The NATO Summit in Vilnius is one week away and the situation in Ukraine grows worse with each passing day. One indicator that things are grim is the confirmation today, by the usually effervescent Volodymyr Zelensky, that Russia launched a successful strike on the Ukrainian Intelligence Service (SBU) headquarters in Sumy.
In the past Zelensky has insisted that Ukraine’s air defense system defeated all Russian missiles and drones. Not today. Reality intruded and the fact that he is confirming that there are dead and wounded SBU officers is a strong indicator that he is worried about an uncertain future.
Zelensky is not the only one signaling a shift in the attitude towards the reality of the war. Richard Haass, the soon to be former President of the Council on Foreign Relations, recently told a NY Times reporter who is the real threat. As Pogo once remarked, “I have met the enemy and he is us.”
Everywhere he has gone as president of the Council on Foreign Relations, Dr Richard Haass has been asked the same question: What keeps him up at night? He has had no shortage of options over the years: Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, climate change, international terrorism, food insecurity, the Covid-19 pandemic.
But as he steps down after two decades running America’s most storied private organisation focused on international affairs, Dr Haass has come to a disturbing conclusion. The most serious danger to the security of the world right now? The threat that costs him sleep? The United States itself.
NATO is no longer unified. Several European leaders are noting quietly that Europe cannot prosper without a relationship with Russia. In other words, isolating and shunning Moscow is no longer seen as a viable strategy. Latvia, albeit an insignificant military power, announced a change in its policy of issuing visas:
Embassies and consulates of Latvia will resume accepting applications for issuing visas to certain categories of Russian citizens from July 4th. This was reported by the Delfi portal.
Relatives of Latvian citizens and persons with the status of non-citizens of the republic (spouses, parents, grandparents, children, grandchildren, as well as dependents) will be able to apply for a visa. Exceptions will also affect relatives of citizens of EU countries, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland.
So what will NATO do? The United States and the United Kingdom still appear wedded to trying to put more military pressure on Russia and are likely to confirm the intention to provide Ukraine with ATACM missiles, F-16s and cluster munitions. If they follow through with these measures then Russia is likely to step up its attacks on decision making centers in Ukraine, which means hitting major military command posts that are staffed by NATO officers.
I think the NATO Summit is unlikely to produce a strong, joint communique re-committing NATO to fighting to the last Ukrainian. Some members will certainly push for that outcome, but others show waning enthusiasm for that policy.
Between now and next Tuesday I expect Ukraine to launch some desperate attacks in hopes of creating a public relations victory that can be celebrated at the Summit. But Russia is not sitting on its heels in a defensive crouch. It is carefully monitoring the build up of Ukrainian forces along the line of contact and hitting those assembly points with rockets, missiles and bombs delivered by combat air.
It still boils down to a simple math problem — Ukraine lacks sufficient manpower, equipment and air power to launch a sustained attack and the losses suffered in those attacks cannot be quickly replaced with competent soldiers. This is especially true at the senior command level. The attrition of Ukrainian Colonels and Generals is forcing the Ukrainian General Staff to promote inexperienced officers to command positions they are not qualified to execute. The world is witnessing the death spiral of the Ukrainian military. What remains to be seen is whether NATO is ready to acknowledge this reality.
Western obsession with the Wagner PMC and the erroneous belief that Wagner is a critical military component of Russia’s military power is a dangerous mistake. Russia has made good use of the time since last August, when contract soldiers returned home and Russia was forced to withdraw from Kharkiv and the surrounding areas, by building up its manpower and ensuring the new soldiers are fully trained and equipped. The productivity of Russia’s military industrial plants is increasing, which means a seemingly unending supply of artillery, ammunition and cruise missiles. Neither Ukraine nor NATO are able to match Russia’s massive military industry output.
The dilemma NATO faces is figuring out how to extract itself from the war in Ukraine without destroying itself. I do not see a solution and welcome your insights on that question.
Well, Borrell says there’s a real surprise in the works. Considering the source, I’ll better spend my time reading Rush’s submersible acoustic monitoring array patent I just pulled. I give them both about the same validity but carbon fiber’s more sexy.
nato today IS the titanic. it has a big gash in the side but is still hours away from sinking and no amount of press releases or increased defense budgets can repair that hull damage.
against a real enemy better armed than they nato reveals to the world what it has always been……….all hat no cattle and this designation is also being applied to the pentagon when a real peer military shows up.
for both nato and the pentagon there will be no coming back from that reputational damage.
A surprise fireworks for Zelensky.
Fireworks is a good possibility, however, hanged upside down, might be more fitting.
I sincerely hope that the US and its vassals at some point will decide to deploy their own troops into Ukraine so that we could see thousands of FUSA troops coming home in body bags.
There are enough body bags already without wishing for more. They are all human being who should never go to war.
Tell that to the Borells and Haasses and Nulands and Sunaks and the rest of the pond scum that drive the “policy” barge. Nice sentiment, but like Borell says, there’s gonna be a “surprise” soon. Blow up the ZNPP? Decapitation “Hail Mary” at Moscow? These effing monsters have shown they have no restraints at least none I can see.
The vassals Merkel and Hollande should be placed in stocks in the city square and pelted with whatever’s at hand.
And a few others with them
No worries; once the war crime tribunals in Moscow and Donetsk get going names will be presented and there are many including presstitutes and other enablers. Do you think they’ll be free to travel to zone B and not get arrested? I don’t, it’s the collective west that will be isolated, so yeah Merkel should stay in Germany and Hollande in France (or what’s left of it).
All human beings that “support Ukraine” should definitely go to war.
And their spoiled brats with them.
Do you mean the Ukrainians? Because a more spoiled nation of self-entitled brats I think have never set foot on Earth.
BATTLE HYMN OF THE HEGEMON
IF YOU WANNA VOTE FOR WAR
YOU BETTER BE THE FIRST IN LINE
IF YOU WANNA BOMB THE FOLKS
AND STEAL THEIR STUFF WELL THATS A SIGN
YOURE NOT A WELCOME SAVIOUR
YOU’RE A PSYCHO GREEDY SWINE
AND IT’S TIME YOUR TIME WAS DONE
chorus
CIA THEY WANNA OWN YA
GONNA BOMB YA THEN REZONE YA
BRACE YOURSELF THEY GONNA BONE YA
CUZ THEY ARE THE GOOD GUISE
BE A MAN AND GET YOUR GUN
YOUR PROXY NAZIS HAD THEIR FUN
YOUR FRIENDS ARE OUT OF AMMO
PUTIN’S GOT THEM ON THE RUN
THE PETRODOLLAR’S DEAD
AND THE COUNTRY IS IN SHREDS
THE HEGEMON IS DONE
(Waving hand frantically)
Ooh! Ooh! Let me try, Teacher
My eyes have seen the squalor
Of unraveling of the West
They have pissed away the Leopards
And the rest of their war chest
They have lost the dollar weapon
As the BRICS nations divest
Their stock keep plunging down
Tori, Tori Hallelujah
Putin’s spurning all your Rules, ya
Tori, Tori Hallelujah
New World is marching in
Agreed.
Now if we could only do something about our venal and violent psychopathic leaders whose primary source of income consists of ripping off taxpayers for swollen paychecks in exchange for nothing, along with the MICC who subsist on bloodshed profits from our own servicemen and distant target populations.
I agree with that comment 100% -they have NO right to be there killing Russians & getting away with it. Fuck that !
What America needs is a good invasion or at least some serious bombing. Americans desperately need to understand what it’s like to be on the receiving end.
That’ll be hard without launching WW3. That’s when you put your head between your legs and kiss your sweet ass goodbye.
That’s what they teach the troops in case of an incoming nuke.
Too late. Alan Arkin just passed away.
Yeah right, let’s start World War 3. That should be fun—NOT! You must live on a different planet than the rest of us.
Be careful what you wish for. The problem is with the iniquitous power abusers, they have to be somehow stopped, booted, replaced with non psychotic leaders, if that is even possible at this point. Maybe it’s not.
There is no sense in visiting avoidable grief on families, try not to even wish such things. For that is what the enemy wants. Better to focus on dissuading young people from any association with the military, even highly proficient engineers working for weapons rackets should be encouraged to leave and use their gifts to create rather than destroy. Our weapons industry has less to do with defense than theft, whether monetary or life itself. Working for them when there are other less paying but benevolent and productive choices only inflicts agony, grief, and death, then hatred and revenge. That is the only way they survive, by the destruction of other people and societies at home and abroad.
We are better than they, although for now in the heat of hatred, revenge, power and money greed, lies, theft, immeasurable violence and destruction that will take decades to remedy, the best we can do is not add to it but rather individually admonish, withhold support, and inform. And that is no guarantee of success. But at least it keeps us aware of the depraved abyss. Pax tibi.
… dissuade young people from joining the military…” Imagine if they started WW3 an no one showed up to fight. It cracks me up to magine the level of panic.
Reminds me of that scene in Braveheart when Longshank sent into battle the Irish and when they met the Scotts, they embraced and started thinking of sharing a pint.
They planned and started both world wars, but they got away with those through pure lies. So what would stop them from planning a third one. Also, the whole concept of “world war” should be looked at closely. In all of settled history how many nations attacked one another at the same time. This concept is a vicious web of deceit, and roping in millions of young men to do their bidding was planned long before the first shots.
For starters, please read
Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution
Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler
both by Antony Sutton and very easy to read.
Also
The Triumph of Unarmed Forces
by Brit. Rr. Adm. M.W.W.P.Consett who was stationed in Stockholm during WW1 and whose job it was to receive goods from all over the British Empire in the war effort, but while inspecting something on the docks he spotted those same goods being officially shipped to Germany to prolong the war, all without his knowledge. A very savvy man, he knew right away this was far beyond his pay grade and in addition to keeping meticulous navy records he kept a second set of what he saw and published it after the war. Of course it created an uproar but then as now it was quickly shelved and a traumatized population only tried to stabilize.
So what if they created another war and nobody came? Even if we all showed up it would only serve the purposes of our ruling psychotics and obstruct healthy growth of any kind from the rest of us. Let them duke it out themselves, and let halfway normal Americans and others go on about their own lives.
Read Marx’s “Russian Loan” if you can find it. Marx describes how, during the Crimean War, British small investor capital was chanelled into providing finance to their Russian enemy’s army.
Well said, Sir. Et pax tibi quoque.
Then you’re no better than the neocon war pigs, and just another bloodthirsty, degenerate animal. GFY.
Notice what the little suckup throws into his spiel. A ‘European sky shield’.
‘Yes, we will SAVE Europe from the savage, marauding hordes from the East once again – as we did in WWII and do now, with our sacred blood, honor and undying dedication to European civilization.’
Somebody take this guy out to the woodshed. Do what you will with him.
The toxic dwarf was elected under false pretences on a peace ticket, deaths too good for him. On the other hand we mustn’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Zelensky was appointed by our own toxic leaders. They were (and still are) addicted to murder and theft at any cost, they are devoid of statecraft and only use the State Department to sate their sick needs, and Zelensky went along with the blood contract because he was promised money, real estate, yada, yada, so he sold Ukraine and all its inhabitants to foreign power abusers, knowing fully well that he had damned all Ukrainians to mass catastrophes and likely violent deaths.
But he was also promised that it would be over quickly, which he was stupid and greedy enough to believe, and he could live high on the hog off his ill gotten gains, far away from the wartime and postwar carnage and grief. Alas, he did not sign up for this long term war, and it never occurred to him nor his owners that the Russians would fight back with such ferocity, and at present he is probably working on his exit plan, assuming he lives that long. He cannot stay in Ukraine if it capitulates, for the Azov psychos will come after him. He cannot leave beforehand either, because his DC owners are not finished with him nor the rest of the Ukrainians, so he has painted himself into a corner trap of his own puerile needs. He will go when DC says he can go, probably when Ukraine is reduced to yet another smoldering DC wasteland. And he will be exceedingly lucky if he makes it to one of his properties paid for by the lives of other Ukrainians.
Zelensky turned his peace ticket turned into a Ukraine in pieces ticket. His ticket to ride… to Miami no doubt.
I allways wonder who is ment by “we”. He oder they? Or again, us?
Ok, I know, just a rethorical question. It’s allways “us”.
The “We” of Ze 🐽 alludes to the tribal we, nothing else.
You are giving him too much credit. He is just reading the teleprompter.
Some Marvel-screenwriter-wannabe came up with that. It was Captain America’s shield in the first version of the script, but it had to be changed to non-copyright-infringement alternative.
He is just a Cabal’s puppet. Will mouth off any garbage put in front of him, (as above example graphically shows) – as instructed. He controls nothing there. They keep him supplied with drugs (he is a well known coke head) and use him to carry out their agenda – which is basically a wet dream of “destroying Russia”and looting it’s resources. Meanwhile they are quite prepared to feed into the “meat grinder” every last ukranian, i.e. their proxy army. Zelensky and his handlers have blood of hundreds of thousands of these men on their hands. Some of them, such as Azov neo nazi batallions – whose demise will be viewed as a good riddance and is actually cleansing for the world, but unfortunately, most in the so-called Ukraine “war” are conscrips who have no choice. They cannot even surrender. Wasted lives…
And for what?!
Maybe the question is what will NATO do TO Ukraine.
Biden has lost it both mentally, physically and politically as his pay to play is hitting Mainstream media.
Dr Haass of the CFR has come to the conclusion that the most serious danger to the security of the world right now is The US.
Zelensky is confirming that Ukraine has no Air defense, and that Russian has destroyed ammunition depos, vital infrastructure, command centers and the SBU headquarter in Sumy.
The EU has already spend 7 years of budget within the first 2 years of the budgetary period, and now Hungary, Poland and Finland demands to know where the money has gone before they will even consider refunding the EU.
France has been set ablaze by race riots, just like America experienced during the BLM riots. Macron has dispatched 40.000 police officers to quell the riots, against rioters roaming the streets with British machineguns and AK 47s
Germany is in a Recession, and the German Auto industry is gearing up to sack 1 million workers.
Rising Interest rates and inflation is starting to bite European Business and home owners, while unemployment is set to rise in the EU going into the autumn.
We have passed the Summer solstices without European Nations being able to refill it reservoirs with Russian natural gas, and oil.
NATO is no longer unified, and can’t even agree on the next Secretary General to replace Stoltenberg.
Between now and next Tuesday expect Ukraine to launch desperate attacks in hopes of creating a PR victory. However, Ukraine lacks the manpower, equipment and air power to launch a successful attack, and the losses suffered can no longer be replaced by Ukrainian conscripts, mercenaries or contractors.
Since last August, Russia has been mobilizing, training and equipping an army of 1.5 million men. The Russia’s military industry is running on all 12 cylinders, producing unending supply of artillery, ammunition and cruise missiles.
The MIC within NATO are unable to resupply Ukraine’s massive loses in military equipment, and is drawing down NATO inventory. So before the Vilnius summit, we will be witnessing the death of the 3rd Ukrainian military.
So what will NATO do?
The US and UK leaders will keep trying to providing Ukraine with ATACM missiles, F-16s and cluster munitions.
However Nationalist sentiment is grooving in America, England, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Hungary, Germany and France, to save their Nations from the inevitable collapse of the Western Empire.
NATO needs to figure out how to extract itself from Ukraine without exposing the alliance as irrelevant.
My guess is that the Vilnius meeting will throw the humanitarian card to the western media, and seek a fake stalemate in Ukraine until they have built up NATO. However the leaders of Western Nations will be intercepted by National uprising during the second “winter of discontent”.
NATO was a money laundering protection racket since the day it was hatched. They tried the same on the other side of the world by setting up SEATO (South East Asia Treaty Organization) two years later but that folded in a couple of decades. Maybe they couldn’t exert the same level of control and payola. The cover story was the Red Menace, and the hoax lasted decades with massive heaps of unaccountable money going to MIC racketeers who were confident that the bets would never, ever get called in.
When the USSR fell so did the cover story but instead of winding down with the safe loot and moving on to some other racket, they doubled down by NATO expansion and bet the house.
Then the bets got called and here we are.
NATO was, is, and always will be a money laundering racket, same as your average narcotics cartel ( who by the way have a much better sense of business), and their main problem is they can’t stop because that means all the welfare checks get cut off. Plus they will be confirmed as massive losers for all history. Think about it. Russia vs. Ukraine, Western Europe, NATO, NSA, CIA, the Pentagon, and all the cash they can rip off of American taxpayers, and they still can’t get the job done. Losers. Just waiting for confirmation. That upsets them more that widespread carnage and destruction because it affects their money.
They were never prepared for a war with the Red Menace then or now. It was always the man behind the curtain projecting a mirage. The Red Menace on the other hand will never let this go and will plan accordingly, and long after the violence stops we will be paying prices for our stupid, venal leaders, their crummy, overpriced, crackerjack weapons, and the mass carnage they inflicted on target populations for no other reason than to increase their own power abuses and amass more loot.
Did the penis-piano-player have his load of blow blown-up in Sumy? Acknowledging reality for, maybe the first time? How interesting!
CFR hack haASS trying out self-awareness? Or, as Simplicious76 suggested today, just moving to emeritus status and promoting disimforamtizia to advance his masters goals, servile in his deline?
Riga, a nice Russian city, albeit with a unruly minority population prone to acting out and pining for the daze of their nazi past, might getting over the latest outburst? Or is therea lack of babywkas to harrass commemorating The Great Patriotic War for the spawn of the Latvian (SS) Legion?
Vilnius looms. Will it be a (attempted) bang or a whimper.
Lets’s not forget the macro(n) midget troubles in the formerly euro zone that used to be France.
How many things to take one’s attention from hunted bidette and the suicide of EE UU!
I’ve been to Vilnius….where to my surprise I discovered that I’m a far-distant descendant of Lithuania’s founder, who kept the country intact by engaging in deft diplomacy with both the Russians to the East and the Germans to the West. No simple task.
I wish I could slap some sense into that country.
Add Latvia to the list that needs sense. The soros paid for leadership there another of the davos servants. Same for Lithuania and Estonia. Not all, by any means, but an imporatnt percentage of the post-WWII immigrants to US and Canada from the Baltics and 404 had ties to nazis. OTAN funded and supplied armed attacks by the “Forest Brothers”in the Baltics and “Ukrainian Insurgent Army” ‘banderistas’in 404 on both civillians and Soviet forces and supporters thru the 1950s. “Operation Paperclip”and its associated programs were not confined to the deutscher reich.
