US control of The Zanzegur corridor is problematic for Russia and Iran., and would not have been countenanced a few years ago. It certainly represents a decline for those countries and a win for the US. Of course that can be reversed eventually, but it's likely to be full of NATO Turkish forces as well as US. Hardly a trifle!
I'm very aware of the Zangezur corridor and how it crosses the proposed route for the INSTC and how it might interfere with trade between Iran and Russia and the role it plays in continuing the dream of a "Greater Israel". It is very relevant to the economic problems faced by the USA because American resources are being diverted to achieve empire through domination rather than cooperation.
Is Zangezur "the most important" crisis facing the US? No, but it certainly is part of what is causing the huge US debt you bemoan -- without telling us why or what to do about it. According to your short statement, the debt "just exists".
I don't find your claim to be smart because you got a gold medal to be credible in light of the ignorance you show here. I bet you're one of those economists the Anglo-American Oligarchy hires because you believe what they want you to believe and, like Laffer, know how to repeat it endlessly in a torrent of disinformation that "sounds good" to the uneducated.
Your claim that you know how to manipulate the market is not all that impressive. It has been obvious to most that the US engineers a new recession every 4-7 years. China hasn't had one since 1979. (I suppose this hard fact is also irrelevant).
Perhaps you should take a chill pill and realize that the more you use such invective the dumber you look to the rest of us.
Or maybe that's your goal. To get us to be angry with you. I'm not angry with you. I feel sorry for you.
There are several routes that have been proposed. Escobar says a complete land route is preferred. The route most are familiar with was the one through the Caspian. Another alternative is the East Coast of the Caspian through Turkmenistan. The expansion of Chinese HSR to Tehran will provide even more alternatives.
Wikipedia shows the current route is entirely over land.
Correct, taking goods off of trains and loading them onto boats and then off and back onto trains is very wasteful of both time and money. It is a huge bottleneck to N/S trade.
The land route is an alternative, but shipments from Russia to India and vice versa currently pass from Astrakhan in Russia to Bander-e-Anzali in Iran by ship through the Caspian Sea.
Fuentes isn't wrong and he has the pulse of Conservative males under the age of 40. He may not be able to find Kazakhstan on a map (98% of Yankees can't either) but he is dead on regarding the Juuz and Jigaboos.
Nobel Prizes are just like participation trophies. The only reason Juuz have won 25% of the science related ones is because they were bought and paid for.
I don't think you understand Fuentes point about "the Jews". Can we talk about the "Jewish Mob" now, or is that still anti-semitic. How do you talk about the conflict within the Jews themselves?
Check out Aaron Good and his "Empire and the Deep State" series.
He's sticking the knife into the Zionist American establishment and is seen to be holding Trump to an account with his base. Of course you can never trust anyone in the public eye, but I watch the show anyway.
The list was obviously set out to provoke. As Simplicius says, it's so full of errors. Kazakhstan has had a large US presence since the early 90s. Nothing new here. And are US forces really patrolling the Zangzur Corridor? Perhaps in VR?
US troops (or private contractors) are -suppose- to be moving to the Zangzur corridor, yes. Remember, al Qaeda was America's greatest enemy -- until it wasn't.
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There are no U.S. troops currently stationed in the Zangezur Corridor; however, there have been discussions about a U.S. private company potentially managing the corridor, which has raised concerns about security and geopolitical implications in the region. The situation remains complex, with Azerbaijan and Armenia having differing views on the corridor's management and access.
Again false equivalence to put Putin/Ru's responsibility and support for Jolani in the same league as the US, and even crazier to equate Putin/Ru's ties and support for Ysreeyul. It's like a teacup vs an ocean.
If you live in the USA it is your taxes, your weapons, and your responsibility what went down in sector Gaza.
Thank you for your concern for the vital interests of the Russian Federation. Your predictions and disappointments are rather boring and if I wouldn't know better could be generated by GPT chart or a person on salary. Next time politicians need to take a decision in foreign politics they sure thing will give you a call. So things will go to your liking and everyone will brush each other's hair and say the right things.
Russian bases housed the Christians hiding from Jolani. Wagner group took Palmyra twice and said there won't be a third time. Until you personally do fighting or dying ...
Never underestimate the Brits and their talking points aka "metodichka" typed up by the collective from the call center in Dnepropetrovsk. With peculiar linguistics and emotional charged messages from concerned "naturalized Amerikan". You can take Olena from Harkov but you can never take Harkov from Olena.
Blame game is a unique Western characteristic, but I have all the respect in the world for American hillbilly and working class in Europe. On the day like today it is about respect and gratitude. People in the chart were citing Poe's Raven - "Nevermore...", and that is forking beautiful.
You are insane. Russia literally has a military alliance with Israel's arch enemy Iran, whereas the US is a wholly controlled puppet of Israel. You have some weird ax to grind which makes your perceptions totally distorted.
Putin has been consisently putting Israel's interests at the top of his priority list, way above those of his own people.
Wake up, FFS.
It's not even hidden -- how many times has he:
1) Spoken about the need to protect the "Russian speakers" in Israel? A lot.
2) Spoken the same way about his own people, which he allowed to be slaughtered in the thousands like cattle in Kursk and to be mercilessly terror bombed for years over an ever expanding swath of Russian land? Very little.
3) Acknowledged Israel is doing genocide in Gaza? Never.
4) Acknowledged Israel is the modern-day reincarnation of Nazi Germany, which would be kind of relevant if you have declared "denazification" as the goal and you have a Jew in charge of the Nazi state in Ukraine with Israel providing substantial technical support to that state and Zionists in the US driving the whole war from the beginning in the early 1990s? Don't make me laugh...
Duh. Of course Putin wants to "protect Russian speakers in Israel". There are practically no Jews left in Russia, they have all fled Russia, mainly to go to Israel. Why would he want them back?? Use the thinking part of your brain.
As far as (3) is concerned, Russia has strongly condemned Israel's actions in Gaza. This is easily verified. Quit spreading disinformation.
1) They won't go back to Russia if Israel is destroyed.
2) They hate Russia with a passion and want to see Russia destroyed. Perhaps Russia should reciprocate
3) There is always the option of outlawing dual citizenship, you know? Make them choose. They won't choose Russia because of the previous point, then you no longer have that problem. But then Lavrov's daughter would also have to make that choice too, and we can't have that embarrassment, can we?
4) Various people from the foreign ministry has condemned Israel's actions. Putin himself has not. And nobody has explicitly called it out as genocide. Those details matter.
There are many "Jewish Russian speakers" in NYC. They also have dual citizenship with Israel. They see themselves as Jewish/Israeli first and foremost and NOT Russian. Secondarily as Americans/New Yorkers. They dislike Russia. Russia gains nothing from "supporting" them. And supposing they are persecuted by the Jewish state (unlikely, but lets play with this hypothetical), do you think that Russia will invade Israel as it did Ukraine? No. It won't.
Exactly what is Putin supposed to do? He’s a president engaging in diplomacy.
How many times has ANY western country leader done any of that, anywhere?
« acknowledge that Israel is a reincarnation of nazi Germany » may be correct, but obviously no serious leader will make such a statement.
When it comes to Kursk, Putin demolished Ukrainian forces, made sure they were kicked out for good and is now finishing the job, albeit very slowly unfortunately.
>United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379, adopted on 10 November 1975, "Determines that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination" with 72 votes in favour, 35 votes against, and 32 abstentions.
But then:
>It was revoked by Resolution 46/86, adopted on 16 December 1991 with 111 votes in favour, 25 votes against, and 13 abstentions
One of the many things Gorbachev gave away just to kiss up to the Americans.
Ad 4 - what would be the purpose? It would be like declaring war against one of the biggest power in this world. What would be the benefit of such acknowledgement?
Oh, and the genocide in Namibia in the early 1990s was done by the tooh fairy, not the Germans?
And the United States in the 18th and 19th century, on which Hitler modeled his thought, and where there were practically no Jews, was not a Nazi state whatsoever, just pure white and fluffy innocent Christian nation...
The only country with a more jewish government than Ukraine is Israel. The NSDAP arose as a bulwark against jewish power and White-genocide. That was literally its raison d'être. National Socialism is the antithesis of Zionism, and literally the only articulated remedy to the evil that's killing us. Comparing Israel to Germany under National Socialism is a Pavlonian reflex ingrained by jewish propaganda.
Nothing he said was untrue, but his conclusions are entire incorrect.
For example, there is now a solid Sino-Russian Alliance.
Nothing else is even slightly as important as that. Except.....de-dollarisation.
De-dollarisation is now a fact, when it used to be, at best, a good idea.
I might be wrong, but I think it's a paradigm shift with huge implications for the future.
Then there is the fallout from Gaza. I'm not sure Americans understand how the non-Western World sees that. Your soft-power, which was massive, is in tatters.
That is not a simply "and then there is" last item.
And it's not Russia's, it is specific to Putin's and oligarchs around him.
It is the most fundamental fact about Putin's reign that people need to wake up to. It explains if not everything, then 60-70% about what Putin did in Syria and why the SMO is not a war and is being (not) fought in such a baffling and catastrophic for Russia way.
The war on Russia on all fronts, with Ukraine being the main one for now, was conceived and started by who? Zionist Jews in the US.
Putin is surrounded by what kind of people? Russian Zionist Jews.
Who are Zionist Jews loyal to? Israel and nobody else.
How is Putin going to be seriously fighting the Zionist Jews in the US when he is surrounded by Zionist Jews himself? That is the question that absolutely nobody with a public platform wants to touch, not with ten-foot, with a hundred-foot pole. John Helmer kind of mentions the "special relationship" of Putin with Israel, but he himself is physically located within Russia, so he can't say more. The Russian military bloggers are mostly genuinely blind to it, plus they are even more restricted in what they can say, for obvious reasons. The Western podcasters are completely blind, even the anti-Zionist ones, because they don't know what's happening in Russia.
He was hoping to extract concessions, but victory was never a real objective
It was also a last-ditch desperate measure to save his own ass, because the Ukro-NATO-Nazis were going to not only descend on Donbass and beging slaughtering everyone, thus unleashing a flood of several million refugees into Voronezh and Rostov, but to continue with an invasion into Rostov and an attack on Crimea too. The refugees alone would have been extremely destabilizing for Putin's rule, because everyone would have been absolutely and fully justifiably outraged, but an invasion into Rostov and the loss of Crimea he would absolutely not have been able to survive politically.
Look at some of the maps with the pre-SMO line of contact highlighted -- the LNR actually held less than a third of Lugansk, the rest directly bordered Russia, and in the days before the SMO started there were numerous infiltrations of Ukrainian DRGs into Russian territory, it wasn't just the much more widely reported drastic increase of shelling into Lugansk and Donetsk.
Also, I remember reading a NYT article on Putler from 2009. It was a very interesting read because they talked with insiders close to Putin who talked about how he is staunchly pro-Western and is interested in continuing Yeltsin's policies with regards to integration with the US. The difference between him and Yeltsin was that Yeltsin wanted to integrate unconditionally, and Putler wants to be seen as a "peer" and "equal" and so many things he did was to be seen in this way. This was why Georgia in 2008 happened for example. And I suspect same with Crimea and why he never resisted US encroachments earlier on. After all, why resist those who you see as an ally?
>"Если мы бы знали как все обернется [в Украине], мы бы некогда не полезли"
It wasn't really a choice for Russia, unless he means Belarus would not have gotten involved at all. Which indeed, after the Istanbul fiasco, it hasn't been -- Lukashenko saw that Putin is not serious about the SMO and bailed out.
And won't get back in it, because he doesn't want to have hundreds of drones flying into Belarus every night. Though he likely will still get that eventually unless the war is finished off quickly...
Russian mil bloggers can't say much about how the war is being fought anyway or risk a visit from the FSB. They were speaking out early in the war and asking uncomfortable questions until the FSB told them to cooperate or go to prison. It's logical during wartime, but it simply shows that Putler is not fighting the war properly.
OTOH, many ex-Soviet intelligentsia are staunchly pro-Jewish. It was frowned upon in many intelligentsia circles to be anti-Jewish. Though many secretly were. It is my suspicion that Putin is partly pro-Israel due to this as well as all the Oligarchs being jewish.
Which is nothing knew, of course -- I have made that point many times, that Putin's actions over the years can be explained only with him being an absolute imbecile or a conscious traitor. No other options.
But I don't think he is an idiot, you don't get to, and most importantly, stay in that position for so long if you are one...
Actually his actions can be explained another way - he is of the Yeltsin clan. And so like Yeltsin he sees the US as allies. Just allies that do not see his worth as an equal. So his goal is to "convince" them to treat them like the Uk
Al Joliani visit in Moscow and Washington are totally different. In Syria Moscow had done a lot for years to prevent people like Al Jolanie winning, including extended military actions. He finally won, so they talk to him out of pragmatism - diplomacy is about talking with those who have actual power. The US claimed for years to be on war against terror, while they supported Al Qaida and ISIS, finally putting Al Jolanie on the throne as their puppet. They invited him for a friendly visit, played basketball and patted him in the back. In Russians case it’s about diplomacy, in US case it’s about supporting their puppet.
President Putin made Ukraine the red line for NATO and so far has stuck to his word. Since the opponent is the world hegemon with a large group of rich and powerful countries, no wonder it takes time and resources to get the job done. All that done without giving a pretext for the full blown WW3.
In other comment our friend GM wrote, that Putin let his people „be slaughtered in the thousands like cattle in Kursk”. That’s instance of exactly same magical thinking. President Putin is supposed to win the war in 3 days, as gen. Milley had predicted, otherwise he’s doing everything wrong. It doesn’t work that way in the world where the resources and power have limits.
There’s no much difference in value of a single human between Russian being killed in the Kursk region or in Pokrovsk or Odessa. However, the Kursk region was a perfect place to minimize Russian losses and maximize enemy’s losses. President Putin, like Stalin in the past, understands very well that mass casualties are inevitable, so his job is to pick the fights wisely to reduce the numbers. Kursk was a total disaster for the Kiev forces, in men and machines. Not a single Russian city was affected there, just small towns and villages. Many people in Kursk died to save even many more Russians in other part of war theater.
1. Decapitation of Ukronazi leadership. The opportunity for which has kind of been missed at this point because the war is increasingly run directly by NATO, but still it should be done even if for purely symbolic reasons
2. Shutting down logistics inside Ukraine. We are still at the level of token strikes for the purpose of imposing deterrence, which, of course, is not working at all, because nobody cares about any level of suffering inside Ukraine, thus there is no deterrence to be imposed by striking Ukraine.
3. Physically disconnecting Ukraine from NATO. Yes, that means nukes. Yes, it means strategic nukes on Europe if necessary. Yes, that must be done and is preferable to what is happening now. No, it won't lead to WWIII, because nobody in the US will sacrifice the US itself over retaliating for something that no longer exists.
That there is a locomotive, bridge, transformer, TV station, radio station, airfield, port, etc. left standing in Ukraine is a true testament to Russian dithering and indecision.
>President Putin made Ukraine the red line for NATO and so far has stuck to his word.
No, he hasn't. The read line wasn't to keep Ukraine out of NATO, it was to keep NATO out of Ukraine so that it cannot fire missiles into Russia from point-blank range.
But NATO is in Ukraine and is firing missiles into Russia, systematically destroying Russian infrastructure.
Putin even changed, and very publicly so, the nuclear doctrine, yet he refuses to follow it for a year now, even thought it has been violated pretty much every single day since then.
>President Putin is supposed to win the war in 3 days
At this point, because Putin allowed NATO to set up shop in Ukraine, 3 days is impossible indeed.
But 3 months is doable, and yes, he has to use the immense power in his hands and do it. Otherwise he has to go, because that is the fate that a leader who refuses to defend his country when it is under attack deserves.
>However, the Kursk region was a perfect place to minimize Russian losses and maximize enemy’s losses.
Post-hoc rationalization cope.
Putin could have just not allowed NATO to stage in Sumy whatsoever, by not allowing them to move a single tank or mercenary across the Polish border. He has the military-technical means to do so.
Wake up and face the brutal reality -- those people died not because of some 5D chess calculation but because using the military-technical means that would have saved them would foreclose on the possibility for "going back to how things were" for the Russian elites. And Putin works for the latter, in a neo-feudal system in which the lives of the peasants are worth just as much as they were in the previous feudal system. It is also why Putin is so allergic to Soviet symbols.
>Not a single Russian city was affected there, just small towns and villages
1) Yeah, bro, no big deal. Small towns and villages, who cares
2) I take it that Donetsk is not a Russian city in your view?
> The read line wasn't to keep Ukraine out of NATO, it was to keep NATO out of Ukraine so that it cannot fire missiles into Russia from point-blank range.
Pure semantics. In the long run, this goal will be reached. In the short term, the missile attacks against Russia have been very limited. You’re mentioning nuclear doctrine, so I assume you consider nuclear weapons as answer against the missile attacks. It will require to glass the whole Ukraine, inhabited with several milion of hostages. Kiev government won’t surrender. Alternatively, Russia may have nuked often mentioned by you „decision centers”. Those centers are actually in London, Washington and some other places where Western oligarchs are hidden.
> At this point, because Putin allowed NATO to set up shop in Ukraine, 3 days is impossible indeed.
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> by not allowing them to move a single tank or mercenary across the Polish border. He has the military-technical means to do so.
Tell me how would Russia prevent Americans from sending weapons to Ukraine. Tell me about these means. How to prevent weapons from being delivered from PL and RO?
People often talk how strange Putin didn’t obliterate the Dniepr bridges. The reason isn’t 5d chess, it’s simple logistics and strategy. Take away those bridges in 2022 and all those weapons and mercenaries would stay on the Western bank of the river. Then the Storm Shadow and other such stuff will be in use. The Russians will need to cross Dniepr, keep long logistic lines. Instead what they did is to offer NATO a few killbox zones, like this Rabotino 10x10km zone, Bahmut or Kursk Oblast 30x30 zone. UA logistic was long, while Russian lines were short, all 90% of what NATO could muster was devastated there in those kill boxes. Till UA has resources, the war will continue. It’s what the Russian Stafka understands very well. So they created environment, where UA and NATO are loosing resources with relatively low cost. Of course this cost is still huge. But it’s optimized, it’s as small as possible.
> Putin is so allergic to Soviet symbol
It’s the man who brought back Red Star and Soviet anthem to Russia.
> 1) Yeah, bro, no big deal. Small towns and villages, who cares
Still smaler human cost. It the wonderland you may 100% avoid human cost. In the real world, you need to count how many people will die and what will kill them. Every good national leader needs to think how to optimize the number. Covid hysteria was the best example of not getting this principle. Nobody was allowed to die of covid, so they closed clinics and hospitals cutting off people from medical care. In consequence, many milion died. But not of covid. They died of hypertension, cancer and many other undiagnosed things. Russian didn’t prevent the Kursk invasion, because Kursk invasion was the most stupid thing UA and NATO could do. Once it happened, Russia took advantage of this tragic event to the maximum. In consequence, human cost was not in vain. People who died in Kursk made UA less capable of doing way more killing in other parts of the war theater.
> ) I take it that Donetsk is not a Russian city in your view?
Well, you didn’t mention Donetsk in the first place, you wrote about Kursk instead. Don’t be surprised to get answers relevant to your comments.
>You’re mentioning nuclear doctrine, so I assume you consider nuclear weapons as answer against the missile attacks.
You have no idea what's in the nuclear doctrine, do you?
When it was updated last November, it included "mass drone launches" as a trigger for retaliation, including against "non-nuclear countries backed by nuclear countries".
But it never specified what a "mass launch of drones" means. Apparently either a triple-digit number of drones does not count as a "mass launch", or Putin is ignoring the nuclear doctrine.
We do know it's the latter though, because of the events on June 1st, which violated in a very dramatic way another point of the nuclear doctrine, which has been there forever, it wasn't added last yer -- an attack on the nuclear triad is a trigger for nuclear retaliation. And while in the end they "only" destroyed 12 planes, the intent was to take out the whole strategic bomber fleet and the whole AWACS fleet. Pearl Harbor was proportionally a much lesser offense. And yet Putin called it a "terrorist" act, no an act of war, and didn't do anything in response...
>Tell me how would Russia prevent Americans from sending weapons to Ukraine. Tell me about these means. How to prevent weapons from being delivered from PL and RO?
You nuke the border crossings with bunker buster missiles with the 75-kt tactical warheads Putin has mentioned several times. Kinzhals will bury 30-40 meters into the soil, it explodes there, you get this:
Plus serious radioactive contamination of the area. It will take them months to restore the previous transport links.
And it's not as if Putin is not aware of that option -- Duma Defense Committee members have called for it. More than two years ago in fact. So you can be sure Putin was presented with detailed plans.
If NATO then decides to still feel too brave for its own good and transfer stuff through newly built transport links and direct airlifts into Ukraine, you then wipe out Poland and Romania, and as much of Europe as necessary to make that a physical impossibility.
Moral purity is not an aspiration for any responsible leader. The Irish journalist Brian MacDonald (on substack) who lives in Russia, has suggested that Putin is best understood as a Russian Bismarck. As the USSR collapsed Russian pensioners were impoverished whilst the Soviet state provided money and resources to “fraternal” countries: that won’t happen again.
I’m not saying the Russian attitude to Israel is correct. Lavrov talking about the wholly spurious two-state solution is a case in point. And there are 1.5 million Russian passport holders in Israel, all as genocidal as the rest of their compatriots I’d guess.
For years now, we've been assured by commentators here that Russia has to do this "just the tip" style of warfare because public relations, because Global South or whatever.
Now it seems that open daylight genocide is just peachy.
«Providing diplomatic support for any individual or nation conducting genocide is a fundamental wrong, a violation of the most basic human law.»
What is happening in Gaza is just standard massacres and ethnic cleansing like they have been happening in Tigray, Sudan, Myanmar, Yemen on a bigger scale.
One of my guesses why the "progressives" of "the west" obsess with the Gaza massacres and ethnic cleansing and pretty much have ignored the others is that they are racists: the massacres in the third-world done by third-worlders against other third-worlders for them are just the result of the backwardness and savagery of the third-worlders so something not notable, but the massacres in Gaza are done for them by first-worlders and first-worlders are supposed to be better than that (hahahaha!).
My guess is that if the israelis managed to persuade the "progressives" of "the west" that they are backwards and savage third-worlders too then I guess that the massacres in Gaza would appear as rarely in western media as those in Tigray, Sudan, Myanmar, Yemen, "business as usual".
Good points regarding ongoinh crimes against humanity in various places. However in the US blacks disproportionately commit more crimes, and it is usually against their own. Black on white crime is also more common than the reverse.
