If you have any doubts that Ukraine’s President Zelensky is expendable if Joe Biden decides to change course, just take a gander at the following photo essay.
When the CIA Director comes for a visit it is time to check your six (i.e., military slang for seeing if anyone is sneaking up on you from behind).
Here is one of my favorites. During the 1980s the Reagan Administration was supplying arms and military technology to both Iran and Iraq, who were engaged in a brutal war. With friends like Washington, who needs enemies. No wonder Saddam thought he could invade Kuwait and the United States would not care.
How about Muammar Gaddafi getting the old bamboozle from Barack Obama:
“GADDAFI: OBAMA IS A FRIEND,” reads the banner headline on his eponymous website right now. The link goes to a year-old interview Gaddafi gave with a London-based newspaper, in which the Libyan autocrat said of the U.S. President, “He is someone I consider a friend. He knows he is a son of Africa. Regardless of his African belonging, he is of Arab Sudanese descent, or of Muslim descent. He is a man whose policy should be supported, and he should be assisted in implementing it in any way possible, since he is now leaning towards peace.”
Are you picking up a theme here? It does not matter if it is a Republican or Democrat, once a foreign leader is no longer useful to the United States, he gets bent over the log like Ned Beatty in Deliverance and learns the “joy” of buggery. Henry Kissinger was not bullshitting when he quipped:
“it may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.”
Looks like Volodomyr Zelensky is going to learn that truth over the coming weeks. If he survives to see the New Year it will be a miracle.
One critical point I failed to make in yesterday’s article regarding the competing narratives regarding Zelensky and General Zalushny — it looks like the Brits are backing Zalushny while the CIA is trying to save Zelensky and dump Zalushny. I base that conclusion on the fact that the Economist, a British publication with close ties to MI-6, gave Zalushny the celebrity treatment, while the Washington Post, the go-to rag for the CIA, blamed Zalushny for Nord Stream.
Simplicius the Thinker has another great piece out regarding this modern version of Game of Thrones now underway in Kiev. Worth your time.
I enjoyed the privilege of two interviews today — my usual weekly chinwag with Judge Napolitano and a new one, Kevork Almassian.
Burns talked with his counterpart in Russia two years ago before the SMO kicked off, apparently to set the rules of the game. Will he have lined up a plan with Russia before this conversation, or is he winging it on the Ukrainian side, and hoping the Russians will play ball?
The Company seems to be the power behind the throne.
The Ukrainian Presidency has been irrelevant since 2014.
Bob Bishop touches a more relevant topic in his latest article.
“Henry Kissinger was not bullshitting when he quipped:
“it may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.””
Sounds like some major league No Sh*t Analysis from old Henry there.
Zelensky might want to wear metal underwear for the time being lest he get the Gaddafi sodomy treatment with a bayonet.
There is no secret deal between Russia & America.
And Russia ain’t playing ball with America anytime soon.
Matters not who leads Ukraine- as Ukraine is destined to disappear from the map into the history books as a footnote of American proxies.
Would you want to be the leader when your country disappears?
Just to set the record straight regarding Saddam and his invasion of Kuwait:
Saddam had a meeting with the US Ambassador April Glaspie where he complained about Kuwait slant oil drilling into Iraq stealing Iraq’s oil.
Glaspie said, “The United States has no opinion regarding your border dispute with Kuwait.”
That was a major green light. Classic US setup. And the rest, as they say, is history.
Interesting how all these grand moments in American history stick in our minds and accumulate.
To be fair saying ‘I have no opinion about your border dispute’ isn’t the same as ‘go ahead and invade’.
It is when your intent to stop that drilling by an invasion and asking America if they would have a problem with that.
yes i remeber it that way too. was stumped when suddenly we flipped.
Arab League had arranged diplomatic resolution to this August 1990 crisis. While not well known, it’s a fact.
At that point — and what is well known — Dick Cheney the Def Sec under prez Bush senior [who was told by Thatcher to make an extreme example of Sadaam. . .via deploying US military], — Cheney in early August 1990 thus traveled to Saudi, told them to reject Arab League mediation that could have resolved Kuwait crisis; Saudi agreed, & flip-flopped: diplomacy thus blocked/ended, and US began preparing invasion of Iraq. Saudi agreed to accept US forces on her land! At the time until today: we were told Arab League Impotent. In fact, a diplomatic resolution was at hand. [As it is at hand, now, viz. Palestine Crisis & Unified Arab/Muslim statement from Saturday, 11/11/2023.] US Obstruction of Diplomacy has been a constant. [TASS reports Russia intelligence says US wants Bibi to destroy Gaza ASAP so as not to interfere with Biden’s reelection campaign — make of this what you will. . . .]
In brief, capsule — 1979 Iran Revolution still reverberates: US instigated Iraq War against Iran, Sept. 22, 1980 [supplying among other things chemical weapons deployed against Iran army]; Iraq, the US fren, thus believed US wouldn’t go “all the way” against her, when she invaded Kuwait, Aug. 2 1990. Then 911, second Gulf War [and before that Afghanistan]. . . .Then instigates Ukraine Crisis, and Palestine Crisis.
In retrospect, what would our country be like, today, had we not instigate Iraq to invade Iran [recall Syria practically alone among Arab states opposing invasion and backed Iran] — and instead of stirring the pot, had used diplomacy and figured out a way to co exist with Iran?
“In FY 2023, the Department of Defense (DOD) had $1.80 Trillion distributed among its 6 sub-components. Agencies spend available budgetary resources by making financial promises called obligations”
https://www.usaspending.gov/agency/department-of-defense?fy=2023
“In FY 2017, the Department of Defense (DOD) had $1.16 Trillion distributed among its 6 sub-components. Agencies spend available budgetary resources by making financial promises called obligations”
https://www.usaspending.gov/agency/department-of-defense?fy=2017
55% spike in just six years.
Some previous data:
https://comptroller.defense.gov/portals/45/documents/defbudget/docs/fy2000_greenbook.pdf
https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20Room/Other/NationalDefenseBudgetEstimatesFY1990_1991_March1989.pdf
Our collective failure to come to reasonable and rational terms with Iran Revolution, more than anything else, it seem to me: destroying us. Actual revolutions are not necessarily geographical-specific — as Iran Revolution demonstrate. Its consequences continue to reverberate — none more so than here and now.
Bush junior’s Iraq invasion represent compete splitting and breaking of Arab and Muslim worlds’ sense of unity — yet nearly a generation later, how is that “mission accomplished” working out for us now? The Resistance of Arab/Muslim seen via our 1983 Lebanon adventure — four decades later, where are they? and where are we?
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It is when you’ve ordained yourself master of the middle east and beyond.
True it was a trap. I vaguely remember the backstory as to how it was sprung. It began with Iraq being promised US backing in disputes with Kuwait in exchange for keeping up the war with Iran. But Iraq failed to damage Iran to the extent the US had hoped for. So when Hussein sought reassurances afterward from the US as he began his moves agianst Kuwait, the DOS sent Glaspie to give him an amber light light which he interpreted as approval.