Have to dig to find info. Sorry for wikilinks, but even they can provide info for the discerning mind:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Soviet_partisans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvian_partisans
https://estonianworld.com/security/cia-documents-west-backed-forest-brothers-baltics/
https://estonianworld.com/life/film-forest-brothers-fight-for-the-baltics/
http://vilnews.com/2011-01-lithuanian-partisan-war
https://balticworlds.com/the-forest-brothers-heroes-villains/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_war_in_the_Baltic_states
https://www.rbth.com/arts/history/2017/07/14/who-were-the-forest-brothers-the-thorn-in-the-soviets-side_803380
If you say so.
Wonderful conclusion. Amen!
I get sad when I see someone outside a business holding up a flashy sign tring attract some attention, standing there for hours with little pay. A sad statement about the economy and society that this is what someone needs to do to survive. Barkers at circuses and outside of strip joints are more colorful and I have admiration to some degree – the activity being promoted is a break from the everyday humdrum. I couldn’t do their job, I don’t have the skills.
Zelensky’s schtick is not sad, it is pathetic. He lies (Ukraine can defeat the terrorists), barkers exaggerate (Carol Doda’s breast were enormous; seeing that limbless man did produce a shock of dread). But both pander to base desires that are difficult to control; in Zelensky’s case, the desire for blood of the hated other, Russians and Eastern Eurasians. We, the west, in our hollow ideologies of peace, justice, freedom, lawfulness barely veil the hatred of self and life that made the last 500 years of terroistic supremacy possible. Now, that history is being reversed.
“I get sad when I see someone outside a business holding up a flashy sign tring attract some attention.”
12 years of public education and they have the job skills of a wooden stake.
Russians have public education. It creates engineers capable of making hypesonic goodies of all sorts.
A great deal if engineering standards around the World come from US industrial Standards and Specifications. Look at the Auto safety standards to name one. This was the fruits of what once was the model for all education systems in the world. Too bad the Bolshevicks and the Trotskys infested the Universities of Chicago.
Yea, everything good in the known Universe comes exclusively from USA. Wash your hands after you are done smelling yor own exceptional farts.
“So what will NATO do?”
Eventually, the beast will turn and destroy it’s rider.
You know.
The rider – having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
That rider.
It’s not hard to figure out who that is on the world stage today folks.
Matter of fact, they announce it with a brightly colored flag they shove in every nations face that they have an embassy in.
Been trying to tell folks. Turns out a whole lot of folks dont really believe those words written so long ago, even when they say they do.
Buckle up folks.
It just gets more intense as the contractions increase from here on out.
For those who can see it, cheer up and do not be afraid.
If it wasn’t Ukraine it would be somewhere else just as significant.
I should have thought eliminating SBU facilities was essential to destroying Zelensky regime and making them turn on him
I do. I doubt NATO can do much and U.K. has the French situation to fear as it will infect English cities and Belfast and Londonderry could go up especially with Dublin facing immigration backlash too
NATO will huff and puff
Poland is rabid but not the population only the politicians
We live in an era of drugged-up politicians of which Zelensky is a caricature so extreme that other politicians travel to observe
Travelling to the catacombs of Kiev to witness a leader of a country who in real time mirrors what could have been in 1980-90’s Bogota had Pablo Escobar had his way must be some experience and a tale for the ages.
Other that what it is currently doing, nothing.
Brother John, Thanks for commenting.
Unlikely until they are thrown out of office in their countries and the EU and NATO are broken up. We all have to take a deep breath and hold on hoping they do not do something catastrophic to destroy us all or start a world war. I have a little hope now because it seems that more and more European citizens are starting to get the truth and understanding the future with the good old USA looks very bleak for them and their children. Thanks as always for the timely and useful updates.
If they are worried about Vlad marching all the way to the U.K. then why burn up all the military hardware and cannon fodder in the corrupt sewer?
Remember Trump wanting them to pay their fair share, they will have too sooner rather than later.
A bigger printing press only goes so far.
Anyone have a thoughts on the situation in France? Macron was one of those people in the EU Larry just described. I am just curious if these riots might be a message to the leadership of France and anyone else who follows the lead.
I assume, because I have seen how it works in 2020, that these riots were spurred on by the media. They don’t make a big deal about it shit don’t happen. One of the BLM founders lost a cousin last year to the cops. Never saw the video but heard it was pretty graphic. She screamed on Twitter for a couple days but the media isolated it and the story died.
Obviously the summer of love was egged on by the entire D party and the left wing media. Seeing what we have done to other nations (Ukraine) it had all the hallmarks of a CIA inspired color revolution. That was to creat mayhem over before the 2020 election.
I mention this only because I am curious to know if France had any reason like that to promote these riots? If they did not it may be the work of outside international forces in an attempt to paralyze Macron until he agrees to get with the program.
BTW……I’m just thinking outside the box. It may be completely off the mark.
Declaring martial law is one thing I can think of. I hope I’m wrong, but I can’t think of anything else. They’re obviously leaving the wound open for it to fester. While France was literally burning with riots all over the place, Macron attended Elton John concert and had a good time. There doesn’t seem to be any attempt to calm to situation.
Macron is deeply unpopular with 30% approval, 67% disapproval ratings in a recent poll (taken within the last week or so). Also, note that Marine Le Pen, the right wing party leader polls ahead of Macron, which rings alarms in France. This popularity of a right wing party is quite unheard of in post war France.
Martial law probably would not work, because it would mean crown control with weapons and the rioters would respond in kind.
The best thing the French could do at this point is identify and deport any illegal migrants from anywhere, revoke newly acquired citizenship of anyone identified as a rioter followed by deportation, and put the rest on probation for 5 years with revocation/deportation for the smallest infraction. Give them a sizable check to get started in their homelands if need be, but permanent blockage of re entry.
However the French will not do that either, it looks harsh, so the violence will continue. They would prefer tolerance of widespread violence to looking mean.
Don’t look for any kind of leadership from Macron, he is a Rothschild gigolo. He was perfect for the job. Upper class veneer, financial professional, and easily controlled. Perfect. He will do as he is told or lose the welfare checks. Of course he went to an Elton John concert, his managers told him to get lost while they figured out a business plan for him to obey.
You’re right that martial law is a drastic thing. It would require an all out war on the citizens, disarming them, imposing curfews, shutting down some institutions and services, etc. It depends on what the intents are…
However, I can’t imagine that all these immigrants would actually agree and leave France. Just look at the direction of the migration. The flow is still going from North Africa and Middle East to Europe. Despite the self-implosion of the EU, people in those parts of the world still see it as the place to be, the place of plenty, where they’ll either get a job or get some government benefits and be better off financially than in their home country.
Also, many of these people are actually French citizens, though many can’t speak French. There are millions of North Africans/Arabs who came over since the end of WW2.
And paying the immigrants to leave is probably unrealistic too. The EU controls the purse now and they’ve pretty much drained it.
The illegal arrivals from anywhere should be swiftly deported.
No point in waiting for them to join gangs, riots, etc., to justify deportation.
The arrived in France by breaking the law and got rewarded so why would they adhere to laws now.
Legalized residents and naturalized citizens who are rioters should have their status revoked followed by swift deportation.
Any legal resident from anywhere should be on 5 years probation or get deported.
All deportations should be permanent.
There are enough decent people around the world who deserve a chance and would do their best to be good citizens.
And as well as that, France needs to leave the NATO and EU rackets.
For who wants to get a clearer picture of the true nature of the recent riots in France, here’s an incisive analysis by a French journalist, Serge Faubert:
Apparently, beginning 2017, Macron ordered one of his tenor ministers, Borloo, a report on the situation in the disenfranchised in the suburbs, accompanied with a proposal of a plan to remedy the catastrophic situation of complete abandonment of the youth living there. The plan of action was made, then for no reason shelved to be forgotten forever. It was hoped that ultra-liberal policies will generate enough wealth that will trickle down to the suburbs!! Go figure.
For the journalist, the riots are a logical consequence of the total abandonment of the youth of the suburbs. This has created a whole army of very angry outlaws who hate the French republic to the core and who are not afraid of anyone. A very dangerous situation for France indeed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8Ixjxrtres
According to the Duran boys, Marine Le Pen is now up about 10 points on recent polls. They suggest she may actually be on her way to becoming president of France, which would really rip some people’s knickers at the WEF and NATO.
No chance. She will fall in line.
I’m afraid you may be right. One would like to hope for a change, but whoever pulls the strings behind the scenes seems to have a way to “underwrite” any new players show up on the scene. One needs to look no further than Meloni of Italy.
Alex Krainer gave me a theory a little bump today. Here’s my comment and then the article.
Was pretty buzzed late Sunday night and this hit me like a ton of bricks. I asked the question on Larry Johnson’s blog last night. Could this be what is really going on? I didn’t see any reason elements of the French leadership would be fanning the flames in their own country at this particular moment. Obviously the media who really get situations such as this fired up. This media belongs to Globohomo, Zionists, and the US Empire. Events like this are very easy to contain the media simply ignores it or runs some other mind bending scheme. We saw that last year where the cousin of a BLM founder was killed by the police. Tried hard she (founder) did to get the outrage started. The story was quarantined and buried.
https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/france-under-attack
Luke,
This is a very interesting theory, thanks for referencing the article. What Alex says makes a lot of sense. What I still don’t get is that Macron doesn’t appear to be too concerned with the riots. At least not publicly. Instead he’s having a good time, carrying on as usual with his own interests.
Perhaps, he’s oblivious to the threat to him. But I doubt it as I recently listened to a podcast with Andrew Bustamante, an ex CIA guy, who specifically highlighted the rivalry between the US and French intelligence agencies. That the French were very suspicious of the US and keeps them at a distance. According to Andrew, there is a lot of distrust of the US by the French intelligence circles.
Time will tell.
Past behaviour is a predictor of future behaviour.
Thus, they will double down.
Nato-US-EULapdops cannot do otherwise. It is an organization. An organization wants to exist, possibly grow. Doing otherwise would mean to self-destruct.
The only man who could change course is old, fragile, a puppet. So he won’t. Worse: He can’t.
This is a real war US vs. Russia. Real war ends only when one side cannot keep on fighting: The South 1865, Germany 1945, etc.
We are still very far from that point.
Lets hope that at least MAD works – but the experience is that in real wars towards the end all reason and morale disappears.
Morale already disappeared and only some rason left.
Unfortunatelly I agree with you,
war has already started and it’s only at the very beginning.
This ‘little’ war will probably turn into a Ukraine front or something of that sort.
There are no solutions until one side wins, comprehensively.
There is nothing that can stop this that I can see short of a major political upheaval in the west, which is near to impossible to happen.
“major political upheaval in the west, which is near to impossible to happen”.
I suspect the situation in the West may be a lot more fragile than you think. A lot of people are very, very angry in the US, but they keep a lid on it because they have long known, and had confirmed by the treatment meted out to the Jan 6 “insurrectionists”, what would happen to anyone who moved too early. But any significant dent in that monolithic power structure oppressing them is likely to be taken full advantage of. Such a dent as might be caused by, say, a single hypersonic strike on a target such as the Pentagon, Congress, or the White House.
At some stage as this progresses, such is likely to look like an easy, even a necessary, win to Russia.
What you’re saying is Russia “helping out”, if we get to that then everything is possible. I’m talking about an “organic” political “reorganization” (let’s call it that). I still think that’s nearly impossible as (big majority of the) people today don’t have what it takes to fight for their principles. The only scenario, maybe, is major economical meltdown that’d force people out of their ‘shells’, again that’s also not likely, soon. By that time we’ll be well into WW3.
My reading of Russia’s actions says the very last thing Russia wants is any operation to interfere in other nations’ politics. For example, Russia hasn’t done anything to influence Ukraine’s politics, not counting the dead of the SMO. For example, no kind words for any Ukie politician because that would be a kiss of death.
Probably the greatest mistake of the USSR was the Comintern, which was supposed to promote revolution worldwide, until the Politburo pulled the plug on it in 1943. The Communists had been trying to write a check they could not cash, and all it got them was extremely determined opposition in the West. I don’t know if there would have been any good coming from the Kremlin pulling the plug on the Comintern in 1928 and very publicly announcing that there were going to build socialism in only one country, that the working people in all the capitalist countries were on their own, and that the capitalists should sit down and negotiate – instead of supporting the right wing in Germany for the “Drang Nach Osten”. Except for China, the Comintern was never successful. From 1922 to 1948, the working people of France, England, Germany, etc. were mesmerized (couch potatoes) into watching the success of the USSR. I haven’t seen my analysis anywhere, but I’d be shocked if the Kremlin didn’t come to the same conclusion decades ago.
Bottom line is that Americans will have to fix their own country, and we have to plan for a long tough fight. It’s a fight where we need all the Americans we can muster. We must be careful to not write off people who have good intentions, mainly because the evil powers use divide-and-rule, identity politics, and so on to weaken every patriotic movement. This will not be a Hollywood-style slam dunk, and the hardest thing will be to work things out with each other. That’s something the American citizens have never done before. “Coming together” was always mediated by the elites before, and now we have no elites we can trust.
S. Dog:
“…major political upheaval in the west…”
The coming social-economic collapse is not about whether possible, but when it’s gonna happen!
OTOH, I wouldn’t hold my breath anticipating anything resulting from that upheaval turning sheople toward the truth, for a change. I have a very narrow contact-base in the US, but I do know some people who are much better off, in this respect, e.g.:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/07/james-howard-kunstler/blobocracy/
About the next step:
I think Russkies will wait until this Great Surprise would:
(a) fizzle out and then move very, very slowly, toward the Western 404 — allowing all the good old Nazi Banderistas run into their dreamed, second homeland; however, the unexpectedly Green & Woke Deutschland! Good for them 😉 or,
(b) the nukes will start flying and popping and the real Hell on Earth would follow… (I, for one, would vote for ‘a’ — will OTAN membership vote that as well?)
Cheers, JaKo
I don’t think we are far from the point of a break down of the Ukrainian army. An army is not just people, it is an organisation. If you take a company with 1000 employees, and you take out 400, the company is lost.
To drive a tank is not a matter of will, but of experience.
So, Napoleon had his Waterloo, but Ukraine even does not get this.
Zelensky, that little western Muppet … he marched his military towards Luhansk and Donbass to terrorize and probably genocide all Russian speaking inhabitants there and now he’s hiding and talking about Russian terror on Ukrainian military facilities?!
He’s a total joke, a no-one, yesterdays news. No one in the west cares about anything that goes on there. Zelensky sold his people and the Ukrainian nation to the west, to be use as a proxy, and now he’s complaining about loosing. He is getting exactly what he was told by the Russian leadership when he started killing innocent people for their choice to side with Russia.
EU/Nato and the US seem to have enough of that “adventure”. They will pull out soon and force that idiot to negotiate. I think Russia might just go for his surrender. Too much BS is coming from Kiev and the west. Russia is better off to finish the job. BRICS are on the rise, western nations are drowning in debt and high inflation. Nato and the US got a taste what they will face once they really want to go to war with Russia. And Russia has shown to the world and it’s allies that they can take on the entire utter incompetent Nato armies with no hesitation. Multi-polarity, just as they promised. No more western hegemony. The west will side with the rest or slide into poverty and chaos, as we can slowly see for example in France. That is just the beginning.
For those who talk about ukraine “negotiating with Russia” I have to enlighten them – there will be NO negotiations from Russian side. Ukies and their handlers already HAD that chance – and blown it! Now Russia will simply dictate the terms, and those will be what West already had in front of them two years ago and which were arrogantly rejected by them. Do you people remember what Putin said at the time? “We will achieve what we demand by other means.” That is exactly what Russia is doing now. These terms have actually hardened since, as Russia lost men in this SMO. Originally the West was to pull back it’s idiotically expanded NATO (right up to Russian borders!) – back to it’s 1991 lines and to stop inviting Ukraine to join the alliance – Ukraine was the “red line” and had to be totally neutral. The things have changed in the last two years. NATO will be “done and gone” altogether as an organization and Ukraine will be a leftover agricultural rump in the middle of former self, with no coastline access. Next to be returned to Russia, apart from the four regions already back since the start of SMO, will be Nikolaev and Odessa – as Russian as it gets. Crimea was returned 8 years ago. The West needs to learn when Russia makes first offer, it will be the best the West will ever get and so, grab that with both hands!
Now, all historically Russian lands will be back with Mother Russia once again.
So-called Ukraine, as many of you already know, has always been an artificial construct and therefore without longevity. Cabal’s meddling there has simply accelerated the disintegtation process. And for Cabal that will have a domino effect.
As the wise saying goes – don’t f*ck with Russia, you will lose!
Larry has asked the question. How do these idiots get themselves out of this. But first? Do they want to? Vicki Nuland apparently runs our entire foreign policy. And she ain’t backing off. They will send the ATACMS. They will send the F16’s. And I think the shadow cabal that did NordStream is looking at that Nuke plant.
To reasonable people, this is obviously over. And it is time to fold your cards and cut your losses. Our government is not run by reasonable people. And I think the danger level is increasing exponentially as their desperation grows.
And their desperation is not just over Ukraine. The economy is only alive due to the last of the Covid stimmy trillions circling the drain. But that is draining. And that is world wide. Europe is collapsing. China is not going to have a recovery to save us all. China will be lucky to save itself. The only way this Ponzi worked across the world was that money was basically free. 32 Trillion at 5% vig chews up the entire US budget.
It is glaringly obvious that the once proud US Army is a shell. We got a few Southern cracker killers left in the Tier 1 units. And the rest are fat trannies. I might have told this story. A friend’s son just mustered out. He was 25th Infantry in Hawaii. I am 63, and we got drunk and I did more fucking pushups than he could. He is a fat porker at age 25.
And the elections are coming up. My idiot Repukes have a structural advantage in the Senate races that SHOULD give them 5 more seats. They will fuck that up like they do everything. But they will probably at least get the 2 they need to take the Senate. And that puts Pedo Joe in the crosshairs. What will the power structure do if they see the clown show being exposed?
I hate to sound tin foil hattish. But these are scary times. And power does not give up power willingly.
All of this, somehow, is an emergent property of humanity. Both the “leaders” and those of us who can’t figure out how to get rid of them.
