapable of that – perhaps the insanity of the decadent, too long empowered Ancien Regime. Whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first drive mad, and the madness of the woke, green, covid hysterias seems as profound as any collective cultural lunacy in history.
Front seats at an epochal historical change. Lucky us!
1971 (abandoning Bretton Woods and the creation of the fiat currencies) was the starting point of the decline of the West and the decline soon became irreversible. The West resorted to permanent wars in order to stem the tide. We are looking at the end game now.
Something that may have slipped the ukros-nato’s mind is that any major counter attack put them in the shoes of the aggressor with all the burden associated to it… failing to repel the Russians from their best hideout nix any hope of counter attack
Except Germany and Japan were not “rebuilt” as sovereign nations but rather as puppets to Western rule. Which may have seemed completely “fine” during the below “time” where nobody batted an eye and you said —->
>> “…..I am old enough to remember a time when the freedom of the press and freedom of speech set the United States apart as a special place. American culture and economic prowess was something that many in Russia and the rest of the world envied. But that was then…….”
Except that now it’s their time to be puppets to the unfolding American dictatorship…..
Or, so it seems…
LOL Germany under Merkel sure obeyed Trump, didn’t she.
Hahaha so then I guess you would have then preferred instead that I said “puppets to the US deep state” ?? Well I could easily go with that too, actually, there’s no problem there! Nor was Trump apparently in that club either lol ; )
LOL some people need everything spelled out for them. I guess you don’t understand that saying “puppet of country X” is ultimately short for “puppet of country X’s Deep State”. Apparently Trump was not a member of this club, so your misunderstanding here becomes even funnier the farther you try to pursue it…
Larry, you and many others tell us what we already know.
My question to you is “How do we fix or stop it”?
Excellent post, Larry, as usual.
I agree with Blanche, that I am sure most people on this board have already known this country has sinking into the abyss for decades. Deep State and those behind it have always been in control of every aspect of “freedoms” in this country. They simply allowed a relatively high degree of freedom (of press, expression, etc.) while the USSR and the Soviet block existed. They had to: this was a competition of not just military powers but also competition of the “visions” and “our society is better than yours” type.
But once the USSR collapsed, the Deep State decided — “why bother with all the charade any more, we won, we are the sole superpower and we can:
1) tighten the grip externally and do whatever the hell we want — bomb Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, organize coups in Turkey, Ukraine, Egypt, Tunisia, etc. etc. etc.” and
2) tighten the grip internally — freedom of what? who told you that you are entitled to it? We are the ones who have the FBI, CIA, and 14 other “power [not law] enforcement and surveillance agencies”. We are the ones who decide what you can read and what you cannot (Google, I call them Goolag, as well as FB, Twitter, MSM, Academia — they all are part of our military / surveillance apparatus. And what are you gonna do? Elect a maverick? We’ll sabotage, block, and cancel him so he cannot even move. You think you can show us your disagreement on Jan 6?! Naive peons you are. We’ll make an example of your Jan 6 the same way we did this with Assange. You thought the Soviet Union or North Korea were bad?! Again, you ain’t seen nothing yet…
And I also do agree externally US knows it’s “hegemonic” days are history, Russia and China are now being joined by the remaining 80% of the world in making Eurasia the center of the Universe it should always have been. So, the US is hastily carving out Europe (and Japan, I guess) for itself, as it own pocket vassals. US will destroy European economies via iron curtain and natural gas price at $4,000 / cm and will beat its gullible and soft population into pulp, to ensure complete obedience and submission.
IMHO, Blanche, “what can be done?” — Deep State has all the power. The US political system will self-destruct in the next 10 years. Thank God people in the South and Mid-West have a few billion guns and can defend themselves and their families.
The best thing that can happen to this country from now on is a peaceful dis-integration into 3-5 countries (the “coasts” with high concentration of perverts and adherents to “cancel culture”, CRM, boot-kissers, etc. and 1-2 normal states — South and Mid-West. The tricky part will be the “peaceful” part of disintegration as the Deep State will not allow it to be “peaceful”…
Just my 2 cents.
Question;
If you know collapse is a near certainty plus chaotic secession, why would you stay ? Why not vote with your feet ?
très bonne analyse votre pays a besoin d’ un grand reset.
bonne chance
It can be neither fixed nor stopped, Blanche, it has to run its course, a course of a catastrophe.
The American Republic’ governance has been almost fully usurped by the Industrial-Military (now also Financial) complex, the one Ike warned about in his speech on January 1961, it’s still on y-tube, to dislodge the complex from the running of the once great Republic is not doable, here’s why:
Most of the American manufacturing capacity that formed the basis of the country’s post WW2 hegemony has been moved offshore (mostly to China) except for the design, manufacture and servicing of the military equipment, the tools of killing are still produced to large extend within, one finds these companies in everyone one of the fifty States of the Republic, the military sector in its broadest furnishes one in fifteen jobs, and as it that wasn’t enough every 401(k) has in it the stock and shares of the companies involved in making the military gear (that’s only a guess, but it can hardly be otherwise, just look up the share price of Martin Lockheed and the others).