Back in 1991, the Dallas Morning News carried the testimony of Ambassador April Glaspie to a Senate hearing in one article and a revealing statement by the king of Jordan in another. The State Department sent Glaspie a telegram ordering her to tell Saddam Hussein that “the United States had no interest in Kuwait.” She cabled back that this amounted to the US government inviting Saddam Hussein to invade. The State Department ordered her to give the message anyway, so she did. But wait … there’s more. King Hussein of Jordan warned his buddy, Saddam Hussein that this was a trap. Hussein knew that Washington was privately assuring the Kuwaiti leaders that “the Marine would be there within 24 hours if Saddam Hussein tried to invade.” Saddam Hussein told the Jordanian king to not worry because he, Saddam, had assurances from the US, and that he was indeed going to invade Kuwait. It’s a small footnote against the deaths of 2.5 million Iraqi civilians from America’s bombing15 year bombing campaign, including total destruction of Iraq’s electricity and sewage treatment systems (the sewage pumps run on electricity.) Even when Iraq was still an Ottoman province, the locals were vehemently opposed to the British takeover of Kuwait. That was before oil was discovered, but Britain wanted Kuwait for a useful choke point to control or tax any commerce into Iraq. My facts are easily found on the web, if you want to look. But wait, there’s more. King Hussein died in 1999 at the age of only 64, about 7 years after telling the truth. The official cause was Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, a blood cancer that commonly results from a dose of the Monsanto chemical, Round-Up. It’s not hard to give someone cancer, of course.
President Zelenskyy’s demise and comparison with the former president of South Vietnam forecast here, over one year back. Such matters come attached to timelines.
Zelenskyy will go to the graveyard of erstwhile Washington allies. Some go via the graveyard . . .
https://les7eb.substack.com/p/great-game-ukraine-long-proxy-war
Some have suggested that Ze will escape to his now elaborately furnished properties in various places, perhaps Florida or Israel or London (where, if I recall, he has citizenship). Well… maybe not Israel, now.
But: it is more likely that he ends up dead. Why? His existence is problematic for the Brits, who like the General better, and they have much experience poisoning people using exotic substances while screeching about Russians.
Meanwhile, if Ze escapes to Florida he’ll still carry a raft of kompromat versus some of the most powerful political figures in America (and beyond), who will gain no further benefit from the loser. He’ll get Trotskied as soon as the media cycle moves on–unless he’s maintaining a dead-man’s switch on its release somehow.
No wonder he’s looking nervous.
No. The greatest possibility of his physical survival lies with escaping to Belarus with boxes of said kompromat, and turning state’s evidence versus the west while throwing himself on Putin’s (remarkably) tender mercies. He could easily paint a picture of himself as the bag-man performing a role at the point of a gun, while Ermak, MI6, Azov and the CIA ran the show into the ground. He might even barter for a very comfortable retirement someplace on the nicer side of Russia, though his wife’s tastes could end up unsatisfied.
But actually *getting* out of his trap with anything useful in tow is the tricky bit. There is no greater hostage than the sovereign. Ask Louis the XVI how challenging it is to get a head of life.
“… they have much experience poisoning people using exotic substances while screeching about Russians”
I wish we had another hostage video of the Skripals. I was wondering whether Novichok was any good against Covid. It did such wonders for Yulia’s beauty, and is clearly much safer than the Pfizer jab.
Burns wants a spot on some well paying board. He’d push for war IMHO.
“Burns talked with his counterpart in Russia two years ago before the SMO kicked off, …”
Burns tried to bullshit his counterpart …
Obama, the CEO of the Kenyan Snake Oil Company.
Hamas could certainly use some of these! Hopefully Hezbollah has some!
https://www.rt.com/india/587239-india-russia-igla-s-missile-system/
“an island of stability”
[[On New Year’s Eve 1977, U.S. President Jimmy Carter raised his glass of champagne to toast his host, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran. Carter spoke warmly of the Shah: “Iran, because of the great leadership of the Shah, is an island of stability in one of the more troubled areas of the world. This is a great tribute to you, Your Majesty, and to your leadership and to the respect and the admiration and love which your people give to you”]]
https://vandvreader.org/jimmy-carter-toasts-the-shah-31-december-1977/
The CIA and MI-6, —– what kind of ”’intelligence”’ were they providing Carter??
In other news, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, according to today’s TASS:
“The Israelis are being urged to speed up the operation in order to prevent it from dragging out, as that would have a negative impact on [US President] Joe Biden’s electoral positions,” the agency said.
This news report also claims that our government is “aware that the accomplishment of the goal of destroying Hamas may lead to the killing of ‘a significant number’ of civilians.”
“However, as the White House believes, this is quite acceptable and will not entail depriving Tel Aviv of Washington’s support. The main thing is to end military operations as quickly as possible,” the intelligence service said.
Additionally, the Foreign Intelligence Service said the US, having secured the support of the UK and Germany, “intends to obstruct initiatives that provide for a ceasefire in Gaza.”
https://tass.com/politics/1705547
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Best case for Zelensky:
Run the Ukraine election in March 2024 and make sure to lose to Arestovych.
Take the stolen millions and retire in England or USA.
But unfortunately, Zelensky knows too much and will be conveniently “suicided” by his MI6 or CIA handlers.
NATO will blame Russia and the Russkies will just shrug.
Ukraine has lost this war and their new map will become official in 2024.
The American Militray Industrial Congressional Complex (MICC) is already getting ready for the Taiwan war against China in 2025.
Seems to me, Zelensky’s heading down the Noriega coke binge chute. Better check his closet for brujeria altars and chicken sacrifices.
He has no hope of surviving until a 2024 election. None.
He has one hope: Point to the distance and shout “Oh my God, look! Look, over there!” and then run to the airport as fast as his little legs can carry him.
He must already have a private jet fueled up and at the ready 24/7, and with any luck he might just make it to the tarmac.
But one tip: empty the cargo hold before the plane takes off.
I know, I know, all those suitcases full of $$$$$. I know that hurts, but not half as much as the bomb that is certain to be in one of those cases.
Reminds me of some top official running from Afghanistan in a helicopter. He had so much cash on-board that Benjamins were flying all over the tarmac. Classic.
That private jet would be the first chance for Ukro airforce to score air to air kill.
Secret doors in the wall of rooms is key.
And a deep escape hatch some floors down to an underground bunker tha leads to a private area from where he can discretely be transported out of the area, preferraby through some underground tunnel for some distance.
Zelly will be a lot safer if he sings for the Russians in exchange for a big dacha. Other than that he can count on getting whacked. He and the wife probably have an impressive passport and citizenship collection by now but it won’t matter if he is a loose end.
Look at that shit eating grin on Rummy’s face. ‘I got a seeeecret!’
With any luck, the cracks in the Anglo-American alliance will continue to get larger. The so-called special relationship has become toxic; time for us to date other civilizations.
Look at that shit eating grin on Rummy’s face.
