I have had an interesting two days. Yesterday I was part of a Roundtable (please keep Gonzalo Lira in your prayers if you’re a believer) with Andrei Martyanov and Ray McGovern that was hosted by Polit Wera (a lovely Russian lady with a nationally popular podcast). Andrei’s mastery of English and Russian is remarkable — he translated everything that Ray and I said. That is very difficult work and he was flawless.
Today Andrei and I were back together being questioned by the earnest and inquiring Ania K — a woman born in Poland who knows how to ask very smart questions. So, I will go in reverse order. Here is today’s show with Ania K.
And this is the Andrei, Ray and Larry Roundtable with Polit Wera:
Masno on Telegram is back from 3 months in Ukranazistan, claims everywhere he only finds hate for Russia, and Ukranazistan will allegedly fight as long as given weapons. Also claims Elensky is very popular. A reasonable question is who would dare say anything in public in favour of Russia or against Elensky, no matter what they think in private.
The obvious solution if Masno is correct is eliminate Ukranazistan entirely. Deprogramme those who won’t leave, expel the rest.
Not having been there I can’t tell how accurate his claims are but I believe that it is what he saw and experienced.
I had close friends in Kiev back in the early 2010s. They told me during the Maidan that this would end up breaking up the country. I knew long ago that Ukraine was being systematically nazified while Putin was still acting as though this was a phase it was going through.
But tgen Putin has shown an incredible denseness in dealing with Ukranazistan from 2014. My expectation is a limited advance followed by a Minsk III leaving the nazi regime in power, with officially no NATO membership but otherwise the remnants permitted to be NATO in all but name. At this point I only expect bad decisions from Putin.
Looks like the grain deal WILL be extended, for example.
This war has exposed a lot of contradictions, including people online jumping into their own mouth with sentences that are opposite of each other, often without noticing.
You say that there is a lot of hate and only hate in 404 for Russia, today. Then you say Putin has been dense in dealing with 404 since 2014.
Have you ever lived in a country that ended up in civil war? I have. Once the process starts, there is only hate. This is the lesson of Yugoslavia, for example, and Putin is acutely aware of it. It is my opinion that he tried to do everything in his power not to end up in a position where EVERYONE in 404 (that is non-Russian), hates Russia (after all, he did grow up in Soviet Union and Ukraine and Russia were both brotherly republics). This is why he appears to the uneducated to be “dense”, IMHO and by “dense”, I suspect you mean that he should have dealt with Ukraine with an iron fist, all be damned.
Me personally, I think Putin is the only responsible and measured person in the room. He wants to be a part of Europe and there is nothing wrong with that. I suspect a lot of Russians understand that right now the French have problems and that France is unfriendly but the same Russians probably hope to vacation in Paris in ten years.
Do not forget that Europe has been fighting internal wars since beginning of time and France and Russia, Germany and Russia, Germany and France, France and England, England and Germany, so on and so on, have at one time or another all been allies or enemies and yet after all was said and done, were able to live alongside each other just fine. At one time or another as well, all of these countries have had stupid and bad people leading them too. Once these people were removed or replaced, things went back to normal.
There is nothing to say that once Scholz is voted out, Germany might become different in its view of Russia. Why would Putin not want to work with such a possibly friendlier Germany tomorrow? Or are you suggesting that people can NEVER reconcile (enough to co-exist, do business etc.)? Even in Yugoslavia today Serbs go to Croatia for vacation…Did everything get resolved among them? Nope and it may never get resolved fully, 100%. But enough to co-exist and do business? Sure. It is called being pragmatic and Americans used to be pragmatic. You know, opposite of dogmatic…
There are a lot of warmongers out there who think that everything should be obliterated. They exist on both sides of the conflict – and this is a direct product of said conflict. I am pretty sure there were not as many people in Ukraine two years ago who had a visceral hate for Russia and the same holds true in Russia for Ukraine. At the end of the day, these people used to live together, intermarry, be a part of the same union etc. etc. This is a detail that gets lost after two years of blood flowing like a river, every day.
Well said, Sir.
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen! How about “Hot Rod Lincoln?”
WW1 and WW2 were the two greatest tribal wars.
Both wars planned, ignited, and managed by the same Blamed completely on Germany but ask yourself, how could the whole world become actively engaged at the same time in a planetary conflagration and then do it again the same way two decades later? What are the historical odds?
Who really won?
Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution
Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler
both by Antony Sutton
Here, here! Extremely wise and relevant words. Former Yugoslavia is a rich seam of lessons that should be learnt but weren’t. Certainly many Russians refer to the conflicts from 1991 onwards as pivotal in shaping a realisation that accommodation with the US and US aligned European countries was going to be difficult. The number of hawks has grown since then year by year, broken promise by broken promise. But as Oddo rightly says enmity fades and friendly relations can grow (also the reverse!). After all how soon was West Germany welcomed as an ally after WWII? Five years or so? Even Japanese seem to feel Okay about US after arguably the greatest war crimes ever. The US has not had the misfortune of bloodshed on its territory with neighbouring countries but Europe is all too familiar with that. Putin seems a thoughtful and complex statesman that manages to hold to the main course despite attempts at getting him to lash out. We all depend on him for our security and safety.
I meant “Hear, hear!”…
I’d encourage caution when talking about hatred, especially using sloshy terms like “tribal,” in the former Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia had a rickety but working federal system that was doing fairly well until the Volcker interest rate crusade generated a financing crisis that created conflict over responsibility for the debt burden. That could have been managed, particularly with some help from international agencies. Nope. Writers such as Peter Gowan, Diana Johnstone, and especially Susan Woodward (“Balkan Tragedy”) trace a gradual trimming away of nonmilitarized options by several external players; between them, their discussion of the clear awareness that blocking debt aid options could lead to a blowup is nauseating. The US played a particularly vicious game, early on backing the most militant Muslims in Bosnia to sabotage potential agreements with the Serbs, while the Germans gradually fell in line with the US after trying to find a way to maintain some form of federation while at the same time maxxing their ability to penetrate the Yugoslav economy.
