[A REMINDER — THIS IS THE WORK OF OBSERVER R, NOT LARRY JOHNSON.]
On June 22 of this year, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) published an article by Richard Haass entitled “A Tale of Two Invasions.” The printed summary of the article is as follows: “The different responses to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Iraq’s of Kuwait three decades ago reveal growing international fragmentation and disorder.”
This is an important article because the CFR, founded in 1921, is perhaps the premier United States (US) foreign policy grouping and is influential in setting the tone for US international activities. The CFR publishes the magazine Foreign Affairs, also the premier journal in its field. Richard Haass is stepping down as President of the CFR after serving for twenty years.
According to Haass, the Soviet Union supported the United States (US) in the 1990 war to remove Iraq forces from Kuwait, and that China did not block those efforts. He contrasts that outcome with the current Ukraine situation, where Russia (the successor to the Soviet Union) “is committing aggression rather than opposing it.” As for China, in 1990 that country was much weaker than now and keeping its head down. Now, however, China has consistently supported Russia and has greatly raised its international profile. Haass notes that much of the rest of the world has been non-committal on the Ukraine war, in contrast to the general international support for the US position in the Iraq War.
Haass goes on to state: “Moreover, America’s ability to rally the world is much diminished, in no small part because respect for the US is much diminished, the result of internal divisions and widespread global opposition to the US interventions in Iraq in 2003 and in Libya in 2011.”
As a result of these changes, he further states that “The US remains first among equals (or unequals, to be precise), but that is not to be confused with anything resembling hegemony. The advantages America enjoyed in 1990 have faded as others have gained greater power.”
Haass, who has been at the top of the US foreign policy pecking-order for 20 years, is announcing at the end of his tenure that US hegemony is over and done with. In other words, many articles in Foreign Affairs in the last 20 years promoting, endorsing, and upholding US hegemony are now obsolete and out of fashion. It is the dawn of a new age, where the US can no longer count on running the international rules-based order with little regard to other countries’ wishes or input.
The article enlarges the “Overton Window” to make it possible to discuss more unconventional approaches to US foreign policy without being shunned. It will be informative to see if this does become the case in journals such as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and The National Interest, for example. In a sense, Haass’s article borders on what might be called “ideological heresy” in terms of international politics as currently practiced in the US. Of course, it may also have about as little lasting and concrete effect as did Dwight Eisenhower’s farewell speech on the military-industrial complex.
If the article is more successful, however, it could open up the journals to publishing more in-depth articles about the relative positions of countries in power politics. Although Haass continues to put the US first, it is only “first among equals”—a big comedown from the usual exceptional and number one chorus. The window might be widened enough to allow addressing the alternative position that China is way out in front on the economy and Russia has way more advanced and hypersonic weapons. According to this view, the US is only number two on both counts. Such a change in the window would allow for a more informed public debate on the merits of various current and potential new US military and diplomatic policies.
Finally, although Haass mentions that “internal divisions” have diminished US influence in the world, he does not explain or comment on these alleged divisions. This situation is common in the foreign policy journals, where the perceived problems facing Russia and Putin are discussed in great length, but those facing the US and Biden are glossed over or ignored. This lack of information makes it difficult to carry out a scholarly analysis of the relative power of the two countries or to prepare an adequate national strategy.
Yeah, right, the US never “rallied” anyone into their adventures. They rather bullied and blackmailed their vassals and other nations into accepting their narrative and basically to look away, while the US broke international law over and over again.
When Sadam complained about the Kuwaitees drilling horizontally, with equipment we sold them, into Iraq’s oil fields and met with the US Ambassador April Glaspie, she didn’t object to an invasion, and mislead Sadam that the US would not interfere.
I’ve been telling people for decades about Kuwaiti (American) theft of Iraqi oil reserves and not one person has shown the tiniest smudge of interest.
When I learned of this, it was somewhere around 1981, during the Iran-Iraq war, at a dinner party at my parents house where a senior oil engineer was in attendance telling my dad (a retired US Army Colonel and friend from West Point) all about how the Kuwaiti’s were taking advantage of the situation. He was quite high up in Dutch Shell iirc and quite enamored of his cleverness in devising the technology.
The guests were much more interested to hear about his wife’s arthritis surgery.