Could any American politician of any hue seriously argue for the curtailment of the sector’s hold on the American Administration if the outcome were to include lower employment, a reduction in the value of individual pension plans, and above all the cuts in the remuneration of the top layer of these companies’ management and the multiplicity of advisory boards stuffed with former politicians and such? Hmmm
A thoughtful and sane essay. Visiting Russia is on my bucket list. I don’t think I will make it.
In 1917, The Blessed Virgin appeared to 3 children in Portugal. The Blessed Virgin requested the faithful to pray for the conversion of Russia. Why did the Blessed Virgin select Russia?
Why not ask the faithful to pray for the conversion of the “indispensible USA”.
Yes, this prophesy is largely ignored because so many are afraid to believe – lest they lose their vaunted freedom to do what they bloody well feel like doing. We’re told by the idiot at the Atlantic that the Rosary is a weapon…well, let’s use it. Russia will be converted, and will reconvert the rest of the world…you heard it here first.
Pat Buchanan has an excellent column concerning America’s domestic situation here:
https://buchanan.org/blog/how-when-do-we-come-together-again-159577
Larry, the following may be, as they say, “Too hot to handle”.
Just delete it if it is.
What has driven American culture and policy for quite a while are two goals:
1. Revenge against Russia for
1a. its past anti-Semitism and for
1b. not being sufficiently Jew-dominated, and
2. Ensuring another Holocaust is not possible, through
2a. demographic change of the West, and
2b. demonization of anything associated with the Nazis (e.g., patriarchy, nationalism, rigid biologically-based differences of sex and race).
As an example of 2b, consider the Boy Scouts.
When I grew up in the 1950s, the BSA was highly regarded as promoting good character and virtuous behavior.
(And, by the way, I was a Boy Scout and didn’t see the slightest indication of scouts being sexually molested.)
Now the BSA has been driven into bankruptcy.
Why the change in its valuation?
Consider: when I was at Brandeis, some analogized it to the Hitler Youth.
Khazarian Mafia. They that say they are Jews, but are not. As for the BSA, my son and I are both Eagle Scouts. I was a Scoutmaster. First they destroyed the ‘morally straight’, then they allowed girls to join. Your point on the bankruptcy entails more than lawsuits. I supported Scouting after I was no longer a Scoutmaster until they allowed the perverts to join. No more. The Khazarians have destroyed everything good, and beautiful and true.
Yes, you are right, I have read a lot of info about that. They have got to place their people in many countries (Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Chile, Venezuela, Canada -Justin Castreau) and some others. They are working to impose a world chaos and take the money of most nations. I tried to help USA to be safer but they are idiots, they dont want to pay for help, instead, they spend billions to help thousands of asylees and refugees. USA gives money to people that wont help, but denies to pay collaborators that can help to save many Americans. USA is committing suicide, also Europe. It is Plan Kalergi. Khazarians are fake Jews, they will impose very bad things like Agenda LGBT to degenerate human kind. Fake viruses and toxic vaccines are their idea. The world must wake up now or it wll be too late.
This guy here gets it ☝️
Too hot to handle? My friend, if any right-wing dissident cannot discussing the Jewish questions adequately, in particular in the question of the modern West, they’re a hack and should be ignored.
I believe it is almost an inconcievable thing to fully understand, yet it appears it is exactly what it is, a cabal of demonic satanic depraved elites who certainly in no uncertain terms want to and are in the process of destroying America. Period.
Whatever it takes no matter what it requires, as an aside to this evil these same moral monsters are strip mining our great civilization if every penny of intrinsic wealth they can swueeze from all of us in the process, for this filthy lucre is like the cherry on top of this destruction of Smerica sundae.
Thats how evil these depraved bastards are, they are bathing in the demise of America.
But i can say this too; they surely can destroy America as a polity and an economy, as an institution, maybe what its governmental origins stand for at least as a functioning constitutional Republic, but what they will never destroy is our spirit. If anything thru their evil they are providing the means if rebirth of the aeesome motive power and audacity of what is the foundational essense of America created in the first place, such as Andrew Skoisen’s 5000 Year Leap, or how it has always been, the predecessors of these moral monsters who waged genocide on the Sovereign people of the Confederacy for their audacity for choosing to secede from their terrible tyranny, how ots said defeatrd in battle but never in spirit.
Indeed.
Good folks such as the above, you can never beat, you can only kill is.
But at the same time us goid folks, when our essential codes are so ruthlessly violated, ain’t nobody gets mean like us.
This institutional process of destruction of America, is a lot like tracers, and at a certain point, that works both ways.
Something thats inevitable. Its a real small world. They better kill everyone of us like real soon or that rule regarding tracers applies with a bone in its teeth and a lot if actors are gonna get a full belly of what they plan for us good folks.
That you can take to the bank. The truth is a hundred million armed to the effin’ teeth American’s ain’t armed because its a hobby or for deer hunting. And every one of us got kith and kin and they got a stake in the final outcome also.
Thats just the way things are, just saying.
A modern civil war is too horrible to contemplate. It won‘t be like the War between the States. It’s will be more akin to the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s or the Chinese War Lord period of the 1920s. Atrocities of unspeakable horror would be widespread in the millions.
