I think your mistaken, a lot of US love, its easier to hate and dislike Russians for whatever silly reason they always seem to fuck up royally on foreign affairs, more so than the US.
Really depends where on the globe you live. In many parts of the world the average citizen actually thinks the US is like it was back in the 60s with full freedom and unlimited growth for everyone. The wake up call only sets in once they arrive at the US Borders.
>the US is like it was back in the 60s with full freedom and unlimited growth for everyone
It wasn't like that in the 1960s either, it just got much worse so people idealize the past
It never was like that -- it has been a rapacious oligarchy exploiting and repressing those unfortunate to not be able to resist since its beginning, it's just that for some time that repression and exploitation could be externalized towards the natives at the frontier and the black slaves, then expanded towards various other groups and countries.
But perpetual growth always hits limits, and that eventually means the repression and exploitation has to be turned inwards towards at least some of those who previously benefited from it. They are the naturally quite unhappy about it, but instead of going after the system of repression and exploitation it is much easier to idealize the mythical past and to think that bringing back some superficial elements of it will bring the whole thing back. Classic cargo cultism.
Still, such growing unrest does pose a threat to the system, so it has to become even more aggressive externally in order to rob others to paper over the cracks internally. Which, as you can see by the reaction within the US to what happened in Venezuela, is cheered by most Americans. Because deep down they know they will get some crumbs thrown their way too. Just as they benefited from all previous such crimes -- after all, the place is built on their foundation.
The General Moron is back speaking about things he knows nothing about again. To the average American the 60,70s were a time when My Father just a lowly "Steelworker" raised 4 children put 2 of us through college, paid for weddings for the other 2 and my Mother never needed to work. We were not wealthy but we never wanted for anything. That is why Americans never cared about foreign policy. People lived within their communities and that was enough for most.
>To the average American the 60,70s were a time when My Father just a lowly "Steelworker" raised 4 children put 2 of us through college, paid for weddings for the other 2 and my Mother never needed to work.
Thank you for making my point.
Your father enjoyed those benefits.
Meanwhile the average Guatemalan, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Korean, etc. went through what exactly in that period in the hands of the CIA and the US military?
But you never thought about that, did you? And you supported it. Which makes you just as much of a despicable scum as the people who directly did it, but you don't like to think about that either, do you?
Also, to be noted, there were still enough resources internally in the US to support that lifestyle even without invading other countries back then. Conventional oil in the CONUS had not yet peaked (it would do so in the early 1970s, thus the crisis that followed). But that is no longer the case now, thus the current naked resource grabs are even more directly benefiting the regular American. Thus the MAGAtards cheering for what Trump is doing.
Sure, call me scum and a host of whatever names make you feel better. You are pathetic, trying to tell me what I do or don't think about. You have no idea what I think about, just as I said in my original reply. You constantly speak about things you know nothing about. I have said many times that "We" (Americans) bear plenty of responsibility for our Govt. and I never try to escape reality. Unlike you, I live in the real world not some Communist fantasy land.
This has to be the most idiotic statement you have made to date "the current naked resource grabs are even more directly benefiting the regular American. "
Also- over 70% of Americans are opposed to any and all military action in Venezuela but since you are a firm believer in the corrupt Jewish Media you think Americans are cheering this on!
You are being much too harsh and critical of the American working class. The average American citizen has profited little from imperial plunder with perhaps somewhat lower taxes because plunder paid for the military and then, of course, cheap imports were nice. Imports came at a cost to workers, though, because soon enough, foreign imports replaced domestic industry.
They also didn't need an adequate education, and the government was quite happy with them as dumber-than-rocks and malleable, easily frightened and full of ignorant patriotism.
The effective left had been effectively marginalized and unable to reach most of them.
When their owners decided to send their jobs elsewhere, they reacted with predictable ignorant bovine herd behavior, blaming Black people, immigrants and whatever else OAnon told them was responsible. Roast baby at the pizza joint? Sure.
They wait now, like baby birds with their little beaks gaping, for some regurgitated vomit from the administration to tell their little brains what to think about Venezuela.
yes, I grew up in a country I truly loved and appreciated. we were quite poor, my mother was a seamstress, divorced, five kids and a grown daughter married. We never went without our meals, our lunches for school or school lunch money. We had nothing at all extra, but I got a first-rate education in a very safe small town outside of DC and the opportunity to go farther at every stage. Until Vietnam, when it all exploded, which is what happens when you throw kids under fire for absolutely fuck-all. So if you look at our foreign policy, you see one America, but if you were growing up here, you see something different. I would note that I have seen this also in the former USSR, where those who grew up then felt it was a safe benign space (post-Stalin) that gave them many opportunities to excel. But from the outside, it was not a pretty picture.
If you had a 1/1000 of knowledge this "General Moron" has it could be interesting to listen to your take. But sinse you are total ignoramus as everybody who was raised in the West is, you cannot even provide some serious arguments. You just dismiss his words as if it below you to actually lead a civilized discussian. How very Aemrican of you
Or the 1860s or the 1760s or the 1660s. Follow the history of what is now the USA and you will find an unbroken trail of lies, deceit, cheating, robbery, and murder going right back to the first European colonists.
Their European roots are the source. These people did not suddenly become "infected" when they set foot on the Americas. Just like smallpox that devastated the indigenous peoples, they were already infected before they came to the Western Hemisphere. As much as the world wants to blame the US, this mindset goes all the way back to their homelands, in Europe. Who holds the keys to power in Europe?
On the other hand, they were to a great extent self-selected. They were mostly tough, confident, self-reliant people without many scruples, prepared to do almost anything to succeed. The far greater number who stayed behind in Europe would have been, on average, less energetic, determined, and ruthless.
1945-1975 or so was pretty good. World was destroyed so we had no competition and took anything we wanted anywhere like Trump is doing. You could not lose even with menial jobs unless in Jim Crow South and black. My uncle worked in fiberglass plant making shapes for corvettes vacuums etc and made enough for house wife not to work and 5 middle class kids who had motorcross bikes and stuff. We were kinda poor because single mother/waitress and I loved going over there to play like Disneyland
My parents left the sharecropper life in Arkansas. White or Black, there was no future in it. Sharecropping was the most equalizing force behind the wholesale flight from the South.
No one in their right mind chose to remain a sharecropper.
Southern Blacks fled to a very racist North—not because it was virtuous, but because even hostility there offered more opportunity than permanent entrapment. The North was often no less racist than the South, just differently organized and more economically dynamic. Southern Whites were treated better than their Black compatriot refugees—but that advantage was narrow and conditional. Their white skin bought eventual acceptance, and Northern animosity toward them faded with time. At the start, however, Southern Whites were disposable labor—useful until worn down, tolerated once assimilated, and never mistaken for equals.
The South is forever saddled with Jim Crow, while the North is cast as an Emerald Castle on the hill. That story is comforting—and false. The reality is far more uncomfortable for Northern mythology, which prefers moral posturing to historical honesty.
I am one of the descendants of White men and women who traveled the “Hillbilly Highway,” fleeing sharecropping for a better life in the industrial North.
I think you will find at that time there were other forces at work to encourage the naturally supremacist and arrogant European aristocracy to expand outside of Europe - that being natural resources. European population exploded as they took advantage of their resources at hand. Eventually, however, they were forced to seek resources elsewhere to feed their burgeoning populations - thus began their colonial efforts, and being aggressive, cruel and arrogant they completely raped the lands they ventured to, extracting resources and bringing the riches back to the home countries in Europe to quell the needs of their rebellious populations. Western populations, thus have historically lived at much higher standards of living than the rest of the world whose populations were forced to carry these people on their backs and be deprived of their own resources. Europeans and their Five eyes children have always lived high at the expense of those they conquered. And now, as the rest of the world awakens from its dark slumber and 500 year nightmare, we in the West are realising that the game might just be over and Justice is about to enter the room. O the karma of it all!
I think you exaggerate the aggressiveness, cruelty and arrogance of "European aristocrats". Those qualities characterise some people everywhere and at all times. It's just that some have more opportunities to exercise them than most. The Zulus, the Mongols, the Arabs, the Turks, the Japanese, the Huns, and no doubt lots of North Americans about whom we can never know because they were wiped out... conceded nothing in aggressiveness, cruelty and arrogance to Europeans. It wasn't just aristocrats either: Hitler, Mussolini, Napoleon, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Genghis Khan, and many others of their kind came from the lower layers of society.
Much is said nowadays about the wicked British exploitation of, for instance, India. But without the British, there would be no such country! When they came it was split into scores of large and small states, normally at war with one another. And their cruelty was greater than that of the British.
What your polemic omits to acknowledge is that those peoples who supposedly carried western aristocrats on their backs did so because they had been unable, over millennia, to even go so far in their development as to be able to invent the wheel, and so the carrying had to be done as you say it was.
Nor had many of them even written languages, so whatever development did occur - perhaps in the form of different constituents to put in the dung they used to build their houses with - could not be reliably transmitted to those outside the tribe they were part of.
Depriving the locals of their resources, of course, simply took the form of extracting those resources from the ground, where they would have remained permanently had the white man not devised means to access them.
The natives were then given jobs to assist with this process, which they otherwise would not have had.
As to completely raping the lands they went to, Joburg, Cape Town, etc etc were good examples of this complete degradation they brought with them, although now, in the absence of white supremacists, they are once more returning to the dust white men took them from, with added blackouts and wholesale murder and theft from shops accompanying the recent improvement in conditions for the native population.
The US, like every nation, looks out for it's own interests. Europe destroyed itself in 2 wars and the US has enjoyed picking up the pieces.
"It never was like that " - I grew up in the 60's and it was like that, even with the blundering of the Viet Nam war. But even then the process was in place - perhaps fed by the war of the inexhaustible appetite for money and spending as the driver of politics. Enabled by our ability to borrow especially when we discovered that we could arrange it so that foreigners needed/wanted to lend dollars back to us.
It was all very happy for several decades, but the logic of USD reserve status, our wonderful and special privilege leads mathematically to the exporting of production overseas.
Trump at least sees that we need to bring that production back. What he cant face is that the only way that will happen is for us to give up our special currency privilege. What political system based on voting will ever be willing to vote for a measure of pain even if it is corrective. It can only be imposed from the outside. The Russians were the unwilling recipients of that lesson when the USSR collapsed. Immense pain, but corrective.
Sadly for the US and the world the corrective imposition on the US will be much more difficult, but circumstances may yet again favor us. Perhaps we will just stumble into it. It will still be painful, but corrective (one hopes).
There are no excuses. Russia and China also pursue their own interests, but they do not try to pillage and rape the entire world to achieve them. In fact, when I listened to John Mearsheimer for the first time and he said—as if it were some axiom!—that every state strives to dominate, I said “no” and changed the channel. You are so deep in your own shit that even the best and brightest among you cannot understand that your opinion is just that: an opinion, not a universal truth.
Where exactly "on the globe" are they still that stupid? Let's see for now if the Latinos (all of them) buy the Hollyweird Orange Utang Onkel Schmuel BS. Don't hold your breath.
Not really. North americans are hated and with stunts like these, they are even more hated and they deserve it too. Dumb ignorant idiots and supremacists that think they can do whatever they want and everyone else just needs to accept it. Absolutely disgusting people overall. You are responsible for all of this, especially since you claim to be "the bestest democracy and freedom loving people of all time" You are not. You're simply the new nazi Germany, with fascism overflowing everywhere.
Same as it ever waZ. The only question a head of tax cattle down on Rancho Goyim ever needs to ruminate; is it good for the cho$enites? Ask the Orange Utang and the khaZar demons in occupied Palestine.
So-called "nazi Germany" was a model for every civilized state - their crime was not "fascism," ie the only political system able to successfully take on bolshevism, but their creation of a new financial system based on work done, not on gold borrowed at interest from the Usual Suspects.
That this revolution necessarily had to occur via the expulsion of a national group which had declared war on them at their World Congress in Amsterdam, is neither here nor there.
It was successful for the people who created that attack dog in order to take down bolshevism. It wasn't successful for the Germans, but the USSR was mortally wounded. It took some time for that effect to manifest itself, but eventually it did -- there is a direct causal relationship between the damage incurred in the GPW and the USSR collapsing five decades later.
A GPW so patriotic that blocking battalions had to be used to prevent the patriots from fleeing en masse from the Wehrmacht and SS, and daring to co operate with them once the fighting had ceased.
This is the nonsensical line adopted by the apologists for it in the Kremlin today - they should rather acknowledge the absolute crushing depravity and soullessness of the SU under its Great Leader, and stop talking about "nazis" all the time.
The SU as it was then, godless and bolshevik and driven by jews, is not the same animal at all as Russia as it is today, Christian and democratic, and with many of the jews completely removed from positions of influence and power - surprisingly similar to "Nazi Germany" then!
Maria, Vladimir, Sergei, and all the rest - please take note.
LOL "civilized state". I guess it's the same for the USA scum that claims to be a "democracy" and the "most free country in the world", while being a fascist police state where the entire population is propagandized 24/7 and if there is dissent, it's immediately crushed, either by judicial persecution based on lies or outright murder. It's no wonder that USA protected many nazis after WWII, because they love fascism like no other. Oh sorry, I meant "civilized state"....
Nazi Germany was modeled after the Jim Crow US, they are one and the same thing.
The US supported Nazi Germany, then fought them briefly, then allied back with them before the war was even over, and absorbed huge numbers of Nazis. D-Day was in essence a rescue operation for western European Nazis, to make sure the Russians didn't get to the Atlantic.
The US has officially fought Nazi Germany for a grand total of three and a half years, effectively more like two, and that was to kick them out of the trade routes in the Mediterranean. For the rest of the time it has been in a close alignment with them. But as we know, the victors write history, etc.
About the victors writing history, that's not entirely true. It's more about who controls the media, that has its version spread across the board. And as we know, given the lack of brain power of most people in the world, especially in North America and Europe, if a lie is told many times, constantly, it eventually becomes "true" in the minds of idiots. Western idiots are on a league of their own, because, and using the Ukraine war as an example, all articles from even western media about nazis in Ukraine on the 23rd of February 2022, completely "disappeared" / were ignored, on the 24th of February of 2022, when new articles appeared that there were no nazis in Ukraine and that was all "russian propaganda". Among other examples, which prove just how terribly dumb north americans and europeans are. it's just baffling how the people that believe such obvious nonsense, are even able to breathe, given how limited their brain functions are....But of course, in the end, despite the media control, it's all about the fact that north americans and europeans love their nazis and will protect them always.