Maybe it is because most Americans do not even want to consider that their government is villainous. That their government literally bait (incite) other countries to wars while American msm bamboozle everyone how peace-loving White House is cannot be believed.
NB: your first hand account of an oil engineer who devised the technology to allow Kuwait steal IRaq oil would be fascinating.
…Conoco out of Huston… not Conoco Phillips traded public..the private part…. got that corner of the Syria oil fields…. hauled across the border… exported illegally…. supported with the full faith and force of the US military..
..about freedom, not oil…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIN6AtTxFgE
You know… like Ukraine is about “democracy”…not laundering US federal payments and the military industrial complex…. complex.
Yes, and then Kuwait was given those oilfields by Bush Sr.
Lie the “Coalition of the Willing?”
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
Reluctant acknowledgement of the current multipolar global situation, perhaps. But this could be an “All hands on deck” call to restore “rules-based global order”, aka “We make the rules and we order that they be obeyed or else global order.” MICC better wake up and do something! Unless funding for the MICC evaporates, efforts to dominate the globe militarily and financially will not stop.
After reading my thought: wondering how Ha ass considers US invading Iraq 1,000s of miles from US justified but Russia “invading” Ukraine a bordering country criminal 🤔 oh yes situational ethics and no set moral principles!
Just good ole “ American exceptionalism”
No sense of self awareness let alone shame- they can’t believe that there are people that don’t love them and their domination-their inherent righteousness and”democracy”
Hubris and Hegemony go hand in hand.
They’re also, possibly not so curiously – another set of double H’s.
American combat troops remain in Iraq to maintain its colonial status while the USA controls Iraqi oil sales.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoxJZqKPciU
Well they have to stay in Iraq, otherwise how would they move their stolen Syrian oil?
Acting like an old Hollywood Studio System press agent, i was always out in front touting and defending USA against all critics and accusers ……wow, what an awakening to realize I was defending the Evil Empire.
Galloping around the world stealing, abusing, exploiting, killing, murdering….and I blind to all it’s sins.
Don’t get me wrong, I still believe the written constitution and the core values that made this country truly a shinning light in human history are still there….somewhere….buried by greed, avarice, envy, pride and worst of all, blindness.
I believe there’s a chance that it will shine again, and take it’s proper place in the pyramid of thought and honor….but, we sure are still a way from there…..we’re still going to hit a hard bottom… may God have a hand in helping us…..have a great 4th of July weekend, and respect and honor the true values it represents, even though their hidden beneath the surface.
Well thought out and well written.
Dog
America was never and has never been a “shinning light in human history”. It was founded on principles of intolerance, greed, and deceit. The constitution was designed to enable landowning white males to hold and keep power to the detriment of all other humans, including not only the less wealthy non landed white population but also and especially the indigenous peoples, African people imported as slaves, and later Chinese people imported as labour to build railways.
The US, from its founding as a country has been based on having the military means to enforce its rule and spread wherever it sees an advantage to its wealthy class. If you have managed to ‘unblind’ yourself partially, try to complete the process, and remove the blinkers that prevent you from seeing your country’s true history – which is certainly no worse than that of many other countries, but has no especial virtues.
This is patently not true. Such an oversimplification impairs your good intention. May I suggest a thorough beginning on the thinking behind the Constitution? The Federalist Papers are enormously enlightening and my favorite book of all time is Thomas Payne’s “The Rights of Man.”
Looking backward through the lens of history can be quite misleading.
This is my first comment here, though I’m regular reader. I rather enjoy just reading other people’s comments and they are usually very clever and eloquent. From my perspective of a person from south-east Europe, I must say I agree with Lorna. Not that I don’t share opinion that USA is some how exceptional, rather I think in many cases USA was and still is very backward or should I say ackward. All the papers, declarations, constitutions you mention are just literally what they are – papers. Whre I come from, we used to say for something what’s unnatural – “It’s plastic” or “made of plastic”. USA is a plastic country. Experiment wich went wrong. People in the USA never had real power, neither they will. It’s like fatal flaw in design made at early beginning. What you need is -“back to the drawing board” moment. It’s my humble opinion, my perspective, so nobody should be offended.
Constitution and Declaration of Independence are not some Holy Books. They are just pieces of paper, with nothing original written on them. Brainwashed people are worshiping them because they have been brainwashed in the USA. It also makes them feel exceptional, and better than all of those foreign subhumans with their inferior papers, that have different things written on them.