Yugoslavia was also the terrain on which any hope for an alternative to NATO was dashed, and the US knowingly pushed a militarization of conflict because they understood that the French and Germans were hesitant to start building their militaries. No to an expansion of the OSCE that could include Russia, yes to the NATO bombing that was bound to ensue.
You are right I think.
Yugoslavia, especially the northern part, was very prospering in seventies when I worked there for the Swedish export industry. They had developed employee run companies, a way of mixing capitalism with social responsibiity that was a serious threat both social democrats and right wing capitalists in the rest of western Europe.
As you say, they had well working federal system that was very promising. It had to go.
You forgot to mention Nazis.
I really needed this comment today, it gives me great hope.
I’m a westerner living Russia and I never hear Russians utter negative words about European or even the US people – only their evil incompetent leadership and against some of the degenerate social trends. Not towards the Ukrainian people either except distain for the far right there. Hell, Russians still pack Ukrainian themed restaurants and listen to American rock music.
So the seeds are there on the Russian side. Hopefully it’s there in the West.
Pray for peace and reconciliation.
“Hopefully it’s there in the West.”
It’s there in the West, but heavily attacked. We are under the influence, drugged by media of all sorts. We just a bucket of ice cold water on us to wake up. That bucket will soon be full and ready to do its job.
Scholz is weak and caught on electoral arithmetic of Greens getting 116 seats on The List. Neither CDU nor SPD can form a government without Greens unless CDU moves closer to AfD.
CDU Leader Merz worked for Black Rock and became millionaire. He will not change policy.
What Scholz has done together with Merkel confession about Minsk Agreements is KILL for all time any trust between Russia and Germany which took decades to establish after 1955
There is no future for Germany. It is possible for a regime to destroy all prospects and this one has for decades to come
In agreement with all but do not leave out psychopathic instigators. This war like most of the others was in the planning for years. Ethnic similarities, differences, rivalries, and alliances are generally not well understood but war planners understand them very well, and exploit them to their own gain regardless of the carnage they ignite. This war is no different, and distant instigators carefully studied the socio-cultural and historical differences for fault lines, and once found, exploited them. Even within Ukraine itself the ruling junta identifies which ethnicities live where and dragoon the ‘others » as cannon fodder. All of this is the fault of foreign instigators who covet resources, and most of those iniquitous marauders fester in the Potomac swamp. Never underestimate the power of ethnic rivalries and memories, nor the. dormant evil the all carry in the form of resentment and revenge. Putin recognizes this, and so do our Swampite residents, but one tries to tamp it down and the other feeds its seething Nothing good comes of ill gotten gains and the hateful war that our leaders visited upon distant target populations for control of coveted resources and attendant vices will come back for us all.
Nice response. If anything by now if you have been invested following this war one should have dusted of the history books to the go back in how this area has been contested over and over. Catherine the Great brought an influx of German immigrants to the area of Volga and later Bessarabia. Present day Odessa region. They left Germany with the promise of religious freedom and land. 100 years later the stroke of a pen the Tsar changed it. Late 1800’s these same Germans started to leave and headed for North America with the same promise and now came to put the plough to places like North Dakota and Western Canada. Well by the end of WW2 they were just run out. Sadly most of this history is forgotten by the very people who once lived there and never passed down. More likely wanted to forget the hardships and lets face it starting over in a new land survival was of the essence. You never know how close your generational ties to Mother Russia are until you actually delve into it.
Yes.
Here, here! Very well put. I agree “Putin is the only responsible and measured person in the room”, and a constant stone in the shoe of those who only want more war and bloodshed.
There must be a Russian word for it. Just as America is “ not-agreement capable”, Putin is “unprovocable”. The guy sees not just what each day brings but where each day stands in the flow of history.
Not only Russia, but the whole world (ironically, including America) is lucky to have a leader like him appear on the stage to save us from Empire and the tentacles of its deep state plutocracy.
Anyone else seen this?
“Ukrainian reports reveal Zelensky’s army is psychologically crushed, suffering “lowest possible effectiveness”.”
https://telegra.ph/Ukrainian-reports-reveal-Zelenskys-army-is-psychologically-crushed-suffering-lowest-possible-effectiveness-07-13
It was mentioned on Redacted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uo_wOmchc4
What you describe is not possible while Europe remains a fiefdom of the US.
The Bronze Age Death Cult in DC needs to be dealt with first.
You forgot to mention that number of Serbs who are going to Croatia is measured by hundreds, and for example the number of Serbs who go to more distant Greece is measured by millions. Just like the cause of that strife is not a recent war, but history goes deeper than that, same is with Ukraine and Russia. So yes, after all this maybe there will be some people from both sides who will have some economic or other connections, but the majorities will stay alienated, provided that Ukraine’s majority survives first.
You forgot to mention that Croatia is whitewashed Nazi state, just like Ukraine was supposed to be.
I wanted to, but we are talking with the Americans, and they are people who don’t see further than their own backyard. They were supporting terrorists in Kosovo, now they are supporting Ukraine, and before that, as you said, sided with Nazi Croats (as if there are different Croats) and even included them in NATO. It seems like every single piece of scumbag in this Earth finds a friend in the United States. So, I don’t expect them to understand this narrative.
“It seems like every single piece of scumbag in this Earth finds a friend in the United States.”
It’s not a coincidence, and it’s the other way around. USA actively seeks the worst scum all around the World, because scum is willing to do nasty stuff. All of the surviving WWII Nazis became freedom fighting democrats. USA kept Banderites, and Ustashe, and others in business ever since. Bloodshed was the plan all along, but most were too blind to see it comming.