«I obsess with the Gaza massacres and genocide is that every day for the past two years I've seen an unbelievable amount of blood and the horrors of war. Every day there are photos and videos,»
That is indeed as remarkable as the other bigger massacres instead being under-reported. As a rule the massacres done by "our bastards" (or just by third-worlders) are under-reported, so I guess that the prominence given to the Gaza massacres is part of some policy. What is even more curious is that some previously ultra-zionist news sources that previously might have put under-played like the Gaza massacres are now giving them prominence. At times it feels like a distraction operation
«Up until about a month ago, none of that was showing up regarding any of the other places you mentioned, and then only Sudan.»
They were under-reported but not completely un-reported, at least outside the USA.
Perhaps they are going to be reported a bit more prominently as some israeli are trying to use the massacres elsewhere to "excuse" the one in Gaza, as in "everybody does it why pick on us?" (but two or half a dozen wrongs do not make a right).
An unbiased humanitarian (and principled zionist) like Jeremy Corbyn in the UK did try to raise awareness of the other massacres:
"I remain deeply concerned about the widely acknowledged humanitarian crisis in Yemen. Britain’s continued role in providing weapons and military support to Saudi Arabia while they are conducting military action against Yemen, including inflicting massive civilian casualties, is totally unacceptable."
Face reality, whether you like it or not. What Nick Fuentes says, sounds like the truth. A beautiful speech in the Knesset or by the Colombian president will not change that.
You face reality. Without that $37,000,000,000,000 in debt, the USA would be tucked back inside its own borders. And that debt is based upon the exorbitant privilege of having the global reserve currency.
Which is crumbling faster than America's infrastructure.
The balloon is largest just before it pops.
And then there is nothing left but wreckage, and useless plastic pollution.
The Empire has always been psychopathic, from Rome onwards.
"The Black Iron Prison never ended" - PKD.
There is only one 'civilisational centre' that never fell to Empire - China.
It's quite a tall ask to hope that a single country, without moving out from its own borders, set such an example that the rest of the Imperial world has to follow and fall in line.
For 20 years since, I've given the human race at most 5% chance of survival. Usually far lower.
Fuentes is an odd character. I watched the entire episode of him and Ye on Alex Jones (The first of HIS episodes I ever watched for more than a couple of mins). It was HILARIOUS. Funniest thing I watched that entire year.
And the only time I've seen Fuentes in action.
He was by the far the most dangerous person in that studio. (Ye was actually admirable, and Jones is Jones, lol. He was sweating terror by the end of it, lmfao).
Anyway, no-one knows how this will end, but the most likely outcome is catastrophe.
"There is only one 'civilisational centre' that never fell to Empire - China."
This is false I think. China was indeed imperial - a whole series of empires from Han, to Song, to Yuan to Ming and Manchu and more in between
The alternative to empire is a more or less constant state of local gangster war. Look at the Mongols - that was their fate for centuries until the greatest empire builder of all time - Genghis Kahn worked his magic. And from Genghis - his grandson Kublai who united China as the Yuan dynasty and arguably laid the foundations for the "modern" Chinese state.
Obviously China was Imperial *in itself*. But they didn't have that "Go forth and conquer and plunder" mentality of the "christian" nations. When China did leave their shores, it was to trade peacefully, and make friends.
By "Empire" what I meant was that distinctly psychopathic culture that started in Europe with Rome, and eventually came to dominate the entire continent, leaving rivers of blood with every forced expansion. And then over 9/10s of the entire World.
Not saying China was some peacenik Hippy colony, but it sure as hell never reached the level of bloodthirsty savagery that the European Empire(s) did.
Exactly. Also it's interesting to note that the federal reserve already owns $4.5T of that debt which it bought during quantitative easing and routine operation to lower long term interest rates.
The debt "held by the public" is therefore lower than the headlight number and the money printed to buy those bonds have already reflected into inflation numbers those past few years.
In reality, the fed could print $30T and buy all outstanding bonds. The only problem is that it would generate large inflation, and it's something that is better done slowly.
Nvidia lost maybe 20% of its "value" in one day, and will continue upwards/downwards until the AI bubble pops.
"Cutting military spending" will mean the shrinking of the US back to its own borders to make any difference. Or the nationalisation of the MIC - good luck on any POTUS managing THAT.
"Taxing the rich" would be a workable solution, but once again, good luck for any POTUS setting out to do that.
Empires don't fall because they couldn't be saved - they fall because they 'realistically' can't be saved, due to existing power structures.
NVIDIA didn’t lose any of its value. It’s the most valuable it has ever been. However I agree that the entire market is in a bubble.
When it comes to taxes, it’s not about « taxing the rich » it’s about taxing a little bit. overall no one really pays any real income tax here. In Europe, the effective tax rate is often 30 to 40%+ for anyone earning over $100k. In the US, it’s literally less than 10% after all those imaginary deductions. The USA has a LOT of room for taxes, while Europe has none.
Finally, the US has a consistently growing population from immigration. China, Russia, Korea, Japan etc do not and are facing population collapse that will destroy their economy (especially China and Korea that have the worst imbalance).
~20 years ago, a Swedish mate on an early Politics forum got so irritated with the yanks on the forum constantly gloating that the Skandi Socialist Paradises raking in vast amounts on taxes to pay for it all, he spent a considerable while looking into it. He discovered that when ALL taxes were added up, from VAT, state, local and federal taxes were included, the difference between the US and Swedish tax rates was negligible. (The biggest difference is what the taxes were spent ON).
But of course you mention the key point - the "deductions".
And Swedish corporates actually did pay their taxes - at least back then.
I recall seeing at some point that the majority of US corporations actually got more money from the gummint than they ever paid in.
As for the long-touted "Demographic bomb", which is supposedly going to implode China at some point - poppycock cope, I'm afraid.
You see, wealthy pensioners still pay a lot in tax (In well organised tax collection systems). They pay tax on savings, they pay tax when they spend, and the people they hire for goods and services also pay income tax.
The key to the whole thing not collapsing is ensuring that retirees have good incomes/savings/pensions. And are not thrust into poverty.
The Danish economy relies quite heavily on pensioner wealth and spending, fx.
Now, I admit I'm no expert on this part of the Chinese economy, or what Beijing is doing about it, but I'm willing to bet they are looking into this in a big way.
Of course grey-hair money is not enough to run an entire economy - but that is not the claim anyway. It's that the few % difference in the working/pensioner balance will sink the entire economy.
There is no NEED for this at all. This is how it works in most non-skandi Western economies, because workers are skimmed to the bone, and the resulting poor pensioners are seen as solely a burden.
China, apparently, has something of a different model - or are moving towards one.
With the ENORMOUS funds now being pumped into 'artisanal' creativity, pensioners will be able to continue to 'work', and be productive. Pensioners love toddling around doing gardening - and small scale, hand-produced, non-toxic agricultural products become in GREAT demand as a society matures.
There will be no "Demographic bomb" in China, and all those so-called "ANALysts" are going to get egg on their faces.
Of course, that doesn't matter - they did their job of producing propaganda, and got paid for it. There's no punishment for such when later they are proved wrong.
There is a lot of sleight-of-hand that goes on with taxes and tax rates in the U.S. . It is not the "income tax" per se that hits work-a-day folk. It is the combination of state and local taxes and the federal chicanery with Social Security and Medicare / Medicaid. Social Security is a flat tax with a cap, which means if you earn $15 million per year, you pay the exact same amount (not rate... amount) as someone earning about $150,000 per year. This is a massive tax on the poor and working class.
Other nations fund their pension systems off the general ledger: not some sleight-of-hand off-the-ledger system. The same applies to healthcare. Other nations also fund their public health benefits off the general ledger from what are officially called taxes. So, include Social Security and Medicare / Medicaid in the income taxes that U.S. citizens. This is a flat tax, so again, it hits the poor and working class disproportionately hard. Remember that employers pay half of this of this as well as the worker: so double the amount that American workers see removed from their paycheck every week. Finally, other nations fund unemployment and disability benefits from the general ledger: not with a quasi-private "insurance" system. So, add all the unemployment insurance that employers (and employees in some states) pay to the general tax burden.
Finally, the federal government in the U.S. has, I have heard, federalized the student loan program with a fairly consistent 6-7% interest rate (all the while borrowing from the Fed and selling Bonds at 2-3% or less). So, include about 40% of all student loan payments as a tax on young people since the direct beneficiary of these payments is the U.S. Treasury.
Now add on all the local taxes, state taxes, sales taxes, property taxes (which are very, very high in some parts of the U.S.), tariffs now under Trump (despite a clear constitutional mandate that the power of taxation lies in congress and not the president) to Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid, and you end up with a very high tax burden indeed for the poor and working class.
42 million food Stamps and population is brokke and no one is fooled by the fake valuations of comapnies , its all paper value in the real world worthless
You are not adding the corporate debt, the personal debt, Derivatives or the Black debt. We do not know the amount of the black debt because they will not publish it. But with what we do know it is closer to $110 trillion.
We Colombians love Petro for standing against the US. Our former bought-and-paid-for president, Duque, now working as a DJ at some Miami club and loved by the US, sold 66.66% of our country's gold reserves in a single transaction exactly two weeks before the price of gold doubled. I remember when Obama visited Colombia. His secret service agents enticed a group of prostitutes back to their hotel and after using the women, they were kicked out of the hotel. Little did these idiots realize that prostitution is a legal and regulated industry. The women filed a formal complaint with the police, after which the Colombian National Guard surrounded the hotel and refused to allow any of the American delegation to leave until the women were compensated and all fines/penalties were paid to the women and the state.
Thank God the women were sought , compensated - their natural dignity restored! A thousand years is too short a time for the gringo of the North to learn the truths of this Universe!!???
On the face of it it seems true. US notched some "wins". But they are shallow ones. Bought and paid for "wins" that have little support behind them.
Just today, the big beautiful Thailand/Cambodia peace, negotiated by Trump Inc. collapsed. And even if Bolivia managed to elect a center-right nincompoop, the days of reckoning are not far behind. Not far behind Argentina. Some in latin America undersdtand. The Colubvian guy seems to. Not everyone does.
Everything is fluid in this world. Kazakhstan, like Turkmenistan, like Azerbeijan, they all play both ends of the stick. Why wouldn't they? it's like the kids of divorced parents smartly getting double the pocket money.
Yet, everyone is careful. Watching the clouds. reading the tea leaves. Should the US falter even for even a second, we'll see all these "wins" dissipate like a puff of cloud on a sunny day.
In the meantime, China, the rising Dragon, is carefully calculating its steps. One must read almost daily to follow the changing tides. Calling it right now, as Fuentes did, is silly. Tomorrow he'll likely have to eat his words.
All that said, Israel is the wildest card of all. Mamdani played it for a win, and not the way they liked. Ultimately I belieeve this is where it all comes together for the Big Fall. Sorry but Israel is what's it's been all about. Always. The kink at the throat of the Empire.
I says, let's wait a little. As in "we, the people". Of everywhere.
I'm not a neocon and the cold war ended. This isn't the same battle. Russia needs to protect itself. Build its important relationships (Iran, India, China) and maintain a strong detterence. The US dominates in propaganda and narratives but it is a house of cards built on control of financial markets. Asia and Africa are keys. That is Russia's strongest hand. Don't take the bait.
And the fall of Pokrovsk doesn't Change it, and the abject defeat of Trump in the trade war doesn't change it, and China taking the lead in AI doesn't change it, and Russia having the engine that will reach Mars doesn't change it, no a couple more indefensible foreign bases for the Empire to waste money on are great victories...
Nick Fuentes is fake and gay and só is his speech.
Only if you ignore the essential details where he lies. Fuentes lists a bunch of "don't care" situations as if they are critical. But that's the lie, that Syria is in any way critical for Russia. It isn't. Same with a fake deal between Kazakhstan and Trump. That's just the Kazakhs raiding the US for easy money. They're still deeply connected to Russia, same as India and China.
Fuentes ignores the US's central losses: China and India have become closer ever since the US made them enemies of the US, and the troika of China, India and Russia are closer than ever. That's the biggest strategic fail any American administration has made in decades. The US has just pushed the world's greatest provider of resources, Russia, into very tight economic alliances with the world's most populated countries and the one country in the world, China, that has a larger real economy, one based on actual production, than the US's.
At the same time the US has bankrupted Europe and has ensured that Germany and the other EU countries will stay crippled for lack of competitive access to the resources they need.
And then there's the biggest elephant in the room that Fuentes wishes away: Russia's crushing defeat of the US and all US stooges combined in Ukraine. Fuentes tries to cover that up by implying that came at a high cost to Russia. On the contrary, rather than coming at a high cost it came with a booming economy as foolish US and US stooge sanctions helped Russia achieve a far stronger and larger economy, as well as creating the world's most combat effective military.
Fuentes is what you get when deluded Westerners start believing their own propaganda for morons.
Whether "morons" applies to you is entirely under your control, and not mine.
The West's propaganda cannot be characterized by intelligent, educated people as anything *but* "propaganda for morons" because that is what it is.
It is propaganda designed for people who have very weak intellects and, to boot, are very ignorant. A good example is Trump proclaiming himself "the Peace President" with the morons at whom that propaganda was aimed seeing no incongruity in their Peace President proclaiming a Department of War, threatening violence to Panama, Canada, Greenland and others, killing nearly a hundred people in the Caribbean without trial, attacking Iran and perpetuating a genocide in Gaza.
The infinitely many lies of the West about Ukraine, going back to the claim Russia had to pull tanks off WWII monuments to get arms, are other examples of propaganda for morons.
Armenia (Russia's former erstwhile ally) is staunchly pro-Western, blaming the Russians for not coming to their aid during the Karabakh conflict (this is not my words but many Armenian's I know).
Azerbaijan is lost once Russia started arresting their diaspora at home (and was probably lost anyway as it started making inroads with Turkey).
Kazakhstan has taken a pro-Western course under Tokaev (and even under Nazabayev has wanted to switch its writing system from Cyrillic to Latin to be more in line with other Turkic nations like Turkey - no matter how you look at it this is not good politically). In addition, many Kazakh youth dislikes Russia/Russians and not only due to the Ukraine war - this is why you can find many "debates" among older Kazakhs saying how Russia benefitted them, but younger Kazakhs disagree and look to the West. I predict that in the coming years that Kazakhstan will taken an even harder pro-Western turn.
Then there's China - while China currently helps Russia it also sells DJI drones to Ukraine and many Chinese banks uphold sanctions on Russia. There have also been calls from within the Chinese establishment to look at regaining territories lost under the Qing.
In the medium-short term things are not looking good for Russia in it's near abroad. This is partially due to it trying to use "resource diplomacy" vs western "lifestyle diplomacy" and that is clearly failing.
@Simplicus - I would like to see a breakdown/debunk of what I said above. After all these are the facts as I see them. Hope I am wrong
Get the facts right. I know for a fact your statement about China selling drones and components to Ukraine is FALSE. China enacted strict export restrictions on Ukraine, about which Zelinsky has been complaining nonstop. There is no movement in China to disavow the Treaty of Nerchinsk (1689), which established the border between China and Russia. In that treaty, China lost and gained territory. China gained sovereignty over resource-rich Manchuria while sacrificing claims to the Transbaikal regions. Huge net gain for China.
Perform an internet search and read for yourself the multiplicity of articles like the following from Bloomberg two months ago: "Ukrainian forces are grappling with a critical shortage of DJI Mavic drones due to China’s export restrictions, threatening frontline reconnaissance and artillery operations. RBC-Ukraine reports that these restrictions have disrupted supplies, forcing Ukraine to seek alternatives amid a Chinese drone monopoly in the Russia-Ukraine conflict."
Here's another from the officially sanctioned Ukrano news source, quoting the poisonous dwarf:
"President Volodymyr Zelensky said China has stopped selling drones to Ukraine and Western countries while continuing to supply them to Russia, Bloomberg reported on May 29.
Chinese Mavic is open for Russians but is closed for Ukrainians," Zelensky told reporters, referring to the popular quadcopter drone manufactured by China's DJI.
There are production lines on Russian territory where there are Chinese representatives," he added, according to Bloomberg.
The Mavic, typically a civilian drone used for aerial photography, has been adapted by both Ukrainian and Russian forces for battlefield surveillance and as a weapon platform capable of carrying explosives."
Yes, and don't forget Europe. Under Biden and Trump it has been completely submitted to the US Empire and turned into an enemy of Russia. That was not the case before.
Nothing good comes from ignoring reality, sad though it may be.
Sure, he's right, when he isn't lying. And when he's right he's right about stuff that absolutely doesn't matter. You've got to work on your critical thinking skills, Scipio.
As I said earlier, (if you read more carefully you wouldn't have been suckered in by Fuentes...): "Only if you ignore the essential details where he lies. Fuentes lists a bunch of "don't care" situations as if they are critical."
Armenia was never Russia's "erstwhile ally". Armenia always was and still is exclusively out for itself. That extends to how Armenians are with each other: they put themselves over everything else, including their country. That's why the constant factionalism in Armenia and why far more Armenians happily live outside of Armenia than in Armenia.
As enduring phenomena those two factors are matched only by the suicidal politics of factions within Armenia, a good example being the Karabakh conflict when the suicidal faction currently running Armenia launched on a path of self-destruction by breaking every deal it made, thinking that committing suicide was a great way to force Russia to break off the even-handed policy it was using to try to keep Armenia alive and to join that faction in an insane attack on Azerbaijan. The disaster in Karabakh was entirely the fault of a simultaneously self-interested and suicidal regime in Armenia, not Russia. If you don't listen to nutcase regime supporters, you'll hear that from more sensible/honest Armenians you know.
"Azerbaijan is lost once Russia started arresting their diaspora at home"
A lie on two fronts. Russia by overwhelming margins is Azerbaijan's largest and most important trading partner. Azerbaijan is not "lost." For that matter, Russia did not start "arresting their diaspora." Russia arrested members of an Azerbaijan mafia who were murdering their rivals in Russia. We don't allow that in Russia. The particular mafia goons Russia arrested had deep ties within Azerbaijan's corrupt government, so the government tried to save them. That didn't work.
Azerbaijan next, as it always has for over thirty years, played the Turkey card and is otherwise thrashing around, the crooked government being given to acting out. Turkey and Russia both know that, and neither will allow a pawn like Azerbaijan to harm the far more important relationship that Turkey and Russia have between them. The Turks are no fools. They know they need a good relationship with Russia to balance the racist hostility from Europe, from the US, from Israel, and, potentially if they cannot work things the way they would like, from Iran.
"Kazakhstan has taken a pro-Western course"
In fact, Kazakhstan has taken a multipolar course even as it continues to be profoundly, totally dependent upon Russia. The Kazakh relationship with China is far more important than opportunistic looting of US funds.
Use of the Latin alphabet is simply a pragmatic step towards multipolarity. Common ground with China and India is in the Latin alphabet, not Mandarin, Hindi, or Cyrillic. That doesn't bother China, India, or Russia, either, as all three use the Latin alphabet and English as a common language. If you lived in Russia you'd know the widespread use of Latin instead of Cyrillic in Russia, with half of the signs you see for stores and restaurants and such using Latin and widespread use of English for international transactions with the Global Majority.
As for *some* (not "many") Kazakh youth disliking Russians, that's absolutely true. They don't like it that even in their own country they are falling behind employment opportunities because Russian youth are far better educated. They also don't like Chinese, either, for the same factor. They don't like a future for themselves as day laborers on construction sites in Russia or China.
The better educated Kazakh youth don't share the opinions of uneducated losers. They know that their only hope of achieving an economic miracle for themselves and for their countries is to leverage education and the more prosperous economies with which they are engaged, Russia and China. For most of them the most effective path is leveraging the relationship with Russia, because most Kazakhs speak Russian and they know they'll never learn Mandarin. They also know that the Russians are open to them while the West is not. One side effect of being better educated for those youth is that they are deeply aware the West doesn't give a shit about Kazakhstan but is just looking for some sucker to play the role of the next Ukraine once the US's Ukrainian cannon fodder gets used up.
"This is partially due to it trying to use "resource diplomacy" vs western "lifestyle diplomacy" and that is clearly failing."
"clearly failing?" You're spouting nonsense and then agreeing with yourself. You're also falling for western propaganda for morons. That you're falling for that is not a compliment to your IQ.
People in Russia's near abroad know from direct experience that the lifestyle in Russia is truly super. That's why so many of them come to Russia as guest workers and why so many bring their families and try to immigrate to Russia. That goes for both uneducated and educated people from the various central asian republics.
As far as diplomacy goes, that's something that really only more educated people care about. The more educated people in the central asian republics also know that the "lifestyle diplomacy" of the US and its stooges is based on lies. They know the quality of life among the US's stooges in Europe is going down, and they know the primary cause of that is the staggering increases in the price of energy and other resources caused by a disconnect from Russian energy and resources.
They also know quality of life in the US is not the quality of life they want. The central asian republics are very socially conservative, for the most part being Islamic. Educated or not they *strongly* support Russia's approach and are repelled by the perversions of the US and the US's stooges. When I greet my Central Asian brothers in the market where I shop ever week we shake hands and say "Salaam alaikum" and "wa alaikum assalam" to each other, and that is a common bond of respect and understanding between men no matter that we do not share the same religion or that we are different ethnicities. We are united in knowing that marriage is between a man and a woman and that the perversions of the US are indeed foul.
Those are common threads that run between the deeply multiethnic and multiconfessional Russian Federation and Russia's neighbors and are the result of centuries of interweaving. Like all such deep interweavings they are not spun sugar, either, and, as any well-educated person would expect, come with many complexities. That is part of their enduring richness, and one reason a multipolar world comes so naturally to Russians as well as to Russia's neighbors. That's a richness the debased US and debased US stooges do not have, and one reason why a barren, perverted "lifestyle diplomacy" is not successfully competing with a thousand years of cultural richness.
I generally agree with many of your comments although I am not so sure about the state of the Russian booming economy: sanctions are having a deep erosive impact that is still difficult to assess and there is a very serious drop in consumption and investment that continues to have a major impact on the retail and construction sectors. Regarding the mood of the population, lots of young (and not so young) people now fear the future or to put things differently are not really looking forward to more partial mobilisations or to a USSR 2.0 isolated from the rest of the world, possibly at war with NATO and ruled by a tightly knitted bunch of siloviki intent on the suppression of any dissenting views and tight control of the internet, which is the main remaining space for freedom of expression.
Yes. And I am not off the mark. This does not mean that there is a uniform situation throughout the economy or in the opinions of the population. Note that people are very prudent when it comes to expressing their honest views on the very very sensitive topic of the SMO.
I have been in Moscow for 25 years, and I have never seen the place this prosperous.
There is inflation, but I don't think it has much to do with sanctions. This is the first time that I have ever seen a claim of lack of consumption and investment, but maybe.
"Note that people are very prudent when it comes to expressing their honest views on the very very sensitive topic of the SMO."
People say whatever they want about the special military operation. I get the impression what you don't like is that Russians by overwhelming margins support the special op. It's a phenomenal outpouring of grass roots patriotism.