You don‘t even want to go there.
Kindly speak for yourself, if I did not know any better you sure have the characteristics of a experienced shill of an agent provocateur, subtle to a fine degree, i believe you are disingenuous and reveal all those tells, never mind you do not know where I wish to go, but I will tell you clearly where I will go is where it is required to do my duty and because of my honor where I must go as a natural born patriotic American, and politely also, you or no one decides what my priorities are.
Saying that, it is not I, who is taking me there as you point out, I only ever wished to just be left alone, and if you know those things you wrote you know this alsi is paramount and one of the greatest issues of our time.
It is some really evil incarnate entity running a vast conspiracy to maliciously take all of us who are not part of this evil exactly to where you tell me I do not want to go.
Who do you think you are. That right there is none of your business.
But reality and truth is some truly foul evil actors deliberately want to take millions of us there, so we do their dirty work tearing each-others throats out. Which is a hallmark of the evil operating along the fringes of the shadows. Divide and conquer,
in order to destroy my country I love and stand for and its precepts and codes.
It is certainly your choice to see the world as you choose.
Yet to give you the benefit of the doubt, you very well could be victim of seeing the world as that evil wants all of us to see it, when that is extremely different from the world that is behind the misdirection and revisionism, lies and ordered institutional plausible deniability infesting our world.
And why, would any rational critical thinking American not want to go there if going after the real evil is what is required to not only save what needs saving, but to avoid going to those places you speak of in the first place? Ain’t nobody coming to save us good folks. Certainly not this thing that has cored out our Republic and wears it as a skin suit. Would you tell any one of those courageous Confederate Soldiers fighting for what they believed in, Oh hey Dude, you don’t want to go there, believe me. It is that last comment you wrote, is it an excuse or something? What you just told me should be my priority? Are you being a smart aleck? Just who are you to even say that with everything going down? Really.
Its ours, us good folks, our responsibility no matter how or why things are as they are, We American’s, and it has always been our purview our responsibility to be vigilant, to change the world in positive ways. No other people do this, can do this, its up to all of us, and that begins with each of us. Then its a lot of us, in unity and solidarity and common cause. Imagine all our founders saying that to each other, ah Ben Commee, you don’t want to go there, or Lee Senior at the pivotal battle on Kings Mountain, “Ah, hey fellers, men, you don’t want to go there, so lets run away”. You getting my drift here buddy? Can’t speak for you, but what you said to me is some really stupid stuff you can’t fix almost.
Seriously as a heart attack.
What gives? Some things in your comment to me do not add up. If you are an honest genuine fellow. And not some shill. Its subtle but it kind of screams quietly. I could be mistaken, but my gut is saying different. Pretty reliably, thats my subconscious trying to tell me something.
America ain’t gonna fail because of me, and like those Confederate Warriors, I’ll be damned if any poor fellow is gonna die protecting my Liberty and Freedom without my protecting his, no matter where i want to or do not want to go. Thats part and parcel how we got into this pickle, cause us Men relinquished our duty and honor, leaving it to a State. Runnin g from unpleasant or scary things ain’t saving America. And thats another thing, if I ain’t mistaken, that last comment to me by you, thats called taking council from your fears. And that is how you lose before you even begin to fight. Exactly what some really ruthless cunning actors want us doing; fear control us, while they violate our codes, while we chicken out. So speak for yourself please.
Sometimes a Man has to do what a Man has to do.
Somebody said once that which is so fitting, “Our Cause We Leave To God and Our Rifles”
Indeed.
I’m trying to understand your odd reaction to Exile’s last comment. You obviously have strong feelings about it.
Skip Town –
While I am not ready for a head-on war with the FMIC, (F=finance) which seems to be what is left of a once vibrant nation, your description of this fateful situation as
“this thing that has cored out our Republic and wears it as a skin suit”
feels all too apt.
And yes, this destruction of all that should matter has gone on too long. It no longer looks accidental or merely the result of incompetence. Even incompetents, when they see things going so badly awry, would try to change course. But there is no sign of any such effort. Instead they double down. Day by day I am more tempted to think it is deliberate.
With regard to what LJ has written,
“this is only prolonging the inevitable surrender of Ukraine. Worse, it is poisoning any chance of restoring normal relations with Russia. ”
By now, this is so obvious to anyone, that surely one has to conclude that, in fact, this is the intended result. Perhaps decisively dividing Europe from Russia is the larger aim. The insistence of European leaders on staying this present course in Ukraine, despite the even greater tribulation this will continue to cause for years in Europe, is even more baffling, with respect to this particular issue.
But the misgovernment is far larger than this, as LJ sketches clearly. 9-11 seems to have been some sort of trigger or signal. The question becomes: To what end, these disastrous policies, this gutting of all Constitutional restraint and process?
You are a absolutely right. Only jackasses would welcome a civil war.
So I generally agree with you, just a couple of nuances.
