I was again honored to be invited for a virtual sit down and chin wag with Judge Napolitano. One of the things we discussed was a recent comment by retired CIA officer Jack Devine, who described the Russian military as incompetent and unprofessional. I will explain my remarks about Jack below.
Jack’s evidence for his scathing description of the Russian military is that the Soviets were run out of Afghanistan by goat herders equipped with AK 47s. Jack does not realize that the Soviet military of 1989 is not the Russian military of 2023. Maybe old age has erased key parts of his memory, especially the short term part. If the fact that the Soviets left Afghanistan without securing a victory is proof that they were not a “first world military”, then what the hell does that say about the U.S. military?
The Soviets conducted an orderly, planned withdrawal, which began 15 May 1988 and ended on 15 February 1989. During that 9 month withdrawal the world did not see panicked crowds surging around the airport pleading to be taken out of Afghanistan. The Soviets left a Afghan government and military intact, which continued to operate for two more years before the Taliban took over.
Compare that with the debacle of the U.S. withdrawal in August 2021. Like the Soviets, the United States failed to quell and contain the Taliban. But the United States took almost 20 years to realize that Afghanistan was a black hole and we spent billions more than the Soviets in trying to prop up the puppet regimes in Kabul. So, if we use the Devine standard to assess military competence, then the evidence would suggest that the United States today is inferior to what the Soviets were 34 years ago.
The misinformed arrogance displayed by Mr. Devine is not unique. That same attitude and misunderstanding of Russia is rampant today in the U.S. intelligence community. Jack Devine, in my opinion, is a prime example of the mindset and attitude that still plagues the CIA. And that is dangerous for America’s national security.
3.5 Million French took to the streets today in a nationwide riot. They have torched the historic town hall in Bordeaux.
The French have the best riots. Hopefully next they bring out the guillotines.
Paris Is Burning.
https://www.pronews.gr/amyna-asfaleia/ektroxiazetai-i-katastasi-stin-gallia-stis-floge-paradothike-to-istoriko-dimarxeio-tou-mpornto-vinteo/
The ordinary French men and women, much derided by parts of the US media are stalwart in defence their interests. The CRS, the French riot police are shockingly liberal in their use of violence in defence of the status quo.
The person who came up with the idea of using a mandatory safety item, carried by all vehicles, the high visibility jacket, was a genius.
Chopping a few heads off appears to have a lasting effect.
Sic semper tyrannis.
With an influx of many hundreds of thousands of uneducated, labour-averse “migrants” per year and a growing superannuation of the indigenous population, the French social security system is unsustainable. Add to this the fact that the French workforce have for many decades worked three years less than almost all the rest of Europe and you have the makings of a catastrophe.
The current decrees by government, raising the pension age to 64 are merely a last-ditch effort to avert the most dire effects of the coming collapse. Needless to say, none of it will work…and that`s happening as if by design, too.
The only thing that the current French riots will do is to speed up the collapse of their social security system and with it one of the most basic building blocks of social cohesion: Burning down national historic treasures such as the Town Hall of Bordeaux will achieve nothing other than sowing more anger and division.
In the current circumstances where unelected EU bureaucrats impose harebrained social schemes and conduct wars by fiat, rioting would seem to be la solution du jour. When elections rigged by ridiculous rules and deceitful propaganda no longer do the trick, it’s time for sterner measures to put quacks like Macron out on the street.
Wrong analysis: first, the riots are much more about the corrupt and arrogant government of Macron that anything else. The french have dealt with his kind before, and they are doing it again now. And your essentially moralistic bit about living over one’s means is based on timed out Thatcherite economics / Reagonomics: we see the brilliant results of that today in the UK and in the US… Your phony, unscientific arguments were used by the elites at the time to try and regain the lavish living standards they were enjoying before the two world-wars, which they lost by their own stupidity. Read a bit about modern economics before speaking, lad.
What I see so often is a facile connecting of an observed crisis to one’s hobby horse complaint about what’s wrong with society, with rarely any logical connection of the two. There are lots of symptoms of decline that are not causes. OR, maybe the symptoms and causes are terribly interconnected requiring extremely broad systems based solutions.
One thing I am certain of is that changing technology and civilization are accelerating in their rates of change, and to this it is naturally very difficult to adapt. Some change is so rapid that we should expect very challenging adjusting. A lot of finger pointing goes back to people reiterating their worn out complaints.
I have my own bias and rants too, which I post here and there, but I think the main thrust of my comment here is that the problems around us aren’t always someone’s fault.
The last 40 years have seen huge gains in productivity and wealth generation, the fruits of which have overwhelmingly landed in the pockets of a very few. For example, the cost-adjusted average household disposable income in Canada is the same now as it was in the 1960’s, except that households now have two wage earners instead of one to achieve this and couples are working 100 more hours each than they did then.
Remember the BS we were sold about how technology and automation would free us all with shorter working hours and better standards of living? I guess the French protesters are asking about this in their own way.
And ‘Macron Antoinette’ just offered them cake.
You nailed it!! That is essentially what has occurred. The elites take us for complete fools. Unfortunately in my country (Greece) people after almost 10 years of pain lost all appetite for resistance. Nothing like that will happen here..
This is becoming common in the comments section of Larry’s blog.
What do riots in France have to do with Divine’s ignorant comments about the state of the Russian military?
Stay on topic.
Paris is burning. Moscow is learning. (never partner with instability).
The two are interconnected, like the snakes to Medusa’s head.
Some are protesting because they don’t want Russian military in Paris again. Others are protesting because they do.
Et bien après la catastrophique “guerre contre la Covid”, le roitelet Macron vend nos cotisations de retraite à Black Rock et al. et utilise l’argent qui reste pour nous engager lentement mais surement dans une guerre en Ukraine contre la Russie tout en bafouant la Constitution qui exige que la décision d’engagement dans une guerre (surtout quand il ne s’agit pas d’une guerre mais d’une SMO) l’autoristion du Parlement.
En fait ce roitelet bafoue le peuple français et va ruiner nos retraites pour soutenir le bellicisme des USA!
Larry, it’s GREAT to have a rational commentator on this topic such as yourself speaking truth to power.
Hopefully someone will listen before Russia resorts to irradiating the cancer.
Larry’s comments on China are definitely speaking truth to power.
A year before he died, Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote:
“Potentially, the most dangerous scenario would be a grand coalition of China, Russia, and perhaps Iran, an ‘antihegemonic’ coalition united not by ideology but by complementary grievances.”
On March 20, Larry had an article based on a video by Martyanov about this world-changing new coalition.
Does China NEED Russian weapons? Not so much needs –as wants. Or you can say that each country needs something that the other has. And together? 1+1=3.
https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/tomorrows-war-today
Was Zbigniew Brzezinski’s remarkably accurate prophecy, a self-fulfilling one ?
The policies he and others advocated, eventually had the outcome to bring together in self-defence the main nations subjected to the US persistent bullying.
This outcome was self-evidently predictable.
This US behavior, amounting to methodically engineering an allegedly “most-feared” scenario, bears some resemblance to the so-called “gain-of-function” research in viral microbiology.
(This is the process of manufacturing a new viral germ with enhanced ability to threaten human health, doing so supposedly in order to become ready to better fight it in the event the threat arises accidentally.)
That the “feared” threat comes to existence as a consequence of this experimentation, logically can hardly be labeled an accident.
“(This is the process of manufacturing a new viral germ with enhanced ability to threaten human health, doing so supposedly in order to become ready to better fight it in the event the threat arises accidentally.)”
Not an analogue but a component of “strategy”.
The purposes of the host periodically required a new “germ”, but through the interactions of purposes, practices, coxtexts and framing, the host manufactured a “germ” with enhanced ability to threaten it’s own health/well, being, whilst simultaneously increasing the resistance and subsequent health of others.
” logically can hardly be labeled an accident.”
Quite so, but in part facilitated by those reliant on belief who are starting to evangelise and hope that others will share their belief that it was an accident which can be “rectified”, since the increasing reliance on belief through many vectors encouraged the increasing iterative emigration/immigration of “science” and scientists from at least 1991.
“Was Zbigniew Brzezinski’s remarkably accurate prophecy, a self-fulfilling one ?”
In significant part science depends on doubt, sharing and attributed co-operation.
The problem with Mr. Brzezinski though was his propensity to attribute the work of others to himself whilst the adverse outcomes were never his.