Reminds me a bit of Rove’s back slapping sessions with Saakashvili at Yalta.
Rove, Rice And Saakashvili – The Atlantic; By The Daily Dish. August 14, 2008. Share. … Was Saakashvili goaded into goading Russia for campaign purposes? These are all questions at this point.
All the usual troublemakers (sans Nuland) at work first in Georgia, then Ukraine:
Now, there’s been a lot of justified chatter about the role of Randy Scheunemann, who appears to be advising the Republic of Georgia at the same time as he provides campaign advice to John McCain.
Sen. John McCain’s top foreign policy adviser prepped his boss for an April 17 phone call with the president of Georgia and then helped the presumptive Republican presidential nominee prepare a strong statement of support for the fledgling republic.
The day of the call, a lobbying firm partly owned by the adviser, Randy Scheunemann, signed a $200,000 contract to continue providing strategic advice to the Georgian government in Washington.
Given the way McCain has boasted of his frequent calls to Saakashvili in attempts to reclaim the mantle of the best international leader, it raises questions of whether the Administration’s “see no evil” approach to Georgia was part of a deliberate campaign strategy.
Funny how Washington’s many interventions abroad create so many jingles and rhymes.
All I can remember is Saakashvili eating his tie:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ02MlVRcMA&pp=ygUeU2FzaGthdmlsbGkgY2hld2luZyBvbiBoaXMgdGll
Now he eats bed sheets in Georgia’s prison hospital ward.
And the Armenians were stupid enough to heed siren songs out of DC and all they got for it was a massive loss of territory, tens of thousands of displaced citizens, and the loss of their ancient city Stepanakert. Any leader who still heeds DC after all this should be locked up by other officials as a matter of public safety and national survival. Absolutely nothing good seeps or crawls out of that filthy Swamp.
Precisely this. It baffles me why people continue to fall for US bullshit. You’d think after they screwed over the first couple of mug punters the rest would get wise to it, but they never seem to.
Because behind all the theatrics, the Rothschild Banksters still hold the purse strings. US$32+TRILLION debt is a powerful leash, so that includes the U$ FED. For over 250 years, the Rothschilds have taken the lessons of the rise/demise of the Borgias and Medici Crime Families to heart… but benevolent despots are still despots.
Which always brings me to the question, why risk it all, publicly launching the WEF/Great Reset when Nixon’s jumping off the gold standard, the trashing of Glass-Steagall, 2008 Crash, 9/11, endless US/ZATO proxy wars and controlling the US$ Reserve Currency System had them set for perpetuity in 1989?
The USSR failed as planned, with the US/EU to be soon economically cowed via “climate change(tm)”, but then the unexpected happened.
They soon knew Putin’s Russia and subsequently Xi’s China were coming to take them down permanently. Neither Putin nor Xi are easily-bought useful idiots and/or isolationist megalomaniacs like so many of their predecessors.
Then Bitcoin, the only truly bankster-free, publicly available, truly-distributed self-operating “bank” system happened. That genie is out of the bottle, and attempts to market/mandate bankster-controlled bitcoin-like imposters will eventually fail. Even for Russia and China, and Putin and Xi know it.
Enter the desperate Covid Plandemic and mRNA Population Reduction Shots to give the coup-de-grace to topple what was left of the Post WW2 Unipolar Moment, leaving the Rothschild Great Reset as the last regime standing.
It’s not working, and Ukraine and now Gaza show the US to be the toothless MIC nuke-armed tiger ever. But they are psychopathic, and can cause great damage before they are put in the ground permanently. Don’t hear much about the Medici and Borgias these days eh?
The US/ZATO Rothschild-puppets are fulfilling Einstein’s observation: The definition of insanity is repeatedly doing the same thing and expecting a different result. Ya, the “Great Powers” had been playing the Colonialist Game since forever, but it had stopped working as intended at least 100 years ago. But until Russia and China incrementally walked away from the hide-bound communist ideologies that hobbled their countries, and then buried the hatchet, no one ever expected the “game” to change so radically in such a short time. The Rothschild Ship can’t turn that fast, and even if it did, it would reveal the venality to even their most committed sycophants.
As the US/ZATO/EU collectively slides into the failed-state zone, we shall see more scrambling to find the next perfect puppet (al la British politics, soon to be Canadian as well) and as many economic/military upheavals as can be launched. All to make the WEF Great Panopticon Reset seem a palatable alternative to that deliberate chaos.
“You will own nothing…” THAT part of that Agenda we can all count on, the rest of the pie-in-the-sky “and you will be happy” is a bald-faced lie.
AP:
Plausible, IMO. Just one thing, the story hasn’t ended. Not to get Newtonian, but actions precipitate reactions. RF, China are the big players in the reaction, but the groundwork of BRICS, SCO, Belt and Road are key parts of the foundation.
The tides is going out. Whether the parasites will be stranded onshore and wither and die is in the future, and the future can come fast or slow or not at all.
There are unpredictable ways things can develop. But do share your pessimism what will be destroyed and killed in the meantime.
The special relationship has been toxic to to we colonies at least since the Crown aided the Confederacy in our Civil War and Russia sent its fleets to San Francisco and NYC to help the Union.
Great insights, Larry. Thank you for your work. These blasts from the past serve to remind us all that America’s busybody foreign policies really only end up producing Pandora’s Boxes and Frankenstein monsters. They’re nearly all total disasters. (The only good thing that I can think of was President Trump’s recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. That, and tracking down and killing Bin Laden.)
“The only good thing that I can think of was President Trump’s recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.”
Well, well! I rather won’t comment on your BS! We have to be civilized, right?
Hi, Jeff. Most Jewish people in Israel and the world over didn’t think it was “B.S.” Why do you? Seemed to me to be America’s simple, powerful, symbolic gesture of Israel’s right to exist as a nation. Moreover, for nearly 1000 years, Triune God had ordained that all of His chosen people the Jews were required — three times yearly (I think that’s what it was) — to worship and offer sacrifices in Jerusalem… ALONE. This was God’s Regulative Principle of Worship for that time.
(I recognize, of course, that that requirement ceased and was abolished by God after Christ the Son of God rose from the dead after providing the final and ultimate sacrifice for all the sins of all the Father’s elect. In particular, the Holy Spirit-inspired New Testament books of Romans, Acts, Hebrews and Galatians are all God-sealed testaments to that fact — King James Version best.)
Yahweh destroyed Israel in 70 AD. When did he decide to recreate it?
The Jewish people in the Old Testament have a long track record of stealing others’ property by genocide. Just take a look at Deuteronomy & Joshua.
How people square that history with Yahweh’s 10 Commandments –specifically #s 6 thru 10 — is beyond me.
Personally, I think way back when, they were taken in by Satan. That would explain “God’s” orders to go slaughter these & those people, you can keep the land & livestock, just give me the gold.
They would be the famous lost tribe that Yeshua/Issa came looking for.
Btw, recent DNA studies confirm the Palestinian people as Semitic.
The Ashkenazi are, give or take, half European converts. Not the sons of Abraham.