They collaborated with them whenever they could, as commerce has no political colouration, but Germany was funded by the novel expedient of backing the Reichsmark with work done, not gold borrowed, so Wall St had nothing to do with that.
You so nasty. Irrationally nasty. If I had your address, I might be tempted to bring my septic vacuum tank over to your place and pump it out in your living room. I’m sure you would be at home with the odorous excrement as that seems to be the content of your soul. Bless your wretched black heart, myocarditis and all!😘
For the propagandized kind that have no self respect and no brain matter that functions, what I wrote is "nasty". Reality tends to be shocking for some people. In the west, for a lot of people, the majority of them actually. Which is why they attack me, because they have no arguments to refute what I'm saying. As for your "wishes", I always wish in triple to others, what they wish upon me.
Hey buddy. I have a Canadian friend that will be happy to introduce you to an orthodontic surgeon. Quit talking smack if you’re too ignorant to differentiate.
Exactly what Tim said. The entire narrative regarding Hitler, Germany and the National Socialist Party is a bunch of Jew propaganda that low IQ people continue to believe.
I’ve started giving away my history books so I can have more space for Greek tragedy. They’ve served their purpose, now I can see all my questions about 20th C history answered on the daily news. The making of Nazi Germany and how the people fell for it? There, played out in real time in the US. Now we gonna see if there really was Jewish anti nazi conspiracy to tell history or not.
You know the Bolshevik Jews killed well over 20 million Christians don't you? And that is a low number. Putin has stopped historians from revealing how many. Most likely well into the 30 millions. And of course Germany during WWII killed more non Jews than actual Jews. The number of Jews which is at most 271,000 and the majority of those from Typhus and starvation late in the war when the Allies bombed logistic routes to the work camps. But you and your low IQ wouldn't know that as it doesn't fit the slop narrative you have bought into your entire life.
And what narrative would that be ? That nazis are evil ? Israelis are evil too, if that's what you were expecting. But nazis are too, which was the point of my post, but your "offended virgin" behavior that came to protect the nazis, didn't allow you to stick to the context. I really don't care if you think I have a low IQ, because I despise nazis. I do. Disgusting people, funnily enough supported by USA...Also disgusting: israelis...again supported by USA...understand the pattern of evil ?
20 million Christians? Noooo! It was 200 billion Christians! Listening to fake narrative of Solzhenitsyn? Who, by the way, prior his death admitted that all his "gulag" crap was "a figment of a creative imagination"
Well, as crass and horrible as you claim American Men to be, I would be willing to venture you would not be where and who you are without the force application of the US military when you were but a seed hanging in your mothers tummy. Your grandmother would probably have been forced into prostitution in order to survive if she lived in Europe in the war ravaged 40s so calm down and thank your lucky stars that the big bad bully sacrificed its sons to create the world you live in, you thankless little spoilt brat😝😜😘
The men who fought in WWII were definitely men. However, to claim that it was American Man and US Military who were responsible for defeating Germany is a falsehood. The vast majority of Krauts were killed by the Soviets.
Exactly, but expecting a USA "person" to know history, is expecting too much of tiny brains. All they know is to repeat the narrative "USA is the bestest ever", "USA the best in everything", "USA saved everyone"...Their tiny brains can only assimilate the propaganda fed to them by their fascist government, every single day.
Sadly, the quotient of average American's knowledge about history anywhere is somewhere near -10 on a scale of 1 to 10. Most Americans have no clue of either world history, geography, mathematics, science or really anything other than doing whatever the job at hand is.
I reckon that the most backward tribe members in Africa know a heck of a lot more than some "average" American, including those who went to college.
But, as they say, eventually the chickens (of ignorance) come home to roost.
>Wilson you dickhead, the USA sat out until Germany was exhausted. The cunts did fuck all in Europe.
It was much worse than that.
They first fought them in North Africa, not in France, where they would have helped the USSR by opening up a serious second front.
Which in order to regain control of the trade routes through the Suez and the Mediterranean, and preempt an eventual Soviet dash to that region. You know, geopolitics, etc.
Then when they actually entered France it was really a rescue operation of the Nazis (there was practically no denazification in Western Germany, they were all quickly reincorporated into the new governing structures or taken to the US to work there) and to make sure the Soviets didn't get to the Atlantic.
And they were realigning with the Nazis behind the scenes no later than December 1944.
In the ling run, the Kalergi plan seems to be putting an end to EU. Fuck em’ they gave up their guns and let people like Ursula castrate their shriveled remains. NATO, “diversity is our strength” may just get Oreshnik’d into smoldering oblivion because the citizens there gave up their hard to win (and keep) freedom in exchange for fake security. What a deal! You’re such an erudite historian so possibly you might recall A. Solzenitzen saying, and I paraphrase: We could have stopped our destruction. We could have taken our knives and hammers and as came by in the night we could have killed them until the others would wonder if the coming night would be their last. But we did not live our freedom. We cowered in our homes as one by one, they took us away. Somehow, I think that describes GM a bit more accurately that Trailer Trash describes me. What say You?
I wasn’t there. My uncle was inserted into Luzon and assisted by Philippine guerrillas, eliminated a sizable quantity of Japanese to free s shit ton or prisoners. Ghost Soldiers is where he was named. Atlantic and Pacific Theaters. And your shit stained family did… what? Enjoy the rest of your mRNA altered failing health in whatever crap hole you are taxed half to death in. I reside quite lavishly in my 800 acres under quite an umbrella of freedom. I do get a chuckle out of presumptuous dickheads like you taking WAGs at who I am. Learn to code, maybe.
Who the hell would want to sacrifice American blood to save dumb Britts, surrender monkey frogs and silly lazy ‘tallions? It is obvious that the EU wasn’t worth saving. Look at it now. Gave up their weapons for a comfortable “safe” life afforded by the US funding NATO. Bent over for unelected monsters like Ursula and the Kalergi Plant to erase you.
Better thing done, our soldiers gleaned some of the better breeding stock. and spirited them away to extend the bloodline in a place more likely to survive the real coming holocaust.
Now don’t you feel the fool. You don’t have to stay a loser but, I think it’s too late to change your ways.
Well, I don't expect a USA "person" to know history. You are all a bunch of ignorant idiots that believe whatever orange man or pedo Biden tells you. The nazis lost in WW2, because they went east and faced the Soviet Union. Sure USA helped, but you were getting your asses kicked and if not for the Soviet Union, indeed Europe would be more of a nazi hell hole than it is today. So I definitely don't spit on the memory of USA soldiers that helped during WW2, unlike dumb USA people that ignore the monumental and far more important contribution of the soviet soldiers. But I definitely despise USA people of today, such as yourself, that don't even care to know history and just continue to claim lies about USA's "might" and "values", when it's nothing but a bunch of BS. Every day USA people overall manage to disgust me even more. Their level of stupidity and ignorance is beyond real.
Jesus dude! Stereotype much?! What is your nationality? You seem not very forthcoming. The Americans are just Europeans on new soil. Carrying on the same old colonialism. Hundreds of years of piracy. I'm 74 y/o and have pushed back loudly on the US empire since age 19. I've gotten a look at the world. I've traveled the world since age 19. The short list includes Paris, London, Hamburg, Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Argentina, Venezuela, Guat, Costa Rica, Egypt et al. There is a LOT more depth to the American populace than you give us credit for. Why are you afraid to own your nationality in these pages? Serious question. Any country you admire or set as an example?
My first History Prof in college was in the SDS on the East Coast. That kind of ignorance?
See, you act exactly like the vast majority of USA people I mention. You don't really care what was said and why it was said. All you see is "he's attacking the USA people and I have to respond" because most USA people cannot accept flaws, despite the mountains of evidence, death, terrorism, war, genocides directly and indirectly provoked, created by USA.
In fact, instead of criticizing your fellow USA citizen above, the one I initially responded to, that claimed USA won world war 2 and I needed to thank USA for saving Europe, because he clearly doesn't know history...you replied to me because I dared to put him in his place, as well as many others from USA that have claimed the exact same lies, and actually taught him some history.
As I said in other posts as well, USA people never stop to "amaze" me (in all the possible wrong ways) at how clueless they are about everything around them, including how dumb their fellow USA citizens overall, are. And as this example shows, instead of scolding your ignorant fellow USA citizen above, you scold me...with tales of your travels, as if that means you are cultured somewhat. That only means you have money to do those travels. Money that you have as consequence of decades of USA destroying other countries, killing millions and stealing their resources, which allowed you to have a great life with lots of travels. I'm sure you are proud of it.....history however, is not your forte.
Also, I've talked about where I'm from several times. As if where I'm from matters at all to say what I'm saying. Although some of your fellow USA "brains" have commented in the past, that my opinion doesn't matter, because my country is small and irrelevant, which is exactly what I expect from the vast majority of USA people. Supremacist, disgusting people that think they are better than everyone.
If you're not like that, great!. But it would be excellent if you could understand that the vast majority of other USA people, are. USA's "credit" is murder, terrorism, genocide, war, bullying and their populace as a whole is guilty of it too, because you constantly claim to be the "bestest democracy ever", there's no "freer country than USA", which means you elect the warmongering psychopaths that constantly do the murder, terrorism, genocide, war, bullying , etc and actively support them.
Only $lumvillains are deluded and ignorant enough enough to imagine that they "stopped" WW2 and German fa$cism. You actually started it and your chosen owners financed it. Russia stopped it. Learn some history and not that Hollyweird ZionaZi filth. "you thankless little spoilt brat". There!
Same as it ever waZ. The only question a head of tax cattle down on Rancho Goyim ever needs to ruminate; is it good for the cho$enites? Ask the Orange Utang and the khaZar demons in occupied Palestine.
Yaaaaaaaaawn Wilson old bean. And what has a hammer to do with anything and the nationality crap is usually only important for $lumvillains that "travelled" for their Pentacon mobsters "serving their countries", "on a tour of duty" as in slaughtering for their chosenite owners.
I don’t much respect that AIPAC invests heavily to influence YS politics. I legitimately wonder why certain people have historically been invited to leave where they have “worn thin their welcome”. Is the problem writin their holy book? Do the treat others as lesser? Do they charge usurious rates for access to money? All legitimate questions and thankfully, people are starting to wake up. I see Russians as my brothers snd sisters and too ling, hidden forces of evil have labored to divide us. There often seems a “common denominator” that can be tied to a tiny wound festering somewhere far from my home. Possibly we, you and I, have common ground. I will wait and see.
image is everything, and the US has been putting egg on its face for the past 35 years with our shameless warmongering, warmaking, warfacililtating, and takeover of other countries to establish our 3000th military base. If every country where these bases are took the step of asking the US to leave, what would the US do? Go to war with all of them?
Yes. The bases are there as the last resort to threaten with force. But first the USA would go to war in terms of trade and economics, with all those countries. It's the playbook for decades, since the dollar is the world's reserve currency and USA weaponizes it. As the dollar loses value, so will the ability of USA to put this economic pressure on other countries. China is ditching USA's debt / the dollar like the plague. Russia already did so. Only the absolute vassals, like european countries, that are willing to destroy themselves to please the orange Hitler or whatever new Hitler is in the white house, will continue to do whatever USA wants. Other countries will simply shift to the now existing alternatives, like BRICS. However BRICS countries, especially the more powerful ones, such as Russia and China, actually need to start setting red lines and actually enforcing them, otherwise USA will continue arming and financing terrorists to attack BRICS countries infrastructure. In other words, thanks to USA's warmongering psychopathy and terrorism, season should be open to destroy USA and european infrastructure too. Although with wimps like Putin, I doubt Russia will ever do any of that. China does seem more capable to respond to such provocations, but we will see.
>You're simply the new nazi Germany, with fascism overflowing everywhere.
They are also the old Nazi Germany. Nazi Germany and fascism were modeled on what the US was in the 19th and early 20th century.
1) Theoretical racial supremacism? Check
2) Practical severe racial discrimination? Check.
3) Militant expansioninst foreign policy featuring large-scale genocide and justified by racial supremacism? Check.
4) Government working entirely in the interests of big business? Check.
5) Severe repression, including the police and military using lethal force, of labor right movements? Check.
Hitler was openly inspired by how the US dealt with the native population and how it treated the blacks, it's not even any secret. Nazi Germany was all modeled after it.
AngloZionaZi fascists stumbling like the idiot Golem that can't rip the stinking ZionaZi albatross from its scrawny neck. Onkel Schmuel like Adolf Orange, the aged pedovore, a sad demented geriatric clown with delusions of grandeur and Israeli owned war mongering imbeciles like Petey Hogseth "Minister of War" crimes.
Release the Epstein Mossad Orange Utang kiddporn vids and enrage the unwashed $lumville masses. Nah...it ain't gonna happen as long as the plebs get their Al CIAduh cocaine and fenty. Onward to the civil war reloaded.
Seriously?! ( Absolutely disgusting people overall.)
My 36 y/o (robustly American) son and his wife have been traveling in Europe, ME and North Africa for months. Including Italy, Portugal, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland (EXPENSIVE!) Georgia, Germany, Greece, Morocco, Jordan and Turkey. They found, almost to the last person, everyone to be friendly and accommodating. He especially loved Georgia. Likely just landed in Argentina.
He only got ripped off in Portugal on a rental car scam.(BS tire damages- CC charge) He additionally observed that everyone in Europe seemed to be on vacation. Additionally, I know everyone loves tourists but still...
So go ahead and steal it for your ruling juice. It's what angloZionaZis have always done after slaughtering the natives. Now that $lumville is bankrupt, globally despised and ass whipped in rump Ukrapperland the mask of the beast is off as Orange Utang takes the USSAN turd down the crapper with him. Enjoy!
What Denmark is or not is is non of your business as USA.
No other country is of your business, never ever until it drops bombs on your head.