In relation to other “germs” it is likely that datastreams will be increasingly shared, particulary in relation to ““gain-of-function” research in biological defence/warfare.” given increasing changes of purpose.
No question that the U.S. “Empire” has methodically over the years engineered a geopolitical threat situation that has driven Russia and China (Iran and others joining BRICS) closer together, and not surprising that Zbig understood this. One thing missing in the “gain of function” analogy is that the process of manufacturing a new virus could be to develop an antidote (or a method of coping) prior to “intentionally” releasing it as a bio-weapon as the likelihood of something engineered appearing in nature would be exceedingly remote. A side point, as Ron Unz points out in his pieces on the origin of Covid is that there are 3 possibilities . . . zoonotic, lab leak, and intentionally U.S. created and released bio-weapon.
Martyanov has done recent videos about why China needs Russian weapons. It’s to defend itself from the USN, which it does not have an effective counter against. A Khinzal armed China would be a game changer.
Was watching bird flocks over the lake again today, pure poetry in motion, and wondering when the kamikaze swarm drones are coming.
Now there’s a game changer.
Flocks of Geraniums have been migrating northwards from Crimea along the Dnieper river for a while. Whether they count as kamikaze swarm drones is a matter of interpetation. Missiles with swarm attack capabilities have been around for a while too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-700_Granit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brimstone_(missile)
As far as related poetry goes, it requires knowing a bit of Russian. 🙂
https://odysee.com/@sporolytic:7/svetyot-geran-odysee-presets:d
https://odysee.com/@Velyaminov:a/Overton-Gate—Geranium-blooms-(%D0%A6%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%82-%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8C):f
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OJJ78MbOLQ
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/tsvetet-geran-geranium-blooms.html
Great quote! Added to my files.
Interesting metaphor.
Before cancer gets out of control, the body’s own immune system plays a major role in destroying the cancer cells. Ultimately the fate of the patient is decided by the battle between the cancer cells and the immune system.
We are witnessing the results of America’s “immune system”being overwhelmed by its own triple cancer of wanton violence, limitless greed, and Luciferic exceptionalism.
“We are witnessing the results of America’s “immune system”being overwhelmed by its own triple cancer of wanton violence, limitless greed, and Luciferic exceptionalism.”
If you leave out “Lucifer” you are observing a component of the strategy whilst not undermining but enhancing through co-operation the observations of:
lahire says
24 March 2023 at 03:51
This is understandable through sharing modes of framing with a modicum of “absolutes”, which is also in some regard informs the judge’s practice of “Judging Freedom” and a thumbnail sketch of “The United States of America”‘s interactive practices and outcomes.
another example of americas immune system being overwhelmed
this is the latest. the shooter was an female to male. do not think it is a good idea to give women large amounts of testosterone.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/28-year-old-woman-kills-6-nashville-christian-school-mass-shooting
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2023-03-27/trans-ideology-inspires-another-mass-shooter
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/leftists-complain-about-transgender-shooter-being-misgendered
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/media-loses-confidence-preferred-pronouns-after-transgender-shooter-attacks-christian
this poster child male to female trans person just committed suicide
Trans flight attendant famed for airline ad dies by suicide – Transgenderism is a mental condition
https://www.bitchute.com/video/EdUatzDwkTCk/
https://seed171.bitchute.com/NYZMjDr6JOG3/EdUatzDwkTCk.mp4
https://nypost.com/2023/03/23/trans-flight-attendant-famed-for-united-ad-dies-by-suicied/
regards,
ralph
the one thing i did not consider and hope is not true was that this could have been staged for political purposes – more get the guns stuff
Thanks for your courage to speak the truth Larry.
What a great YouTube channel the “Judge Napolitano Judging freedom” has turned out to be.
The Judge is “cross examining” real experts who has or had their boots on the ground in their profession.
The result is the facts of what is really going on within Governments, military and the security apparatus.
The Judge ensures that the information given, pinpoints the ramifications for us all, in layman´s terms everyone can understand.
Looking forward to see you back on the Judge again Larry.
Agreed.
Judge ask questions so as to educate the listeners.
You’ve certainly given an accurate description of the Empire’s new clothes.
Yes, the delusion is breathtaking. There is no understanding of the inherent weakness of the US and NATO. The US can’t produce enough munitions to fight any war, let alone a major one. They say they’ll ramp up production. How? Who’s going to do it? There’s a major shortage of skilled labor in the US, read the news. 15 million enrolled in college, 800k in trade apprenticeships, while older trades people are retiring.
Whether it’s war, rebuilding infrastructure, re-industrializing, it all takes a lot of trades, not kids who sit in front of computers and whose stated goal is to become famous. That’s right, that’s the number one goal of young people now. The emperor not only has no clothes, but no seamstress to make any once he knows he’s naked.
And, despite the obvious in front of their faces, they stick to this delusional script. I keep thinking they all can’t be this stupid, but they seem to be proving me wrong. We don’t have the capacity for anything other than borrowing and printing money, and doing pretend work from home. And we’re so far gone we can’t even begin to see it.
The biggest issue is probably in a democracy, the people matters. In the end, what happens is the government focus more on PR than the actual facts. It is way harder to promote your own image than to belittle your opponents. As such, the result is constant bashing of others, without much improvement of yourself.
Externally, they hide the ugly portions of the allies, making them heroes. They enlarge and repeat endlessly any flaws of their opponent. The reason why censorship became so important is so that they do not leak any weakness, not to their opponent, but to the general public who may deem them weak like what Biden is receiving now. Part of it due to TikTok thus they are getting paranoid over it.
Internally, the parties keep digging out dirt on each other to lower the other sides image. But this does not mean that they are doing a good job. They spent too much time on lowering their opponent’s image that in the end, both sides looks worse and worse. The reason why there are two extreme ends is also due to this. If you stand alone, no one will protect you, or worse, both sides would come at your throats. They have to take sides in order to protect themselves.
In an Ideal world, democracy will allow the people to govern and be blessed with their choices. In reality, you can never please anyone. And right now, governors tend to manipulate what information you get, in order to bring you to some conclusions you think you came to, thus the misinformation campaigns. There is no perfect system, especially if it is handled by man.
He sort of reminds me of Andy Devine and Prigozhin as Froggy the Gremlin https://youtu.be/AFpzTaICKQU.
PS: That was at the height of the cold war. If we made it through once, I’ll just bet we can do it again.
On a more serious note, I’ve been expanding my horizons and watched for the first time the Judge interview Tony Shaffer. Shaffer’s tempo suits me well. I’m beginning to get the feeling that along with Larry, there’s a whole bunch of folks behind the scenes and ready to put this country back on an even keel once we manage to elect someone with a sound head on their shoulders. Still possible? Gosh, I hope so. https://youtu.be/FMldMl4OrgU
Vote Harder?
BWAH
Now look at the 180 degree turn around of Ron desantis after his recent interview with British ‘journalist’ Piers Morgan.
The man that stands up to woke ideology won’t stand up to the deep state.
American’s problems won’t be solved by the government, it will be solved by removing the deep state and the media who serve them. Until then rinse and repeat dear.
Well, either it’s same old, same old with DeSantis or it’s a cards close to the vest for him. No politicians in their right mind would directly challenge the deep state early in an election cycle. As they were once so rudely reminded: They have ‘eight ways to Sunday’ to take you down.
In the RF and contrary to popular western consumption, it’s Putin who manages the siloviki. In the US, it’s the siloviki who run Biden and his circus.
Consolidate power then make them cower, the only way out of this self-digging cesspit for America I’m afraid.
America is a big elephant, it takes time and space to turn 180°. It is turning, it is moving and it will take time.
We reversed the Jewish religious belief in aborting children. We rejected a limitation on owning our guns. We are waking up to the cult of death.
where you see turning, I see bifurcation leading to civil war, secession, and then an endless series of wars amongst small state groupings with foreign state and international corporate backing.
PS I would prefer a Star Trek future to a Blade Runner future, but there is no voting, or even discussion, re: Blackrock, Big Pharma, etc.
It’s an elephant with the memory of a gnat; whitewashing, rinsing and repeating its failures into perpetuity.
“The misinformed arrogance displayed by Mr. Devine is not unique.”
Amen to that.
The question arises: Is this a product of successful propaganda drive or of a hopeless level of education and, in turn, general knowledge of history?