USA is built on stolen land, genocide, slavery, and all kinds of exploitation one could think of. All of that is being represented as being totally opposite. War is peace. Slaveowners are equal to their slaves. Indians are savages that should be exterminated, and also equal. Bombs spread democracy. Invasion is liberation. Everything can be justified by writing something on a piece of paper, and declaring it patently true. It’s not math, so no proof or logic needed.
Whole World should be owned by USA, because of a piece of paper that says so, written by USA. Too bad that almost 8 billion people don’t care about that.
The Constitution was once a shining light. It’s too bad it’s become a thing in name only. Nice window dressing though.
Read about the last 4 or so SC decisions. The US Constitution is down but coming back strong with these decisions. People have to remember how young a country the US is – 254 years old. I despise the corruption and abuses of the political classes and the corrupt infrastructure of govt. Dont blame the US Constitution. I say this as a Canadian in an even younger country. To compare us to China or Russia or India– we are babies– babies have different lessons.
Every constitution that makes slavery legal is the pinnacle of humanity by default.
The professional punditry class and associate fellow travelers in academia, government, think tanks, media, etc. will never give up on hegemony. Their very salaries and livelihoods depend on it. I suspect even Hass, who sat on top of the gatekeepers of hegemony, after this will be invited to any conferences and meet ups.
Wasn’t Foreign Secretary Pillary in a video at a CFR meeting thanking them for their continued giddance?
I would suggest the US is considerably further down the scale of “powers”. It has no industrial base to speak of any more and more importantly not the skilled workforce or the managerial competence to rebuild it any time soon, if at all. There are several countries that are further ahead relative to the US.
As the military competence; the past 10 years have provided a huge amount of experiencial development for Russia and I would argue it is now the primier military force in the world. This isn’t to say the Russians are interested in projecting their “might” it’s simply that they have now established a deep level of competence. The US military doesn’t have to level of competence needed to maintain let alone project their will.
The real worry now is, can Russia and China manage the US decline in such a way as to not panic the incompetent US elite into doing something really stupid?
“The real worry now is, can Russia and China manage the US decline in such a way as to not panic the incompetent US elite into doing something really stupid?”
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This seems to me the background principle guiding Russian conduct of the war. It’s almost like they have to let the situation normalize every week or so the collective west doesn’t go into cornered badger mode and lash out wildly. One of the fruits of the Russians moving “slowly” is the collective west’s trigger finger might be resting next to the big red button rather than overing, twitching, over it.
Meanwhile, the totalitarian crackdown moves forward. Dark days ahead for those in England and US – all that anger will be turned inward. Remember to say only good things about your generals.
Also, the “slowly” moving operation allows time for S. Lavrov and others to more fully inform observers in the world. He can say, yes it is warfare, but not primarily about warfare. It is about understanding each other and about remaking economic and social institutions for our mutual benefit.
2016 and the slogan was Make America Great AGAIN.
First admission that he hegemon was finished.
China over took US in GDP at PPP in 2015 or 2016 (counted in different ways).
But Chinas producers prices are about 40% less than US but PPP is only the Average difference in how goods are priced. If you look at infrastructure or power (like the cost of 1000km of high speed railway or 1m active troops or a Dozen naval vessels or a hypersonic) these things are A much much cheaper in China, and B) a much greater part of teh Chinese economy.
So in the things that count China is a long way ahead of US and has been for a decade or more.
The Hegemon was over in about 2016 and everything else has been US behaving knowingly as a bad tempered loser.
“First among equals” is a bit suspect. Economically, China is bigger on a purchasing power parity basis, so the US isn’t really “first” there. Russia has superior military technology and production capacity, plus is not reliant on foreign supply for key mineral, metals, etc., so the US isn’t “first” there either. It’s tough, if not impossible to put relative weighting on these, so “first among equals” really boils down to facing “equals on several fronts. Culturally, the destruction in the west leaves Russia and China with distinct advantages.
The empire is fraying around the edges, much like the Roman Empire. France is coming unglued, as the idea of using mass migration to replace the troublesome white people is not going so well. Similar situations in Germany, Sweden, the UK, Netherlands and others. It’s not going so well in the US either as the mass migration is causing major problems, and conflicts with the woke” culture. In Canada, a big protest of Christians and Muslims together protesting the trans ideology. Who’d have guessed those two groups would have common ground to protest.