For a number of reasons, the grain deal is not going to be extended. B over at MofA gives an excellent rundown………..
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/07/grain-deal-shenanigans.html
A neutron star calling someone incredibly dense.
The obvious solution if Masno is correct is eliminate Ukranazistan entirely. Deprogramme those who won’t leave, expel the rest.
That’s almost exactly the solution that Arestovych, mouthing Ukrainian goals, proposed for the Donbass and Crimea. The only difference being Arestovych spoke of the necessity of ‘eliminating’ those who wouldn’t leave while continuing to insist on their rights.
There is no longer any right or wrong in this conflict. There’s just a fight to the finish.
Ukrainian nationalists have not concealed their desire to ethnically cleanse Russian speakers from Ukraine. I think the Russians don’t have to lower themselves to that level of depravity. They can afford to welcome Ukrainians who don’t show open hostility.
Instead of ethnically cleansing the Russians, Ukrainian nationalists will end up cleansing themselves from the territory controlled by Russia. Russia doesn’t have to do it to them. They’ll do it to themselves. Hate-filled Ukrainian nationalists will chose exile rather than be humility by the generosity of the Russians. It would shatter their entire system of believes.
As an expat who was living in Ukraine when this American proxy war broke wide open in Feb 2022, and for several months before I left due to mass formation psychosis reaching level of insanity- you make some valid points, but reach incorrect conclusions.
As you rightly point out- it is very dangerous to say anything contrary to the Ukrainian regime narrative. Ukrainians know this well from their history.
That said- the Vilnius NATO sh*tshow where the “west” showed their utter contempt for Ukrainians- viewing them as only meat for their Russian battering ram- will prove to be a turning point for Ukraine.
Reality is Ukraine will receive less and less support from the West. At the same time more and more Ukraine conscripts will surrender to Russia.
Eventually America and its western vassals are going to end their support of Ukraine- at which point the Ukrainians will experience the final slap up the side of the head that will spin them towards Russia.
It is not so much that they will suddenly like Russia, but moreso the west will provoke Ukrainian hatred of the west as reality becomes impossible to deny any longer.
America and the west have a long history of cutting and running when their ROI does not serve them anymore.
We can be sure they will not fail to prove this true again in the case of Ukraine.
Yugoslavia is not a good example because it was a mixture of peoples.
Ukraine and core Russia are almost universally Slavs and Orthodox. These factors will help heal the rift that America created and exploited.
Also- post war- Highly likely Russia and China will pour money into Ukraine to rebuild & modernize it.
The improving living standards that follow will solidify Novorossiya as a solid Russian territory for generations to come.
A picture is worth a thousand words. https://t.me/iEarlGreyTV/6382
The bucket and mop are added. The rest is not.
I’d say the best analog to Western and former Eastern Ukrainians is with Croats and Serbs, in more ways than one.
I pray every day that Russia keeps being led by a cool head like Putin, rather than from one of the deranged armchair generals I often read here.
This armchair general is not one of the regular deranged armchair generals. He is extra special.
What an outstanding performance!
I greatly appreciate your immense contribution to enlighten us!
Thank you very much!
isnt turkey going to be the gas hub for europe?
No gas needed. Europe is going all green. Horse carriages and wind turbines. No cows though, because their farts count as gas.
Yet Europe imports Russian LNG and refined oil products via India and Saudi Arabia
I buy electricity from a 100% renewables supplier yet my monthly payment still trebled because the law sets the price on highest cost fuel overall which was gas even if supplier does not use it for electric generation
Sir, it would be good to have transcripts of the longer videos.
I agree. You can pull the transcript on You Tube.
Wow. I did not realize this
(or knew it long long ago and forgot lol)
This is handy as all get out.
Just click the 3 dots under the YT video and there it is.
Thank you for this. 1 Case in point as follows –
– using this along with a translator for foreign language videos –
This is great.
Simplifies getting an overview of vids. Good stuff.
Glad to be of service. I was in the same boat as you.
Sir,
Is Turkey maneuvering to regain Crimea? That was brought up at the beginning of the war, I don’t remember by whom.
Turks aren’t dumb. They invade when they see weakness (Cyprus, Syria, etc.). Whoever brought that up is a dumbass of Russia-is-weak kind.
Greeks are the ones that should be wary of Turks, as usual. You might have noticed that they have not been eager to send their weapons towards Ukrainian black hole.
Just as Mexico is planning to secure Texas and California …… and India is going to seize Pakistan ….
Turkey is trying to resist US attempts to break it apart using Kurds
Crimea became Russian the same year U.S. ceased to be a British Colony though I do understand Biden intends to return Crown Property before leaving office and “God Bless The Queen”
Kurds are already in used up condom phase, pardon my French.
US does not want to break up Turkey, but take control of it. Breaking it up would be a good thing, because it would prevent it from further working on Ottomanic ambitions.
A few battalions of Tatars from Kazan stationed in Crimea might make Erdogan think twice.
AND with the added benefit of further confusing the hell out of the Americans who are still searching for Ukraine on a map. Now they can add Tatarstan to their homework.
Sleep is the enemy. I find it so hard to keep up with everyone I follow (even after killing over 100 bookmarks). So I went for the Ania K interview (still busy) but want to salute the Polit Wera effort because it will reach foreigners who don’t speak English.
Brother,
I second you! Powerful, timely, apt, wise!
God Bless you, too.
og
There’s an important topic that never gets discussed, unfortunately, and that’s how anyone can keep up with the important facts and analyses. I don’t know how the better people do it, and if I did, I would probably do some of it myself.
