[NOTE — Please remember Gonzalo Lira in his moment of need. I pray he is intact and that he is allowed to leave Ukraine. He is divorced from an Ukrainian citizen and has a daughter aged 10 and a son aged 7, both were born in Chile. Gonzalo has dual citizenship, USA and Chilean. He needs all the support possible from all sources in order to be released and not be judged by a “kangaroo court”. ]
That aphorism that is the title of this article — widely credited to George Santayana — should have been an ubiquitous tag on all Western media today, May 9, to mark the 78th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany. But it was not and virtually no one west of the Elbe River took time to reflect on the horrors of the Second World War and the defeat of the Third Reich.
Americans do not care because they did not pay a steep price in helping bring down Hitler. Just the opposite. America prospered and became the Supreme Global power thanks to the decimation visited on Europe. When Senators Bob Dole and Daniel Inouye were still in the land of the living, their physical scars from fighting in Italy provided a striking, visual reminder of how terrible war could be. But the fact was that very few families in America experienced the loss of a loved one who fought in either the European, North African or Pacific theaters. America got back to business and the memory of World War II fades into oblivion as the few surviving soldiers, sailors, marines and air men succumb to the ravages of time.
Who remembers? The nations and peoples who paid the most blood and who endured the most pain, that is who. Between China and Russia, as many as 56 million of their soldiers and civilians perished in that conflict. At least 26 million Russians at the hands of the Nazis while as many as 30 million Chinese were exterminated by Japanese soldiers. Those are staggering numbers and Americans simply have nothing in their experience to be able to grasp the magnitude of such losses. That is why Russia remembers and the grand children and great grandchildren of Soviet soldiers still march once a year carrying placard with the photos of their courageous ancestor. War on the scale experienced by Russia between 1941 and 1945 made an indelible tattoo, carved with blood on the soul of all Russians.
The failure of American politicians and the average citizen to understand this profound fact helped create the war in Ukraine. From the U.S. standpoint expanding NATO to the borders of Russia was just an administrative move. But Russia, who has experience multiple invasions from the West during the last 230 years, sees such decisions as an existential threat.
None of the World War II allies, other than Russia, commemorate the victory over Hitler with any comparable spectacle. The Russian “March of the Immortals” is without precedent. Almost all of the men and women pictured in the photos carried by modern Russians are dead, but the Russian people are making sure their memory lives on. Hence the concept of being “immortal.”
Here is one lesson of History worth remembering — when faced with an existential threat from a foreign power, Russia always prevails. Napoleon and Hitler learned the hard way. It appears that Biden and most other leaders in NATO member countries are intransigent when it comes to remembering that lesson from Russia and are again marching on a path to war with Russia that, if not halted, will compel them to discover the harsh truth belatedly learned by Napoleon and Hitler — do not go to war with Russia.
A very powerful article from a keen student of world history. The only frame of reference America has is The Civil War, but Antietam and Gettysburg pale in comparison. WW II unleashed the full scale horrors of industrial age warfare while the Civil War was just at the beginning of it. The Union didn’t face an existential threat from The South. Hitler, unlike Jefferson Davis, sought expansion and genocide; Lebensraum for Das Herrenvolk or the master race and that required death camp scale extermination of the Russian people. I am completely disgusted with Europe and America today for trying to whitewash history and trivializing Russian’s contributions to WW II. You can get arrested in Germany today for displaying anything Russian or Soviet commemorating 9 MAY.
If you look at individual battles, then it does pale in comparison. When you are an American you realize that the Civil War killed the most American’s than any other war, they participated in.
World War 11 the American’s lost over 400,000 but the Civil War there were over 700,00.
Based on this I would think Russia will not ever forget the price they paid in family and friends.
Devastating existential wars leave scars. The US has still not recovered from the Civil War, which was, as Michael and Joe indicate its only existential war. All other American wars have been wars of choice, of imperial expansion and opportunism. However, since the US has no skin in the game, it cannot engage in a peer-level war, militarily or otherwise — and expect to win. The Russians know now they are not at war with the Ukraine but with the Zelensky’s overlords in Washington and London, who are not “Nazis” in the way that Hitler defined it — “national SOCIALISM” — but fascists — more akin the prewar Poles and Italians — and of course Stepan Bandera. Alex Mercouris has an interesting take here, that supports Larry’s thesis.
https://theduran.com/russia-victory-day-big-putin-speech-massive-missile-strike-bakhmut-syria-rejoins-arab-league-syria-war-ended/
I think it was for the 100th anniversary of the end of WWII that a map was made available online, that showed the number of dead (or perhaps enlisted, I don’t remember) soldiers, by street.
I checked my street and was surprised to see that only three households had sons in the frontline of what was at that point the most monstrously large war ever.
It made me realise that loses can be quite high in a country but still be quite out of sight for the bulk of the population.
In short, unless a country is on the front line the war can still be perceived very abstractedly by a lot of people.
I think a bit of this may be happening for western Ukrainians. But not the population of Donbass.
The civil (not) war was also a war of choice. Lincoln and his banker advisors choose to ignore the understood reality of the constitution, and would not accept a peaceful succession of the southern states. The constitution was ratified and the union was formed by free and independent sovereign states which had the right to un-join if they so choose. The constitution was nibbled around the edges from the start, but Lincoln disemboweled it. Been downhill ever since.
We might be giving it another go very soon and it will be existential
The Civil War also killed between 2 million and 3 million civilians, all in the South, and about 1 million of them slaves. The South was a depopulated waste land for over 100 years.
No it did not. Read up on reconstruction and which political party dominated legislatures in the Southern states for decades.
On a per capita basis the South suffered casualties on par with the Soviet Union in WW II. Then came Reconstruction. It was a military occupation. Most whites were completely disenfranchised. In Caddo Parish, Louisiana for example in 1866 there were three registered white voters. Southern property was looted. Souther timber, for example, was purchased for as little as three cents an acre to fuel northern industries. Freight rates on railroads were manipulated and fixed to the disadvantage of Southern farmers and shippers as late as the 1930s.
Yes, formal Reconstruction was ended in the 1870s as part of a political compromise, but the South was treated as a step child for decades thereafter. Yes, there was racial injustice. No doubt, there was but it wasn’t markedly worse in the South than in other places such as Indiana where the Ku Klux Klan was actually in control of the state government in the 1920s or even New Jersey where the Klan was very active.
Radical Republicans of the era were the forerunners of the progressive woke idiots we have today and I for one am sick of all this Harry Jaffa bullshit parroted by today’s Republican idiots. It is anti-American pseudo communist crap.
Still can’t figure out it was the Democrats who ran the Southern States until Reagan was elected in the 1980s? (a couple of generations ago) Nice strawman about that union (labor) guy though.
Historians now estimate 1 million KIA and 2 million starved to death…
America suffered a million casualties in WW2 and fundamentally changed its governance and economy to defeat Germany and Impereal Japan. That’s not enough death to satisfy those who dislike America, not just it’s current policy in Europe. Please remind the non-white washers of history what Stalin and the Soviet army were doing in Poland in September of 1939. I don’t recall the Polish government inviting them in. Then maybe you could remind Larry of how many tens of millions Mao butchered after taking over China.
People like you caused this whole mess.
Yes. It was an achievement opposing Biden and still trolling the Ruskies.
“America suffered a million casualties in WW2”
I think you’re very deep in propaganda, You should go read history book instead America didn’t suffered any million death, The total death from the America side was not even up to a million, Total death of the Americans in WWII was nothing less than 418,500 death, Soviet Union and China suffered millions of death in WWII
Casualties do not represent only those KIA. Maybe it would be better to say “dead and wounded”. What “casualty” figures never represent are the widows, orphans and parents of those massacred because some politician, likely one who would never pick up a gun, sent others to tbeir deaths so as to soothe their evil consciences.
Godfrey,
You should learn English so you will not be triggered when people use multi-sylable words on Larry’s blog. Then you should work on comprehenshion so that you understand someone pointing out a fact is not denying others (USSR or Chinese casualties).
Nor does it negate Mao killing millions after driving the Kuomintang to Taiwan.
Inner Critic,
FDR was in a wheelchair; Truman had been an artillery captiain in the WWI.
Carleton,
Russia has been a country a lot longer than the USA and was a master player in “The Great Game”, which hardly featured the USA. It must hurt deaply to no longer have the NYT on their side.
Fudge,
I see your feelings are hurt because I used a big word meaning what you had to put in italics. Not enough dying for you? Boo hoo.
What a pathetic comment. You go to the basement and offer an ad-hominem argument. So sad, try to lift your game because you are quite boring to say the least.
Sure, but if Poland had stopped screwing around over its ethnic Germans and simply done a deal with Hitler in 1938, they likely wouldn’t have been split in a deal between Hitler and Stalin in 1939.
Poland felt it’s oats far too often in history: The last go-around they were British pawns, and this go-around they are American pawns.
Bullshyt
The United States has been trying to destroy Russia since 1917. Here is a playlist of short videos about this topic, with more to come.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBA3ijso0hT26JDeUbJfq3V9CrpBXsP6R
America suffered a million casualties in WW2
Casualties, not deaths. 2/3rd of your casualty number were wounded.
If you’re going to browbeat, at least don’t fudge your numbers.
Frederick 406,000 Americans died in WW11 not 1 million
Refer: https://www.kqed.org/lowdown/22209/interactive-american-war-deaths-by-the-numbers
you need to do some more reading of more accurate sources as opposed to the fake propaganda of Western revisions of what really happened.
Prior to the Munich Agreement Stalin had tried unsuccessfully to get Britain, France and Poland to cement alliance as means of being able to contain Nazi Germany but they flatly rejected his appeals to do so.
They left USSR no choice, so it resorted to signing pact with Germany in attempt to buy more time to prepare for what they knew was to come as a consequence of the sell-out treachery of Britain, and France and Poland which the world then euphemistically referred to as ‘appeasement’.