First I do think that many Americans in important roles in the Deep state (or however you want to describe it) realise that the US just couldn’t function in a multi-polar world. They just don’t have the skillsets. They believe that the US (or at least the Deep State) would be much better off if the US split from the Rest of the world, taking Europe and as much of the RoW as it can grab. On the whole I agree, and through Ukraine they have total control now over Europe, but they seem overconfident for Row where even Saudi wants to join BRICS!!!!!.
So is US facilitating its own death, or is it actually just creating its own escape pod?
“I am old enough to remember a time when the freedom of the press and freedom of speech set the United States apart as a special place. ”
I’m early 60s and British so I wasn’t into world media during Vietnam. But it strikes me that the media was no better in the 1960s than 50 years late. 19% of the age group went to Vietnam, yet the other 81% had to wait for the Pentagon Papers leaks in 1971 to start to find out what was happening.
If anything the high mark for US and World press was 2003, where there was open discussion about the validity of the WMD claims, an open doubt about whether invading Iraq was right, and millions of demonstrators around the world joined Stop the War marches because they knew enough about current events and naively still believed that their view counted.
Rather I think “our Freedom of Speech” is just one of those slogans US politicians of both colours use to sound good.
I am also British and a few years older than you, and I am totally with Larry on my memory of the freedom of speech and the Press. I’ve been interested in politics and followed it – naively for a long while – since the mid 60s when I was about eleven. With the benefit of hindsight, I’d say there’s been steady erosion of both since then, with a precipitate decline in the past few years. Certainly, the “cancel culture” has been around for a long time: up at Oxford in the mid 70s, I remember having to go to London to hear Enoch Powell, because it was literally impossible for our undergraduate society to host him there. You could always find a huge range of political views not just within the Press, but within individual newspapers. There was genuine vigorous debate – you could easily find a huge range of views on, say, the Vietnam War or the Soviet Union. (Ironically, those most sympathetic to the North Vietnames and “detente” with Russia, and “living with a different social system”, are now the worst warmongers). Having worked in Fleet Street and the BBC in the 80s, I know in the main journalists did try to tell the truth as they saw it. Of course, there were bias, but outright lies and being willing propagandists for those in power, would have been unthinkable for most. I think the big change came with the rise of the PR industry, then in its infancy, and the riches available to those willing to prostitute themselves to those holding the purse strings. Whoever first came up with “presstiute” hit the nail on the head. I am now a very minor minnow in a small tributary, but the way things are going, it would not surprise me if I end my days in some latter day gulag.
Thank you for such an interesting response.
The reason I am sceptical about a period I was too young and then far too busy to observe closely is really a feeling that Nobody really understands how deceptive the press is until they analyse it very very closely.
For me I was 20 years an Economist reader as I thought it informed me about a huge range of things only much later on to discover it was disinforming me about so many things that I didn’t have the resources to check out myself.
I know it (and other media) wrote b/s about Telecoms – because writing financial analysis of Telecoms was my full time job. I could see it was following the PR stories of those that wanted to allocate all the future gains of the internet to the telecom companies rather than to the content producers or the architects of the networks, the IT and phone manufacturers. That was obviously wrong (transporting 0s and 1s is as basic a commodity business as one can get). But it did follow with the money spent on PR at the time.
Then living in Poland I took an interest in Ukraine (2014). Then Syria, then China, Venezuela, and pretty soon I realised I was being lied to on pretty much every topic under the sun.
So I take the approach that if I failed to see the lies in the past, that was my fault.
Having said all that there were some things that made it a lot easier for the public back in the 60s/70s/80s. First (in UK at least) we had proper classes which meant pretty much everyone saw domestic politics as Rich vs Poor, Capitalists vs Workers, Tories versus Labour. That made it a lot easier to see through what was being written. Internationally we had the cold war. So when the US interference in Afghanistan leading to the government requesting intervention from Russia and then the US/US boycott of the Moscow Olympics, most people knew the Cold war had something to do with it, even I didn’t know about US arming the Mujahideen till decades later.
And the elites then were very small c conservative, which may have been more acceptable to some.
Nowadays these simple explanations are missing. Woke preferential treatment for some minorities has replaced what used to be Rich/Poor competition. So QE which is incredibly Rich/Poor divisive is accepted without much comment and most of the West has over 40 years gone from as equal as it has been ever to as unequal it has been since the 19th century and yet no one talks about it.
I met up with 3 friends last week who were up at Cambridge with me. I recall that in 1982 we discussed the journalists who had just embedded with the UK forces on their way to the Falklands. 2 of us said their reports would be censored. The other 2 said they would be free to tell the truth and they could just put “this is being censored” at the top of their cables home. (they tried, it was deleted by the censors). The other three still believe 98% of what they read in the newspapers, they have become more credulous, not less.
They are not stupid, just too busy making a living. It takes a huge effort to read the media with scepticism. No wonder few bother. And I know that I didn’t bother till I reached my 50s.
I’ve always been skeptical of the media, being well aware of its bias and predilection for half truths. But I did not appreciate the systematic, global and comprehensive nature of its use to deceive until I saw the its Covid coverage.
Nor did I appreciate the willingness of the general public to be deceived by lies which could be seen through by anyone of average intelligence.
The US could have thrived in a multipolar world if it hadn’t deliberately moved pretty much all manufacturing overseas.