Why, isn’t it civilized to laugh our heads off when we hear some howlers like those coyly encased in parentheses and dropped at the very end like a punch line?
Because there are too many people like Chris who believe this crap and think Israel re-establishing a Greater Israel is biblical prophecy. Thus, we march towards a wider conflict by the political cover these morons provide. But, I agree that it would be funny, if it wasn’t so scary.
It is RATIONAL (should be required) to laugh at such childish myths. It is long past time to send all the remaining gods to the “old god’s home” for them to fade into oblivion with their “pagan” predecessors, or at least the superhero comic books. But the Great Abrahamic Lie has been repeated in various forms for millennia, and so is taken as “truth”, or at least requiring “respect”.
Truth requires factual veracity, otherwise it is lies.
And in case anyone thinks I am picking on Jews, Christians or Muslims, ALL standard religions and radical ideologies share the same problem. The inability to sensibly look at reality and be OK with what is obvious on its face. There is no “god”, just ask the children of Iraq and Gaza… OH, you can’t, over 500,000 of them ARE DEAD at the DELIBERATE hands of the Abrahamic Believers. Where is the children’s indoctrination of “Jesus loves me” in the sick, demented minds of Nutty-yahoo, “Fuck the EU” Nuland and “it was worth it” Albright? OK, Nutty is a Jew, but to knowingly kill children? Psychotic is too tame a word.
Fear and chaos are tools too easily wielded by the wealthy and powerful to keep the masses ignorant and controlled via “holy books”, ritual, the media, economic deprivation and war. Controlled Media is as much for the disbeliever as the religious.
I have 60+ year old born-again in-laws who have plainly stated to me “we don’t believe in evolution”. Seriously. They live an otherwise normal conservative working-class lifestyle, but there’s this gaping hole when it comes to comprehending The Question of “life, the universe and everything”. They might as well say the answer if 42 with a straight face.
And that brother-in-law’s brother and wife are Canadian military, and think Canada is right to be puppy-dogging around the globe at the Pentagon’s whim.
Stupid is as stupid does. (Do I need to parenthesize it to be a proper punch line?)
I’m not going to start any name calling here. If I were to do that, you would be as deeply offended as I am about your comments.
I don’t think A.P. was out of line. He was up front about being agnostic/atheist.
Dear Curtis, I couldn’t give a rat’s ass about your BELIEFS, about as much as you are respecting my exposition of REALITY.
But reality has a way of intruding on beliefs such as I posit are probably yours.
What fundamental, “how could God get this wrong?” “facts” have the Abrahamic Religious types incorrectly promoted ? A small sample:
-The Earth is about 5BILLION (let alone the Universe is 13+BILLION) years old, not 6,000 as calculated from the “begats” in the Bible. My mother-in-law believes the 6,000 year figure… but she’s suffering from a Baptist upbringing and dementia-onset.
-The Earth orbits the Sun, the ancient Greeks and Arabic scholars knew this, how did the Roman Catholics and most of European clerics miss this?
– “Noah’s” flood is a cheap copy of previous MYTHOLOGY. And the “Ark” was circular in the Sumerian version…
-The Jesus story was similarly lifted (the names have been changed to protect the guilty) from prior Egyptian MYTHOLOGY.
-The Exodus has no basis in modern archeology. Ergo, the parting of the Red Sea and the probable mis-location of a volcanic Pillar of Fire story is more fantasy than fact. 40 years in the Sinai? It takes rare talent to get THAT lost.
-People who listen to the voices in their heads and think burning bushes talk to them are no longer considered prophets, just people who need psychiatric help.
I could go on, but why gild the lily?
I’ll be here all week, try the veal… (rimshot)
AP, you know that no one cares about that right? People aren’t religious because it provides some explanation of how the world came to be. They are religious because it provides a source of meaning in their lives.
Your view is just as cynical as those who use religion to justify their actions.
Randalorian: Let me start by saying I think the Energy of the Universe (whatever it may be) and beyond is wondrous, miraculous and astounding. But we simply don’t have enough information to say we KNOW. Not any of us humans, no matter what set of religious tomes have been set out and claim to give sacred transcendent understanding.
I get that religious communities can bring a great deal of strength and support to those who need or enjoy the social aspects. But we humans can do better.
The social contract that religion pretends to provide is actually independent of whatever beliefs are espoused beyond the basics that all religions claim to promote like “Thou shalt not kill, do unto others” type stuff.
But it NEVER stops there. The legacy cultural overburden invariable obscures such fundamental goods. In all but a few religions it’s OK to hate some OTHER, and you know who the OTHER is because they don’t speak the same language, wear the same symbols/clothes, adhere to the same rituals or support he proper political party. Indeed, religious and some secular belief systems are antithetical to others, and therein lies the problem. But find me a modern country that doesn’t at least give legal lip service to “thou shalt not kill”. Except of course when the “leaders will bring the people to war, whether they want it or not”, to paraphrase Goebbels, while he was facing the noose.
Yes, there was a time when eating pork in hot climates was an invitation to suffer trichinosis, a nasty parasite that affects the brain. But humans also lived in more temperate climes, invented refrigeration and learned how to raise/cook pork without propagating the parasite. But Jews still won’t eat pork “because God says not to”. All who eat pork, according to their religious laws are doomed and are to be at least shunned.
Muslims are strongly encouraged to travel the Mecca and walk around a big meteorite as if it and the act of going there has some metaphysical properties helping get the pilgrims into “Heaven” (apparently it has many Islamic names). It’s aparticualrly big, interesting specimen, but to base a modern religion on? Please. Merely facing Mecca to pray these days is an exercise in 3D geography, when to most directly face Mecca is to describe a line THROUGH the Earth for most Muslims, rather than around its circumference. Which is “correct”? Why are any options more correct than others, since even facing Mecca to pray is a topic of debate in different branches of Islam? Taking off your shoes to enter the Mosque makes perfect sense in arid, dusty climes, but northern Christians keep their shoes on, except in winter when they lose the snow boots and bring indoor shoes as the floors in medieval churches would have been very cold. Is God upset with northern Christians?
Some Christian sects are insistent churches and burials are traditionally sited east-west, with burials so the dead can see the sun rise on the resurrection day. What about those cremated, some now ashes scattered to the wind? Will God care?
Traditions without reason… spare me. At some point the cultural mores become beyond anachronistic, an impediment to the actual purpose of a secure and orderly civilization, especially when that civilization is shared by Other believers.
If there was even a scintilla of real proof that some god is indeed personally involved in and responsive to human activity on Earth (or beyond), I’d be first on that bandwagon. The Energy that powers the Universe (and beyond) is real, otherwise we wouldn’t be here debating this. But I and millions (billions?) around the world (and before me) simply don’t see the evidence the God Industry claims is so self-evident. Just because the Universe and everything in it exists, that does not prove existence of a god in any way.
We all want PEACE. But if that peace comes at the unnecessary cost of millions of lives and grinding devastation EACH YEAR, is it really peace? It is not, it is just more war, more war, more war.