My take: MUST BE OF BOTH WITH COMPOUNDED INTERESTS!
Cheers, JaKo
product of a successful propaganda drive or of a hopeless level of education?
It’s simple hubris, nothing more, nothing less. Hubris blinds one to simple realities and then creates its own. Notice how he spots small cracks in the sidewalk and phones home ‘an earthquake’s on its way’.
Watching him fold like a cheap umbrella will be enjoyable.
It’s hard to believe that a man with such a closed and stubborn mindset, was an officer of the CIA. He just doesn’t approve of reality. I wish the Judge wouldn’t have on anymore because as soon as I see him on the show, I switch.
Not hard to believe at all.
The Collective West has a long history of creating the “realities” it wants to present to the world. Most of its history books are this fake reality just as its news is all fake. Putin was spot on in calling it the ‘Empire of Lies’.
Here is an example of a new meme being spread:
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/03/the-junior-partner-meme-gives-no-insight-to-real-changes.html#more
Having ‘junior partners’ is the way of Empire – that’s what the EU, Australia, and Canada are. Israel and the UK, on the other hand, are controlling partners through infiltration, blackmail, bribery, and intimidation of the US.
Russia is nobody’s junior partner. In fact, if Russia fails in Ukraine, China is in big trouble.
Well said, I agree.
Ha Ha, I remember when that meme first started a year or so back, in a sophomoric attempt to appeal to Russia’s sense of itself to ‘not become China’s vassal’.
Children with nukes in the White House.
China does not want any other countries to be its ‘junior partner’. If we put it in human terms, China wants a brother. Russia also wants a brother. These 2 countries have repeatedly say that in the multipolar world they envision, no single country should dictate to others. Everyone should have an equal voice.
That “there can only be one and all others shall serve the one” thinking is a western mentality. And such thinking only leads to bullying, conflict and violence. Exceptionalism is basically self-justified selfishness.
Yes – until very recently Putin and Lavrov kept referring to the US and the EU as “our partners”. This is how Russia sees the world. The Anglo’s with their schoolyard bullying culture organise themselves spontaneously into bosses and lackeys
“Yes – until very recently Putin and Lavrov kept referring to the US and the EU as “our partners”.
That was because they were partners in the lateral process of their own transcendence, and as a function and outcomes of this process, potential partners were/are facilitated but not necessarily including “The United States of America” since it has never been united.
” This is how Russia sees the world. ”
In Russian language and culture “Mir” had/has various meanings simultaneously.
Given that translation between languages and between cultures are not viable options, only interpretation is an option, this perhaps contributed to Mr. Martyanov’s observation that “Americans don’t know Russia” whilst aiding the ongoing lateral process of Mir transcending “The United States of America” to facilitate mir.
“Yes – until very recently Putin and Lavrov kept referring to the US and the EU as “our partners”.
That was because they were partners in the lateral process of their own transcendence, and as a function and outcomes of this process, potential partners were/are facilitated but not necessarily including “The United States of America” since it has never been united.
” This is how Russia sees the world. ”
In Russian language and culture “Mir” had/has various meanings simultaneously.
Given that translation between languages and between cultures are not viable options, only interpretation is an option, this perhaps contributed to Mr. Martyanov’s observation that “Americans don’t know Russia” whilst aiding the ongoing lateral process of Mir transcending “The United States of America” to facilitate mir.
(Apologies if posted twice.
I am catching a flight.
Not Delta from Sheremetovo to Newark, New Jersey.
I have a seat).
“our partners in Capitalism. ” I say.
Except that russian and chinese elites putin,xi etc. they thought they would be welcomed and equal partners in a brotherhood of capitalist pigs. Wrong they were.The only welcome party was for yeltsin. imagine you are reading and have exams on Karl Marx’s and Lenin’s writings from nursery school and you fall for this 101 trap by some Number-5-is-Alive scum hooker capitalist. Just idiots. And there are more idiots (those who have no contact with Marxist writings) following them. We see a battle of capitalists. Are you sure what follows its end will be to your,our,our children interests? Personally I believe in scientific socialism. i urge those new yorkers, oklahomans, californians to just read on the subject. The technology is here.Now.
RE: Andy says
24 March 2023 at 18:10
“Except that russian and chinese elites putin,xi etc. they thought they would be welcomed and equal partners in a brotherhood of capitalist pigs.”
Thank you for your confirmation of the continuing half-lives of specultations encouraged by silences.
You forgot Mr. Putin’s application to join NATO and why Progress Publishers from 1971 onwards published The Complete Works of Marx and Engels as non-devotional texts as part of the ongoing lateral (dialectically materialist) process of transcending “The Soviet Union”.
“if Russia fails in Ukraine”
How can they fail unless you fully understand their purpose, methods and evaluation horizon ?
Elial,
If you want to know the source of the “JUNIOR MEME” here it is and it may be the strategy the United States is deploying:
A Strategy for Avoiding Two-Front War (August 21, 2021)
Drive Russia & China Together: “Rather than attempting to woo or court Russia into a conciliatory stance, we should present it with a combination of insuperable obstacles to westward expansion while presenting new opportunities for cooperation, investment, and growth in Russia’s east. Simply put, the goal should be to alleviate America’s simultaneity problem by giving Russia incentives to be less of a European power—and more of an Asian one.”
Use Ukraine as the Fulcrum: “To work, the strategy would require the door to westward expansion to be slammed—hard. The worst of all worlds would be to open up opportunities for Russia in its east while going soft in the west. An effective pivot requires a fulcrum, and Ukraine is that fulcrum. ”
The Source of the JUNIOR MEME: “Paradoxically, the very fact of this deepening dependency is likely to increase Russian fear of becoming a sidecar to Beijing’s ambitions and create incentives for Moscow to reorient its foreign policy. The goal of our diplomacy toward Russia—and the crux of our strategy for avoiding a two-front war—should be to sharpen Russia’s dilemma and ensure that, as its fear of China ripens…”
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/strategy-avoiding-two-front-war-192137
As bizarre as it sounds, a lot of what we could be seeing is deliberate by the United States, as outlined above. It reminds me of what some in the Third Reich thought, that driving the USSR and the US together would eventually provoke a conflict between them; unfortunately for the Germans that didn’t occur until after Germany was flattened.
AUTHOR: “A. Wess Mitchell is a former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs…This essay draws upon elements of a report that he prepared for the Pentagon Office of Net Assessment in fall 2020. “
Why play mind games? The only reason I can see is when you are being deceitful. That’s America’s problem. They are not serious about anything they say and on a political level that makes it an untrustworthy nation.
87% of the world is now seeing in real-time what America and it’s satraps really are. Pirates, and pirates are the enemy of everyone.
“Why play mind games?”
It shows better manners and sustainability of usefool foolery than killing.
A new term was created after the 2008 financial crisis: Junior Partners
Junior partners to Credit Suisse (Bondholders) are being shafted.
Junior partners of big corporations are being shafted.
Junior partners to the US (EU, Australia, and Canada) are also being shafted.
Junior partners were dumb enough to believe they were accepted as Equal partners.
No wonder nobody wants to be junior partner anymore.
“if Russia fails in Ukraine”.
It won’t.
The US, UK and EU has already lost.
Something tells me, mon ami, that you wouldn’t know ‘reality’ if it hit you full face in a strong wind. Your respect for the CIA is as touching as it is pathetic.
The world has a remarkable illusionary quality to it, in that people end up seeing what they believe. In turns, these beliefs are fuelled by desires and wishful thinking on one hand, and paranoid fears on the other.
If the crashing of the collective West is anything, it is a call to wake up to the “Real”. Life and history is much bigger than we are. There is an Intelligence – a “God” if one wishes to use a simple term – that lovingly Creates but also ultimately destroys and puts away.
At the level of the Universe, the accounting books are managed exceedingly tightly and fine. There is a reckoning. The ancients had more wisdom than us. Wokeism is just another fentanyl induced dream.
Well, the Soviets hadn’t really done that poorly in Afghanistan, aside from the blood spilled. Gorbachev withdrew, more due to his actually being a humanitarian while pushing detente and perestroika, followed by a post-Soviet Yeltsin in the Soviet collapse’s chaotic aftermath and not willing nor able to keep pumping money that he didn’t have into it. In spite of that, the government lasted another 2-3 years, not 2-3 hours, as in our case.