“How do these idiots get themselves out of this.” is not the right question. The question is how do those of us who see the corruption end it? Or more likely, backing up from that, is it even possible if it is, in fact, an emergent property of humanity?
What, might WW3 be prevented, just so Gates and WHO can kill us all with GMO mosquitoes, or WIFI, or chip us, or poison us with any number of toxins, or choose your device here. As scale increase, all of those kill the entire species.
Ted Kaczynski dies recently – maybe his prison was getting too expensive. I’ve always wondered if he chose to be locked up for just this reason, that there is no way to “solve” this predicament and that any actions he might take only made it worse.
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps if we all started chanting the names of God, then maybe. Otherwise, maybe best outcome is “On the Beach”.
Hi Curt
Geez, Wish you were a little less optimistic. But I know you’re right about all this. Maybe I’ll just thumb thru my old Snap-On calendar Ms, just 4 nostalgia’s sake. 😢
There is a good reason for Zelensky to be so glum, it appears that Moscow has introduced the S-70 Okhotnik into the battlefield and it may well have hit the SBU……….
https://warnews247-gr.translate.goog/irthe-apo-to-pouthena-to-rosiko-stealth-ucav-s-70-okhotnik-vomvardise-gia-proti-fora-stochous-stin-oukrania-den-to-eidan-ta-rantar-lene-oi-tourkoi/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB
Does not show up on radar…… funny that.
I hate sensationalistic BS, like that article. There are videos of Gerans striking Sumy. Russians won’t risk their latest stuff falling onto enemy territory.
Everything shows up on radar, at some point. F-117 got rocket up its ass once it opened bomb bay doors.
Knowing many Europeans who are cognizant of the fact that they, their parents & their grandparents can recall the atrocities committed by Ukie Nationalists who collaborated with the Nazis in WWII (the massacre of ~100,000 Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia not least amongst them), I can state categorically that there is no appetite amongst Europeans to fight for Ukraine.
Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada.
As such, this leaves the UK-US isolated.
In order to extricate themselves from the mess which they themselves created, I am seeing more reports that the way it will most likely play out is that an increasingly deteriorating Biden will be forced out of the White House by the end of the Northern Hemisphere’s summer, that the Ukrainian war will be blamed mostly on him & he’ll be replaced by the vacuous V-P Kamala Harris. This gives the Democrats sufficient time to regroup & mount an election campaign for November 2024.
Unfortunately for the UK, it doesn’t have any face-saving way out, since the recent spate of ousted Prime Ministers, they can’t throw another one ‘under the bus’ and maintain the British public’s trust in the political system. For them, the end to Russia’s SMO – on Russia’s terms – will be humiliating. And not for the first time – for those who can recall the 1956 Suez Crisis.
Larry,
Do you have any insight on the rumors that Russia evacuated their US embassies, staff, docs, etc. I’ve not been able to confirm it other than hearing from overseas independent reporters. If true, it’s not a good sign. Something is brewing, and, as you say, there doesn’t appear to be a solution as the neocons are completely unwilling to back down.
If true, that is frightening.
Here is one source in English that I’ve been able to find that addresses the departure of Russian diplomats in the first part of the podcast. The other sources I found addressing this issue are non-English only.
Disclaimer:
I don’t follow TruNews, it’s a first time source for me, I don’t who they are, or whether they’re trustworthy or not. Perhaps some people on this blog may have input on them. However, they do cover the departure of the Russian diplomats from the US with some related anecdotal evidence. It’s not clear whether this is just a change of the diplomatic staff after their 3-year tour or something else. No replacements arrived yet, from what they say.
https://www.trunews.com/stream/war-preparations-russian-diplomats-removed-from-usa
The US is doing all it can to encourage the Russian diplomats to leave DC:
https://www.newsbreak.com/washington-dc/3078879190368-russia-s-embassy-in-washington-becomes-a-different-kind-of-battle-zone
Russia should pay Antonov a special salary supplement for hardship and working in a dangerous, toxic environment.
As LOTGWN noted on Andrei’s blog the other week.
“NATO was destroyed by a fat chick with cookies.”
Iconic!
Let’s hope it’s not “The world was destroyed by a fat chick with cookies.”
Come to the dark side, we have cookies.
Halloween cookies?
I guess Nuland cookies could pass as Halloween ones, since they are distributed by a witch.
When the American-backed government of Afghanistan was quickly falling to the Taliban, Biden told the government to deny that they were being beaten. That’s what’ll happen with Ukraine. They’ll claim they’re winning until they’ve lost. NATO may not automatically died then, but it will shrink to the point where it can be drowned in a bathtub.
We don’t know how the war will end.
But one thing is guaranteed: Ukraine and Russia, EU and Russia, will still be neighbours. And they will have to find ways to live with each other.
That ‘new European security architecture’ Putin began lobbying for twenty years ago sounds pretty good to a lot of European folks just about now.
Our insights? What if the Neocon warmongers just finally found evolved human intelligence and defused the whole situation? Acknowledge Russia’s 30 years of legitimate security requests, dismantled NATO, lifted sanctions and opened up to economic opportunities?
But that would require humility, knowledge, integrity and a bit of love for humanity. So instead, they need to be defeated, humiliated and sent to the dustbin. Biggest problem is they are likely to take the rest of us with them..
Yes, if the neocons stopped being neocons…
As a crude old saying has it, if my grandmother had balls she’d be my grandfather.
Admittedly in these times of gender confusion the saying loses some of its persuasiveness
iggest problem with today’s neocons is that they’re thoroughly confused over whether their founding fathers were more into the ‘Fourth Internationale” or the ‘Fourth Reich’.
From Memoirs of a Trotskyist by Irving Kristol
“I was graduated from City College in the spring of 194O, and the honor I most prized was the fact that I was a member in good standing of the Young People’s Socialist League (Fourth International).
Biggest problem with today’s neocons is that they’re thoroughly confused over whether their founding fathers were more into the ‘Fourth Internationale” or the ‘Fourth Reich’.
From Memoirs of a Trotskyist by Irving Kristol
“I was graduated from City College in the spring of 194O, and the honor I most prized was the fact that I was a member in good standing of the Young People’s Socialist League (Fourth International).
More cowbell,
as Larry put it in the past is needed, and Nato most likely will deliver the weaponry.
Yes! More Cowbell (F16s, ATACAMS, Bradleys, stingers (!) )!!! But how? – NATO needs Ukrainian warm meat* and Ukraine is running low## (tellingly, Col. MacGregor, notes the US is now running down its own war stocks, while the EU NATO cupboard is almost bare, the Middle east stocks are being attrited and the empire is even repatriating Asian war stocks . . .).
IMHO, Poland will (privately) volunteer at the meeting to wear the Ukrainian mantle in the fall, when F16s start flying from NATO bases. This (not public) show of willing sacrifice will stall any official acknowledgment of internal disagreements, win Duda some economic relief via the fed’s magic printing press, allowing a united public front one more time. Plus no one wants to draw the ire of the Mafia Don.
Meanwhile, thanks to El Nino, we have a very hot summer, so I expect a new US BLM protest or equivalent to distract the public – squirrel!!! – and headlines. Though it makes the US look weak and hurts the main street economy, accelerating the US economy’s Amazonification (a good according to the donor class), it does not affect the donor class, so win-win all around (for the donor class).
* The aptness of the descriptor “feeding the meat grinder” to the clearly failed strategy to weaken Russia is truly evil.
## Ukraine had 52 million people in 1990, Col. MacGregor suggests its down to 17 million today – Dutch sized. The war-fighting-age male demographics are worse.
I think the big problem for ukriane is manpower. They are running out of bodies to throw in to war. The country is falling apart fast. The West economies are all in or heading into ressession weakening their ability to continue funds. For all Europe’s rhetoric, they are weak financially & militarily. Poland is still buying 40% of its gas from Russia despite their anti russian stance. There will be a fudge at NATO meeting because this all they can do.
How long till ‘not ultimatum’ is revisited? Asking for a friend
“then Russia is likely to step up its attacks on decision making centers in Ukraine”
I don’t understand why they aren’t doing so already; after all, they have said all along any military equipment or mercs on Ukie territory are legit targets.
Larry, I too don’t know what is going on in the minds of the US oligarchy. Forget about the presidents, Sullivan’s”, Nuhland’s, Blinken’s. They are just princely paid errand boys. Black Rock, Vanguard, UBS, …. and ultimately the owners of the assets under management control our destiny.
I try to focus on substantive issues.
In Germany, where I live, the “Morgenthau Plan” is being belatedly implemented. Why? With what goal?
Does the U.S. oligarchy in the West really want to implement its dystopian, fascistoid and feudalistic “Great Reset” model of society? Can this work if this is limited only to North America, Europe and Australia? Industry, technology, sciences revolve around raw materials and energy potential. Where are the main deposits of vital raw materials? Primarily in the giant empire of Russia, in Africa, in South America.
I can only recommend to watch intensively the videos of western vloggers who live in China. Compare the infrastructure, living conditions, cityscapes and landscapes, technologies of China with those in the West. The future already exists there. No garbage, graffiti and dirt, no homeless, hardly any crime, no tent cities filled with drug addicts. I don’t want to claim that everything is good in China. No. But if you watched the videos from all over China and then compared it to the reality in the US and Europe, you would know that the West is no longer competitive. Not in economy, not in technologies, not in sciences, not culturally. Hundreds of millions of Chinese live better than 80% of the US. But again, compare the pictures with our reality. These vloggers are not paid by the Chinese state.
What does a great power do, what do colonial powers do, that realize they are in decline and there is no realistic hope of being able to compete while the other side prospers? Honestly, no matter what they do in NATO, the window of time is closing. All I see is war. No matter if there is a temporary ceasefire. The USA can only do war. It is hopelessly in decline in all other areas. As the BRICS+ and the SOC create their own currency, banking and payment system, one day this means of power of the USA will also disappear. What else can the U.S. do to prevent this? Answer: terrorism and war.
The alternative would be for the U.S. oligarchy to make peace and join and participate in the economic millennium projects of Russia and China. God, that would be an exciting future and humanity would live in some prosperity and peace.
But the development is visibly tending in the opposite direction. Men are having babies and menstruating in the West. God help us. “Green Deal”, “Gene Drives” + DARPA + Bill Gates, “Great Reset”, 15-minute Kz’s etc.
Here is one chinese vlogger I follow who also covers the economy:
https://www.youtube.com/@CyrusJanssen
There are many others
it is eye opening to see their cities and ports and bridges – they look like something the west dreams of in a Star Trek future, while around us we see a Blade Runner future coming into focus.
The NY skyline is looking old and cannot hide the human waste in the streets.
Comments are full of comedy and humor, but they belie the real horror that the US and EU face in the coming years and decades. It is really not funny how over 63 countries embarked on this most ill conceived adventure and are now staring at the ramifications it will have on their respective economies and the rest of the world.
Macron the buffoon said it well that “the years of abundance are over” and we may chuckle and grin about it for now. I, for one, as well as many readers and commentators of this blog understand all too well what it means to go from abundance to scarcity in a very short time. It is traumatic, it is afflicting and exasperating to have to adjust to an entirely new way of life… and that because of idiotic, irrational decisions made at the highest levels of governments around the world, all led by the nostrils by one decrepit, senile, criminal carcass sitting in the White House.
Take, for instance, what African countries are experiencing right now, due to the virtual closure of grain supplies coming from Ukraine, the former breadbasket of EU, Asia and Africa.
Unlike our misadventures in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, this conflict promises to affect practically every human being on the planet and worse yet, it is, at this very moment, being hijacked by truly ominous, nefarious players, who elected themselves to decide who lives and who dies (much like the Covid hoax, only 10 times worse) to bring about changes in the lifestyle we’ve grown to expect and even take for granted.
Do not be surprised if rationing of food, gas, electricity, travel, as well as confiscation of precious metals, guns and other items deemed critical, begin to take place… all in the name of promoting “security” of the citizens. Who knows, maybe even the mandatory implanting of ID microchip, in order to monitor our every move. Think it’s far fetched? Read the Bible…prophesized thousands of years ago
“Comments are full of comedy and humor, but they belie the real horror that the US and EU face in the coming years and decades.”
How does that real horror compares to unreal horror thay have been causing to others in previous decades and centuries? All those living in the jungle find it hilarious to look at Borrell’s Garden as it burns down. Karma is a bitch.
“Take, for instance, what African countries are experiencing right now, due to the virtual closure of grain supplies coming from Ukraine, the former breadbasket of EU, Asia and Africa.”
Most of Ukrainian grain goes to the West (and is owned by Monstanto and the likes). The whole story about Ukros feeding the poor people in Africa is a god damn lie. Promoting it makes you part of the probem.
African countries are right now experiencing decolonization. It will be rough for a while, but ther is a brigher future after that. Those that moved to the Garden will start coming back, just like Russians are comming back to the Motherland.
Correctly said. The chickens are coming home to roost. America and EU are already having a taste of their own medicine.
I predict that in a near future, we in the so-called “civilized world” or Borrell’s garden, will see people, barefooted, walking along unpaved roads ( after the asphalt has been pulled off them), with their horse and buggies, going to scrounge from the mountainous waste dumps, just like we helped create all around the world, through our “compassionate” foreign policies.
There is nothing in our future but the wrath of God Almighty, just you wait!
To clarify a couple of points. Abundance was there only in the West. Everywhere else in the world things were always difficult.
Africa doesn’t eat much wheat except North Africa. , Russia has more than enough for them. Rice too India doesn’t export much and stores 1.5 years of rice but typically govt is forced to buy much more and millions of tons rot. Govt and officials are perpetually scared of shortages as 70 years back we faced famines and shortages for decades and nobody takes decisions to export . Unloading ot in local market causes prices to go down so it isn’t released there either.
Most of Africa uses non grain starches and few other local grains.
Africa can easily become self sufficient if it develops it’s agriculture sector. Aid forces them to buy from the West and process flour etc abroad too and local agro industries are not allowed to develop. With China and Russia now active in Africa this will be one of the vectors of development, including production of fertilizer, metals, heavy industry, agricultural supply chain etc all this was prevented by the West. Ukraine was valuable only because it produced raw material cheap and it was processed in Europe to sell to the world. Mainly wheat and cooking oil. There are enough alternatives in the world.
abundance is a relative term. One guy cursed God for only having an apple to eat a day, while another thanked God for having the peels from one apple a day, that washed downstream.
Arabic speaking countries in Africa utilize an obscene amount of wheat flour.
Now, they will adjust, but until then, will have to cope with shortages.
True that most grain from Ukranistan go to affluent countries.
Ukraine is not breadbasket of EU which is self-sufficient in wheat – Ukraine supplied cheap animal fodder and sunflower oil to blend in biofuels like E10
Ukraine is irrelevant to EU which is why EU Agreements did not allow Ukrainian agriculture access to EU Market
“The dilemma NATO faces is figuring out how to extract itself from the war in Ukraine without destroying itself.”
Extracting from the war is a relatively easy job.
For the domestic audiences, stitch up a peace job, stitch up Ukraine and make sure the MSM drops the whole story quickly. It worked with Iraq and Afghanistan a treat….. who talks about those wars now?
I think it is at the international level they will experience their main problems.
Germany, along with everybody else, probably accepts that NordStream2 was a US op; who in the NATO world will tolerate the existing ‘world order’ when they betray in such a manner.
I reckon that is going to be a bitch of a job, so many who they will need to talk with have long memories.
Continued domestic support would be relatively easy to maintain. ‘A new iron curtain descending across the continent , from Finland in the north, to Ukraine in the south’ would give TPTB a new enemy to protect everybody from. I can’t envisage the military industrial complex complaining much either.
I think it would be history repeating itself as farce, but it would kick the can down the road…_
Yes, a new iron curtain descending from Finland to Ukraine would give TPTB the bogie man they need to keep NATO the US-UK-MIC and the EU running.
However, Russia would never accept NATO missiles on its border.
A new iron curtain would kick the can down the road for the US and UK while the EU descends into economic depression and poverty.
The politicians of Western Europe has already accepted such a Great RESET with the WEF GREEN agenda, but the west European population will not accept it, when they realize the consequences.
A new Iron Curtain caries a major risk of a nuclear war with Russia or the break up of the EU and NATO.
Taking into account that Germany and France has already been betrayed by the US and UK, the result may very well be YANKEE GO HOME.
The only solution I see is for NATO is to freeze the war in Ukraine by sending Zelensky on retirement in Florida under the constant protection of the CIA, or to Tel Aviv under the constant protection of Mossad.
Because the NAZIs in Lviv will be out to get him.
I always thought Zelensky’s “effervescence” was due to snorting vast amount of coke. Supplies must be running low and he’s got the cocaine bugs crawling all over him.
After seeing what happened in Afgahnistan
I really don´t understand countries who start a war , and relying on USA and Nato,
that they will always help them.
They think that they are different, and special, and above those lesser-ones that deserved to be dumped by The Great USA.
NATO and all the players are but actors on the stage reading the script provided by the real power brokers, what is it that they are trying to achieve? Davos and WEF give clues to their vision of a dystopian future of corporate control over an enslaved population, but the war hasn’t (presumably) gone to plan, so what will they decide?
Be happy with just the West or go for broke with escalation leading to some other goal? Can’t see nuclear war as an option as first strike appears too risky, and one thing all billionaires want is to live forever. An unfolding book with an unknown ending.
” I do not see a solution”.
Phenomena do not require to be seen to exist.
Some are more likely than others not to see as a function of framing.
Lateral change is a constant wherein variables include but are not limited to trajectories and velocities, hence “certainty” is the greatest weakness gaining further potency for those whose purposes are predicated upon hopes of linear change within acceptable tolerances.
Evaluation requires a perception of the purposes and facilities of interlocuters, which is rendered more unlikely for those reliant on self-projections through which they inform interlocutors of their purposes and facilities, whilst precluding to some degree opportunities of interpreting the purposes and facilities of their interlocuters, thereby facilitating their accelerating/expanding complicity in their own transcendence – the reaction of scratching other’s eyes out when mittens are lost refers as “force after burners” in social relations prone to vindictiveness.
“Lateral change is a constant wherein variables include but are not limited to trajectories and velocities”
Hence “solutions” are never constant but only momentarily “seen” ex post facto as moments in lateral processes but not interpreted as such, and hence analysts/historians/journalists/scribes/spectators seeking/seeing solutions are always MirrorGazers waiting for Godot in constant change interpreted/perceived as stasis – the “reality” that never was but interpreted to have been.