The three most freeing words I EVER discovered in response to the currently unknowable are “I Don’t Know”. That leaves me and my kind free to consider alternatives to ancient myths which have outlived their practical, social and philosophical benefits.
But I guess I’m a bad person for not believing in a god no one can agree on.
Judaism is an exception, as the only religion I known of that negates any form of afterlife.* It’s “grab all you can while you can, by any and all means, because there is neither reward nor punishment thereafter, and you are entitled anyway because you are special. “Right” and “wrong” depend mostly on a legalistic interpretation of performing certain rituals (some still dripping with Bronze Age symbolic blood sacrifices — the Kaparot visited upon chicken or circumcision on infants on day 8).
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* Obviously Jews don’t believe that Jesus is “boiling in a cauldron of excrement in hell” since they don’t believe there is a hell (other than the one on earth) so they figure,”That will hurt the Goyim since they believe in this stupid afterlife, so let’s tell them..”)
All other religions are at their core a quest for spirituality, transcendence, the hope that you, or some distilled form of your uniqueness perdures. It is impossible to imagine art or any culture at all, from Egypt to Greece to India, having been created without it. It explains why Judaism prevented any Hebrew/Jewish culture from developing.
The specific myths in which each religion envelops this quest is what makes them superficially different. At their core they are like the photons that shoot from the same atom and however far apart they travel they behave in identical manner in simultaneity.
You cannot negate this ancestral and eternal need of humanity. Unless the believers are fanatics who try to impose their beliefs on you, tolerance based on understanding is the best attitude.
You can be an atheist and be educated. Read The Sacred and the Profane.
Atheists are not socially attractive. They are often as fanatical as the most zealous believers and as pesky missionaries.
Remember that you can choose your friends but not your relatives or in-laws but you have to live with them, preferably in harmony.
Ariadna said: “Atheists are not socially attractive. They are often as fanatical as the most zealous believers and as pesky missionaries.”
From such lofty heights come such pearls of wisdom… erm, OK…
Historically truth tellers have had to suffer the slings and arrows of those sitting in the comfortable pews, the religious zealots and the money changers whose ill-gotten income we threaten. So pardon us for pointing out such “emperors” have no clothes. I can’t think of a socially soft way of doing it that wouldn’t offend their tender sensibilities. Nobody likes to have it pointed out how wrong they are.
Ya, you can pick your nose, you can pick your friends, but you can’t wipe your friends on your saddle.
I’m here all week, try the veal… (rimshot)
Trump had no respect for international law
Jerusalem is not Israel
Couldn’t happen to a nicer player piano meatgrinder depopulationist of his “own” country and his rent a wifey skank, up there with Merkel and Brandon as destroyers of the homeland by any means necessary.
Taking out Qaddafi caused the migrant influx Fundamental Transformation of Europe.
Really great videos, thank you! It is so painful to Assange when he was so young and full of passion, he was such a force and they have destroyed him.
Not to mention Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam.
I’ve said this in other forums, but if Zelensky’s fate was governed by the Rules of Cluedo then I’d already have my hand in the air and my answer at the ready:
“Mr Zelensky, by the curb, dagger up the rectum”.
That’s not how they’re gonna get his ass. It’ll be Zelensky, in the bathroom stall, fentanyl spiked cocaine
I watched this video with a captured pregnant Ukrainian female soldier, Larry quoted, he didn’t register the shock in the Russian soldiers’ voices, “What are you even doing here???”
To which she responded: “My president sent me, hoping you’d ease up on your shelling and if not, to use my remains as another PR ploy.”
This is reminiscent of the scene of Sosa’s visit to Tony Montana.
Tony Montana vs Sosa’s men https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsOGxO8EbxY&t=2m22s
The penis-piano-player (PPP) actor’s ‘use-by-date’ expired some time ago. Shunned and snubed at Vilnius, the ‘great’ winter, err…,spring, err… summer offensive failed. The pussykatpanzerwagons & brit challenged wunderwaffe burned really good RF has trouble putting some of them out. MIC not happy. Then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UpJhaxnTHw (real or AI? – fun!)
MI-6 has their candidate, CIA still clinging to the 404 ‘hunter’bidette. The ‘grim reaper’ is in sight. Will PPP take a golden parachute to one his his many mansions? Is the offer still open? Will he slip and fall on one the marble floors in one of the mansions 32 bathrooms in a tragic and unexpected ‘accident, if he does? Is the offer still open?
Report from the ‘reap what you sow’ department: “Fallout From Catastrophic Ukraine Depleted Uranium Explosion Reached England”
sputnikglobe (dot)com/20231110/fallout-from-catastrophic-ukraine-depleted-uranium-explosion-reached-england-1114872089.html
What are the odds Olena grabs the cash and leaves him flat and runs away with the pool boy.
100%
“England has neither permanent friends nor permanent enemies; she has permanent interests.” – Lord Palmerston
Same applies to any country.
Those in the Collective West (is that still a thing?) 🙂 have been raised on the manifest lie that ‘we’ conduct international relations based on principles of morality, fair play and yada yada. In reality, friend or foe has to do with what suits the all-too-shortterm assessment. How else to explain the ‘friend/ally’ Saudi Arabia simultaneously with the ‘foe/enemy’ Iran? Of course, Iran was a friend under the Shah. And SA under MBS might become a foe if they sell too much oil not for USD. And so on.
The people in Larry’s post were useful until they weren’t, that’s all. As we say where I work, “while they’re patting you on the back they’re just looking for somewhere to put the knife.”
USA has a consistant record of “back patting”.
I bet all my rubles and grivnas that elenski will be nicely overdosed.
I still have 5000 ruble notes from the Yeltsin era. A few Ukrainian karbovanets too.
Throw those into the bet with my best wishes.
You can throw in your dollars too, soon to reach parity with the hrivnas.
I am raising the bet to 10000.00 Belarus зайчиков “zaichik” from and still Lukashenko era for overdose.
Солнечные зайчики – Супер Зайчики | Мультики для детей | Прямой эфир
Sunny Bunnies – Super Bunnies | Cartoons for kids | Live broadcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trQtbCxTBF0
Larry, how are you not ashamed of yourself when you are trying to clear that the WORST terrorist atrocity committed by ANY terrorist organization up to now (and possibly not for long) known to people and approve of it as a “religious extremism”?
Where is your humanity and conscious? WHAT is, in your opinion, the definition of terrorism if not what HAMAS did on 10/07? Have you WATCHED the videos released by Israel taken from the cameras of killed terrorists when they cut the head of a man with a spade and babies tied together and BURNED ALIVE?!
We can argue about whether or not Israel or anybody else has the right to attack them as a RESPONSE to such an attack but HOW can you call yourself a HUMAN if you APPROVE of what these non-humans were doing while cheering and celebrating killing innocent women, elderly and babies??? You lost all credibility in my view and declared yourself being a supported of the worst evil that happened in the world! SHAME ON YOU!
You obviously are ignorant of history. Armenians might question you insistence that October 7 was the worst terrorist incident ever.