Excuse the brevity and vitriol. Jack Devine is a blithering idiot. He is the poster child for the insane and destructive policies that have made the USA the most hated country in the world. In a sane and functional country, he would be locked in an insane asylum.
Larry,
Excellent as always.. One more thing to add.. The mujahideen (precursor to Taliban) resisted Soviet army with open and massive assistance from US and its lackeys (another proxy war waged by US). In contrast, there were no such arming of the Taliban to fight the US occupation by proxy (that I have heard about). Hence, doubly disgraceful for the US to be seen off by “goat herders”
An imbalance of power can be overcome by people fighting for something against people fighting for nothing.
Oh, but what about Russia ‘offering a bounty’ for every American head in Afghanistan?
Straight from page 3 of the ‘rules-based order’ playbook:
“Whatever I do I’ll bounce off of me and stick onto you”.
Jack Diva Devine is grasping at straws, keeps pulling up the short one and claiming…..”look, I won!”
Larry,
Thanks for your on-message presence, and candor in all media!
Glad you are a regular on Judge Napolitano’s shows, and that you continue to give us non-initiates the inside scoop on reality, a reality the Mockingbird Media denies us.
Off-topic: I hope that you and others who are in direct contact with Mr. Gonzalo Lira will encourage him to keep posting wherever he can–Twitter?–and that those following him will forward/re-tweet so we may know that he ain’t dead-like an such.
LAst I saw of his broadcasts, air raid sirens were going off in the background, and it would certainly be imprudent for him to comment on ANYthing under these circumstances (especially if the SBU’s “stay in Kharkiv” order remains in force).
Jack Divine? Alas, Americans WANT to hear and lap up his mess. Your Rotties would be less attracted to a steaming bowl of roasted beef livers.
cheers, og
“Jack Devine, in my opinion, is a prime example of the mindset and attitude that still plagues the CIA. And that is dangerous for America’s national security.”
Yes but his approach is great for his career security and bank account.
TikTok in China is filled with videos embracing wholesome family values, work ethic and patriotism like America used to exemplify, whereas TikTok in the USA is full on Sodom and Gomorrah, is it a symptom or a cause, chicken and the egg? Who is the real enemy of the plebs in the Collective West ?
TikTok is banned in China. PRC clamped down on that sort of thing a few years ago on Weibo and WeChat, particularly the South Korean-style girlymen. Can’t say I disagree with that call…
It’s not “banned”. It’s known as Douyin (hence the stylized “d” in the Tik Tok logo). It’s going quite strong in China, but as you say sans the promotion of sexual ambiguity.
Ah, if you know Douyin you probably also know that the algorithms which actively promote degeneracy in the West are likely replaced with less intrusive ones.
TikTok and Douyin are different apps based on a common code, run from different and unconnected networks of servers, and TikTok is most certainly banned in China proper. On the other hand TikTok rather than Douyin is deployed in Taiwan. PRC retains full authority over Douyin’s operations, but more importantly it can shut down individual users as necessary–something it can’t do with TikTok.
The transition from Bytedance to Douyin was effected last year and is an interesting case.
Thanks. I haven’t paid much attention to either and you filled in some critical blank spots for me.
I also agree that China’s clamp down on degeneracy is a good call. Both Russia and China recognize its promotion for what it is and the difficulty of exorcizing it once it takes hold of a society. Like cancer, best to catch it early.
“The Soviets left a Afghan government and military intact, which continued to operate for two more years before the Taliban took over.”
Many photos on the web attest to the fact that the Soviets withdrew in good order, and that the Soviets were chased out of Afghanistan after suffering a humiliating defeat is yet another one of those faux “realities” that the Imperial Wurlitzer spins for the masses.
If the photos don’t convince, this paper puts paid to that notion:
https://web.archive.org/web/20101225113905/http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/documents/Withdrawal.pdf
If the West’s leadership is finding it difficult to chart a coherent course, it’s because William Casey’s project succeeded beyond all measure. Everything everyone knows is wrong.
It never cease’s to amaze me the drivel people believe. Only yesterday I had a discussion with a man I know, like and respect, about Russia in general and the Ukraine in particular. He brought up the matter of the Soviets in Afghanistan as an example of how incompetent and cruel the Russians are in comparison to the loveys in the West. He was nonplussed when I mention the debacle of the 20 year disaster of Afghanistan’s recent history.
I find it very disturbing the complete lack of critical thing of a majority of the Western population. They moan and bitch about how bad things are at home yet continue to suck up every bit of drivel our media vomits up as though it was the ambrosia of the gods.
https://youtu.be/W2cTyzrPk2s
The withdrawal from Kabul was a glorious victory for Biden, Blinken and the boys. Special recognition to Austin and Milley.
I believe people like Jack Devine are suffering from cognitive dissonance, which comes about when reality clashes with their sincere belief in USA’s exceptionalism. So they selectively discard realities like USA’s dismal retreat from Afghanistan and desperately find any tidbits of information that can prop up their belief. And the number of people suffering from this cognitive dissonance is quite widespread in USA. Of all the possible human beliefs, the belief that one is special, ordained-by-God etc is the most dangerous as on the one hand it can push one to do insane things while dehumanising others, and the other hand it forbids the afflicted to learn from any mistakes (why change when you are special exactly because of the way you are?). This is a sure-fire way to self destruction.
If you think about it from a Christian / spiritual point of view: How does God want us to view ourselves? God wants us to know we are sinners, to humble ourselves and to ask for forgiveness. Basically to cast away our pride and come to him in humility. Because humility is the requirement in order for one to learn anything.
Now how would the Devil want us to view ourselves then? The Devil will want us to do the exact opposite of what God wants. To be proud of ourselves, to think we are perfect the way we are! And to think that it is others who needs to submit to us! And that is American Exceptionalism.
Guys, even if you don’t believe in God or Satan, billions of people around the world do, Christians, Muslims and others. And these billions of people see Americans acting like the Devil. Why do you think USA is the only country that is nicknamed the Great Satan? And these billions of people are reacting in the way they will react to the Devil. Do you still think that Americans’ belief in their Exceptionalism is just a tiny harmless thing when billions of people treat you as demon-spawn?
I understand what you are saying, but it is important not to label and then just relate to the label. “Americans” are not all one thing.
To quote Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:
“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart — and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained.”
Amen to that.
Elial, I agree with you in that I mustn’t paint all Americans with the same brush. Unfortunately for Americans, it is those evil ones that are granted the highest platforms and they speak the loudest. When those become representatives of USA and are the only ones the rest of the billions in the world see and hear repeatedly over so many decades, it is hard to avoid that conclusion.
Individually I believe there are good Americans, like Larry here is one and many others who thankfully we get to hear from. But USA as a country? Bad image.
Amen
Russia, China, whoever, given the power, would be as bad – probably worse – than the US ever was; especially China
Nope. You are the worst.
Wasn’t Jack part of the CIA – ISI – SA op which loaded up the Afghan mujahideen with all sorts of modern weapons including thousands of Stingers? What is he talking about?
Most of the neo-cons seem to me to be really driven by their personal family history/hatred of Russia.
Their grand-parents or parents were mistreated by the Czar or the Soviets and forced to leave Russia, or a country under the Czar or the Soviets influence, or a war involving Russia somehow – and they grew up on a steady diet of Russophobia, around family dinners, wedding banquets, holidays etc.
My family are Polish, and they suffer from this, to a severe degree. Like many in Poland, they desire to somehow inflict pain on Russia, with no limits, even if it means Poland would end up like Ukraine. There is no recognition, or desire to even contemplate, that the Russia of today is not the Soviet Union of 40 years ago. Time has been frozen, since WW II or WW I, or the War of (Any Given Century) – mention the word “Russia” and their heads explode.
Otherwise, the behavior of the neo-cons is almost inexplicable. Every policy they enact, every war they start, only hastens the end of “The American Century” and maybe the actual end of the very country they claim to be “patriots” of. With “patriots” like these, you are better off with your enemies, at least they are honest.
The long list of foreign disasters caused by the meddling of the US and UK runs to many pages, and just about every outcome was near the worst possible. Yet still they press-on, driving the world closer to total nuclear destruction every day. A near total lack of any self-awareness and grasp of acual facts is blocked by arrogance, making them even more dangerous.
When they talk about a”threat to national security”, the most pressing one is found in themselves.
@FUBAR
– great piece on the neocons from Simplicius if you haven’t already seen it. Tied many loose threads together for me.