It is truly sad to see how you US people prove Politigal's points one for one.
What's with critical thinking, analyses, self knowledge, accountability?
You may be a nice guy but you are unable or unwilling to admit the obvious - Politigal has not only a point. He has said what many of us think and appears to be true for from the day USA came into existence.
You are ruled by a gangster mob and you embrace that mob because deep down it's what you all want to be, mobsters, 'godfathers'.
Without our US taxpayers subsidizing your lazy ass lifestyle, you would have a less pleasant go of it. I am game to put an end to NATO and close all US bases abroad in unfriendly nations. The result of that action would be good for all, just less good for some! Don't you agree?
You morons don't have a pot to piss in and that filthy toilet paper dollah is finito. All the world is flUShing that stinky worthlee$$ crap. The $lumville buZZard is cooked. Enjoy!
Tick tock in Tacky Town...up to our wobbly asses in hock
That's great and I know there are "normal" people in USA, but the vast majority are indeed disgusting and support nazis, genocides and the continuation of the same terrorist policies of USA of the last 80 years, if not more.
And you are completely wrong about "everyone loving tourists". Being from a country where tourism is the only thing that keeps the economy going, (low wages, high taxes, etc) I know very well what the majority of USA people do. They are loud mouth know it alls that think they own everything and everyone that they go to. For every single "normal" USA person that visits Portugal, there are a 1000 despicable, disgusting "human" beings that behave like spoiled brats / animals.
If you don't understand this, that is your problem. The vast majority of the world hates you (USA and USA people overall, not you specifically)for good reasons. As a country, being a terrorist and warmonger, murders genocidal maniac and as a people, disgusting supremacists that think they are above everyone else and can do whatever they want, without the consequences. Hypocrisy, terrorism, genocide, murder, fascism, nazism, supremacism, authoritarianism, etc all these words should have "USA" as synonym in every dictionary of the world.
I did. I used the same survey company that USA used to determine venezuelans don't want Maduro. The same survey company that says there are no nazis in Ukraine. The same survey company that says Russia has 1 million casualties in the war while Ukraine only has like 10000 or so. The same survey company that says Zelensky is very popular in Ukraine and would win any election. The same survey company that says taiwanese people support the anti-China rhetoric, etc, etc.
Anyway, unlike the data from those surveys, I actually have supporting facts. In this thread alone (you included), there's an absolute lack of knowledge of basic history. And for USA people specifically, "history" is whatever Fox News or whatever the "left" version of Fox News is, claims. USA is literally supporting nazis now and USA people constantly claim they won the war against nazis in the 1940s. However, people like you that claim USA people overall are so much better and knowledageable than what people like me claim, has not in a single post, criticized your dumb fellow USA citizens that claimed such things.
And if you actually lurk these threads of Simplicius articles, you'll find plenty more examples of idiotic comments by USA people, that lack any basic history knowledge.
Also, you "elected" Joe Biden, a brain dead demented pedo psychopath and Donald Trump, a pedo warmongering narcissistic psychopath...twice. Can USA people be more dumb ? Or perhaps you are saying USA is not a democracy or as free as USA people themselves constantly claim ?
What to say about people that claim something that is not true, constantly ? Just liars, or very, very dumb ? Or perhaps both ? I say both. And what to say about people that refuse to admit the dumbness of such people and that it is in fact the majority of them ? If they weren't the majority, would they "elect" constantly the warmongering psychopaths ? Perhaps a better question is, if USA people are so smart, as you seem to claim, why and how are they constantly deceived by the people that claim to not be warmongering psychopaths, but then become warmongering psychopaths, once elected ? Is that a sign of intelligence ? Or dumbness and ignorance ?
No one likes USA and USA people. The ones that say they do, they do it, because USA corrupts them to keep saying they like them. Others because they are scared USA bombs them, which is again why USA is hated so much. No one likes bullies, mobsters, genocidal psychopaths, warmongers, etc, all of which USA is.
Until the Bear and the Dragon finally give the United Snakes the ass kicking it deserves. Bankrupt bums and drug addled thugs get to decide diddly squat apart from Hollyweird stage shows on tiny countries. How much did Maduro cost? Probably the last of the spare change $lumville has got.
Oops! Ya’ got it wrong. If you want an example of NASTY NAZI, try the Christia Freeland and her little pet Justin “Castro” Trudeau. Protest tyrannical behavior of Gov??? They had a treat for you, like horse stomping a grandma in the street. Labeling peaceful protesters as Terrorists. Freezing bank accounts, and a litany of capricious horseshit. I think I can scope out your proclivities from, say, 9000 mikes away. You would forcibly inject people and if the situation allowed, those who would not comply would be loaded into cattle cars and sent to re-education (chambers) for struggle sessions, re: I can’t breathe!🤢 You might just possess all the markings of the most despicable yet self righteous animals that are a scourge upon Terra Firma. I’m just spitballing. Prove me wrong?
Are you kidding me?!!! 20 years fighting the Taliban just to curl our tail under Bidens shrunken ballsack and run away leaving billions of war machines to… the Taliban🤣
I agree with you Sir! Imagine being a dirt poor farmer and having to live through your grandpa, your dad and your rise to adulthood being assaulted by Russian and American militaries.
the US has no foreign policy. It has a big mace and big feet and it likes walking on other people, although our president does NOT like dead soldiers. I spent a life in foreign policy for the USG -- there is no cohesion to US thinking, and meanwhile our face becomes uglier and uglier. This is not a problem that started with Trump, it has been a problem since the Clinton years and it just gets worse. At least Trump is straightforward: that's our oil. That's our Greenland. That's our Ukraine. We just steal countries now (but not for long, I'd bet). We just kidnap anybody we want, we called it "rendition" but that got a bad name.
Norma: As one who claims a career in .gov foreign policy, it seems you have possibly stopped being interested or too busy watching the wrong disseminators, you know, the lying (largely jewish owned) media.
If you still have contacts inside, (and they are not deep/perma-state), make a fee calls. Raise hell to get the attention of our current admin to get that cocaine addled Z out of the picture, (maybe an oreshnik or kinzahl up his wazoo and take NATO HQ with him😝 Lets re-commit to peace and long term economic alliance with our Russian brothers and sisters and march arm in arm against the forces allied against us. Starmer: Castration and banishment to devils island. Same for Carney and ANY Weffies as far as that goes. I can picture ending this century with an unimaginably strong band of like minded people that would absolutely diminish the CCP and in their overthrow, unleash a renaissance in humanity into the next millennium!
One caveat: Wm Shakespeare mentioned it. First we kill…😝 my addendum, then the Fiat Banksters😂🤣😝😜
Your rump Ukrapper dumpster "success" makes a joke of your nonsensical opinion. After rump Ukraine is finished good by Natostan, the evil EUSSR and the Pentacon occupation of Urupp. Winning indeed! As for "fucking up royally" what is more degrading than impoverished US tax cattle led by the beast of occupied Palestine and paying for its masters' genocide? LOL
It must be disappointing to be a loser on the world stage and a minion of that loser state. Trump asks for the Stars and gets the Moon as EU vassal states squirm and bow to the diktat of a blonde bitch in Brussels. When did you surrender your balls?
More than US? Nobody can match Uncle Sam in fuckups. Period. Not to mention that the ruskies seem to actually have a competent government and diplomatic corps. Especially when compared to anything in the west.
By what metric do the Russians "fuck up royally on foreign affairs"? The evidence I know shows quite the opposite as the Russians are masters of diplomacy and are well-liked and respected in the real world.
Russia controlled the air defenses and hundreds of manpads very lethal against helicopters, plus other anti-aircraft missile systems. I believe Venezuela has a S-400. This is scene one act one of a five act play. You got Trump acting like a crazed, drunk bully, a tyrant, the most dangerous and crazy man around threatening to take Greenland by force so we can ravage their land to make Trump rich. And there is the "Free Maduro" movement that all third world leaders will understand the importance of. Mexico and Russia have some sort of "nuclear" energy(?) agreement? We are back to changing the name back to "The Gulf of Mexico." Look to the economic warfare going on, and I hear problems at JP Morgan and COMEX no one is talking about. Looks like too many American banks are short silver. And Is China dumping our debt? It is economic warfare, China and Russia versus the US all played out in the Commodity and debt markets, and war games in the Gulf of ?
Proper name: Gulf “of” the Americas. Mexico doesn’t own it and as the default defense of the Western Hemisphere, I doubt our friends in the East snd West Caribbean would care to be ruled by a Narco State with a Jewish Princess at the helm 🤣
Your thinking is about as deep as a pollywog puddle after a cloudburst. Vax damage possibly. V Putin has said he is open to a pact with US and if we can get past the bankster city of Londen wef soros rothschild nazi Jewish skullduggery, eliminate the coke head Z in Ukraine and stop the slaughter then a peaceful agreement between Russia and US will realign the world for 300 years of peace. Alberta and YT claim independence and a rail/highway across the Bering Strait will cause the murderous CCP to wither.
So many squawking shitbirds can’t imagine something as positively historic as that. They just sit in shit and bitch.
I think you’ve not dug deep enough to realize the truth yet but you’re on the way. I own real money, not so much fiat. My country has long been controlled by evil interests, many wear funny hats. I believe as the Ep-Stein debacle has revealed the depths of depravity that the monied and the is real ites are guilty of PLUS the City of London and its generational corruption will come to light. May a Million Amelias rise and inspire the citizens of Europe to claw back their sovereignty from the Kalergites and send them to a bloody grave post haste.
We have so many pots in the fire it will be difficult to pinpoint the exact cause of our collapse. I figure it will be a Japan financial meltdown and the contagion will quickly spread.
“Real money” is a revanchist plot. Plan B is to always double down cuz Plan A never works out as imagined. Except, Grenada. We managed to tame that regional super power in about 8 hours. I want to hear nothing about the US military killing and wounding more US soldiers through accidents and friendly fire incidents than the Grenadians or Cubans managed.
Continually puzzled by the inability of the masses to pattern match. They’d drive down the same street every day though they get a tire puncture Monday’s, Wednesday’s and Friday’s.
Alternatively, do some people suspect and are simply too terrified to acknowledge the darkness of America?
A lot of guns makes no difference. The qualitative and quantitative gap between the modern firepower of the state vs what ordinary citizens can obtain is overwhelming.
In 1791, the date of the 2nd amendment, difference in the firepower available to the government and what an organized citizen's militia could assemble was not that great. The only hope now is if the military massively turns against the government, yet history suggests that outcome is seldom for the better.
I agree — the disparity in firepower is overwhelming, particularly with documented Israeli tools (paramilitary materiel) being sent to local governments. Could a Gaza-like mowing down of civilians take place in the US? That I can see it in my mind’s eye horrifies me. Even worse, there will be none in government to lament the dead or prevent it from happening again. Kent State is only a memory for the old, like myself.
But even he is now a firm and sold-out apologist for the state, demanding that all around him take safe and effective injections for non existent diseases.
As for mowing people down - first you dehumanize and demonize them, then the operation is seen as merely a hygienic culling of undesirables, or deplorables as someone else once said.
Respectfully disagree. You just have to stop thinking about "guns" in the old fashioned sense of taking a willfully stupid and inefficient approach to arms.
What's happening in the 21st century is that technology is moving the pendulum away from overwhelming government dominance over individuals to individuals having remarkable power over government. You just have to stop thinking about limiting yourself to ineffective weapons.
You can see that in the drone revolution. Anybody with a $500 drone that can fly a half kilo of improvised high explosive (easy to cook up in your kitchen) can kill pretty much whoever they want. If the would-be assassin who nicked Trump's ear wasn't such a dope, he would have used a drone and not a rifle. That he came so close to success despite being such a dope shows that even old-fashioned, inefficient weapons in the hands of individuals can still change history.
One might argue about the harshness of such views, but the Founding Fathers who wrote the Second Amendment into the Bill of Rights were not pansies: they were hard core revolutionaries who saw violence as a righteous means of enforcing the personal liberty they damned well intended to protect. Shooting the King's men was the least of it.
You could argue individuals have no chance against a huge government by pointing to the massive protection the President gets that individuals do not, but despite massive government outlays on the security of its apparatchiks even today pretty much any functionary of the state (other than the President) is extremely vulnerable to individuals who decide they're not going to be prey anymore.
On the larger scale, anybody of average intelligence who can scrape together around $15,000 and who has the willpower to study for a year or two can build out a basic gene splicing lab in a space about the size of an average living room in the US. That gets you into the bio-weapon business, with reasonable odds of cobbling up recombinant viruses that can kill hundreds of thousands, and even, at the tail end of the probability bell curve, some significant chance of unleashing a disease that will kill millions.
I emphasize that in the above I'm not advocating terrorism. I'm just pointing out that the reason the Founding Fathers wrote the Second Amendment still stands, that an armed citizenry is still a protection against government abuse, and that the steady evolution of technology has put very formidable weapons in the hands of individuals. It just takes willpower.
You could argue that willpower is precisely what the sheeple in the US are lacking. But I respectfully disagree with that having gone so far that Americans can just be harvested like sheep.
If the government tries a Gaza-like moving down of civilians in the US they're going to run into a gun culture that besides having a couple of hundred million firearms in private hands has also preserved an orneriness that is unwilling to allow fat-assed DEA cretins come beat up on your wife and kids. I agree there is a fat-headed laziness problem in the US, but I also strongly believe there are plenty of Americans still willing to fight for their personal liberty, just like the Founding Fathers did back in the late 1700's.
The founding father's myth is laughable. It's for the opulent against the have not. Almost literally stated like this in their writings.
As long as thousands of people are unorganized running rampant with guns, every better police force will put them to surrender in no time.
No strategy, no tactic skills, just rage and no plan is a disaster even without pushing in the military.
As long as US idiots are willing to shoot other US idiots, this country is going to be doomed for sure.
The average US citizen gives a flying F and can't be bothered as long as his Pick up truck is fueled and his filthy hamburger is done, even for above 10$ a piece now. This country has been so infantilized, brainwashed, dumbed down and made staring at their own fat belly button - there is nothing to begin with morons who think that they're the shining city on the hill while rolling in their own garbage.