Though all men are fallen, sinful creatures in Adam, I think the Russians are better people than the heathen, Christ-hating Marxist Socialist populations that now occupy both Europe and the United States (populations that have instituted wholesale infanticide and the abomination of sodomite “marriage”; populations and countries now being invaded and destroyed by barbarian hordes as just punishment for having rejected the One true God — Father, Son, Holy Spirit — and His holy Laws).
The NATO nations and their populations and cultures are far more wicked (demonic is probably a better word) than that of the Russian people.
Therefore, what is the point of NATO’s existence? Why would Vladimir Putin and the Russians ever want to attack their customer base — nations with whom they trade and which help to sustain and supply their wealth? The Russian people are no longer Communists.
Seems as though the ONLY purpose of NATO today is to perpetuate a lie and a myth that helps to keep liars in power and to make America’s military industrial complex rich.
NATO, like the Marxist Christ-hating secular humanist United Nations, should be completely abolished. Political leaders the world over must recognize the Biblical Laws of Triune JEHOVAH and submit themselves to the authority and Lordship of the Creator of the universe, the Lord Jesus Christ (see Psalm 2). Triune God’s Ten Commandments apply as much to nations and their civil magistrates as to individuals the world over. Those who reject Triune God’s Lordship will one day have to pay a dreadful price — Hellfire forever.
It’s time to pull the plug on the Ukrainian Slaughterhouse, and it’s time to end NATO.
“It’s time to pull the plug on the Ukrainian Slaughterhouse, and it’s time to end NATO.”
Gorgy Porgy
Pudding and pie
Kissed the girls
And made them cry
When the boys came out to play
Gorgy Porgy ran away.
That is the children’s rhyme likely no longer an option permitted by many boys or girls.
Besides its ever more overt war with Russia and China, the US is covertly at war with Western Europe, as it shifts NATO’s secondary power centers to Eastern Europe, the Baltic states and Poland mark the trend and with Ukraine now in its sights – if it ever joins, western European members will eventually balk at its inherently fascist mindset, secede and NATO will then become the EETO, ‘the Eastern European Treaty Organization’. Interesting times ahead, assuming we all survive them.
I think your understanding of situation here is a bit opaque. NATO shifting it’s power centers to three piddly little Baltic prostitudes and the useless Poland is not going to make ANY difference, let alone with Ukraine in it’s sights.
First of all, lots of people are seemingly not getting it quite clear in their heads – once Russia is thru with Ukraine or whatever is going to be left of it (describing it as 404 fits it nicely), there is no chance in hell it will ever be allowed to join anything let alone NATO if that will still exist by then. Things are changing. Rapidly.
Secondly, in the world of geopolitics, Russia has ceased any dealings with the West, it doesn’t need that West and is now busy successfully building alternative world order with it’s equally strong allies. As far as Russia is concerned, the West can go to blazes. And unless this West decides to commit suicide by launching first strike on Russia, we should be safe.
“”NATO was thinking like Nazi Germany.”
Spectators tend to rely on assumptions and hence “interpret” the reasons for the ongoing Special Military Operation and the information relayed by the representatives of other cultures.
Practitioners tend to define their terms of reference which are not in detail often relayed to spectators.
A current popular assumption of spectators is “We understand the terms of reference of – Who are the NAZIs to denazify ?” – unlike practitioners such as Mr. Haass to some degree.
” the US is covertly at war with Western Europe”
“The United States of America” has been at war with increasing parts of the world including “The United States of America” and assorted Rocks since before the construct was created after some religious exceptionalists were told by some Dutch religious exceptionalists that they were no longer welcome except to get out of the Netherlands and go live elsewhere which they attained by hitting Plymouth Rock
Hence:
“Times have changed,
And we’ve often rewound the clock
Since the Puritans got a shock
When they landed on Plymouth Rock
If today, any shock they should try to stem
‘Stead of landing on Plymouth Rock
Plymouth Rock would land on them”.
In days of old a glimpse of stocking
Was looked on as something shocking
But now, heaven knows
Anything goes.
Good authors too who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words (hope?)
Writing prose
Anything goes.
etc.
Thank you for your hope – the second greatest weakness.
Stop calling this cunts Marxists.
In Marxism, enterprises are there to serve “the state” (the state being all the citizens) … In the current situation , a minimal and oligarchic version of “the state” is here to serve the enterprises shareholders…. Mussolini gave that doctrine a name : fascism.
Thank you for putting it so succinctly – I already posted a less concise rebuttal before I saw yours 🙁
I get so sick of Americans (and other ignorant people) throwing around “marxism’, ‘socialism’, ‘communism’ as if they were swear words, but without any understanding of what they mean!
Throwing words around without knowing their meaning is the essence of Murcian culture. Democracy, freedom, equality, football …
Only 20% of the world is nominally Christian even less practicing Christians.
What’s the point in bringing up your religious doctrines in a discussion on a global scale.
Hi, Masr. Point is, the Triune God of the Scriptures created you, me, and every other human being on this planet. This is His universe. Christ Himself created it (Colossians 1:16; Revelation 4:11; John 1: 3-10). Triune God is our Sovereign King, and we must either be His subjects or… we will be judged as guilty rebels and then sent to Hell. That is the cold, hard reality we must all face. Moreover, every one of God’s Ten Commandments are STILL in effect, and His supernaturally revealed Word is the ONLY source of knowledge and truth. For ethical judgments to be accurate, they must be based upon Scripture. It is also true that JEHOVAH’s holy Laws apply to individuals AND nations. To violate them is to court disaster — both individually and nationally. “The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all nations that forget God”(Psalm 9:17). “Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. KISS THE SON, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.” (Psalm 2: 10-12)
One more thing. If our great Founding Fathers and those brave and intrepid patriot soldiers of Revolutionary War (Calvinist Protestants all, or nearly all) fame were to come back from the dead, they would be shocked and appalled by “American” membership in both NATO and the United Nations. There are a lot of other things they would be shocked by as well. For these were all men who were learned their grammar lessons from the New England Primer, which had the mighty Westminster Catechism embedded within it. Satan’s philosophy of Liberalism is the ideology of the insane and the religion of the eternally damned. (I define liberalism as any idea, notion, belief, or government policy that clashes with God’s pure Word, the King James Bible and best understood through the lens of the Westminster Confession of Faith, the Heidelberg Catechism, the Belgic Confession and the Canons of Dort.)
“He that overcometh shall inherit all things: and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. But the fearful and unbelieving, and the abominable and murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters and ALL LIARS, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.” (Revelation 21: 7-8)
“Calvinism is the Gospel, and nothing else.” – Charles Spurgeon
McMorrow is the internet version of the unkempt and unhinged retard standing on a street corner screaming out quotes from his bible as the shoppers busily walk past.
These types appear as frightening to some and a source of amusement to others.
@ grr
Lol You do have a way with words, good thing I wasn’t drinking anything while reading it. It would have been all over my laptop. Good one, thanks for the laugh.
And if you think that he is unhinged then wait till you read the islamic scriptures. There is a mention of a man who kept a thin stick (sticks about 0.5-0.75cm of trees like Neem are used for brushing teeth) in his anus for 9 or 10 months. he gave birth to a baby with a face/head like a lizard.
They can be very indeed frightening if they become a crowd, and if they gain power can cause horrendous pain and suffering!
Otherwise, a source of amusement and/or pity.
The Law was given to Israel, nobody else. It does serve to instruct everyone else, though. Those outside the Law perish nonetheless.
There is nothing Marxist or Socialist about the USA, and not much left of either in the EU. You obviously do not have a clue what either of those terms mean. There are words that describe what is happening in the ‘Western’ culture – fascist comes to mind (which is the opposite of socialist), kleptocracy, oligarchy, are a few others.
Marxism is an economic theory which has some merits. Perhaps you should study it and learn bit about it before you throw terms around that you clearly do not understand.
Just as an aside, the Russian people include not only Christians, but also Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, and possibly other belief systems that do not believe in or recognize the authority of your Biblical Triune God.
“Marxism is an economic theory which has some merits.”
Marxism has never and does not exist de facto but at one point did, only Dialectical Historical Materialism.
The obfuscation of Dialectical Historical Materialism was initiated in 1925 to create a cult/religion by the Bolsheviks which became Marxism/Leninism/Stalinism/Moaism/(subtract Maoism) in due course.
However as was regulary the case, some remembered the Soviet observation that one hundred make the law and one hundred million find ways around it.
The start of publishing of the Complete Works of Marx and Engels by Progess Publishers in 1971 was part of strategies decided in 1969 to recover Dialectical Historical Material, which was not restricted to Mr. Marx but included Mr. Guizot, Mr. Dietzgen and many others, and was never restricted to being an economic theory but sources of open hypotheses including on methods never restricted to the “economic”, a division of labour/invention of Mr. Alfred Marshall in Principles of Economics published in 1890, which if memory serves Mr. Samuelson subsequently appropriated the title, and elsewhere to deflect in part some ideas in relation to the causes of the “Great Depression of the 1870’s” and subsequent, which attempted to reduce the perception of the agency of humans by invented concepts such as the deification of the “market” and its hidden hands – perhaps by being given some mittens?
The publishing of these complete works and others by Progress Publishers from 1971 onwards, including comedic works such as Mr. Federenko and Leontiev’s Optimal Functional System for a Socialist Economy of 1973 issued to obfuscate the reasons for the implementation of The Brezhnev Doctrine in Czechoslovakia and elsewhere from 1968 onwards, and represented as part of failsafe precautions to “minimise” dangers inherent in “detente” with “The United States of America” from 1971 onwards, plus the complicity in facilitation of the alchemy of turning gold into paper from 1971 onwards, plus the curtailment of discreet negotiations with the Japanese zaibatsu represented by Mitsui/Mitsubishi in 1973 in regard to proposed projects using “US paper” rendered to the ziabatsu instead of gold, to be used to finance a double track railway including necessary accessories from Kobe to initially Rava Ruska via Primorski Krai to facilitate the change of railroad guages at both ends of “The Soviet Union” were/are moments in the ongoing process from at least 1969 of the transcendence of “The Soviet Union” by The Russian Federation.
The meeting with Mitsui/Mitsuibishi in 1973 was the first egg which was not fertilised, the second egg was in 1993 in a building of The Russian Academy of Science/Geography on Novy Arbat in Moscow, May 1993 if memory serves but during 1993 to quote Mr. Lewis – There was a whole lotta shakin’ going on was not fertilished, the third egg which was fertilished was at least one of the constituents/embryos of OBOR.
All of the above were/are components of the ongoing transcendence of “The Soviet Union” by The Russian Federation and the developing relations between The People’s Republic of China and The Russian Federation from at least 1995 onwards.
” Perhaps you should study it and learn bit about it before you throw terms around that you clearly do not understand ? “
Correction.
“Marxism has never and does not exist de facto but at one point did”
should read
“”Marxism has never and does not exist de facto but at one point did de jure”
in hoped facilitation of
“The obfuscation of Dialectical Historical Materialism was initiated in 1925 to create a cult/religion by the Bolsheviks which became Marxism/Leninism/Stalinism/Moaism/(subtract Maoism) in due course.”
An insertion in illumination might be:
“”The obfuscation of Dialectical Historical Materialism was initiated in 1925 to create a cult/religion by the Bolsheviks using primarly members of the Trotskyite faction who sourced original manuscripts and memoriabilia of both Mr. Marx and Mr. Engels primarily throught Europe but also in New York from the Archive of the Charles Kerr and Co. publishers limited using funds confiscated from “former people”, generally re-cycled jewellery, to finance the projects.
Most of these finders of documents and their associates were subject to sentences in the Gulag without rights of communication – ergo 9 grams or so of bullet in the back of the head via Nagan – by 1940, informed by Mr. Stalin’s mis-guided observation of: No man, no problem.
Apologies.
What I think would be an interesting move, if Russia wants to reduce NATO support and push the war faster to an end, would be, in the next few days, right before the NATO summit, to blow up several sensitive areas full of NATO goons training or leading Ukrainian troops – the goal being not to kill Ukrainian soldiers, but NATO officers. Let it be known at the summit that any NATO officer going to Ukraine faces a significant risk of death, this will considerably curb their enthusiasm. Do it at least a couple of days before the summit begins, so that the lower ranks can tell their top generals they’re not going to go and die for far-right Galician fools, so that this can be relayed to their ministers, and see who’s willing to go farther at Vilnius.
It’s quite possible that the Kramatorsk hit wasn’t just to kill Ukrainian top officers, but also to make a point to NATO. I’m still of the opinion that point should be made far clearer by hitting a handful more of NATO hangouts across Central and Eastern Ukraine, sending a few dozens body bags back West.
In these days there is hardly ever “Slava Ukraine” in official Ukrainian speeches or videos of Ukrainian soldiers
Before that, almost every speech, or interview ended up with “Slava Ukraine” followed by choir of “Ukraine Slava” in case of choir of soldiers
I believe this is one of those conundrums that make some people stop and pay attention. It’s too bizarre not to have an opinion on.
Wimbledon has dropped its ban on Russian and Belarusian players competing at this years tournament. Not on any pretence of virtue signalling, just good old fashioned business.
If they hadn’t allowed the players to compete it would have cancelled Wimbledon as a Grand Slam tournament. ‘Show me the money Al’…_
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/64933565#:~:text=Russian%20trio%20Daniil%20Medvedev%2C%20Andrey,able%20to%20play%20this%20summer.
There appears to be no chance to save NATO, since they have gotten to a position that every action they take will end very badly for them, and its only a question of which shade of very badly we are talking about…
West still has some monetary advantage with world currencies (still generally accepted) and that is why they are still limping, but as soon as that melts away, decades of bad decisions will catch them up in a moment, and crash will be extremely fast and hard, so if they are smart, they would prepare for soft landing, but it doesn’t appears to be the case at this point…
Paralyzed, just like the US CEO of AB, he’s a CIA/ Harvard man. The so called elites are being exposed, just like at the beginning of WW2, but no one(including them) is going to give us a war to clear them out.
And…
Exactly how will NATO replenish it’s weapon stocks???
Punishing Sanctions
Xi to Biden:
Do you really want to hamper our chip producing companies?
Really?
China curbs critical metal exports in retaliation for Western restrictions on chip industry
China on Monday ordered export restrictions on two technology-critical elements in retaliation for new Western sanctions on its semiconductor industry.
The restrictions, which take effect on August 1, will apply to gallium and germanium metals and several of their compounds, which are key materials for making semiconductors and other electronics.
The Ministry of Commerce said in a statement that the export controls on gallium- and germanium-related items were necessary “to safeguard national security and interests”.
Exporters in China will need to apply for permission from the ministry, with information about the end users and how the materials will be used.
Gallium and germanium are used in lots of electronic components. AESA (active electronically scanned array) radars used on modern warships and fighter airplanes can not be made without those metals. China produces some 95% of those available on the global market.
It will take one or two years until the currently available stocks outside of China are diminished. But it takes much longer to open up new mining and processing facilities for replacement of the Chinese production. The processes used therein are quite dirty. A not-in-my-backyard attitude will make any setup of new facilities difficult to pursue.
The situation will soon become similar to the titanium market where Russia is the biggest global supplier but has restricted access for certain customers.
This is just one of many cards China (and Russia) can play in their anti-sanction games.
The U.S. is reaching the limits of its sanction power.
Furthermore, Russia is the dominant producer of aerospace grade titanium…
INDY
This should be attributes to Bernard at MoonofAlabama
Lifted from the Moon of Alabama without attribution. Here is the link
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
When copy-pasting an article (in this case, Moon of Alabama), one should at least cite the original and/or provide a link.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/07/punishing-sanctions.html
First of all….
The article did not originate with Moon of Alabama….
It initially showed up on one of my telegram channels….
Which sourced it from main stream media…
Secondly…
I didn’t post it as my original …..
I posted it for information purposes…
AS…..
Bernhard did….
Finally…..
Not a single poster here……
Considered and analyzed the implications stated therein…..
Which means……
All of you….
Are in denial…..
INDY
INDY
“The article did not originate with Moon of Alabama….”
I’d normally drop the subject, but as it looks like you replied to my objection specifically, I’ll return the favour…
“b” overtly block-quoted and linked the South China Morning Post article, and then commented on it. You copy-pasted and posted both the quoted SCMP section and his comments as one piece, without so much as ellipses to indicate that they were separate and that they originated elsewhere.
Prima facie, you posted both as if they were your own. Your prevarications regarding “information purposes” don’t get much traction with me, or I suspect with most readers.
Prima facie, It was pretty obvious that he posted it as sourced from other than himself. A link to MOA would have sufficed. No need to get carried away.
As I stated earlier……
The information did not originate with Moon of Alabama…
The source article was published by the South China Morning Post….
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3226430/china-curbs-critical-metal-exports-retaliation-western-restrictions-chip-industry
“China curbs critical metal exports in retaliation for Western restrictions on chip industry
Beijing orders export controls on gallium, germanium and several of their compounds, which are used to make semiconductors and electronics
The rules come just after the Netherlands announces new measures to limit China’s access to advanced chip manufacturing equipment
China’s semiconductor ambitions dealt fresh blow by new Dutch export rules on ASML chip-making machines
Effective September 1, ASML will need a government export license to sell its most advanced immersion DUV lithography systems to China
The Chinese government condemned the US for ‘coercing’ other countries into imposing technological blockades on China
The Netherlands government just dealt a fresh blow to China’s semiconductor industry with further restrictions on shipments of ASML’s chip-making equipment to the country, but it may not be the last word as the US is reportedly seeking to further tighten the choke hold on China’s chip ambitions.
ASML said in a statement on Friday that effective September 1, it will be required to apply for a license from The Hague to ship its most advanced immersion deep ultraviolet (DUV) lithography systems, including the TWINSCAN NXT: 2000i, and more sophisticated models.
In response, the Chinese government condemned the US for “coercing” other countries into imposing technological blockades on China and “undermining market rules and international trade” as well as the stability of the global supply chain.
“China will pay close attention to relevant developments and resolutely safeguard its legitimate rights and interests,” Mao Ning, spokeswoman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, said at a press conference on Friday.