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/how-the-ussrs-fall-unleashed-a-neocon
Good piece on the “Straussians” (neocons) here:
https://www.voltairenet.org/article215855.html
Having grown up in NYC and experiencing its political undercurrents firsthand as it were, all I needed to know about the ‘neocons’ I learned from one of their founders , Irving Kristol and his ‘Memoirs of a Trotskyist’.
I was graduated from City College in the spring of 1940, and the honor I most prized was the fact that I was a member in good standing of the Young People’s Socialist League (Fourth International). This organization was commonly, and correctly, designated as Trotskyist (not “Trotskyite,” which was a term used only by the official Communists, or “Stalinists” as we called them, of the day). I have not set foot on the City College campus since my commencement.
The same world that Bernie Sanders and Ben and Jerry emerged from. How they and others like them managed to avoid the neocon sirens and as good former trotskyists, their calls to ‘world revolution/domination’ albeit under a newly forged cloak probably deserves a dedicated treatise, if not a book.
Excellent piece. New concept of the ‘world island’ to me but it’s starting to sink in, although don’t know how far. It’s a bit of a stretch but the circumstantial evidence could be seen to support it.
Fair comment.
Putin said that Russia does not claim the western regions of Ukraine and, if Poland wants, let it take the territory that was Poland before 1939.
If Poland decides to do this in its desire to “inflict pain on Russia without limits”, i.e., if the Poles are so obsessed with hatred and insane, i.e. will receive a decent punishment for them, but from the Ukrainians. No America and NATO will save them from pain.
Modern Russia has been Russia for 1000 years in any of its guises, be it the Tsarist Empire, the Soviet Union or the Russian Federation. Poland and Poles do not change either. no matter how much they were warned “not to stick your fingers into the electrical outlet.” As they say, be afraid of your desires – they may come true. Poland will get what she wants, and she will crawl off offended for another 100 or 500 years to lick her wounds.
But the Russians don’t care, the Russians don’t care about the Poles.
I, too, have a Polish/Jewish background. My late father was born in Lvov (or is it Lviv or is it Lemberg?). Had he never left home, he would have lived in 4 countries (Austro-Hungary, Poland, USSR, Ukraine – btw that demolishes the ‘sanctity of borders’ nonsense). Even though his brother & family were killed by the NKVD, he harboured no anti-Russian feelings (he was, however, staunchly anti-Communist).
I agree with you that many neocons of a certain, shall we say, cultural/ethnic background have an ingrained Russophobia absorbed “from their mother’s milk” or, at least, learned from endless stories at the family dinner table. Obviously & more generally, that’s how some people grow up bigotted.
But there are also many Russophobes who have no familial/cultural connection with Russia – certainly the Anglophone world (where I live) has them in abundance. I speculate that Russophobia, in existence far longer than neocon ideology (think Charge of the Light Brigade), derives from a deep-seated fear (and so, quickly, hatred) of ‘the other.’ That otherness has two features (IMHO): the major is racism against the ‘Asiatic hordes’ of which Russians are seen as part. The minor is religious – Eastern Orthodoxy being alien to majority Catholic/Protestant Europe.
“Otherwise, the behavior of the neo-cons is almost inexplicable.” To politely disagree, I think it’s derived from a smug sense of superiority, especially among those whom Nassim Taleb describes a IYI – Intelligent Yet Idiot, that is, without ‘skin in the game’. Somewhere it is written “Pride goeth before a fall.” From this distance, it looks like that’s where America (and its empire) is headed.
Best wishes.
I understand your thoughts, but take a broader view t: Germans hated French, hated Italians, despised Russians. And Germans loved French, loved Italians and loved Russians.
Why some loved and others hated? I think that humans have two big disadvantages: They follow leaders instead of thinking themselves, and they like to be members of a group, instead of being individuals.
So, teach people not to follow, not to join the group, and they will start loving France, the USA, whatever country.
Manipulate people to stop thinking and to believe instead, tell them that they are members of a great nation = group, and they will start to hate.
Don’t follow bad people. Don’t get fooled. This is what I tell everyone. Think yourself.
For leaders to make people do bad things, they first have to lie and make them think the bad is good and good is bad.
They need people to stop seeing for themselves, to be afraid or be worked up in self-righteousness outrage (like Iraqi soldiers killing babies in Kuwait, Qaddafi giving his soldiers viagra to rape women, Assad gassing his own people, the Chinese genocide of the Uighurs, Putin kidnapping children, etc.) and to surrender critical thinking to the security state.
That is why state propaganda and censorship are so necessary. The lie is the cover needed to get good people to go along with evil. That is also the reasoning behind presenting a choice of two evils where one is positioned as the lesser evil.
The hope truth brings is that once the lie is exposed, it loses its power over the good.
Just wait till the media get the AI demons connected to the psyop.
An article today on zerohedge mentions marketing firms already using AI:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/openai-ceo-sam-altman-and-father-chinas-great-firewall-sound-alarm-over-artificial
Every bit of reason goes out the window in that scenario. There won’t even be sand under our feet.
Jack Devine is just an old fart today. Even if he was once a two-eyed Russophobic boulder. As useful as an old fart that the wind hasn’t taken away yet! It’s not their fault that someone still wants to hear it. Like the other one who says that the US is a circus number. I’m sorry to say but the US today like the US shit bag in the English Channel, are two territories without political leaders! Worse only the EU, vassal of a territory without political leadership. Perhaps this is where the absolutely childish resentment that everyone shows in relation to Russia and China comes from. That the whole world has noticed!
P.S. In the case of the EU, even after – its High Representative for Foreign Affairs, the dumbass of Borrell – recognizing that the two main pillars of EU growth in last decades have been Russia and China?! This has a name I’d rather not mention.
well centered
I agree 100%
The soviet part about Afghanistan really puts the point across, don’t throw rocks when you live in a glass house… its barely been a year since the US’ hasty retreat from kabul and Mr Devine really thought suitable to compare the soviets of the 70-80s…to today’s Russia
Gives you the memory span of what Gore Vidal called, ‘the United States of Amnesia’.
“Soviet was chased out of Afghan by goat herders holding on to AK47s”
“US was chased after by goat herders holding on to C130 at Afghan airport”
Although reported just over a week ago “Denmark Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen on Thursday quashed the probability of Russia’s inclusion in the ongoing Nord Stream sabotage investigations.”
It seems to have had a change of heart …
Denmark has invited the Russian-controlled operator of the NordStream 2 pipeline to assist in salvaging an unidentified object found close to the only remaining intact gas pipeline.
Likely this is the device that did not explode.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/denmark-invites-nord-stream-operator-help-salvage-unidentified-object-2023-03-23/
I suspect they know what it is already, otherwise they’d never have invited Gazprom to participate.
Worst case scenario, they planted a ‘Russian smoking gun’ there months before just for this occasion.
Do they not do such things? Are we not entertained?
On the comparative competentence of late 1980’s Soviet political and military leadership and 2010’s US political and military leadership:
For an excellent account of how the Soviets very carefully planned, prepared and executed their withdrawl from Afghanistan, one which totally refutes the “tail between their legs” descriptions of the withdrawal, read this by Lester Grau of the US Army Foreign Military Studies Office:
BREAKING CONTACT WITHOUT LEAVING CHAOS: THE SOVIET WITHDRAWAL FROM AFGHANISTAN
Lester W. Grau
https://community.apan.org/wg/tradoc-g2/fmso/m/fmso-monographs/202210#
I fear this document is being memory holed. Download and save it. Six months ago, it was high up in search results, now it is necessary to go directly to the FMSO page to find it.
Summary:
“The Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan provides an excellent model for disengagement from direct military involvement in support of an allied government in a counter-insurgency campaign. It demonstrates the need for comprehensive planning encompassing diplomatic,
economic and military measures, both during and subsequent to direct military involvement. It underscores the necessity for the host government to become able to function on its own and the supporting government to continue to provide adequate support subsequent to its departure. It shows how the internal divisions within both the host and supporting government may be almost as lethal as the guerrilla opposition. It clearly shows the necessity for a good advisory and logistics effort following the departure.”