Nonsense. There's nothing laughable about the founding fathers. Guys like Paul Revere and Thomas Paine were ready to lay down their lives. Ben Franklin was dead serious when he remarked they'd all better hang together or they'd hang separately. Taking on the King's army was not remotely for the faint of heart. Go visit Lexington and Concord and read the details of what armed farmers did on those days against the world's most powerful army and you'll see it's no fucking Tik Tok myth. Those guys were the real deal, hard core revolutionaries.
As to whether the average US citizen gives a flying fuck about anything, if you focus on that you've missed the point of what I wrote. This isn't about averages and history changing revolutions rarely are. There were fewer than 25,000 Bolsheviks (and the majority of that number were sympathizers and not really hard core) in 1917 yet they took over the world's largest empire that had a population approaching 200 million people. Ain't no "average" in that.
The point is that given modern technology a small handful of people, even one guy (as almost happened when Trump's ear got nicked), can change history. In a country with over 350 million people there are more than enough people who can use arms.
So anybody who's patting himself on the back for not being an overweight, diabetic, mouth breather shopping for guns in Cabelas is also missing the point. It's not those guys, and I'm sure there are some just like there are plenty of overweight, diabetic liberals who can't keep their mouths off their roommate's bong, who can push back if the government really did try to start mowing people down like Israel does in Gaza.
And it doesn't have to get that extreme, like guys using drones packed with a few hundred grams of explosive to express their political dissent.
There are plenty of decent, honorable, law abiding Americans who are in better shape than most people reading this and who also have taken advantage of their Second Amendment right to bear arms to ensure they are ready to protect their liberty and that of their families and community just like those guys did at Lexington and Concord. You can mouth off all you want on Internet but I think it is profoundly stupid to fuck with American patriots in real life.
It could be I'm foolishly naive but I'm hoping there are still enough Americans out there with common sense who will speak out against the current administration's rush to world war. With any luck we'll make it to the midterms and then when the Republican party is routed in free and fair elections the pendulum may swing back to a more peaceful focus on domestic issues instead of starting a new war every week. The dems, of course, will focus on looting the state and brainless socialism, but at least that won't be a headlong rush into nuclear conflict.
Those "founding fathers" just wanted the power that previously the Brits had had, and as fully paid-up members of the Bar in most cases, they were enemies of actual American patriots, and treasonous to boot.
( Bar is the acronym "British Accreditation Registry," ie they use a British tool, aka statute law, to control and enslave the ordinary citizen, and continue to do so via the treasonous oath they swear to a foreign power, ( "The Crown," - which is not Charlie Boy in case you were wondering, or his family ) before they are unleashed to reap the financial rewards they are promised for doing so.
If you look at the actual legal definition for "Constitution," you will find it means "An oath sworn to freely pay somebody else's debts," ie the FFs wanted a Constitution not to protect their fellows, but to insulate themselves from responsibility to repay the debts they incurred to European jewish banks ( you know the names ) in pursuance of their wish to raise a republican army to expel the Brits and replace them with jewish financiers, as was the case with all the so called "revolutions" going on at that time, which just coincidentally, of course, had to do with the emergence of the Rothschilds / Bauers from Judenstrasse in Hamburg at the time.
Going back to the FFs, you have to wonder why such great American patriots allowed the Brits to remain in the US for eight years after they were supposedly defeated, and the only answer can be, so that they could take over the franchise, with the franchisees now speaking yanqui rather than the King's English.
"One thing is to create a killing virus and another to develop one that would only kill Republicans or Democrats."
The example I gave is not about killing Republicans or Democrats, it's about indiscriminate killing. The point is that technology exists to enable very small groups, individuals even, to cause extreme havoc. I gave that as a counter example to the completely false proposition that was posted, "A lot of guns makes no difference."
In point of fact "a lot of guns", whether you mean that literally as in a lot of conventional firearms or in the broader sense of widely available ability to kill, does make a difference, and there are plenty of precedents for anarchist / terrorist / anti-establishment movements who have utilized indiscriminate mass killing to achieve their ideological ends.
Whether it is a Japanese cult using home-brewed nerve gas to attempt to commit mass murder on Japanese subways or a 19th century anarchist group willing to bomb gatherings of peaceful people there are plenty of precedents. Somebody who was mad about an overbearing government could cause a lot of instability by unleashing deadly viruses.
Soldiers by very definition do what they are told without question.
In Roman times, the army was thought to be a wolf which the government could only keep at bay by holding it by the ears; but those days have long gone.
Really? Seems some dress wearing, AK47 toting Afghans fought yankees for 20 years and did not lose. How about the Houthi's? Trump cried uncle because 3 fighter jets were lost and an aircraft carrier was in imminent danger. And then there is Hamas vs. the IDF.
Their lives. Their own lives, those of their kids, their parents, their spouses and their friends.
Same with the Houthis (Ansar Allah). They had everything to lose for standing up for the Palestinians and nothing to gain but honor. The poorest damn country on earth was the only one to take action against genocide.
Is that what really happened? The Taliban simply waited in the background until after the US claimed that their locally trained government and military proxy were deemed capable of managing the fort.
There is a huge advantage playing on home turf, rather than 7000 miles away.
This has been an interesting debate with several perspectives that at first appear to be in opposition to each other but on further consideration may just be looking at details of events slightly differently.
Luigi?
James T. Hodgkinson?
Shall we recall Lolita Lebrón, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Andres Figueroa Cordero, and Irvin Flores Rodríguez?
I don't believe we hear lyrics like this now. Rock is dead and taken over by "something" that doesn't sound like music at all to me.
Well, I'm rambling on and on. My point, I guess, is 20 fuckin' years? And what will change then?
I find myself rooting for BRICS. Venezuela though gives me pause.
I'll be dead before this plays out. So will everyone commenting on it. Imagine being 50 in 1760. (or even 1770) What would motivate you?
Some faction of the "Anglo-American Oligarchy/Deep State/Jewish Mob" still remains in control.
Sure they give some nice speeches about "freedom" and for a bit things get better (or FDR gives them "money" which -- one more time: isn't "real") Then they hire propagandists to tell us how great things are and we look at our meager home and think -- "YEAH!"
Well, I've never been fond of socialism. I live in Russia and even thirty five years after they threw the stinkin' commies out there are still plenty of scars of their foul socialist ideology all around here.
I didn't like Chavez and I thought Maduro was a buffoon. But I strongly believe in the right of Venezuelans to find their own way and to make their own mistakes.
Even thought I'm a die-hard market economy capitalist I don't hate the Venezuelans for nationalizing US businesses way back when. That's part of the deal if you're a genuine capitalist, you're supposed to think of the downside risks when you invest in a place like Venezuela. Suppose one day they wake up and decide not to be the US's vassals but decide to go their own way? Maybe you'd better hedge that risk.
That can be done as plenty of well-run capitalist businesses have managed to do within socialist and even Marxist countries. But don't ask the US to come in and kill people because you didn't think ahead.
So yeah, definitely I'm rooting for Venezuela. I think that's also rooting for the US because if you really believe in democracy and self-determination you believe in the right of other nations to take the paths they want and not just the path you want them to take.
most of pre-war Germany's military leaders came from Prussia, elite officers from a region that shared few (cultural) similarities with the rest of Germany. intersting story, easily found through the internet. sort-of explains why the SS were feared rather than appreciated.
You're right about. That's why things are changing, because people are ready to die.
I live in Russia and I know guys who have been fighting in Ukraine since 2014. They're volunteers. They went there to defend their kin, they were ready to die (and some of them have), and they won't give up until their people are safe. Every one of them that's not dead has been wounded, and when they heal they get up from the hospital bed and they go back into combat.
That's what it will take in Venezuela and Latin America for those people to be free from imperialist bullies. They need the same willingness to fight to the death for their liberty. Russians are willing to do that, the Vietnamese were willing, the Taliban were willing, Ansar Allah is willing, and that's what it will take for Mexico on south to get free and stay free.
I'm not saying that's enough to stay free of factionalism and civil wars within your society, but when you're talking about an external threat you've got to be ready to die to fight that threat off.
It's all done by their media control, which is in the hands of Black Rock, etc.
Keep telling the lies, and the more you do that, the less people will be able to even discern a different narrative.
So many want to believe that America is great, that you only need to tell them once that it is, and they will believe it, and that Trump is the Greatest President Ever.
Telling them he is a disgusting hypocritical scumbag doesn't fit easily with their preferred image of who they are.
Over on "gab," which is supposed to be a bastion of free speech and Christian values, 80% of respondents to a straw poll thought he was right to murder so called drug runners in their boats.
Seems like the USA will take over the Western sphere while EU will have to fight it out with Russia and China over the Eastern sphere. Who knows about the middle east since most military assets are obsolete now.
EU nations have committed cultural sepulcher. They are riddled with stage 4 muzzie and african metastasizing disease. Better we, the USA, form an alliance with Russia that takes the world safely into the next century.
In his book "Homo Ludens" (1938), Johan Huizinga explains how people develop their cultural abilities. This model says that people do this through playing games. The game makes it possible to understand the outside world.
I was initially intrigued by AK — seemingly an independent thinker with some non-banal observations.
Then I became puzzled by the fact that his position on Djt was largely invariate throughout the entirety of 2025, despite the obvious chaos and evident corruption.
Then I took a closer look: what is it about his argumentation such that his end of year 2025 position on Trump is almost exactly the same as his beginning of the year 2025 position? Mine certainly isn’t.
The mechanism is this: Krainer constructs a series of distinct and intricate explanations for every administration crisis EACH OF WHICH BY ITSELF IS PLAUSIBLE. But he then proceeds to loop them into an overriding message: Djt wants to do something positive (world peace, reach an understanding with Putin, etc) but can’t because A,B or C (“because, because…the wonderful wizard of oz…because…)
Actually AK is one of the most accomplished and persistent at this kind of reasoning which ends up absolving Djt of any agency. And sometimes seems completely right about a micro detail here and there.
But he reminds me very much of a classmate who would argue (we used the case method in B-school) “if you think about it”….then proceeded to propose the most obvious data independent, counterintuitive explanation for something quite contrary to the rationally observable. The approach bears a family resemblance to “how many angels can dance on the head of a pin” and other Talmudic-style debates.
AK could be the visionary genius of our time…all I know is I’ve stopped listening to him as I expect, at some point, he is willing and capable of justifying selective use of nuclear weapons.
“Vita brevis, ars lunga”….there are too many thinkers (such as the writer of this substack) whose integrity is unshadowed for me to follow AK.
What? Are you suggesting muzzling those who disagree with with the general opinions expressed on this site? How would that make us any better than the censors? Let people express their opinions, even if they are paid trolls or simply misinformed, or just nasty people.
Sorry buddy but most Germans are already cosing up to Russia much to the dismay of the US. Putin invited not only the only Opposition from Germany to Moscow but also German Citizens that want to move there. Hell German born Catherine the Great funded Odessa so it makes sense to get another re-unification going. On that note a number of Americans have already moved to Russia. You don't have to wonder why.
You listen wrong or from a point of incomplete information.
I am 110% for AFD. I want Germany to shake off the WEF and its minions and as you in Europe(if that’s home to you) are in the place that makes you front line to defend yourself from those among you who want to replace and/or destroy you. Kalergi Plan. Klaus and his slimy Uval Harari butt licker,
The EU unelected who rule you. Solzenitzen (sp) told you what needs to be done if you want to save your future for your children. Many true patriots who love their countries would die in doing so but you could save Europe.
Alas, like Solzenitzen wrote, you don’t love your freedom enough so you will cower in your homes as one by one, you are erased.
My Japanese is lacking. Although my wife is a lovely mixed japanese, Spanish Filipina, I try not to mention that gruesome ast of self destruction when she’s chopping chicken in the kitchen and I forget to take out the trash 😵💫😳😜
Unlikely. The non US Western hemisphere counts more than 600 million people who do not speak English and most of those hate the Yanks.
One cannot sit on bayonets.
This indecent, vulgar and thuggish way of Trump, as Prof. Sachs describes this recent bout of stupidity, is not conducive to anything good for the US.
The EU in conflict with Russia and China for the control of the rest of the world? I rather see the European in conflict with some North African governments for the control of European cities.
There is always the occasional uptick in conspiracy theories about silver floating around on alt media. This despite the obvious fact there is no change in availability, demand or supply. Neither is there a significant change in price. Yet the stories all flare up every once in a while usually in connection with some totally unrelated geopolitical event.
I remember years ago that a couple of oil rich brothers (the Pickets if I remember correctly) lost most of their billions trying to corner the entire silver market pursuing a then prevalent myth about silver floating around in what was called in financial circles "the pink sheets." A limited precursor to the current wild west part of the internet.
Most of theories revolve around a variation of ....silver is in everything significant, we are going to need a lot more of everything significant, there is only so much silver and importantly, someone(s) are making the situation worse in a noteworthy way. Silver doom is just around the corner. Some individuals are in the know and want to pass this information on for a variety of reasons, often unstated.
For me, at my age, like many things really.....been there, done that.
But nobody gives a crap about silver. Nor do they care that some people playing the futures market and running shorts got their fingers burned. We do notice that you are surprised that the minute the biggies might get burned as well, they change the rules to make sure it doesn't happen.
Why should I care about silver prices impacting green b.s. when it's on the way out anyway? Why should I care about silver being used in chips when the whole economy based on chips is starting to unravel? Data centers ....what data centers? You mean the ones that need massive amounts of water and electricity which doesn't exist, couldn't for years and wouldn't anyway because people don't want to pay for it.
Jeez....you call us ignorant because we don't think the world revolves around this weeks silver fluctuations.
Ron - you are so far out.... it kind hints that MSM financial programming governs your understanding of the financial markets. First, it was the hunt brothers who cornered the silver markets.. and they were super successful. So what does comex do? they literally change the rules over night, to force long liquidation with crazy high margin requirements. Just like that... you don't get to game the gamekeepers, was what the hunt brothers found out.
As for what's been happening in the silver market... it;s been in a huge physical deficit for 5 years. yes... the physical vaults are literally being emptied out as silver is now used in many new critical applications. But most of the silver is already produced and used by China.... and both Samsung and Apple have developed a new battery which require much more silver for the anodes... but hey, they bought the paper contracts on COMEX.. but what happens when COMEX no longer has the silver to deliver, not just this cominng month, but for the years ahead? The whole house of cards come down.