Crazed liberals (a tiny minority), and people stupid enough to fall for US propaganda for morons don't like that, of course. Too bad for them.
What you wrote is pure US bullshit, propaganda for morons. Why for morons? Because it is so far off the mark that anybody on the scene with an IQ over 40 can see that it is a lie.
"sanctions are having a deep erosive impact that is still difficult to assess"
That's two lies in a single quotation. Sanctions famously are having a very positive effect on the economy because they have stimulated huge and very successful investment in local enterprises. That impact is not the least difficult to assess because of the immense, rapid, and very visible growth of structurally essential economic activities stimulated by US and US stooge sanctions.
"there is a very serious drop in consumption and investment that continues to have a major impact on the retail and construction sectors"
A half-truth that you use to push a lie. Consumption is skyrocketing in the usual, over-the-top gorging on goods in the extravagant way that seems to be the hallmark of the New Russia (new in the 1990's, not so new anymore...). Investment dropped back from the overheated peak, but now is rising again. Let's look more closely...
Investment and consumption skyrocketed upwards, so much that the Central Bank was worried about the economy overheating and causing classic demand driven inflation. Their response was to try to cool off the economy with much higher central bank rates. That did cool the economy, but it also pulled investment from the economy as well (as the Bank knew it would). Why invest in a business with all the attendant risks to get 25% returns when you can get 29% from funds sitting in a bank account?
The bank intended those high rates as a temporary measure and has since dialed them back, so investment is returning to the strong pace that it was before, again as expected. The economy continues to grow, faster than any of the US stooge economies in Europe and, in real terms, faster than the US's economy. That's all that's needed to continue the continued good mood.
"lots of young (and not so young) people now fear the future"
That's a lie. People in Russia, especially young people, have never before been so positive and optimistic about both the present and the future.
"are not really looking forward to more partial mobilisations"
Another lie. That's a reprise of the US lie in 2022 that students would be mobilized when, in fact, only men who had already served on active duty in the military and were in the active reserve (a voluntary choice on their part) could be mobilized. There is zero chance any "young people" are going to be mobilized.
"or to a USSR 2.0 isolated from the rest of the world"
Pure Western propaganda for morons. Russians of all ages know that Russia is not the USSR and that the USSR is gone forever. There's no more chance of the USSR returning than Americans starting to walk around in tricorn ("cocked") hats. Russia is profoundly, deeply, astonishingly different, now and forever, from the USSR. Anyone who lived in the old USSR and has spent more than five minutes in Russia today knows all that to the very marrow of their bones.
As for "isolated from the rest of the world," that depends upon the target of your propaganda being so incredibly stupid and so horrifically badly educated that they think the US and the US's stooges are "the world." They're not. They're a viciously perverted group of dishonest jerks that, lucky for humanity, are a small minority, only about 1/8th of the world.
"ruled by a tightly knitted bunch of siloviki intent on the suppression of any dissenting views and tight control of the internet, which is the main remaining space for freedom of expression."
Whoa, there, pal, your VPN connection just failed and showed your IP coming from the US's Ministry of Truth. I live in Russia and I get 800 channels on my cable package and billions of websites from all over the world. There's no "suppression of dissenting views" and no "tight control of the internet".
It's also amusing to note that what you wrote describes the EU and UK of today, not Russia. People getting arrested in the UK for "liking" somebody's comment that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza is a pretty rich example of that.
What we do have in Russia is remarkable unity on some key factors despite very widely differing ethnicities, cultures and religions. For example, there seems to be darned near universal revulsion at US and US stooge perversions, like the idea that marriage is something between people and animals (just kidding... it hasn't quite gotten to that point outside of some really perverted parts of the US, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Germany...). It's true that a very small minority, around three percent, are crazed liberals in the US stooge mold. The 97% of us who are not mentally deranged are really looking forward to those people emigrating to US stooge countries.
Russia as a constitutional republic features a strong executive because that's the way Russians like it, and Russians turn out to vote for the executive they want, VVP, because by overwhelming margins they love the guy. That really annoys the US and US stooges, I suppose in part because VVP is a far more effective leader and has done more for us here in Russia than any of the delusional, self-interested, dishonest incompetents who have run the US and US stooges in recent decades.
Our man Putin has defeated the US and US stooge assholes in Ukraine and he has helped Russians build a true superpower of an economy. You've tried to defeat Russia and you've only defeated yourselves, and in the process have betrayed even your own propaganda claims about freedom, democracy and truth in the West. You not only lost, you drank your own poison in the losing.
As for war with NATO, there's an increasing percentage of Russians who are looking forward to that. Many of us here in Russia (I use "us" loosely given that I'm a foreign expat living here, but what the heck, after a while you certainly get the "one of us" feeling when you agree with the Russians around you...) think that really hot war with US stooges in Europe is inevitable and that the sooner we erase them from the planet the better.
*The Israeli-American allies have eliminated Hamas, Hezbollah and Syria and are now lord & master of the Levant. Gaza will become a real estate project. The future of the Russian bases in Syria, the only ones in the Mediterranean, is hanging by a hair.
*Fuentes, whoever that man may be, didn't even mention Europe in his list. Under Biden and Trump it has been completely submitted to the US Empire and turned into an enemy of Russia. That was not the case before.
*Armenia, although it thanks its very existence as a Christian state amidst Muslim territory to the Russian czar, is now in the Western sphere of influence. The TRIPP gives the USA a foot in the door in the South Caucasus.
*I read that Indian companies are beginning to buy non-Russian oil.
Nothing good comes from ignoring reality, sad though it may be.
PS. You can have another opinion about the situation, but there is no need to call names.
Why are you pretending like you've never heard of the Mexican child savior of the white race, after going to bat for him in several comments here? Just don't act like you're not a groyper, that's all.
I'm not an American and I indeed don't know who that man is, and I don't care either. What matters here is what he says and that, I think, sounds indeed like the truth, for the reasons I listed.
"Groyper" sounds bad. It is not in the dictionary. I assume that it is meant as an insult?
Herman, that you don't like it when I point out you're wrong cannot be salved by pretending I didn't point out when you wrote something incorrect. For example:
"*The Israeli-American allies have eliminated Hamas, Hezbollah and Syria and are now lord & master of the Levant. Gaza will become a real estate project. The future of the Russian bases in Syria, the only ones in the Mediterranean, is hanging by a hair."
But that's just more of what I referred to when I wrote "Only if you ignore the essential details where he lies. Fuentes lists a bunch of "don't care" situations as if they are critical. But that's the lie, that Syria is in any way critical for Russia. It isn't.
Russia doesn't give a shit about the bases in Syria. They were useful for what they were at the time but no longer are. As for the disasters the US is causing in the Middle East, those will come back to bite the US hard, just like US support for Israel resulted in 9/11 and trillions of dollars in losses to the US economy. Gaza becoming a real estate project will defame the US for a century or more. That's the sort of profound evil, like the US Army distributing blankets infected with smallpox to American Indian villages, that forever will be remembered as a stain on the US.
As for the US and Israel being lords and masters of the Levant, that will only last until Israel is erased with nuclear weapons, or possibly, with biological weapons. Sooner or later that will happen as nukes continue to proliferate and as the technology to kill millions becomes more and more accessible to very small groups. Israel is so proud of itself it used the technology of exploding pagers to murder many people. How proud will it be of the use of technology to murder millions when a group of five or six very bright and very devout Muslim students decide to splice up a virus that will depopulate Israel? Just guessing here, but I bet Fox News isn't going to be airing any fawning reports on what a militarily clever move that virus was.
Israel is following such a harsh path it is difficult to tell if that annihilation will come at the hands of an Iran that Israel engages in a death match, or if that will be at the hands of the true faith of believers like Ansar Allah once they achieve a small nuclear arsenal. But that such a day will come is pretty much baked into the intersection of ever-easier access to nuclear weapons technology and the still tiny population of Israel. A handful of nukes, say five or ten, and your "lord & master" of the Levant will be radioactive ash.
"The TRIPP gives the USA a foot in the door in the South Caucasus."
That's really funny. You don't know anything at all of the very complex, wheels within wheels history and cultures of the Caucasus, do you? Or about the bloviating from Trump?
"*I read that Indian companies are beginning to buy non-Russian oil."
Indian companies have always bought non-Russian oil. That's normal and expected. India does not now nor has it ever, nor will it ever, buy 100% of the oil it uses from Russia. The key question is whether India will continue to buy the large amounts of Russian oil that it has to date, on which the economic health of its economy depends.
All indications are that it will, that in truth India did, with infinite diplomatic politeness but nonetheless firmly, tell Uncle Sam to go fuck himself. India was especially annoyed by the blatantly colonial diktat to stop using Russian oil when its former colonial masters continued to buy and use Russian energy.
In fact, that famous Russian propaganda organ, Bloomberg Financial, just reported that India's purchases of Russian oil have *increased.*
...What was that you were saying about nothing good coming from ignoring reality?
Ah, and for the record, I've never called you any names. All I've done is point out that the US and US stooges have a habit of issuing propaganda for morons. If you're counting yourself as one of the people who believes such propaganda, well, that's you're calling yourself a name, not me.
Another article that makes Simplicius so unique. Letting us to have a peek at what things look like on the other side of the neocon hill (as the Iron Duke could have put it). This is priceless because it injects some rationality into what often looks like the disjointed spasms of agony of an empire caught in the Thucydides trap. Whether one agrees with Nick Fuentes is secondary, because perceptions and narratives are the main drivers for the empire's actions.
I mean, Al-Qaeda also had his hand enthusiastically shaken in the Kremlin. Glass houses and all that. I guess that was an anti-globalist "Resistance" handshake.
Putin is a realist, and Al-Jolani wants Russia to keep its bases in Syria. Give Putin credit, he tried his best to help Assad, but Assad was a spent force who couldn't be propped up any longer. You can't help people who can no longer help themselves. Time to move on.
The funny thing about Al-Jolani is, it was Israel and Turkey that put him in power. And yet, how has either of them actually benefited so far? Turkey has put an albatross around its neck, and Israel has taken a bunch of worthless Syrian territory that it now has to defend.
As far as Trump goes, he might as well engage with Al-Jolani, I suppose. Christians have been genocided all throughout the Middle East for the last hundred years, so there's nothing new going on here. Getting Al-Jolani on side isn't the worst idea, it gives him some leverage against Netanyahu. Assuming he wants to use it, of course.
The only real winner here is the CIA. Big surprise.
There is a big difference between promoting corruption and immorality outside your borders, and simply dealing with it. The CIA promotes corruption and immorality all over the world, that's not Putin's fault.
As far as Trump is concerned, well, the CIA is part of the US government. But it's a part of the US government that no President has been able to control. Harry Truman's biggest regret was that he formed the CIA. JFK wanted to "scatter the CIA to the wind" and he got assassinated for his trouble. Trump has survived two assassination attempts already, which were obviously CIA ops. What would you suggest he do?
.One could always argue that Russia fought him in Syria and didn't use him as a war contractor. This guy was still molded and trained in American prisons in Iraq, and certainly not by the other guys in the prison.
Butler PA was not CIA. If it was he would be dead.
It was a false flag by Trump's Security team. Normally, the head of security that day would be fired for gross negligence. But no, Sean Curran was promoted to be Head of the Secret Service.
Of course he survived, it was a WWE scripted event. Tell me how a bullet hits the innermost part of someone's upper ear without damaging the tissue in front of or behind it. Experts say the alleged AR round would have torn his ear off.
Harry Truman, in a secret Whitehouse ceremony, gave the Medal of Freedom to Meyer Lansky, the head of the "Jewish Mob" and a founder of "Murder Incorporated" and an ally of Mossad. A willing participant in the murder of JFK and RFK.
Any regrets Truman may have had were washed away with crocodile tears.
Note that Marouf is only confirming what was already discussed by people for years, and if you go back to comments sections from last year, you might see me making the same points before Assad even fell.
The gory details about the Russian army actually doing air support for Jolani against the Syrian army a year ago and taking Assad prisoner I am not so sure about, but that doesn't change the picture all that much.
P.S. Assad does indeed seem to be a prisoner in Moscow, if he is even alive. Nobody has seen him. If he had any freedom of movement, he would have been seen on the street, he is not exactly the type of figure that blends with the crowd. His wife hasn't been seen either. There is not even any proof of life
The President's job was supposed to go to his older brother who died in a car crash. It is also possible that Bashar al-Assad had simply had enough after 25 years with a target on his back. The whole exit process smelled like a backroom deal.
Again, if he was a free man who can walk around without restrictions, he would have been noticed somewhere in Moscow. He is an impossible to not notice figure with his height and weird proportions.
False equivalence. Trump/US betray all their [fake] principles about human rights and democracy as pretexts for overthrowing gov't non-compliant with empire by hobnobbing with Jolani. Even worse that this guy is the type of arch-terrorist we are supposedly morally outraged by.
Putin/Ru on the other hand doesn't go around the world lecturing other countries about their internal politics and human rights. Putin/Ru takes a realist stand that they deal with whatever's in front of them. You may want them to be moralizers like the US, but they've taken a consistent principled path of non-interference, which was the international standard enshrined in the UN, prior to the bogus R2P doctrine which the US uses as a pretext to overthrow disobedient regimes.
In any case, whether the reasons were realpolitik or humanitarian, Putin did his best to fight these ISIS / Al Nusra terrorists, but ultimately was unable to save the secular Baathist gov't. The US/Ysreeyul actually created and supported these jihadist terror groups. So, again, not in the same league at all.
Again. False equivalence. One caused the situation, the other has to deal with the fallout as best he can. Putin/Ru literally fought Am/Isr proxies ISIS and Al Qaeda for years. You'd make a terrible judge, condemning the jaywalker and serial killer both to the electric chair.
>Putin did his best to fight these ISIS / Al Nusra terrorists
Did he? Seriously?
Who had Syrian AD deactivated while Israel was bombing Syria?
Who never supplied Syria with any serious weapons to drive out the Americans and the Turks even after HIMARS systems started killing Russians on Russian soil?
And who was it that did Astana and ordered Idlib to be spared and to remain as a terrorist nest?
Medvedev was there for less than a year when the war started, and he did in fact send weapons.
And it didn't matter what mistakes Assad made -- Syria is of such gigantic importance that it was a must for Russia to nuke Turkey if needed in order to protect it. The way the dominos fall after Syria's demise leads all the way to missiles being fired into Chelyabinsk, Omsk, Novosibirsk and Russian ICBM silos from point blank range.
Which is why it had been the key Soviet and then Russian ally since the 1960s.
Your tastes don’t align with reality , so they are factually irrelevant, as are the “warm and fuzzies” associated with them. Only power and the exercise of it determine outcomes. Unless of course you work in the EU moral fantasyland
I never did get an answer last time I asked. Are you a troll? Your position is to always undermine the Russian leadership. They do what they believe is in their interest. You always have a subtle way of undermining that position. Top marks for the way you do it.
This is correct but don't drag Russia into this. A trap was set. When Assad's troops didn't fight Russia didn't take the bait. They played that very smart. The neocons and Westerners in general (who complain about the neocons but accept their grand chessboard view of the world) say Russia suffered a great defeat. Did they? They didn't lose a bunch of troops, equipment, and money fighting a pointless war with no clear objective. Assad made his own decisions that led to the collapse of his country. He couldn't pay his military so it was over. Russia played it smart
Assad fell because the United States toppled him. The sanctions worked, the invasion worked.
Christians in, for example, Iraq survived all sorts of things for two thousand years. They survived the Mongols, the Persians, Saddam Hussein, Murad, Tamerlane, Baibars (scary scary Muslims!) and others.
ISIS is run out of the Gulf States, I think (can anyone confirm).
ISIS and A l Qaeda fought each other in Afghanistan, they aren't allies.
They may be rivals for the head chopping mental Sunni fundamentalist constituency.
I get confused.
Can we acknowledge here what an absolute dog's breakfast the whole Muslim world is, except for a couple of the Central Asian Stans, the Shia and Malaysia/Indonesia?
no need to be confused: "....Syrian militias armed by different parts of the U.S. war machine have begun to fight each other on the plains between the besieged city of Aleppo and the Turkish border, highlighting how little control U.S. intelligence officers and military planners have over the groups they have financed and trained in the bitter five-year-old civil war [....] CIA-armed units and Pentagon-armed ones have repeatedly shot at each other while maneuvering through contested territory...." - https://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-cia-pentagon-isis-20160327-story.html
this was clown world in 2016. no wonder someone like Al-jolani can now be fêted in the WH.
Just today there was a report on telegram about a national from Cameroon being imprisoned in Moscow for doing "vodoo" and promising to convert people's rubles to dollars with magic. He earned a couple of million rubles doing that.
But that's not the point - Russia is committing the same mistake as Europe by inviting African migrants. One would think they would learn observing the Europeans. They did not. Why? Because they are of the same crop.
Russia has historically had a different relationship with Africa, because it is not a colonial power there, but a liberating one.
It has also been much more tolerant towards Africans dating way way back. After all, Pushkin would have been sold into slavery immediately by then existing US law had he stepped foot there, but he is the Russian national poet.
I am not, however, sure, how much of a difference that would make from the perspective of the current Africans that would hypothetically migrate to Russia in huge numbers.
While Russia has had a positive relationship with Africa (recall how many Soviet university students went to Senegal and had children from Senegali men coming to the USSR - after all any place is better than "sovok" right?), this is much different from what's happening now and from allowing mass migration. No amount of "positive relationships" with Africa will prevent the negative consequences of mass African migration.
Al Qaeda is a CIA construct, forged out of the Afgani Northern Alliance (fighting the Soviet occupation) and the injection of Bin Laden and endless black funding from Saudi Arabia and the MIC. Bin Laden and the CIA fell out, but Al Qaeda (The Base) has featured in many capers up until today, controlled at all times by the western MIC and their cut outs.
Al Qaeda is a tool, not an enemy, of the western deep state.
Has nothing to do with the head chopper. Putin met him because Erdogan asked him to. Russia doesn't need anything to do with Syria. They are better off closing shop and getting out. Russia does need at least a working relationship with Turkey. So Putin will at least listen and see what they want from Russiam
Clever. Syria was the Russian Europe or Israel. What benefit did Russia get from its alliance with Assad? Nothing, except a rather pointless military base outside the perimeter of the Black Sea, which could easily be cut off from the Black Sea fleet at the first sign of international turmoil.
Syria's primary purpose was to serve as a buffer between Israel, Turkey, and Iran. Why should Russia support a buffer state between these 3 nations? With Assad gone and the radical Sunnis in control, the buffer is gone, and a 4th player is added to the game. The Gulf Sunni States now have a stake in Syria. That makes 4 regional powers who are now in direct contact with each other. Soon they will soon be at each other's throats. That brings a NATO country and U.S. Gulf allies into conflict with Israel. I wish the Zionists good luck in trying to sort that one out.
Meanwhile, Russia can wash its hands of the matter, quietly provide guarantees to Iran, and watch 3 of its rivals come to blows over a string of oases.
1) You have zero idea what you are talking about with respect to Syria's importance. There is a reason it was so strongly supported by the USSR for so long. And why Russia went militarily in there first, many years before it did so in Ukraine
2) This wasn't washing of any hands, it was controlled demolition. If you go back in time and look at what actually happened, you will notice Putin playing the role of the good cop and everything logically going in the direction that it eventually concluded with. All that time Putin was smiling and pretending he is defending Syria, and then what happened in the end?
3) If you have the eyes to see, you will also notice the unmistakable very similar pattern in how Putin is handling the Ukraine war. But it is Russia that he is supposedly defending in this case...
Explain to me the importance of Syria for Russia. Making an assertion does not make a statement true no matter how boldly or with how much conviction you make that assertion.
1) Notice what happened six months after Syria fell and didn't happen before that? Iran was directly attacked. Because there was no Syria to protect it.
The dominoes fall like this: Syria -> Iran -> Caucasus and Central Asia -> Russia's softest underbelly (and China's too)
2) Syria also kept Israel in check more generally. No longer.
3) You can do boost-phase interception of Israeli ICBMs if they are launched at Moscow if you have bases in Syria. When Russia is kicked out, that will no longer be the case, and it will be wide open for such an attack, thus losing the current nuclear dominance it has over Israel.
4) It's not an isignificant port at all, it is Russia's only presence outside the Turkey (and thus NATO) controlled Black Sea straits.
Yeah... when a buffer state falls, the nations for which it served as a buffer come to blows. That was my whole point. Again... from the Russian perspective... so what? Why should Russia be responsible for maintaining the peace between Iran, Israel, Turkey, and the Gulf States? Do you want Russia to be the U.S.?
Really? ICBMs from Tel Aviv? The only threat that Israel poses to Russia are threats from their "non-state" oligarch benefactors buying off corrupt Russian officials (as they do in so many nations) and their ability to get the Americans to do anything they want. Syria doesn't help Russia contend with either of those problems.
Dominos... good grief. There is certainly a fantasy in Tel Aviv and Washington that they are going to cause some sort of chain reaction of something that runs from Damascus through Tehran all the way up to Moscow. What is that "something?" No one seems to know, but it could be anything.
I grow more convinced by the day that you are at Langley, because everything that you say just repeats the Dr. Strangelove fantasies of American oligarchs: Russia needs to make a limited nuclear strike (to justify a large-scale response), the world needs to reduce the population to 500 million, Putin needs to be overthrown, something is going to happen that causes a massive chain-reaction of something throughout all of Eurasia that does something bad to Russia.
Lol... outposts in Africa. If you want to advocate for Russia becoming an international power-broker, that is fine. Just keep in mind that that position is what bankrupted England and is bankrupting the U.S. . Ask the people in the U.S. or England what benefit the work-a-day man-in-the-street ever saw from empire? Nothing. At the height of the British Empire, Dickens is writing about the horrendous poverty on the streets of London. One could do the same for American cities today. Empires impoverish the populations of nations, while enriching the overseers. If that is the future that you want for Russia, then I suppose losing some outpost in Syria or Africa is a problem. If you are packing a lunch everyday to work at the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, Russia has lost nothing. In fact, Russia has gained by not being responsible for problems at the the far reaches of the world that have no bearing on Magnitogorsk.
Also same thing happened with Armenia - Putler was smiling and saying that he is helping Armenia whilst simultaneously negotiating with Azerbaijan, letting Azerbaijani mafia entrench itself in the regions and take over regional politics in the hopes to retain influence in Azerbaijan. Instead, Azerbaijan turned to Turkey as it's "big brother"
It was way worse than that -- he was playing it best buddies the Aliev, despite everyone knowing very well what was happening with Turkey, and what Turkey's intentions are (they stretch all the way to Yakutia) while in the same time not doing anything to prevent Armenia itself from being captured by the West. Which it was, very easily so.