Russia taking half of Poland when Germany invaded Poland in 1939 was more about USSR racing to hold territory to expand its border to hold back Germany from occupying the whole of Poland and then being that much closer to the USSR heartland of Russia.
Poland along with Britain and France betrayed Czechoslovakia and USSR (and the world) when they signed the Munich Agreement with Germany and gave Germany permission to annex Sudetenland.
Here is the real history
https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/German_occupation_of_Czechoslovakia
https://sputnikglobe.com/20151001/munich-agreement-conspiracy-against-stalin-1027851010.html
https://www.rbth.com/history/331039-ussr-britain-france-talks-wwii
But wait – it is much worse than that
BEFORE HITLER INVADED POLAND — POLAND INVADED CZECHOSLOVAKIA!
http://www.weeklyuniverse.com/2003/poland.htm
Both Poland and Hungary seized opportunity back then to carve up and occupy parts of Czechoslovakia.
And make no mistake there are equally deranged lunatics in high office in Poland today who are suicidally chaffing at the bit to seize parts of western Ukraine – and we may just see how well that goes for them soon.
The part of Poland that Stalin retook was a part of Russian Empire for centuries. During the Russo-Polish of the 1920s, Pilsudski took it from the young Bolshevik regime as part of the peace deal ending the war. The early Bolshevik government was recovering from the horrific Civil War and Imperial Russia’s destructive involvement in WWI;6 the regime had little in resources, and was surrounded by a completely hostile world that had, until recently, attempted to forcibly overthrow the new government.
Thus, the new Soviet government had no choice but to give Poland a section of the Russian homeland. Up until Stalin’s reincorporation of territory, the Polish government attempted to Polonize their newly acquired ethnic Russian population. (We are seeing the same government sponsored ethnocidal practices played out in today’s Ukraine and the Baltic States.)
The South faced an existential threat from the North. The tragedy is that the South lost its bid for independence. The war was not a civil war. The South was not trying to capture D.C. and impose its will on the North, any more than the patriots of ’76 were trying to capture London and impose their will on all Britons.
When the South lost, all true Americans, North and South, lost. The South was fighting to maintain Christian ordered liberty; the North was fighting to impose political centralization and consolidation and French Jacobin egalite.
The Northern military victory was a catastrophe for the cause of true or ordered liberty worldwide, as Lord Acton pointed out. Yankee victory, by superior numbers and materiel, has brought us to our present homo-trans-globalist insanity.
One last point: The South, like nearly all of the rest of the world — and unlike the ignorant and prideful Yankee North — has experienced the pain and tragedy of military defeat and conquest. But now, as a proud son of the Southern Confederacy and as a true American, I may indeed soon witness the downfall of the wicked Yankee globalist American empire. It will be painful, but the South will be vindicated, and from the ashes of the Empire, true America — with the conservative South leading — will by God’s grace rise again. After all, it is no coincidence that Americans are now flocking to the more conservative South from the liberalism-ruined Northeast and West Coast. Mark my words.
Here’s hoping 👍
From your lips (or typed words!) to God’s ears. It can’t happen soon enough!
Ok, trailer park. Ya gonna bring back slavery as well as that ridiculous cavalier aristocracy?
Sir,
My Confederate ancestors were yeoman farmers, with small plots compared to the larger plantations in the South. They proudly fought alongside the “cavalier aristocracy” you stupidly deride. On my mother’s side, Captain David Ballenger (CSA) fought in 26 engagements including Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, and survived war. He was with Jackson in the flank attack against Hooker.
As a political philosopher, I have defended Southern Christian slavery in other writings — against ALL challengers for years. You ask me if I would bring back slavery. The answer is mostly certainly yes, if that slavery is, as it was in the Old South, a constituent of Christian ordered liberty.
Lastly, I do not come from a trailer park, but I have known a few who have, and some of them were very good and hard working folk. And, I suspect, based on the quality and tone of your comment, those trailer folk are both better bred and better behaved than you. They are not, for example, the cowardly type who write under a pseudonym.
Winston McCuen
Honestly, The reason for Ukraine war today is because of NATO’s expansion, In April 1949 when NATO was formed, The Soviet Union told NATO not to expand it’s treaty to Eastern Europe, An Agreement was made then and NATO agreed to this, Unfortunately when the Soviet Union managed to collapse NATO started expanding it’s treaty to Russia’s border, NATO broke the promise, Which means this was a direct threat to Russia’s security, George Bush started with trying to draw Georgia and Ukraine into NATO and this was the main reason why Russia invaded Georgia, The US and NATO are crossing a red line Especially Germany and Poland, Because I think they still haven’t learnt their lessons from WWII yet, Russia isn’t bluffing The US and it’s alliance foolish think they can win a war with Russia.
Biden and NATO thought they could escalate a proxy war in Ukraine, Draw Russia into the war, And bleed Russia of its resources. In 2019, the Rand Corporation did a study for the US military on how to bleed Russia of resources, Joe Biden would have to be insane and stupid to attack Russia or China, I believe Biden to be extremely stupid but not insane. If Biden attacked Russia or China directly, China and Russia have conventional weapons to retaliate as nuclear gift to send to the US, The US doesn’t fight a direct war with mighty country especially with the ones with nukes, Biden and his Neocons are extremely insane, There was a reason why Russia decided to publicize the test of the “Satan II” as widely as possible, The US needs to know that their missile shield won’t save them from MAD. Blinken needs to disappear. Warmongering prick.
Yes right, even Obama realized that Russia has and will always have escalation dominance and if necessary millions ready to mobilize(will not be necessary, maybe another last mobik but no more).
London once again escalating from their tiny brankrupted island providing long range missiles(100-300 kms), which will allow US to keep their for Taiwan.One day they will be surprised if they lose their internet cables in the North Sea..which in fact would be a non lethal but devastating RU strike with radical financial consequences no need to sink an Aircraft Carrier or worse.
Idiocy from London as like Lavrov said ”ok 300 kms range it will force us to take more territory to protect our population” which translates by taking Odessa, Nikolaev, Kharkov and Dniepro or even more(Sumy), same on on the border above Kiev.
Kiev is preparing an assault,not really on …Crimea but on.. PMR (Moldova) to try to seize the ammo depot, it will be, if they go ahead, a border violation. Suddenly what will the NATO narrative ”ukraine territorial integrity’ mean then?
Moscow intercepted 25 drones tuesday trying to shoot at the Parade, and some sbu stooges have been arrested with 30 more drones, total (missed): 55
Pentagon says tonight that patriots intercepted an hypersonic last week, eventhough even Kiev denied it.They even say Moscow has no hypersonic now. Moscow did not use hypersonic lately since the strike with 6 kinzhal weeks ago which was confirmed by all sides but what was the real target?
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a43804177/russias-kinzhal-missile-is-not-hypersonic/
Anglos + EU will not accept defeat and humiliation, they are cornered, they did that to themselves after Bojo sabotaged negos in April 22.
What about high inflation, interest rates to the roof and energy in EU for next winter?
“Pentagon says tonight that patriots intercepted an hypersonic last week, even though even Kiev denied it.They even say Moscow has no hypersonic now. Moscow did not use hypersonic lately since the strike with 6 kinzhal weeks ago which was confirmed by all sides but what was the real target?”
Ukraine is only wining on the media, Unfortunately a lot of people especially PRO- Ukrainians and NAFO bot haven’t realize this yet, The Western media knows about this and who’s wining but they say the “opposite” to brainwash the public, Russia is wining in reality without making much noise, They’re wining methodically, Advancing and gaining success to new territories everyday, Heavy fighting is still going on in “Bakhmut” because Russia wants to weaken the Ukrainians military there and because civilians are still in Bakhmut and Russia is avoiding civilian target.
Pentagons is a bunch of fools, Whoever believe whatever narrative the Pentagons says is actually been brainwashed, Remind me of last year when NATO predicted that Russia will run out of weapons, The “Neocon chickenhawk” were very happy with this prediction, Unfortunately things didn’t turned out well for them their prediction even makes Russia economy to boost because Russia alliance like China, India, and Iran didn’t abandon them when needed the most, The West and the US were very surprise to this, The main goal of the war was to bleed Russia of it’s resources, Destroy Russia’s economy and Military and to make the Russian Rubbles useless.
Tom Cotton believes the Pentagon’s numbers.
‘We overestimated Russia’s strength. They only have one old tank left.’ 😉
Godfrey you attribute too much credit for rational thought to Biden.
The dirty old corrupt, paedophile has dementia and does not know where he is, where to walk, who he’s talking to, and many times doesn’t even now what he is saying (along with everyone in the room).
I’m 73 and I remember both VE & VJ (victory Europe Japan) day parades now nothing!
Now you have rainbow flag parades.
Just imagine what the vets of WW11 would be thinking if they were able to reappear in America and see the corrupt rotten trash heap that is has become and which the rainbow flag wavers are applauding as enlightened progress.
I remember those great Memorial Day parades when the holiday was still celebrated on May 30th. That for me goes back to the late 1950’s & it usually lasted well over 2 hours! Now, every June, all the big, decaying shithole cities here in the FU$A have their degenerate parades drawing thousands of spectators including children.
What an embarrassing Victory Day for Russia. No planes and only 1 old T-34 tank in the parade? Seriously? The whole world is laughing at Russia. It would have been better not to have had the parade at all. And then there’s Prigozhin saying “Victory Day is the victory of our grandfathers. We haven’t earned that victory one millimeter.” Prigozhin then goes on to say that the reason the Russian Army is fleeing is “because today the 72nd Brigade has lost 3 square kilometers, where about 500 of my guys died and the 72nd Brigade just took off and fled.” He also criticized Gazprom PMC. He’s not trolling anyone. And he wasn’t acting when he denounced Shoigu and Gerasimov while he was standing in the middle of dozens of dead Wagner soldiers. There are some real problems in the Russian Army and they need to figure out a solution quick.
Whatever problems the Russian army has, the Ukrainian army has twenty-fold.