Possible explanations include:
1. Knowing the people and the channels well enough to ignore or super-quickly skim the lesser quality. This takes lots of experience and harsh culling. People would be reluctant to go public with this, because few shortcuts exist to explain how to cull channels, and because the people doing these channels usually get better over time, and no one wants to impede that growth. I”d like to be able to look over the shoulders of my betters and see their sources more clearly, but I understand and respect why they probably don’t want that.
2. There are a few super-analysts, and there’s a lot to gain from reading – and understanding – nearly everything those few people write.
IMO, the most essential person today is Dr. Michael Hudson. His 1972 (!!!) book, “Superimperialism” is simply a must-read. But like everyone in today’s super-saturated world, Dr. Hudson repeats himself. Some of his writing are gems which don’t repeat, and you have to find those by skimming and being ready for a deep dive, usually at a different time than when you are skimming. Henry C.K Liu was almost as good, but he died of old age long ago. I think his writings might still be on the web. I wish I’d downloaded it at the time.
Gilad Atzmon is essential for understanding anti-semitism, as well as the vital importance of free speech – which doesn’t exist in the EU BTW, and the vital necessity of never letting anyone interfere with your own free thinking. Some of his writing is far more useful than others. “The Wandering Who” and Being In Time” are his best two books. He hasn’t added anything to https://gilad.online/writings in over a year, but I think it’s all there today. Gilad Atzmon opens the door to other important ex-Jewish and Jewish voices, such as Norman Finkelstein, Shlomo Sand’s book, “The Invention Of The Jewish People”, and the French dissidents at http://www.egaliteetreconciliation.fr. (French only). The 20th Century was “The Jewish Century”, also the title of Yuri Slezkine’s book. We are just starting to come out of that exaggerated influence. Decisively ending the harm of Zionism comes in the next two decades.
You could add other people to this list of essential writers, and I hope you will.
Larry Johnson, Scott Ritter, Andrei Martyanov, and Douglas Macgregor are all on the same general topic, which is vital – not only to explain where we are now, but more importantly to explain how the hell we got to this sorry state.
Larry Johnson has the advantage of connecting this to larger issues and actual politics in the US, and this gives something few others offer: the hope and a sketchy roadmap for future action to take back our country.
Macgregor is very good, but his refusal to admit the extreme damage caused by DU (depleted uranium) tank shells, is not minor, and indicates he is willing to fudge the truth if it gets him an important role in a future White House. I can’t fault his career logic, but it makes me watch for the next error. Macgregor’s tanks used DU in Iraq and DU causes horrific damage. This sort of stuff matters because the future of the US depends on moral renewal and then restoring some of our “soft power”. That means we must undo as much of the damage as possible, and that can only start by admitting the damage.
3. “Standing on other people’s shoulders” is like a fractal; sometimes huge, sometimes tiny, and at every possible level in-between. That’s life. We all read books and articles from other people. Now, the internet facilitates less-important people being able to contribute facts and ideas, which get aggregated and consolidated by people higher up the information ecosystem. I have personally benefited greatly from getting new sources – sites and people – by reading the comments in a few non-garbage sites. such as Zerohedge when gems were 1 in 500, thesaker,is (the archive is still up on the web), sonar21.com, and unz.com.
4. Just like in finding good music, it helps to follow the trail of the writers. Diana Johnstone wrote about the dissidents and that was the first time I was able to see past the seamless censorship of the French media. I was astonished to find how perfectly efficient the MSM can be, when concealing things from the public. The saga of DIeudonne, the French comedian, was a real eye-opener. I’d also mention comedians as laying some good trails which lead to truths you never imagined. George Carlin is well known and now Jimmy Dore. Bill HIcks (RIP) and Richard Pryor (RIP) were too.
4. There is a lot to gain from non-English sources. Of course most of it is repetitive, but there are gems which are not found in English, such as the French dissidents and Alain Soral, or, 10+ years ago, Adrian Salbuchi (asalbuchi.com.ar – some English).
Google Translate and Yandex Translate are astonishingly good, and very fast, but they are a real bump in the road for fast skimming. Knowing just enough of the language(s) to see the content from the title, helps steer the skimming. Having a feel for the cultures gives better steering, and this is a feedback loop, both positive and negative.
I’ve found certain Russian channels have very good info. Now I know which writers to seek out (Rotislav Ischenko, Boris Rhezin, etc.) and which ones to distrust (Rybar the “fisherman” – a hat tip to Martyanov for noting Rybar’s constant pessimism), So Yandex Translate has become, for me, a smaller bump in the road after pounding away at this hard language for quite a while.
5. There is a lot to gain from not being locked into the last 5 or 10 years. Some issues are perennial and some long-dead writers are still important. It’s a trick to figure that out. Once in a while the internet helps to pick up a thread worth pursuing. The older writers are also a valuable connection to things which look off-topic but are not.
Hope this helps. I hope to hear from other people on this important topic. We might save time and go faster if we share notes.
I’m down to approx 50 bookmarks from an original list of approx 300. But I felt so bad about the recent culling that I compiled the Honest Media Guide – https://mikehampton.substack.com/p/honest-media-guide
I doubt many will see it but if I reach a handful of new truthseekers, it will have been worthwhile. Maybe tomorrow, I put the list at the top and my explanation for it at the bottom, to make it more immediate.
Thanks for that great comment. Sorry, I only noticed it now. Following people was made easier by turning off comment notifications.
Yes, Michael Hudson, Larry Johnson, Scott Ritter, Andrei Martyanov, and Douglas Macgregor are worth following. I share your criticism of the latter. He’s been important but he is angling for office.
A list of trustworthy news sources is very valuable, and I thank you for making a start. YOu have some real gems that people need to read, but this list also has a few real turds that need outed.