I remember my manager, in the early 80s, going on about outsourcing to China. I asked who would buy products when our mfg people were unemployed. She immediately started screaming at me that I didn’t understand. Clearly had no answer.
The vultures saw a billion potential customers in China, so threw their neighbors to the wolves. It didn’t occur to them that generations of privation in China would not allow survivors to instantly morph into consumers.
“Rather I think “our Freedom of Speech” is just one of those slogans US politicians of both colours use to sound good.”
If “perception management”, sometimes presenting as attempts to dumb down others, is perceived to be successful to some degree, then it is a wise choice for US politicians to encourage “our freedom of speech” in hope of sustaining the coercive social relations self-designated as”The United States of America” from which they benefit; “representative democracy” and its encouragement is also a wise choice, not to sound good but in hope of sustaining contexts/illusions within which they prosper.
These were among the bases of Mr. Rove’s misguided hopes/observations based on absolutes that
We are an Empire
We create our own reality to which others react
Whilst others are reacting
We create another reality to which others react.
That this does not “constitute current practice” is held by some to be a function of dumbing down of “US politicians” as observed by Mr. Kissinger in a simplistic way by relying on labelling, not rigorous analyses.
“Rather I think “our Freedom of Speech” is just one of those slogans US politicians of both colours use to sound good.”
If “perception management”, sometimes presenting as attempts to dumb down others, is perceived to be successful to some degree, then it is a wise choice for US politicians to encourage “our freedom of speech” in hope of sustaining the coercive social relations self-designated as”The United States of America” from which they benefit; “representative democracy” and its encouragement is also a wise choice, not to sound good but in hope of sustaining contexts/illusions within which they prosper.
These were among the bases of Mr. Rove’s misguided hopes/observations based on absolutes that
We are an Empire
We create our own reality to which others react
Whilst others are reacting
We create another reality to which others react.
That this does not “constitute current practice” is held by some to be a function of dumbing down of “US politicians” as observed by Mr. Kissinger in a simplistic way by relying on labelling, not rigorous analyses which may illuminate that “perception management” is not managing.
While we manage the ‘what ifs’ the Russian military spends 60,000+ artillery shells per DAY, 24/7, pounding the Ukrainians reinforced sites, and taking the toll in few hundred Ukrainians per day. (Remember that Russia run out of artillery shells back in March:)
In the same time, Germany pays now EUR 500 per MWh, or 50 cents per KWh (I pay 6 cents), and they are talking about firewood as a reliable energy source, because we are back in the year 1500. Also they are talking about the possibility of shameful starting of NS2 :].
The issue is not just in US or in North America, the craziness took a grip on the whole collective west, and now Russia looks like the only normal partner on the table.
We’ll need a good politicians’ scrubbing to get out of this mess, which was created by greed, stupidity, and believing in alternate realities.
After the wholesale banning of everything Russian, from the dead poets and writers, to kids that compete in various sports, the Russians for at least 1-2 generations will NOT reproach what will remain from the ‘west’, because they now understand that the ‘west’ is the enemy, at par with other enemies from previous centuries.
“enemies”
The notion of enemies is saturated in emotionalism best left to be practiced by opponents, since emotionalism undermines rigorous strategic planning, rigorous strategic implementation, rigorous strategic evaluation, and hence strategic purposes.
Even some opponents are aware of this and hence in their attempts at “perception management” seek to encourage others to emote.
Some immersed in /socialised within coercive social relations are of the view that hatred is a useful motivator in competitive endeavours, whilst some others are aware that hatred is a motivator of self-destruction – a land of myriad opportunities.
Yes. It is. By design.
The US is to become just another province in the great WEF globalist community. IMO, Russia is hated b/c it doesn’t want to be a part of that. The midwits managing the globalist revolution for the WEF believe that John Lenon’s “Imagine” is a visionary policy prescription, not just a sappy diddy by a drunken millionaire hippy burnout.
The globalists also believe that there are too many people on the planet. So if a bunch die from the first and second order fallout of their revolution, it’s a bonus. They were planning on reducing the population anyhow in the long run. Eggs and glorious omelets, you know.
From whatever angle you struggle to see, whatever bent light you throw into the American policies towards UKraine and Europe,you fail to find out a sensible purpose and viable happy end for the atlantic exceptionalists.
What the hell they want to achieve with this, with that and further that?
I dont know.
Short terms, tiny around.the.corner advantages, hopefully big short run profits and a HOPE the ‘community ” and global south clings to their PR like sleeping bats to the ceiling.
Short sight is the other name for blindness.
Excellent post, questions we’ve all been thinking about. For myself, the USA was formed with 3 branches of Government (& then adjudication of Federal Reserve Branch). I hold the a Judicial Branch wholly responsible for the condition of USA. Not this or that President or idiot neocons & Lobby filled Congressional seats. From the Supreme Court to most all jurisdictions & subtypes have been corrupted, bribed & blackmailed.