It is not about HISTORY but your HUMANITY, Larry, or rather lack thereof.
You know about terrorism – Menachem Begin was banned from U.K. throughout 1950s but Thatcher ever loyal to her Finchley Jewish constituency met with him 1979 rather than having him arrested and executed
Then Shamir the terrorist gets to London and evades the hangman
British are soft on terrorists
the British NEVER terrorized anyone. We civilized!
“NON HUMANS!” You SOUND nice!
That’s what the banderites called the Donbassers and a few dozen Odessites before burning them alive and garroting, knifing and beating to death whoever managed to escaped the inferno, along with one unborn non-human.
But just pay that no mind. Wouldn’t want to overload anyone.
keeping in the spirit of the original comment, you should have capitalised IGNORANT.
You say that because you don’t understand that “emotional truth trumps factual truth” and the wisest ones who are leading us are in charge of formulating the emotional truth and distributing it to us on a need to know basis.
We saw it all with Hillary and Jake’s jihadi brigades in Syria and are properly desensitized by now.
King David Hotel
Lidice.
Lidice was an action carried out by Jabotinsky-Shamir chums in SS
Lidice had nothing to do with the Jews. It was a Czech village, same as Lezaky, that was connected to the assassins of Reinhart Heidrich, #3 after Hitler and Himmler. Hitler ordered 10,000 Czechs killed in retaliation for the assassination, including anyone connected to the Czechoslovak commandoes and their families. My grandpa was a personal friend of one of them.
So then, Netanyahu still has a ways to go. That’s comforting.
non humans? does that make your day easier?
” Have you WATCHED the videos released by Israel taken from the cameras of killed terrorists when they cut the head of a man with a spade and babies tied together and BURNED ALIVE?!”
There is the problem ; ‘videos released by Israel’ and you believe all the BS the most prolific liars in the history of the world tell/show you? How old are you?
Since it is now well-known that Israel helped create Hamas and nutured it for years, I suppose it’s ok for Israel to destroy its monster. Too bad about “killing innocent women, elderly and babies” (several thousand at last count) but they’re Gazan so, um, well, ah, gosh, … maybe not as precious?
The one book that ought to be required reading for those who would ‘play’ in the international geopolitical realm is, obviously (to me), Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Salaam alaikum
Shalom aleichem
Pax vobiscum
‘non-humans’- that says a lot about your views Galina
Galina, you are the posterchild for the ill informed, hysterical person who should be kept clear of any serious issue. You gobble up propaganda, put out by Israeli sources, when more reliable sources have debunked the numerous lies that has stoked your derangement. There was only 1 baby killed Oct 7 and most likely it was by the heaven handed IDF. IDF Appache helicopter are the ones that shot up the rave concert as can be seen by the imagery of the damaged vehicles. Tank rounds and Hellfire missiles from. The IDF killed many more civilians than Hamas did. Also this ridiculous notion that somehow this is the worst terrorist attack in recent history, is a joke. It was an attack on a military installation where Rave goers happened to be at the wrong place and time. According to UN such actions are sanctioned by the occupied against the occupier. It’s Israel that is the terrorist who routinely treats Palestinians in an inhuman way. And I for one hope the IDF suffers a major defeat for the crimes against humanity it is currently engaged in.
Alex- Nicely handled. Like a sensible person still having a grip on reality. I read the comment you respond to and thought “what the hell is she babbling about?”.
It’s like a neat little small study in propaganda and its effects. Wind people up into hysterics and watch them run amok.
And let’s not forget that the Rave location was suddenly changed TO THAT LOCATION because the authorities in the old location wouldn’t permit it. The location wasn’t revealed until a day or 2 at most before. ( IIRC Larry revealed that in a prior article, I don’t have time to chase it (or another source if not here) down right now. )
If the Rave had stayed at the old location, chances are no one would have died there. But how would the Zionist Propaganda machine do without the lurid details of innocent young people being mowed down? If it bleeds, it leads.
Things that make ya go HHHHMMM.
Nice interviews with the Judge and Kevork.
Such a throwback rehashing those early Syria years. Reassuring that my separating of wheat from chaff during those propaganda wars was born out by Larry and Kevork. Must mean my learning curve in reading between the lines, like the old Pravda readers used to do, is progressing nicely. ‘Democracy Dies sans Samizdat’. Take that, Pravda…er I mean WaPo.
Imagine just how different everything would be now, if Vindman had only taken the job as Uke Secretary of Defence!
For sure. Poland has already closed the border.
The Brits just fumbled the ball. Fear not we will be back in line once we work out what the US line actually is. We have even disinterred an old friend of the Collective West, and we have others we can resurrect if that is what the US wants.
They always say it is darkest before the dawn, and I think we are entering those wee small hours.
On the other hand, for those who want to interpret the glow not as a foreshadowing of a nuclear end point, but the light at the end of the tunnel, these resurrected folks have not a shred of political conviction about anything. Our new FS may well be our contribution to the moves forming to extricate the west from Ukraine ‘in the nicest possible way’, which is something us Brits, fronted by Cameron, can bring to the table. After all we have a non trivial responsibility for the mess (via the despicable nut job who talked up this ‘Janet and John’ war).
There are some old hands who will not be resurrected to participate in the new Great Game of a multi polar world where there is no room for ideologues- even fake ones. Everyone will wear his very best crocodile smile and smother warmongering everywhere. We have gone as far with that game as anyone wants to go- anyone playing the new power game, that is.
Hey ho, time for a change of clothes.
Not sure how Cameron cane extricate from Ukraine exiting EU caused him to run away
I would bet Cameron as new Foreign Office Honcho has this up his sleeve, leaked last year in Italy.
A new alliance would have Great Britain as its leader and would include Ukraine, Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, as well as potentially Turkey at a later date. Sounds like a new title for King Charles III. Quite a few ladies in waiting already lined up at the ante chamber.
This looks like the Intermarium on steroids, What could possibly go wrong! After Brexit, replace the EU – wow!
Il piano segreto di Boris Johnson per dividere l’Ucraina da Russia e Ue: il Commonwealth europeo
https://www.corriere.it/economia/finanza/22_maggio_26/piano-segreto-boris-johnson-dividere-l-ucraina-russia-ue-commonwealth-europeo-02d3b232-dc6b-11ec-b480-f783b433fe60.shtml
I think those would be the only countries dumb and desperate enough to sign on to a vassal kingdom with such a lonely monarch at its head.
But Poland is America’s footstool. This could spark another US-GB war, two gnarly old dogs fighting over a few leftover scraps from days gone by.
Count on Cameron to organize the Ukrexit now that all efforts must be focused on helping Israel “defend itself.” He won’t need to do a referendum this time
Not to fear,They have brought Tony Blair back from the dead to save the world.