The impact of the updated export controls could initially be limited, as the NXT: 2000i and higher-end tools are used for the more advanced 7-nanometre and 5-nm process nodes, which are already difficult for Chinese chip makers to tackle given broader US export controls.
At Chinese chip conference, industry veterans have US sanctions top of mind
29 Jun 2023
ASML’s lower-end NXT1980i, which can be used for 10-nm node chips, is still allowed for sale to China.
Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines from ASML, used by top chip makers like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, Samsung Electronics and Intel to produce leading-edge chips for smartphones and artificial intelligence applications, were already banned for export to China.
The latest ban did not come as a complete surprise, as the company as early as March had warned that it may be subject to broader export restrictions on advanced chip-making equipment, but it showed that Beijing’s diplomatic efforts with The Hague had fallen on deaf ears.”
Virtually all the above was ignored by Bernhard…..
YET…..
Is critical to understanding Chinese determination to follow through on the ban(s).
INDY
So, let the west produce their own gallium and germanium and China produce their own ‘advanced chip manufacturing equipment’. No need to wonder which will happen first, I think.
Germanium can be recovered from battle tank windows, so I’m pretty sure Black Rock will be talking about funding a recycling plant in Ukraine very soon.
PLEASE STOP THE SCARE PORN.
The United States has its best people on this issue:
“Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.): “Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources. This committee considers legislation about American energy production, mineral lands and mining.”
🙂
Perfect. Pops can get junior a spot there as an energy specialist.
Man, all this fireworks, mortars, rockets, small arms fire sounds I’m hearing now makes me want to pick up an rpg and go at it, if it was real that is. I told my wife & she frowned and said “I don’t want to hear it!” Typical woman.
NATO will do nothing except say they fully support the very lucrative business in Ukraine and that they are hoping to start up the other lucrative business in the Pacific once the market in Ukraine is saturated.
Also, we don’t need a new CEO as Jan is doing a great job and besides, he sold his for this job so fuck him!
For proxy war substitute projection war. The Ukrainian/Russo conflict is really the United States/Russo conflict. The truth? This is World War 3. The occasional foray of western backed terrorist attacks onto Russian soil, and Moscow itself, have been those catch your breath moments where images of attacks on American soil (not Ukrainian soil), most immediately come to mind.
So, why no consequences? There have been. Plenty. We just don’t hear or read about it. No. No. Not from the fully controlled, fully owned, and fully manipulated Western mainstream media. But Russia has been attacking Ukrainian decision-making centers for a while now, regardless of what the Western media doesn’t say about it. Not that it matters.
In a weeks’ time, the NATO summit will take place in Vilnius, Lithuania. Will the Russians view a NATO summit, so close to their borders, as a prime target? Are we still in the “if you can’t kick the master, then kick the master’s dog” phase of World War 3? Seems like it. Down to the last Ukrainian dog.
Would an attack on the NATO summit, if viewed as a decision-making center, be considered a direct attack upon the United States, or just upon the United States’ dogs? And who are Russia’s dogs? Wagner PMC? Belarus? Wagner PMC in Belarus (a bigger dog)? Russian nukes (a really, really, big, big dog), positioned inside Belarus, right where Wagner PMC is said to be currently stationed, and right on NATO borders? Forget NATO, the UK, the EU and the rest? These are the master’s dogs, belonging to the United States. Who cares?
Hope everybody has a firm hand on their dog’s leashes next week. We have heard a lot of barking and yapping. “Cry ‘Havoc! And let slip the dogs of war.”
Why should NATO be preserved? It has no purpose. The Warsaw pact was disbanded long ago. A new mission for it was invented so a bunch of bureaucrats could keep their job. _uckem and the horse they rode in on.
Nothing will change in Vilius. NATO has no choice than to continue on the path of helping Ukraine as long as possible hoping than an unexpected event may change the course. The Prigozhin coup was one but failed to change anything. The next unexpected event may be a terrorist act of such magnitude that it would change the course of the war. My opinion is that the event will come from within Ukraine. The Ukrainian generals are not going to stand still when the soldiers are been eliminated like a video game. A revolt in Ukraine will mirror the Prigozhin revolt but in Ukraine it may succeed because Zelinski is hysterical and weak. After Vilius where there will be lots of empty promises to attempt the prevent internal troubles within Ukraine, I expect that NATO is secretly working at replacing Zelinski by someone who will claim that Ukraine will negotiate without any conditions to save Ukraine..NATO will applause and will have sigh of relief and will market the ‘humanitarian’ need to save life by the need to stop the bloodshed as the top priority.
We will soon a gear shift to reverse…
The Dems still have a chance.
1) Have Biden step down (threat of impeachment/health) and blame hm for Ukraine, inflation and everything else.
2) Kamala Harris become President on three conditions. She pardons Biden, appoints Newsome as VP and promises not to run in 2024. It’s not a bad deal for her as she gets to be President for a year and a half.
3) The DNC makes sure Newsome wins the Democratic primary while maintaining lawfare pressure on Trump.
4) Cross their fingers, do lots of mail-in ballots and hope for the best.
What will NATO do? The stupidest thing possible. They will double down. Personally, I think the ZPP nuclear false flag is the most likely course of action. Yes, they really are that stupid.
If I were in the Stavka I would be looking at the western oligarchs as targets should such a course of action unfold. Behead the snake and the body will die. Fortunately for everyone, I’m just an old dude sitting in an uncomfortable chair far from the levers of power.
I think NATO is out of ideas, money and weapons. The counter offensive combined
with the Wagner mutiny was supposed to somehow open the conflict for NATO to escalate further and perhaps intervene through Poland.
With winter looming, energy shortages, and soaring inflation the discontent is mounting if not breaking outright into riots in the West. Reality is beginning to sink in about the “gas station masquerading as a country”.
I think NATO will try to freeze the conflict. The more interesting question is what Russia will do next?
In many ways, a multipolar world has already emerged and Western hegemony is ending.
The danger is in Russia allowing Empire to limp away only to come back stronger in a few years.
I think NATO is out of ideas, money and weapons.
I think NATO is out of its league.
ZH , financial news aggregator extraordinaire, picked up this
“I Don’t Think We’ll Ever Get To The 2024 Election”, Col. Douglas Macgregor (Ret) Warns
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/i-dont-think-well-ever-get-2024-election-col-douglas-macgregor-ret-warns
See what he says about US finance and Ukraine.
What one sees in Paris is nothing like US banks closed for 3 weeks!
Back in D.C : Ukraine who? Everyone from the Bushes knows that is not in TX – it’s in Yurp. Send the bill to Yurp, er Berlin. We have enough problems!
Then what will D.C. do about the banks is the question, the root of all this crazyness.
So Larry. How to save the Republic?
1. Dissolve NATO, bring our troops home from Europe for starters.
2. Re-focus US MIC on producing weapons for America’s sea, land, and air defenses rather than building stuff for expeditionary forces. This necessitates putting current MIC senior management out to pasture.
3. Moratorium on ALL immigration. We can grow our own engineers and code writers, and we sure as hell don’t need more unskilled workers.
4. Reduce Congressional budget to cover only salaries of Reps., Sens., and minimal necessary staff (stenographers, ceremonial employees, etc.). No staff, no offices, no franking privileges, NOTHING. Force them to express their opinions. If we don’t like what they say and do, they don’t get re-elected.
5. Dissolve Federal Dept. of Education. LocalControl, TOTALLY
6. Bring back Snap-On calendars. We all need to be reminded of why we slog ourselves to work every day. The entire country should be
a “No-Woke” zone!
7. Remove state support for Democrat and Republican primaries. The state should not be in the business of paying for the internal debates of private organizations.
8. Require every American citizen who has attained the age of Majority to be trained in use of firearms, serve in the local militia, and requalify on a regular basis with their weapon.
9. Most IMPORTANT, NO CENSORSHIP!! We must be free to debate and insult each other as we see fit. Don’t want to argue? – Fine, grow a rhino-hide and just take it. Otherwise, get off the soapbox.
There’s more, but these things are essential (except maybe No. 6). Implementing such a program will allow America to cleanse itself of the current tyranny, and return to its ideal of a Constitutional Republic, whose government enjoys but little power.
Happy Birthday, USA! 🇺🇸. Live Free or Die, Don’t Tread On Me!
If one believes that the US sticks with a “one war at a time” policy, then a lot of what happens next will depend on how the DPP is faring against the KMT. Right now the media is hyping the new DPP guy as “it”.
Another factor is going to be how the US “bring home advanced semiconductor manufacturing” scheme (more like scam) goes, as (ignoring labor costs) the world-wide market cannot support 3 advanced node fabs – so either TSMC or Samsung has to go, for this to even have a chance to break even.
” If they follow through with these measures then Russia is likely to step up its attacks on decision making centers in Ukraine, which means hitting major military command posts that are staffed by NATO officers.”
Well as was the case when useful fools declared full spectrum dominance AND the end of history, some Russians may send out for blinis with varied contents according to individual preference to take with tea, but after the repast perhaps will not spend much time sitting on their luggage
Biden emphasized the other day no US troops on the ground in Ukraine. That is increasingly irrelevant as drones and robotic equipment can be directed from Missouri, Poland, England.
The American public is uninformed about that and it is by design.
Perhaps this is how future wars are fought and with cyber attacks, feeding dissent, and terror in the adversary. With all the modern tools of war this can get very ugly very fast when one side decides to raise the temperatues.
Those Missouri drone jockeys know that, unlike Middle Eastern weddings, Russians have Electronic Warfare and Air Defense (that also happens to be the best in the World). The US ex-soldier of Kramatorsk pizzeria did not come there from afar because of its to-die-for capricciosa.
He came for its to-die-for bandera rustica.
Instead, he got a taste of to-die-from russo arrabiato.
With extra helpings of tiramisu.
Sources say that he ordered pinapple on his pizza. Pizza Chef called Russians and gave them the coordinates.
If the submarine wires were cut, if the satellites shot down .. they could not do it from remote anymore, right? …
Cross-posted from Telegram – caps mine!
German lawyer discovers … Russia!
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The West just doesn’t understand!
🇩🇪 A German journalist, Felix Schultess, was in Kazan at the time of Wagner’s mutiny.
🤯 He was struck by how the Tatars remained calm and celebrated their national holiday – ALTHOUGH HIS FRIENDS IN THE WEST THOUGHT THAT RUSSIA WAS ABOUT TO BREAK UP INTO ETHNIC REPUBLICS.
💁 What the West could not understand, Margarita Simonyan clearly explained.
🗝 RUSSIA’S MULTI-ETHNIC STRUCTURE IS SEVERAL HUNDRED YEARS OLD, unlike in Europe with its recent mass immigration.
Can it be that you also don’t understand Europe?
You think that this is the “first mass immigration” we receive?
You know something about European history?
Something heard about the Huns? Mongols? You know how many folks invaded the Iberian Peninsula (now Spain and Portugal)?
You think our structure is “newer” than Russia’s?
You have no idea, sorry.
And of course those Tatars remained calm. So was I.
The only reason to think that Russia was going to “implode” from inside because of that clown of Prigozhin is that you are brainwashed.
PS: the structure of Russia is not so strong. It is very dependent on only one man. Who will come after Putin? Does anybody know?
Europe pseudo-democratic systems are more reliable on the long term. They do not rely so much on individuals.
RUSSIA’S MULTI-ETHNIC STRUCTURE IS SEVERAL HUNDRED YEARS OLD
So was pre and post ’91 Ukraine’s. His friends in the west would have done better to contemplate its fate and why.
What will NATO do?
FALSEFLAG!!
“The dilemma NATO faces is figuring out how to extract itself from the war in Ukraine without destroying itself. I do not see a solution and welcome your insights on that question.”
Standard USA procedure is:
– Get to da choppa!
– Shake off locals grabbing onto it
– GTFO
– Pretend nothing happened
– Start another war
There is censorship here?
I could write here before … but not anymore.
You are what you criticize the most, maybe?
PS: +10 Torrente
It’s a Law of Biophysics. Those of similar mindset tend to coalesce and form aggregates, then conglomerates if the binding forces are sufficiently strong.
This is a corollary to the Law of Hegemons, where the mindset of a regime in power force their thinking upon the population through their media and sideline, banish or in Ukraine’s case – simply jail or physically destroy those who do not agree with them. We saw this of course in Hitler’s Germany, in Stalin’s USSR and now……
The first is a natural phenomenon, the second is…. we’ll, you get the picture.
Without some form of moderation any comment section on the Internet turns into shitshow in an instant. Some posts may take time to appear. Considering all the nonsense that I & others write here, “censorship” is rather mild, but it still keeps most of the bots and agent provocateurs at bay.
In the beginning of Ukraine war, everybody believed that it was US – NATO which tried pushing Russia into a quagmire it couldn’t possibly come out alive. But now it’s more like Russia which has managed to reverse the course of events and push the west into a solid wall. What will NATO do about Ukraine? Most likely they will continue on with the current course because wars are good business for irredeemably corrupt western establishment. Yet, slowly but surely, when more and more countries begin trades in their own currencies, and perhaps during colder than usual winter season, the west will experience a very serious market/economic crash starting from Europe. Only then NATO will pull out of Ukraine war business and seek for peace. Hopefully Russia and its allies won’t allow NATO and Zelinsky get away too easily.
In the beginning of Ukraine war, everybody believed that it was US – NATO which tried pushing Russia into a quagmire it couldn’t possibly come out alive.
On that notion, NATO was thinking like Nazi Germany. How coincidental was that I wonder.
“NATO was thinking like Nazi Germany.”
Spectators tend to rely on assumptions and hence “interpret” the reasons for the ongoing Special Military Operation and the information relayed by the representatives of other cultures.
Practitioners tend to define their terms of reference which are not in detail often relayed to spectators.
A current popular assumption of spectators is “We understand the terms of reference of – Who are the NAZIs to denazify ?” – unlike practitioners such as Mr. Haass to some degree.
Interesting that it takes a warrior, USMC Col. Macgreggor, to identify the one thing – the looming NATO financial system implosion threat.
FED, City of London, ECB – Powell, Sunak, Lagarde – hear that???
Ironically Russia will have no problem with this – they are long prepared.
The Neocons have wrecked Iraq, Afghanistan,Syria,Libya, Ukraine, and now Yurp, Europe bombing pipelines.
This serial murder did not save finance, instead accelerated the collapse AND the new system now forming worldwide.
Did any of the above consider why China chose to ban the sale of Gallium to NATO??
IT’s BECAUSE…..
China is forging dominance in a new paradigm of advanced chips…..
Based upon Gallium-Arsenide… and other exotics….
This is basically a case where NATO shot itself in the foot….
Jawboning ASML into banning sales of UV lithographic equipment to China to keep dominance of Silicon based ICs….
Causing China to ban sales of raw materials required to compete with China in the Gallium-Arsenide sector….
INDY
The USSA is OceanGate. It is like a hollow egg shell but the shell is getting thinner.
France’s burning is coming home to roost along with the millions of illegals flowing over the borders here in Amelika. Anyone else smell the poo yet?
Chips?
Who needs chips when indoor plumbing will soon be a memory.
Happy 4th of July! Live free or die.
I have a question. Does anyone know about a guy Andrew Bustamante on Youtube. Supposedly ex CIA, but he sounds like a total hack and not very knowledgeable. He calls Putin a crony and sounds like mr Devine
Pulled him up on your mention. Young, offbeat…the guy’s smart, no doubt. A bit of a true believer on the democracy vs authoritarianism spiel but basically a realist on Ukraine. Nothing anyone here doesn’t already know.
Here’s one video, starting at Ukraine.
https://youtu.be/txBlaD0BrL4?t=810
Meanwhile, I’m sitting here while fireworks go off in the neighborhood, imaging what it’s like to be on Donbass’ front lines for 8 years or anywhere in Ukraine or sitting in a trench on either side today.
I can end the war in Ukraine in one day. Not to mention Israel and Palestine, China and Taiwan, the wars in Africa, etc.
These are all nothing more than territorial disputes over arbitrary lines on a map – whose borders of which Country is where?
The only logical solution is a One World Government, a microchipped population, a cashless and checkless global economy – Peace on earth!
Problem solved overnight.
Realistically speaking however, a process of transformation such as this is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new World War.
The ends justify the means.
(Hopefully the cure won’t turn out to be worse than the disease…)
Borders change all the time. America should know, it’s done its share of them. America should just grow up.
The few voices heard to the contrary notwithstanding, as an institution NATO remains in denial of its loss of pre-eminence. Likewise, its members’ governments and political elites remain in denial of the West’s loss and most of the West’s population are utterly oblivious to the world-historical shift that’s taking place.
Depleting arsenals, gas storage reservoirs and commodity reserves, along with boomeranging sanctions will make the message clear to all by mid-decade. It’s then that we’ll see how the West’s elites and the societies they lead respond to their joint and several predicaments.
Wolf packs disband when their leadership fails with no obvious successor. Members join other packs or become lone wolves. Only the US itself has anywhere near the resources to go the lone wolf route, but it lacks the socio-political cohesion to even think about it.
The upcoming 2024 election will literally be pivotal in deciding whether the West’s people and their political elites will try to save their individual nations, or to hold on to bits of the Imperial wreckage.
Until then, the world will hang in suspense. The Global South & East will hedge their bets and position themselves according to their lights. Europe’s “nationalist/populist” political parties will try to develop some momentum. The Russians will grind on keeping the pot just short of a rolling boil.
I don’t expect the signal to stand out clearly from the background noise until early 2025. Maybe late 2024. It will tell us what happens next, and it will tell us much about what the rest of the century will look like.
“Until then, the world will hang in suspense.”
The world series?
To dream perchance to sleep?
I was not at the crowd waving the Tour de France, instead annoyed by the inconveniences…nor they were many others….
These capitalist espectacles run oblivious to the fate of the countries…It was a party while France was burning….
Which world series?
We do not watch, nor pay, TV….Hence subventions….and thus the repeating narrative….
We will not satisfy ourselves with bread and circus….while misery spreads…
“Which world series?”
It is sports/game competition, a conflation of “the world” with “The United States of America” which is a culture not a nation state, thereby attempting to self-assign significances to themselves that others do not assign to them.
This was also attempted through declarations of “full spectrum dominance” AND “The end of history” to which some reacted by sending out for blinis with honey to take with tea in celebration that the useful fools accelerated and widened their complicity in their own transcendence thereby sharing the load.