Perhaps the very worst is “Democracy Now.” Amy Goodman shilled for the so-called Arab Spring back in 2011 with outright lies about events in Egypt, and threw softball questions about Libya to a mercenary who tried to paint himself as “also a journalist”. One of Goodman’s running dogs and major contributors is Jeremy Scahill, who silenced a major Syrian Christian voice in 2013. Mother Agnes Miriam (google it; she’s important) was supposed to speak at the 2013 Stop The War Conference in London. Scahill threatened to boycott the Conference if this nun was going to be on the panel. The boycott worked. I stopped listening to Goodman’s show back in 2011 because I don’t have time to catalog the lies and hoaxes of professional propagandists. Goodman is rotten to the core, and any good you might think she’s doing is mere veneer because on the inside she is pro-war, pro-Zionism, and nothing else really matters. Leftie journalists I know hate her because she ripped million$$$ from, as I recall, WBAI.
Runner-up for “bad to the bone” is anything from the BBC. “Hard talk” is about as bad as it gets. BBC World Service is controlled by the UK”s Foreign and Commonwealth Office, who also run MI6. The BBC is utter crap, and it got much worse after June, 2003 when a Tony Blair crony took over.
Al-Jazeera should not be on this list. It’s owned by the al-Thani family, who also own Qatar. Their first batch of journalists were hired away from the BBC and were very honest. But about 2 years into it, these journalists were asked to produce lies. Every last one of the original crew quit in protest. I haven’t watched since. He who pays the piper calls the tune, of course.
Deutsche Welle simply lies about the SMO, refusing to consider that Russia might have a right under UN Article 51 to do the same sort of R2P that NATO used against Serbia. Deutsche Welle is emblematic of what’s wrong with Europe.
Counterpunch Radio is probably every bit as bad as Counterpunch, the website. The editors were lying in wait for the great Alexander Cockburn to die. And then they made a U-turn with a vengeance. They are pseudo-leftie imperialists. I personally know 3 writers who left quietly, not wanting to lose what had been a large audience. Mike Whitney was the most prolific contributor, and he publicly departed for greener pastures at unz.com, and he wrote about how Counterpunch became scum.
You need to add some hard-core truth telling sites, such as Hezbollah’s https://english.almanar.com.lb/ The Iranian sites are pretty closed-mouthed but not their Lebanese cousins. If you can skip the usual socialist and even Trotskyist pablum, there are a few worthwhile articles at the World Socialist Web Site, http://www.wsws.org/ Thierrey Meyssan and Voltairenet are sometimes extremely valuable. That’s voltairenet.org and if you scroll halfway down the page, under the heading Édition internationale, you will find the English version alon with 17 other languages, including Russian.
I spent most of my life in the anti-war movement and I learned that our own moral cowardice, our unwillingness to speak plain hard truths to people who didn’t want to hear it, was our ultimate failure. I can’t stand pussy-footing around anymore. Everyone is far better off to read sources that may anger you and maybe make you think, sources where people say what they believe is true. As a corollary, I don’t have much use for analysts who fail to say the important stuff because they have a low opinion of their readers as being narcissistic or simply dumb-assed. For example, John Mearshimer and Chris Hedges, among many others, don’t say all they know and as a result, their output is superfluous for anyone who digs for the news.
There is a lack of Russian sites. Machine translation is a magic portal, so you should add:
colonelcassad.livejournal.com/ (Boris Rhezin, ignore his nostalgia for Stalin)
cont.ws/@voenkorr “War Correspondent: is a news aggregator so
learn to be picky about which writers are worth the trouble.
This independent site also comes in English
https://anna-news.info/category/news/news-in-english/
The other thing missing, IMO, is some people explaining why capitalism is not entirely bad, why people need to work hard and not just dream, etc. Gilad Atzmon explains some of this as lefties being abstract dreamers, but right-wingers are concrete and result-oriented. Wish I had some sites to offer. Does anyone ?
Hope this helps. The only way to get a sharp edge is to grind away the fluff and keep the hard core.
Caught up writing a report which will take days. I will respond.
I don’t want to be a ‘purist’ and risk trapping myself in an echo chamber. I also don’t want to judge people only on the points I don’t like if they also have something genuine to offer. I intend being pragmatic.
I never listed several MSM channels I occasionally watch because that would’ve felt like blasphemy, but I’m smart enough to know how to navigate through them. Similarly, I can navigate Democracy Now which is infinitely better than CNN and Fox. Goodman sometimes has a slant that I don’t agree with, now that would be the Ukraine war, but has given coverage to issues that I care about, such as Palestine. Maybe my best compliment is the coverage they give to South America which has never been known by other major channels. Scahill and other reasons isn’t enough though but-
I dropped The Intercept and Scahill, and later dropped Greenwald – but will look forward to every Laura Poitras documentary.
No television media does as good job as Al Jazeera and they’re a lesson in pragmatism for me. Of course they’re owned by their government, and of course its terrible that they don’t report on their government, but its ironic that has given them freedom to deliver major investigations into arseholes profiting off us – https://player.fm/series/al-jazeera-investigates
Furthermore, we can never have enough time to deep dive into every topic but some MSM gives us the surface and then we we can, through our wisdom gained from being news hogs, choose which islands to dive under.
I never listed, for example, BBC Global News and The Economist, but I listen to them. I made an exception for Hard Talk because the devil’s advocate interviewing style tests the mettle of interviewees I’m interested in (whether I admire or hate them). Recently, the EFF’s leader, from my country, was in that hot seat. Additionally, the BBC has delivered great nature documentaries. I can be sane whilst knowing the heart of the monster.
I remain an admirer of John Mearsheimer and Chris Hedges. Their output is “superfluous” because they’ve made many people wake up.
This comment is becoming unwieldly. So let me try wrap it up.
I don’t mind whether a person is a socialist or a capitalist, and I’m not a Republican or a Democratic, or a leftie or right-winger. I care if the author, for the most part, writes relevantly.