Good article, and session with the Judge. The thing that amazes me is the delusional thinking that Ukraine should pause against to regroup and get re-armed, and give the US a chance to support Israel. Sure, and there’s a Santa Claus and Easter Bunny too. Do these morons actually believe Russia would be stupid enough to stop just because Ukraine does? Do they want to stop winning and negotiate? Here’s my prediction: Ukraine stopping would just encourage the Russians to kick everything into overdrive. Maybe it’s projection or something, but the stupid people in Washington seem to think the Russians are just as stupid. I would not use that as a working assumption, if I were them.
“Do these morons actually believe Russia would be stupid enough to stop just because Ukraine does?”
Well, with Putin you’ll never know. He stopped the SMO on the very second day to “negotiate”. Last year in Istambul he was ready to betray Jewkraines’s Russian population and leave historical Russian land under Uki control. Recently he was mumbling about leaving Russians and Russian land under Uki control AGAIN if the Ukis promise to treat them well! Minsk 3 anyone? He actually froze the front lines for a long time, despite huge Russian military build up. In Aleppo, Syria he repeatedly ordered cease fires to allow the terrorists to re-group…I read that he hasn’t made up his mind about running again next year. I hope he won’t! He did great things for Russia but his “tolerance” “patience” brought us ever closer to nuclear WW3.
The incompetent, bumbling Biden team, is likely to suffer a major foriegn policy debacle right in the middle of the election year. This will be delicious! Now if only the Republicans can get there act together with a non-neocon candidate.
“Now if only the Republicans can get there act together with a non-neocon candidate.”
Don’t you know who was the proudly announced sponsor of the Republican debate?
I believe that Ukries sponsors – for both sides in this game – are making the same strategic blunder they were doing since 2014. They’re making plans without taking into account russians into account.
They can’t be that delusional to believe that the russians will play ball with whatever scheme comes on top. The rhetoric coming from Moscow notwithstanding, the russians won’t settle for anything less than unconditional surrender with the politicos and military leaders, responsible for the almost decade long atrocities in Donbass, surrendered for Nurermberg-style trials.
If anyone in the West believe that the russians would agree to freeze the conflict that anyone belongs to a mental institution. Why would the russians agree it, since they’re winning? Furthermore, they’ve called NATOs bluff and are well aware that combined forces of NATO don’t stand a chance in modern era conventional conflict. As for the nuclear, well, the russians won’t hesitate to respond, with interest, if the West escalates to nuclear.
Russians are not relevant to West cutting and running
Le Duc Tho spent so much time negotiating with Kissinger but US could not hide its rout in Saigon 1975
That the West will cut and run is given. My point is that the russians won’t play ball with their plans and continue to press until they achieve their objectives; whatever they may be.
De-militarization and de-Nazification are the SMO objectives.
There are three N’s – no Nukes, no Nazi’s, no NATO, not necessarily in that order.
You’ve made very good and valid points but you left out from the calculations Putin’s almost spineless cowardice even while having the upper hand both in military and economic spheres. I fully agree with you but I just can’t trust Putin any more, though I’d like to. My greatest worry that he wants to provide room for Second Israel in former Ukraine! That’s why the fronts are not moving!
You’re mistaking restraint and long-term planning for cowardice. Understandable, if you’re american. Most people in the west are simply unable to comprehend how the russians think. Which is the primary reason why the miscalculated so badly in their dealings with Russia.
Second Israel ?
They seem attached to Temple Mount which is not in Ukraine or Long Island
As for Putin he does what is best for Russia not you
He has just the same information as you no doubt by blogging and watching TV………now if he only had SVR and GRU and FSB and other information he could be do well informed!
The reality is, Paul, that 98% of Israelis’ DNA comes from the Slav regions and they would therefore feel far more at home there than the supposed ‘promised land’ on the Med. The Temple Mount/Greater Israel is a wet dream for Zionist fanatics.
You don’t usually employ sarcasm so we (at least I) didn’t know until this how lethally good you are at it!
He may have already tuned into General SVR and learned that Putin’s been dead for weeks. You know how those Ukrainian lawyers with hotlines to the Kremlin are. No fact left unchurned.
Hey , we have got Prigozhin re-incarnated! Ever heard of Wagner?
Oh wait – Prigozhin never slandered Putin, Strelkov of Donbass did.
Bannon is the American Strelkov, Arestovich the Ukrainian Strelkov.
Strelkov was jailed for extremism and there is an interview shown by Texas Bentley where Strelkov openly defends fascism, pulled since by YoYotub.
Oh shit! You don’t trust Putin. That changes everything. You should talk to the manager ASAP.
It is simply neocon logic to talk amongst themselves regarding *this* scheme or *that* very cunning plan, and not once would one of them ask the question: what is the other side going to do in response?
Game-theory? What’s that? Never heard of it.
It’s like attempting to play chess, and then being constantly startled when they look up and see that there is someone on the other side of the board who gets to have a turn.
Who knew? I never suspected. Nobody told me!
Precisely my point. As for the chess – I’ve never considered it as good example of a strategic game. Why?, you may ask. A very good question – the chess game is based on two incorrect assumption when dealing with real life war:
1) That the opponent shall wait until you make your move. If history is any indication, this is never the case, quite on the contrary – once the opponent gains momentum, he’ll continue to strike with one of his main goals being not to give you a chance to make a good move against him.
2) That the war could be turned into a nice game with rules – this works only if your opponent is very weak compared to you and has no other choice but to abide by your rules.
Perhaps, but a chess game is a great way of illustrating how a neocon always consider themselves to be the only “player” in their ludicrous “power-plays”.
A neocon chess player would think long and hard, and then make his/her move, only to be startled when they look up and see that there is another chess player on the other side of that board.
Then they’d make another move, and be equally startled when they look up and see that there is another chess player on the other side of the board.
One more move, yet more startlement. And on and on and on until they finally and inevitably lose the game.
It would, indeed, probably be easier to teach a moo-cow how to play chess than it would be to teach a neocon.
GO is the more apt game
I forget who to credit (Carlin?), but the NeoCons play chess like a pigeon, strutting about the board with no understanding of the game, shitting on the board as they randomly knock over pieces, before flying away to another chess board.
NoeCons playing chess is misleading. The Game they play is in their psychopathic heads, the rules of which they make up as they go. They actually admit it, openly:
“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
― Karl Rove
Except like any good chess player, Putin and his staff have war-gamed the hell out of this and are the ones creating the new reality for the NeoCons to think they can ignore. OOPS!
Brzezinski, in the Grand Chess Board, said there is only one player – he simply turns the board and plays the next move.
Putin threw that board off the table.
Red Shield Babylonian ‘Jewish’ Banksters have controlled the chess board for at least 4000 years and, as of the founding of the City of London in the early 1000’s AD, have ruled world finances from Britain. Putin bends the knee to them as well. He’s playing his part in clearing non-Zionistas from Ukraine so descendants of Ukrainian Jews can return to their parents/grandparents homeland without bothersome Christian whites there. Remember, Jews sing, “I’m not white, I’m Jewish”, except when it’s more convenient to claim being white for political advantage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mirL15zZYNc&list=RDmirL15zZYNc&start_radio=1
this is a little off topic- just found this from RT
Gaza hit the jackpot —-now we know why Israel and other arab countries want the palestinans out they found BILLIONS not millions in natural gas
Gaza Has Billions In Oil And Gas! Now You Know Why The Bombs Are Falling over the Children! ( 6 minute RT Video)
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1723582602202992640/vid/avc1/958×720/NAqa58HZwyPrbB-W.mp4?tag=14
or https://twitter.com/i/status/1723583511637217791
https://www.bitchute.com/video/XAWrItzs6vXA/
regards,
ralph
This is old news, but worth bringing back up.