I often wonder for example, what would the “90”s have looked like and the justice system done its due diligence regarding Rose Law Firm/Whitewater & the Arkansas Senator Bill Clinton?? A just prosecution, even if sentence was suspended, would meant No President Bill Clinton- No Senator Hillary Clinton-No Secretary’s “we came – he died- e-mail” Hillary Clinton… that one failure to justly, by duty of the law, prosecute… may have changed the trajectory of the US (Let alone NAFTA) forever. The Judicial Branch probably always was doomed to fail to corruption as no check besides Constitution/Bill of Rights… which not just the Supreme Court, but most courts won’t uphold when going up against Pizer. Anyways, both foreign and domestic enemies roam around the Country, doing what suits them, as the Judicial Branch is dead. (Sorry, but those every now & then “wins”… are just bones thrown to angry dogs to keep from getting bit)
Actually, both the Executive AND the Legislative branches failed to reject Chief Justice Marshall’s diktat that the Supreme Court was the sole “interpreter” of the Constitution, and thus allowed a superior class to evolve to run the government by “decisions.” There is nothing in said Constitution that grants such power.
The beauty of that Constitution was that it was documented for all to read, and reading itself is an interpretive action. Once the Executive and Legislature (and by extension, the people) abdicated their responsibilities and duties inherent in interpreting the document, “checks and balances” were lost, and all else was “down hill.”
I think you are correct, though I would aim it solely at the decision one dollar one vote. If you have a political system that is impossibly expensive to get into office, the end result is fine.
Note, congress “could” overturn anything the judiciary implements. That they dont is telling.
meant to say “the end result is fixed.”
“Russia was still a nuclear power, … ”
This statement is incorrect. Russia is still a nuclear power.
Larry could have said “Russia remained a nuclear power.” The sense is the same.
This is a sad subject. There are so many people in the US who are awakening to our desperate situation and the desperate evil people who are controlling the country, but change will be very difficult. The US definitely has a spiritual problem and is like a rabid animal, and likely does not consider that two or more countries could lay plans to take us out for being an existential threat to them. Russia has grown in esteem among the world community. As the nations look to Russia and China, the US may become a pariah. We will have no friends because we will not be friendly. If those countries do not stand back and let us collapse on our own, the UK will be taken out with us. They also will be a pariah.
In his book, Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives, the late Stephen Cohen has an essay on the roots of the New Cold War, accurately pinning the blame on a bipartisan US policy of containment and marginalization of Russia. I highly recommend that everyone track down that book and focus on that chapter, which covers everything from shock therapy to ABM and NATO expansion. Cohen was an intellectual of the Left, and held brave positions during the Cold War. I hope that, in coming years, critical-minded Americans on the Left and the Right who oppose US hegemony and militarism, can dialogue fruitfully about these existential matters of peace and security.
I am astonish at the way the western public and MSM Media perceive reality, there is not mystery guys… USA is a totally bankrupt Country, All the 30 trillion dollars national debt went to the pockets to the Oligarchs, and the U.S. made sure the rest of the so called west is bankrupt too. So now the U.S. only option is to blackmail China and Russia the two countries not bankrupt because they have enormous resources either natural or of production type, that if they don’t surrender the U.S. will destroy the world, The same way that destroyed North Korea, Vietnam, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan and many others. WHAT PART OF THAT YOU GUYS DON’T UNDERSTAND ?
Excellent Post, Larry, though I would take it a step further, and say that the US has been overtaken by a death cult.
“You cannot serve God and mammon.”
could translate to:
Either a healthy prospering nation or big pharma profits (and death)… (add your favorite parasite to pharma, like the MIC, or big tech).
Larry, hard to disagree with any of that.
This isn’t a superpower any more. It hasn’t been ‘the land of the free’ for decades.
It’s an imperial autocracy in the throes of collapse, ruled – barely, and for the time being – by a mostly anonymous junta manipulating a demented sock puppet as their public spokesman.
Look on the bright side, though: Fresh off her 35% landslide primary defeat, Liz Cheney says she may run for president!
Larry’s thesis here is obvious to anyone who’s part of The Great Awakening and following these events.
Additional comments:
A repeal of all 1913 (un)Constitutional ammendments would immediately solve the majority of the federal over-reach problems:
1. End the Fed
2. End the federal income tax
3. Return election of Senators to the states
The State department went communist around the same time as the Bolshevik coup in Russia. (My Slavic friends tell me that it was a coup and not a revolution.) Also, my DoD friends tell me there’s much current angst between DoD and DoS, with the current DoS communists running most everything today (like the disastrous Afghan pullout). DoS is infiltrated with communist tribalists… neocon is too soft of a description for them. They are parasites.
The communist tribalist cabal of mainstream media needs broken apart. A cabalist ologolopoly that interferes with our 1st Ammendment needs the Sherman act thrown at it.
Thanks for your articles Larry.
Hi, like you I am sad for the future of the West. The seed of the doom was planted at the end of the WW II.
Do you think that anything would be different if instead of Joe Biden there were Donald Trump?
What Donald Trump said during 2016 were not what he did.
Yes, I think there would be a big difference. Trump would have cut a deal with Putin.
Concur Trump would have cut a deal. Just one example of why they want him gone for good.