5 years of huge physical deficits.... that's what brought silver to here... but here, more than doubling in less than a year doesn't tell you something is going on.....
You are correct. It was the Hunt brothers not the Picketts. As I recall from the time, they were spectacularly successful at first and then they were equally spectacularly unsuccessful. In fact, their failure ended up causing a fifty percent drop in the price of silver in one day. They took a lot of people with them including many who had no connection to the scheme or were even aware of it.
The rule change you refer to was simply requiring the Hunt brothers to show some money behind their claim of owning a silver contract. They were buying up billions of dollars worth of contracts simply on the basis that they could pay for it if asked. When they and everybody else were required to put a substantial amount of money into paying for a contract before saying you owned it, the market collapsed.
Mexico and Peru are the main producers of silver. It is freely available on the market and they have plenty of it. However, it is like with oil. When the price is high it is all doom and we are going to run out entirely next year. When the price drops down to low levels, all of a sudden we have enough for centuries.
China is the main processor of silver because they can do it at scale cheaper than most people just like almost all manufactured goods. People who were holding silver as a store of wealth for the last decade have seen the market price double from the extreme low and are making up deficit you refer to by selling into that demand.
L.O.L. This is the first time I ever heard the Hunt brothers presented as humanitarians simply on a mission to point out the folly of then existing silver market.
At any rate, there are two issues about the silver market in this thread. Silver as a tradeable commodity. Silver as a significant factor in geopolitics.
I do not believe for an instant that decisions to invade Venezuela complete with credible threats to do the same to Mexico, Colombia, Cuba, Greenland, or hit Putin's residence with missiles .....is impacted in the slightest by gyrations in the silver market. That is what I am talking about. I mentioned the Hunt brothers (clearly misnamed by error as I was operating from memory of the era since I dismissed them then and now) to demonstrate why the people who make such geo political decisions know little and care less about what things like the Shanghai market rule changes might mean.
As a subject of interest for investment which is what everybody is starting to get into here, it is beyond me. I can't deal with something where the conspiracy theorists might even be right.
Trump wants Greenland because getting it would be a Presidential History bright object. Not because there may or may not be just the right mix of rare earth concentrations suitable for the American defense industry, to make their extraction worth while. Or silver or cotton fields or anything. It's because it would demonstrably make make America great(er) again, just like the old days when America just did sh*t or so it seems to him.
Wasn’t it the Hunts who tried to corner the silver market. Be a little circumspect before dismissing silver. Silver is solidly in the lead as the best conductor of electricity so may be particularly valuable to those manufacturing planes, missiles, drones, DATA CENTERS….
Sigh.....they will just pay extra for the small amount of silver used in their operations not that they use it but the gear they buy will contain some. If it gets too expensive they will simply use a slightly inferior product.
Silver is far and away the best product around because it is the best in half a dozen different ways. So yes, it is the best conductor but not the best conductor by far. It is just that any alternative to silver as the best conductor is not also the best reflector which of course is of little interest to most data center operations.
Not to mention that the cost of the silver in building things like a hypersonic maneuverable multi warhead intercontinental missile is the very least of your concerns.
Sometimes good enough is actually good enough. If you have plenty of silver lying around because because you don't care how much it costs, that's great . If not, use something else and take a fraction of a percent loss of performance. In modern times fortunes may be made or lost with silver. But no one will start a war over silver.
The Pink Sheets eco system is where todays equivalent of you tube financial markets influencers hung out. Clearly the Hunts would *not* have been doing silver stuff on the Pink Sheets. It wasn't set up for that. Selling shares in a vehicle to corner the silver market would have been possible but not the purchase of silver contracts themselves. Or at least not as I understand how it worked.
Conspiracy theorists had a field day in those circles. If you wanted to catch up on the latest sure thing flowing from some otherwise unknown factors just ask anybody playing there. And I'm not saying that there weren't real companies presenting genuine opportunities in the Pink Sheets.
DoJ, very understandably, erroneously identified Maduro as "ringleader of the ‘Cartel of the Suns'" when, in fact, Maduro was ringleader of the ‘Cartel of the Moons' :-)
Considering the US Senate was based on the legislative body of an empire which named the Mediterranean Sea 'mare nostrum', nothing is out of character. After all, we even already have a Gulf of America. DJT is a modern Tiberius.
It might be a little early to accuse the military. This all smells like theatre to me. A deal was made. We just don't know yet who made it, or why. Maduro seems awfully relaxed and friendly with his captors. His wife was take with him. Delcy Rodriquez has always been a committed revolutionary. Perhaps all this was arranged by a deal between Trump and Maduro in which Trump could save face and walk away from the Venezuela trap he walked into, Maduro could save his country from devastation of US air assaults and Rodriquez could hold together the country and continue to resist the US. Whatever the real situation, it is, imo, all theatre at this point - we just don't know enough yet.
We also know 'royal' Putinz has not broadcast anything since the attempts on his head (bounty disclosure?) over a week now. No rebuttals, moral speeches, must be too busy killing ethnic Russians, ah yes because all objections of the missions must be met, forth to 100 years and going.
So if Moscow becomes a radioactive crater on the 29th of December 2026 due to a NATO nuclear attack, Russia will wait for the 7th of January 2027 to retaliate because it wouldn't want to ruin the Christmas holidays that only it and Serbia celebrate and the rest of the world knows nothing about?
Meanwhile today we had a GRAU ammo depot blown up by NATO in Kostroma (!!!; look at the map for where that is), which in Soviet times would have meant the immediate erasure from the map of all of Western Europe and all US bases in Eurasia, but it doesn't even register these days as an event, so much has Russian security been destroyed by the wise leadership of the 5D chess grandmaster.
You may be right. Trump had at least one conversation with Maduro. Colonel MacGregor said Trump would offer Maduro the money it would cost to take him out if he would step down, and Maduro could retire in wealth and luxury anywhere outside the country. But this deal couldn't be made, because Maduro would be regarded as an abject traitor throughout Latin America. So that seemed a dead end. But lo and behold, where there's a will, there's a way. Maduro gets the deal, and hero status as a martyr. Everyone's happy
Based on evidence that seems the most likely scenario. Ofc we all know anything can happen regardless of agreements. Word is the Interior minister has returned from Cuba so let's see how this plays out. TBH I doubt the US will get too much out of Venezuela with their virtual warfare. We only have to remember what happened when Chavez was kidnapped all those years ago.
interesting take on Morgan's SS: "...The staged Maduro capture fits the same production style as the rest of these spectacles. Nothing about it is subtle. The hero role was assigned instantly, the villain label slapped on just as fast, and Trump's press conference plays like a cartoon version of statecraft. It’s the same template they use whenever they need the public to accept something unhinged as normal..." - https://substack.com/home/post/p-183386178
Will the Venezuelan authorities cooperate with US oil companies? If they do cooperate, it is treason and bribery or a logical desire to avoid the destruction of the country? We don't know.
If they do, will chavismo develop a militant branch following the model of the FARC? We don't know.
How successful woukd be their sabotage actions against US interests in Venezuela? We don't know.
How would China respond? We don't know.
The only thing that we do know is that the US government has violated all rules of International Law, including treaties signed and ratified by the US, and also the provisions of the US Constitution.
It has also violated the rules of any religion and non religious rules of rational morality, incurring in an arbitrary killing spree in and around Venezuela.
According to this video, the US very effectively used various levels of Electronic Warfare to completely smother Venezuelan military efforts opening a safe path to Maduro's home in a well coordinated attack and preventing a response. So there might well be no military traitors or any deal made.
I don't know if the video is true, but it has the ring to my mind.
It might well have been simply a well played kidnapping.
It is a wild rollercoaster ride but we already know the end results: The Venezuelan population and the US taxpayers will be thrown under the wheels at the top.
The (formerly) Hess refinery on St Croix was being remodeled as much as 2 years ago. This refinery can "crack asphalt". It is one of the 10 largest in the world. It has a "man camp" to house all the employees.
"They" knew this was coming.
Berletic's "continuity of agenda" reigns.
I'd be happy to have anyone with better investigative skills than myself look into this.
Port Hamilton Refining and Transportation LLLP (PHRT) won the bankruptcy auction with a bid of $62 million in June 2022.[14][15] The new owner says it will reopen it when it is safe to do so.[12] PHRT sued the EPA regarding which permits will be needed to reopen.[16]
For two weeks in August, 2022, a fired burned in the petroleum coke conveyor loading system, prompting an EPA inspection. The company agreed to sell off and remove from the site ammonia, liquefied petroleum gas, and an amine solution, which presented safety hazards...
So now they learned Irak lesson “do not send to unemployment the former Junta, use them as your puppets and maintain them occupied” and put aside nation building, now go for the complete grab.
The Orange thug has turned most sane people firmly against the US. To think that the US uses other peoples' money to wage wars of conquest is abhorrent. My personal committment is BDS = Boycott, Divest, Sanction as far as possible. No more new US products and wean off US AI products...
The phrasing in your comment wasn't much better. Only insane people could agree with what Trump has done in Venezuela. Only deviants could oppose it. Seem pretty similar to me.
You seem to have missed the point. Ironically, you'll find a lot of US nuts agreeing with the Orange Thug. Ken was trying to equate people who find the Orange Thug abhorrent with sexual deviants, useful idiots and insane people. Pure projection.
LGBQT, whatever that is, and communists don't like a shit pizza for dinner. I suppose that you are about to order one this evening, to show how sane you are.
You might well be correct, but I think it too early to assess as it could also well be that Trump made an arrangement with Maduro himself who then made an arrangement with Rodriquez and the military - all to prevent severe damage to Venezuela and to save face for Trump when he realised he had stepped into serious shit with Venezuela.
Maduro made the offer to Trump a month or two back. It's in the record. Perhaps it wasn't rejected, perhaps it was, but it was made and it came to be (this far at least).
Yes, I am aware of that. Just why spend all this US taxpayers' money for such a theatrical abduction? Sure, it serves as a show of force for lesser countries, though I am pretty sure that others (e.g. Russia and China) were not impressed.
If you are happy with US government spending a HUGE amount of money on "defense" (read: "war on other countries thousands of miles away which never bothered the US") and only a tiny fraction on national health service, while asking you to pay private health insurance... well, fine by me!
Your comment : The Gold that UK has taken hostages as the US has with Germanys gold? is spot on. Nobody knows if the German Gold is actually still physically there in Fort Knox. German Gov. Representatives were not allowed to see it. Perhaps it's mostly only on paper now and The City of London may be a similar picture. Perfect Heist.
Not "THE Germans"! It's the leadership group that has been groomed for decades through programs like "Young Global Leader" or the so-called "Atlantic Bridge," funded by NGOs and foundations (Soroz, Rockefeller, Gates...) and fueled by the mainstream media. They are, of course, now indebted to the "Lord."
Maduro was willing to concede just about everything to the U.S. However, he did require his personal safety and continued presence as President. This was a sticking point for the U.S. Those around Maduro concluded ..... we are going to give the Americans everything they want then why get ready to fight an overwhelming military force just to preserve him. What do we need him for? Best to concede him first as well and we live to fight another day. The U.S. even promised to let us live if we cooperate.
The gold the U.K. seized is worth about eight billion dollars. Very small potatoes considering everything going on. It is enough for some individuals to fantasize about getting their hands on it but the U.K. has it and won't be releasing it any time soon.
What's itching me is if Maduro's lawyer, Pollack is working Probono?
This is exactly right.
"Any serious court would have kicked this case out before Maduro even showed up."
They won't. And saying that this is a kangaroo court is true, but so what? Maduro remains in custody.
I say it again, this Venezuela charade will be the US’s undoing No one likes Americans, or should I say likes them even less.
I think your mistaken, a lot of US love, its easier to hate and dislike Russians for whatever silly reason they always seem to fuck up royally on foreign affairs, more so than the US.
Really depends where on the globe you live. In many parts of the world the average citizen actually thinks the US is like it was back in the 60s with full freedom and unlimited growth for everyone. The wake up call only sets in once they arrive at the US Borders.
>the US is like it was back in the 60s with full freedom and unlimited growth for everyone
It wasn't like that in the 1960s either, it just got much worse so people idealize the past
It never was like that -- it has been a rapacious oligarchy exploiting and repressing those unfortunate to not be able to resist since its beginning, it's just that for some time that repression and exploitation could be externalized towards the natives at the frontier and the black slaves, then expanded towards various other groups and countries.
But perpetual growth always hits limits, and that eventually means the repression and exploitation has to be turned inwards towards at least some of those who previously benefited from it. They are the naturally quite unhappy about it, but instead of going after the system of repression and exploitation it is much easier to idealize the mythical past and to think that bringing back some superficial elements of it will bring the whole thing back. Classic cargo cultism.
Still, such growing unrest does pose a threat to the system, so it has to become even more aggressive externally in order to rob others to paper over the cracks internally. Which, as you can see by the reaction within the US to what happened in Venezuela, is cheered by most Americans. Because deep down they know they will get some crumbs thrown their way too. Just as they benefited from all previous such crimes -- after all, the place is built on their foundation.
The General Moron is back speaking about things he knows nothing about again. To the average American the 60,70s were a time when My Father just a lowly "Steelworker" raised 4 children put 2 of us through college, paid for weddings for the other 2 and my Mother never needed to work. We were not wealthy but we never wanted for anything. That is why Americans never cared about foreign policy. People lived within their communities and that was enough for most.
>To the average American the 60,70s were a time when My Father just a lowly "Steelworker" raised 4 children put 2 of us through college, paid for weddings for the other 2 and my Mother never needed to work.
Thank you for making my point.
Your father enjoyed those benefits.
Meanwhile the average Guatemalan, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Korean, etc. went through what exactly in that period in the hands of the CIA and the US military?
But you never thought about that, did you? And you supported it. Which makes you just as much of a despicable scum as the people who directly did it, but you don't like to think about that either, do you?