This is not a particularly useful remark. Comparing the Russian army which is supposed to have been preparing for war for 8 years (if one believes the armchair generals) with the Ukrainian army (which was, according to the same armchair generals in early February 2022, too drunk, demoralised, and incompetent to fight; and which according to the same armchair generals been destroyed twice over by now) should be unnecessary. The Russian army shouldn’t have had any problems and if there were any they should have been ironed out long before this.
Bismuth Putywashy,your level of stupidity is a sicknes for which there is no cure nor treatment.
Off your medication again, are you?
This is not a particularly insightful remark from yet another armchair general.
İ suggest you that you offer your services to the Russian army, brilliant as you are.
Interestingly enough, there was criticism in Russia that last year’s Victory Day parade was too ostentatious involving too many new equipment. And just curious, does the whole world you speak of extend beyond Western mainstream media outlets?
Another brainwashed NAFO bot who relies or believes his western media, While you see old tanks and then make fun of it?…. These tanks you’re probably talking about defeated Nazi-Germany, the tank that liberated Europe, the tank that fought the bloodiest war ever for your present freedom.
These tanks are beast of a machine, Now if you don’t mind, put some respect on it, I’m not a Russian but Russia fought really hard to win against the Germans you think losing 27 million citizens is a joke huh?
Yes, the West thinks it’s a joke. Why, according to recent Biden spokesfolk speak, the US and UK won WWII singlehandedly.
You are an idiot and obviously didnt watch any of the parade. One very special tank that is true. What about the Iskander systems, YARS systems and s-400 systems that rolled past?
I am sorry Sir but your quoting of Prigozhin reveals that you are not very intelligent IMHO.
Ha..ha..ha… I totally agree with you. Prigozhin is a genius actor and he is a masterful troll of the West. But there are still idiots who believe it all. You could say that Prigozhin is single-handedly winning the propaganda war.
The Victory Day parade was scaled down because it was supposedly in bad taste to splurge on it rather than concentrate effort on the conflict.
My own thoughts are that in the middle of another self-acknowledged existential conflict Russia should do what is necessary to secure another victory before holding any Victory Day parade at all.
“The whole world is laughing at Russia”
Ron, the only one evoking laughter right now is you. Your idea of “world” is small indeed. In the 87% of the world not brainwashed by Western propaganda, the view is very different. Russia is doing a superb job of dismantling Western hegemony and demilitarising NATO bit by bit. As Putin observed in a speech, this may take 10 to 20 years to do, though the neocons are trying their best to accelerate the decline.
On a separate note: Gonzalo Lira is in my prayers. A brave man IMO, exposing the Nazi Ukrainians and the Empire of Lies. I hope he escapes. If not, he will become one of the “immortals” who fell fighting fascism.
God Bless.
Troll alert!
It’s 2023 – by now everyone should know not to feed the trolls.
The coming era of AI has guaranteed the coming of hypertrolldom.
To the West in particular: Believe nothing of what you hear and even less of what you read.
It might be worth considering that the USSR collapsed and the Russian military was one of the many things cut back. They still had some good weapons but their defense forces were organized for that, defense. Chechnya was a wakeup call and now Ukraine, they are now putting together a serious military. In Ukraine NATO had been training them for 8 years to fight Russia, at the beginning of the war the Russians were greatly outnumbered, so where was the NATO/Ukraine victory?
I don’t doubt Russia has some issues, they will either learn from it or not. What bright future has NATO got? They have degraded into a paper tiger, seems the bigger problems lie in that direction. Did you ever consider where all the tanks might be?
The Leopards, Challengers, etc. Are in the rear with the gear. Now that Russia has added the T55’s to the defence lines, imagine how bad it would look if those old, but still deadly tanks took out one of those invincible western death machines. West is actually shaking in its boots at seeing one of their overengineered behemoths in flames with a T55 just rolling by it.
Oh please. Stop with the “USSR collapsed” meme. USSR did not collapse, it was dismantled from the inside by Gorbachev and Shevednaze. Gorbachev was a member of the Trilateral Commission, one of the aims of which was to make the Soviet Union ripe for plunder by (among others) Chase Manhattan Bank.
Ah, so rather than being an honest, well-meaning and trusting dupe, Gorbachev was the Manchesterian Candidate and retired abroad with trillions in his western coffers.
OK, thanks for straightening that out.
An embassassing day? Really?
Next up one can only pray in a cathedral, only dine out at Maximes, it is not an olympics as the opening event(!) only cost 500 million?
Or was it no marching sooza band?
It is you sir, who has real problems – no sense of identity just First World problems.
Update ur sources. All have been cleared up on the Wagner front 🥸
In the last ten days, the army you say has problems wiped out somewhere between 25% and 50% of the stores necessary for NATO’s planned offensive (that’s who’s really running this show). While doing so, this problem-riddled army lost few if any soldiers. Excuse me for publicly noticing, but this fact alone makes hash of the shyte you post above.
You saw a single T34 and you just laughed at it … pathetic. You didn’t even ask yourself what the Russians were trying to say you by showing this single antiquity on the Victory day.
Try to understand that by yourself before posting nonsense next time. I’ll be your pensum.
Well, that single T34 seems to have scared the bejeezus out of Scholzy.
“Don’t let them intimidate you! Our garden is flourishing, even without RU/BE fertilizer. Our bullshit has filled the gap!”
“The whole world is laughing at Russia” – spoken like a true imperialist/exceptionalist
I hate to break it to you but that is not the case. Whether or not Washington wants to rewrite history and falsely claim credit for “winning” wwII , they’ll still have the truth stuffed down their throats, eventually and inevitably, and and it won’t taste like a hot dog.
Russia is fighting nato, cia, 5eyes -thousands of hidden combatants, and Benjamin.
drunk/drugged Ukrainian men and foreign mercenaries are the least of their worries
It’s obvious to anyone who has been watching CNN/BSNBC that Russia has been almost out of ammo since March of 2022. Zelensky should be rolling unopposed into Moscow to declare “Mission accomplished” any day now. I wonder if the Taiwanese are starting to realize the benefits of being a U.S. proxy yet?
Well, far as I understand, the Taiwanese have said they’re prepared to protect their chip factories from US aggression, with US weapons I assume.
This world is turning more and more into a banana plantation by the day.
A well-run banana plantation makes the US/UK/EU/NATO shit show look rather piss poor in comparison.
TROLL TROLL TROLL TROLL TROLL TROLL TROLL TROLL etc.
“only 1 old T-34 tank”
You mean the actual tank the the Red Army used during WW2? Why wouldn’t they have the main battle tank since this commemorates their victory over Nazi Germany.
Cancelling fly overs looks like a security measure against drone or missile attacks. It’s easier to set up a defense when you have no fly zones. If you allow any non-commercial flights, there is a potential for confusion.
Larry, your note to Gonzalo is a bit surprising given your background. Even those of us without the benefits of that background can tell that things are not what they appear regarding Gonzalo Lira. That is not to say he does not genuinely believe the things he says but its obvious he has not been treated as an enemy of the state by the Ukrainian government and nothing can really obscure that. He has clearly been used by some Western authority to serve that authority’s interests, that role appears to be related to the city where he was located and it appears to have come to an end. His flashing of the peace sign as he was escorted from his building was a good indication of his mental state. And a man in imminent danger does not portray that kind of affect. So, the Gonzalo Lira saga is a bit of theater and whatever danger he may be in is not really from the Ukrainians now, is it?
You have no evidence for your claims. How exactly has he been “used” to further Western interests?
So, why do you think Gonzalo was allowed to tweet and youtube from the heart of Kharkiv for over year? Just curious as to what you think given your history.
Because the Ukrainians did not view him as important or influential. Simple. He only had 76,000 subscribers.
I think the reaction by the guys at the Duran suggests they believe they’ve been played by somebody, and they were among the most loyal of his backers.
His flashing of the peace sign as he was escorted from his building was a good indication of his mental state.
How do you know it was a peace sign and not a victory sign? I think you think you know too much about what’s going on in Lira’s head.
Side effects of those inflicted by Manifest Destiny, Exceptionalism, Perversion and other trappings, of Superiority or Nazi Syndrome.
I would think that Gonzalo has a better idea what awaits him under the *tender mercies* of the SBU.
If you knew you might never see daylight again and had one slim chance to say goodbye would you flash the peace sign?
I would.
I was born in 60´ so, I knew many veterans of both WWII and Korea. The things they told me about the wars were always different than what was passed on in the news or written in the history books. I guess it began a life long journey of searching for the truth.
A day or two ago, I was picturing in my mind what it would be like to be a reporter in a WH briefing on this war. Well, I realized that journey is over. It is just a bunch of tangled lies and I am done listening to them. There was not any anger, just a determination that I am done listening to anything people running my country have to say. I am not listening anymore. Your liars.
All those that actually sacrificed since it all began, are not considered at all. ´Thank you for your service´ is just another lie. It is all pure lip service. But, I still tip my hat to all, no matter what country they are from, who did what nobody wants to do, in the defense of the human race. I thank God Almighty for the Immortals.
Amen.
My sentiments exactly. I am not interested in nationality, race, or religion.
There is truth and the struggle for goodness, and there are lies and the wickedness that operates in the cover of darkness created by these lies with wolves dressed up as lambs.
I picked my side early on.
Montgomery probably said it best in talking about how WWII had rewritten the Book of War:
“Rule 1, on Page 1 of the (new) Book of War, is: ‘Do not march on Moscow'”.
Churchill was less laconic:
“I have left the obvious, essential fact to this point, namely, that it is the Russian Armies who have done the main work in tearing the guts out of the German army. In the air and on the oceans we could maintain our place, but there was no force in the world which could have been called into being, except after several more years, that would have been able to maul and break the German army unless it had been subjected to the terrible slaughter and manhandling that has fallen to it through the strength of the Russian Soviet Armies.”
Somebody should read those quotes to the various Parliaments and Senates whenever they’re debating what they’re gonna do about Russia.
And yet Churchill was already plotting Operation Unthinkable in May 1945: the plan being to ally with the defeated German army to re-invade the USSR.