Also, a few years later in 2011, Grau wrote this:
THE SOVIET WITHDRAWAL FROM AFGHANISTAN: LESSONS TO FRAME SUCCESS AND AVOID FAILURES
By Mr. Lester W. Grau and Mr. Thomas P. Wilhelm
https://community.apan.org/wg/tradoc-g2/fmso/m/fmso-monographs/202292
This article describes the performance of the Afghan Army after the Soviet withdrawal during the Sieges of Jalabad, Kabul and Khost, the March 1990 coup attempt and control of LOC’s.
Summary:
“The Soviets (and post-Soviet Russians and Central Asians today) considered the Soviet effort a success in that the security environment in Afghanistan, including internal conflicts and power challenges, did not create cross-border instability in the Soviet Union and it checked the Islamic fundamentalism at the time. The key to this was pursuing the withdrawal with much more selective support and not presenting a Soviet profile that created a target for militancy and continued conflict. The Soviet effort was not successful in dealing with Pakistani tribal area militancy, addressing critical border and refugee issues, as well as other contributive problems such as economic stagnation and narcotics traffic.
The current situation for ISAF is different than it was for the Soviets—but the differences are mostly advantageous. For example, Pakistan is an ally to the effort to an important degree and it is not a belligerent in the conflict; there is more international attention, support, and stake in the outcome; the United States and others are not facing a domestic situation comparable to
the conditions that led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Ultimately, the Soviet experience demonstrates that limited and achievable objectives which support Afghan security can be considered ‘successful’ while failure to engage Pakistan in a way that extends their writ of state and provision of security to control the tribal belt creates an ‘enduring failure’.”
Key extract: “The current situation for ISAF is different than it was for the Soviets—but the differences are mostly advantageous.”, thus if the US political and military leadership in the 2010’s had been equally as competent as the Soviets in the late 1980’s, the US could have achieved a successful withdrawal from Afghanistan long before 2021 with a stable government in place.
@ltexpat – thanks for sharing the links as I had previously seen them quoted on Andrei Martyanov’s esteemed blog.
Off topic – 24.03.1999 NATO began the illegal bombing of Yugoslavia “Operation Allied Force” and the subsequent 78 days played a key part in shifting world events as many experts cite that day as the death of International Law and the beginnings of a new multi-polar world as by the years end Putin entered the political scene and the rest is history… Eternal memory to the victims of NATOs war crime!
the 78 days that played a key part in shifting world events
Indeed it did. It also turned the ICC that followed the tribunals into a joke from the get go and none of it was lost on Russia.
Did Washington’s behind the sceners plan to dismember Yugoslavia from the very beginning?
Does water flow downhill?
The judge makes a strong point on the US surveillance state, but the CCP is 100% interested in collecting data on ordinary US citizens. US DoD is rumored to have had a 1-to-1 simulation of the USA (that is, every individual modelled) for some time now. I’d be surprised if there aren’t several such sims run by other gov and not-quite-gov agencies. If these models can be fed with real-time data from Google, Facebook, Twitter, credit reporting agencies, stock market tickers, real estate databases, &etc they would be pretty robust. Not much of a leap from what the judge says about the NSA having floors in AT&T buildings, really. 1-to-1 simulations aside, such data is rich for trend mining.
Other entities around the world probably have similar programs, including (but not limited to) Russia and PRC. PRC has banned Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and every other social media and information platform it doesn’t control; this means that presumably the only way outsiders can get individual data on Chinese people is by hacking. TikTok’s real-time data collection on Western users thus provides PRC with a real advantage over the West (possible definitive, depending on how good the models are).
Now, TikTok is banned within China as well, but PRC has other means of surveilling Chinese people. In many ways the PRC surveillance state is a pattern for Western authoritarians to aim for (15-minute cities, anyone?). Google (said to be a CIA startup), despite being banned in China has worked closely with PRC on developing its surveillance technology and may still be working with it. Google, YouTube, and Twitter (despite recent changes) maintain a strong pro-PRC/CCP bias.
I had a dream
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/22584
Jack Devine is a cofounder of something called the Arkin Group. This group offers intelligence analysis for foreign business ventures. On their website they list all the successes they have had. Frankly it all looked pretty meager. One case they worked on was someone wanting to invest in South African agriculture = The client was able to invest strategically in a region ripe for development where competitive threats were minimal and access to critical infrastructure and resources were ample.
I love the last statement. “Critical infrastructure is ample”. Nothing works there — The electricity grid is now load shedding 12 hours every day. The ports don’t work the trains derail. 50% of the rural road network is nearly impassable from lack of maintenance. I wonder how this client fared after paying Jack Devine to figure it out for him.
Devine is obviously world ignorant and probably not very intelligent. This is our CIA.
“This is our CIA”
No.
It’s a club and you are not in it, but outside as a food source.
In fact….
https://t.me/elinvestigador_org/13628
I’ll bet he took the name from actor Alan Arkin, of “The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming” fame.
Thanks for allowing me to take part in this conversation, albeit as a listener.
One thing I find is always ignored when talking about the “Putin regime” or other such titles, is the fact that the system of government in Russia is very similar, if not the same as in France and the USA. All are presidential democracies.
The difference in Russia is that there is a unity lacking in the other two countries. Putin has a majority in both houses of parliament, so he can go ahead with his policies. This gives the impression of sole power, that is in fact not there. China has a different system, but Xi still needs the support of the delegates, who in turn have to “deliver” to their constituents or they will not be sent as delegates the next time round. This is according to a friend of mine who lives in China and Germany 50/50 as his wife comes from China.
These “facts of life” will be shouted down in Germany should you dare to mention them in a discussion.
Freedom of speech is a myth. But then if we are fighting in the Ukraine as they support our values, perhaps this is true looking at the way the opposition is crushed there and different opinions are vilified into non existence and comparing that with the West/Nato countries, then we do indeed share the same values. I am waiting for the old Nazi symbols to rise up again.
Look out for YouTube videos showing us how best to train the muscles of our right arms.
Larry, I found this video quite informative about depleted Uranium so thought I’d share it here.
https://youtu.be/nOWjrDuKZp0
The truth of Depleted Uranium Rounds- Stanislav Krapivnik
This guy is ex US Army, Capt or Major not sure. Lives in Russia. Would be awesome to have him on your channel. He had an interview with Scott Ritter recently, excellent discussion.
“The misinformed arrogance displayed by Mr. Devine is not unique. That same attitude and misunderstanding of Russia is rampant today in the U.S. intelligence community.”
Evaluation is a function of purpose, and “exceptionalism” a way of sharing the load.
The misinformed arrogance is not restricted to “The U.S. intelligence community”, whilst “the exceptional” continue to have conversations with themselves since others are not deemed intelligent enough to engage in conversation, given accelerated “dumbing down” was necessary to facilitate the alchemy of turning gold into papers and promises, which simultaneously facilitated the decreasing dumbness of others not deemed intelligent enough to engage in conversation from at least 1620 when Plymouth Rock fell on them, rendering a glimpse of stocking something shocking.
The “opioid problem” within “The United States of America” is systemic, rendered necessary to sustain the system through myriad presentations not restricted to pills and praying : ergo self-replicating and self-destructing simultaneously, thereby restricting “walking the walk”.
Hence some like you do not mind “American exceptionalism”, but likely for different reasons, to facilitate different purposes, through different definitions/frames, using different methods – a co-operative process of lateral transcendence.
If it’s Chinese it *must* be spying on America.
Huawei, Tik Tok…..balloons?
The fact that these companies are powerful competition is totally coincidental. Riiiight.
“Spying.”
Larry says he is “all in favor of American exceptionalism if you talk the talk and walk the walk”. In the real world this translates to as long as the US is able to kill everyone they deem an enemy, and not lose on the battlefield, Larry is all in favor of that. Same with the economical wars.
The American problem is right there. The American crazies on the so called alternative right aren’t much better than the American neocons/neolibs. For the rest of the world, this means: Never trust an American.
The world should cooperate to push every American entity out of their countries. In 10 years most of Asia will hopefully have resolved the American problem on their soil. Then Africa and the Middle East may follow suit in 20 years. Finally Europe (after numerous civil wars) should be able to kick the last yank out around 2050. Just get them all out. Put an iron ring around North America and keep these exceptional animals inside until they learn to behave.
Sorry Larry, but F your American exceptionalism.
Sadly, the western world is living in lies, I think all of us here can agree. Go to the front page of CNN today or even to its “world news” section – there is NO MENTION of millions of people protesting in France. Everything is great in the EU, people are being beaten and are fighting on the streets only in “undemocratic” regimes, the garden is just fine, thank you. This is already an obvious campaign to hide things and present lies as truth. Incidentally, the front page of CNN is a lead story on “horrific” Russian losses in 404. Yeah….