Also, to be noted, there were still enough resources internally in the US to support that lifestyle even without invading other countries back then. Conventional oil in the CONUS had not yet peaked (it would do so in the early 1970s, thus the crisis that followed). But that is no longer the case now, thus the current naked resource grabs are even more directly benefiting the regular American. Thus the MAGAtards cheering for what Trump is doing.
Sure, call me scum and a host of whatever names make you feel better. You are pathetic, trying to tell me what I do or don't think about. You have no idea what I think about, just as I said in my original reply. You constantly speak about things you know nothing about. I have said many times that "We" (Americans) bear plenty of responsibility for our Govt. and I never try to escape reality. Unlike you, I live in the real world not some Communist fantasy land.
This has to be the most idiotic statement you have made to date "the current naked resource grabs are even more directly benefiting the regular American. "
Also- over 70% of Americans are opposed to any and all military action in Venezuela but since you are a firm believer in the corrupt Jewish Media you think Americans are cheering this on!
see my comment about the domestic and international perceptions of any country. Two different animals.
Spot on...The stupid are among us...They also breed, watch football and consume alcohol !!!!!
You are being much too harsh and critical of the American working class. The average American citizen has profited little from imperial plunder with perhaps somewhat lower taxes because plunder paid for the military and then, of course, cheap imports were nice. Imports came at a cost to workers, though, because soon enough, foreign imports replaced domestic industry.
"That is why Americans never cared about foreign policy..." The juice do that for their tax cattle. Carry on doing it until Iran payback.
They also didn't need an adequate education, and the government was quite happy with them as dumber-than-rocks and malleable, easily frightened and full of ignorant patriotism.
The effective left had been effectively marginalized and unable to reach most of them.
When their owners decided to send their jobs elsewhere, they reacted with predictable ignorant bovine herd behavior, blaming Black people, immigrants and whatever else OAnon told them was responsible. Roast baby at the pizza joint? Sure.
They wait now, like baby birds with their little beaks gaping, for some regurgitated vomit from the administration to tell their little brains what to think about Venezuela.
yes, I grew up in a country I truly loved and appreciated. we were quite poor, my mother was a seamstress, divorced, five kids and a grown daughter married. We never went without our meals, our lunches for school or school lunch money. We had nothing at all extra, but I got a first-rate education in a very safe small town outside of DC and the opportunity to go farther at every stage. Until Vietnam, when it all exploded, which is what happens when you throw kids under fire for absolutely fuck-all. So if you look at our foreign policy, you see one America, but if you were growing up here, you see something different. I would note that I have seen this also in the former USSR, where those who grew up then felt it was a safe benign space (post-Stalin) that gave them many opportunities to excel. But from the outside, it was not a pretty picture.
It was not a pretty picture from the outside?
Was it not uncle Jo on the covers on your magazins when you needed the Sowjets to die because your brave soldiers were getting a tan in Guam?
You Us people are really so brain dead, it hurts.
Exactly that's it what turned you into absolute morons.
You are 100% correct. Your life's experience mirrors that of most Americans. Thanks for this clarification.
If you had a 1/1000 of knowledge this "General Moron" has it could be interesting to listen to your take. But sinse you are total ignoramus as everybody who was raised in the West is, you cannot even provide some serious arguments. You just dismiss his words as if it below you to actually lead a civilized discussian. How very Aemrican of you
"It wasn't like that in the 1960s either..."
Or the 1860s or the 1760s or the 1660s. Follow the history of what is now the USA and you will find an unbroken trail of lies, deceit, cheating, robbery, and murder going right back to the first European colonists.
Their European roots are the source. These people did not suddenly become "infected" when they set foot on the Americas. Just like smallpox that devastated the indigenous peoples, they were already infected before they came to the Western Hemisphere. As much as the world wants to blame the US, this mindset goes all the way back to their homelands, in Europe. Who holds the keys to power in Europe?
On the other hand, they were to a great extent self-selected. They were mostly tough, confident, self-reliant people without many scruples, prepared to do almost anything to succeed. The far greater number who stayed behind in Europe would have been, on average, less energetic, determined, and ruthless.
C12th; first documented English racism and supremacism directed against the Irish to justify conquest and expropriation.
Yup. It works.
1945-1975 or so was pretty good. World was destroyed so we had no competition and took anything we wanted anywhere like Trump is doing. You could not lose even with menial jobs unless in Jim Crow South and black. My uncle worked in fiberglass plant making shapes for corvettes vacuums etc and made enough for house wife not to work and 5 middle class kids who had motorcross bikes and stuff. We were kinda poor because single mother/waitress and I loved going over there to play like Disneyland
My parents left the sharecropper life in Arkansas. White or Black, there was no future in it. Sharecropping was the most equalizing force behind the wholesale flight from the South.
No one in their right mind chose to remain a sharecropper.
Southern Blacks fled to a very racist North—not because it was virtuous, but because even hostility there offered more opportunity than permanent entrapment. The North was often no less racist than the South, just differently organized and more economically dynamic. Southern Whites were treated better than their Black compatriot refugees—but that advantage was narrow and conditional. Their white skin bought eventual acceptance, and Northern animosity toward them faded with time. At the start, however, Southern Whites were disposable labor—useful until worn down, tolerated once assimilated, and never mistaken for equals.
The South is forever saddled with Jim Crow, while the North is cast as an Emerald Castle on the hill. That story is comforting—and false. The reality is far more uncomfortable for Northern mythology, which prefers moral posturing to historical honesty.
I am one of the descendants of White men and women who traveled the “Hillbilly Highway,” fleeing sharecropping for a better life in the industrial North.
I think you will find at that time there were other forces at work to encourage the naturally supremacist and arrogant European aristocracy to expand outside of Europe - that being natural resources. European population exploded as they took advantage of their resources at hand. Eventually, however, they were forced to seek resources elsewhere to feed their burgeoning populations - thus began their colonial efforts, and being aggressive, cruel and arrogant they completely raped the lands they ventured to, extracting resources and bringing the riches back to the home countries in Europe to quell the needs of their rebellious populations. Western populations, thus have historically lived at much higher standards of living than the rest of the world whose populations were forced to carry these people on their backs and be deprived of their own resources. Europeans and their Five eyes children have always lived high at the expense of those they conquered. And now, as the rest of the world awakens from its dark slumber and 500 year nightmare, we in the West are realising that the game might just be over and Justice is about to enter the room. O the karma of it all!
I think you exaggerate the aggressiveness, cruelty and arrogance of "European aristocrats". Those qualities characterise some people everywhere and at all times. It's just that some have more opportunities to exercise them than most. The Zulus, the Mongols, the Arabs, the Turks, the Japanese, the Huns, and no doubt lots of North Americans about whom we can never know because they were wiped out... conceded nothing in aggressiveness, cruelty and arrogance to Europeans. It wasn't just aristocrats either: Hitler, Mussolini, Napoleon, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Genghis Khan, and many others of their kind came from the lower layers of society.
Much is said nowadays about the wicked British exploitation of, for instance, India. But without the British, there would be no such country! When they came it was split into scores of large and small states, normally at war with one another. And their cruelty was greater than that of the British.
What your polemic omits to acknowledge is that those peoples who supposedly carried western aristocrats on their backs did so because they had been unable, over millennia, to even go so far in their development as to be able to invent the wheel, and so the carrying had to be done as you say it was.
Nor had many of them even written languages, so whatever development did occur - perhaps in the form of different constituents to put in the dung they used to build their houses with - could not be reliably transmitted to those outside the tribe they were part of.
Depriving the locals of their resources, of course, simply took the form of extracting those resources from the ground, where they would have remained permanently had the white man not devised means to access them.
The natives were then given jobs to assist with this process, which they otherwise would not have had.
As to completely raping the lands they went to, Joburg, Cape Town, etc etc were good examples of this complete degradation they brought with them, although now, in the absence of white supremacists, they are once more returning to the dust white men took them from, with added blackouts and wholesale murder and theft from shops accompanying the recent improvement in conditions for the native population.
Yep. Many people that look at the past often do so through rose tinted lenses.
The US, like every nation, looks out for it's own interests. Europe destroyed itself in 2 wars and the US has enjoyed picking up the pieces.
"It never was like that " - I grew up in the 60's and it was like that, even with the blundering of the Viet Nam war. But even then the process was in place - perhaps fed by the war of the inexhaustible appetite for money and spending as the driver of politics. Enabled by our ability to borrow especially when we discovered that we could arrange it so that foreigners needed/wanted to lend dollars back to us.
It was all very happy for several decades, but the logic of USD reserve status, our wonderful and special privilege leads mathematically to the exporting of production overseas.
Trump at least sees that we need to bring that production back. What he cant face is that the only way that will happen is for us to give up our special currency privilege. What political system based on voting will ever be willing to vote for a measure of pain even if it is corrective. It can only be imposed from the outside. The Russians were the unwilling recipients of that lesson when the USSR collapsed. Immense pain, but corrective.
Sadly for the US and the world the corrective imposition on the US will be much more difficult, but circumstances may yet again favor us. Perhaps we will just stumble into it. It will still be painful, but corrective (one hopes).
There are no excuses. Russia and China also pursue their own interests, but they do not try to pillage and rape the entire world to achieve them. In fact, when I listened to John Mearsheimer for the first time and he said—as if it were some axiom!—that every state strives to dominate, I said “no” and changed the channel. You are so deep in your own shit that even the best and brightest among you cannot understand that your opinion is just that: an opinion, not a universal truth.
Where exactly "on the globe" are they still that stupid? Let's see for now if the Latinos (all of them) buy the Hollyweird Orange Utang Onkel Schmuel BS. Don't hold your breath.
In Brazil, for instance. Quite a few people there still believe in the so-called "American Dream".
PS "breshnev" suits you
or we arrive at theirs.
they should not be at our borders, fuck 'em
Not really. North americans are hated and with stunts like these, they are even more hated and they deserve it too. Dumb ignorant idiots and supremacists that think they can do whatever they want and everyone else just needs to accept it. Absolutely disgusting people overall. You are responsible for all of this, especially since you claim to be "the bestest democracy and freedom loving people of all time" You are not. You're simply the new nazi Germany, with fascism overflowing everywhere.
Oh no! I didn't want to trigger Timmy! Such horrible person I am!
Not horrible - just brainwashed.
😜😂
Wakey wakey on that Onkel Adolf non$en$e already.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/history-of-world-war-ii-nazi-germany-was-financed-by-the-federal-reserve-and-the-bank-of-england/5530318
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLFSfbiIUyA
Same as it ever waZ. The only question a head of tax cattle down on Rancho Goyim ever needs to ruminate; is it good for the cho$enites? Ask the Orange Utang and the khaZar demons in occupied Palestine.
When FM is big enough to patronize me, he will be too old.
Obviously, the TLDR I used on him the other day, severely rankled with him.
So-called "nazi Germany" was a model for every civilized state - their crime was not "fascism," ie the only political system able to successfully take on bolshevism, but their creation of a new financial system based on work done, not on gold borrowed at interest from the Usual Suspects.
That this revolution necessarily had to occur via the expulsion of a national group which had declared war on them at their World Congress in Amsterdam, is neither here nor there.
Fascism successfully took on bolchevism? First I hear.
It was successful for the people who created that attack dog in order to take down bolshevism. It wasn't successful for the Germans, but the USSR was mortally wounded. It took some time for that effect to manifest itself, but eventually it did -- there is a direct causal relationship between the damage incurred in the GPW and the USSR collapsing five decades later.
Interesting. Is there any book that analyses that thread?
A GPW so patriotic that blocking battalions had to be used to prevent the patriots from fleeing en masse from the Wehrmacht and SS, and daring to co operate with them once the fighting had ceased.
This is the nonsensical line adopted by the apologists for it in the Kremlin today - they should rather acknowledge the absolute crushing depravity and soullessness of the SU under its Great Leader, and stop talking about "nazis" all the time.
The SU as it was then, godless and bolshevik and driven by jews, is not the same animal at all as Russia as it is today, Christian and democratic, and with many of the jews completely removed from positions of influence and power - surprisingly similar to "Nazi Germany" then!
Maria, Vladimir, Sergei, and all the rest - please take note.
If you change your hearing aid batteries more frequently, you would hear more often.
What are you on about? I can hear a bee’s fart from a mile mate.
LOL "civilized state". I guess it's the same for the USA scum that claims to be a "democracy" and the "most free country in the world", while being a fascist police state where the entire population is propagandized 24/7 and if there is dissent, it's immediately crushed, either by judicial persecution based on lies or outright murder. It's no wonder that USA protected many nazis after WWII, because they love fascism like no other. Oh sorry, I meant "civilized state"....
Nazi Germany was modeled after the Jim Crow US, they are one and the same thing.
The US supported Nazi Germany, then fought them briefly, then allied back with them before the war was even over, and absorbed huge numbers of Nazis. D-Day was in essence a rescue operation for western European Nazis, to make sure the Russians didn't get to the Atlantic.
The US has officially fought Nazi Germany for a grand total of three and a half years, effectively more like two, and that was to kick them out of the trade routes in the Mediterranean. For the rest of the time it has been in a close alignment with them. But as we know, the victors write history, etc.
About the victors writing history, that's not entirely true. It's more about who controls the media, that has its version spread across the board. And as we know, given the lack of brain power of most people in the world, especially in North America and Europe, if a lie is told many times, constantly, it eventually becomes "true" in the minds of idiots. Western idiots are on a league of their own, because, and using the Ukraine war as an example, all articles from even western media about nazis in Ukraine on the 23rd of February 2022, completely "disappeared" / were ignored, on the 24th of February of 2022, when new articles appeared that there were no nazis in Ukraine and that was all "russian propaganda". Among other examples, which prove just how terribly dumb north americans and europeans are. it's just baffling how the people that believe such obvious nonsense, are even able to breathe, given how limited their brain functions are....But of course, in the end, despite the media control, it's all about the fact that north americans and europeans love their nazis and will protect them always.
Nailed it GM. Tip-top.
Germany did declare war on the US. A minorl point for sure.
Wasn't Wall St the biggest funder of Nazi Germany?
They collaborated with them whenever they could, as commerce has no political colouration, but Germany was funded by the novel expedient of backing the Reichsmark with work done, not gold borrowed, so Wall St had nothing to do with that.