He surely respected the Soviet feat, but business is business. Doubtless he perceived that the Soviets would never be weaker than at that moment. He was right, but the moment passed and Operation Unthinkable soon became Mission Impossible.
Similar ideas popped up at the next opportunity. You may remember the proposals & discussions being held in the late ’90s, early 2000s how “it’s now or never” to strike Russia with nukes while it’s down, before it re-builds its defences.
Western Globalists have ever lusted after control of Russia’s vast resource bounty. Not to mention neutralizing, if not gaining control of its military capacity. The opportunity to do that doesn’t come often, and doesn’t last long when it does present itself.
The signal failing today is the Western elites’ strategic miscalculation that the opportunity presented 2 decades ago was still at hand.
A cartoon I saw in the past on Martin Armstrong’s blog had the following variation of the aphorism which Is also true.
“Those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it. Yet those who do study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it.”
Listen to Tom Cotton discuss ‘how Russia is far weaker than we thought it was’ with a typical yes man in uniform.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/fW67fDfBV0Vg/
We’re heading for a brick wall with a foot jammed in the accelerator.
“Never start a land war in Asia” truer words not spoken?
My father started service at the end of 2. He brought home a deep respect for Russia and what they accomplished.
The hatred of someone that saved us from the nazi’s is the most ridiculous mindset possible. Is it ego? We can’t acknowledge what they did was so many levels above what all the other nations contributed?
And the love nazi, hate nazi dichotomy of the UKR people is out there.
How can anyone fault the people of the Donbas and other oblasts wanting to leave?
But of course, The western buyers purchased land in Ukraine. They are looking forward to foreclosing and evicting the rest of the populace.
Do you think the Bolsheviks were the good guys? I don’t.
They absolutely were, compared to not just the nazis but the Western and Japanese imperialists.
They absolutely were not ‘good guys’. FFS you have a twisted sense of history.
They killed tens of millions of Russians, including orthodox clergy, burnt churches (strangely not synagogues), and just as the NAZIs were, financed with Wall St money.
Oh and what tribe (that can’t be named) was mostly represented in their ranks?
Oh? Just tens of millions? I thought Stalin single handedly killed a billion every morning? Before breakfast. With bare hands.
That’s just the socialist Indian in you talking with blinders on.
The current elites running the USA definitely aren’t good guys. Does it justify killing every seventh American?
So your belief has no solid ground.
But that’s typical for the average american anticommunist: He is “anti” on a subject that he do not understand, hardly even know anything about it.
What happened at Katyn forest?
One one tenth of what happened at Volhynia and Galicia.
Denounce Stalin as you please but leaving out Bandera? You just neutered yourself.
Not leaving him out at all. Although I haven’t looked much into him, he does appear to have been a brutal murderer. I’m just saying that the German Nazis were way less barbaric than the Bolshies.
Well, what happened? Grover Furr has made an excellent case that it was a nazi crime. Go ahead and read him.
Do you believe what you are saying ?
The Russian state has admitted to the crime long ago.
the one thing that they did right was to get rid of ALL the Romanovs.
How about WWI? To get peace Russia had to cede gigantic swathes of territory that it only recovered because of the defeat of Germany late in 1918. What with all the other similarities between the current conflict and WWI, that fact ought to be sobering.
The USSR recovered those territories and more when it invaded seven nations in the period between the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and Barbarossa in June 1941. Those seven nations included eastern Poland, Romania, the three Baltic nations, and a savage invasion of Finland.
Yes, deary. The USSR did some nasty things in the name of whatever, self defense, ideological hegemony – pick your poison. That’s why we celebrated its demise in the West. The problem being that after its demise we in the West felt free to do more nasty things compelling the RF to respond with even more nasty things.
You see how history works? Next time, take notes. Maybe we’ll keep out of the rhyming business that way.
Please don’t put words in my mouth; I think Russia is in the right now, as far as its war in Ukraine. Yes of course, the West has been shifty going back at least to WW2. Just saying one shouldn’t whitewash Bolshevism either.
It has nothing to do with the USSR, genius. The fact is Russia lost WWI (mostly due to the incompetent Tsar supervising operations and protecting court favourite generals while intelligent and capable front generals like Brusilov and Kornilov created war winning positions that were thrown away repeatedly because of lack of support, and does that remind you of anything?). Claiming Russia won every time is disingenuous.
Russia turned the century with a purely agricultural economy and WWI started with Cavalry on horseback and ended with tanks. Only after the Revolution and the end of WWI crawling is that the great effort of industrialization in Russia begins! Which is why Russia could never provoke WW2. In fact, Russia spent the 1930’s asking England for both stop Hitler before the full arming of Nazi Germany prohibited by the Treaty of Versailles! But most the English aristocracy was in love with Hitler. This one is mainly for another commentator who thinks that countries set up offensive armies on the border.
A solemn and a timely reminder of recent history from a country that understands it’s past. A serious people with a serious leader.
The west continues with bread and circuses as the tent burns down around us. Silly people who have mistaken personal greed for a virtue.
Larry you do great work.
Thanks.
Some data points:
Of all Russian boys born in 1923, 80% were dead by 1945
Of all Belarussians, 33% perished during the war
Of all North Koreans, 33% perished during the war
Try to imagine the personal & collective trauma this propagated and must be coped with.
Think what it means for these people to feel they are still/again under siege.
People who do not have a grasp of the horrendous effect on Soviet demography caused by WWII, are almost doomed to make stupid comparisons of the relative accomplishments of the post-WWII Soviet system.
I’m a hyper free-marketeer, who understands that government ‘solutions’ to public-goods problems are always social-welfare-reducing at the median – even if the society is coming off a low base (like China after the Deng reforms).
However, I stand in awe at the increase in per-capita living standards of the post-WWII USSR, no less than I do in the increase in per-capita living standards of post-Deng China.
I actually prepared a little chart of the economic outcomes – in per capita terms – some time ago, and was staggered by how badly it ‘jibed’ with what I was taught during 10 years of studying Economics at one of he top 2-dozen universities in the world.
This was the subject of one of my (as usual, long) comments on my favourite site – the Unz Review – the salient paragraphs are as follows:
The USSR had two MASSIVE reductions in the population of working age males in a single generation (taking 25 years as a ‘generation’ – which is standard).
The Soviet population started 1923 with per-capita income at levels lower than the West had before the Industrial Revolution; by 1980 they had all-but caught up with the UK. That is ASTOUNDING.
(FWIW the full comment is here -> https://www.unz.com/freed/china-and-america-scoping-out-the-megacepts/#comment-3703987
A text full of humanism. Congratulations Larry! Most countries in the West do not remember the human sacrifice of WW2 and mock Russia’s sacrifice! Unforgiven! Still an ignoble corpse of the Bulldog’s Iron Curtain. The most overrated populist politician in history. After spending the whole war crawling to Moscow to ask Stalin for help! It is unforgivable how in Europe we have never properly honored 30 million human lives in 75 years! And in 2019, already in the middle of the propaganda campaign for the current conflict, the EU after legitimizing the coup d’état in Ukraine in 2014, where it saw real criminals listed in Interpol as dangerous neo-Nazis emerge politically in Kiev, the EU still approved an infamous resolution to blame Russia for WW2?! To wash the Europeans’ brains!
To be honest, that’s when I realized the slander and disaster to come! And the abject hole the EU had fallen into! And in 2021 the EU no longer voted against the glorification of Nazism in the UN. Even if at the time newspapers like the Guardian and televisions like the BBC still reported the revival of Nazism in Ukraine! Another point worthy of note right at the beginning of the conflict was when I realized that the only feeling that prevailed among the Europeans who supported Ukraine was Russophobia!! And not for a moment any empathy for the suffering of the people of Ukraine! Proof of this was that logistic column reported in the how with 40 kms manipulated by the spin that Russia was weak! When in fact it was the biggest proof that Russia only entered Ukraine to increase the pressure it was already carrying out outside the border to force Kiev to negotiate peace for Donbass under the apparatus of Russia’s military power. That had spared hundreds of thousands of human lives. But in Europe at the time nobody wanted to understand the truth of this conflict. Until today! Maybe if Russia had obliterated Kiev in 3 days it would be more respected today. Unfortunately. And with a lower price for Russia!
The U€ is a scam against the European peoples who find themselves betrayed by an elite of lobbyists who “appoint” the institutions to the government of the €U; Borrel VdLayen etc were not voted by the European peoples, who voted in every state for the €U Parliament, sending the parliamentarians rejected by the national parties because the European Parliament has, in fact, no power other than that of consultation.
in practice we have ceded the sovereignty of the European states to an entity appointed by “someone” but certainly not by individual peoples.
so much so that the €U policies are against the individual NATIONAL CONSTITUTIONS.
EXIT!!!
Yes, he also had a lot to say about the EU. About your treaties and the EURO completely pegged to the US dollar and without a real fiscal and banking union! Above all, the EU will never achieve the longed-for strategic autonomy on the great chessboard of global geostrategy without Russian energy! And that today serves mainly for the US to politically control almost 30 very different countries. Like NATO militarily!
But in the first place its not only the executive body, the EC, which supports the war against Russia and the EU. It’s still the majority of European people even with inflation and rising interest rates unfortunately! At least for now. And secondly, at the beginning of the century, we saw the Franco-German axis saying no to the US in the Iraq war!!! Which allows us to conclude that the problem is not just the EU! Where, by the way, not everything is bad for Europe’s development. The problem is that it is neither meat nor fish. It does not evolve into a true Federation like the US but brings most countries on a short leash.
The problem today in Europe, as in the US, is its rulers! In Brussels but also in most European capitals. Vassals of financial markets with heavily indebted countries! The problem in Europe is the same as in the US. It is neoliberalism that has taken over the world through the deregulation of financial markets! Take a look at the debt of all western countries.