The modus operandi of the psychotics is to push, and push, and push. When resistance is felt, declare victimhood. It’s always the same playbook:
Ukraine
Taiwan
Gaza
Syria
Palestine
Gay rights, gay marriage
Trans rights
FBI / DoJ practices
CRT
1619 project
Etc…
Once they declare victimhood, then the natural thing that decent people do in response to their claimed victimhood is to back off. And then the parasite psychos take advantage of their targets again, and again, and again. At some point in every battleground, they will cross declared red lines, and a fight will erupt. That, in a nutshell, is the UKR/RUS scenario.
So you implicitly mean that this round Trump would have been able to “dry the swamp”.
I hope it will happen in 2024
He had that intention but lacked the knowledge and skill to make it happen. I can only hope he has learned the lesson the hard way.
“Trump would have cut a deal with Putin”
It takes two to tango, so why assume a “partner” would agree to dance?
I have been following-up your site for a while and your voice is an interesting one.
I come from the “colonies”, France to name it… and I belong to the few who absolutely despise “America” (it’s not a continent, just a country…) … because of what it has done and is doing to the world… creating conflicts that should not even have started…. so yes, I hate “America”… but I absolutely realise that the US is not the people of America… and that there are good people there, whom I have tremendous respect for, including yourself… fighting for a different country.
I don’t know what to say, I sometimes love you and hate you… not YOU personally obviously, you are a good man, a rightful man. It’s just difficult at times to keep the focus and make a distinction between “Americans” and us.
Does that make any sense?
Such an amazing country, and yet so rotten…
Don’t get me wrong please, this is NO insult of your country, at all!!!
I am just struggling so bad, as so many others, with your country.
But I only wish you peace man and I am absolutely admirative at what you do.
Being an American nowadays is not a piece of cake and I would not want to be in your shoes.
I hope my comment didn’t come as an aggression, as it was absolutely not the intention!
Again I am just highlighting the complexness of us, the “outer world” who totally submitted to the US and are seeing the consequences of this tragic policy…
So no hate at all please!
You are doing a superb job, uniting us, thank you!!!!
In the end we are all the same and we share the same destiny, this planet earth.
Mon ami. Thank you for taking time to write and translate it. I fully understand your view. Were it not for France, the United States never would have come into existence. French support for the Revolution was critical to defeating the British.
I love how US “conservatives” and “Christians” are currently attempting to wash their hands off this debacle. “Oh, look at us, the last receptacles of American purity, we’ve been betrayed!”.
Do you believe in and support capitalism and capitalist democracy? Then, you’re partly to blame.
In my view capitalism, like socialism can be relatively benign in restricted doses, but becomes terminally corrupt when there is too much concentration of power.
Russia has stated months ago it is turning away from the US and the west generally. The uSA has no say in the matter.
Normal US – Russia relations will not return during our life times. We have proven ourselves, consistently, for many decades at least, that we have lost all integrity and honor in international relations. Our word has lost all value. There is no International Law we will not violate. It’s been documented with explicit examples of violations of dozens of International Laws, US Codes, including direct support of major international criminal & terrorist organizations in our pursuits of economic resources and destroying non-compliant governments. Putin is too intelligent to overlook our history nor could our politicians and intell ever expect a future Russian leader far into the future to fall for any of our assurances. I swore allegiance to our Constitution, and therefore its values protecting a healthy future for our nation, not to a bunch of dim-witted, blind to consequences, selfish, lying politicians who want to overthrow any and all other governments which refuse to kiss our butt and thereby bringing us ever closer to a major confrontation with multiple nuclear nations, from which there would be no winners.
Larry:
I would offer that the big picture struggle in the world is between the wealthy in the US and Europe and the ideology of neo-liberalism, commodifying and extracting from the entire world, and a Eurasian alliance with Russia and China at its heart, made up of many former colonies, including countries like Brazil and India, that are creating an alternative economic system. The economist, Michael Hudson, has explained the suicide of the West in terms of pursuing this ideology: see https://michael-hudson.com/2022/07/finance-capitalisms-self-destructive-nature/
Whether the US has a Democrat or Republican leadership, the dominance of the financial sector (as well as the MIC) ensures the US govt does not invest for the long-term in infrastructure or the health and wellbeing of its citizens.
A short but superbly argued essay, Mr. Jonhson except for one thing, what your Governing Elites (GEs) are pursuing in foreign policy, and that goes for both parties, the difference in foreign policy between them is a Rizzla paper thin, is what any Empire that’s disintegrating, falling apart, dissolving has to pursue to survive longer, your hegemony got shattered, you no longer have to confidence of a leader, internally you’ve segmented on any issue of importance one can think of.
One half of your wealth is owned by just one percent of the population, the great unwashed are deeply medicated (top slot in the use and misuse of prescription medicine per head, the same for illegal drugs), a massive indebtedness, racially you are more apart than when King was around …
If the above’s true about the Republic, and it is, then the last thing your GEs need is a world at peace with itself, countries trading with each other, investing in each other, a new challenger to your hegemony possibly arising. The opposite is a must – as many conflicts as possible, countries squabbling with each other, coups, invasions – for your hegemony to last that bit longer.