I have said it before and I will say it again, the main fear of the USA’s elites is that ordinary men across the West will start seeing what Putin has done for Russia in the last 20 years and will start comparing what American presidents and career politicians like Joe Biden have done for America. Look at the video below – a “Biden or Putin vote” quick “interview” with an ordinary American: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/L0XoUqyVlPc
Before the CIA instigated Mujahideen uprising, when Afghanistan was a peripheral Soviet Republic, women roamed the streets without veils in the urban areas, universities had lots of co-eds and visitors from abroad, women were doctors and professors, there were institutions in urban areas. Kabul was even compared to Beirut, which was in turn regarded as the Paris of the Middle East, known for its night life. Soviet influence left far more than did American.
As usual, the US elevated the least democratic and repressive forces to a position of power.
Jack Devine is a clickbait interview for Judge Napolitano under the guise of even-handedness.
The judge is nearly doubling the interviews daily as he did about three weeks ago.
The Judge knows what he’s doing. He knows Divine is full of crap and probably setting him up for a fall.
To use the pill meme, he was red-pilled long ago.
okay lets say Mr Devine is stuck in some Soviet mindset and is not up to speed. Then a bigger question posed is are some still stuck in the China being a Communist country of the past as in the Mao era? After listening to your half retarded senators question the TikTok guy yesterday could not help but note that the term “Communist” like to be thrown around to instill this in many a pea brained mind. Of course this observation will be met with the usual well if its so good there well move to China. Insert eyeroll. With that type of logic then I guess the LGBTQ crowd that does not like the way things are here should maybe try Uganda as a new residence. Trust me I am no expert but I did mention at one point that Mexico would get picked on and threatened and looks like I was right. Well if you are Canadian be very afraid that the idiot and chief has come for a visit. I mean they had Meng locked up for you then dropped the charges anyway. Canada will bear the brunt of pissing off China. It will be economic suicide. Someone blew up the Nordstream. That same someone has been funding Oil Sands protests to ensure oil flows one way at a 20 dollar discount in USD. I mean what are friends and allies for? This shit isn’t political science if you can read and think outside the box. On a side note I had to download this TikTok to see what the big deal was. Cause these days when my government says do this well you are a fool to listen to these clowns and do the opposite. Love the TikTok.
China is traditionally ‘communist’ in name only. It’s a one party state. Might as well be Mexico’s PRI that held onto power for decades. Congress is full of simpletons.
Jack DeVine should put down that bad wine!!!
Devine’s a creeping vine, finding his way into any cracks in a country not to his liking’s facade and doing what creeping vines do.
I think the problem has to be viewed in a broader context than the CIA or the “deep state” as such, or even than the current administration’s so-called rules based international order. All this comes from a ruling class culture bred especially in the ivies, Stanford, and other “top” institutions that produces brain dead scions of the wealthy who move into sinecures in media and upper ranks of government, including the letter agencies. These ideologues and operatives are assured of keeping their privileges if only they keep mouthing the line of hegemony that goes way back, certainly to the end of WWII, but maybe all the way through San Juan Hill to the Monroe doctrine.
The ruling class, while controlling both “mainstream” parties, has for a long time been remarkably successful in masking this militarist, neo-colonial, imperial behavior via all kinds of ideological means: themes such as City on the Hill, last best hope of humanity, anti-communism, ultra-individualism, bread and circuses, mindless patriotism, etc. The reality has been what Pompeo admitted to: lying, cheating, and stealing and then some. But at this point what we’re starting to see is people seeing through it and chickens coming home to roost.
An article that’ll smart some commenters here:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/23/lockdown-sceptics-history-academics-left-covid?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR1d4ydjbcna2qaWw0Qwud35lwJftgX9RAtgedHk032zUDJzXF-ytXHgs8E#Echobox=1679612558
Enjoy!
Mirror Mirror… America doesn’t know anyone. It will never know how once, the World admired it so very much. It had a chance to build true security and prosperity through friendship and democracy among nations by her own example. Sadly, it was infected by the satanic, inbred elites from that pit of demons called the City of London. Those parasites have caused all the wars and misery throughout this planet. They disdain those who work for a living and prefer to exploit the world from the behind the curtain of depravity.
This time however, we know who they are and we understand their off-shore banking thievery. They are being dismantled and they know it and we shall give them no quarter should they start another war. Free the world from tyranny and raise everyone’s boat. Let’s grow the pie for everyone and let’s hope the English rise and rid themselves of the parasite among them.
” America doesn’t know anyone” even apparently that they are not “America”.
“It will never know how once, the World admired it so very much.”
Since that was never the case, they attempted to obfuscate that with “American exceptionalism”; a “beacon unto nations” as you try to do.
“It had a chance to build true security and prosperity through friendship and democracy among nations by her own example.”
That was never their purpose from inception. They were always so scared of the other that they were constantly engaged in coercive social relations, the blowback from which encouraged more coercive social relations.
Hence :
“The “opioid problem” within “The United States of America” is systemic, rendered necessary to sustain the system through myriad presentations not restricted to pills and praying : ergo self-replicating and self-destructing simultaneously, thereby restricting “walking the walk”.
“Those parasites have caused all the wars and misery throughout this planet.”
Thank you for your expected rendition of “It wasn’t me it was my sister” in hope of obfuscating your complicity, like Mr. Winston Smith hoping that “Big Brother” will do it to her.
“..we shall give them no quarter”
Given your illustrated naivete, I would advise you to stay home instead of posing risks to others, or if you wish to commit suicide try to ensure you die alone.
As well as the psycho Jack Devine, Judge has an even more unhinged crazy on his show called Matt, who is a trainer/advisor for the Ukies.
He’s as mad as a box of frogs and looks like a serial killer.
Well, the Aussies sent their numero uno neo-nazi to fight with Ukraine. They say they tried to stop him for fear of the bad PR and the training he might put to use back home but couldn’t, ‘freedom of assembly’ or some such. The Aussies assemble quite the shitshow given half a chance.
He’s a beaut too. A one-man traveling nazi rune museum. He’ll fit right in.
https://nexusnewsfeed.com/article/geopolitics/notorious-australian-neo-nazi-joins-ukrainian-army-media/
And a few more of the lovely lads:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/senior-neo-nazi-slips-out-of-australia-to-fight-russian-army-20230322-p5cudj.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/AustraliaLeftPolitics/comments/11zcgl2/a_senior_australian_neonazi_linked_to_an/?rdt=54167
His mental age 5 years. After that little children know that the monster won’t desapper’by closing the eyes
The thing that guys like Devine miss is that the goat herders always win. Absent a Roman like willingness to make a desert and call it peace, they will win simply by enduring. And for all our intentional and unintentional brutality, we were not willing to go that far. And by the 1980s, neither were the Soviets. So, Afghanistan is not a referendum on the strength of either the Soviet or the American armies, it is an indictment of the folly of nation building by any great power in a place where it isn’t wanted.
The Soviet experience of the 20th century and the US experience of the last thirty years are good examples of what happens when educated “elites” try to ignore actual reality and create their own. They make mistakes that an uneducated farmer with basic common sense wouldn’t make it he were suddenly placed in control. Both would have been better governed if the first couple of hundred people from any random page in the phone book were chosen to head key positions.
Great comment
Same is true of Vietnam and Iraq. The “US hasn’t won a war since WW2” is true – slick and shallow – though true technically, but you have to look at the wars we have fought since then. Actually, the US did a very good job of saving SoKo, but VN and everything after that was nation building with a populace that didn’t want it AND guerrilla warfare/insurgency. It’s not like the US was militarily crushed when it faced the enemy in direct combat. The US could have prevailed easily if, as you say, it went all Roman on the populaces. The US doesn’t do that as a strategy. The US tries to minimize civilian casualties and general suffering to the extent possible. Yes, sometimes they fail and there are isolated incidents that are truly horrible, but nothing compared to what the Romans would do (or someone in modern times, like the Imperial Japanese or Mao).
Anyhow, guerrilla warfare and insurgencies are very difficult to counter. That is a known military fact.