HMS Terror says
4 July 2023 at 10:39
“The upcoming 2024 election will literally be pivotal in deciding whether the West’s people and their political elites will try to save their individual nations, or to hold on to bits of the Imperial wreckage.
Until then, the world will hang in suspense.”
is another attempt at self-assigning significance by those immersed in the culture self-misrepresented as “The United States of America” comprising of “The West” and associated compradors by default and/or by design,in hope of obfuscating a more representative title of “The Alienated states of America”.
HMS Terror says because he illustrates the greatest weakness – certainty – as did the useful tourists such as Mr. Sachs and Mr. Aslund who came to primarily Leningrad and Moscow which some were of the view fully constituted “The USSR” , to “educate” the locals of the errors of their ways, the anger generated thereby undermining their purpose of attempting to facilitate the control of “The United States of America” over The Russian Federation, and when their attempts were understood to have failed chose to obfuscate this by inventing narratives which many still regurgitate after 29 years.
“To dream perchance to sleep?”
being a reversal of part of the “To be or not not be” soliloquy which in the original is
To sleep perchance to dream
an update of sending out for blinis with honey in 1992 in response to declarations of “Full spectrum dominance” AND “The end of history” since self-delusions of
“Until then, the world will hang in suspense.” will increase the complicity of such believers in their own transcendence, a likely contributory factor for the accelerating frustrations of the present head of the CIA.
The dumbing down required to facilitate the alchemy of turning gold into paper in 1971 increasingly precluded options in various lateral spectra such as “war”, science, whilst temporarily increasing spectra of divide and rule, all facilitating the increasing complicity of “The United States of America” in their own transcendence as a limited sum of some understood in embryo in 1969.
Consequently HMS Terror and a huge crowd of useful fools are recognised and thanked discreetly for their service through design and implementation of strategies facilititated by their useful foolery, whilst those terrorised are the useful fools terrorised by themselves including, but not limited to, snake oil salesmen such as “The Saker”.
“We will not satisfy ourselves with bread and circus….while misery spreads…” ?
Certainty is the greatest weakness.
Wow. Didja get any on ya?
Obviate the response, as I thought you were answering me down….
Anyway…may be of interest….
” I thought”
Still the wrong verb.
MirrorGazers says,
” I thought”
Still the wrong verb.”
Why, because of Zemyatin´s described hypervigilance society dystopy at “We”, so similar to the current WEF project?
Just read a review…..
“The citizens (a we without the possibility of an “I think”) listen with pride to the cold national anthem, walk in a row of four and only lower the curtains to have sex on the days allowed, upon request for a pink heel.
Those who go outside the norm are liquidated, literally, reduced to liquid with an atomic decomposition machine. A woman, dissident, I-330, who secretly cultivates the old ideals (literary, musical…) of the human being, causes the life and certainties of the protagonist to falter, everything to take a tremendous radical turn, as tragic as it is necessary. . In this future society, regulated by strict schedules, music is produced in a factory and the old creative inspiration is considered “an unknown form of epilepsy”….
In case your are interested in reading the review….
https://www.elespanol.com/el-cultural/letras/novela/20230702/yevgeny-zamiatin-mejor-libro-ciencia-ficcion-jamas-escrito/773672862_0.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab-bff
Re: Ghost of Mozgovoy says
5 July 2023 at 14:51
” Why, because of Zemyatin´s described hypervigilance society dystopy at “We”, so similar to the current WEF project?”
Everything is connected and inter-connections/co-operations catalysed by doubt but precluded by certainty (the greatest weakness and a component of why it is so), facilitate opportunities of limiting levels of assumption/belief thereby increasing opportunities/probabilities of aspects of thinking but never of omniscience and hence conclusion, since it is a lateral process where change is a constant whose variables include but are not restricted to trajectories and velocities.
Consequently to illustrate less complex examples of this process let me suggest lateral “modules/building blocks” in lateral process outlined in a “mathematics” workshop from 1969 using the “English” version of authors and titles.
Nikolai Gogol Diary of a Mad Man
Nikolai Gogol The Government Inspector
Evgeny Zamyatin We
Mikhail Bulgakov Heart of a dog
which should not be framed as a rubic cube, since a cube is a construct of the rubbing sticks school of thermo-dynamics facilitating “revolutions” around fixed points – reform not revolution facilitated by misrepresenting reforms as revolutions -, a closed system in hope – (the second greatest weakness)- of opponents and their methods in convinced furtherance of “achieving” their wishes which they believe to be strategies of restricting change within linear interacting paradigms of acceptable tolerances through tactics of divide and rule including but not limited to “feminism”, “the other”, “barbarians”, and assorted evil doers.
Since everything is connected thank you for the link :
In case your are interested in reading the review….
https://www.elespanol.com/el-cultural/letras/novela/20230702/yevgeny-zamiatin-mejor-libro-ciencia-ficcion-jamas-escrito/773672862_0.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab-bff
the content of which will be interpreted by some to achieve a different amalgam of thinking.
Enjoy your journey.
Something to think about
Compelling evidence from Mike Benz’ prodigious research on the Military-Grade Propaganda, specifically deployed to confuse the public, enforce massive censorship, banning alternative perspectives — thus clearing way for Biden Regime, et. al., to commit unrestrained informational perfidy against USA public.
I strongly recommend taking a listen to Benz findings, as means to integrate ones own understanding of current crisis*, as he offers concrete explanation on machinery of extraordinary Psychological Operation.
It is 36 minute lecture; to access, for time being at least, requires logging into Twitter:
https://twitter.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/1666925704334950402
*Benz apparently figured out how a DOD cutout at Stanford University, in 2020 helped create “delegitimization” idea for big tech [& big media as useful idiots] to require as terms of service: this as justification to censor and ban. Thus, anything at odds with the government narratives on covid, early treatment, IVT/HCQ, vax & vax injuries and deaths, VE, CDC/NIH/NIAID, George Floyd, antifa/BLM riots, Ukraine Crisis, trans/misogyny, etc.: all deemed subject to delegitimization.
In other words, new “terms of service” for big tech platforms, such as FB, Youtube, Twitter, and not just these giants, others too. . . . this DOD cutout got these platforms to require a term of service about delegitimization, and if that is violated, then good bye to your account. This was key kernel of the censorship industrial complex.
This diabolical term of service essentially deemed anti-social anything government deemed mal, mis, dis, etc. info; and each platform user agreed to this, as condition of using the platform. That is, deeming alternative views not strictly in line with Military Grade Propaganda as anti social behavior! thus blocking and banning and censoring all opinions for violating this term of service. Musk’s refusal to completely go along with this censoring operation has made him somewhat of a hero; this refusal he claimed was why he wanted to own Twitter.
In this context, the Haas mea culpa, however much a limited hangout this may be, shows, as Habakkuk might say: there are so many skeletons in the closet that the door burst open. This may be true of the Hass confessions? Letting off some steam now, otherwise to prevent a bigger blow up?
[[ Neither Ukraine nor NATO are able to match Russia’s massive military industry output. The dilemma NATO faces is figuring out how to extract itself from the war in Ukraine without destroying itself. I do not see a solution and welcome your insights on that question.]]
In terms of solution, I’d recommending reviewing Putin’s Feb. 21-24, 2022 statements about purpose of SMO, his recent statements including reference to 1917 & about Traitors to the nation, General Armageddon’s comments in October, and what he said shortly before Putin made his recent statements.
Biden, Jake Sullivan, Nuland, etc., they wanted regime change in Russia, Putin murdered, as many Russians killed as possible. RussiaGate along with the “deligitimization” operation, premised on making it socially acceptable for genocide of Russia and Russians, — and for any alternative views deemed anti social. [How did Ukraine Nazis become so “Lovable” in NYTimes, WAP, etc.? Why is a Ukraine Flag flying over Amherst, Mass. town hall? Over Northampton, Mass. city hall?]
This is the Biden Bed they made, to sleep in; and: use all manner of criminal deception, to seduce us to lay down with them!
Imagine that we live in a country that when US Supreme Court determines Harvard University deployed institutional racism, and the court called them out on this, and Biden Regime response is to deploy the “Delegitimization” tool at their disposal! There’s a reason why genuine feminist voices, to note just one group opposed to Trans/Misogyny are banned, censored, cancelled on electronic media [and whose voices are largely absent in legacy news organs]; and this is it. The more exposure of this Delegitimization Crime, the better. It is for the people to decide whether a government is Legitimate, or not. In the USA, we are paying for our government to turn this concept on its head. So this what tyranny smells like.
PS
Much of what Benz presents created during Trump presidency, expanded and more weaponized under Biden. If Trump didn’t know about this or understand the consequences, he looks quite bad, to put in mildly, as the man supposedly in charge of executive branch. And he may have been lied to. If so: Don’t take a job you can’t do. Maybe Trump should not have stabbed Mike Flynn in the back, purportedly to protect Pence? This was Flynn’s area of greatest expertise. Has Trump figured this simple fact out, yet? I voted for Trump in 2016 largely because Flynn, in spite of his flaws, wanted normal relations with Russia, and was expert at the technology stuff now being used to create mother of all psych ops against us, courtesy of Biden Inc. The Benz information should, at the least, result in Bill Barr being asked under oath before congress his knowledge of Delegitimization, and its role censoring stuff unfavorable to Biden, during 2020 campaign. Or is Bill Barr to big to fail? And if Barr didn’t know about it, what does that say? As OldMicrobiologist has commented: there are at least three power centers operating in Washington DC, “running” “the” “government” as it were; I guess I’m more concerned about resolving this tri-lemma, before moving onto what should be done about NATO. The NATO problem cannot be solved without resolving this chipmunk in the woodpile, first. . . .
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NATO has no clue what to do that wouldn’t be suicidal. However, I don’t see NATO dissolving b/c of a Russian victory. Given that Russia has no intention to go beyond Ukraine, Western clowns may well declare victory by claiming that the Russians were so exhausted in Ukraine that they are no longer capable of invading the Baltistans or Poland. And if you’re asking who’d buy that, are you seriously asking?
Certainly a big chunk of the USA would buy that. In California it would be close to 70%.
NATO will not survive the current state of affairs in which its wars must be fought at any costs, including the welfare of the Europen peoples…as arrogantly declared, first by Mrs. Baerbock, then by wannabe NATO´s Gral. Sec.and next president of the European Parliament Mr. Sánchez…
It was already way too much that NATO has passed the past three decades or so jumping over its constitutional statutes of by turning itself from an, in theory, “defensive alliance” into an offensive one, antagonizing governments and countries througgout the world in bacanalia of plunder.
But, to pretend the masses chosing between two options, either to live a decent comfortable life por them and their descendants, or finance others´wars and its proxy failed states, with no benefit in sight, is, like, really, assuming that the European population has turned already into scared zombies that will die sick and in misery for increasing the rate of proffit of a bunch of anglosaxon olivgarchs.
It is possible that your “vaccinated” 70% have really turned into zombies who are not affected by anything happening in the least, be that their governments and parliaments supporting and clapping a full nazi government in the heart of Europe, or destinating a huge part of the European budget to mantain these nazi junta on their backs, even if it has to be at the cost of provoking hunger, plumeting of life standards and making them suffer cold and neccessity through the winter.
But, you have that there are at least a 30% of the European people who will not seat watching how the “foreign agents” installed in the European government by the Soros network and WEF turn them into slaves so that the already died neoliberal capitalism keeps on giving.
That is many people…..
NATO, and its de facto controllers and beneficiaries, the US and UK, and their bitches, Germany and France, ( the same as in the EU, btw…) have bet the farm and unmasked themselves before the European public thinking that it will be just transitional and soon they will be able to plunder Russia and that the Europeans will forget the calamities…..But, if they think that the current state of affairs, of plundering Europe instead, is to last, they are for a rude awakening…
Since the EU has revealed itself as a Ponzi scheme to deviate taxpayers funds to finance NATO wars at any cost for the Europeans, I, without the “looking glass”, predict that, may be not simultaneously, but the EU will fall once NATO falls…
And it will be for good, not only for the European people, but also for the whole humanity and planet, as they are so clearly envisioning in the “Global South”…..
After all, the NATO and EU gerifaltes betted way too far that the people would asume such costs, provoking their misery, for nothing….even for anything would have been too much…what sense it does? Going to misery for…Zelensky?
Faced with losing everything, health, welfare, a decent life, why not losing it for changing things radically?
You have radicalized good peaceful European taxpayers, who were dedicated to working hard, and even did not mess into politics, by brutalizing them through your sanitary dictatorship, trying to kill and maim them, and then turning upside down the real European values and principles, especially antifascism, this yes, 180º, on which our ancestors built our lives and welfare by sacrifying their lives and welfare thorugh WWII.
They were our ancestros who fought the war against fascism, not yours. You were wrong thinking that we will sell their effort so cheap…
Expect us.
As he says the now so big mouth Medvedev, it could cost us a decade or so, but you all will fall…and whta is more important, you will pay…
I have no other purpose right now, and I think I am not alone in Europe…
“why not losing it for changing things radically?”
Like the opponents you are enmazed in the linear win/lose binary facilitating revolutions around fixed points in this case “perpetual war”.
This is best left to opponents who have difficulty with gender problems never mind transcendence or matrioshka dolls through over concentration on surfaces and genuflecting to seeing is believingness.
The purose of some is lateral ; ergo transcendence and hence
“I have no other purpose right now, and I think I am not alone in Europe..”
is not “fit for purpose” but the hope of opponents in facilitating reform within expandable linear paradigms within acceptable tolerances such as Mr. Rove observed:
We are an Empire
We create our own reality
To which others react (he probably meant emulate but probably couldn’t spell it, after all react has only 5 letters whilst emulate has 6).
Go have a coffee and cake using your own “money” since the CIA and associates are prone to following the money if they can find it, count it and so likely be even dumber after your refeshments.
I don’t know if you heard – apparently they lost China which is bigger even than a pair of mittens of course, because a pair is two and China is one, hence the question posed from 1969 onwards:
“How to drown a drowning man with the minimum of blowback?”
since Cui bono was being worshiped extensively elsewhere and so wasn’t invited to the meeting, since it continually tries to controls proceedings in the mis-guided beliefs that it always knows best and always tries to do everything with the best of intentions despite regular failure by being in competition leading to hoping that maybe this time I’ll be lucky.
Today’s comedy from the daily telegraph.co.uk
Russia may have an almost unlimited supply of military recruits, but it does not have unlimited munitions. It has been unable to replace tank losses and struggled to equip recently-mobilised forces, including throwing together new artillery battalions without any guns. Without sufficient industrial capability to manufacture the shells, bullets and missiles it needs, the Kremlin is searching for countries such as South Africa that might be willing to feed its war machine. But Iran remains Moscow’s number one supplier of munitions, with greater incentives now being handed to the ayatollahs to step up production.
They just never give do, do they?
They just never give up, do they?
It’s free money. They get paid for writing nonsense.
It’s time to get real. I’m sorry, but the time for delusions of grandeur in the West is over. Deal with it. When the Allies were advancing on Germany in WWII, there were plans to go scorched earth and leave absolutely nothing in Germany. Then the realisation came that Germans who survived the onslaught would need to depend on such infrastructure for food and rebuilding, so they backed off out of regard for the future of their own people. The West is at a similar moment. And it is now in the middle of a similar realisation as we speak. All the full-spectrum gaslighting, censorship and propaganda is not enough. The masses can’t eat television news broadcasts and social media memes. “Let them eat hot air” is the cookie recipe with which Miss Vicky lost touch and left our common reality.
“so they backed off out of regard for the future of their own people.”
Well that is one interpretation but documents suggest otherwise.
Japan’s surrender timetable was not primarily about the Emperor but more significantly to facilitate delays to render the maximum message to “The Soviet Union” of their place by the dropping of atomic bombs.
In respect of Germany it was part of the conditional surrender clauses signed by Karl Wolff acting for and on behalf Mr. Himmler and the SS and Mr. Allen Dulles apparently acting for and on behalf of no one in particular in the Bolzano region on or about the 4th of May 1945 facilitating via various Gladio tools the creation of “The West”.
Although the timetable is yet to be determined as part of the transcendence of “his story” by hypotheses to test, many documents will likely be released in various fora including but not limited to “law courts” to inform the relevance and levels of veracity of the issues outlined above and others since omniscience is never an option but science is and may assuage some of the greivances of Mr. Martyanov and others.
“may assuage some of the greivances of Mr. Martyanov and others.”
Which grievances do you mean?
I have always wondered why Mr. Martyanov could have ended in the US, of all places, with all that military background, if so loving of his motherland….
As always, simply follow the money up the chain of command, and you will find a member (or members) of the Bilderberg Group (BBG) and their front, the WEF, either funding it or directing it, or both.
Sounds like a “shadowy” group, but in reality, they are made up of real members with massive amounts of money, and the will to do evil with it… Soros, Gates, BlackRock, Schwab, Harari, etc… all the folks who are currently insisting that by 2030, “you will own nothing and be happy” (or else).
Check out who attends the Bilderberg Meetings over the years, and you will see. They include all the rich oligarchs, high-level Western Leftist politicians, head of the CIA, MI6, and FBI, big tech, you name it… all those whom they use to enforce their agenda on the masses.
These same folks are behind every evil plaguing the West right now (COVID, climate change, mass illegal immigration meant to overwhelm Western societies, the all-perversion-all-the-time push, Big Pharma, Big Messaging & Tech, etc.).
Yup, just a few hundred to a few thousand (at most) rich evil-doers is all it takes to destroy Western society. It’s like watching a train wreck in slow motion.
The only hope is if someone starts to “disable” the BBG starting from the top. Capture Soros, Gates, Fink, Schwab, and Harari, and put them in an unknown gulag somewhere to live out their remaining days “with nothing”, and the rest below them will start considering their own fate.
Barring that, the devil will continue to cross every single line until Western society is depopulated to their liking, leaving only enough for slaves.
It’s actually Biblical. For those interested, see this: Revelation13.substack.com/p/revelation-13-happening-now
“Capture Soros, Gates, Fink, Schwab, and Harari, and put them in an unknown gulag somewhere to live out their remaining days with nothing…”
Perhaps Pol Pot was onto something?
“You are Number 2.”
“But who is Number 1?”