Perhaps foreign funding, but I think it was London.
Forgive me, but I always stop reading as soon as someone deploys acronyms like “LOL” or “ROFL” as part of what they think is intelligent debate.
You so nasty. Irrationally nasty. If I had your address, I might be tempted to bring my septic vacuum tank over to your place and pump it out in your living room. I’m sure you would be at home with the odorous excrement as that seems to be the content of your soul. Bless your wretched black heart, myocarditis and all!😘
For the propagandized kind that have no self respect and no brain matter that functions, what I wrote is "nasty". Reality tends to be shocking for some people. In the west, for a lot of people, the majority of them actually. Which is why they attack me, because they have no arguments to refute what I'm saying. As for your "wishes", I always wish in triple to others, what they wish upon me.
You have a bad case of envy on display like measles. I hope it’s not contagious!🤣
Are you retarded?
Of course.
We all are in one way or another.
What’s your way?
Hitler's socialism was based on nationalism and blood.
Hey buddy. I have a Canadian friend that will be happy to introduce you to an orthodontic surgeon. Quit talking smack if you’re too ignorant to differentiate.
I don't really care what nazi supporters think.
Thanks for proving his point.
Threats and arrogance + ignorance = US people.
Exactly what Tim said. The entire narrative regarding Hitler, Germany and the National Socialist Party is a bunch of Jew propaganda that low IQ people continue to believe.
I’ve started giving away my history books so I can have more space for Greek tragedy. They’ve served their purpose, now I can see all my questions about 20th C history answered on the daily news. The making of Nazi Germany and how the people fell for it? There, played out in real time in the US. Now we gonna see if there really was Jewish anti nazi conspiracy to tell history or not.
You know nazis killed many more non jews, than jews correct ? Perhaps your "high IQ" is only high in your area...
You know the Bolshevik Jews killed well over 20 million Christians don't you? And that is a low number. Putin has stopped historians from revealing how many. Most likely well into the 30 millions. And of course Germany during WWII killed more non Jews than actual Jews. The number of Jews which is at most 271,000 and the majority of those from Typhus and starvation late in the war when the Allies bombed logistic routes to the work camps. But you and your low IQ wouldn't know that as it doesn't fit the slop narrative you have bought into your entire life.
And what narrative would that be ? That nazis are evil ? Israelis are evil too, if that's what you were expecting. But nazis are too, which was the point of my post, but your "offended virgin" behavior that came to protect the nazis, didn't allow you to stick to the context. I really don't care if you think I have a low IQ, because I despise nazis. I do. Disgusting people, funnily enough supported by USA...Also disgusting: israelis...again supported by USA...understand the pattern of evil ?
>You know the Bolshevik Jews killed well over 20 million Christians don't you?
Where and when?
20 million Christians? Noooo! It was 200 billion Christians! Listening to fake narrative of Solzhenitsyn? Who, by the way, prior his death admitted that all his "gulag" crap was "a figment of a creative imagination"
Well, as crass and horrible as you claim American Men to be, I would be willing to venture you would not be where and who you are without the force application of the US military when you were but a seed hanging in your mothers tummy. Your grandmother would probably have been forced into prostitution in order to survive if she lived in Europe in the war ravaged 40s so calm down and thank your lucky stars that the big bad bully sacrificed its sons to create the world you live in, you thankless little spoilt brat😝😜😘
The men who fought in WWII were definitely men. However, to claim that it was American Man and US Military who were responsible for defeating Germany is a falsehood. The vast majority of Krauts were killed by the Soviets.
Exactly, but expecting a USA "person" to know history, is expecting too much of tiny brains. All they know is to repeat the narrative "USA is the bestest ever", "USA the best in everything", "USA saved everyone"...Their tiny brains can only assimilate the propaganda fed to them by their fascist government, every single day.
Sadly, the quotient of average American's knowledge about history anywhere is somewhere near -10 on a scale of 1 to 10. Most Americans have no clue of either world history, geography, mathematics, science or really anything other than doing whatever the job at hand is.
I reckon that the most backward tribe members in Africa know a heck of a lot more than some "average" American, including those who went to college.
But, as they say, eventually the chickens (of ignorance) come home to roost.
FFS another propagandised trailer trash moron enters the chat....
Wilson you dickhead, the USA sat out until Germany was exhausted. The cunts did fuck all in Europe.
Hollyweird John Wayne movies are big in this fools life it seems.
It's what USA people have to contribute to the world. Lies, frauds, crimes, terrorism, propaganda...
....porn, fake pandemics, mRNA gene altering bio-weapons, bio-labs, fat bastards, shit cars, shit food.....
>Wilson you dickhead, the USA sat out until Germany was exhausted. The cunts did fuck all in Europe.
It was much worse than that.
They first fought them in North Africa, not in France, where they would have helped the USSR by opening up a serious second front.
Which in order to regain control of the trade routes through the Suez and the Mediterranean, and preempt an eventual Soviet dash to that region. You know, geopolitics, etc.
Then when they actually entered France it was really a rescue operation of the Nazis (there was practically no denazification in Western Germany, they were all quickly reincorporated into the new governing structures or taken to the US to work there) and to make sure the Soviets didn't get to the Atlantic.
And they were realigning with the Nazis behind the scenes no later than December 1944.
Sideways related - Mussolini's crackdown on the mafia,
before ww2.
https://biographics.org/cesare-mori-mussolinis-iron-prefect-vs-the-mafia/
In the ling run, the Kalergi plan seems to be putting an end to EU. Fuck em’ they gave up their guns and let people like Ursula castrate their shriveled remains. NATO, “diversity is our strength” may just get Oreshnik’d into smoldering oblivion because the citizens there gave up their hard to win (and keep) freedom in exchange for fake security. What a deal! You’re such an erudite historian so possibly you might recall A. Solzenitzen saying, and I paraphrase: We could have stopped our destruction. We could have taken our knives and hammers and as came by in the night we could have killed them until the others would wonder if the coming night would be their last. But we did not live our freedom. We cowered in our homes as one by one, they took us away. Somehow, I think that describes GM a bit more accurately that Trailer Trash describes me. What say You?
I wasn’t there. My uncle was inserted into Luzon and assisted by Philippine guerrillas, eliminated a sizable quantity of Japanese to free s shit ton or prisoners. Ghost Soldiers is where he was named. Atlantic and Pacific Theaters. And your shit stained family did… what? Enjoy the rest of your mRNA altered failing health in whatever crap hole you are taxed half to death in. I reside quite lavishly in my 800 acres under quite an umbrella of freedom. I do get a chuckle out of presumptuous dickheads like you taking WAGs at who I am. Learn to code, maybe.
Other than that, piss off😝
LOL freedumb is what you have.
And thanks for the education on how big US trailer trash compounds are - 800 acres, wow. Must be a lot of ignorant dumbfucks there
Who the hell would want to sacrifice American blood to save dumb Britts, surrender monkey frogs and silly lazy ‘tallions? It is obvious that the EU wasn’t worth saving. Look at it now. Gave up their weapons for a comfortable “safe” life afforded by the US funding NATO. Bent over for unelected monsters like Ursula and the Kalergi Plant to erase you.
Better thing done, our soldiers gleaned some of the better breeding stock. and spirited them away to extend the bloodline in a place more likely to survive the real coming holocaust.
Now don’t you feel the fool. You don’t have to stay a loser but, I think it’s too late to change your ways.
Well, I don't expect a USA "person" to know history. You are all a bunch of ignorant idiots that believe whatever orange man or pedo Biden tells you. The nazis lost in WW2, because they went east and faced the Soviet Union. Sure USA helped, but you were getting your asses kicked and if not for the Soviet Union, indeed Europe would be more of a nazi hell hole than it is today. So I definitely don't spit on the memory of USA soldiers that helped during WW2, unlike dumb USA people that ignore the monumental and far more important contribution of the soviet soldiers. But I definitely despise USA people of today, such as yourself, that don't even care to know history and just continue to claim lies about USA's "might" and "values", when it's nothing but a bunch of BS. Every day USA people overall manage to disgust me even more. Their level of stupidity and ignorance is beyond real.
Jesus dude! Stereotype much?! What is your nationality? You seem not very forthcoming. The Americans are just Europeans on new soil. Carrying on the same old colonialism. Hundreds of years of piracy. I'm 74 y/o and have pushed back loudly on the US empire since age 19. I've gotten a look at the world. I've traveled the world since age 19. The short list includes Paris, London, Hamburg, Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Argentina, Venezuela, Guat, Costa Rica, Egypt et al. There is a LOT more depth to the American populace than you give us credit for. Why are you afraid to own your nationality in these pages? Serious question. Any country you admire or set as an example?
My first History Prof in college was in the SDS on the East Coast. That kind of ignorance?
See, you act exactly like the vast majority of USA people I mention. You don't really care what was said and why it was said. All you see is "he's attacking the USA people and I have to respond" because most USA people cannot accept flaws, despite the mountains of evidence, death, terrorism, war, genocides directly and indirectly provoked, created by USA.
In fact, instead of criticizing your fellow USA citizen above, the one I initially responded to, that claimed USA won world war 2 and I needed to thank USA for saving Europe, because he clearly doesn't know history...you replied to me because I dared to put him in his place, as well as many others from USA that have claimed the exact same lies, and actually taught him some history.
As I said in other posts as well, USA people never stop to "amaze" me (in all the possible wrong ways) at how clueless they are about everything around them, including how dumb their fellow USA citizens overall, are. And as this example shows, instead of scolding your ignorant fellow USA citizen above, you scold me...with tales of your travels, as if that means you are cultured somewhat. That only means you have money to do those travels. Money that you have as consequence of decades of USA destroying other countries, killing millions and stealing their resources, which allowed you to have a great life with lots of travels. I'm sure you are proud of it.....history however, is not your forte.
Also, I've talked about where I'm from several times. As if where I'm from matters at all to say what I'm saying. Although some of your fellow USA "brains" have commented in the past, that my opinion doesn't matter, because my country is small and irrelevant, which is exactly what I expect from the vast majority of USA people. Supremacist, disgusting people that think they are better than everyone.
If you're not like that, great!. But it would be excellent if you could understand that the vast majority of other USA people, are. USA's "credit" is murder, terrorism, genocide, war, bullying and their populace as a whole is guilty of it too, because you constantly claim to be the "bestest democracy ever", there's no "freer country than USA", which means you elect the warmongering psychopaths that constantly do the murder, terrorism, genocide, war, bullying , etc and actively support them.
Question: Who are you addressing?
Only $lumvillains are deluded and ignorant enough enough to imagine that they "stopped" WW2 and German fa$cism. You actually started it and your chosen owners financed it. Russia stopped it. Learn some history and not that Hollyweird ZionaZi filth. "you thankless little spoilt brat". There!
https://www.globalresearch.ca/history-of-world-war-ii-nazi-germany-was-financed-by-the-federal-reserve-and-the-bank-of-england/5530318
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLFSfbiIUyA
Same as it ever waZ. The only question a head of tax cattle down on Rancho Goyim ever needs to ruminate; is it good for the cho$enites? Ask the Orange Utang and the khaZar demons in occupied Palestine.
Concerted effort dummy and from the appearance of your name, your family was complicit with the enemy. I’m curious.
Yaaaaaaaaawn Wilson old bean. And what has a hammer to do with anything and the nationality crap is usually only important for $lumvillains that "travelled" for their Pentacon mobsters "serving their countries", "on a tour of duty" as in slaughtering for their chosenite owners.
I don’t much respect that AIPAC invests heavily to influence YS politics. I legitimately wonder why certain people have historically been invited to leave where they have “worn thin their welcome”. Is the problem writin their holy book? Do the treat others as lesser? Do they charge usurious rates for access to money? All legitimate questions and thankfully, people are starting to wake up. I see Russians as my brothers snd sisters and too ling, hidden forces of evil have labored to divide us. There often seems a “common denominator” that can be tied to a tiny wound festering somewhere far from my home. Possibly we, you and I, have common ground. I will wait and see.
image is everything, and the US has been putting egg on its face for the past 35 years with our shameless warmongering, warmaking, warfacililtating, and takeover of other countries to establish our 3000th military base. If every country where these bases are took the step of asking the US to leave, what would the US do? Go to war with all of them?
Yes. The bases are there as the last resort to threaten with force. But first the USA would go to war in terms of trade and economics, with all those countries. It's the playbook for decades, since the dollar is the world's reserve currency and USA weaponizes it. As the dollar loses value, so will the ability of USA to put this economic pressure on other countries. China is ditching USA's debt / the dollar like the plague. Russia already did so. Only the absolute vassals, like european countries, that are willing to destroy themselves to please the orange Hitler or whatever new Hitler is in the white house, will continue to do whatever USA wants. Other countries will simply shift to the now existing alternatives, like BRICS. However BRICS countries, especially the more powerful ones, such as Russia and China, actually need to start setting red lines and actually enforcing them, otherwise USA will continue arming and financing terrorists to attack BRICS countries infrastructure. In other words, thanks to USA's warmongering psychopathy and terrorism, season should be open to destroy USA and european infrastructure too. Although with wimps like Putin, I doubt Russia will ever do any of that. China does seem more capable to respond to such provocations, but we will see.
Well said.
>You're simply the new nazi Germany, with fascism overflowing everywhere.
They are also the old Nazi Germany. Nazi Germany and fascism were modeled on what the US was in the 19th and early 20th century.
1) Theoretical racial supremacism? Check
2) Practical severe racial discrimination? Check.
3) Militant expansioninst foreign policy featuring large-scale genocide and justified by racial supremacism? Check.
4) Government working entirely in the interests of big business? Check.
5) Severe repression, including the police and military using lethal force, of labor right movements? Check.
Hitler was openly inspired by how the US dealt with the native population and how it treated the blacks, it's not even any secret. Nazi Germany was all modeled after it.
GM: What is so theoretical’ about racial supremacy? It is sticking out like dogs balls everywhere.
AngloZionaZi fascists stumbling like the idiot Golem that can't rip the stinking ZionaZi albatross from its scrawny neck. Onkel Schmuel like Adolf Orange, the aged pedovore, a sad demented geriatric clown with delusions of grandeur and Israeli owned war mongering imbeciles like Petey Hogseth "Minister of War" crimes.