The WEF/Davos crowd pulling Biden’s strings weren’t the smartest guys in the room and it’s showing. They were incapable of thinking things through. The neocons and others were somewhat aligned in all this, but as it comes unglued these diverse interests are starting to fight amongst themselves.
It is the end of the hegemony, and we are approaching the “exciting” part of it all as the different elitist groups scramble to salvage whatever power they can. The trajectory is for the West to turn in to a totalitarian, dystopian joke, while the rest of the world carries on just fine. Unless of course, the psychopaths running things here go nuke, then we get the worst of that too.
I have to agree; nice executive summary of the situation. King Charles is big on the WEF/Davos agenda and you can see what a steaming pile his kingdom has become. The leadership crowd in the rest of the five eyes are clueless and seem to have no plans outside of US running the show. I expect more of what’s happened to Nigel Farage as the collective west’s isolation grows.
Great points– after what happened to Farage maybe people will start waking up that they are next. If you cant defeat your external opponent your citizens are next best.
Great points! But we need to understand the strings the UK has being pulling on the US. Financially through LIBOR which the US has abandoned as of June 30th – using the US established SOFR now and militarily by being the UK’s willing bag man. Those connections are unraveling as fast as the Neo-cons and Davos/WEF types. The UK is now exposed as the Russia hating antagonists they have always been. From earliest Fabian times on.
We have 30 years of Victoria “Fuck the EU” Nuland to thank: “Moreover, America’s ability to rally the world is much diminished, in no small part because respect for the US is much diminished, the result of internal divisions and widespread global opposition to the US interventions in Iraq in 2003 and in Libya in 2011.”
https://jamesburrillangell.substack.com/p/strange-diplomacy-victoria-fck-the
That political animal should be bagged and tagged for a feral hog and dumped off in Red Square.
How is she a credentialed diplomat? What treaty has she assisted in research and writing? What war has she calmed? How has she steadied or promoted America’s interests abroad? That psychopathic guttersnipe doesn’t even know basic dignified comportment as required of diplomats since ancient times, she does not dress appropriately, she looked disheveled even when she attempts to groom herself, she is uncouth and exceedingly uncultured, she abuses American political influence and military power, and on top of all that she keeps pushing carnage for no cost benefit to anyone except maybe her own ancient family. She is a political firebug.
Whatever else of her background she must have been a most ill bred whelp growing up and it shows, a snotty and snarky classmate, a selfish, coarse, bad mannered friend ( to use the word very lightly), a disrespectful neighbor, a ruthless co worker, and an ambitious social climber.
In Great Expectations, Charles Dickens once wrote, “ no amount of varnish can ever hide the grain of the wood, for the more varnish you put on the more the wood will express itself.” Vicky will always be an ignorant gulpin no matter how much money is squandered on her. What is really interesting is how she has managed to position herself so that she is politically untouchable even after her iniquitous work in Kiev which ignited a planetary conflagration.
Bill Holter on the ‘nanna republic:
https://www.sgtreport.com/2023/06/high-crimes-follow-the-money-bill-holter/
Peterson foundation on the debt
https://www.pgpf.org/infographic/the-national-debt-is-now-more-than-32-trillion-what-does-that-mean
the clock
https://www.usdebtclock.org/
Or is it number 5 in hypersonic weapons:
1. RF
2. PRC
3. N. Korea
4. Iran
These countries have at least demonstrated hypersonic weapons. The Russians have successfully used them against the best US AD. Mind you the Houthis have also done so with DIY drones.
The US has not yet fielded a hypersonic weapon and in fact just cancelled one of its programs due to failure.
What is implied is that the Age of Empire is over. Western dominance is in decline as the process of globalization turns toward decolonization and a multipolar world order, and away from neoliberalism, which is joined at the hip with neo-imperialism and neocolonialism, under the veneer of a “rules-based international order” that is in fact dictated and imposed by the imperial center on the rest of the core and the periphery.
China has set forth the theoretical foundation for this in terms of a unified world order based on concerted interaction on trade policy, climate policy, poverty alleviation, etc. The aim is to integrate all nations into a mutually beneficial system that acknowledges national sovereignty and civilizational differences.