This will end the same way Ukraine did, and the same way Kazakhstan will -- when you choose humiliation in order to avoid war, you get both the humiliation and the eventually the war too. But it will be from a much more unfavorable position -- Azerbaijan will be pumped up with much more Israeli and NATO weapons than it has now, the terrain there is much more unpleasant, and the loyalties on the Russian side of the border in Dagestan (where Islamists have also been allowed to fester) are much more uncertain than they are in Voronezh, Belgorod, Kursk and Bryansk.
The Azeris downed Russian helicopters, killed Russian troops on the ground, on multiple occasions, there wasn't a single strike back. Which was taken exactly as the weakness that it was, and Aliev has proceeded accordingly ever since.
Indeed - I am also uncertain of loyalties in Yakutia itself (Buryatia is more loyal but that may change in the future, we will see). I get whiffs of many Yakut youth considering their homeland as Yakutia and not Russia. Also, there seems to be a growing pan-Turkic movement over there as well. Again, I may be wrong, but these have been my cursorary observations.
Disgusting display of hubris by our reigning dictator- legitimizing a mass murderer like Al Jolani does not bode well for the U.S. - a man we helped put in power - no epiphany the guy is still a terrorist but now also President of the new Syria with whom we complicity support in his ethnic cleansing- a new low even for the U.S. Genocide a new war tactic legitimized in Israel and Syria by our government.
When a president has such disdain for the citizens he purports to represent that he entertains reconstituted terrorists in the Oval Office we need to question everything - and to see the military complicit makes you know we have no moral compass left- the militarization of our streets can’t be far off.
On reflection we the U.S. have always been the biggest terrorist on earth so this is nothing new just a brazen admission made to the world that we have no integrity, principles or legitimacy we are just takers- be on the alert your country may be next - thus Venezuela and Columbia now in the cross hairs.
Federal reduction of employees in various agencies via DOGE reduced middle class earlier in the year: recent 41 day furlough of Federal employees endangered these employees ability to pay their mortgages probably forcing many into foreclosure; military pay withheld also pushed this group into desperate measures- military pay so low many families dependent on SNAP but what does government do just focuses on ‘fraud’ in the SNAP system with no actual references showing
how they are arriving at this assessment. Meanwhile babies and children go hungry every night in our country while the fat cats abandon their roles as representatives of the people.
Starving Gazans, now starving Americans - what’s next?
America never had a moral compass. It had a marketing blanket covering the soulless commercial entity it is, that includes the pretty words in its unlived Constitution. The blanket is now tattered is all, and the whole world can see what lives beneath.
«When a president has such disdain for the citizens he purports to represent that he entertains reconstituted terrorists in the Oval Office»
That "reconstituted terrorist" became head of his state thanks to Biden; previously Reagan and Thatcher were happy to entertain "reconstituted terrorist" Menachem Begin the head of terror group Irgun that killed many british people. Many in the UK were horrified that the head of Irgun was entertained by Thatcher and Reagan. And he was not the only "reconstituted" or present terrorist or mass murderer so entertained by the leaders of "liberal democracy".
«Reportedly, Roosevelt used the line while referring to Anastasio Somoza who visited the U.S. after an election: To prime President Roosevelt for the visit, Sumner Welles sent him a long solemn memorandum about Somoza and Nicaragua. According to a story told around Washington, Roosevelt read the memo right through, wisecracked: “As a Nicaraguan might say he’s a sonofabitch, but he’s ours.”»
The militarization of U.S. streets is already here in the form of Trump’s Gestapo aka ICE. Trump and his belligerent enforcer Hegseth boast about their plans for destroying internal enemies. The American police state is on its way, coming to a city near you.
Since Europeans arrived in the Americas in 1492 it is estimated 55-56 million indigenous people perished across the Americas. Approximately 10 million Native Americans were living in what is now the U.S. By 1900 there were 300,000 left, and those are living in poverty and their miniscule amount of land still being stolen and waters poisoned for pipelines to this day. The U.S. was founded on genocide and has never looked back. I'd say the founding of the USA was the low point for all of life on Mother Earth.
The attitude of the American government toward the "Indian problem" is best illustrated by the official testimony of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman to the US Congress (ironically, Sherman was named in honor of the great Shawnee chieftain Tecumseh, who died fighting the US military in 1813 after the US violated territorial treaties). As Commanding General of the United States armed forces from 1869 until 1883, General Sherman managed the U.S. Army’s engagement in the Indian Wars. “The more Indians we kill this year, the less we have to kill in the next Indian war. The more I see of the incorrigible vermin, the more I am convinced we will simply have to kill every one of them or that they be maintained as a permanent sub-species of pauper."
I'm not being preachy, friend — since I added a like to your comment — but I made a conscious effort a number of years ago to stop comparing human behavior to that of our non-human earthly brethren.
Well, it was quite a good tank, or so my Uncle Willy (a former RTR Trooper blasted out of the turret hatch of one, by an ’88, in late 1944) told me. Fast, mobile, reliable, easy to ship across the Atlantic, and GM and Ford could turn them out like hotcakes.
Lindsay Grahamcracker admited that the US seed foreign nations as indian Tribes in a recent speech when he mentioned "thousands of times" that presidents had used force without Congress' authorization. Mask off.
The oligarchy must have spent billions to keep him in Office all these years (including bribes to potencial challengers). No matter how racist or ignorant the state is supposed to be, I can't believe there is organic support for such a cartoonish villain.
Totally made-up numbers. There were NOT 10M natives in the USA. Most estimates are below 2M.
The vast majority of death occurred because of disease.
None of their land is poisoned by pipelines or currently being stolen. They have however been poisoned by their bad habits: fast food, drinking sodas & alcohol.
That seems to happen with most badly outnumbered, culturally expropriated native societies: Aboriginals, Maoris etc. It is starting to happen with western Europeans too, now.
In large part thanks to plagues, which - owing to animal domestication and large-scale urbanisation - developed only in Eurasia and spread only one way, from the Old World to the New. Had it been the other way, Europeans would have had as much luck colonising the Americas as they had in West Africa.
More than anything it's because of the almost unbelievable conditions in which western Europeans lived, they may well have been the filthiest society in history. People slept with their livestock in the house for fear of thieves and for warmth (think how much a cow craps in a single night), chickens and pigeons roosted in the rafters shitting on everything. Dogs were everywhere and house breaking was barely even a concept, pigs were stabled in or near the kitchen for ease of feeding. Peasants in many regions measured their status by the height of the manure piled against their house wall. The Church discouraged bathing or washing clothes because it could ignite sinful thoughts, and fleas and lice were considered a penance sent by god.
The result was that western Europeans (those who survived childhood anyway) were immune to and carriers of the worst strains of most of the worst diseases known to mankind. Every sailor was a walking biological weapon, and Europeans in many ports of Africa and Asia were quarantined to their own districts to prevent the spread of disease. In the Americas 70-90% of everyone between Point Barrow and Tierra de Fuego died.
An excellent comment there, Brian. A fine, broad, knowledgeable 2,000 word essay on the topic squeezed down into two vivid, well-written pars. When you put it like that, one can see why child mortality was so high and why the survivors, filtered and refiltered by natural selection, had such staggering levels of immunity. What chance did a bunch of Patagonian hunter-gatherers and Andean maize farmers stand against all that?
office as an equal.. Trump can’t resist showing our dirty laundry in public and rubbing it in in his own inimitable way - as someone else said DJT is always celebrating the ‘art of the deal’. We now own Syria with partners Israel and Turkey. Evil now and always from a purported ‘christian’ nation.
This is always why I get into trouble when discussing with my friends. I keep saying "I think Trump is a good thing.(...dramatic pause that creates flaring adrenaline...)...because he exposes the machinery behind the Potempkin village". Likely, thats why the deep state didn't want him around in the first place, because he might reveal the plot too soon...Well, now they have embraced him, since its evident that it doesn't matter: even IF wrongdoings are revealed underneath the media flack, there is NO accountability and NO consequences.
Trump can reveal all when no one holds him accountable - executive privilege and power beyond what any one man should have and Trump the perfect shill- grinning, remorselessly as he imposes cruelty wherever he goes. No need to hide the ID is on full display not just his but our countries deep state ID as well. Does not bode well for the future of us all. We are all just pawns in this evil game.
This was apparent before Trump first took office. The Deep State was opposed to trump, nit because Trump was opposed to them (Trump is too stupid to have any strong opinions other than self-aggrandizement) but because Trump said the quiet parts out loud.
Now that the United States is rapidly dropping any remaining pretense of being anything other than an empire, who cares? The quiet parts are already spoken, loud and clear.
as your guest reconstituted in a western ‘costume’ as a leader of the new Syria- Putin has bases to protect. Trump? unclear what the agenda was other than to legitimize US relationship with the new Syria and to spend time together - one thug with another- to let the world know in pictures- which truly can substitute for a thousand words, what Trump needs to convey to the world. As usual no substance just the strong man at work.approach -emphasizing the new bully in the hood or is that gangster. DJT is on full display with and for a captive audience. On with the show.
Early on Trump had an audience with Pope Francis and began to envision himself as a pope and pictorial memes spread on the internet with Trump wearing papal garb- well he has now copied the papal audience in the Oval Office wearing his standard suit and tie- in obeisance they come to pay homage to our fearless leader - his senior acolytes in attendance - grim faced J.D.Vance and grinning Steve Miller-then all the former ISIS (terrorists) recently converted to new roles as leaders and controllers of a once sovereign nation. Legitimacy conferred upon them by DJT. Photo op complete. Amen-
You tell us - we have been captured - see martial law in place til 2029 and DoD plotting next pandemic in case new wars do not produce enough new resources for US to control.
Hear ya, Donald Dumpster is also a fricking terrorist !!!, gotta get worst, before it gets better Delurium will become rebellium, but both will decay to form Malthusium !!!!
"Unf*cking believable the day before Veterans' Day" was the group of comments that stood out the most. I could also say that about posting something "Nick Fuentes" said. Might as well be from that grifter "Mario Nawfal". (I guess Trump is not the only one getting the five-finger salute today. Kash Patel is also getting totally roasted on X. It's an internal American SNAFU but just another crack in the MAGA-cult).
Daniel McAdams had the most blessed post in response to "Make Al Qaeda Great Again":
"If I were Trump I would never allow that professional head-chopper to be slightly behind be at my flank. Even his left hand could dispense with Trump's seemingly empty cranium in the flash of an eye."
I like Alastair Crooke's take on this animal when Judge Nap interviewed him today. [With these guys you think you're in the driver's seat only to realize you just their passenger all along.]
Al Qaeda were always a US pet useful for destabilising West Asia and North Africa. ISIS the same, a great excuse to host troops in the ME, one of the most strategic areas on the planet. Al Jolani was recruited during his time in one of the Iraqi prisons run by the US. He was sent to Syria with the objective to destabilise the Assad government. That strategy seems to have worked out pretty well for the Empire. I wonder how long it will be before he does a Saddam Hussein on them.
Brian Berletic repeates himself over time, the Presidents come and go but the polices are always the same.
The American psychopathic and mad pursue to destroy the Russian federation led to receive in the Oval Office a known wanted murderer that only one year ago had a bounty on his head as badly as Bin Ladden, just because now he’s a convenient asset to that policy. This is shameless atitude reveals that the American hiperclass mindset is just as twisted as the madman and his cronnies of the1930’s.
Much could be said about these policies towards Russia and Israel, but to keep simple, it’s pure revanchism lead by people that carry a grunge and imposed to others hundred year events setting themselves on personal vendetta path to get even today. Victoria Nuland is an archetypal example of such mental set up.
The photo pause of jolany says all about the USA.
As for Joe Biden, when biology comes for him, he will not even be able to remember his name yet react when someone calls it. DT will be forever remembered as the guy that got his jewels grabbed by his new acquired family member.
Twisted minds of the 30’s you can add more to the list you just enumerated…. I’m referring the one’s that even for Mussolini were “a gang of lunatics and merry men”
God will grant you what you seek - ie eternal oblivion.
As for BB, somebody here said the other day that he travels to Thailand quite a lot, so perhaps "somebody" has some holiday snaps or videos of him, so he is obliged to say these things about the terrorist state that he says.
He hasn't explained the "Jewish Mob" though, (an integral part of the Anglo-American Oligarchy/"Deep State" collaboration, which Aaron Good has exposed in great detail.)
The "holes" are in our understanding of a very complex system. Some that make sense and others that do not.
“Trump was roundly booed for the first time at a recent stadium appearance, while hitting record low approval numbers for the key 18-29 demographic...”
It doesn't matter whether Trump support is up or down, because there's no viable replacement for him except the uniparty, an Alice-in-Wonderland creation of the liberal left. The electorate kicks out Tweedledum so that they can vote in Tweedledee. When asked if they voted for any 'far right' candidates, people reply, "Oh no, we could never do that, that's raaaacist!".... which is exactly what they've been brainwashed to believe by Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
Stultitia malum permittit. Until the masses of morons wake up from their stupor and grow an unshakeable hatred of leftism, absolutely nothing can ever change. The Paradox will continue... the Empire will remain firmly in control of itself, while Western society continues to swirl down the toilet, right into the civilizational sewer. Look in the mirror... its citizens have nobody to blame but themselves.
US generals playing basketball with the Chief headchopper and subsequently being richly welcomed into the White House. I mean REALLY - the irony couldn't possibly be thicker! I'm surprised they didn't take him on a tour of Ground Zero as well to witness his greatest accomplishment (I know, I know - Al Qaeda didn't do it - those who must be mentioned in a whisper are the guilty party).
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha My Dear Dear friends the World is walking very slowly in to a Nuke War and to all my antagonist's that piss's about my posting with out proper punctuation marks spelling or to what I'm saying nothing under the Sun is forcing you to read my post's and my post's concerning with all the shit that's happening in the world is very very cynical because the only two powers left could do faaaaar more to stop this Death and Madness of the West just look at all those pictures of the top cockroach of head chopper's in the Oval office remember the scenes of how they cut off the heads of human beings and the cockroach is being welcomed in the very USA what a Fucking farse my you all have a fabulous day
It's like someone who won't zip up their fly. Just look away."
Spoken like a diplomat. Now that cursive is no longer taught in (US) schools,
punctuation becomes vestigial. Thumb typing on a tiny keyboard is the new literacy. I jealously watch young people using thumbs to send their thoughts into the ether.
Does anyone still believe that Al Jolani was not working for them all along?
As for the accusation that Israel funded the start up of Hamas, retired IDF members have admitted as much and that they had a budget to fund radical Imams and Mosques in Gaza. The high profile assassinations were of Hamas figures who knew too much.
"The best way to control the opposition is to lead it." ~ Said the long dead Communist who gifted Novorossiya to Ukraine.
They have taken this to the next level --> "The best way to control the opposition is to create it."
its (not so) covert ties to ISIS, Al-Qaida and many other armed factions in the ME all to be used for Israel's aim at expanding its territory. in the process of Al-jolani taking over Syria Israel occupied great swaths of lands on the border of Lebanon. win-win :-((
I, for one, think it's hilarious that Trump had his Generals play basketball with Al-Jolani.
It would have been funny to be there in the room when he suggested they do such a thing.
I'm not a big fan of Henry Kissinger, but he wasn't wrong when he said that the US Military was a bunch of dumb apes whose job is to do whatever they are told.
You are wrong about Fuentes. You might want to listen to his Tucker Carlson interview. He seems to know more about world events than you do.
Edit: I'm not defending Fuentes, just saying he's not stupid.
US control of The Zanzegur corridor is problematic for Russia and Iran., and would not have been countenanced a few years ago. It certainly represents a decline for those countries and a win for the US. Of course that can be reversed eventually, but it's likely to be full of NATO Turkish forces as well as US. Hardly a trifle!
Your questions aren't providing any information that we don't know or can't look up by finding the Caspian Sea on Apple Maps.
I'm very aware of the Zangezur corridor and how it crosses the proposed route for the INSTC and how it might interfere with trade between Iran and Russia and the role it plays in continuing the dream of a "Greater Israel". It is very relevant to the economic problems faced by the USA because American resources are being diverted to achieve empire through domination rather than cooperation.
Is Zangezur "the most important" crisis facing the US? No, but it certainly is part of what is causing the huge US debt you bemoan -- without telling us why or what to do about it. According to your short statement, the debt "just exists".
How do you know Fuentes can't find Kazakhstan? He declared it a "battle ground" between Russia and China. He seems to understand the importance of the "Abraham Accords" and that Kazakhstan has signed on. https://www.msn.com/en-za/politics/international-relations/kazakhstan-to-join-abraham-accords-as-it-signs-critical-minerals-and-trade-deals-with-the-us/ar-AA1Q3SwM . As far as the mineral rights development is concerned though, this is yet another area where the US seems to be doing too little, too late -- as Wamsley reports that the demand for rare earths far exceeds production. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNRk8or-fd8
I don't find your claim to be smart because you got a gold medal to be credible in light of the ignorance you show here. I bet you're one of those economists the Anglo-American Oligarchy hires because you believe what they want you to believe and, like Laffer, know how to repeat it endlessly in a torrent of disinformation that "sounds good" to the uneducated.
Your claim that you know how to manipulate the market is not all that impressive. It has been obvious to most that the US engineers a new recession every 4-7 years. China hasn't had one since 1979. (I suppose this hard fact is also irrelevant).
Perhaps you should take a chill pill and realize that the more you use such invective the dumber you look to the rest of us.
Or maybe that's your goal. To get us to be angry with you. I'm not angry with you. I feel sorry for you.
Zangezur doesn't cross the INSTC. The russia-iran leg of the INSTC runs through the Caspian Sea.
There are several routes that have been proposed. Escobar says a complete land route is preferred. The route most are familiar with was the one through the Caspian. Another alternative is the East Coast of the Caspian through Turkmenistan. The expansion of Chinese HSR to Tehran will provide even more alternatives.
Wikipedia shows the current route is entirely over land.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_North–South_Transport_Corridor#/media/File:North_South_Transport_Corridor_(NSTC).jpg
Correct, taking goods off of trains and loading them onto boats and then off and back onto trains is very wasteful of both time and money. It is a huge bottleneck to N/S trade.
The land route is an alternative, but shipments from Russia to India and vice versa currently pass from Astrakhan in Russia to Bander-e-Anzali in Iran by ship through the Caspian Sea.
If he's not stupid, he's bat-shit mental. I think he'd prefer stupid.
If you don't want to watch the Carlson/Fuentes interview, perhaps 15 minutes with Glenn Greenwald would be helpful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtKA2GyDr_4
Fuentes isn't stupid and he is no more "mental" than Trump or Graham. Just because you disagree with their beliefs doesn't mean they're stupid.
In fact, calling them "stupid" dismisses them as a threat which should be taken seriously.
No more mental than DJT and Lindsay?
We're in "Tallest Dwarf" territory here mate! 😉
Fwiw, I tend towards cynical and corrupt over either stupid or mental.
Fuentes isn't wrong and he has the pulse of Conservative males under the age of 40. He may not be able to find Kazakhstan on a map (98% of Yankees can't either) but he is dead on regarding the Juuz and Jigaboos.
Nobel Prizes are just like participation trophies. The only reason Juuz have won 25% of the science related ones is because they were bought and paid for.
Perhaps if you could properly communicate in English it would be helpful.
I don't think you understand Fuentes point about "the Jews". Can we talk about the "Jewish Mob" now, or is that still anti-semitic. How do you talk about the conflict within the Jews themselves?
Check out Aaron Good and his "Empire and the Deep State" series.
Only thing I need to know about the filthy untermensch Juuz is in the Europa, the Last Battle documentary.
He's sticking the knife into the Zionist American establishment and is seen to be holding Trump to an account with his base. Of course you can never trust anyone in the public eye, but I watch the show anyway.
The list was obviously set out to provoke. As Simplicius says, it's so full of errors. Kazakhstan has had a large US presence since the early 90s. Nothing new here. And are US forces really patrolling the Zangzur Corridor? Perhaps in VR?
US troops (or private contractors) are -suppose- to be moving to the Zangzur corridor, yes. Remember, al Qaeda was America's greatest enemy -- until it wasn't.
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There are no U.S. troops currently stationed in the Zangezur Corridor; however, there have been discussions about a U.S. private company potentially managing the corridor, which has raised concerns about security and geopolitical implications in the region. The situation remains complex, with Azerbaijan and Armenia having differing views on the corridor's management and access.
He's playing the game of deception for power, shows in his body language. Just another useful pawn in this worlds usury system.
Again false equivalence to put Putin/Ru's responsibility and support for Jolani in the same league as the US, and even crazier to equate Putin/Ru's ties and support for Ysreeyul. It's like a teacup vs an ocean.
If you live in the USA it is your taxes, your weapons, and your responsibility what went down in sector Gaza.
Thank you for your concern for the vital interests of the Russian Federation. Your predictions and disappointments are rather boring and if I wouldn't know better could be generated by GPT chart or a person on salary. Next time politicians need to take a decision in foreign politics they sure thing will give you a call. So things will go to your liking and everyone will brush each other's hair and say the right things.
Russian bases housed the Christians hiding from Jolani. Wagner group took Palmyra twice and said there won't be a third time. Until you personally do fighting or dying ...
Totally agree. Though ChatGPT isn't that good. Maybe it's Kimi?
one thing for sure, bots like that are expensive. Taxpayers money well spent.
Same if you live in europe.
At least the American hillbilly can tell himself that it is his dollar and his empire.
Cold comfort, that. Still, the european is just an eager little bitch.
Never underestimate the Brits and their talking points aka "metodichka" typed up by the collective from the call center in Dnepropetrovsk. With peculiar linguistics and emotional charged messages from concerned "naturalized Amerikan". You can take Olena from Harkov but you can never take Harkov from Olena.
Blame game is a unique Western characteristic, but I have all the respect in the world for American hillbilly and working class in Europe. On the day like today it is about respect and gratitude. People in the chart were citing Poe's Raven - "Nevermore...", and that is forking beautiful.
You are insane. Russia literally has a military alliance with Israel's arch enemy Iran, whereas the US is a wholly controlled puppet of Israel. You have some weird ax to grind which makes your perceptions totally distorted.
Putin has been consisently putting Israel's interests at the top of his priority list, way above those of his own people.
Wake up, FFS.
It's not even hidden -- how many times has he:
1) Spoken about the need to protect the "Russian speakers" in Israel? A lot.
2) Spoken the same way about his own people, which he allowed to be slaughtered in the thousands like cattle in Kursk and to be mercilessly terror bombed for years over an ever expanding swath of Russian land? Very little.
3) Acknowledged Israel is doing genocide in Gaza? Never.
4) Acknowledged Israel is the modern-day reincarnation of Nazi Germany, which would be kind of relevant if you have declared "denazification" as the goal and you have a Jew in charge of the Nazi state in Ukraine with Israel providing substantial technical support to that state and Zionists in the US driving the whole war from the beginning in the early 1990s? Don't make me laugh...