That’s why I can include Jacobin, and agree with you that I should add WSW and Voltaire (which are sure to be the first of several oversights). Almanar is new to me so I will have to follow it for a while before deciding. I will do the same for the Russian sites too.
My recommended list is long, mostly including individuals taking flack for fighting the corrupt system. But because its long, I expect some to be disputed (and you did a good job of that).
If you’ve read my articles, I hope that you agree that the media I choose has not made me a fool. And, after all, I am following Larry 🙂
Thanks.
Thanks Mike. Glad to have your insights and feel free to promote your substack.
Thank you, Larry!
I don’t think I mentioned my last two but I’m sure others have Ritter’s documentary and the grain deal covered. I must get back to writing something in-depth, particularly regards the main actors, but other life has absorbed me. Maybe if I stop commenting I will have more time 🙂
Correction: I left out the important word “not” i.e. “I remain an admirer of John Mearsheimer and Chris Hedges. Their output is NOT “superfluous” because they’ve made many people wake up.”
“Whatever it takes.” The Russians have no choice but to believe those words. Should Russia trust or believe those are empty words or do they mean the ultimate of nuclear war? They are fools if they do not take western fools seriously. Biden and the US government are some of the worst criminals ever to threaten humanity.
It is possible to imagine, that If the West doesn’t mend it’s ways and chooses trade and friendship instead war and looting, that at some point in the future, the rest of the world might quarantine and isolate the West from any form of contact, not even tourism for fear of espionage. The West is becoming more and more dispensible and hateful to the rest of the planet. It mustn’t be that way. It doest need to be that way.
I think there is a good chance America will be a pariah state within 5 years.
Once things get bad enough in Europe, the EU will collapse and many European countries will turn away from America and towards Russia/BRICS.
The rest of the world is rapidly doing this already.
USA can not be a pariah state, as long as it has military bases in other countries (not to mention its control of the economy of other countries). EU/NATO countries won’t turn anywhere, as long as there are US troops and nukes there. USA won’t just retreat from countries it occupies, because it could lead to its collapse. All empires collapse sooner or later, but nukes changed the game significantly. Soviet Union collapsed relatively peacefully. USA may not.
⭐️Keep the Faith.
Money quote: @~28:50 “..we’re trying to deal ratioanlly and logically with a bunch of crazy people, and I don’t think we can…” Larry Johnson speaking about US/OTAN leadership.
Yes, that is the crux, isn’t it. The OTAN empire leadership is observably detached from reality and in a self-feeding insanity-loop, reinforcing delusions, eyes tightly closed, minds (minds?, well lets be charitable..) unable to grasp clear implications of policy decisions and actions, fantasy overiding evidence from on the ground. Well, what could go wrong!
The OTAN suicide-pact rolls on! Cleanup in aisle 404!
Can I ask why you spelled it OTAN?
Because ‘Organisation du traité de l’Atlantique nord’ (OTAN)what is on it’s building in Sproutsville (Bruxelles (Belgique).
https://www.nato.int/cps/fr/natohq/topics_49284.htm
https://nato.diplomatie.belgium.be/fr
Odd that the acronym is reversed from French to English, isn’t it?
Sproutsville = Brussel Sprouts
It’s the same wordplay in French, but as “choux de Bruxelles”.
The Serbs (and now the Russians) in ’99 and on called it HATO because in cyrillic spelling NATO = HATO. (and for other reasons obviously)
The strange thing is it’s also spelled HATO in Ukrainian. Portender of things to come?
Strange, because Ukrainian languange has no connection to Russian?
P.S. Calling and writing is not the same thing.
The West is happy when Slavs are killing each other, no matter their nationality. The Anglo-sachsons are the second elechon in the global hierarchy. Slavs belong to the untouchables below the fifth elechon. Expendables.
“The Human Hierarchy” by Dr. Thorstein J. Pattberg
In other words, Slavs are not white. Never have been. Don’t let blue eyes and pale skin confuse you, because being white is not about melanin, but about exceptionalism.
Yes but the most exceptional among the exceptionalists, the self-appointed chosen are only part-time white. This has nothing to do with race, ethnicity or skin colour. It’s satanists and their shills vs the Mankind. It’s just that some whites in the West are too stupid to grasp it, even though they’re on the extermination list too and are actually being replaced in their own countries as we speak while their children are groomed for sexual mutilation. But repeat after me, Putin bad, Russia evil.
You know, there are people who just don’t have the time to watch near three hours of podcasts. Heck, even an hour is too long. A summary would be great but even a timeline would be just fine so that one can pick what he finds of actual interest. Sorry, but I think only retirees, idle people and those with a professional assignment can devote so much time as needed to watch videos that long.
No need to watch them all. Same talking points are repeated over multiple podcasts. Pick a couple and go with those (with increased speed and subtitles, of course). Same goes for Telegram channels.
P.S. On long podcasts, comment section can be useful in pointing out interesting things said.
“Sorry, but I think only retirees, idle people and those with a professional assignment can devote so much time as needed to watch videos that long”
Or…people that have learnt to listen while doing other tasks. The videos aren’t movies or documentaries, there is no need to ‘watch’ talking heads talk.
Just use your ears, they are not just there for your wife to hold her licker.
Some people have tasks that are incompatible with listening to videos on a tablet or a computer even when they have them at hand. Moreover, some people have tasks that involve not being nearby a computer or a tablet that play videos. Not everybody is a geek sitting in his parents’ basement.
Just got time to watch the Ania chat, one of the best I’ve seen in a long time, how sad this isn’t played on TV stations in the West.