It is being led by China and Russia, and the nations of the Global South/East are largely on board with this. Eventually, the vassal states will also come along.
We can only hope. Well said!
Power abhors a vacuum. Most of the world’s population witnessed the coup de grace of Donald Trump in 2020 election and said to themselves America is abhorrent. As Biden recently said to no one in particular ‘god save the queen’. As far as I can discern that was code for it’s open season on invading America. I could care two shits what anybody in the so-called ruling class has to say. They are all traitors to the constitution and in need of a day with the hangman.
Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and The National Interest, Haas, Overton Window, the future of exceptionalism and the Rules Based Order — it’s like something from space aliens, something from another dimension of time and space. Not the here and now, though.
Soundtrack: 2000 Light Years from Home
The Rolling Stones
The EU is literaly falling apart, in France there is a de-facto civil war going on. There are rumours about a possibile imminent nuclear false-flag at the Zaporizhie NPP (but this could be another psyop). Here in Europe the atmosphere is very tense-
“in France there is a de-facto civil war going on.”
Yes, thousands of deads already. It is a carnage!
(I’m in Nice right now. So I can see it with my own eyes).
Your post is a de-facto misleading and false misinterpretation.
What does ‘de-facto’ in your ‘language’ mean?
What does ‘literally’ mean?
I copied this from the Merriam Webster dictionary.
De facto:
especially : being such in effect though not formally recognized
//a de facto state of war
Literally :
used to emphasize the truth and accuracy of a statement or description
//The party was attended by literally hundreds of people.
Merriam Webster is, IMHO, not a great dictionary.
de facto: by way of fact, as distinct from de jure (by way of right or law). I live with my partner but we never “tied the knot” – that’s a de facto marriage.
De facto is simply redundant if describing a civil war as there’s no such thing as a ‘de jure’ civil war.
Literal/literally – see:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/literal
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/literally
The misuse of literal/ly is one of the worst, though popular degradations of contemporary English. It literally makes me sick! 🙂
Best wishes.
“The misuse of literal/ly is one of the worst, though popular degradations of contemporary English. It literally makes me sick! 🙂”
As a non-native English speaker, I feel the pain twice. This evil has spilt to other languages (while not literally using the term literal). In global culture we live in, degradation is globalized. Good stuff remains local.
Speaking of things present in multiple languages, “de facto” is one that is not evil. France having de facto civil war going on, could pass as a hyperbole. Rostov streets look much nicer than those in France, in spite of recent Russian Civil War, and Battle of Rostov getting Wikipedia page.
EU did lose UK not so long ago, and Hungary will probaly leave the moment they find soultion to being-surrounded problem. Whether that counts as falling apart, is hair-splitting exercise that could be qualified as literal waste of time.
It wouldn’t be suprising if the US takes a similar trajectory of transformation as did the British Empire to the British Commonwealth to the Commonwealth to now Little Britain, while retaining the tools of propaganda, divide and conquer, and the ability to sow chaos in lieu of rule via genuine prestige and the exercise of soft and hard power. “Excerptionalism” without substance will gather no followers.
Military correspondent: Kiev plans to abandon the cities of Sumy and Kharkov
According to Russian war correspondent Aleksandr Sladkov, the Ukrainian government plans to abandon the cities of Sumy and Kharkov soon. Preparations for this are reportedly already underway. On his Telegram, Sladkov reports:
“Kiev is preparing Sumy and Kharkov for surrender.
The evacuation of the large holdings has begun.
The enemy is reinforcing its second line of defense.
More information later.”
EU chief diplomat Borrell announces major developments for Ukraine
Borrell also pointed out that peace talks between Kiev and Moscow depend on events that are expected to take place in the coming days.
Source: https://freeassange.rtde.live/international/131481-liveticker-ukraine-krieg/
I only pay attention to the first syllable in Boorrell and respond accordingly.
“Council on Foreign Relations” is another one of the globalist/internationalist, non-government ‘institutions’ that Control the Occupation Governments of the ‘western’ Nations. Like the BIS/WEF, UN, CDC, ‘federal reserve bank’, and hundreds of other such Treasonous Organizations, they are Owned, Funded, and Staffed by members of a certain tribe of Parasites that Cannot (by their ‘laws’) be Named.