Duh. Of course Putin wants to "protect Russian speakers in Israel". There are practically no Jews left in Russia, they have all fled Russia, mainly to go to Israel. Why would he want them back?? Use the thinking part of your brain.
As far as (3) is concerned, Russia has strongly condemned Israel's actions in Gaza. This is easily verified. Quit spreading disinformation.
1) They won't go back to Russia if Israel is destroyed.
2) They hate Russia with a passion and want to see Russia destroyed. Perhaps Russia should reciprocate
3) There is always the option of outlawing dual citizenship, you know? Make them choose. They won't choose Russia because of the previous point, then you no longer have that problem. But then Lavrov's daughter would also have to make that choice too, and we can't have that embarrassment, can we?
4) Various people from the foreign ministry has condemned Israel's actions. Putin himself has not. And nobody has explicitly called it out as genocide. Those details matter.
There are many "Jewish Russian speakers" in NYC. They also have dual citizenship with Israel. They see themselves as Jewish/Israeli first and foremost and NOT Russian. Secondarily as Americans/New Yorkers. They dislike Russia. Russia gains nothing from "supporting" them. And supposing they are persecuted by the Jewish state (unlikely, but lets play with this hypothetical), do you think that Russia will invade Israel as it did Ukraine? No. It won't.
Exactly what is Putin supposed to do? He’s a president engaging in diplomacy.
How many times has ANY western country leader done any of that, anywhere?
« acknowledge that Israel is a reincarnation of nazi Germany » may be correct, but obviously no serious leader will make such a statement.
When it comes to Kursk, Putin demolished Ukrainian forces, made sure they were kicked out for good and is now finishing the job, albeit very slowly unfortunately.
Actually the USSR did go there:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_Resolution_3379
>United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379, adopted on 10 November 1975, "Determines that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination" with 72 votes in favour, 35 votes against, and 32 abstentions.
But then:
>It was revoked by Resolution 46/86, adopted on 16 December 1991 with 111 votes in favour, 25 votes against, and 13 abstentions
One of the many things Gorbachev gave away just to kiss up to the Americans.
Ad 4 - what would be the purpose? It would be like declaring war against one of the biggest power in this world. What would be the benefit of such acknowledgement?
Ideological consistency
Not only that, it would indicate a break with the oligarchs as many oligarchs are Israeli dual citizens.
Btw what was it that you said about Lavrov's daughter having to choose? As far as I'm aware he has Armenian blood, not Jewish blood.
Lavrov's daughter was born in the US, has US citizenship, and later acquired an Israeli passport too (I think through her husband).
Obviously such individuals would never have been allowed anywhere remotely close to power under Stalin. Today...
Your fourth point is getting dangerously close to a truth which none dare speak.
"Nazis" are actually jews, and nazism is judaism - the abomination of the jewish mind projected onto 1930s Germany - which was never nazi.
Oh, and the genocide in Namibia in the early 1990s was done by the tooh fairy, not the Germans?
And the United States in the 18th and 19th century, on which Hitler modeled his thought, and where there were practically no Jews, was not a Nazi state whatsoever, just pure white and fluffy innocent Christian nation...
The only country with a more jewish government than Ukraine is Israel. The NSDAP arose as a bulwark against jewish power and White-genocide. That was literally its raison d'être. National Socialism is the antithesis of Zionism, and literally the only articulated remedy to the evil that's killing us. Comparing Israel to Germany under National Socialism is a Pavlonian reflex ingrained by jewish propaganda.
Nazism is a racial supremasist movement with genocidal intent put into practice and no limits to the ambition.
Zionism is a racial supremasist movement with genocidal intent put into practice and no limits to the ambition.
On those very important parameters they are one and the same.
You sound jewish.
Yeah and he has made public (on national television), statements in support of Jews and against "antisemitism" at home.
There also remains a Jewish autonomous oblast in Russia that should have been eliminated long ago
Elena.
I think Fuentes is both overstating the degree to which those countries were Russian allies and the degree to which they are now US allies.
I suspect he's making a mountain out of a molehill to be honest.
I mean, it's not nothing, but it's not much.
He’s exaggerating intentionally, but he is correct.
Nothing he said was untrue, but his conclusions are entire incorrect.
For example, there is now a solid Sino-Russian Alliance.
Nothing else is even slightly as important as that. Except.....de-dollarisation.
De-dollarisation is now a fact, when it used to be, at best, a good idea.
I might be wrong, but I think it's a paradigm shift with huge implications for the future.
Then there is the fallout from Gaza. I'm not sure Americans understand how the non-Western World sees that. Your soft-power, which was massive, is in tatters.
>And then there's Russia's hobnobbing with Israel
That is not a simply "and then there is" last item.
And it's not Russia's, it is specific to Putin's and oligarchs around him.
It is the most fundamental fact about Putin's reign that people need to wake up to. It explains if not everything, then 60-70% about what Putin did in Syria and why the SMO is not a war and is being (not) fought in such a baffling and catastrophic for Russia way.
The war on Russia on all fronts, with Ukraine being the main one for now, was conceived and started by who? Zionist Jews in the US.
Putin is surrounded by what kind of people? Russian Zionist Jews.
Who are Zionist Jews loyal to? Israel and nobody else.
How is Putin going to be seriously fighting the Zionist Jews in the US when he is surrounded by Zionist Jews himself? That is the question that absolutely nobody with a public platform wants to touch, not with ten-foot, with a hundred-foot pole. John Helmer kind of mentions the "special relationship" of Putin with Israel, but he himself is physically located within Russia, so he can't say more. The Russian military bloggers are mostly genuinely blind to it, plus they are even more restricted in what they can say, for obvious reasons. The Western podcasters are completely blind, even the anti-Zionist ones, because they don't know what's happening in Russia.
And so it continues...
The SMO was mostly a bluff, and still is.
He was hoping to extract concessions, but victory was never a real objective
It was also a last-ditch desperate measure to save his own ass, because the Ukro-NATO-Nazis were going to not only descend on Donbass and beging slaughtering everyone, thus unleashing a flood of several million refugees into Voronezh and Rostov, but to continue with an invasion into Rostov and an attack on Crimea too. The refugees alone would have been extremely destabilizing for Putin's rule, because everyone would have been absolutely and fully justifiably outraged, but an invasion into Rostov and the loss of Crimea he would absolutely not have been able to survive politically.
Look at some of the maps with the pre-SMO line of contact highlighted -- the LNR actually held less than a third of Lugansk, the rest directly bordered Russia, and in the days before the SMO started there were numerous infiltrations of Ukrainian DRGs into Russian territory, it wasn't just the much more widely reported drastic increase of shelling into Lugansk and Donetsk.
Also, I remember reading a NYT article on Putler from 2009. It was a very interesting read because they talked with insiders close to Putin who talked about how he is staunchly pro-Western and is interested in continuing Yeltsin's policies with regards to integration with the US. The difference between him and Yeltsin was that Yeltsin wanted to integrate unconditionally, and Putler wants to be seen as a "peer" and "equal" and so many things he did was to be seen in this way. This was why Georgia in 2008 happened for example. And I suspect same with Crimea and why he never resisted US encroachments earlier on. After all, why resist those who you see as an ally?
There is a clip of Lukashenko floating around where he says something like:
"Если мы бы знали как все обернется [в Украине], мы бы некогда не полезли"
>"Если мы бы знали как все обернется [в Украине], мы бы некогда не полезли"
It wasn't really a choice for Russia, unless he means Belarus would not have gotten involved at all. Which indeed, after the Istanbul fiasco, it hasn't been -- Lukashenko saw that Putin is not serious about the SMO and bailed out.
And won't get back in it, because he doesn't want to have hundreds of drones flying into Belarus every night. Though he likely will still get that eventually unless the war is finished off quickly...
Russian mil bloggers can't say much about how the war is being fought anyway or risk a visit from the FSB. They were speaking out early in the war and asking uncomfortable questions until the FSB told them to cooperate or go to prison. It's logical during wartime, but it simply shows that Putler is not fighting the war properly.
OTOH, many ex-Soviet intelligentsia are staunchly pro-Jewish. It was frowned upon in many intelligentsia circles to be anti-Jewish. Though many secretly were. It is my suspicion that Putin is partly pro-Israel due to this as well as all the Oligarchs being jewish.
Because the whole Middle East is a complete shambles.
Win a war the country becomes ungovernable. Lose influence, either buy the new government, or move to the neighbouring country.
All the Arab countries are so weak that they're just a drain on your treasury. They can be vassals, but not allies.
What has Russia actually lost by "losing" Syria?
If it wasn't for oil, the whole ME would be irrelevant.
It's up to the Arabs to sort themselves out. The US is a malign influence but they have to liberate themselves.
Iraq lies between Syria and Iran. You can attack Iran without going over Syria. And when have Syrian air defences ever been a problem for Israel?
For whatever reason, it's the Iranians who want an arms length relationship with Russia, not vice versa.
Hezbollah is probably stronger if it doesn't have to bolster Assad.
Israel attacked Syria using standoff munitions. To reach Iran, even using standoffs, those aircraft would have to fly over Syria or bypass it.
GM may be Putin sees "friendship" with Israel as a sneaky, but effective way to influence the USA?
Then is an idiot.
Which is nothing knew, of course -- I have made that point many times, that Putin's actions over the years can be explained only with him being an absolute imbecile or a conscious traitor. No other options.
But I don't think he is an idiot, you don't get to, and most importantly, stay in that position for so long if you are one...
Actually his actions can be explained another way - he is of the Yeltsin clan. And so like Yeltsin he sees the US as allies. Just allies that do not see his worth as an equal. So his goal is to "convince" them to treat them like the Uk
Al Joliani visit in Moscow and Washington are totally different. In Syria Moscow had done a lot for years to prevent people like Al Jolanie winning, including extended military actions. He finally won, so they talk to him out of pragmatism - diplomacy is about talking with those who have actual power. The US claimed for years to be on war against terror, while they supported Al Qaida and ISIS, finally putting Al Jolanie on the throne as their puppet. They invited him for a friendly visit, played basketball and patted him in the back. In Russians case it’s about diplomacy, in US case it’s about supporting their puppet.
> allowed Russia to be tangled up in Ukraine
President Putin made Ukraine the red line for NATO and so far has stuck to his word. Since the opponent is the world hegemon with a large group of rich and powerful countries, no wonder it takes time and resources to get the job done. All that done without giving a pretext for the full blown WW3.
In other comment our friend GM wrote, that Putin let his people „be slaughtered in the thousands like cattle in Kursk”. That’s instance of exactly same magical thinking. President Putin is supposed to win the war in 3 days, as gen. Milley had predicted, otherwise he’s doing everything wrong. It doesn’t work that way in the world where the resources and power have limits.
There’s no much difference in value of a single human between Russian being killed in the Kursk region or in Pokrovsk or Odessa. However, the Kursk region was a perfect place to minimize Russian losses and maximize enemy’s losses. President Putin, like Stalin in the past, understands very well that mass casualties are inevitable, so his job is to pick the fights wisely to reduce the numbers. Kursk was a total disaster for the Kiev forces, in men and machines. Not a single Russian city was affected there, just small towns and villages. Many people in Kursk died to save even many more Russians in other part of war theater.
Alright, let’s talk concrete. What ways there were to „shut it down and finish it off”?
1. Decapitation of Ukronazi leadership. The opportunity for which has kind of been missed at this point because the war is increasingly run directly by NATO, but still it should be done even if for purely symbolic reasons
2. Shutting down logistics inside Ukraine. We are still at the level of token strikes for the purpose of imposing deterrence, which, of course, is not working at all, because nobody cares about any level of suffering inside Ukraine, thus there is no deterrence to be imposed by striking Ukraine.
3. Physically disconnecting Ukraine from NATO. Yes, that means nukes. Yes, it means strategic nukes on Europe if necessary. Yes, that must be done and is preferable to what is happening now. No, it won't lead to WWIII, because nobody in the US will sacrifice the US itself over retaliating for something that no longer exists.
That there is a locomotive, bridge, transformer, TV station, radio station, airfield, port, etc. left standing in Ukraine is a true testament to Russian dithering and indecision.
>President Putin made Ukraine the red line for NATO and so far has stuck to his word.
No, he hasn't. The read line wasn't to keep Ukraine out of NATO, it was to keep NATO out of Ukraine so that it cannot fire missiles into Russia from point-blank range.
But NATO is in Ukraine and is firing missiles into Russia, systematically destroying Russian infrastructure.
Putin even changed, and very publicly so, the nuclear doctrine, yet he refuses to follow it for a year now, even thought it has been violated pretty much every single day since then.
>President Putin is supposed to win the war in 3 days
At this point, because Putin allowed NATO to set up shop in Ukraine, 3 days is impossible indeed.
But 3 months is doable, and yes, he has to use the immense power in his hands and do it. Otherwise he has to go, because that is the fate that a leader who refuses to defend his country when it is under attack deserves.
>However, the Kursk region was a perfect place to minimize Russian losses and maximize enemy’s losses.
Post-hoc rationalization cope.
Putin could have just not allowed NATO to stage in Sumy whatsoever, by not allowing them to move a single tank or mercenary across the Polish border. He has the military-technical means to do so.
Wake up and face the brutal reality -- those people died not because of some 5D chess calculation but because using the military-technical means that would have saved them would foreclose on the possibility for "going back to how things were" for the Russian elites. And Putin works for the latter, in a neo-feudal system in which the lives of the peasants are worth just as much as they were in the previous feudal system. It is also why Putin is so allergic to Soviet symbols.
>Not a single Russian city was affected there, just small towns and villages
1) Yeah, bro, no big deal. Small towns and villages, who cares
2) I take it that Donetsk is not a Russian city in your view?
> The read line wasn't to keep Ukraine out of NATO, it was to keep NATO out of Ukraine so that it cannot fire missiles into Russia from point-blank range.
Pure semantics. In the long run, this goal will be reached. In the short term, the missile attacks against Russia have been very limited. You’re mentioning nuclear doctrine, so I assume you consider nuclear weapons as answer against the missile attacks. It will require to glass the whole Ukraine, inhabited with several milion of hostages. Kiev government won’t surrender. Alternatively, Russia may have nuked often mentioned by you „decision centers”. Those centers are actually in London, Washington and some other places where Western oligarchs are hidden.
> At this point, because Putin allowed NATO to set up shop in Ukraine, 3 days is impossible indeed.
[…]
> by not allowing them to move a single tank or mercenary across the Polish border. He has the military-technical means to do so.
Tell me how would Russia prevent Americans from sending weapons to Ukraine. Tell me about these means. How to prevent weapons from being delivered from PL and RO?
People often talk how strange Putin didn’t obliterate the Dniepr bridges. The reason isn’t 5d chess, it’s simple logistics and strategy. Take away those bridges in 2022 and all those weapons and mercenaries would stay on the Western bank of the river. Then the Storm Shadow and other such stuff will be in use. The Russians will need to cross Dniepr, keep long logistic lines. Instead what they did is to offer NATO a few killbox zones, like this Rabotino 10x10km zone, Bahmut or Kursk Oblast 30x30 zone. UA logistic was long, while Russian lines were short, all 90% of what NATO could muster was devastated there in those kill boxes. Till UA has resources, the war will continue. It’s what the Russian Stafka understands very well. So they created environment, where UA and NATO are loosing resources with relatively low cost. Of course this cost is still huge. But it’s optimized, it’s as small as possible.
> Putin is so allergic to Soviet symbol
It’s the man who brought back Red Star and Soviet anthem to Russia.
> 1) Yeah, bro, no big deal. Small towns and villages, who cares
Still smaler human cost. It the wonderland you may 100% avoid human cost. In the real world, you need to count how many people will die and what will kill them. Every good national leader needs to think how to optimize the number. Covid hysteria was the best example of not getting this principle. Nobody was allowed to die of covid, so they closed clinics and hospitals cutting off people from medical care. In consequence, many milion died. But not of covid. They died of hypertension, cancer and many other undiagnosed things. Russian didn’t prevent the Kursk invasion, because Kursk invasion was the most stupid thing UA and NATO could do. Once it happened, Russia took advantage of this tragic event to the maximum. In consequence, human cost was not in vain. People who died in Kursk made UA less capable of doing way more killing in other parts of the war theater.
> ) I take it that Donetsk is not a Russian city in your view?
Well, you didn’t mention Donetsk in the first place, you wrote about Kursk instead. Don’t be surprised to get answers relevant to your comments.
>You’re mentioning nuclear doctrine, so I assume you consider nuclear weapons as answer against the missile attacks.
You have no idea what's in the nuclear doctrine, do you?
When it was updated last November, it included "mass drone launches" as a trigger for retaliation, including against "non-nuclear countries backed by nuclear countries".
But it never specified what a "mass launch of drones" means. Apparently either a triple-digit number of drones does not count as a "mass launch", or Putin is ignoring the nuclear doctrine.
We do know it's the latter though, because of the events on June 1st, which violated in a very dramatic way another point of the nuclear doctrine, which has been there forever, it wasn't added last yer -- an attack on the nuclear triad is a trigger for nuclear retaliation. And while in the end they "only" destroyed 12 planes, the intent was to take out the whole strategic bomber fleet and the whole AWACS fleet. Pearl Harbor was proportionally a much lesser offense. And yet Putin called it a "terrorist" act, no an act of war, and didn't do anything in response...
>Tell me how would Russia prevent Americans from sending weapons to Ukraine. Tell me about these means. How to prevent weapons from being delivered from PL and RO?
You nuke the border crossings with bunker buster missiles with the 75-kt tactical warheads Putin has mentioned several times. Kinzhals will bury 30-40 meters into the soil, it explodes there, you get this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedan_(nuclear_test)#/media/File:Sedan_Plowshare_Crater.jpg
Plus serious radioactive contamination of the area. It will take them months to restore the previous transport links.
And it's not as if Putin is not aware of that option -- Duma Defense Committee members have called for it. More than two years ago in fact. So you can be sure Putin was presented with detailed plans.
If NATO then decides to still feel too brave for its own good and transfer stuff through newly built transport links and direct airlifts into Ukraine, you then wipe out Poland and Romania, and as much of Europe as necessary to make that a physical impossibility.
>He finally won
With active Russian assistance, so it's not at all as different as you think.
Medvedev is likely worse than Putin on that front.
Moral purity is not an aspiration for any responsible leader. The Irish journalist Brian MacDonald (on substack) who lives in Russia, has suggested that Putin is best understood as a Russian Bismarck. As the USSR collapsed Russian pensioners were impoverished whilst the Soviet state provided money and resources to “fraternal” countries: that won’t happen again.
I’m not saying the Russian attitude to Israel is correct. Lavrov talking about the wholly spurious two-state solution is a case in point. And there are 1.5 million Russian passport holders in Israel, all as genocidal as the rest of their compatriots I’d guess.
For years now, we've been assured by commentators here that Russia has to do this "just the tip" style of warfare because public relations, because Global South or whatever.
Now it seems that open daylight genocide is just peachy.
Not that I am aware of. They crave American carrot and fear American stick.
«Providing diplomatic support for any individual or nation conducting genocide is a fundamental wrong, a violation of the most basic human law.»
What is happening in Gaza is just standard massacres and ethnic cleansing like they have been happening in Tigray, Sudan, Myanmar, Yemen on a bigger scale.
One of my guesses why the "progressives" of "the west" obsess with the Gaza massacres and ethnic cleansing and pretty much have ignored the others is that they are racists: the massacres in the third-world done by third-worlders against other third-worlders for them are just the result of the backwardness and savagery of the third-worlders so something not notable, but the massacres in Gaza are done for them by first-worlders and first-worlders are supposed to be better than that (hahahaha!).
My guess is that if the israelis managed to persuade the "progressives" of "the west" that they are backwards and savage third-worlders too then I guess that the massacres in Gaza would appear as rarely in western media as those in Tigray, Sudan, Myanmar, Yemen, "business as usual".
Good points regarding ongoinh crimes against humanity in various places. However in the US blacks disproportionately commit more crimes, and it is usually against their own. Black on white crime is also more common than the reverse.
«I obsess with the Gaza massacres and genocide is that every day for the past two years I've seen an unbelievable amount of blood and the horrors of war. Every day there are photos and videos,»
That is indeed as remarkable as the other bigger massacres instead being under-reported. As a rule the massacres done by "our bastards" (or just by third-worlders) are under-reported, so I guess that the prominence given to the Gaza massacres is part of some policy. What is even more curious is that some previously ultra-zionist news sources that previously might have put under-played like the Gaza massacres are now giving them prominence. At times it feels like a distraction operation
«Up until about a month ago, none of that was showing up regarding any of the other places you mentioned, and then only Sudan.»
They were under-reported but not completely un-reported, at least outside the USA.
Perhaps they are going to be reported a bit more prominently as some israeli are trying to use the massacres elsewhere to "excuse" the one in Gaza, as in "everybody does it why pick on us?" (but two or half a dozen wrongs do not make a right).
An unbiased humanitarian (and principled zionist) like Jeremy Corbyn in the UK did try to raise awareness of the other massacres:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/corbyn-rohingya-muslims-aung-san-suu-kyi-burma-labour-leader-call-end-violence-a7968916.html
"Jeremy Corbyn calls on Aung San Suu Kyi to end Burma's violence against Rohingya Muslims"
https://jeremycorbyn.org.uk/ethiopia-sudan-and-tigray-humanitarian-situation-westminster-hall-debate-3-november-2021/
"Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North) (Ind): I beg to move, That this House has considered the humanitarian situation in Ethiopia, Sudan and Tigray."
https://jeremycorbyn.org.uk/the-ongoing-crisis-in-yemen-8-april-2021/
"I remain deeply concerned about the widely acknowledged humanitarian crisis in Yemen. Britain’s continued role in providing weapons and military support to Saudi Arabia while they are conducting military action against Yemen, including inflicting massive civilian casualties, is totally unacceptable."
Fair point
Haha what comes around goes round. The US is stuffed like a turkey.
America is winning in exactly the same way Ukraine is winning.
Face reality, whether you like it or not. What Nick Fuentes says, sounds like the truth. A beautiful speech in the Knesset or by the Colombian president will not change that.
You face reality. Without that $37,000,000,000,000 in debt, the USA would be tucked back inside its own borders. And that debt is based upon the exorbitant privilege of having the global reserve currency.
Which is crumbling faster than America's infrastructure.
The balloon is largest just before it pops.
And then there is nothing left but wreckage, and useless plastic pollution.
All true, but that doesn't alter what Fuentes is saying. And we may add to his list: Bangladesh and, soon coming, Serbia.
As for that debt: rest assured that they will find some nefarious way to get rid of it. They stop at nothing.
The Empire has always been psychopathic, from Rome onwards.
"The Black Iron Prison never ended" - PKD.
There is only one 'civilisational centre' that never fell to Empire - China.