But don’t underestimate Sweden,
they got 100 JAS. multirole fighters,
long experience of air war guid-ance, can use the Gotland as advanced carrier, using hightech submarines, and hightech air/sig ,intelligence and can block with Denmark the Öresund,with artillery and mines, and can mine the Baltic sea as the Germans,1941.
Finland can with Estonia block the
Finnish bay, in the same way bottling up the Russian navy, as during WW2, with ubootnets, and
65. 000,mines,and they have 69 F-16, Finland and Norway very close to the Murman area. Kaliningrad
maybe nuked day one. Nato will maybe localise the war, as 1940,to high north, as the first step, deca-pitating Russia ‘s 2nd strike facil-ities, then maybe blackmailing, if taking out the big cities.
In a similar way, Russia was over-estimated, as the perfect war-machine, but now ‘blood in the water”, what reinforced the European unity and the will to
assist Ukraine by all means.
I have no idea what you are talking about – have you noted this is a land war?
https://www.globalfirepower.com/country-military-strength-detail.php?country_id=sweden
16000 active personnel, no reserves.
Two weeks at current Ukraine loss rate and sweden has no trained personnel. And how does anyone train combined arms warfare with three brigades – and what is the Swedish logistical tail?
I am in awe of Ukraine’s military.
They continue to make ground across all fronts, while inflicting far greater losses on the orcs than they suffer. Their aim is to destroy the orcs’ ability to wage their genocidal war. Land will follow their collapse. The chief orcs who have been there on the ground know that they are doomed, hence their mutiny. And cluster o’clock has only just begun to be struck.
While the orcs pile in their reserves, Ukraine has 3/4 of its best kit and troops unbloodied. It’s a masterpiece.
They fight for us all, and they do it well.
Slava Ukraini!
I should add some context here. The quote above is taken from somebody on the telegraph.co.uk live ukraine update.
Context helps. I was just about to complain about not enough orcs mentioning.
Orcs are like cowbells, the more the merrier.
We need more cowbells
Going to download both vids and watch when I have a few hours free. Thanks for all of this Larry.
Clearly you remind me of the Centurion whom Jesus Christ told the apostles to go and see, and others of his kind.
This fits well for my thoughts on the Verse of the day, Micah 2-10, wherein Micah is talking about the baddies of his own Nations Government, leaders, and businessmen which immediately reminded me of to think also of all the – “good” – people in what can only be described as wicked governments, who love Our Lord Jesus Christ, such as the Centurion (Armed Forces personnel) and the Tax collector Jesus Christ called (the Bureaucrat from Romes IRS equivalent) and others of these sorts of people in Biblical and other ancient/historical texts.
Thanks for being out there ALL of you guys. it is in no small part you “good” (none of us are good as the Lord defines it I am told) people in rotten governments who make this tyrannical hellscape somewhat bearable.
So Germany obey all orders from the US because it has inapt leaders???!!! So says Ray and none of the others contradict him. None of them mentions that Germany has been under US military occupatiin for 75 years…
THE UK AND FRANCE JUST PROMISED UKRAINE LONG RANGE CRUISE MISSILES. WW III HERE WE COME.
One is naïve you think the West is going to negotiate. U.S. has loaded eastern Europe with enough military equipment for 3 armies over last 15 months. The West can’t stop . They risk losing accepted international reserve currency, hundreds of $billions of investments in Ukraine farmland, mining operations, shipping ports, oil & gas drilling rights by Monsanto, Cargill, Shell, Exxon, Chevron , Blackrock and JP Morgan.
Do you think the U.S. has not condoned Poland / Lithuania entering the war? Of course, they most likely forced it.
As for the F16s . Remember when Russia was intimidating U.S. F16s over Syria. When Russia was flying over the US airbase in Syria. The US had @ F@@ Raptor stealth jets escorting the F16s . THE RUSSIANS BACKED DOWN. The F22 is THE BEST FIGHTER THE US HAS. The F22 has advanced sensors and electronics that can confuse enemy. F22s HAVE RADAR SENSING ELECTRONICS THAT CAN LOCATE AND TARGET RUSSIAN ANTI-AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS. THE F22s CARRY 8 RADAR SEEKING AIR TO GROUND MISSILES. PLUS THE F22s are STEALTH ! RUSSIAN RADAR CANT SEE THEM UNTILL IT’S TOO LATE.
In April the US sent 12 F22 Raptors to Poland. In May the US sent 12 F22 Raptors to Estonia. Russia can beat the U.S. in a conventional ground war in Ukraine. But that is likely to change to a Western air campaign soon.
I have heard that the Ukraine pilots started last Aug/Sept at the U.S naval Air Strike training centers in Mississippi and Texas. Congress lead by Rep Kinsinger (R-IL), the “Crying Congressman” , passed a $100 million bill to train the Ukraine pilots. July ’22. Kinsinger’s original bill included A10 Warthog gunships. But they obviously wouldn’t last a day in Ukraine. Notice how the European countries say the will train the Ukraine pilots . . . ? Notice how the UK and France are the ones sending cruise missiles . . . ? Notice how the Polish and Lithuania are sending the ground forces . . . ? The US is OK-ing and funding the delivery but has to keep their distance. Biden can say “Its not the US. Its those European countries.
Many say Ukraine has already lost this war. Maybe , but the West has not.
I think the West is going to bring this all to bare on Russia. Bomb the hell out of Crimea and cover the 1st , 2nd , and 3rd Russian defense lines / trenches with cluster bombs and then maybe offer Russia Crimea (for now. take that later.
Russia knows this is coming. This conflict will not end this year . . . in my opinion.
“The F22 is THE BEST FIGHTER THE US HAS.”
They inflict fear in the heart of every balloon enthusiast.