“Capture Soros, Gates, Fink, Schwab, and Harari,”
They are just puppets, front men although powerful compared to us plebs.
Their masters must be wiped out also, and they are the shadowy banking dynasties, Euro royals IE the Belgian paedo, and his Brit and Dutch cousins.
Per your last line –
“For those interested, see this: Revelation13.substack.com/p/revelation-13-happening-now”
That is an excellent read. Thanks for sharing it.
Just started it and came back by here to say thanks for sharing.
“The dilemma NATO faces is figuring out how to extract itself from the war in Ukraine without destroying itself. I do not see a solution and welcome your insights on that question..”
I expect an emotionally messy ‘divorce’ between Echelon and the EU with a some EU nations seeking comfort in the arms of Mother Russia.
The EU will fail and the Euro will fail; crime and poverty will flourish. Germany, France, UK will look at themselves in the mirror and see Ukraine.
NATO will go the way of SEATO which an historian called a “zoo of paper tigers”…remind you of any organization today?
There is no “solution”, although as in Afghanistan, the USA and NATO can just walk away, but this time with Russia pacing them. NATO has no solution to that.
The Ukraine war is the easy part.
Happy 4th, Larry.
Follow the Wagner money:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/colossal-value-wagner-state-contracts-revealed-russian-media
Using World bank figures on GDP
USA $25.46 trillion
RU $2.24 trillion
EU $16.64 trillion
CN $17.96
Next figure in the debt – the USA tabulated ~ $1 trillion accountable debt in the last ~30 days. They keep that rate up…. we would be in $12 more trillion in only 12 months.
US unfunded liabilities is about ~ $191 trillion… so… debt to gdp: 750% 750.00
… while little ol Russia Federation sits at at 8% debt to gdp…. 000.08. Debate can me made that number is actually zero…depending on how you account gold held by RU.
David selected a small round stone….and placed it in his sling….as Goliath approached…
In this day of video conferencing, wouldnt destroying the SBU building / command centres actually allow/enable the enemy to spend more time decentralizing their meetings?
I threw myself at Adobe Illustrator last nite, to produce a simplistic diagram; 1 Ukr line, 1 minefield, 3 Russian lines – un marred. I was making the point that in 4 weeks, the Ukrs have made no tangible progress, despite NATO equipment & NATO training.
To attack dug in Russians, across a minefield, w/o air support, w/o a mass of artillery, w/o air defence, is close to suicide. NATO can’t do it either. Military organizations that can carry out a combined arms attack on a fortified line, are few in number. I don’t include Israel in that list any more. Coming soon; Brave New World!
Good piece. Considerations-
1. Unfortunately, after investing so much material and financial support in the Ukraine campaign, it is difficult to see NATO quitting. After deploying hundreds of thousands of US troops over 2 decades, at a cost to US taxpayers of $2 trillion, Joe Biden was forced to remove all US forces from Afghanistan in Aug, 2021, providing a vivid demonstration of the limits of US military power. It appears that Biden and the elite he represents have no intention of an encore performance in Ukraine.
2. Providing Ukraine with ATACM missiles, F-16s and cluster munitions, will not fundamentally change the situation on the ground. Introducing cluster munitions is just going to further piss off Russian forces, who as you point out are ‘likely to step up its attacks on decision making centers in Ukraine, which means hitting major military command posts that are staffed by NATO officers.’
3. Alexander Mercouris [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwGpHa6rMLjSSCBlckm5khw] has pointed out that Joe Biden & his neocon buddies have no ‘off ramp’, and thus appear incapable of changing course in Ukraine. As a result, he has effectively backed himself into the proverbial ‘corner’ with no good exit strategy, violating a fundamental tenet of Sun Tzu’s ‘The Art of War’. The Pentagon is incapable of extricating itself from these conflicts as doing so is an admission of failure and by extension, military weakness. Should Biden introduce tactical nuclear weapons into the Ukraine theater, I would expect the Russian response to be immediate and massive. Welcome to WWIII.
In short, the US has only limited tactical options.
The smart thing to do would be to de-escalate and allow the Zelensky regime in Kiev to fall. But as you note, that would be a collapse for NATO and the end of its credibility.
This is arguably one of the more dangerous parts of the conflict. Ukraine is desperately trying to find a false flag type attack in a bid to try to get the US involved directly, but unable to understand that the US itself does not have the conventional military force to take on the Russians.
Neoconservative types never have learned the lessons that the US military power has its limitations. Not to mention, the liberal types supported the economic policies like free trade that led to the destruction of the US manufacturing industry.
Of course, the neoconservatives and the Liberals are not going to do the smart thing. I wonder if they will debate sending in NATO directly at this point. The only question is what they will do when the coffins start coming home?
They really don’t understand the implications here. Fighting with the Russian military is not going to be like fighting with the Taliban or Iraqi insurgency.
Barring nuclear war, in which case there won’t be a lot of people to write history, I expect that this will be one of the biggest geopolitical losses in history for the US and NATO nations.
“The dilemma NATO faces is figuring out how to extract itself from the war in Ukraine without destroying itself. I do not see a solution and welcome your insights on that question.”
NATO cannot extricate itself at this point knowing that admitting failure now will likely see the end of NATO. After all, if NATO can’t fight a war in Europe, then what good is it?
They will double down and continue to throw good money after bad as all failing empires do. More death and destruction will occur and we will all be worse off with Ukraine being mostly destroyed as a result.
The interesting question what will non-aligned nations do while this occurs? Many might choose to distance themselves from NATO and move towards China and Russia, looking for a better deal in obtaining economic and security assistance. African, South American and Asian nations could use this latest failure by NATO to seek alternatives in the years ahead.
The next 2 weeks will tell. NATO escalates or NATO abandons. Either way, Russia proceeds to de-nazify & de-militarize.
This would be a good time for France to stand apart from the NATO crowd and try to repair relations with Russia. Macron could shift the spotlight away from NATO’s impotence and France’s internal turmoil onto his own “leadership”.
An advisor to Rossenergoatom director is denouncing in Rossiya Channel One that the Zelensky regime will be trying a nuclear attack just in the night from 4th to 5th July….
Posted on Telegram….the last social network which remains free from US grip….
“The Ukrainian Armed Forces will use high-precision weapons and kamikaze drones against the Zaporozhie Nuclear Plant. Specifically, against radioactive waste stores that are not protected by a container.
Simultaneously, they will drop a “dirty bomb” from an airplane, loaded with radioactive waste transported on July 3 from the South Ukrainian Nuclear Plant to a military airfield.
As a reserve plan, the launch of a Tochka-U tactical missile with a warhead loaded with radioactive agents is contemplated.”
To conclude the war successfully, Russia needs someone to negotiate with.
Even a total occupation of Ukraine does not translate into a successful conclusion for Russia.
Russia needs the US and/or Europe to negotiate that new security architecture they proposed prior to the start of the war.
It appears that Nato will simply refuse to talk about it and perhaps recruit Poland to be the next Ukraine ? For the US the priority is to prevent any kind of relationship between Russia and Europe. Failing that, the destruction of Europe is plan B.
Thus, to bring the war to a successful conclusion, Russia must be considering the need to confront and defeat Nato in a conventional war. Of course, Nato is incapable of imagining that they can be defeated or that Russia would even contemplate the possibility.
Such a campaign would doubtless be high risk. But such a war would mostly be a psyop aimed at separating Europeans from the EU and perhaps their own governments. It would be critical then for Russia that Nato take the first step and initiate hostilities.
After that it would depend on how many cruise and ballistic missiles Russia has held back.
In such a war, the ground war would probably look like Ukraine. Fairly low density of forces, slow incremental advances. The action would all be in the air. Nato SEAD vs Russian Air Defense with Russia having many advantages of strategic depth and dispersion. Even a successful SEAD mission (not at all certain), would require many weeks or even months to succeed and incur significant losses for Nato. While Russia would be free to bombard much of Europes critical infrastructure with relative freedom.
Somebody in Russia must be contemplating/calculating this outcome. Today Russia is stronger than it will be 5 years from now. Russia has a critical handful of technical advantages now. Russia has a critical handful of economic advantages now. Russia has diplomatic advantages now. The window is open now but won’t remain open 10 years from now.
A Nato false flag (assuming that enough people in the west see it for what it is) to invoke Article 5 may be a godsend to Russian planning.
This is why it is so dangerous now: the weak think they are strong and act from that imagined strength. The strong are not certain of their strength but see more clearly that it is “use it or lose it” time.
Somebody in Russia must be contemplating/calculating this outcome. Today Russia is stronger than it will be 5 years from now. Russia has a critical handful of technical advantages now. Russia has a critical handful of economic advantages now. Russia has diplomatic advantages now. The window is open now but won’t remain open 10 years from now.
Why will Russia weaken over the next 5-10yrs?
“Today Russia is stronger than it will be 5 years from now. “
In absolute terms, I think everyone will be weaker 5 yrs from now, but in relative terms I’d put my money on Russia and its SCO/BRICS associates/allies being much stronger.
I doubt that the IMF $ystem has 5 years left in it, and when it goes the West’s last source of power will go with it. The West simply doesn’t have the natural and human resources to maintain its pre-eminence if/when it loses its control of the world’s money. Its elites will be hard-pressed to maintain control over their own populations, and in many cases are likely to fail.
It took Russia and China decades to pull out of their respective collapses. Both leaned heavily on their deep civilizational strengths to do it. My read of the West suggests that its elites have eviscerated its civilizational strengths to the point where it’s difficult to see it recovering except on a local/national basis.
FWIW, I think that’ll be a good thing for both the people involved and the world at large.
Good reading today, this week and next will be decisive for Nato, if they can maintain their coherence, and integrate new members, as Sweden, and Finland, and how about Ukraine ? Maybe a first strike
with nukes, will be launched high north, with low population density,
Kirkenes, (N), Kiruna, iron ore (S), Kemi, (Fi) and Murmansk(RF), with the comprehensive Russian 2nd strike navy bases.
Before there was seldom talk about the Murman-area, and both SSSR/and RF, was pleased with that, of course, and never provoked their neighbors, but USA/Nato and their collaborators in the Nordic nations, offered closeness to this strategic area, “gold” and this build up started already around 2010, probably many road bases, (or earlier) with huge air force training.
70-100 planes in the air, and half of Sweden, restricted for civil air traffic, even Turkey joined, and about that time even a British carrier sailed to Gulf of Bothnia as high as possible, strange and very uni-que, not since the first war of Crimea 1854-56, when UK bombed, Aaland and Borgå, Sveaborg in Finland. Even 1919, UK navy attacked Kronstadt, and the Bolsheviks with mtbs/and airforce from Finnish Koiviosto, they are used to poke the bear, but for how long ?
2013 a Norwegian Nato-Hercules, in one such exercise, aimed at the Kebnekajse,Sweden´s highest mountain, 2.102 meters, and hits, but the mountain stand its ground, some JAS-fighters were involved, the Hercules Norwegian crew died, 50 tonnes of scrap and 10 ton of fuel in the high sensitive mountain environment, (we must sort our household garbage) but none of the Swedish officers or politicians, dare to speak up about the disaster, don’t mention the Norwegians, who hate Sweden, all must be silenced.
Then we felt bad omens, and now 10 years later, all became clear, the High North =Höga Nord, is Sweden’s national hymn, soon a frontstate, by own bad decisions. Sweden can be nuked in the worst case, as Norway, and the U.S cannot reply, against Russia, maybe
because of that, the Nato-prospect begin to feel a bit nervous, and
a sign maybe that Swedish ordnance to Ukraine never shows up on the front,50 modern infantry vehicles, S90, some 25 Archer artillery pc:s and 15.000 ATG´s, a good army if its own, maybe the warhawks shy away, from the public space, today. An observation as good as the Hercules 2013.
NATO will do what it does so well — send out press releases. NATO won’t have the internal cohesion to do much more than that.
Everyone knows that Russia is fighting the Ukrainians but the real belligerent is the US Deep State (not the US people) acting under the cloak of NATO. The only way for the war in the Ukraine to end without global catastrophe would be for the US to stop funding the Zelensky regime — the war would grind to a halt within weeks. So Russia’s challenge is to get the US Deep State to see sense.
How to get the US Deep State to stop? Best answer from Russia’s perspective would be to split off Germany, France, Italy, or Spain from NATO’s excellent adventure. It would be very difficult for the US Deep State to continue feeding Zelensky’s war machine without the cloak of NATO and the assistance of major European allies to provide ports & transport routes. Perhaps China will whisper in German or French ears that their support for NATO risks harming their very important business relations with China?
The US will cut it’s losses in Ukraine and move on to the next war. That’s not the problem. The problem is how to get the Europeans to keep on fighting the Russians while the US starts another war against China.
To ask how the US can win the war is the wrong question. The US doesn’t care about winning wars. The US cares about maintaining global hegemony by getting other people to fight each other according to the divide and rule principle.
That explains why the US never wins wars. Even WWII was won by the Soviets. The US just has to start wars to keep on feeding the MIC and to maintain its grip on the empire.
Hear ye. Hear ye! Joe Biden and Vlad Zelensky are the “spitting” images of Papa Doc Duvalier and Baby Doc Duvalier. There is the same propensity for carrying out damage to outright slaughter on their respective citizens. Well, Papa eventually died and Baby was dragged out of Haitian “government.” There’s that handy little sentence that goes like this: “History repeats itself.” We can only hope. Oh, and only the good parts.
My guess is that NATO will not reform until its members experience a major overhaul in their governments from the bottom up, and those governments and their peoples realize that unless they are independent of US policy and are willing to reach an accommodation with Russia, China and the rest of the world on an equal basis (and that includes adopting a Eurasian security structure that will never allow enhancing the security of one nation at the expense of another).
Perhaps this will never happen, but the elites of any country are only a small minority, and as such are vulnerable and at risk, especially when people become desperate and governments collapse.
We are watching life as we knew it in America crumbling before our eyes.
The MSM (CIA) is doing all it can to perpetuate the lies, but you can’t run a country forever on total bullshit. More and more people are being redpilled every day. Once you’re awake, you can never go back to sleep.
The neocons know they’re in trouble, along with the Biden crime family.
Time is short.
There are only two possible scenarios:
1.) Reality is acknowledged and we go through the painful process of rebuilding pretty much everything; or
2.) The criminal class that rules us retreats to their luxury bunkers and the rest of us are circling the globe in a cloud of radioactive ash.
I hope for #1, but fear it will be #2.
Not only is NATO being exposed militarily as insufficient. It is being exposed as a fraud that operates via proxy forcing another non-NATO country to bleed and die for its ends. This fact combined with the whiney, excuse-making, entitled leadership and tranny spokespersons makes them look even more childish. NATO looks like an outright coward when this thing comes to the point where they have to decide European and American boys need to die for it. NATO will fold in Ukraine, it realizes it needs a decade or more to build up an industrial base of sufficient capacity and that it cant afford it in money or workforce skills, its population was educated by Facebook not physics books. All this makes NATO even more dangerous as they might turn to nuclear escalation.
Re: Ghost of Mozgovoy says
5 July 2023 at 14:51
” Why, because of Zemyatin´s described hypervigilance society dystopy at “We”, so similar to the current WEF project?”
Everything is connected and inter-connections/co-operations catalysed by doubt but precluded by certainty (the greatest weakness and a component of why it is so), facilitate opportunities of limiting levels of assumption/belief thereby increasing opportunities/probabilities of aspects of thinking but never of omniscience and hence conclusion, since it is a lateral process where change is a constant whose variables include but are not restricted to trajectories and velocities.
Consequently to illustrate less complex examples of this process let me suggest lateral “modules/building blocks” in lateral process outlined in a “mathematics” workshop from 1969 using the “English” version of authors and titles.
Nikolai Gogol Diary of a Mad Man
Nikolai Gogol The Government Inspector
Evgeny Zamyatin We
Mikhail Bulgakov Heart of a dog
which should not be framed as a rubic cube, since a cube is a construct of the rubbing sticks school of thermo-dynamics facilitating “revolutions” around fixed points – reform not revolution facilitated by misrepresenting reforms as revolutions -, a closed system in hope – (the second greatest weakness)- of opponents and their methods in convinced furtherance of “achieving” their wishes which they believe to be strategies of restricting change within linear interacting paradigms of acceptable tolerances through tactics of divide and rule including but not limited to “feminism”, “the other”, “barbarians”, and assorted evil doers.
Since everything is connected thank you for the link :
In case your are interested in reading the review….
https://www.elespanol.com/el-cultural/letras/novela/20230702/yevgeny-zamiatin-mejor-libro-ciencia-ficcion-jamas-escrito/773672862_0.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab-bff
the content of which will be interpreted by some to achieve a different amalgam of thinking.
Enjoy your journey.
Just during a recent short vacation, I rescued a little book by Antón Chéjov, a friend has lent to me some time ago and had not yet read….“Pavilion number 6”
I believe this kind of literature influenced my friend´s current views on Russia….read in his youth, as a young philosopher….the deep bias got imprint….and not only his….hence the general idea that one can invade and loot Russia as if going for a walk kept through the decades going…
Chéjov paints a quite despaired society, offering as a consolation just the unique fortune of finding a good intelligent conversation or interchange of ideas….
Is this the ultimate last pleasure we can aspire, the only hope we can hold?
How to live without hope? There is few people who can live so…You need to have liberated yourself from any need, desire, fear, hence Putin´s penchant for Orthodox Christianity…. which I believe he embraces out of compasion for their people….so that they imitate him and turn themselves to religion… in search of hope…
When you talk about hope as a great weakness, do you mean trying to live today, without worrying way too much about the future, since so many factors, trayectories and velocities in play that we can not control the result or final amalgam, thus why keep hoping a certain result ?
Sounds like the wish of Klaus Schwab and his gnomo, Harari…..to kill hope….
Are you a member of the WEF?
“Are you a member of the WEF?”
Last time I “won” the internal blini prize it was because on Saker’s blog I was asked if I was an “American”.
Perhaps I can win another blini prize by your question posed above even given the huge competition facilitated by contrarians riding their horses backward as held by some little big men.
“How to live without hope?”