It's quite a tall ask to hope that a single country, without moving out from its own borders, set such an example that the rest of the Imperial world has to follow and fall in line.
For 20 years since, I've given the human race at most 5% chance of survival. Usually far lower.
Fuentes is an odd character. I watched the entire episode of him and Ye on Alex Jones (The first of HIS episodes I ever watched for more than a couple of mins). It was HILARIOUS. Funniest thing I watched that entire year.
And the only time I've seen Fuentes in action.
He was by the far the most dangerous person in that studio. (Ye was actually admirable, and Jones is Jones, lol. He was sweating terror by the end of it, lmfao).
Anyway, no-one knows how this will end, but the most likely outcome is catastrophe.
https://warwickpowell.substack.com/p/post-liberalisms-funhouse-mirror?publication_id=1965102&post_id=178474751&isFreemail=true&r=szqta&triedRedirect=true
Of course the Empire is sociopathic. So what?
Meanwhile, I do not recall any Roman legions overrunning India or the Valley of Mexico or whatever.
"There is only one 'civilisational centre' that never fell to Empire - China."
This is false I think. China was indeed imperial - a whole series of empires from Han, to Song, to Yuan to Ming and Manchu and more in between
The alternative to empire is a more or less constant state of local gangster war. Look at the Mongols - that was their fate for centuries until the greatest empire builder of all time - Genghis Kahn worked his magic. And from Genghis - his grandson Kublai who united China as the Yuan dynasty and arguably laid the foundations for the "modern" Chinese state.
Obviously China was Imperial *in itself*. But they didn't have that "Go forth and conquer and plunder" mentality of the "christian" nations. When China did leave their shores, it was to trade peacefully, and make friends.
By "Empire" what I meant was that distinctly psychopathic culture that started in Europe with Rome, and eventually came to dominate the entire continent, leaving rivers of blood with every forced expansion. And then over 9/10s of the entire World.
Not saying China was some peacenik Hippy colony, but it sure as hell never reached the level of bloodthirsty savagery that the European Empire(s) did.
Thanks for the Warwick Powell link - good insights
The mechanisms for using the debt bubble's eventual demolition ah, "creatively", shall we say? Are already in place.
Google "The Great Taking".
Thank you for the information. Sadly, I must admit that I don't really understand it, but it looks indeed like something nefarious.
$37T is absolutely nothing for the US. One company alone, NVIDIA is worth $5 trillion.
Private and public wealth is multiple times that amount.
A country that has 100% debt to GDP ratio isn’t « bankrupt ». The real yield on that debt is near 0% since inflation is close to the cost of interest.
The US could easily slash military spending or hike taxes and both the deficit and the debt would be resolved quickly.
Exactly. Also it's interesting to note that the federal reserve already owns $4.5T of that debt which it bought during quantitative easing and routine operation to lower long term interest rates.
The debt "held by the public" is therefore lower than the headlight number and the money printed to buy those bonds have already reflected into inflation numbers those past few years.
In reality, the fed could print $30T and buy all outstanding bonds. The only problem is that it would generate large inflation, and it's something that is better done slowly.
Nvidia lost maybe 20% of its "value" in one day, and will continue upwards/downwards until the AI bubble pops.
"Cutting military spending" will mean the shrinking of the US back to its own borders to make any difference. Or the nationalisation of the MIC - good luck on any POTUS managing THAT.
"Taxing the rich" would be a workable solution, but once again, good luck for any POTUS setting out to do that.
Empires don't fall because they couldn't be saved - they fall because they 'realistically' can't be saved, due to existing power structures.
https://warwickpowell.substack.com/p/post-liberalisms-funhouse-mirror?publication_id=1965102&post_id=178474751&isFreemail=true&r=szqta&triedRedirect=true
NVIDIA didn’t lose any of its value. It’s the most valuable it has ever been. However I agree that the entire market is in a bubble.
When it comes to taxes, it’s not about « taxing the rich » it’s about taxing a little bit. overall no one really pays any real income tax here. In Europe, the effective tax rate is often 30 to 40%+ for anyone earning over $100k. In the US, it’s literally less than 10% after all those imaginary deductions. The USA has a LOT of room for taxes, while Europe has none.
Finally, the US has a consistently growing population from immigration. China, Russia, Korea, Japan etc do not and are facing population collapse that will destroy their economy (especially China and Korea that have the worst imbalance).
~20 years ago, a Swedish mate on an early Politics forum got so irritated with the yanks on the forum constantly gloating that the Skandi Socialist Paradises raking in vast amounts on taxes to pay for it all, he spent a considerable while looking into it. He discovered that when ALL taxes were added up, from VAT, state, local and federal taxes were included, the difference between the US and Swedish tax rates was negligible. (The biggest difference is what the taxes were spent ON).
But of course you mention the key point - the "deductions".
And Swedish corporates actually did pay their taxes - at least back then.
I recall seeing at some point that the majority of US corporations actually got more money from the gummint than they ever paid in.
As for the long-touted "Demographic bomb", which is supposedly going to implode China at some point - poppycock cope, I'm afraid.
You see, wealthy pensioners still pay a lot in tax (In well organised tax collection systems). They pay tax on savings, they pay tax when they spend, and the people they hire for goods and services also pay income tax.
The key to the whole thing not collapsing is ensuring that retirees have good incomes/savings/pensions. And are not thrust into poverty.
The Danish economy relies quite heavily on pensioner wealth and spending, fx.
Now, I admit I'm no expert on this part of the Chinese economy, or what Beijing is doing about it, but I'm willing to bet they are looking into this in a big way.
Of course grey-hair money is not enough to run an entire economy - but that is not the claim anyway. It's that the few % difference in the working/pensioner balance will sink the entire economy.
There is no NEED for this at all. This is how it works in most non-skandi Western economies, because workers are skimmed to the bone, and the resulting poor pensioners are seen as solely a burden.
China, apparently, has something of a different model - or are moving towards one.
With the ENORMOUS funds now being pumped into 'artisanal' creativity, pensioners will be able to continue to 'work', and be productive. Pensioners love toddling around doing gardening - and small scale, hand-produced, non-toxic agricultural products become in GREAT demand as a society matures.
There will be no "Demographic bomb" in China, and all those so-called "ANALysts" are going to get egg on their faces.
Of course, that doesn't matter - they did their job of producing propaganda, and got paid for it. There's no punishment for such when later they are proved wrong.
>china is running out of people! the us is strong because of immigrants!
bro, think about what you're saying
There is a lot of sleight-of-hand that goes on with taxes and tax rates in the U.S. . It is not the "income tax" per se that hits work-a-day folk. It is the combination of state and local taxes and the federal chicanery with Social Security and Medicare / Medicaid. Social Security is a flat tax with a cap, which means if you earn $15 million per year, you pay the exact same amount (not rate... amount) as someone earning about $150,000 per year. This is a massive tax on the poor and working class.
Other nations fund their pension systems off the general ledger: not some sleight-of-hand off-the-ledger system. The same applies to healthcare. Other nations also fund their public health benefits off the general ledger from what are officially called taxes. So, include Social Security and Medicare / Medicaid in the income taxes that U.S. citizens. This is a flat tax, so again, it hits the poor and working class disproportionately hard. Remember that employers pay half of this of this as well as the worker: so double the amount that American workers see removed from their paycheck every week. Finally, other nations fund unemployment and disability benefits from the general ledger: not with a quasi-private "insurance" system. So, add all the unemployment insurance that employers (and employees in some states) pay to the general tax burden.
Finally, the federal government in the U.S. has, I have heard, federalized the student loan program with a fairly consistent 6-7% interest rate (all the while borrowing from the Fed and selling Bonds at 2-3% or less). So, include about 40% of all student loan payments as a tax on young people since the direct beneficiary of these payments is the U.S. Treasury.
Now add on all the local taxes, state taxes, sales taxes, property taxes (which are very, very high in some parts of the U.S.), tariffs now under Trump (despite a clear constitutional mandate that the power of taxation lies in congress and not the president) to Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid, and you end up with a very high tax burden indeed for the poor and working class.
The Fed can literally create money in unlimited quantities at will.
Moreover, every dollar of debt issued has a willing buyer at those prices.
They can until they can't. Helicopter money is the final stage of empires before they collapse.
The treasury bond market signals no such collapse.
Ho Ho
42 million food Stamps and population is brokke and no one is fooled by the fake valuations of comapnies , its all paper value in the real world worthless
You are not adding the corporate debt, the personal debt, Derivatives or the Black debt. We do not know the amount of the black debt because they will not publish it. But with what we do know it is closer to $110 trillion.
Very true.
We Colombians love Petro for standing against the US. Our former bought-and-paid-for president, Duque, now working as a DJ at some Miami club and loved by the US, sold 66.66% of our country's gold reserves in a single transaction exactly two weeks before the price of gold doubled. I remember when Obama visited Colombia. His secret service agents enticed a group of prostitutes back to their hotel and after using the women, they were kicked out of the hotel. Little did these idiots realize that prostitution is a legal and regulated industry. The women filed a formal complaint with the police, after which the Colombian National Guard surrounded the hotel and refused to allow any of the American delegation to leave until the women were compensated and all fines/penalties were paid to the women and the state.
Thank God the women were sought , compensated - their natural dignity restored! A thousand years is too short a time for the gringo of the North to learn the truths of this Universe!!???
the beauty of the above mentioned number 66.66 says a lot.
Bravo, bravo, bravo on your title, analysis et efforts to keep us updated!
Millions of bravo, bravo allll over, et over again...
Incredible story. Thanks.
On the face of it it seems true. US notched some "wins". But they are shallow ones. Bought and paid for "wins" that have little support behind them.
Just today, the big beautiful Thailand/Cambodia peace, negotiated by Trump Inc. collapsed. And even if Bolivia managed to elect a center-right nincompoop, the days of reckoning are not far behind. Not far behind Argentina. Some in latin America undersdtand. The Colubvian guy seems to. Not everyone does.
Everything is fluid in this world. Kazakhstan, like Turkmenistan, like Azerbeijan, they all play both ends of the stick. Why wouldn't they? it's like the kids of divorced parents smartly getting double the pocket money.
Yet, everyone is careful. Watching the clouds. reading the tea leaves. Should the US falter even for even a second, we'll see all these "wins" dissipate like a puff of cloud on a sunny day.
In the meantime, China, the rising Dragon, is carefully calculating its steps. One must read almost daily to follow the changing tides. Calling it right now, as Fuentes did, is silly. Tomorrow he'll likely have to eat his words.
All that said, Israel is the wildest card of all. Mamdani played it for a win, and not the way they liked. Ultimately I belieeve this is where it all comes together for the Big Fall. Sorry but Israel is what's it's been all about. Always. The kink at the throat of the Empire.
I says, let's wait a little. As in "we, the people". Of everywhere.
Kazakhstan/Turkmenistan/etc play both end of the stick like Ukraine did until recently. It did not stop Ukraine from going pro-Western.
It is the same trend happening in Kazakhstan and even Serbia right now.
I'm not a neocon and the cold war ended. This isn't the same battle. Russia needs to protect itself. Build its important relationships (Iran, India, China) and maintain a strong detterence. The US dominates in propaganda and narratives but it is a house of cards built on control of financial markets. Asia and Africa are keys. That is Russia's strongest hand. Don't take the bait.
"... a house of cards built on control of financial markets."
+ on the capacity of organising color revolutions everywhere. (Bangladesh, Serbia, Georgia, Nepal, the Maidan, et cetera)
+ on the capacity of imposing economic sanctions. Even the Indians are now giving in, I read.
PS. By the way, don't misunderstand me. I am convinced that Russia has the right on his side in the proxy war with Nato in Ukraine.
And the fall of Pokrovsk doesn't Change it, and the abject defeat of Trump in the trade war doesn't change it, and China taking the lead in AI doesn't change it, and Russia having the engine that will reach Mars doesn't change it, no a couple more indefensible foreign bases for the Empire to waste money on are great victories...
Nick Fuentes is fake and gay and só is his speech.
to b fair, everything is fake & gay.
Sounds Like The Truth.
A new rallying call!
"What Nick Fuentes says, sounds like the truth."
Only if you ignore the essential details where he lies. Fuentes lists a bunch of "don't care" situations as if they are critical. But that's the lie, that Syria is in any way critical for Russia. It isn't. Same with a fake deal between Kazakhstan and Trump. That's just the Kazakhs raiding the US for easy money. They're still deeply connected to Russia, same as India and China.
Fuentes ignores the US's central losses: China and India have become closer ever since the US made them enemies of the US, and the troika of China, India and Russia are closer than ever. That's the biggest strategic fail any American administration has made in decades. The US has just pushed the world's greatest provider of resources, Russia, into very tight economic alliances with the world's most populated countries and the one country in the world, China, that has a larger real economy, one based on actual production, than the US's.
At the same time the US has bankrupted Europe and has ensured that Germany and the other EU countries will stay crippled for lack of competitive access to the resources they need.
And then there's the biggest elephant in the room that Fuentes wishes away: Russia's crushing defeat of the US and all US stooges combined in Ukraine. Fuentes tries to cover that up by implying that came at a high cost to Russia. On the contrary, rather than coming at a high cost it came with a booming economy as foolish US and US stooge sanctions helped Russia achieve a far stronger and larger economy, as well as creating the world's most combat effective military.
Fuentes is what you get when deluded Westerners start believing their own propaganda for morons.
I hope you are right and that "morons" doesn't apply to me. :)
Whether "morons" applies to you is entirely under your control, and not mine.
The West's propaganda cannot be characterized by intelligent, educated people as anything *but* "propaganda for morons" because that is what it is.
It is propaganda designed for people who have very weak intellects and, to boot, are very ignorant. A good example is Trump proclaiming himself "the Peace President" with the morons at whom that propaganda was aimed seeing no incongruity in their Peace President proclaiming a Department of War, threatening violence to Panama, Canada, Greenland and others, killing nearly a hundred people in the Caribbean without trial, attacking Iran and perpetuating a genocide in Gaza.
The infinitely many lies of the West about Ukraine, going back to the claim Russia had to pull tanks off WWII monuments to get arms, are other examples of propaganda for morons.
What is there to debunk - Fuentes is right.
Armenia (Russia's former erstwhile ally) is staunchly pro-Western, blaming the Russians for not coming to their aid during the Karabakh conflict (this is not my words but many Armenian's I know).
Azerbaijan is lost once Russia started arresting their diaspora at home (and was probably lost anyway as it started making inroads with Turkey).
Kazakhstan has taken a pro-Western course under Tokaev (and even under Nazabayev has wanted to switch its writing system from Cyrillic to Latin to be more in line with other Turkic nations like Turkey - no matter how you look at it this is not good politically). In addition, many Kazakh youth dislikes Russia/Russians and not only due to the Ukraine war - this is why you can find many "debates" among older Kazakhs saying how Russia benefitted them, but younger Kazakhs disagree and look to the West. I predict that in the coming years that Kazakhstan will taken an even harder pro-Western turn.
Then there's China - while China currently helps Russia it also sells DJI drones to Ukraine and many Chinese banks uphold sanctions on Russia. There have also been calls from within the Chinese establishment to look at regaining territories lost under the Qing.
In the medium-short term things are not looking good for Russia in it's near abroad. This is partially due to it trying to use "resource diplomacy" vs western "lifestyle diplomacy" and that is clearly failing.
@Simplicus - I would like to see a breakdown/debunk of what I said above. After all these are the facts as I see them. Hope I am wrong
Get the facts right. I know for a fact your statement about China selling drones and components to Ukraine is FALSE. China enacted strict export restrictions on Ukraine, about which Zelinsky has been complaining nonstop. There is no movement in China to disavow the Treaty of Nerchinsk (1689), which established the border between China and Russia. In that treaty, China lost and gained territory. China gained sovereignty over resource-rich Manchuria while sacrificing claims to the Transbaikal regions. Huge net gain for China.
If China is not selling to Ukraine, how is Ukraine using DJI Mavick drones? These are some of the most commonly used drones by Ukraine
Also, if China does not want to disavow the Aigun then why is there conversation about it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Aigun
Perform an internet search and read for yourself the multiplicity of articles like the following from Bloomberg two months ago: "Ukrainian forces are grappling with a critical shortage of DJI Mavic drones due to China’s export restrictions, threatening frontline reconnaissance and artillery operations. RBC-Ukraine reports that these restrictions have disrupted supplies, forcing Ukraine to seek alternatives amid a Chinese drone monopoly in the Russia-Ukraine conflict."
Here's another from the officially sanctioned Ukrano news source, quoting the poisonous dwarf:
"President Volodymyr Zelensky said China has stopped selling drones to Ukraine and Western countries while continuing to supply them to Russia, Bloomberg reported on May 29.
Chinese Mavic is open for Russians but is closed for Ukrainians," Zelensky told reporters, referring to the popular quadcopter drone manufactured by China's DJI.
There are production lines on Russian territory where there are Chinese representatives," he added, according to Bloomberg.
The Mavic, typically a civilian drone used for aerial photography, has been adapted by both Ukrainian and Russian forces for battlefield surveillance and as a weapon platform capable of carrying explosives."
Can you honestly answer who you are and why you are here?
Yes, and don't forget Europe. Under Biden and Trump it has been completely submitted to the US Empire and turned into an enemy of Russia. That was not the case before.
Nothing good comes from ignoring reality, sad though it may be.
Yes, if it were so "easily debunked or dismissed", he would have done so.
"What is there to debunk - Fuentes is right."
Sure, he's right, when he isn't lying. And when he's right he's right about stuff that absolutely doesn't matter. You've got to work on your critical thinking skills, Scipio.
As I said earlier, (if you read more carefully you wouldn't have been suckered in by Fuentes...): "Only if you ignore the essential details where he lies. Fuentes lists a bunch of "don't care" situations as if they are critical."
Armenia was never Russia's "erstwhile ally". Armenia always was and still is exclusively out for itself. That extends to how Armenians are with each other: they put themselves over everything else, including their country. That's why the constant factionalism in Armenia and why far more Armenians happily live outside of Armenia than in Armenia.
As enduring phenomena those two factors are matched only by the suicidal politics of factions within Armenia, a good example being the Karabakh conflict when the suicidal faction currently running Armenia launched on a path of self-destruction by breaking every deal it made, thinking that committing suicide was a great way to force Russia to break off the even-handed policy it was using to try to keep Armenia alive and to join that faction in an insane attack on Azerbaijan. The disaster in Karabakh was entirely the fault of a simultaneously self-interested and suicidal regime in Armenia, not Russia. If you don't listen to nutcase regime supporters, you'll hear that from more sensible/honest Armenians you know.
"Azerbaijan is lost once Russia started arresting their diaspora at home"
A lie on two fronts. Russia by overwhelming margins is Azerbaijan's largest and most important trading partner. Azerbaijan is not "lost." For that matter, Russia did not start "arresting their diaspora." Russia arrested members of an Azerbaijan mafia who were murdering their rivals in Russia. We don't allow that in Russia. The particular mafia goons Russia arrested had deep ties within Azerbaijan's corrupt government, so the government tried to save them. That didn't work.
Azerbaijan next, as it always has for over thirty years, played the Turkey card and is otherwise thrashing around, the crooked government being given to acting out. Turkey and Russia both know that, and neither will allow a pawn like Azerbaijan to harm the far more important relationship that Turkey and Russia have between them. The Turks are no fools. They know they need a good relationship with Russia to balance the racist hostility from Europe, from the US, from Israel, and, potentially if they cannot work things the way they would like, from Iran.
"Kazakhstan has taken a pro-Western course"
In fact, Kazakhstan has taken a multipolar course even as it continues to be profoundly, totally dependent upon Russia. The Kazakh relationship with China is far more important than opportunistic looting of US funds.
Use of the Latin alphabet is simply a pragmatic step towards multipolarity. Common ground with China and India is in the Latin alphabet, not Mandarin, Hindi, or Cyrillic. That doesn't bother China, India, or Russia, either, as all three use the Latin alphabet and English as a common language. If you lived in Russia you'd know the widespread use of Latin instead of Cyrillic in Russia, with half of the signs you see for stores and restaurants and such using Latin and widespread use of English for international transactions with the Global Majority.
As for *some* (not "many") Kazakh youth disliking Russians, that's absolutely true. They don't like it that even in their own country they are falling behind employment opportunities because Russian youth are far better educated. They also don't like Chinese, either, for the same factor. They don't like a future for themselves as day laborers on construction sites in Russia or China.
The better educated Kazakh youth don't share the opinions of uneducated losers. They know that their only hope of achieving an economic miracle for themselves and for their countries is to leverage education and the more prosperous economies with which they are engaged, Russia and China. For most of them the most effective path is leveraging the relationship with Russia, because most Kazakhs speak Russian and they know they'll never learn Mandarin. They also know that the Russians are open to them while the West is not. One side effect of being better educated for those youth is that they are deeply aware the West doesn't give a shit about Kazakhstan but is just looking for some sucker to play the role of the next Ukraine once the US's Ukrainian cannon fodder gets used up.
"This is partially due to it trying to use "resource diplomacy" vs western "lifestyle diplomacy" and that is clearly failing."
"clearly failing?" You're spouting nonsense and then agreeing with yourself. You're also falling for western propaganda for morons. That you're falling for that is not a compliment to your IQ.
People in Russia's near abroad know from direct experience that the lifestyle in Russia is truly super. That's why so many of them come to Russia as guest workers and why so many bring their families and try to immigrate to Russia. That goes for both uneducated and educated people from the various central asian republics.
As far as diplomacy goes, that's something that really only more educated people care about. The more educated people in the central asian republics also know that the "lifestyle diplomacy" of the US and its stooges is based on lies. They know the quality of life among the US's stooges in Europe is going down, and they know the primary cause of that is the staggering increases in the price of energy and other resources caused by a disconnect from Russian energy and resources.
They also know quality of life in the US is not the quality of life they want. The central asian republics are very socially conservative, for the most part being Islamic. Educated or not they *strongly* support Russia's approach and are repelled by the perversions of the US and the US's stooges. When I greet my Central Asian brothers in the market where I shop ever week we shake hands and say "Salaam alaikum" and "wa alaikum assalam" to each other, and that is a common bond of respect and understanding between men no matter that we do not share the same religion or that we are different ethnicities. We are united in knowing that marriage is between a man and a woman and that the perversions of the US are indeed foul.
Those are common threads that run between the deeply multiethnic and multiconfessional Russian Federation and Russia's neighbors and are the result of centuries of interweaving. Like all such deep interweavings they are not spun sugar, either, and, as any well-educated person would expect, come with many complexities. That is part of their enduring richness, and one reason a multipolar world comes so naturally to Russians as well as to Russia's neighbors. That's a richness the debased US and debased US stooges do not have, and one reason why a barren, perverted "lifestyle diplomacy" is not successfully competing with a thousand years of cultural richness.