“The F22 has advanced sensors and electronics that can confuse enemy. F22s HAVE RADAR SENSING ELECTRONICS THAT CAN LOCATE AND TARGET RUSSIAN ANTI-AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS. THE F22s CARRY 8 RADAR SEEKING AIR TO GROUND MISSILES. PLUS THE F22s are STEALTH ! RUSSIAN RADAR CANT SEE THEM UNTILL IT’S TOO LATE.”
They are so advanced that they confuse friendlies too. The moment you turn on radar, stealth is gone. The moment you open weapon doors, stealth is gone. HARM turned out out to be a joke. With radar turned off, you are blind unless there is an AWACS near by (and there is none, becaus they are easy targets). Once Russians see you, it is indeed too late to run away from their fast and long range missiles. Ass of a plane is not stealth at all, because it’s on fire.
Russian radars don’t care much about stealth, anyway. “THE UK AND FRANCE LONG RANGE CRUISE MISSILES” are stealth, and aready delivered, and in use. Russians are still shooting them down.
Top Gun is a lie. Sorry about that.
The F22 is THE BEST FIGHTER THE US HAS.”
They inflict fear in the heart of every balloon enthusiast.
Brilliant!
If you are right, then that means political insanity will prevail. And insanity is exactly what it is. Never been much on embracing liberal slogans (Satan’s philosophy of liberalism being a lethal, soul-damning form of insanity).
But “Why not give peace a chance?”
The Russian people and their leaders strike me as being genuine, highly intelligent, reasonable people; and today, far more civilized than those in the woke, broke, desperate and morally bankrupt West.
“As for the F16s . Remember when Russia was intimidating U.S. F16s over Syria. When Russia was flying over the US airbase in Syria. The US had @ F@@ Raptor stealth jets escorting the F16s . THE RUSSIANS BACKED DOWN. The F22 is THE BEST FIGHTER THE US HAS. The F22 has advanced sensors and electronics that can confuse enemy. F22s HAVE RADAR SENSING ELECTRONICS THAT CAN LOCATE AND TARGET RUSSIAN ANTI-AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS. THE F22s CARRY 8 RADAR SEEKING AIR TO GROUND MISSILES. PLUS THE F22s are STEALTH ! RUSSIAN RADAR CANT SEE THEM UNTILL IT’S TOO LATE”
Is this satire? Or just the ranting of a mentally deficient moron?
It’s called Top Gun syndrome.
Larry Johnson’s definition of a defeated army is insightful, very useful, and highly relevant.
With such a definition in place, WHY wouldn’t all of NATO… President Biden… the Pentagon… our State Department… Zelensky and his generals… not to mention his pathetic, heartless, “democracy”-worshipping clapping seals in the U.S. Congress… see the Light… accept Larry’s definition of what reasonably constitutes military defeat… and finally throw in the white towel — to put an end to all of this carnage? No boxing manager with one ounce of integrity would allow his fighter to get murdered inside the ring. So why is the West continuing to allow (and even encourage) this wholesale slaughter of tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers? In what inevitably had to be (from the start) and which has clearly now become… a lost cause?
Are there no Western politicians with the power, integrity and moral courage to take a stand against this senseless slaughter and insanity?
Mr. McMorrow,
The answer to your superb question is blackmail (Child Sex on vid?) and payola.
Sickening.
Excellent insights from Col McGregor, who also mentions Ray with whom he agrees completely:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8wFhwUf5qw
I liked his explanation of Zelensky having drunk his own bathwater…
He it to cheap to buy premium bathwater from Belle Delphine.
Larry,
Kudos to you, Andrei, Ray, and especially Polit Wera, your superb hostess, a wise lady who let those with deep knowledge, insight, and prudent wisdom say, every man, his piece!
I do not plan to run for office, and would certainly not accept the American Presidency, mangled and corrupted and manipulated as it is.
B U T:
Should by some lightning bolt I became acclaimed New Caesar, I’d empanel, you, Ray, and especially Andrei as my closest support staff when I ventured to Moscow to treat with the Kremlin. Andrei’s performance was a tour de force. Among the things I most admire about him is his astonishing English VOCABULARY. This allows him to be precise, no surprise for a gent who supervised an aerospace metrology laboratory(do I have that right?).
Alas, when I hear the truths exposed and explained by such excellent round-tables as these two, I rage to pick up my Han Chinese halbred and whack some malefactors to gibblets.
Meh . . . I do eventually calm down.
Much appreciated for these two classics.
cheers,
og
Did I miss something in the Ania K session.
Ania asked if the planning process for an operation including planning for failure and neither Larry or Ray seemed actually answer the question. I was not even sure they understood it.
Thank you Larry, it was my birthday last week (70) and I received a gift of another great video from three of the wisest and most qualified men with deep insight into the current situation concerning Ukraine, US, and NATO countries. Given Adrei lives in the US, I will say that as usual Americans and those that live there are always the US’s best critics, and although the currrent US administration is trashing America’s international reputation with its constant war rhetoric directed at more than one country, you guys continue to restore my faith in your country and I much admire your integrity, honesty, and genuine patriotism.
Larry killed off several dragons with one stroke, when he was asked on Polit Wera how he reconciled being an American patriot and taking a pro-Russian position on the Ukraine.
This starts at 36:00. At 43:10, Larry says: “The kind of society that the Soviets tried to erect, in terms of controlling thought, persecute opponents, I think that ultimately destroyed it. And I believe that same process is underway here in the United States. It’s going to destroy the United States as we currently are.”
I would be putting words in his mouth to mention US-USSR parallels such as screwed-up economic systems, each having an unresponsive gerontocracy, destructive levels of military spending, etc. I’m sure you can fill in the picture yourself.
Thanks Larry for the videos. I saw the one with Ania and caught the second one here.
From my chair, should the focus on the snake be on UN, NATO, WHO & BIS? these outdated neocons should fall first, in order to crush the central banisters desire for world domination. Vote for Me 2024, lol