This was explained in:
MirrorGazers says
6 July 2023 at 06:12
on the understanding that phenomena do not need to be perceived to exist and this catalyses assumptions, beliefs, hopes, speculations as described in Mr. Marx’s Theses on Feurebach which I paraphrase below namely:
Philosophers heretofore have merely described the world, the purpose however is to change it.
an example of which is https://sonar21.com/background-paper-russia-united-states-ukraine/ predicated upon hope including but not limited to hope of facility, but likely not perceived as being such but based upon “knowledge” – Mr. Martyanov’s observations on opponents’ facilities in/of strategies refers.
“”How to live without hope?”
By understanding that it is a circumvention of facility second to certainty facilitating revolutions around fixed points and hence requires transcendence through co-operation as outlined in the multi-lateral text contained and illustrated but not necessarily perceived in MirrorGazers says 6 July 2023 at 06:12 including the sequencing
Nikolai Gogol Diary of a Mad Man
Nikolai Gogol The Government Inspector
Evgeny Zamyatin We
Mikhail Bulgakov Heart of a dog
affording opportunities of lateral process to transcend the sequencing of Ghost of Mozgovoy says 5 July 2023 at 14:51 as a co-operation namely:
” Why, because of Zemyatin´s described hypervigilance society dystopy at “We”, so similar to the current WEF project?”
“I rescued a little book by Antón Chéjov”
As Mr. Vonnegut advised it is useful to save books as Mr. Bulgakov observed that manuscripts don’t burn if stored correctly.
However words and books are catalysts of connotations and all phenomena including catalysts have half-lives of potency since lateral change is a constant, whose variables include but are not limited to trajectories and velocities, and hence it is unwise to rely on precedent- the third major weakness facilitating revolutions around fixed points – as your friend and billions of others present
“…read in his youth, as a young philosopher….the deep bias got imprint….and not only his….hence the general idea that one can invade and loot Russia as if going for a walk kept through the decades going… “ refers.
Beliefs have plasticity since beliefs are virtual.
You can believe that you are an analyst, a crocodile,a decider, an exception, an expert, a philosopher, or a strategist, but that does not make you one – although living without certainty, hope and reliance on precedent reduces the barriers to co-operating in lateral processes to facilitate transcendence of perceived present “needs” – that is presently designated scientific method/science.
Enjoy your journey if it is lateral, since revolutions around fixed points lead to acquiescence, belief, conformance, depression, and other presentations of self-emmulation/self-immolation.
“which I believe he embraces out of compasion for their people….so that they imitate him and turn themselves to religion… in search of hope…”
You are not alone in your ignorance (the correct derivative of the verb to ignore to delineate process of ignoring by design and/or defaul as a function of facility and/or motivation.)
That has been realised as a vector of useful foolishness facilitated by immersion in/hope of “The great man of history and his interventions against the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune thereby facilitating class societies by complicity for at least 5000 years, and hence the role assigned to some clowns in “Russian” culture which Mr. Putin and many others realise, outlined in Danish by Mr. Andersen’s Emperor’s New Clothes.
Words are catalysts of connotations but words cannot be translated between cultures only interpreted, hence the English philosopher cannot be translated as the French le philosophe, or Mr. Marx’s original German designation used in Theses on Fuerebach obfuscating:
What’s it all about Alfie ?
Is it just for the moment we live?
Then Mr. Bacharach’s melody returned to a minor key, whilst Mr. David’s lyrics return to social conformance by:
I believe in love Alfie
without true love we just exist
(facilitating the fourth greatest weakness namely desire for “possession/property”) rendered in a different presentation in the “bible”.
– thereby self-limiting agency by hope in the beliefs of Mr. Simon that
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls
Echoing the sound of silence – since songs are the best vectors of propaganda and socialisation which should not be conflated;dancing/ divining/genuflecting being force multipliers/harmonisers.
“Is this the ultimate last pleasure we can aspire, the only hope we can hold?”
When one has hope and one’s opponents have other facilities, hope is generally the pathway to suicide as a function of romanticism, “martyrdom” often being popular in “Roman Catholic cultures” such as Poland where Mr. Dombrowski still marches in the illusion of “For your freedom and ours”, and throughout “Latin America” during “The Condor Years”.
You suggest and illustrate the “strategy” to which “The Ukrainians” and others are currently being subjected, one of the utilities of “representative democracy” where many are immersed in the illusion that they have significant agency and knowledge often rendering “blogs” comedy routines.
to ALL Americans here :i wish there would be more falks like you in the US , i reading your comments restored a bit of my faith in your country , do us a favor please , in 2024 make it happen that Trump will be the winner , bring back some sanity in this part of the world !
WHAT WILL NATO DO ABOUT UKRAINE?
Perhaps this?
https://journal-neo.org/2023/07/07/western-development-finance-institutions-the-misuse-of-aid-to-ukraine-risks-serious-consequences/
If memory serves EBRD’s “Development programme in Russia” with dispersements through Russian commercial banks primarily to their friends, “overseen” without due diligence as in Ukraine, by a New York banker whose grandfather became Scottish on the way across from Hamburg in the early 1900’s because the ship’s “purser” couldn’t spell grandfather’s name, lost over 30 billion dollars in 1998 when the commercial Russian banks defaulted/disappeared.
Apparently as a punishment the grand-daughter was promoted within the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development.
Interesting….
Thus, this woman is morgtaging the future of Europe by risking billionaire investments in a dead economy like that of Ukraine, going out of the usual path of the EBRD…..
She, as many other foreign agents currently at the helms of the European Comission, studied in the US….
” risking billionaire investments”
No.
Just cleaning and taking some vigorous (a cut/the fare) in “virtual transit”.
As the Rolling Stones sang:
This will be the last time?
I don’t know.
From German wikipedia, since there is no much information in the werb about this woman….
For some time he lived in Algeria with his father Dominique, a foreign aid engineer, his mother Anne-Marie, née Parent, a high school teacher, and three siblings. In Normandy, in Évreux, she attended a secondary school and then the Lycée Henri IV in Paris. He completed his literature studies with a license. He then completed a diploma at the Institut d’études politiques de Paris from 1988 to 1990 at the Grande école École national d’administration (ENA) in Strasbourg. In 1993 she completed the Senior Management in Government program at the Harvard Kennedy School in the United States.
career
In 1990 he took up the position of chartered accountant at the Cour des Comptes, the French Court of Accounts. Since 2016 she was Director General of the Treasury at the Ministry of Economy and Finance. At the suggestion of Bruno Le Maire, she was elected President of the EBRD in the City of London in November 2020.
One would say a meteoric career to the head of one of main European financial institutions seat at the City of London, for a degree in literature plus two years at the French School of Administration and then to the Government Harvard Kennedy School…..
No wonder she is mismangaing our hard earned money…it is obvious she follows orders from above since she has no education nor expereince for such a post….Looks like a figurant….Thus, someone is misdirecting European funds to Ukraine from the City of London….
That she was promoted by Bruno La Maire, confirms who the current Macron admisitration is working for……UK financial stablishment…
“From German wikipedia, since there is no much information in the werb about this woman.”
Throughout its variants wikipedia is not a source of much “information” but mostly of disinformation as part of its design and purpose, following Mr. Rove’s observation that:
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are ones you should concentrate on”.
In some circles the “publication” is known as paedophilia ergo “serving children”.
I can not find who the grandfather of this woman was….
Could you develop a bit more on that mismanagement in 1998, or provide a link?
Thanks in advance.
Russia and Belarus are memebers of the EBRD…..
That tha Ukraine war is serving for the UK to recover its damaged economy is getting increasingly clear, if more was needed, along the “pandemic”…..All the looted money always ends there….
“That tha Ukraine war is serving for the UK to recover its damaged economy is getting increasingly clear”
The conflation of attempt/achievement facilitates decreasing clarity encouraging pilgrimages to find “certainty” conflated with belief.
Could be Odile´s grandfather Jacques de Larosiére? Although I can not find the nexus…..
In his annual report, the EBRD, comes to this conclusions related to the Russian 1998 financial crisis….
“Strategic lessons
Experience of the transition has taught international institutions and
commercial investors alike that the process is long term, institution
building is crucial, the stresses on sections of the population can be
severe, and there will be delays and setbacks along the way. The
recent crisis has sharply underlined the fragility of reforms where
institutional and behavioural underpinning is weak. Reforms that are
not credible as far as the general public is concerned tend to
become unsustainable. Creating strong institutional foundations for
the transition is a difficult, long-term task, in which cultural and
historical factors exercise a powerful influence. It is now clear that
transition and the work of the EBRD must be perceived as longerterm processes than many had previously envisioned”.
Thus, why there are certain actors promoting a sharp and sudden trnasition to so called “green” economy and an abrupt disconnection of Europe from Russian energy markets?
It is clear that these actors seek to cause a huge financial crisis in Europe, if not the mother of all crisis…..
Also, I saw it was Mr. Kiryenko who was at the helms when the 1998 financial crisis exploded….and he is currently at the head of presidential administration…
Same actors prevail….
Source for the Strategic Lessons of the EBRD after 1998 debacle…..in case anyone is interested…
https://www.ebrd.com/documents/comms-and-bis/pdf-annual-report-1998-english.pdf
“In his annual report, the EBRD, comes to this conclusions related to the Russian 1998 financial crisis..”
The annual report is wall paper over canyons.
EBRD did not prefer/publish/release the following more representative possible internal paraphrased version.
In 1993 we sought to influence SME’s in Russia by providing capital to regional banks in Russia in conjunction with Dresdner Bank of Germany and Raiffeisen Bank of Austria to be dispersed through the chosen Russian Banks.
Accounting practice within regional banks in Russia in 1993 and subsequent did not conform to SSAP or Western banking regulations, since such did not yet exist in the CIS.
Consequently these were attempted to be added to the project specifications which in time influenced our partners Dresdner Bank of Germany and Raiffeisen Bank to reduce their roles and vulnerabilities.
Consequently from inception we were not able to practice due diligence of the Russian Regional Banks chosen.
In early 1993 the regulations in Russia allowed the registration of a bank with the equivalent of initial capital requirements of circa $ 250 in environments of relatively rapid inflation.
Typically these banks had some connections with the former GOSPLAN and hence the development of these banks to some degree depended in significant upon previous local relationships.
Our facilities were primarily based in Moscow as we were participating in the creation of bank regulations with the government to facilitate devolpment, whilst the regional banks were spread over much of the CIS and hence communication was generally conducted in writing with ocassional visits to the field.
From design of the initial project it was always understood that the CIS was a particularly volatile with potential high risks.
This led to bank defaults throughout Russia in 1998, and although not all loses incurred through our project have not yet been fully established, we believe through local malpractrice and wider forces our losses about to over 30 billion dollars.
Hence these consequences were the outcomes of the efforts of many including EBRD but not limited to EBRD. (It was mostly our sisters but we acknowledge our part in the outcome.)
Dresdner Bank and Raiffeisen Bank started to reduce their exposure to the EBRD Russian project by mid 1995 since they had acquired some knowledge of banking through years of practice, and directed some emphasis towards former spheres of influence including the Danube lateral, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia and Croatia.
NATO bombed the Danube above the Iron Gates in early 1999 blocking transit and according to a contact informed Raiffeisen Bank approximately “We won the Cold War not you, so direct your development efforts primarily through the “European Union” which has been the trend to date, including footpath refurbishment in Ruse and elsewhere.
The Nord Stream 2 Pipeline was not the first Allied Investment destroyed by NATO.
“I can not find who the grandfather of this woman was….”
That was virtually a foregone conclusion since you didn’t find the woman although you apprently are “certain” that you did, and hence couldn’t find the name of the woman which the purser’s ineptitude endowed upon her, even after receiving information that it was Scottish in 1994 and her grandfather sailed from Hamburg in the early 1900’s before “The United States of America” set quotas partly due to growing “anti-semitism” in “The United States of America”.
You did not ask why Hamburg to establish the liklihood that the vessel was owned by The Hamburg-America Line charging special rates for the semi-destitute in stearage, and the likely transit out of The Pale of Settlement was through Kretinga in present Lithuania, changing to Reichbahn trains in Memel (presently Klaipeda), Konigsberg (presently Kaliningrad) and Berlin to Hamburg through which many ancestors of present “Jewish Americans” travelled to a different “Golden Land” requiring registration by ships pursers to do so.
However you did find other EBRD candidates which you deem likely, thereby showing that the practices of EBRD and their outcomes are endemic.
” risking billionaire investments”
No.
Just cleaning and taking some vigorous (a cut/the fare) in “virtual transit”.
As the Rolling Stones sang:
This will be the last time?
I don’t know.
“I can not find who the grandfather of this woman was….”
That was virtually a foregone conclusion since you didn’t find the woman although you apprently are “certain” that you did, and hence couldn’t find the name of the woman which the purser’s ineptitude endowed upon her, even after receiving information that it was Scottish in 1994 and her grandfather sailed from Hamburg in the early 1900’s before “The United States of America” set quotas partly due to growing “anti-semitism” in “The United States of America”.
You did not ask why Hamburg to establish the liklihood that the vessel was owned by The Hamburg-America Line charging special rates for the semi-destitute in stearage, and the likely transit out of The Pale of Settlement was through Kretinga in present Lithuania, changing to Reichbahn trains in Memel (presently Klaipeda) on consolidated through fares/tickets, Konigsberg (presently Kaliningrad) and Berlin to Hamburg through which many ancestors of present “Jewish Americans” travelled to a different “Golden Land” requiring registration by ships pursers to do so.
However you did find other EBRD candidates which you deem likely, thereby showing that the practices of EBRD and their outcomes are endemic.
Obviously, yoy have moe info and facility than me…
“NATO bombed the Danube above the Iron Gates in early 1999 blocking transit and according to a contact informed Raiffeisen Bank approximately “We won the Cold War not you, so direct your development efforts primarily through the “European Union” which has been the trend to date, including footpath refurbishment in Ruse and elsewhere.
The Nord Stream 2 Pipeline was not the first Allied Investment destroyed by NATO.”
Really, and it was not either its first ecoterrorist attack, deeming the lable “green” another farce, if nore was needed ……It seems that besides bridges, there was a lot of oil refineries in Novi Sad only….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Novi_Sad#See_also
Was this bombing determinant for the path of both Hungary and Rumania to the EU and NATO?
Was the bombing of Yugoslavia then a way to scare Eastern European countries so that they could not consider relations with Russia, the way Japan was scared?
Of course you cite wikipedia known in some circles as paedophilia since it “services children”.
“Was the bombing of Yugoslavia then a way to scare Eastern European countries”
No.
The bombing of the Danube was a warning to Austria and Germany, the bridges were rendered stones to limit transit between the higher and lower Danube, which was hidden by appearing to be related to the bombing of Serbia by the bombing of the bridges to which the audience speculated that the bridges had significance in and of themselves.
Novi Sad was of lesser geo-political significance.
“they could not consider relations with Russia”
Not significantly.
Russia was thought to be a gas station which the tourists thought was under their control, charades which in 1999 were useful in furtherance of the ongoing transcendence of “The Soviet Union” by The Russian Federation and hence apart from a flying visit to Belgrade, The Russian Federation did not intervene publicly in Serbia – a position that was explained to the Serbian government at the time.
“Was this bombing determinant for the path of both Hungary and Rumania to the EU and NATO?”
The other way round.
The integration of Hungary and Romania to EU and NATO was in part further encouragement to Austria and Germany not to misbehave by limiting potential options of misbehaviour, the ancestors of the EU and NATO were Gladio constructs to control “The West” from the initial coal and steel arrangements onwards by France, Belgium, Luxemburg and Germany including the Saarland which had been in dispute between primarily France and Germany..
“the way Japan was scared?”
No.
The zaibatsu was not scared in either 1973 or 1993 as a consequence of “The United States of America’s” alchemy of gold into paper to control their biggest emerging competitor in 1973 – Japan.
The zaibatsu was looking to change the paper received for goods exported to/imported by “The United States of America” into some value in parallel with the detente project between “The United States of America” and “The People’s Republic of China.
Primarily by using “US bonds” to buy Russian oil and gas, various minerals and materials in situ necessary to build a better trans-Siberian railway as a joint venture from Kobe via Hokkaido to Primorski krai to Rava Ruska, thereby limiting the control of “The United States of America” through limiting zaibatsu/Japanese exposure to “US bonds” and other instruments.
This was sabotaged by the medal collector – Mr. Brezhnev – primarily to frustrate the industial/intelligence faction in the Politburo and to continue detente with “The United States of America” which accelerated and widened the sum of some involved in the ongoing transcendence of “The Soviet Union” by The Russian Federation, facilitating significant barriers to the development of the Japanese economy, recession and the end of lifetime work in the same company in Japan, and to a degree with some exceptions in the reduction of long term planning and state encouragement/co-ordination in Japan, causing long-term unemployment in Japan.
The current hope of “The United States of America” is to reproduce within “acceptable tolerances” their hopes from 1971 to date as was understood in limited detail by some in 1969 following the Tet offensive in Vietnam.
Very interesting….
Since we talk about Japan, why in your opinion was Mr. Shinzo Abe killed?
Being as he was part of the same Japanese elite brotherhood than Mr.Kishida…
Mr. Kishida was, by far, one of the persons who was having a best time at the G20 dinner in Bali, in the line of Mr. Widodo, the host….
Others, on the contrary, did not stay for dinner….
Do you mean that that move by Brezhnev turned the Japanese into oponents for the ages to come?
Was this understoood by Mr. Abe and so was he willing to correct course with Russia, and as a result, once this move in the know by the US, got him killed?
“Do you mean that that move by Brezhnev turned the Japanese into oponents for the ages to come?”
No.
Among other things the medal collector and his associates facilitated Mr. Abe, his associates and thereby were complicit in the outcomes, which included the accelerations and widenings of vectors of transcendence of “The Soviet Union” by The Russian Federation, since like Mr. Biden and his associates, Mr. Brezhnev and his associates were/are short-sighted clowns with similar purposes namely: to limit change within linear paradigms of “acceptable tolerances” in environments where lateral change is a constant wherein variables include but are not limited to trajectories and velocities.
“oponents for the ages to come?”
Lateral change is a constant rendering velocities variables precluding “opponents for the ages to come”, why opponents are opponents not “enemies”, and components facilitating “blogs [are} for the “geo-politics/stomach rumblings” of adolescents pondering whom is “dating” whom.”, seeing-is-believingness, and why spectators should consider following Marie Antoinette’s alleged observation since in part she was guillotined because they didn’t eat cake whilst some sans-cullotes continued knitting.