Fuentes is retarded. I can't listen to him.
I generally agree with many of your comments although I am not so sure about the state of the Russian booming economy: sanctions are having a deep erosive impact that is still difficult to assess and there is a very serious drop in consumption and investment that continues to have a major impact on the retail and construction sectors. Regarding the mood of the population, lots of young (and not so young) people now fear the future or to put things differently are not really looking forward to more partial mobilisations or to a USSR 2.0 isolated from the rest of the world, possibly at war with NATO and ruled by a tightly knitted bunch of siloviki intent on the suppression of any dissenting views and tight control of the internet, which is the main remaining space for freedom of expression.
Have you visited Moscow or Russia recently or at all? Because you're off the mark when it comes to public sentiment or the economic situation.
Yes. And I am not off the mark. This does not mean that there is a uniform situation throughout the economy or in the opinions of the population. Note that people are very prudent when it comes to expressing their honest views on the very very sensitive topic of the SMO.
I have been in Moscow for 25 years, and I have never seen the place this prosperous.
There is inflation, but I don't think it has much to do with sanctions. This is the first time that I have ever seen a claim of lack of consumption and investment, but maybe.
"Note that people are very prudent when it comes to expressing their honest views on the very very sensitive topic of the SMO."
People say whatever they want about the special military operation. I get the impression what you don't like is that Russians by overwhelming margins support the special op. It's a phenomenal outpouring of grass roots patriotism.
Crazed liberals (a tiny minority), and people stupid enough to fall for US propaganda for morons don't like that, of course. Too bad for them.
What you wrote is pure US bullshit, propaganda for morons. Why for morons? Because it is so far off the mark that anybody on the scene with an IQ over 40 can see that it is a lie.
"sanctions are having a deep erosive impact that is still difficult to assess"
That's two lies in a single quotation. Sanctions famously are having a very positive effect on the economy because they have stimulated huge and very successful investment in local enterprises. That impact is not the least difficult to assess because of the immense, rapid, and very visible growth of structurally essential economic activities stimulated by US and US stooge sanctions.
"there is a very serious drop in consumption and investment that continues to have a major impact on the retail and construction sectors"
A half-truth that you use to push a lie. Consumption is skyrocketing in the usual, over-the-top gorging on goods in the extravagant way that seems to be the hallmark of the New Russia (new in the 1990's, not so new anymore...). Investment dropped back from the overheated peak, but now is rising again. Let's look more closely...
Investment and consumption skyrocketed upwards, so much that the Central Bank was worried about the economy overheating and causing classic demand driven inflation. Their response was to try to cool off the economy with much higher central bank rates. That did cool the economy, but it also pulled investment from the economy as well (as the Bank knew it would). Why invest in a business with all the attendant risks to get 25% returns when you can get 29% from funds sitting in a bank account?
The bank intended those high rates as a temporary measure and has since dialed them back, so investment is returning to the strong pace that it was before, again as expected. The economy continues to grow, faster than any of the US stooge economies in Europe and, in real terms, faster than the US's economy. That's all that's needed to continue the continued good mood.
"lots of young (and not so young) people now fear the future"
That's a lie. People in Russia, especially young people, have never before been so positive and optimistic about both the present and the future.
"are not really looking forward to more partial mobilisations"
Another lie. That's a reprise of the US lie in 2022 that students would be mobilized when, in fact, only men who had already served on active duty in the military and were in the active reserve (a voluntary choice on their part) could be mobilized. There is zero chance any "young people" are going to be mobilized.
"or to a USSR 2.0 isolated from the rest of the world"
Pure Western propaganda for morons. Russians of all ages know that Russia is not the USSR and that the USSR is gone forever. There's no more chance of the USSR returning than Americans starting to walk around in tricorn ("cocked") hats. Russia is profoundly, deeply, astonishingly different, now and forever, from the USSR. Anyone who lived in the old USSR and has spent more than five minutes in Russia today knows all that to the very marrow of their bones.
As for "isolated from the rest of the world," that depends upon the target of your propaganda being so incredibly stupid and so horrifically badly educated that they think the US and the US's stooges are "the world." They're not. They're a viciously perverted group of dishonest jerks that, lucky for humanity, are a small minority, only about 1/8th of the world.
"ruled by a tightly knitted bunch of siloviki intent on the suppression of any dissenting views and tight control of the internet, which is the main remaining space for freedom of expression."
Whoa, there, pal, your VPN connection just failed and showed your IP coming from the US's Ministry of Truth. I live in Russia and I get 800 channels on my cable package and billions of websites from all over the world. There's no "suppression of dissenting views" and no "tight control of the internet".
It's also amusing to note that what you wrote describes the EU and UK of today, not Russia. People getting arrested in the UK for "liking" somebody's comment that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza is a pretty rich example of that.
What we do have in Russia is remarkable unity on some key factors despite very widely differing ethnicities, cultures and religions. For example, there seems to be darned near universal revulsion at US and US stooge perversions, like the idea that marriage is something between people and animals (just kidding... it hasn't quite gotten to that point outside of some really perverted parts of the US, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Germany...). It's true that a very small minority, around three percent, are crazed liberals in the US stooge mold. The 97% of us who are not mentally deranged are really looking forward to those people emigrating to US stooge countries.
Russia as a constitutional republic features a strong executive because that's the way Russians like it, and Russians turn out to vote for the executive they want, VVP, because by overwhelming margins they love the guy. That really annoys the US and US stooges, I suppose in part because VVP is a far more effective leader and has done more for us here in Russia than any of the delusional, self-interested, dishonest incompetents who have run the US and US stooges in recent decades.
Our man Putin has defeated the US and US stooge assholes in Ukraine and he has helped Russians build a true superpower of an economy. You've tried to defeat Russia and you've only defeated yourselves, and in the process have betrayed even your own propaganda claims about freedom, democracy and truth in the West. You not only lost, you drank your own poison in the losing.
As for war with NATO, there's an increasing percentage of Russians who are looking forward to that. Many of us here in Russia (I use "us" loosely given that I'm a foreign expat living here, but what the heck, after a while you certainly get the "one of us" feeling when you agree with the Russians around you...) think that really hot war with US stooges in Europe is inevitable and that the sooner we erase them from the planet the better.
Facts:
*The Israeli-American allies have eliminated Hamas, Hezbollah and Syria and are now lord & master of the Levant. Gaza will become a real estate project. The future of the Russian bases in Syria, the only ones in the Mediterranean, is hanging by a hair.
*Fuentes, whoever that man may be, didn't even mention Europe in his list. Under Biden and Trump it has been completely submitted to the US Empire and turned into an enemy of Russia. That was not the case before.
*Armenia, although it thanks its very existence as a Christian state amidst Muslim territory to the Russian czar, is now in the Western sphere of influence. The TRIPP gives the USA a foot in the door in the South Caucasus.
*I read that Indian companies are beginning to buy non-Russian oil.
Nothing good comes from ignoring reality, sad though it may be.
PS. You can have another opinion about the situation, but there is no need to call names.
>Fuentes, whoever that man may be
Why are you pretending like you've never heard of the Mexican child savior of the white race, after going to bat for him in several comments here? Just don't act like you're not a groyper, that's all.
I'm not an American and I indeed don't know who that man is, and I don't care either. What matters here is what he says and that, I think, sounds indeed like the truth, for the reasons I listed.
"Groyper" sounds bad. It is not in the dictionary. I assume that it is meant as an insult?
Herman, that you don't like it when I point out you're wrong cannot be salved by pretending I didn't point out when you wrote something incorrect. For example:
"*The Israeli-American allies have eliminated Hamas, Hezbollah and Syria and are now lord & master of the Levant. Gaza will become a real estate project. The future of the Russian bases in Syria, the only ones in the Mediterranean, is hanging by a hair."
But that's just more of what I referred to when I wrote "Only if you ignore the essential details where he lies. Fuentes lists a bunch of "don't care" situations as if they are critical. But that's the lie, that Syria is in any way critical for Russia. It isn't.
Russia doesn't give a shit about the bases in Syria. They were useful for what they were at the time but no longer are. As for the disasters the US is causing in the Middle East, those will come back to bite the US hard, just like US support for Israel resulted in 9/11 and trillions of dollars in losses to the US economy. Gaza becoming a real estate project will defame the US for a century or more. That's the sort of profound evil, like the US Army distributing blankets infected with smallpox to American Indian villages, that forever will be remembered as a stain on the US.
As for the US and Israel being lords and masters of the Levant, that will only last until Israel is erased with nuclear weapons, or possibly, with biological weapons. Sooner or later that will happen as nukes continue to proliferate and as the technology to kill millions becomes more and more accessible to very small groups. Israel is so proud of itself it used the technology of exploding pagers to murder many people. How proud will it be of the use of technology to murder millions when a group of five or six very bright and very devout Muslim students decide to splice up a virus that will depopulate Israel? Just guessing here, but I bet Fox News isn't going to be airing any fawning reports on what a militarily clever move that virus was.
Israel is following such a harsh path it is difficult to tell if that annihilation will come at the hands of an Iran that Israel engages in a death match, or if that will be at the hands of the true faith of believers like Ansar Allah once they achieve a small nuclear arsenal. But that such a day will come is pretty much baked into the intersection of ever-easier access to nuclear weapons technology and the still tiny population of Israel. A handful of nukes, say five or ten, and your "lord & master" of the Levant will be radioactive ash.
"The TRIPP gives the USA a foot in the door in the South Caucasus."
That's really funny. You don't know anything at all of the very complex, wheels within wheels history and cultures of the Caucasus, do you? Or about the bloviating from Trump?
"*I read that Indian companies are beginning to buy non-Russian oil."
Indian companies have always bought non-Russian oil. That's normal and expected. India does not now nor has it ever, nor will it ever, buy 100% of the oil it uses from Russia. The key question is whether India will continue to buy the large amounts of Russian oil that it has to date, on which the economic health of its economy depends.
All indications are that it will, that in truth India did, with infinite diplomatic politeness but nonetheless firmly, tell Uncle Sam to go fuck himself. India was especially annoyed by the blatantly colonial diktat to stop using Russian oil when its former colonial masters continued to buy and use Russian energy.
In fact, that famous Russian propaganda organ, Bloomberg Financial, just reported that India's purchases of Russian oil have *increased.*
...What was that you were saying about nothing good coming from ignoring reality?
Ah, and for the record, I've never called you any names. All I've done is point out that the US and US stooges have a habit of issuing propaganda for morons. If you're counting yourself as one of the people who believes such propaganda, well, that's you're calling yourself a name, not me.
Very slowly, then all at once.
That "all at once" part is likely to be quite painful.
No one wins when everyone loses.
Another article that makes Simplicius so unique. Letting us to have a peek at what things look like on the other side of the neocon hill (as the Iron Duke could have put it). This is priceless because it injects some rationality into what often looks like the disjointed spasms of agony of an empire caught in the Thucydides trap. Whether one agrees with Nick Fuentes is secondary, because perceptions and narratives are the main drivers for the empire's actions.
I mean, Al-Qaeda also had his hand enthusiastically shaken in the Kremlin. Glass houses and all that. I guess that was an anti-globalist "Resistance" handshake.
Putin is a realist, and Al-Jolani wants Russia to keep its bases in Syria. Give Putin credit, he tried his best to help Assad, but Assad was a spent force who couldn't be propped up any longer. You can't help people who can no longer help themselves. Time to move on.
The funny thing about Al-Jolani is, it was Israel and Turkey that put him in power. And yet, how has either of them actually benefited so far? Turkey has put an albatross around its neck, and Israel has taken a bunch of worthless Syrian territory that it now has to defend.
As far as Trump goes, he might as well engage with Al-Jolani, I suppose. Christians have been genocided all throughout the Middle East for the last hundred years, so there's nothing new going on here. Getting Al-Jolani on side isn't the worst idea, it gives him some leverage against Netanyahu. Assuming he wants to use it, of course.
The only real winner here is the CIA. Big surprise.
There is a big difference between promoting corruption and immorality outside your borders, and simply dealing with it. The CIA promotes corruption and immorality all over the world, that's not Putin's fault.
As far as Trump is concerned, well, the CIA is part of the US government. But it's a part of the US government that no President has been able to control. Harry Truman's biggest regret was that he formed the CIA. JFK wanted to "scatter the CIA to the wind" and he got assassinated for his trouble. Trump has survived two assassination attempts already, which were obviously CIA ops. What would you suggest he do?
Politics is an ugly business. I suppose it would have had a lot more comedy value if Kamala Harris would have been elected. Oh well.
I start thinking it might be less Bibi if Kamala won (I voted Trump)
.One could always argue that Russia fought him in Syria and didn't use him as a war contractor. This guy was still molded and trained in American prisons in Iraq, and certainly not by the other guys in the prison.
Butler PA was not CIA. If it was he would be dead.
It was a false flag by Trump's Security team. Normally, the head of security that day would be fired for gross negligence. But no, Sean Curran was promoted to be Head of the Secret Service.
Well, Trump survived, didn't he?
Of course he survived, it was a WWE scripted event. Tell me how a bullet hits the innermost part of someone's upper ear without damaging the tissue in front of or behind it. Experts say the alleged AR round would have torn his ear off.
Harry Truman, in a secret Whitehouse ceremony, gave the Medal of Freedom to Meyer Lansky, the head of the "Jewish Mob" and a founder of "Murder Incorporated" and an ally of Mossad. A willing participant in the murder of JFK and RFK.
Any regrets Truman may have had were washed away with crocodile tears.
Putin played the good cop to the US bad cop in ousting Assad.
People still have hard time grasping that ugly brutal truth, but it makes it no less true.
It's what Laith Marouf argues too. It's possible. I wouldn't say proven, but it is sadly possible.
Note that Marouf is only confirming what was already discussed by people for years, and if you go back to comments sections from last year, you might see me making the same points before Assad even fell.
The gory details about the Russian army actually doing air support for Jolani against the Syrian army a year ago and taking Assad prisoner I am not so sure about, but that doesn't change the picture all that much.
P.S. Assad does indeed seem to be a prisoner in Moscow, if he is even alive. Nobody has seen him. If he had any freedom of movement, he would have been seen on the street, he is not exactly the type of figure that blends with the crowd. His wife hasn't been seen either. There is not even any proof of life
The President's job was supposed to go to his older brother who died in a car crash. It is also possible that Bashar al-Assad had simply had enough after 25 years with a target on his back. The whole exit process smelled like a backroom deal.
OK, but why has nobody seen him since then?
Again, if he was a free man who can walk around without restrictions, he would have been noticed somewhere in Moscow. He is an impossible to not notice figure with his height and weird proportions.
False equivalence. Trump/US betray all their [fake] principles about human rights and democracy as pretexts for overthrowing gov't non-compliant with empire by hobnobbing with Jolani. Even worse that this guy is the type of arch-terrorist we are supposedly morally outraged by.
Putin/Ru on the other hand doesn't go around the world lecturing other countries about their internal politics and human rights. Putin/Ru takes a realist stand that they deal with whatever's in front of them. You may want them to be moralizers like the US, but they've taken a consistent principled path of non-interference, which was the international standard enshrined in the UN, prior to the bogus R2P doctrine which the US uses as a pretext to overthrow disobedient regimes.
In any case, whether the reasons were realpolitik or humanitarian, Putin did his best to fight these ISIS / Al Nusra terrorists, but ultimately was unable to save the secular Baathist gov't. The US/Ysreeyul actually created and supported these jihadist terror groups. So, again, not in the same league at all.
Again. False equivalence. One caused the situation, the other has to deal with the fallout as best he can. Putin/Ru literally fought Am/Isr proxies ISIS and Al Qaeda for years. You'd make a terrible judge, condemning the jaywalker and serial killer both to the electric chair.
Too much emotion.
>Putin did his best to fight these ISIS / Al Nusra terrorists
Did he? Seriously?
Who had Syrian AD deactivated while Israel was bombing Syria?
Who never supplied Syria with any serious weapons to drive out the Americans and the Turks even after HIMARS systems started killing Russians on Russian soil?
And who was it that did Astana and ordered Idlib to be spared and to remain as a terrorist nest?
Medvedev was there for less than a year when the war started, and he did in fact send weapons.
And it didn't matter what mistakes Assad made -- Syria is of such gigantic importance that it was a must for Russia to nuke Turkey if needed in order to protect it. The way the dominos fall after Syria's demise leads all the way to missiles being fired into Chelyabinsk, Omsk, Novosibirsk and Russian ICBM silos from point blank range.
Which is why it had been the key Soviet and then Russian ally since the 1960s.
The Muslim Brotherhood does not carry out color revolutions.
Your tastes don’t align with reality , so they are factually irrelevant, as are the “warm and fuzzies” associated with them. Only power and the exercise of it determine outcomes. Unless of course you work in the EU moral fantasyland
I never did get an answer last time I asked. Are you a troll? Your position is to always undermine the Russian leadership. They do what they believe is in their interest. You always have a subtle way of undermining that position. Top marks for the way you do it.
This is correct but don't drag Russia into this. A trap was set. When Assad's troops didn't fight Russia didn't take the bait. They played that very smart. The neocons and Westerners in general (who complain about the neocons but accept their grand chessboard view of the world) say Russia suffered a great defeat. Did they? They didn't lose a bunch of troops, equipment, and money fighting a pointless war with no clear objective. Assad made his own decisions that led to the collapse of his country. He couldn't pay his military so it was over. Russia played it smart
I agree. Less here than meets the eye.
>Putin is a realist
Putin is a traitor. Fixed that for you.
Assad fell because the United States toppled him. The sanctions worked, the invasion worked.
Christians in, for example, Iraq survived all sorts of things for two thousand years. They survived the Mongols, the Persians, Saddam Hussein, Murad, Tamerlane, Baibars (scary scary Muslims!) and others.
They did not survive the Americans.
Al Qaeda was a western enemy, specifically an American enemy. I don't recall Russia ever saying Al Qaeda is a Russian enemy.
Understand that just because America says one thing, doesn't mean the world says the same.
US just admitted they co-opted and funded them.
Honestly, believing US statecraft is like using quicksand to build - it's nonsense.
Al Qaeda = CIA. Hardly a "western enemy".
Russian soldiers died defending Syria from Al Queda and its affiliates.
I think they died fighting ISIS.
ISIS is run out of the Gulf States, I think (can anyone confirm).
ISIS and A l Qaeda fought each other in Afghanistan, they aren't allies.
They may be rivals for the head chopping mental Sunni fundamentalist constituency.
I get confused.
Can we acknowledge here what an absolute dog's breakfast the whole Muslim world is, except for a couple of the Central Asian Stans, the Shia and Malaysia/Indonesia?
no need to be confused: "....Syrian militias armed by different parts of the U.S. war machine have begun to fight each other on the plains between the besieged city of Aleppo and the Turkish border, highlighting how little control U.S. intelligence officers and military planners have over the groups they have financed and trained in the bitter five-year-old civil war [....] CIA-armed units and Pentagon-armed ones have repeatedly shot at each other while maneuvering through contested territory...." - https://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-cia-pentagon-isis-20160327-story.html
this was clown world in 2016. no wonder someone like Al-jolani can now be fêted in the WH.
Russian soldiers died indeed.
And Russian politicians betrayed it all.
Just today there was a report on telegram about a national from Cameroon being imprisoned in Moscow for doing "vodoo" and promising to convert people's rubles to dollars with magic. He earned a couple of million rubles doing that.
But that's not the point - Russia is committing the same mistake as Europe by inviting African migrants. One would think they would learn observing the Europeans. They did not. Why? Because they are of the same crop.
Russia is 5-10 years behind Europe in social ills
Russia has historically had a different relationship with Africa, because it is not a colonial power there, but a liberating one.
It has also been much more tolerant towards Africans dating way way back. After all, Pushkin would have been sold into slavery immediately by then existing US law had he stepped foot there, but he is the Russian national poet.
I am not, however, sure, how much of a difference that would make from the perspective of the current Africans that would hypothetically migrate to Russia in huge numbers.
While Russia has had a positive relationship with Africa (recall how many Soviet university students went to Senegal and had children from Senegali men coming to the USSR - after all any place is better than "sovok" right?), this is much different from what's happening now and from allowing mass migration. No amount of "positive relationships" with Africa will prevent the negative consequences of mass African migration.
Al Qaeda is a CIA construct, forged out of the Afgani Northern Alliance (fighting the Soviet occupation) and the injection of Bin Laden and endless black funding from Saudi Arabia and the MIC. Bin Laden and the CIA fell out, but Al Qaeda (The Base) has featured in many capers up until today, controlled at all times by the western MIC and their cut outs.
Al Qaeda is a tool, not an enemy, of the western deep state.
Al Qaeda and the Northern Alliance are completely different things mate.
A Q is basically Arab, international and sympathetic to the Pashtun. The Northern Alliance is Central Asian and purely Afghan.
You're right that both are tools of other countries though.
And always was…period
ISIS, al-Qaeda, bin Laden, 9/11 combined led to the dystopian Patriot Act.
Has nothing to do with the head chopper. Putin met him because Erdogan asked him to. Russia doesn't need anything to do with Syria. They are better off closing shop and getting out. Russia does need at least a working relationship with Turkey. So Putin will at least listen and see what they want from Russiam
Jolani a christian beheading mass murderer trump a supporter of genocide now this ..two monster's
Yip make Joseph Mengele great again.
Putin met with him and shook his hand first.
And Putin has been in cahoots with the Israelis working to oust Assad from the beginning.
So what does that make Putin?
Clever. Syria was the Russian Europe or Israel. What benefit did Russia get from its alliance with Assad? Nothing, except a rather pointless military base outside the perimeter of the Black Sea, which could easily be cut off from the Black Sea fleet at the first sign of international turmoil.
Syria's primary purpose was to serve as a buffer between Israel, Turkey, and Iran. Why should Russia support a buffer state between these 3 nations? With Assad gone and the radical Sunnis in control, the buffer is gone, and a 4th player is added to the game. The Gulf Sunni States now have a stake in Syria. That makes 4 regional powers who are now in direct contact with each other. Soon they will soon be at each other's throats. That brings a NATO country and U.S. Gulf allies into conflict with Israel. I wish the Zionists good luck in trying to sort that one out.
Meanwhile, Russia can wash its hands of the matter, quietly provide guarantees to Iran, and watch 3 of its rivals come to blows over a string of oases.
1) You have zero idea what you are talking about with respect to Syria's importance. There is a reason it was so strongly supported by the USSR for so long. And why Russia went militarily in there first, many years before it did so in Ukraine
2) This wasn't washing of any hands, it was controlled demolition. If you go back in time and look at what actually happened, you will notice Putin playing the role of the good cop and everything logically going in the direction that it eventually concluded with. All that time Putin was smiling and pretending he is defending Syria, and then what happened in the end?