And that’s exactly what your GEs have been up to in earnest since the two Towers got hit, it was then the GEs realised you were no longer invincible, hence the friend of General Wesley Clark confusion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srxU3uCyNvU
“It’s as if the whole world is ending and me with it” Pliny the younger witnessing Mt Vesuvius eruption
Hi Larry.
Another great piece on the greatness of Empire and it’s inevitable decay and collapse.
In relation to that, I’ve long wondered why the UK loathed Russia with an obsessive vengeance, which compelled them to undermine and attack her at every opportunity.
Over time I believe this mental disorder came to affect the US as well.
Fortunately a recent article by Cynthia Chung addressed this, wherein she wrote that “British support for the Confederate army had reached a point where Britain would have certainly militarily intervened on their behalf if it had not been for Tsar Alexander II deploying the Russian navy on both eastern and western coasts of America for seven months in support of Lincoln’s Union. Russia was prepared to go to war with Britain in order to keep the United States whole”.
They don’t blame Russia for stealing their colonies as a more powerful rival.
No, they’ve held an enduring grudge because Russia had the gall to ensure the US work it out among themselves, free of outside influence.
What a concept.
The map graphically tells the story.
https://cynthiachung.substack.com/p/the-special-relationship-how-the
Superb summation of where we are at. Unfortunately most of the world doesn’t see what you outlined unless their government addresses it. Most go the way of their media. People in other countries,
from my experience as a long time expat, have as much of an understanding of what the US does as US citizens have of other countries
I agree with this article, especially the part which says that America’s standing in the world is NOT what it used to be. We used to look up to the US as the model country, but not anymore (I am writing from southeast Asia). The hypocrisy, failings, and hubris are all too obvious at this point. Rising level of poverty ALONE is indicative of something deeply wrong with the US. Add to this the whole nonsense of critical race theory, gender theory, and so on. Does the US think the rest of the world is blind?
I dare say that most countries in the world are just waiting and seeing when the current international order will be sufficiently undermined before making their own moves in different directions to form different alliances to secure their own developments (e.g. when stuff like CAATSA is rendered toothless enough for most countries to cooperate freely with “pariah” countries such as Russia, Iran, etc).
WISDOM is what’s missing in the US these days (on the part of the leadership). There is no
lack of intelligent people in the US, but a dearth of wise leaders. To see two societies so similar to each other (US & Russia both have difficult beginnings, both are traumatized by civil wars, both have Christian psyche, both have a history of expansionism, both fought on the same side against a common enemy last century, etc.) be at loggerheads with each other like this is just heartbreaking. The fault lies principally on the US with their near-sighted policies immediately following the end of the Cold War. This happened for the simple reason that WISDOM is no longer considered a virtue in the country.
We all love our countries. Larry is an example of a patriot who loves his country, but it’s obvious that he loves TRUTH even more. Love of truth is a sign of the fear of GOD, which as we know is the beginning of WISDOM.
” . . . it is poisoning any chance of restoring normal relations with Russia”.
The Russian Government seems not to care much for The West. Their trade heads East. Their formidable weapons point West.
” . . . western entrepreneurs, with the willing help of Russian oligarchs, succumbed to greed and tried to loot Russia . . . “.
The Masters of The Universe expected in Vladimir Putin a sober Yeltsin. Did not work out. VP is a Russian president, not a Washington-London stooge.
“Freedom of the press and freedom of speech are now under regular, sustained attack . . . “.
The imperialism visited on others finds it way back home.
“American culture is now awash with filth”.
Of those whom The Gods would destroy they first make mad.
“The era of the United States as the supreme military and economic power in the world is over”.
So goes the US dollar as the de-facto reserve currency and prime means of global enforcement, mafia style.
So goes the foreign military bases.
Larry, are we living under Marshall Law?? What else can explain the violation of the 6th amendment? And if that is the case, who is the real president??
Greg – The real President is Sullivan, with Blinken, Nuland and Bolton yapping in the wings.
Bravo. Great article.
A large portion of American society supports hostile actions towards Russia are ok. A bigger number have no clue what a real war is in this century. This is not a good combination.especially
combined with poor leadership.
I’m old enough (70!) to remember Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet ambassador to the U.S. He seemed to often be on the news and was described in respectful terms, at least that was my impression as a teen. How things have changed – for the worse.
Rt has been banned in the UK??????? But we already know the TRUTH by accessing, Patrick Lancaster, The DURAN LOCALS, Redacted, i EARL GRAY, Southfront, Greyzone/Aaron Matte, Tap News Wire, Consortium News, and Joe Miller – he is the only one who has managed to post the full sickening videos of UkraNazi attrocities – that they uploaded onto social media themselves???? All the others have edited the videos, to reduce the shock factor, I guess?
https://joemiller.us/2022/03/watch-ukrainians-shoot-russian-pows-in-horrific-videos-nazi-azov-battalion-may-have-bombed-theater-at-mariupol-in-false-flag/
Admin/moderator – I have not duplicated this post….
Greg – The real President is Sullivan, with Blinken, Nuland and Bolton yapping in the wings.
Need to sort out the moderator here? This is NOT A DUPLICATED POST?