Hypothesis: Is it conceivable that Hitler was a foster child of the earlier “globalists”. The hostile attitude of influential Anglo-Saxons was already present in the 19th century. Around 1944/45, Churchill and the Anglo-Saxon Allies developed the idea of attacking the Soviet Union together with the Wehrmacht. After World War II, the United States developed nuclear war plans against the Soviet Union. The term “Iron Curtain” is said to have come from Churchill. Is it conceivable that the elites in question assigned Hitler or Germany a “Ukranian” proxy task of attacking the Soviet Union, but control over him was lost early on? I know that sounds absurd and probably cannot be proven. But these questions and assumptions show me how much trust in the so-called western community of values has been lost and this trust has not been appropriate since my birth.
You may like this:
https://readingjunkie.com/2023/01/29/the-truth-about-adolf-hitler-and-the-rules-based-world-order/
Well you know that some of Hitler early admirers and supporters were right here in the USA. Prescott Bush (yes THAT Bush) George Herbert Walker, even Henry Ford and Thomas Watson. The numbers tattooed on the arms of Jewish prisoner were IBM tabulation codes.
It is also almost certain that Allen Dulles was involved at one point.
The roots run deep.
I’ve said this before: people who tout ‘democracy’ as a mechanism that furnishes ‘representativeness’ need to come to grips with the fact that the 1933 election in Germany resulted in the most representative government in electoral history in any . I’ve got data for every election in Australia; Canada; France; Germany; New Zealand; South Africa; the UK; and the US. Many elections in all of those countries were not full franchise (e.g., no women; no blacks), so the EVP (eligible voting population) is a poor basis for comparison.
There is one weird wrinkle that a lot of people familiar with the data like to try to use to claim that #LiterallyHitler is not #1 for representativeness: the 1951 UK General Election, where Churchill got a very slightly greater proportion of eligible voters than #LiterallyHitler got in 1933.
Now some numbers (numbers are awesome: they are the key to testing hypotheses)
#LiterallyHitler got 38.939% (88.7% turnout; 43.9% vote for the NSDAP);
Churchill got 39.648% (82.6% turnout; 48.0% for Churchill) but Atlee got 40.309% (same turnout; 48.8% for Atlee).
Atlee got a larger share of the vote than Churchill – so he ought to have won, and it was only vagaries of seats:voters that got Churchill over the top.
It is strictly true that if majoritarianism is to make sense, then any election that results in the winner having a lower vote-count than any other candidate is a priori non-representative.
And what about the Exceptional Nation? The Paggliacio di Tutti Paggliaci – where hunting Indians for a bounty existed until the early 20th century…
The average winner of the US Presidential election gets 29% of the EVP (eligible voting population): that number has been stable since the end of the US Civil War.
And with very few exceptions, US Congressional elections are much much worse because turnout is much much lower.
As St Gretchen of Aspberg might respond when the US arrogates to itself the right to lecture other nations about ‘democracy’: How dare you!.
Western attempts at invading Russia go much further back than 230 years, among others:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livonian_campaign_against_Rus%27
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Russo-Swedish-Wars
It isn’t mere admin
The US has clear hostile intent and will be destroyed as a contiguous state for it.
I have a question. Putin as as old as I am, born 1952. This means his father was alive in 1951. How can he be carrying a picture of his father in the parade?
I think the Telegraph got something mixed up.
Right. Because the pictures are not exclusively of soldiers killed in the war. The people are carrying pictures of family members who served.
To get a true evaluation of Churchill’s political career in the thirties and during the war you can’t do better than read David Irving’s biography of WSC in the first two volumes. Eye opening.
To be honest, I am pretty sure that West did not intend to start a war against RU overtly, they hoped to destroy them from within with sanctions, “outrage”, PR defeats and other garbage. They thought that that garbage would work again because it “worked” with Soviet Union, however they did not understand that Soviet Union had way more internal enemies (Balitcs, West UKR, etc) then RU alone has, and those internal enemies allowed for much weaker society cohesion overall.
Only when they realized that it did not work and that it won’t work, they tried doubling down a bit, probably hoping that they could do it with some delay, but are at this point probably in full scale panic, realizing that by mission creep they got to the point of overt conflict, and as history tends to show, those who do that against RU don’t tend to go down well…
in my opinion, the European rulers are subject to the choices of NATO (and therefore of the U$),
the pyramid of command for the European states: 1) NATOU$A -2) €U – 3)national governments
therefore when we speak of European national governments we speak of supporters without a voice and without a choice, closed by U€ which is in turn closed by NATO (U$A)
but the U$A government has studied all the possible steps including the development of the war into subsequent DIRECT terrorism with USA_GB (see nordstream and attacks on Crimea) and indirect with ukro-georgians and ex jiad.
Sure, but terrorism and such isn’t really overt war. Overt war is real clash of militaries. There was terrorism before SMO as well.
Also, nobody is talking about it, but things tend to get blown up in US and UK, planes tend to land into food storages, freight trains tend to be derailed, ammunition depos tend to explode, and I would not be even 50% sure that RU is not behind it all – simply said, if someone is not talking about it doesn’t mean he is not doing it.
And as previously explained, all those other “fronts” that West could potentially open like Poland, Finland and Georgia can never all together reach even 10% of effectiveness that SMO did against RU, simply because:
– Those countries have negligent RU population counts, which would allow them to be much more ruthless and not threat them with kid gloves
– Those countries all together don’t have 10% of anti air capabilities that UKR had at the start of the war, which means that air superiority would be quickly established and wars themselves would be very quick and efficient – as was RU-Georgia war previously after all.
NATO is a malevolent organization masquerading as a benevolent one. I think its behavior provoking this war for its own purposes or out of its own stupidity has made that first sentence an axiom written in stone, and very possibly its headstone.
Agreed. This was supposed to be fixed via long planned sanctions. In fact I think it was supposed to have come under Hilary’s presidency, which of course was de-railed.
Re: Biswapriya Purkayastha
10 May 2023 at 01:07 and 10 May 2023 at 00:08
I have news for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd9B3cilgHY
And your point is………….?
Those who learn wrong history do stupid things. The only lesson of WW2 is that war is bad. Hitler did not need to be stopped. He was a rational man who could have been negotiated with. All he wanted in Poland was a rail line to connect the two halves of “Versailles” Germany and the city of Danzig. But the idiot Polish leader listening to Churchill and FDR and thought he could end up with more German land.
You need to read more revisionist history. They help exposed the lies that got us into WW1. But they were canceled after WW2. Thus an extremely infantile version of history is believed with Hitler as Satan and Joe Stalin as Mother Teresa (and Churchill as sober).
“Thus an extremely infantile version of history is believed with Hitler as Satan and Joe Stalin as Mother Teresa (and Churchill as sober).”
True dat Alex. 100%.
BTW Mother Teresa ain’t what they say she was either.
Volte a tomar a sua medicação…
“Hitler did not need to be stopped. He was a rational man who could have been negotiated with. 😍All he wanted in Poland was a rail line to connect the two halves of “Versailles” Germany and the city of Danzig. all he wanted from Poland was the territory that Germany lost with the Treaty of Versailles.”
So why didn’t stop at Poland after annexing that territory? Perhaps because he had spent 20 years blaming Moscow and the Jews for all the ills of Germany and the planet earth! Who needs study history is Alex! Preferably non-revisionist. And you can start by reading “Mein Kampf”. You don’t need to read any further to realize that Hitler was crazy, with a mind-boggling theory that the German army never lost WWI and needed to take revenge by putting all of Europe under the Nazi yoke and the Wermacht’s boots. And some gas camps! And it tried but luckily it was totally squashed! And in the end, like a man too rational not to pay the price for all the harm he inflicted in Europe and he blew his brains out with his girlfriend.
As for what caused WWI, it was the biggest European schism that still prevails, even in the first draft of NATO and is also behind the conflict in Ukraine. The British Empire did not tolerate the approach of the German Kaiser to the Tsar of Russia, with all the power that this union represented, which London even saw as an overseas threat to the British Empire. First cousins, grandchildren of Queen Victoria who left their English cousin, George V, outside the pot according to London. Who was not even authorized to grant political asylum to the last Tsar of Russia!
London has caused virtually every conflict in Europe over the last two centuries. Yes, WWII and especially the rise of Nazi Germany would most likely never have happened if Germany had not been humiliated in the Treaty of Versailles! Defeated nations and peoples must never be humiliated! At the risk of a financial crash and a freak with a weird mustache! Who, thinking about it, still has many physical similarities and not just with Zelensky! Even on drug addiction! Which could and should have been stopped in time! Long before the full rearmament of Nazi Germany! Stalin spent the 1930s urging London to join with Moscow in defeating Hitler in time. Because it probably read Mein Kampf and heard Hitler’s hysterical screams – hallucinated, racist and anti-Semitic – and he knew well that the natural resources of great Russia were always Hitler’s ultimate goal to build the perfect aryan civilization! With Russia still very little industrialized and especially still very weakened from the WWI!
Read AJP Taylor’s “The Origins of the Second World War”
Then read Sean McMeekin’s “Stalin’s War”
Hitler invaded Russia because Stalin was mounting an offensive army on his border ready to sweep into Germany. To think that Stalin wasn’t expansionist is to deny his forays into Finland, Poland, the Baltic state and his threatening of Bulgaria and Romania. And the NKVD did some dirty work both in Poland and in the Baltic states.
So Hitler destroyed half of Europe to go to Russia to defend himself? Do you also play the piano with the stick?
And just to finish, I only deny nonsense. Like anyone who thinks that countries set up offensive armies on their borders. And Alex, in addition to not knowing the history of the USSR, besides some prejudices, also does not master some terms! The fact that someone annexes territories around them may not mean exansionism. In Stalin’s case it didn’t. And this topic is even important in the history of the USSR. Stalin, besides to being a dictator, was a nationalist, a rough from the Caucasus who killed the Revolution or if Alex preferred, communism in the USSR. And Trotsky, by the way. Because, unlike Lenin or Trotsky, he did not believe in the internationalization of communism. These territories for Stalin were a way to defend Russia without natural borders. Which is the opposite of expansionism! Also because its convenient to dispel another myth, in addition to the soft power that was only thought of later on, economically Russia never won with the USSR or the Warsaw Pact. On the contrary!