3) If you have the eyes to see, you will also notice the unmistakable very similar pattern in how Putin is handling the Ukraine war. But it is Russia that he is supposedly defending in this case...
Explain to me the importance of Syria for Russia. Making an assertion does not make a statement true no matter how boldly or with how much conviction you make that assertion.
1) Notice what happened six months after Syria fell and didn't happen before that? Iran was directly attacked. Because there was no Syria to protect it.
The dominoes fall like this: Syria -> Iran -> Caucasus and Central Asia -> Russia's softest underbelly (and China's too)
2) Syria also kept Israel in check more generally. No longer.
3) You can do boost-phase interception of Israeli ICBMs if they are launched at Moscow if you have bases in Syria. When Russia is kicked out, that will no longer be the case, and it will be wide open for such an attack, thus losing the current nuclear dominance it has over Israel.
4) It's not an isignificant port at all, it is Russia's only presence outside the Turkey (and thus NATO) controlled Black Sea straits.
Yeah... when a buffer state falls, the nations for which it served as a buffer come to blows. That was my whole point. Again... from the Russian perspective... so what? Why should Russia be responsible for maintaining the peace between Iran, Israel, Turkey, and the Gulf States? Do you want Russia to be the U.S.?
Really? ICBMs from Tel Aviv? The only threat that Israel poses to Russia are threats from their "non-state" oligarch benefactors buying off corrupt Russian officials (as they do in so many nations) and their ability to get the Americans to do anything they want. Syria doesn't help Russia contend with either of those problems.
Dominos... good grief. There is certainly a fantasy in Tel Aviv and Washington that they are going to cause some sort of chain reaction of something that runs from Damascus through Tehran all the way up to Moscow. What is that "something?" No one seems to know, but it could be anything.
I grow more convinced by the day that you are at Langley, because everything that you say just repeats the Dr. Strangelove fantasies of American oligarchs: Russia needs to make a limited nuclear strike (to justify a large-scale response), the world needs to reduce the population to 500 million, Putin needs to be overthrown, something is going to happen that causes a massive chain-reaction of something throughout all of Eurasia that does something bad to Russia.
Russia needs forward bases, lest its outposts in Africa be isolated.
Not to mention the old saw about how Russia stands by its friends has been shown to be hollow.
Lol... outposts in Africa. If you want to advocate for Russia becoming an international power-broker, that is fine. Just keep in mind that that position is what bankrupted England and is bankrupting the U.S. . Ask the people in the U.S. or England what benefit the work-a-day man-in-the-street ever saw from empire? Nothing. At the height of the British Empire, Dickens is writing about the horrendous poverty on the streets of London. One could do the same for American cities today. Empires impoverish the populations of nations, while enriching the overseers. If that is the future that you want for Russia, then I suppose losing some outpost in Syria or Africa is a problem. If you are packing a lunch everyday to work at the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, Russia has lost nothing. In fact, Russia has gained by not being responsible for problems at the the far reaches of the world that have no bearing on Magnitogorsk.
Also same thing happened with Armenia - Putler was smiling and saying that he is helping Armenia whilst simultaneously negotiating with Azerbaijan, letting Azerbaijani mafia entrench itself in the regions and take over regional politics in the hopes to retain influence in Azerbaijan. Instead, Azerbaijan turned to Turkey as it's "big brother"
It was way worse than that -- he was playing it best buddies the Aliev, despite everyone knowing very well what was happening with Turkey, and what Turkey's intentions are (they stretch all the way to Yakutia) while in the same time not doing anything to prevent Armenia itself from being captured by the West. Which it was, very easily so.
This will end the same way Ukraine did, and the same way Kazakhstan will -- when you choose humiliation in order to avoid war, you get both the humiliation and the eventually the war too. But it will be from a much more unfavorable position -- Azerbaijan will be pumped up with much more Israeli and NATO weapons than it has now, the terrain there is much more unpleasant, and the loyalties on the Russian side of the border in Dagestan (where Islamists have also been allowed to fester) are much more uncertain than they are in Voronezh, Belgorod, Kursk and Bryansk.
The Azeris downed Russian helicopters, killed Russian troops on the ground, on multiple occasions, there wasn't a single strike back. Which was taken exactly as the weakness that it was, and Aliev has proceeded accordingly ever since.
Indeed - I am also uncertain of loyalties in Yakutia itself (Buryatia is more loyal but that may change in the future, we will see). I get whiffs of many Yakut youth considering their homeland as Yakutia and not Russia. Also, there seems to be a growing pan-Turkic movement over there as well. Again, I may be wrong, but these have been my cursorary observations.
There were strikes back. Russia struck Azeri-owned businesses in Ukraine.
Disgusting display of hubris by our reigning dictator- legitimizing a mass murderer like Al Jolani does not bode well for the U.S. - a man we helped put in power - no epiphany the guy is still a terrorist but now also President of the new Syria with whom we complicity support in his ethnic cleansing- a new low even for the U.S. Genocide a new war tactic legitimized in Israel and Syria by our government.
When a president has such disdain for the citizens he purports to represent that he entertains reconstituted terrorists in the Oval Office we need to question everything - and to see the military complicit makes you know we have no moral compass left- the militarization of our streets can’t be far off.
On reflection we the U.S. have always been the biggest terrorist on earth so this is nothing new just a brazen admission made to the world that we have no integrity, principles or legitimacy we are just takers- be on the alert your country may be next - thus Venezuela and Columbia now in the cross hairs.
Yes, but the world continues to crave American carrot and fear American stick.
«the world continues to crave American carrot and fear American stick.»
American carrot: make middle-class and upper-class richer at the expense of lower class people in exchange for a cut of their markets.
American stick: sanctions, color revolutions, bomb-bomb-bomb.
Federal reduction of employees in various agencies via DOGE reduced middle class earlier in the year: recent 41 day furlough of Federal employees endangered these employees ability to pay their mortgages probably forcing many into foreclosure; military pay withheld also pushed this group into desperate measures- military pay so low many families dependent on SNAP but what does government do just focuses on ‘fraud’ in the SNAP system with no actual references showing
how they are arriving at this assessment. Meanwhile babies and children go hungry every night in our country while the fat cats abandon their roles as representatives of the people.
Starving Gazans, now starving Americans - what’s next?
America never had a moral compass. It had a marketing blanket covering the soulless commercial entity it is, that includes the pretty words in its unlived Constitution. The blanket is now tattered is all, and the whole world can see what lives beneath.
Nobody cares.
We never had a moral compass to abandon.
«When a president has such disdain for the citizens he purports to represent that he entertains reconstituted terrorists in the Oval Office»
That "reconstituted terrorist" became head of his state thanks to Biden; previously Reagan and Thatcher were happy to entertain "reconstituted terrorist" Menachem Begin the head of terror group Irgun that killed many british people. Many in the UK were horrified that the head of Irgun was entertained by Thatcher and Reagan. And he was not the only "reconstituted" or present terrorist or mass murderer so entertained by the leaders of "liberal democracy".
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«Reportedly, Roosevelt used the line while referring to Anastasio Somoza who visited the U.S. after an election: To prime President Roosevelt for the visit, Sumner Welles sent him a long solemn memorandum about Somoza and Nicaragua. According to a story told around Washington, Roosevelt read the memo right through, wisecracked: “As a Nicaraguan might say he’s a sonofabitch, but he’s ours.”»
The militarization of U.S. streets is already here in the form of Trump’s Gestapo aka ICE. Trump and his belligerent enforcer Hegseth boast about their plans for destroying internal enemies. The American police state is on its way, coming to a city near you.
Since Europeans arrived in the Americas in 1492 it is estimated 55-56 million indigenous people perished across the Americas. Approximately 10 million Native Americans were living in what is now the U.S. By 1900 there were 300,000 left, and those are living in poverty and their miniscule amount of land still being stolen and waters poisoned for pipelines to this day. The U.S. was founded on genocide and has never looked back. I'd say the founding of the USA was the low point for all of life on Mother Earth.
Sadly we’ll said.
The attitude of the American government toward the "Indian problem" is best illustrated by the official testimony of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman to the US Congress (ironically, Sherman was named in honor of the great Shawnee chieftain Tecumseh, who died fighting the US military in 1813 after the US violated territorial treaties). As Commanding General of the United States armed forces from 1869 until 1883, General Sherman managed the U.S. Army’s engagement in the Indian Wars. “The more Indians we kill this year, the less we have to kill in the next Indian war. The more I see of the incorrigible vermin, the more I am convinced we will simply have to kill every one of them or that they be maintained as a permanent sub-species of pauper."
Imagine the horror!! The
Middle name is like a scalp! Flaunted on high in an endless terror by a mindless dog!??
at the same time also acting as an eternal, shameful reminder of the horrors perpetrated by this man.
I'm not being preachy, friend — since I added a like to your comment — but I made a conscious effort a number of years ago to stop comparing human behavior to that of our non-human earthly brethren.
Also ironic that one of the most iconic US weapons of WWII bears his name.
No, no, that was quite by design, and he would have been proud.
Well, it was quite a good tank, or so my Uncle Willy (a former RTR Trooper blasted out of the turret hatch of one, by an ’88, in late 1944) told me. Fast, mobile, reliable, easy to ship across the Atlantic, and GM and Ford could turn them out like hotcakes.
Lindsay Grahamcracker admited that the US seed foreign nations as indian Tribes in a recent speech when he mentioned "thousands of times" that presidents had used force without Congress' authorization. Mask off.
He’s a cartoonish ghoul. Like a particularly repulsive interpretation of Boss Hogg from the 1980s TV series, The Dukes of Hazzard.
The oligarchy must have spent billions to keep him in Office all these years (including bribes to potencial challengers). No matter how racist or ignorant the state is supposed to be, I can't believe there is organic support for such a cartoonish villain.
Like many people/situations discussed here Sherman is a mixed bag [Oops. Showing my age] Sherman is the reason we have ONE country.
For now. We'll see what happens when the dollar collapses. Could be a good time for Texan Secession, which would set the ball rolling.
Empire needed 'lebensraum'.
Totally made-up numbers. There were NOT 10M natives in the USA. Most estimates are below 2M.
The vast majority of death occurred because of disease.
None of their land is poisoned by pipelines or currently being stolen. They have however been poisoned by their bad habits: fast food, drinking sodas & alcohol.
You're a tool.
For stating facts?
That seems to happen with most badly outnumbered, culturally expropriated native societies: Aboriginals, Maoris etc. It is starting to happen with western Europeans too, now.
In large part thanks to plagues, which - owing to animal domestication and large-scale urbanisation - developed only in Eurasia and spread only one way, from the Old World to the New. Had it been the other way, Europeans would have had as much luck colonising the Americas as they had in West Africa.
More than anything it's because of the almost unbelievable conditions in which western Europeans lived, they may well have been the filthiest society in history. People slept with their livestock in the house for fear of thieves and for warmth (think how much a cow craps in a single night), chickens and pigeons roosted in the rafters shitting on everything. Dogs were everywhere and house breaking was barely even a concept, pigs were stabled in or near the kitchen for ease of feeding. Peasants in many regions measured their status by the height of the manure piled against their house wall. The Church discouraged bathing or washing clothes because it could ignite sinful thoughts, and fleas and lice were considered a penance sent by god.
The result was that western Europeans (those who survived childhood anyway) were immune to and carriers of the worst strains of most of the worst diseases known to mankind. Every sailor was a walking biological weapon, and Europeans in many ports of Africa and Asia were quarantined to their own districts to prevent the spread of disease. In the Americas 70-90% of everyone between Point Barrow and Tierra de Fuego died.
An excellent comment there, Brian. A fine, broad, knowledgeable 2,000 word essay on the topic squeezed down into two vivid, well-written pars. When you put it like that, one can see why child mortality was so high and why the survivors, filtered and refiltered by natural selection, had such staggering levels of immunity. What chance did a bunch of Patagonian hunter-gatherers and Andean maize farmers stand against all that?
Completely BS numbers. Read a book.
The US President is controlled by the Pentagon generals, they are the ones who make all the decisions for the benefit of empire.
They and their real masters have put Jolani where he is today.
Then there's Putin who I suspect issued those mysterious stand down orders which ultimately led to the fall of Syria.
Considering that the US created Bin Laden, Pol Pot, Sadam Hussein and a host of other useful characatures, Jolani is just more of the same.
True, but they didn’t parade
bin Laden in a suit in the oval
office as an equal.. Trump can’t resist showing our dirty laundry in public and rubbing it in in his own inimitable way - as someone else said DJT is always celebrating the ‘art of the deal’. We now own Syria with partners Israel and Turkey. Evil now and always from a purported ‘christian’ nation.
This is always why I get into trouble when discussing with my friends. I keep saying "I think Trump is a good thing.(...dramatic pause that creates flaring adrenaline...)...because he exposes the machinery behind the Potempkin village". Likely, thats why the deep state didn't want him around in the first place, because he might reveal the plot too soon...Well, now they have embraced him, since its evident that it doesn't matter: even IF wrongdoings are revealed underneath the media flack, there is NO accountability and NO consequences.
Interesting point and very likely a valid one
Trump can reveal all when no one holds him accountable - executive privilege and power beyond what any one man should have and Trump the perfect shill- grinning, remorselessly as he imposes cruelty wherever he goes. No need to hide the ID is on full display not just his but our countries deep state ID as well. Does not bode well for the future of us all. We are all just pawns in this evil game.
This was apparent before Trump first took office. The Deep State was opposed to trump, nit because Trump was opposed to them (Trump is too stupid to have any strong opinions other than self-aggrandizement) but because Trump said the quiet parts out loud.
Now that the United States is rapidly dropping any remaining pretense of being anything other than an empire, who cares? The quiet parts are already spoken, loud and clear.
No they just flew the entire Bin Laden family home, express, the day after 9/11. First Class, of course.
Putin met with him first.
Optics- having an ISIS terrorist
as your guest reconstituted in a western ‘costume’ as a leader of the new Syria- Putin has bases to protect. Trump? unclear what the agenda was other than to legitimize US relationship with the new Syria and to spend time together - one thug with another- to let the world know in pictures- which truly can substitute for a thousand words, what Trump needs to convey to the world. As usual no substance just the strong man at work.approach -emphasizing the new bully in the hood or is that gangster. DJT is on full display with and for a captive audience. On with the show.
Early on Trump had an audience with Pope Francis and began to envision himself as a pope and pictorial memes spread on the internet with Trump wearing papal garb- well he has now copied the papal audience in the Oval Office wearing his standard suit and tie- in obeisance they come to pay homage to our fearless leader - his senior acolytes in attendance - grim faced J.D.Vance and grinning Steve Miller-then all the former ISIS (terrorists) recently converted to new roles as leaders and controllers of a once sovereign nation. Legitimacy conferred upon them by DJT. Photo op complete. Amen-
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So what is anyone going to do about it?
You tell us - we have been captured - see martial law in place til 2029 and DoD plotting next pandemic in case new wars do not produce enough new resources for US to control.
Why else would they have reconstituted the 1918 Spanish Influenza? Rather than hit the elderly and ill like COVID it killed the young and strong.
They may say they reconstituted the
Spanish flu but in 1918
and like Covid it was
really untreated bacterial
Pneumonia that killed
most people of all ages.
Hear ya, Donald Dumpster is also a fricking terrorist !!!, gotta get worst, before it gets better Delurium will become rebellium, but both will decay to form Malthusium !!!!
"Unf*cking believable the day before Veterans' Day" was the group of comments that stood out the most. I could also say that about posting something "Nick Fuentes" said. Might as well be from that grifter "Mario Nawfal". (I guess Trump is not the only one getting the five-finger salute today. Kash Patel is also getting totally roasted on X. It's an internal American SNAFU but just another crack in the MAGA-cult).
Daniel McAdams had the most blessed post in response to "Make Al Qaeda Great Again":
"If I were Trump I would never allow that professional head-chopper to be slightly behind be at my flank. Even his left hand could dispense with Trump's seemingly empty cranium in the flash of an eye."
I like Alastair Crooke's take on this animal when Judge Nap interviewed him today. [With these guys you think you're in the driver's seat only to realize you just their passenger all along.]
Al Qaeda were always a US pet useful for destabilising West Asia and North Africa. ISIS the same, a great excuse to host troops in the ME, one of the most strategic areas on the planet. Al Jolani was recruited during his time in one of the Iraqi prisons run by the US. He was sent to Syria with the objective to destabilise the Assad government. That strategy seems to have worked out pretty well for the Empire. I wonder how long it will be before he does a Saddam Hussein on them.
Probably just slightly shorter a time than the US does a Saddam Hussein on him.
Brian Berletic repeates himself over time, the Presidents come and go but the polices are always the same.
The American psychopathic and mad pursue to destroy the Russian federation led to receive in the Oval Office a known wanted murderer that only one year ago had a bounty on his head as badly as Bin Ladden, just because now he’s a convenient asset to that policy. This is shameless atitude reveals that the American hiperclass mindset is just as twisted as the madman and his cronnies of the1930’s.
Much could be said about these policies towards Russia and Israel, but to keep simple, it’s pure revanchism lead by people that carry a grunge and imposed to others hundred year events setting themselves on personal vendetta path to get even today. Victoria Nuland is an archetypal example of such mental set up.
The photo pause of jolany says all about the USA.
As for Joe Biden, when biology comes for him, he will not even be able to remember his name yet react when someone calls it. DT will be forever remembered as the guy that got his jewels grabbed by his new acquired family member.
Berletic has disappeared from Rumble
Really? He's still on YouTube
he is still on Rumble >>>> https://rumble.com/v71g5sm-understanding-the-us-proxy-war-in-ukraine-first-principles-vs.-fantasy.html
"This is shameless atitude reveals that the American hiperclass mindset is just as twisted as the madman and his cronnies of the1930’s."
You must be speaking of Churchill, FDR and Stalin. They were the ones who were mad and had their cronies.
Twisted minds of the 30’s you can add more to the list you just enumerated…. I’m referring the one’s that even for Mussolini were “a gang of lunatics and merry men”
Brian Berltic's claim that Israel is just a proxy like Ukraine has more holes than a Swiss cheese.
I wonder what Brian's religious background is?
From The good one?😳
If there’s such a thing!🤔
Thank God I’m a atheist🥳🥳🥳
God will grant you what you seek - ie eternal oblivion.
As for BB, somebody here said the other day that he travels to Thailand quite a lot, so perhaps "somebody" has some holiday snaps or videos of him, so he is obliged to say these things about the terrorist state that he says.
He's lived in Thailand for many years.
I find Berletic's claim to be solid.
He hasn't explained the "Jewish Mob" though, (an integral part of the Anglo-American Oligarchy/"Deep State" collaboration, which Aaron Good has exposed in great detail.)
The "holes" are in our understanding of a very complex system. Some that make sense and others that do not.
By "the madman and his cronies of the 1930s" I assume you are referring to Mr Winston Churchill.
On the 30´s there were alot of madman’s, some more than others, pick one or make a guess!!🤔
“Trump was roundly booed for the first time at a recent stadium appearance, while hitting record low approval numbers for the key 18-29 demographic...”
It doesn't matter whether Trump support is up or down, because there's no viable replacement for him except the uniparty, an Alice-in-Wonderland creation of the liberal left. The electorate kicks out Tweedledum so that they can vote in Tweedledee. When asked if they voted for any 'far right' candidates, people reply, "Oh no, we could never do that, that's raaaacist!".... which is exactly what they've been brainwashed to believe by Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
Stultitia malum permittit. Until the masses of morons wake up from their stupor and grow an unshakeable hatred of leftism, absolutely nothing can ever change. The Paradox will continue... the Empire will remain firmly in control of itself, while Western society continues to swirl down the toilet, right into the civilizational sewer. Look in the mirror... its citizens have nobody to blame but themselves.
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTABEQ4Qh5Y
Here we go again!
What left are you talking about when all there is are two right factions?
What you call left I'd call the enemy of the left.
"Everything I don't like is....THE LEFT!!"
Just leave him to it Frank.
Do let me know when the state seizes the means of production.
US generals playing basketball with the Chief headchopper and subsequently being richly welcomed into the White House. I mean REALLY - the irony couldn't possibly be thicker! I'm surprised they didn't take him on a tour of Ground Zero as well to witness his greatest accomplishment (I know, I know - Al Qaeda didn't do it - those who must be mentioned in a whisper are the guilty party).
Do you mean Dick We-didn't-launch-NORAD Cheney?
No. The people he was working for.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha My Dear Dear friends the World is walking very slowly in to a Nuke War and to all my antagonist's that piss's about my posting with out proper punctuation marks spelling or to what I'm saying nothing under the Sun is forcing you to read my post's and my post's concerning with all the shit that's happening in the world is very very cynical because the only two powers left could do faaaaar more to stop this Death and Madness of the West just look at all those pictures of the top cockroach of head chopper's in the Oval office remember the scenes of how they cut off the heads of human beings and the cockroach is being welcomed in the very USA what a Fucking farse my you all have a fabulous day
Would it kill you to punctuate?
It's like someone who won't zip up their fly. Just look away.
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It's like someone who won't zip up their fly. Just look away."
Spoken like a diplomat. Now that cursive is no longer taught in (US) schools,
punctuation becomes vestigial. Thumb typing on a tiny keyboard is the new literacy. I jealously watch young people using thumbs to send their thoughts into the ether.
The JUSA has shown the world what many have known for two decades; AQ (and ISIS) are owned by them and always have been.
Does anyone still believe that Al Jolani was not working for them all along?
As for the accusation that Israel funded the start up of Hamas, retired IDF members have admitted as much and that they had a budget to fund radical Imams and Mosques in Gaza. The high profile assassinations were of Hamas figures who knew too much.
"The best way to control the opposition is to lead it." ~ Said the long dead Communist who gifted Novorossiya to Ukraine.
They have taken this to the next level --> "The best way to control the opposition is to create it."
vicious, sophisticated PR war directed not so much at liking Israel, but hating Arabs/Islam (and thus supporting Israel) - https://substack.com/@bettbeat/p-178389478
its (not so) covert ties to ISIS, Al-Qaida and many other armed factions in the ME all to be used for Israel's aim at expanding its territory. in the process of Al-jolani taking over Syria Israel occupied great swaths of lands on the border of Lebanon. win-win :-((
I, for one, think it's hilarious that Trump had his Generals play basketball with Al-Jolani.
It would have been funny to be there in the room when he suggested they do such a thing.
I'm not a big fan of Henry Kissinger, but he wasn't wrong when he said that the US Military was a bunch of dumb apes whose job is to do whatever they are told.
They may be dumb apes, but they are well funded, well dressed, and armed to the teeth apes.
Which is why they have such a record of success! Oh, wait.
Correct, all apes being funded by the US MIC. Actual cost to produce one bullet = 1$ after paying the shareholders, one bullet cost 25$
is this why they renamed it the Department of War? (rhet.)
And a dumb ape let loose in the zoo. expect tons of carnage.