I concur that broadening debate would be far more healthy that the stifling propaganda we have encountered in “liberal” circles.
I also take issue with Haass: “He contrasts that outcome with the current Ukraine situation, where Russia (the successor to the Soviet Union) ‘is committing aggression rather than opposing it.'”
This agrees with the big lie that the invasion was unprovoked. Objective observers are able to recognize NATO aggression and Russian defensiveness.
Already 1965, the CIA stationchief in Miami declared: – “The bearded
devil has won!”
But who was that CIA man? It was
not Larry, too young then. The bearded devil was not Zelensky, or
Larry.
He was Fidel Castro Ruz, the winner
after many tough rounds, against the United States, 1959, 1961,1962,
1975, (Angola/Namibia) they never
could defeat Cuba, only kill Che Guevara in Bolivia, 1967, but what
a fight, Cuba vs CIA, in the belly of the Empire, but here begins the
downfall of the United States and The CIA, then time for Vietnam and
the FNL, and the NVA.
INTERNAL DIVISIONS:
Larry my barber is a former Navy Seals, he’s 70-72 to give you some context. He’s visited France and partied in Paris during his tour of duty. Yet, he (and likely 98.99% of Americans) are clueless about the riots going on in France, I pulled out my phone and showed him video and “reprimanded” him once again for his failure to go to YouTube to get wider sources of information. Same ‘reprimand’ applies to all sonar21 community members. Why anyone sentient being would waste more than 15 minutes a day on Fox or CNN, MSNBC, Wapo…you get the picture??? baffles me! I’m upset that my siblings have my Dad’s cable subscription limited to a “See Spot Run” menu. LOL
Second, I just finished watching your guys (our guys) on The Duran talk about Nigel Farage being denied the ability to open a bank account in the U. K. this is a remarkable event, akin to indicting a former president, any former president, even if that president is not your chief political rival and is not contesting the presidency in the upcoming election. It appears that cancellations and political purges are going in the U.K. what a blot on history.
IM(humble)I, one or more Black Swan events are on the horizon that will trigger a “Great Reset” and where that “Reset” goes who knows? Can anyone predict how the pendulum swings especially when, potentially, there are cascading Black Swan Events on the horizon, yet most of the public can’t identify any of them. I had intelligent people at LA Fitness telling me the economy, if in or headed to a recession, will recover in 1-2 years (vs. my prediction of 5+ CONSERVATIVELY).
But no one knows.
In large part not even a Navy Seal is informed. The propaganda is industrial scale.
As it concerns social divisions, I’m placing my bets on the side of humanity vs. authoritarianism, but I worry. I worry about the ILLIBERAL LIBERALS, who have now taken off the gloves, they’re not hiding it anymore. These people are operating from that “I don’t give a hoot mode.”
The social divisions in the Euro Zone will only worsen, sadly. I say sadly because it’s unfair to blame riots on immigrants, when most immigrants would rather remain in their homelands. The West takes no accountability for their role in destroying their homeland, militarily or economically. I will not excuse lawlessness but part of the “hegemon’s propaganda and constant meme is it’s better in the West vs. the Rest. That’s not always true.
Among the reasons the Global South and Eurasian as a whole have a favorable opinion and some would say preference for China and Russia vs. the West is because at the appropriate time and place, in the continuum of those countries nationalistic growth spurts/history their DEVELOPMENT MODELS were people-centric, not capitalist extraction centric. Seared into developing countries memories is the take-a-way that the US/EU/West did not “give” they only “take.”
US/West is not recognized for building infrastructure, ports, rails, roads, wind turbines, and the like. No, on the contrary, they are remembered as those who worked hard to removed leaders who sought to implement a vision to capture and control local natural resources for local development. develop the countries resources for their own people.
Consequently, to further “US Interests” our foreign, intelligence, and military, and banking and trade policies were not opposed to coups or assassinations to get what “US Interests” wanted. Malcolm X always said the chickens come home to roost, plus we learned nothing about “blowback” so here we are.
I want you to know as an African-American I appreciate you. We don’t have to see “eye-to-eye” on everything. Nor do I want that in people I consider my friends and colleagues, I want candor. Keep up the excellent work.
I truly believe that because of your voice, Ritter, Duran-Alex/Alexander, Berletic, Nixon, Haiphong, the “Gaggle” and many more I am leaving out, we would not have see Patrick-Bet David give Col. McGregor a 2 hour plus platform.