Alex,
What McMeekin misses is the German plan. It wasn’t a response to some “Soviet threat” to attack Germany in July/August 1941, but was planned from the beginning as an offensive against the USSR.
Its initial planning started as soon as France capitulated, in late June 1940. On 18 December 1940, Adolf signed Directive 21, the Barbarossa Directive, for the invasion of the USSR. It specifies that all preparations to attack the USSR were to be completed by 15 May 1941.
Soviet intelligence had the Barbarossa Directive shortly after signing.
So, why would the Soviets plan to attack in July/August 1941, like McMeekin says they were going to do, when they knew that the Barbarossa Directive specified that all German preparations to attack the USSR were to be complete by 15 May 1941?
paulo you are irrational and biased on the subject of the NAZI govt. and Hitler particularly. And we know the basis of that bias.
And grr is nazi? The Nazi government? A gang of thugs and psychopaths? That stole, murdered and burned half Europe? After doing the same in the Weimar Republic to come to power in Germany? Ruled what? The gas in the concentration camps? A monster like Hitler without any professional career other than psychopath, racist and narcissist who liked to hear your voice and managed to bewitch most of Germany? Especially the biggest businessmen after they realized that they had a lot to gain from the War. The most heinous ideology on the face of the earth? And do you want to discuss Hitler? Here’s a bias I don’t want to debate. In Nazi Germany there was no law or the rule of law. If any party member shot you in the head in the middle of the street, the population would roll their eyes! Is this bunch of thugs you call “Govt”? That even Parliament set fire to? I also know many biases. Almost all based on ignorance and prejudice! Who do you think you’re talking to? I’m an economist. Professor of economic and social history. Someone with enough culture and professional training to distance any object of study. What people with less culture like most Russophobics can’t. Besides, we are not here analyzing the regimes of the USSR!
Palestine.
You’re correct.
Read Mein Kampft too. He announced everything he wanted to do. Like the US now in the 2019 RAND report! Only those who want to are wrong!
In Russia they put a stop to fascist land grabs once and for all.
A sibling says they stopped teaching history because they want to repeat it and the Bolshevik Revolution 2.0 underway in the former USA is an example.
A quote from British WWII general Montgomery
“Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: “Do not march on Moscow”. Various people have tried it, Napoleon and Hitler, and it is no good. That is the first rule. I do not know whether your Lordships will know Rule 2 of war. It is: “Do not go fighting with your land armies in China”. It is a vast country, with no clearly defined objectives.”
Go back on your medication…
Otto Von Bismarck, the first Chancellor of a united Germany, said it first and said it well: “The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.”
I can understand the Americans not remembering this, operating as they do from arrogance and ignorance, but the Germans? And now they will both learn it all over again.
You understand that the Nazis did indeed make a treaty with the USSR, right? It was called the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.
So what shall America’s treaty with the little Ukrainian neo-nazi-engine-that-could be called?
The emergence of RFK, Jr., has resurrected all the ancient Kennedy haters. But the haters refuse to remember that Joe and Rose gave three sons to this country. I think RFK, Jr., appreciates the sacrifice of the Russians and Chinese.
To be fair, in the UK (and some other European countries) we commemorate both WW1 and WW2 on Remembrance Day. This was chosen as the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month when the guns fell silent on the Western Front in WW1. There are religious services in most major towns and on the closest Sunday a parade at the Cenotaph. A commemoration of VE Day as such would then probably be too much.
The broader points are fully valid though. The most murderous war in British history was WW1 when Britain and the Dominions lost something like 900,000 men. WW2 was less bloody for Britain with something like 450,000 civilian and military deaths. All pales in comparison with Soviet (as well as Chinese and German) deaths in WW2.
I saw various Twitter images yesterday where people list all the equipment that the US supplied to the USSR in WW2. They seem to be trying to say that the US won the war. These images never show:
1. Relative sizes of the armies deployed
2. Deaths incurred by each participant
3. Resources the USSR supplied to the western allies
4. Total amount of equipment produced by the USSR in WW2 so that US (and UK) supplies can be viewed in full context rather than just allegedly impressive absolute numbers
One also sees references to Molotov Ribbentrop with no recognition that the US entered the war against Germany when Hitler declared war, not the other way round. Nor that western elites in the 30s typically admired Hitler. Nor that the British in 1939 were hoping that Stalin would fight the land war for them, something that he declined to do. Nor any recognition that the Munich settlement was not even discussed with the USSR, so why should they then trust the west. Nor that Poland enthusiastically participated in the later carve up of Czechoslovakia. Nor that Britain egged Poland on to fight Hitler when he arguably wanted an alliance in return for territory, knowing full well that they could provide zero help. Nor that the UK and US did not seriously protest Kristallnacht and other anti Jewish measures in Germany. The list can be added to with many other such points that refute the idea of a noble, glorious west fighting the “just” war.
Far too many people want to see history in a totally one sided way. If we do that then we are indeed fated to repeat the mistakes of the past.
“Far too many people want to see history in a totally one sided way. If we do that then we are indeed fated to repeat the mistakes of the past.”
A pithy statement indeed. It sounds as if you have read some revisionist history regarding WW2. Years ago I discovered this compilation: https://mises.org/library/perpetual-war-perpetual-peace-0
The US was happy to use the Soviets as proxies in its war with Hitler and is now quite happy to use Ukraine as a proxy with its war against the Russian Federation.
Who does things like this?
Fill in the blank according to your own beliefs: ______________
I hope your good friend Gonzalo Lira is able to return to freedom with very little suffering. I am confident your readers share this same hope.
You are blessed with a widespread network of truthful friends as you care for your friends and you are a man steady principles.
The USA executed some remarkable historic military actions outside of its borders during WW2. Those heroic actions should never be forgotten. Russia suffered “nuclear war” like losses within it’s borders heroically protecting their country.
Firstly, thank you Larry for being a light in the darkness without which from your good self & a few others, we would have no understanding of the growing darkness.
That once often asked question of why the German people or at least those not included in the around 180,000 Germans who were executed by that regime – perhaps most notably Sophie Scholl were in appearance very supportive of the Nazis. Perhaps it is also history repeating itself in relation to how people react to an avalanche of propaganda & censorship, to the extent that Germans were shocked to see allied soldiers appearing within their borders, as they had been told they were very distant.
The German people were rightly criticised for the above, but they had no precedent for Nazism, were not informed of the reality until they saw it or heard rumours of it for themselves in what became an extremely repressive state that demanded conformity to the cause, which initially did improve the average person’s lot over the situation that was the dying days of Weimar.
It appears to me to a certain extent the populations of the West have for the most part are behaving in the same way, while many of the old horrors that the Russians are well aware of have once again raised their ugly heads, at the behest of elites who would I believe side with Satan if he actually existed.
We have the precedent, we know the potential they have, but one of the most mealy mouthed constantly lying media outlets the BBC has produced over the years excellent documentaries on WW2 – one being an excellent series called ” The Nazis – A Warning From History, which explains how it all evolved, being many ways similar to the process that which they & all mainstream media are now heartily involved in a variation of.
Sample – https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Nazis-+a+warning+from+history
Same evil, different face ?
What we are witnessing again today is a repeat of the 1930’s rise of Nazism wholly supported by the US Industrial Oligarchs that help build the German war machine. An inconvenient truth is that Henry Ford, Standard Oil etc. assisted the rise of Hitler until it wasn’t profitable anymore. Just look up the black and white photos of Henry Ford and Hitler chumming it up after receiving one of the highest national awards from Germany.
And so too did GB senior’s father along with the rest of Wall St.
You have summed it all perfectly in that article Larry – thanks
Just in from Slayyangrad: Zaluzhny may be dead or wounded.
Thanks Larry! Unfortunately Victoria “Fuck the EU” Nuland will be Gonzalo’s Judge, Jury & Executioner:
https://jamesburrillangell.substack.com/p/strange-diplomacy-victoria-fck-the
The 7 minutes it will take you to watch the following may turn out to be the 7 most important minutes of your life. After you watch it, tell me if you agree and, if so, why.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvkINexO0vw
THOSE WHO DO NOT LEARN HISTORY ARE CONDEMNED TO REPEAT IT… a fact, but unfortunately, because usually the power is held by idiots who do not want to learn or think, this history is also repeated by intelligent people along with them.
“None of the World War II allies” – that’s not entirely true.
Despite the efforts of the pro-NATO government and all NGOs paid by the americans, there was a march, commemorating the victory against the Nazis, in Bulgaria. Of course, it wasn’t of the magnitude of the one in Moscow, given the fact that currently Bulgaria is, for all intents and purposes, an US colony. But it’s still happened.
Bulgaria was not part of the WW II allies until the very end as a result of a Soviet backed coup.
That may be so, but since my grandfather gave his life fighting the nazis, I tend to have different opinion on the subject.
BTW, depsite the efforts of the pro-western governments to rewite the history, after the said coup, the southern flank of the anti-Nazi war efforts was handed over to the Bulgarian 1st army, under Soviet supervision of course. Perhaps Mr. Johnson need to brush up his history concerning the Eastern front?
Although I don’t usually comment on American politics here, I value the contribution of FDR and the US soldiers in WW2 the most! First in the Pacific and finally in Europe. Where I especially value FDR’s relationship with Moscow, which would never lead to an iron curtain even with very different economic systems. Because we have to know how to live with all the nations of the earth. Especially the big nations. Which obviously made the swindler Churchill furious! And I think in terms of our collective future FDR’s death before the end of WW2 was one of the greatest tragedies of WW2. IMO, the best US President in the last 100 years! Because, even despite his physical handicap, it successfully faced and overcame what no other President faced in the last 100 years. The greatest financial and economic crisis of our time! Where he proved that austerity is not the way to overcome economic crises! As the great institution of the US dollar, the IMF, still believes today. Only interested in arrested every nation in the world to US debts bonds. And he legislated for US and the world to never again experience a crash caused by the greed of the financial markets. And even so, he lost supporters who thought that FRD was too soft with the banks?!