And before one of Putin’s or Xi’s lovers pops up and starts raving about Albright and all the dead Iraqis, I agree. Horrible what the US did there. However, that was not the uniformed military’s policy. That was the fiends in the White House, State Dept, CIA, think tanks, etc. The usual [guilty] suspects.
The US tries to minimize casualties? I’m bored so yes I will take the bait. Nation building? Please quit day drinking and find some weed. Did you miss the part of about supplying weapons to the Ukraine? It seems to be a recurring theme on here for the last 13 or so months. Too funny. Time for a nap.
@Grant
Please ignore newdill, either a moron or a troll. Hmmm….I suspect the former…Even a broken clock is right twice a day, not this character. Boredom is no excuse for waddling into the sewer. Try this instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiU2lrGnT7U
Bittu…. A guy like him is what entertainment is for. I enjoy blatherings of a nutjob. Makes me look in the mirror and realize that there is someone out in this grand universe that is actually more dumbed down than me. . He serves a valuable purpose in society for us. Thanks for the heads up Bittu
Says the know-it-all smart ass internet dopes that never served in the military and were never subject to rules of engagement.
Yes, the US military goes out of its way to minimize civilian casualties.
The US “saved” SoKO LOL. Does the dill realise south Korea was and is a fake construct of the US?
Does the dill even know true historical facts or is it a regurgitator of Hollywood Andy mcNab style themes?
The usual [guilty] suspects.
Oh, you mean the neocons.
Larry, you haven’t mentioned yet that the US, along with the rest of the West, actively funded and assisted the Taliban against the Soviets in the 1980s. And yet, the Soviets managed and left Afghanistan in an orderly manner.
What would happen to the entire US-led coalition this time if Russia, in turn, at least partly helped the Taliban?
This is more of a rhetorical question.
But it is clear that the United States would not even have these twenty years. Everything would have ended for them much faster and with an even greater fiasco.
What makes you so sure the Russian Federation didn’t help the Taliban during the American Occupation of Afghanistan?
The problem with all of our opinions, is that accurate information is extremely hard to come by, regarding the current conflict in Ukraine, and the greater struggle, vis a vis, Ru/Chi/Iran vs Nato/US.
“What makes you so sure the Russian Federation didn’t help the Taliban during the American Occupation of Afghanistan?”
Well perhaps over-flight rights and massaging bases access in the “Stans” could be interpreted in that way, but some understood there was no reason to intervene since “The United States of America” were more than capable of fucking themselves up without additional help.
“What makes you so sure the Russian Federation didn’t help the Taliban during the American Occupation of Afghanistan?”
Russians have a long history of fighting against islamic terrorists, and no history of arming them. USA, on the other hand, has a long history of arming all kinds of craizes. Russians know that the enemy of your enemy is not your friend. Giving guns to crazies will get you shot.
“The problem with all of our opinions, is that accurate information is extremely hard to come by, regarding the current conflict in Ukraine, and the greater struggle, vis a vis, Ru/Chi/Iran vs Nato/US.”
I would limit that to people living in the West (especially those that are monolingual). Rest of the world folks find it much easier to see trough the fog of war.
Larry, I think you are 100% correct on Jack Devine – and his mind think – why would he reach for the worst possible example, Afghanistan? I think its reflex from a world that no longer exists and reflex rather than thought leads to poor intel.
“The misinformed arrogance displayed by Mr. Devine is not unique. That same attitude and misunderstanding of Russia is rampant today in the U.S. intelligence community.”
That’s because the only thing any of these people read, watch or listen to is from their own propaganda machine.
Just a few examples:
Russia’s underperforming military capability may be key to its downfall
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/18/russia-military-underperforming-ukraine
Vladimir Putin’s War Has Exposed Weakness of Russian Military: CIA Director
https://www.newsweek.com/vladimir-putin-war-exposed-weakness-russian-military-cia-director-burns-failure-1741419
Putin’s failing Ukraine invasion proves Russia is no superpower
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putins-failing-ukraine-invasion-proves-russia-is-no-superpower/
Russia Suffers ‘Catastrophic Strategic Disaster’ in Ukraine
https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3214909/russia-suffers-catastrophic-strategic-disaster-in-ukraine/
Russia is not strong. And Putin is even weaker.
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2015/06/08/russia-is-not-strong-and-putin-is-even-weaker/
Ukraine Has Exposed Russia as a Not-So-Great Power
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/07/rethinking-russia-ukraine-international-political-power-military-strength/661452/
As Orwell wrote in ‘1984’:
“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’”
Russia’s **blah blah blah** capability may be key to its downfall
These ‘journalists’ are beginning to remind me of amateur home burglars carrying a ring full of keys, trying key after key and hoping one will fit.
Yes, Larry you are exactly correct. As you remind us of what actually took place I must say anyone with a molecule of brain should understand.
Which means either folks like Jack is either had their brain altered by in some way. Or he’s a liar trying to convince regular folks what we saw did not happen.
I hope you will address this mess in Syria. Why don’t we pack up and leave that area. Isn’t it illegal that U.S. even be in that region?!
The two CIA’s – Ray McGovern
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM_x55wPRp8
Jim Rickards twitter feed:
https://twitter.com/JamesGRickards?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1501241663968194568%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fncrenegade.com%2F
It is just impossible to compare USSR and US Afghanistan wars on so many levels, but lets mention few of them:
– USSR fought openly against most of the world (Whole West, all muslim countries and even China – yes, China itself have equipped and trained more then 100.000 fighters which leaves only India of major powers not participating against USSR), while US did not have open opposition at all, and maybe some hidden opposition by much much smaller and weaker coalition.
– USSR did orderly withdrawal, US did not
– Technology was more primitive, therefore Stingers and Anti tank weapons were top of the line anti aircraft and anti tank weaponry, especially in very high level mountainous regions
– Satellites and drones were far weaker overall, which means that it was much easier for enemies of USSR to hide, then it was for US opposition..
“The Soviets left a Afghan government and military intact, which continued to operate for two more years before the Taliban took over.”
Many photos on the web attest to the fact that the Soviets withdrew in good order, and that the Soviets were chased out of Afghanistan after suffering a humiliating defeat is yet another one of those faux “realities” that the Imperial Wurlitzer spins for the masses.
If the photos don’t convince, this paper puts paid to that notion:
https://web.archive.org/web/20101225113905/http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/documents/Withdrawal.pdf
If the West’s leadership is finding it difficult to chart a coherent course, it’s because William Casey’s project succeeded beyond all measure. Everything everyone knows is wrong.
(PS: I have no idea why the above was originally posted as a reply to “Jim S” above. That it happened immediately after I intentionally replied to him suggests that some software artefact left the link intact. Anyway, the version above can be removed if it’s possible.)
“the Soviets were chased out of Afghanistan after suffering a humiliating defeat is yet another one of those faux “realities” that the Imperial Wurlitzer spins for the masses.”
The “apparent” lack of challenge to the above and to “We won the Cold War” which some held to be the self-evident “truths”, was very useful in nurturing of the infant “Russian Federation”, as was the restraint shown by many not to disappear “the partners” or send them home in the cargo bays of the Delta flights from Sheremetovo to Newark, New Jersey through the feeder networks including Kemerovo, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk and other locations to Vnukovo and transit to Sheremetovo..
The faction including Mr. Gromyko who advised the lover of medals and his associates in the Politburo to leave well alone in 1979, largely co-operated to plan and implement the withdrawl of 1989.
As Stavka did in respect of Mr. Stalin after the “Battle of Kiev” in 1941, in 1989 they told the schmoozer from Krasnodarsky oblast to shut the fuck up, some even extended their agency/co-operation to rescuing the idiot Mr. Gorbachov when he had been kidnapped to clean up some of the shit left.
This is also partly why Mr. Yeltsin gave Mr. Gorbachov on his “return”, a prepared alternative script to broadcast which Mr. Gorbachov tried to drop, causing Mr. Yeltsin to ponder whether he should punch Mr. Gorbachov.
“I have no idea why the above was originally posted as a reply to “Jim S” above.”
Perhaps because you are a spectator rather a practitioner ?
That is probably the best guest at the Judge Napolitano show.
“Everything everyone knows is wrong.”
Not the growing sum of some who are your opponents.
Mr. Johnson, thank you!! 🙏
Y los Mexicanos! Como podremos quitarnos el yugo Estadounidense?
Seremos la ultima nacion en salir de su influencia?
Veo un camino muy dificil en todas las direcciones.