When one objectively observes how the “I stand for Ukraine” crowd is OBLIVIOUS to how Caucasians ( to put it bluntly) have orchestrated the slaughter of other Caucasians or Anglo-Saxons, you understand this is not about race at all.
This is about HUMANITY vs. Power and Greed, and de-humanization in many iterations.
It’s a mixture of emotions to see the leaders of the “West” opine about Russia’s weaknesses and Putin’s vulnerability, cracks in the Russian armor blah, blah, blah… It’s what The Duran among others repeatedly talks about: “Such comments are nothing more than pure projection.”
The Mainstream Media is hiding the social unrest taking place in the Euro-Zone among many things. In closing I listened to Robert Scheer’s recent podcast with Ray McGovern and I was dumb-struck or “gob-smacked” by the reality that Scheer actually believed Ukraine was/is winning. He pressed Mr. McGovern on this several times to be clear.
Scheer, a liberal icon, also appears oblivious to Minsk 1 and 2, let alone the peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine reached soon after the SMO started that Boris Johnson subsequently jettisoned. This was the stop-the-SMO/war-resolution that Putin shared with the African peace contingent.
These are very difficult times and I truly appreciate those who literally put, most certainly their livelihoods on the line (See, Nigel Farage). These risks impact abilities to care for self, family, extended family, and loved ones.
The desperation of people who don’t care about human life (HUMANITY) is scary and has unlimited negative possibilities.
We must remain community-oriented and driven in our concern and compassion for one another. These are harrowing times.
I just listened to the Robert Scheer podcast with Ray McGovern. McGovern was brilliant. Scheer was just plain stupid.
Did Scheer really mean any of that? I thought he was pretending to be Biden.
Well said, Sir.
I ask: Has the United States and the larger world been better off, more prosperous and more peaceful by the existence of the CFR? Maybe if we just minded our own business we wouldn’t even have such a useless organization. It is made up and always has been, by elites that believe they know what is best for us and the rest of the world.
Malik:
“Why anyone sentient being would waste more than 15 minutes a day on Fox or CNN, MSNBC, Wapo…you get the picture??? baffles me!”
I am not saying this to be controversial, but just something to ponder: I always thought it preposterous that after World War II the vast majority of Germans said they had no idea what the NAZI regime was up to regarding the camps.
However, after reading what you just posted… ???
It doesn’t seem like the average American would have a clue either if something similar was going on.
Is it that easy ??? (sigh)
Perhaps in the acknowledgment of their defeat on an international scale, the advocates of American Hegemony will also understand that they have also been defeated domestically, and their war against traditional Americans will end as well. One can hope.
Who knows, NYC and Chicago could be set aside as “reservations” for Wokesters. Not that I’d ever buy a ticket to that show…
France’s Macron said something interesting: “NATO is brain dead.”
Are we going to see at some point France break with the US and NATO and work with Russia to end this endless conflict?
Nope. Macron comes from the Bankster class!
He even married his “Mother”, making the sacrifice of remaining childless to advance his Master’s de-populationist agenda.
France is a S#!+#0|€. Country under his stewardship (Ya can’t call it Leadership). His country burns while he takes Mom to an Elton John party with all the other glitterati.
In each post-war military (and, quite possibly, civilian population):
https://clip.cafe/doctor-zhivago-1965/i-command-unit/
They say nebulously: “internal divisions”
But what it means is
“In any other country there would be a civil war raging but the most heavily armed citizenry in the world is too scared of being called racist.”
Sheep and cattle don’t do revolution, insurgency or mutiny, no matter how many guns they have or how many they are. It’s not in their DNA
The Deep State and all their minions are in panic mode as the world around them and their contro;l over that world collapses in real time.
They have completely lost their profit center, The Ukraine, in being completely outclassed by Russia in all facets at all levels.
Just a couple of paragraphs in.
(Now just think how long this comment could have been if I read more than two paragraphs so far lol)
This gets mighty close to the factual evil conspiracy that overtook our nation in 1913 which has been abundantly written about.