It’s important to realize that it is also the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act by the financial lobbies with Bill Clinton that enables the 2008 crash! The great gravedigger of the US economy almost a century after FDR! And yes, the timing of crossing the Atlantic is related to the crash of the Pound Sterling but FDR’s idea was always to end the British Empire and not take it over as it ended up happening with Truman and who succeeded Truman. Someone very inexperienced at the time, totally a slave to the big lobbies! Like the stupidity of dropping bombs on Japan just for Moscow to see the new power of the US! And FDR also envisioned a totally different and much fairer UN building! What could have been a whole different world if FDR had lasted a couple more years! Perhaps Churchill would never have been able to “build” the Iron Curtain that so hampered the economic development of Europe that London so cherishes. Even with the post-war construction of welfare states. The Everest of our civilization! Unfortunately today at serious risk due to the high debt of most countries. In addition, the Iron Curtain only served to alienate the two great powers that came out of WW2 and never gave back to London any shadow of the prestige lost a long time ago. Conjuncture of constant confrontation with crazy spending on weapons only slightly balanced with JFK.
P.S. Do I find Douglas McGregor’s theory unrealistic that FDR knowingly provoked Pearl Harbor?! For what? To join the war? Of course the oil embargo can be related to the despair of Japan that may have precipitated Pear Harbor but the Japanese Empire at the time had as many demonic ambitions as Nazi Germany! Which would lead to a direct clash with the US sooner or later. And whoever governs takes the measures that seem most appropriate at a given time without fear. At least the good rulers. And sometimes they also make mistakes but cowardly Presidents never helped any country and hitting the lottery after the draw was immobilized all the big decisions! FDR wanted to stop the ambitions of the Japanese Empire that needed to be stopped during the oil embargo. And all that was missing was a President who didn’t make a decision after being threatened by a Japanese diplomat. Fanatic of Japanese imperialism.
Paulo, Japan did not have world hegemonic ambitions. Their ambition was to take all western colonial possessions as their own.
The Pearl Harbour attack was known in advance, Australian Signals Intelligence (and were other warnings) warned them.
The US blockaded Japan, and act of war, a provocation. Same old, tested and well used tactic.
Many Australians still believe the wartime propaganda that the japanese military wanted to invade Australia. Wartime docs show this is not true.
They did attack Darwin, and were attempting to get through Papua New Guinea only as the Australians allowed themselves to be a US military FOB, as they are again stupidly allowing for the upcoming war against China.
You are whitewashing Japan’s maniacal mass murder of millions of Chinese.
Very true, Larry – Japan seemed to have a particular hatred for China, though the story in Burma, the colonial occupation of Korea , the millions killed in Indonesia, and so on are also worth recalling.
I don’t remember mentioning the dimension of Japanese Imperialism’s expansionism! I was thinking more about its “quality”! Japanese imperialism was fascist and supremacist like Nazi Germany! In fact, he already signed the Tripartite Pact when the Second World War was already advanced and the World had already witnessed some of the worst crimes of the Nazi ideology! That they didn’t bother Japanese imperialism, which was doing the same in Asia! That’s why it had to be crushed, and I’m very grateful to the US for paying that price.
That said, I never agreed with the bombs, much less with Japan remaining a US colony in the 21st century! With a healthier economy than the US, which is left with a lot of wealth created in Japan. The main reason why Japan today is not a much greater economic power. Yet, along with China, the two largest holders of US bonds. Unfortunately, they continue to be US lackeys and even US military bases are forced to financially support them! Like Germany and Italy. Where some time ago a helicopter crashed on an agricultural plantation in Scilia and when the owners tried to claim compensation from USAF they received a response from the US embassy saying that compensation was not foreseen in the colonies. Basically.
It will take some time, but history will be rewritten. Here is a great article written by Matthew Ehret.
“The Anglo-American Hand Behind The Rise Of Fascism Then And Now”
MATTHEW EHRET
https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/the-anglo-american-hand-behind-the
I think it’s important to keep in mind that if Stalin hadn’t made a deal with Hitler to carve up Poland, then stabbed Hilter in the back per his back door deal with west to get arms and support, there never would have been an Eastern front with millions of Russians and Germans dying. No I am afraid both socialism and Communism are bad. The types who funded Hilter and Stalin are the same funding Zelinsky. History is repeats.
Holy ignorance! War with Nazi Germany was scheduled since the end of WW1! Hitler was not born in 1939. He spent 20 years shouting that he was going to destroy communism and Russia and create the perfect society with Russia’s resources. The Molotov pact was equal as the non-aggression pact that Hitler signed with Poland. All farce. After the Munich agreements when London and Paris asked Hitler to invade only Moscow! After Hitler spent the 1930s asking London for help in destroying Hitler before Nazi Germany became a major military power! The Molotov pact for Russia had two objectives – to buy time to arm itself against Nazi Germany and to destroy Józef Piłsudski’s Intermarium Federation! What was the Zelensky of the 20s and 30s at war with Russia since the Polish-Soviet war! Sorry but you need to study Europe’s interwar history!
I don’t think we do disagree. I am speaking of proximate causes. You are discussing remote causes.
Ok. Thanks.
Errata: After Stalin spent the 1930s asking London for help in destroying Hitler before Nazi Germany became a major military power!
P.S. A final note. Hitler before and after ascending to power in Germany mainly through violence and the help of the biggest German businessmen, was not hated throughout Europe as in 1945! Quite the contrary in both Western and Eastern Europe – where several countries changed sides in the middle of the war. And everyone knew that his ultimate goal was Moscow! Many people like the English aristocracy loved the authoritarianism and madness of the Fuhrer. Many of them even integrated the Nazi force with 3 million men of Operation Barbarossa. What is very rarely taken into account!
Are you aware how many pacts the west made with Hitler in the 1930s? Are you aware that Stalin wanted to send a million man army to defend Czechoslovakia in 1938 but Poland refused to allow transit (even the Guardian admits this)? Are you aware that when Hitler took Sudetenland Poland seized the opportunity to annex eastern Slovakia? Are you aware that the West were planning to bomb the Baku oilfields in 1940 to stop Russia from supplying fuel to Germany (it was called Operation Pike, look it up)?
“both socialism and Communism are bad. ”
So fascism and capitalism are ‘good’?
It has been said that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it, but those who learn from history are destined to repeat it differently.
I totally agree Larry and I try to tell as many Americans as I can the disparity in deaths between the US and Russia in ww2
while no where near the level of the Soviets suffered, I do think Americans would do well to look at the amount of trauma WW2 still causes some of our families. My grandfather came back from Burma after 4 years to children he barely knew anymore and had turned from children to teenagers while he was gone. His business had to be completely restarted after 4 years of being dormant. He came back a different man from what he had seen, and took to the bottle, had more children post war and then died about 15 years later when those kids were still young.
The trauma this caused for both the prewar and post war children continued to adulthood and created difficulties both in their own lives and the lives of the following generation, my generation. Alcohol abuse was quite normalized for me as a child because I was around it so much.
Years ago when I read 2nd half 19th century literature, especially French authors like Hugo and Zola, I started to see that the effects of the Napoleonic wars trickled down 2 generations. I noticed a lot of similarities with some of the generational issues that my family had experienced.
When I mention that a war 80 years ago might still have some effects 2 generations removed, people in my family look at me as if Im crazy. But Im sure there are other American families who are similar. It would do the US good to join Russia in acknowledging such things so that it never happens again.
Time for Russia to trade more CIA journalists for Gonzalo.
Yet 6 days for Jupiter, signifying the supreme strategist, to exert the late cleaning fires above the fire-spitting Aries.
Then, for a year the insightful Strategist will in Taurus deal with the
extension of borders and the reconciliation of enmities.
Today Sun + Uranus = unexpected thoughts concerning the social life.
astromundane diary 19. week: “Lion and Toppler United – May-Square Waxing”.
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2023/05/lion-and-toppler-united-may-square.html
I watched the whole parade in Moscow yesterday. What struck me was 3 generations on display; veterans, serving soldiers & cadets. All ready to die for the motherland! Existential war creates a militarized society!
Don’t be hasty to comment on early soviet history; ww1 was existential, followed by revolution, followed by civil war (huge western & Jap intervention) & then invasion by Poland. Soviet leaders had brutal schooling!
Note that Putin needs to win the next election. Russian forces can probably do ‘big arrow’ stuff right now & collapse the Ukr army. But that means lots of casualties, & a chance of panic in Brussels & Washington. Open war between Russia & NATO would almost undoubtedly go nuclear. As Arlo Guthrie chanted “If we achieve enough overkill, we’ll achieve underbury. If everybody’s already dead, nobody will have to bury the bodies”!
After the Maiden coupe I used to wonder don’t NATO nations remember WWII? Getting tired of asking myself the question, I realized the EU powers in fact did not remember WWII. Why should they. A closer look at history shows that most of them had no guts to fight the Nazis and in fact supported them. The bombing of London you say? Just as many civilian lives were lost in the Nazi bombing of just one city called Stalingrad. And there is definitively hidden history how many nations were active but silent collaborators.
If we are to remember history in the West, remember those brave souls in Europe who resisted and were the victims of the Nazis.
Maybe the quote should be “Those who did not experience history will be bound to repeat.”
Read AJP Taylor’s “The Origins of the Second World War”
Then read Sean McMeekin’s “Stalin’s War”
Hitler invaded Russia because Stalin was mounting an offensive army on his border ready to sweep into Germany. To think that Stalin wasn’t expansionist is to deny his forays into Finland, Poland, the Baltic state and his threatening of Bulgaria and Romania. And the NKVD did some dirty work both in Poland and in the Baltic states.