I think Zelensky will be offered a deal he can’t refuse.
I think he’ll be offered a meal he can’t defuse.
A bomb he can’t defuse.
Of all the villains shown in Larry`s quasi-religious photo-montage, Zelensky is surely one of the most deserving of a violent and painful death.
No, that’s cruel and not educational.
Being paraded around tarred and feathered, riding on a stick, naked except for shoes taken from Nikki Haley would make him at least a good object lesson.
“Is Zelensky Being Prepped to Join the Friends of the U.S. Club?”
That’s not Heaven, it is Dante’s 9th Hell.
“The final descent is to the Ninth Circle, the icy lake of Cocytus, where the Treacherous are punished. In the very center of Hell, condemned for committing the ultimate sin—personal treachery against God—is Lucifer. Lucifer is not the “ruler” of Hell; he is a giant, terrifying beast trapped waist-deep in the ice, fixed and suffering. His punishment is most extreme because he is the worst sinner.
And there was I thinking Zelensky is auditioning for the NetFlix Lucifer season 9.
If as the leader of a dirty political war you are at serious risk, the dirty management of the piles of millions that were thrown into this war of which it is almost certain that a good part magically disappeared in Tax Havens, the risk is great for Zelensky.
And to top it off, the show of the sale of weapons destined for Ukraine in the Middle East, which would dirty many honorable people if it were uncovered and Ukraine was linked to the massacre in Palestine.
That is why Zelensky must die, because if he sings, half of the Western leadership will collapse.
Hey guys, ye have got it all wrong.
RF Ambassador to the UN Nebenzia asked his French counterpart at the UN if he knew he was Ukrainian.
https://ria.ru/20220512/nebenzya-1788200476.html
Here the source of absolute, and Biblical, truth is referenced – Kiev school textbooks. (Hilarious article!)
Those who push “ethnic” identity-politics, in fashion today in NATOstan, ought to check these sources!
“I find there now that we are ALL Ukrainians, and Jesus is likely from Galicia, as the Pharoah Mena took his name from Mena in Ukraine.”
All in Geography for the 8th grade edited by Maslyak and Kapirulin, the French, Spaniards, Portuguese, Turks and even Jews came from Ukraine.
History of Ukraine for the 7th grade under the general editorship of Lyakh and Temirova, it is said that the formation of the Ukrainian people has 140,000 years.
A History textbook for the 9th grade edited by Turchenko and Moroko states that by the end of the 18th century, Ukrainians at that time were one of the largest peoples in Europe”.
Ukrainian refugees, schooled with these texts, are much better informed than mere Yurpeans.
Larry, its time to ad the clip of the Commodores song “Nightshift” to articles about Zelensky.
Dante’s 9th Hell maybe reserved for Lucifer, but the other Hell’s reserved for ALL the mugs above including Bush, Rumsfeld, Obama have plenty of room, and already are teeming.
And there was I thinking :
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest
Not sayin’ the blog is devilish.
” it looks like the Brits are backing Zalushny while the CIA is trying to save Zelensky and dump Zalushny. I base that conclusion on the fact that the Economist, a British publication with close ties to MI-6, gave Zalushny the celebrity treatment, while the Washington Post, the go-to rag for the CIA, blamed Zalushny for Nord Stream.”
As usual thing are not what they seem. WaPo got a new British CEO on 5th Nov and Immediately resurrected the Riddle of the Sands Andromeda Yacht fairytale. Sy Hersh did not mention Britain, only CIA and Norway, yet fact-checked with the London School of Books. In other words as Russia said Britain planned the NordStream in Ukraine as a NATO operation. Zaluzhny must have known. The best lies are limited hangouts.
It’s all court intrigue. Different factions with slightly different views and interests within the West’s power structure are pushing their man forward at the expense of the others’. They’ll piss in each others’ cornflakes until one of them wins out.
More interesting is that Patrushev, Chair of the Russian Security Council hinted recently that Russia is talking to “rational” people in Ukraine who are waiting in the wings for the right moment to act. I doubt that he was referring to either of the Zs, but when that moment comes I do expect we’ll see the West walking away wondering WTF just happened.
The US will walk away, leaving their spawn in the EU, meaning on Berlin’s table.
WTF – first they bombed NordStream, now we have to fix Ukraine, but not NordStream?
And along comes Cameron – dusting off the Commonwealth of Europe to replace the EU?
This means get more popcorn! We ain’t seen nothin’ yet!
“once a foreign leader is no longer useful to the United States, he gets bent over the log like Ned Beatty in Deliverance and learns the “joy” of buggery”
I am absolutely sure our glorious leader – and friend of the US of A – Macron would LOVE to be subjected to such treatment.
Well my little finger tells me he is already very much acquainted to such practices…
thanks to his former bodyguard Alexandre Benalla.
Don’t forget to add JFK to that group
He committed the ultimate sin: deny Israel nuclear weapons and wanting the Israeli Lobby to register as a foreign agents.
Zelensky deserves whatever is coming his way for what he did to his country. Too bad Biden, Nuland, Sullivan, Blinken, Austin and many others won’t enjoy a similar fate. F#$% these neocon psychopaths!
NetFlix Kiev in Throes, tickets only a mere $100 billion, is a Preview of D.C. in Throes, tickets only $30 trillion. Should be a hit.
Great interview with the Armenian guy*, thank you Larry.
(*Thanks for introducing us to his channel, worth subscribing to.)
Funny change: “the gas station with nukes masquerading as a country” becomes a preeminent power in the reshuffled world order while the most powerful country in the world becomes a country with nukes but no gas stations.
Assange discourse is phenomenal. To fully understand “our values” remember that he is rotting in prison while Obama got the Nobel Prize for Peace.
He is in prison because of Tony Blair and the one-sided extradition treaty which should be revoked. And of course Keir Starmer as DPP
I’ll go ahead and play contrarian. My guess is it will actually be Zaluzhny who bites the dust first. I’ve seen quite a bit of blame for the failed counter offensive and an increasing amount of that blame being directed his way.
In reference to Kissinger’s quote about the value of US friendship, the US tabled a bill in 1866 to annex Canada. It was never voted on because it would have resulted in another War (of 1812) and that was a loss for the US. I still worry that this is still a plan once the US fails and it is treated like a pariah by the rest of the civilized world (the BRICS).
Larry, ” Z can get Zaluzhny to bomb another Nord Stream pipeline, so Germany can give him another 8 million! He’s got more homes to buy!” (quote from A.Christoforou)
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