Which also points even further back in time to further conspiracies and absolutely engineered happenings until one eventually gets to the tower of babel and publicly known writings/glyphs/etc ends. Every written thing I have come across is from post flood. (regional deluge for those who “follow the science” narrative)
That this is allowed to be printed in America should surely point out clearly that we are still in the beginning of sorrows. (Not locked completely down yet, so there is still some time to get your shit prepped if you are in America for the continuing wars famines quakes plagues etc etc etc.)
I pity those who still believe that any wall built in America will be used only to keep peeps out.
Let me put it this way –
show me one American citizen who can leave America when said citizen has no income and no money.
You cant. It is not even legal. You have walls you cant even see that were built only in your mind.
You have to use dollars to leave this nation now.
Just as you are forced to have an income to travel inside of America, to merely have a chance to not being harassed by law enforcement.
Tyranny is real. Naivety has no limits it seems.
Even as late as in the 1800’s according to historical accounts, I could have gotten away with hopping on a freighter or whatever and working my way across the Atlantic or Pacific and having a chance at “The American Dream” if I had ZERO income and no money.
Not today people.
They have closed that “loophole” and every other one too. (unless you have State/Cartel backing).
This nation is done if the people herein do not learn to say no to not only the lawmakers, but to their enforcers too.
People better wake up. And again –
Tyranny is real. And it is already here.
Naivety has no limits it seems.
Friggin retards running the world into the exact position God said they would.
It is already written. I feel sorry for the destruction these retards face knowingly, yet must think they will escape somehow.
Who knows, maybe the Lord will have mercy on some of the most deceived of these absolute insane peeps.
I have no idea.
Yet I aint betting on it either way. I saw what he did to those who murdered him in terrible accounts of the destruction of Jerusalem 40 years or so after he rose from the dead, and I have seen some writings on various other things pertaining to his passionate commander-ship of the entirety of the heavenly host when dealing with hostile people or forces of any size.
Jesus Christ makes all the others written about – like any of the Canaanite, Hindu, Greek or Roman gods look like harmless cells on a microscopic slide in comparison if your eyes have been opened at all.
Also the “Mesopotamian” and Hindu accounts of their gods read (the little I have read of them) just like the Civil War of the fallen and their children in preflood times was written of or about in the book of Enoch (and various other preflood accounts).
So of course the “world” brainwashes the masses into not looking into these things.
Yet therein was part of the path I was led down into the Truth, which is the person of Jesus Christ.
Now back to the article. Thought I might mention the above since it does not appear that the article is going in that direction, yet rather towards the wickedness America with it’s beholden to no nation Billionaire class is perpetuating around the Globe with it’s various groups, businesses and leaders who are beholding to no Nation, but are beholden to money, wealth and power. Some of these retards even serve/pretend to serve various occult deities.
Pity them as those angels did who did not rebel, yet feared and quaked for the horrible punishment inflicted upon the 200 which fell and mated with humans, which was written about so long ago. For the end fate for those who refuse to change is already written. And it is horrible indeed.
Humpty Hegemony Cricket is down!
All the government worker minions couldn’t put him back together again.
Happy Saxophone.
Pass the fweedom fwies and weiners, comrade, I got this Bud Light case at the Dollar Tree.
Thank you Larry for keeping Observer R in the conversation. I hope the turn he writes of above is real enough that he soon returns to ‘regular programming.’
The meaning of the word HYPOCRISY is obviously not familiar to these self-important and self-serving twats.
The epitaph on every Empire’s gravestone reads: “Here lies an exceptional people.”
You can add whatever you want to the word “exceptional – like garbage, assholes, delusional f*cks… whatever fits.
What is happening in the real world is that their “Hegemony” is coming to an end.
And the rest of the world is saying – good riddance!
I guess the irony escaped you.
Here lies an exceptional empire which can lie no more.
Haass was against the Iraq invasion by the US, as evidenced by his calling the conflict a “war of choice.” He also vocally opposed US/NATO’s actions against Libya. But he was more or less anti-Russian, as evidenced by his characterizing Russia as a sort of backwater that did not hold a world leadership position. The last viewpoint was unfortunate, and in my opinion, blemished Haass’s record and made him look like an establishment hack. The description of his article makes him protest too little. Haass must see Jeffrey Sachs’s outspokenness, and wonder why he (Haass) is not vocalizing the same talking points. But Haass does not seem to have the same guts as Sachs, although he would probably have about equal intellectual powers and a propensity to call a spade a spade.