That would have been idiotic of Stalin since the USSR was in the middle of a generational upgrade of equipment and when Hitler attacked most tanks didn’t even have AP shells because they were deployed in support of infantry and were armed with HE.
Next up: Hitler was a good guy?
If this drafted ‘Nam VFW were even 30 years younger, he’d be in “Rus” learning the language and schmoozing w/ the ladies there; for I continue to maintain that, “what the USA once was, Russia is becoming: independent, prosperous, debt-free and Christian”. And BTW, should Vlad have the same right to “MRGA – Make Russia Great Again” also? Even though the United SNAKES Corp D[e]C[eit and the CCP thugs remain the most dangerous threat, both Xi and Vlad must be doing something right to recently earn the enmity of the amoral, evil bASSTURD and life-long CIA front-man, George Soros!
Army E-5 here. When I lose my Malinois? I am the fuck out of this country. I am going to take my Federal retirement check, my VA disability from my golden bullet, and my Social Security check and spend it anywhere except this tranny wonderland. And Russia is high on my list. Look at the pictures of the Moscow subway? Do you see human shit on the walls? Savages attacking people? People dressed like Mad Max freak whores?
Canada has a Warrior’s Day Parade during the annual Exhibition in Toronto.
The first one was held in 1921.
A few years ago PM Justin Trudeau marched in a Pride Parade rather than this celebration of heroes, of which, so few Canadians now seem to be *proud*.
Larry, thank you for posting the news about Gonzalo Lira at the top of your article. We need to pray for him not to be harmed while he is in the clutches of the SBU. We need to pray for his release.
Alex Christoforou of The Duran urged his listeners to contact the Chilean Embassy in Warsaw, Poland to encourage them to work hard to effect Gonzalo’s release.
Here is the contact information:
https://www.embassypages.com/chile-embassy-warsaw-poland#contact
Larry, thank you for posting the news about Gonzalo Lira at the top of your article. We need to pray for him not to be harmed while he is in the clutches of the SBU. We need to pray for his release.
Alex Christoforou of The Duran urged his listeners to contact the Chilean Embassy in Warsaw, Poland to encourage them to work hard to effect Gonzalo’s release.
Here is the contact information:
https://www.embassypages.com/chile-embassy-warsaw-poland#contaX!2
off topic: I read that Ukraine says to have shot down a kinshal
does anybody know if this is true ?
I thought that the US was the only place that had kangaroo courts….
Re Gonzalo Lira:
I’m sure it’s not as simple as it looks. It is not only Kiev who hated his broadcasts but also the US and NATO and EU countries. Collectively, they wanted his growing popularity off the airwaves. He was starting to get more respected Roundtable guests, US ones at that.
Think about it. Deporting him is not likely to stop his vlogging. He’ll just set up again.
So my intuition is that he’ll be found guilty and locked in jail till the end of the SMO. That’s Realpolitik.
Thanks Larry. Your title’s aptness is borne out by all too many comments.
I hate to comment 2x in a day, but I have just been sentenced to huge child care, my neighbours granddaughter got back onto cocaine. Her 3 kids, are now the responsibility of her grandparents, who are my friends & drinking buddies! These kids are status Gitkstan native so things could complicate!
Look up Hazelton , BC.
I hate this Soviet aggression issue!
I’m way left, & history oriented.
The Soviet Union was exhausted after the Polish invasion of 1920; probably a third of the population was gone; ww1, civil war & polish invasion were huge. Hunger, starvation, plague & no men to harness to the plow! The primitive bolsheviks were calling for revolution across europe! Stalin, who probably wasn’t a fan of huge revolution, said ‘revolution in one country’. Lots of Russians liked that idea, witch enabled Stalin to prevail over the Other Bolsheviks.
The Soviets treated military affairs as an intellectual issue to be studied; which brought forward bright minds, just before the show trials! (another story)
The bright Soviet leaders decided on ‘forward defence’; very popular with the political leaders! But a disastrous military decision! It is the same stupidity that goes on now! A lot of military is very prosaic; bigger battalions win the day! The politicians eat it up; but you are out there with your squad, one 60mm mortar & 5 moisin negato rifles! Oh sorry, we want one of those rifles back!
Not to take anything away from the Russians for their fight, but the way this is framed continues the conveniently established beliefs about the causes and responsibility for WWII.
It is worth reading the historian John Beaty’s 1951 book “The Iron Curtain over America” for facts since ruthlessly written out of history by those who control the media and publishing. Beaty served in military intelligence during WWII.
‘In late July, 1933, an International Jewish Boycott Conference (New York Times, August 7, 1933) was held in Amsterdam to devise means of bringing Germany to terms. Samuel Untermeyer of New York presided over the Boycott Conference and was elected President of the World Jewish Economic Federation. Returning to America, Mr. Untermeyer described the planned Jewish move against Germany as a “holy war … a war that must be waged unremittingly” . . .
Before the Boycott Conference adjourned at Amsterdam, arrangement was made to extend the boycott to “include France, Holland, Belgium, Britain, Poland and Czechoslovakia and other lands as far flung as Finland and Egypt” (New York Times, August 1, 1933). . . .
the U.S. Government soon placed on German imports the so-called “general” tariff rates as against the “most favored” status for all other nations. This slowed down but did not stop the German manufacture of export goods, and the U.S. took a further step, described as follows in the New York Times (June 5, 1936): “Already Germany is paying general tariff rates because she has been removed by Secretary of State Cordell Hull from the most favored nation list… Now she will be required to pay additional duties… It was decided that they would range from about 22 to 56 per cent.” . . .
An effort of certain anti-German international financial interests was also made to “call” sufficient German treasury notes to “break” Germany . . .
Secretary of State Cordell Hull and other officials President Roosevelt sponsored Mr. Untermeyer’s economic war against Germany . . .
this German financial victory in 1936, though it prevented an immediate currency collapse, did not solve the problem of 62,000,000 people (69,000,000 by 1939) in an area approximately the size of Texas being effectively denied export trade.’
Note, also from the same book: “Mr. Untermeyer gave his hearers and readers specific instructions: It is not sufficient that you buy no goods made in Germany. You must refuse to deal with any merchant or shopkeeper who sells any German-made goods or who patronizes German ships and shipping.” So, back in 1933, the Jewish promoted boycott of Germany had all the critical elements of US boycotts today.
The US also placed an embargo on Japan, which was no threat to the US but was to the
CCP and potentially to the eastern part of the USSR. The embargo left the Japanese no option but capitulate or fight.
Both these things were done by FDR whose administration was riddled with East Europeans, predominantly Jewish, pursuing their own agenda not that of the American people — an agenda for which many Americans (and Russians and other nationalities) died. The experience is replicated by the people now running US foreign policy whose roots are Jewish East Europeans.
“Between China and Russia, as many as 56 million of their soldiers and civilians perished in that conflict. ”
What might a native American say about who lost the most lives? And then talk about existential. If that war were happening today, it would probably look like Palestine. Not pretty.
It doesn’t seem to me numbers matter so much. Our behavior as humans is the question. We do it again and again and again. And it’s quite clear the ongoing war by the rich is even more deadly.
The Israeli’s are hilarious on Twitter tonight. We have had to interrupt our normal daily savaging of Palestinians by Orthodox settlers to protect ourselves from evil rockets.
Leaving my obvious thoughts on that matter aside. Yes. History lessons. Like over extension. We are fighting a full war with Russia. We are fighting a sub-rosa soon to be hot war with China. The Saud’s (actual perpetrators of 9/11) are showing their active and real hatred of us and linking with Syria. And probably soon with Iran.
And our lovely allies the Israeli’s. Who either thru payoffs or thru Mossad/Epstein kiddie porn blackmail are in full control of Congress. We will have to drop everything and spring to their aid when Netanyahu starts his inevitable war to distract attention from his criminally corrupt regime.
History. When you defend everything? You defend nothing. Over extension. From a broke Empire with children too fat and stupid to even draft.
Burn baby. Burn.
Excellent piece Larry. I beg to differ on one point regarding the expansion of NATO east. It was not done as “an administrative” move. It was planned and motivated by a very old Anglo hatred for Russia harking back to 19th century Crimean war, then the Bolshevik revolution, followed by WW 2. Few people know that in 1939, Stalin tried desperately to forge a defensive pact with GB/France to guard against the Nazi storm coming his way. It was fought ferociously by GB and defeated. Stalin, knowing he was not ready, was forced to conclude a pact with Germany as a last resort to buy time to prepare for what was coming to him as soon as Germany defeated the West.
NATO’s moves east is part of an old Anglo plan, endorsed and led by US, to bring down Russia, break it up and share the spoils. It was a constant and very long term strategic objective of Imperial Britain, then Imperial US to own Russia. That would give them total control of the world for a very long term. It’s the Anglo version of Hitler’s one thousand year Reich.
Larry, you hit the bull’s-eye again, dead center, from 1000-yards out. Any American politician with half a brain and one iota of wisdom would not have voted to build and finance the Ukrainian SLAUGHTERHOUSE. Larry, you should consider writing an article called ‘America’s Hall of Shame’ and therein list the names of all the fools who voted to build and finance the slaughterhouse — and this at a time when we are being invaded by millions of criminal illegal aliens. In addition to the names, consider also trying to accurately estimate the loss of Ukrainian lives and monetary damage. I would leave that Hall of Shame post front page on your site for at least a week, for all the world to see. To the D.C. politicians and the lying traitors at CNN and other “news” outlets, the people inside the slaughter house… and on the conveyor belts for butchering… they’re nothing more than expendable pawns. To have tried to unite Ukraine with NATO was truly an act of insanity by people who are truly delusional. Russia will prevail, and based upon the lying chicanery and duplicity of the West, in Triune JEHOVAH’s sight, they have every right to. In fact, I believe that He has ordained it to be so. (And there is no way that any nation can go against His eternal decrees. No possibility whatsoever.)
Why say moving NATO to the borders was just an administrative move from the US perspective? Unless this is in reference to a goal of destroying cultures and countries is administrative in the sense of the banality of evil.