Release the Epstein Mossad Orange Utang kiddporn vids and enrage the unwashed $lumville masses. Nah...it ain't gonna happen as long as the plebs get their Al CIAduh cocaine and fenty. Onward to the civil war reloaded.
Seriously?! ( Absolutely disgusting people overall.)
My 36 y/o (robustly American) son and his wife have been traveling in Europe, ME and North Africa for months. Including Italy, Portugal, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland (EXPENSIVE!) Georgia, Germany, Greece, Morocco, Jordan and Turkey. They found, almost to the last person, everyone to be friendly and accommodating. He especially loved Georgia. Likely just landed in Argentina.
He only got ripped off in Portugal on a rental car scam.(BS tire damages- CC charge) He additionally observed that everyone in Europe seemed to be on vacation. Additionally, I know everyone loves tourists but still...
No one will despise a friendly US couple on an innocent trip.
What we in Europe despise is all the US represents and has done since their existence.
And then are those who believe Hollywood sagas until today.
Like I remarked Frank,
"Additionally, I know everyone loves tourists but still..."
Europe is the pot calling the kettle black. Denmark "owns"
Greenland? Pissant Denmark is 2% the size of Greenland.
The Danes own a slice of Scandinavian design...
So go ahead and steal it for your ruling juice. It's what angloZionaZis have always done after slaughtering the natives. Now that $lumville is bankrupt, globally despised and ass whipped in rump Ukrapperland the mask of the beast is off as Orange Utang takes the USSAN turd down the crapper with him. Enjoy!
You're missing the point, my friend.
What Denmark is or not is is non of your business as USA.
No other country is of your business, never ever until it drops bombs on your head.
It is truly sad to see how you US people prove Politigal's points one for one.
What's with critical thinking, analyses, self knowledge, accountability?
You may be a nice guy but you are unable or unwilling to admit the obvious - Politigal has not only a point. He has said what many of us think and appears to be true for from the day USA came into existence.
You are ruled by a gangster mob and you embrace that mob because deep down it's what you all want to be, mobsters, 'godfathers'.
So what are you going to do about it?
That's the problem.
All good, go on and bow to your masters.
I have to do nothing about it, it's not my land, not my business.
Asking such a question already exposess a supremacy and ignorance, exactly as Politugal pointed out.
What was the point you wanted to make again?
Without our US taxpayers subsidizing your lazy ass lifestyle, you would have a less pleasant go of it. I am game to put an end to NATO and close all US bases abroad in unfriendly nations. The result of that action would be good for all, just less good for some! Don't you agree?
You morons don't have a pot to piss in and that filthy toilet paper dollah is finito. All the world is flUShing that stinky worthlee$$ crap. The $lumville buZZard is cooked. Enjoy!
Tick tock in Tacky Town...up to our wobbly asses in hock
https://www.usdebtclock.org/
We don't need no stinking economy...we's got Pentacon.....DUH
Deadbeat loser bums.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/246420/major-foreign-holders-of-us-treasury-debt/
You can dance along if you like, just like those ZionaZi hoes you call your "leaders"
Debt Bomb, Baby, Oh Yeah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXcLVDhS8fM&list=RDGXcLVDhS8fM&start_radio=1
That's great and I know there are "normal" people in USA, but the vast majority are indeed disgusting and support nazis, genocides and the continuation of the same terrorist policies of USA of the last 80 years, if not more.
And you are completely wrong about "everyone loving tourists". Being from a country where tourism is the only thing that keeps the economy going, (low wages, high taxes, etc) I know very well what the majority of USA people do. They are loud mouth know it alls that think they own everything and everyone that they go to. For every single "normal" USA person that visits Portugal, there are a 1000 despicable, disgusting "human" beings that behave like spoiled brats / animals.
If you don't understand this, that is your problem. The vast majority of the world hates you (USA and USA people overall, not you specifically)for good reasons. As a country, being a terrorist and warmonger, murders genocidal maniac and as a people, disgusting supremacists that think they are above everyone else and can do whatever they want, without the consequences. Hypocrisy, terrorism, genocide, murder, fascism, nazism, supremacism, authoritarianism, etc all these words should have "USA" as synonym in every dictionary of the world.
"The vast majority of the world hates you (USA and USA people overall, not you specifically)for good reasons."
So you've done a survey then?
I did. I used the same survey company that USA used to determine venezuelans don't want Maduro. The same survey company that says there are no nazis in Ukraine. The same survey company that says Russia has 1 million casualties in the war while Ukraine only has like 10000 or so. The same survey company that says Zelensky is very popular in Ukraine and would win any election. The same survey company that says taiwanese people support the anti-China rhetoric, etc, etc.
Anyway, unlike the data from those surveys, I actually have supporting facts. In this thread alone (you included), there's an absolute lack of knowledge of basic history. And for USA people specifically, "history" is whatever Fox News or whatever the "left" version of Fox News is, claims. USA is literally supporting nazis now and USA people constantly claim they won the war against nazis in the 1940s. However, people like you that claim USA people overall are so much better and knowledageable than what people like me claim, has not in a single post, criticized your dumb fellow USA citizens that claimed such things.
And if you actually lurk these threads of Simplicius articles, you'll find plenty more examples of idiotic comments by USA people, that lack any basic history knowledge.
Also, you "elected" Joe Biden, a brain dead demented pedo psychopath and Donald Trump, a pedo warmongering narcissistic psychopath...twice. Can USA people be more dumb ? Or perhaps you are saying USA is not a democracy or as free as USA people themselves constantly claim ?
What to say about people that claim something that is not true, constantly ? Just liars, or very, very dumb ? Or perhaps both ? I say both. And what to say about people that refuse to admit the dumbness of such people and that it is in fact the majority of them ? If they weren't the majority, would they "elect" constantly the warmongering psychopaths ? Perhaps a better question is, if USA people are so smart, as you seem to claim, why and how are they constantly deceived by the people that claim to not be warmongering psychopaths, but then become warmongering psychopaths, once elected ? Is that a sign of intelligence ? Or dumbness and ignorance ?
No one likes USA and USA people. The ones that say they do, they do it, because USA corrupts them to keep saying they like them. Others because they are scared USA bombs them, which is again why USA is hated so much. No one likes bullies, mobsters, genocidal psychopaths, warmongers, etc, all of which USA is.
You’re such a dipstick.
The Americans are hated but they also are feared. Consequently, they are appeased.
Until the Bear and the Dragon finally give the United Snakes the ass kicking it deserves. Bankrupt bums and drug addled thugs get to decide diddly squat apart from Hollyweird stage shows on tiny countries. How much did Maduro cost? Probably the last of the spare change $lumville has got.
It is abundantly obvious that Russia and China desperate to avoid a fight.
Until now.
I would wager, based upon your rabid nature that you murder babies on the premise of “my body my choice”? Just spitballing😝
Oops! Ya’ got it wrong. If you want an example of NASTY NAZI, try the Christia Freeland and her little pet Justin “Castro” Trudeau. Protest tyrannical behavior of Gov??? They had a treat for you, like horse stomping a grandma in the street. Labeling peaceful protesters as Terrorists. Freezing bank accounts, and a litany of capricious horseshit. I think I can scope out your proclivities from, say, 9000 mikes away. You would forcibly inject people and if the situation allowed, those who would not comply would be loaded into cattle cars and sent to re-education (chambers) for struggle sessions, re: I can’t breathe!🤢 You might just possess all the markings of the most despicable yet self righteous animals that are a scourge upon Terra Firma. I’m just spitballing. Prove me wrong?
Are you kidding me?!!! 20 years fighting the Taliban just to curl our tail under Bidens shrunken ballsack and run away leaving billions of war machines to… the Taliban🤣
Well, it'll help them defend themselves if Uncle Sam (TM) ever comes back again... 😉
I agree with you Sir! Imagine being a dirt poor farmer and having to live through your grandpa, your dad and your rise to adulthood being assaulted by Russian and American militaries.
They must be a tough breed.
the US has no foreign policy. It has a big mace and big feet and it likes walking on other people, although our president does NOT like dead soldiers. I spent a life in foreign policy for the USG -- there is no cohesion to US thinking, and meanwhile our face becomes uglier and uglier. This is not a problem that started with Trump, it has been a problem since the Clinton years and it just gets worse. At least Trump is straightforward: that's our oil. That's our Greenland. That's our Ukraine. We just steal countries now (but not for long, I'd bet). We just kidnap anybody we want, we called it "rendition" but that got a bad name.
A Mafia masquerading as a country.
Norma: As one who claims a career in .gov foreign policy, it seems you have possibly stopped being interested or too busy watching the wrong disseminators, you know, the lying (largely jewish owned) media.
If you still have contacts inside, (and they are not deep/perma-state), make a fee calls. Raise hell to get the attention of our current admin to get that cocaine addled Z out of the picture, (maybe an oreshnik or kinzahl up his wazoo and take NATO HQ with him😝 Lets re-commit to peace and long term economic alliance with our Russian brothers and sisters and march arm in arm against the forces allied against us. Starmer: Castration and banishment to devils island. Same for Carney and ANY Weffies as far as that goes. I can picture ending this century with an unimaginably strong band of like minded people that would absolutely diminish the CCP and in their overthrow, unleash a renaissance in humanity into the next millennium!
One caveat: Wm Shakespeare mentioned it. First we kill…😝 my addendum, then the Fiat Banksters😂🤣😝😜
Your rump Ukrapper dumpster "success" makes a joke of your nonsensical opinion. After rump Ukraine is finished good by Natostan, the evil EUSSR and the Pentacon occupation of Urupp. Winning indeed! As for "fucking up royally" what is more degrading than impoverished US tax cattle led by the beast of occupied Palestine and paying for its masters' genocide? LOL
It must be disappointing to be a loser on the world stage and a minion of that loser state. Trump asks for the Stars and gets the Moon as EU vassal states squirm and bow to the diktat of a blonde bitch in Brussels. When did you surrender your balls?
Yep. I still laugh at how those dumb Russkies screwed up in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.
More than US? Nobody can match Uncle Sam in fuckups. Period. Not to mention that the ruskies seem to actually have a competent government and diplomatic corps. Especially when compared to anything in the west.
Not really.
No, you are confusing the old US through 1981 with the new US beginning with Reagan, and rapidly accelerating in 2000.
By what metric do the Russians "fuck up royally on foreign affairs"? The evidence I know shows quite the opposite as the Russians are masters of diplomacy and are well-liked and respected in the real world.
No one liked them any more fervidly when they were infected with neo-liberal mind virus. But they were respected a whole lot less.
I like Sidney Sweeney quite a lot.
She has Great Genes!😝 Ohh Lala!
Yippie ki yea MF! With Maduro out the way, let the people sort things out! Rumble in the Jungle! Lead, follow or git out da’ way!
🙏
No one likes us even less? Put the bottle down Henter. Protect your liver and you brain as the cravks are showing 😜
Russia controlled the air defenses and hundreds of manpads very lethal against helicopters, plus other anti-aircraft missile systems. I believe Venezuela has a S-400. This is scene one act one of a five act play. You got Trump acting like a crazed, drunk bully, a tyrant, the most dangerous and crazy man around threatening to take Greenland by force so we can ravage their land to make Trump rich. And there is the "Free Maduro" movement that all third world leaders will understand the importance of. Mexico and Russia have some sort of "nuclear" energy(?) agreement? We are back to changing the name back to "The Gulf of Mexico." Look to the economic warfare going on, and I hear problems at JP Morgan and COMEX no one is talking about. Looks like too many American banks are short silver. And Is China dumping our debt? It is economic warfare, China and Russia versus the US all played out in the Commodity and debt markets, and war games in the Gulf of ?
Proper name: Gulf “of” the Americas. Mexico doesn’t own it and as the default defense of the Western Hemisphere, I doubt our friends in the East snd West Caribbean would care to be ruled by a Narco State with a Jewish Princess at the helm 🤣
Your thinking is about as deep as a pollywog puddle after a cloudburst. Vax damage possibly. V Putin has said he is open to a pact with US and if we can get past the bankster city of Londen wef soros rothschild nazi Jewish skullduggery, eliminate the coke head Z in Ukraine and stop the slaughter then a peaceful agreement between Russia and US will realign the world for 300 years of peace. Alberta and YT claim independence and a rail/highway across the Bering Strait will cause the murderous CCP to wither.
So many squawking shitbirds can’t imagine something as positively historic as that. They just sit in shit and bitch.
I think you’ve not dug deep enough to realize the truth yet but you’re on the way. I own real money, not so much fiat. My country has long been controlled by evil interests, many wear funny hats. I believe as the Ep-Stein debacle has revealed the depths of depravity that the monied and the is real ites are guilty of PLUS the City of London and its generational corruption will come to light. May a Million Amelias rise and inspire the citizens of Europe to claw back their sovereignty from the Kalergites and send them to a bloody grave post haste.
LOL, if American aggression were what it took, all of Latin America would have flipped decades ago.
As it is, Rodriguez and the rest of Latin America are scrambling to appease the Americans.
What will flip Latin America is American weakness, not aggression.
that's okay, we don't like you either
We have so many pots in the fire it will be difficult to pinpoint the exact cause of our collapse. I figure it will be a Japan financial meltdown and the contagion will quickly spread.
Consider owning “real” money and having a plan B.
“Real money” is a revanchist plot. Plan B is to always double down cuz Plan A never works out as imagined. Except, Grenada. We managed to tame that regional super power in about 8 hours. I want to hear nothing about the US military killing and wounding more US soldiers through accidents and friendly fire incidents than the Grenadians or Cubans managed.
Dang, my real money is on a tear. How about yours?
Simp you are on fire! Loving the daily updates
Always the synagogue of satan, I mean jews. I mean synagogue of satan.
Continually puzzled by the inability of the masses to pattern match. They’d drive down the same street every day though they get a tire puncture Monday’s, Wednesday’s and Friday’s.
Alternatively, do some people suspect and are simply too terrified to acknowledge the darkness of America?
What's to be gained with that acknowledgement?
The only way things will change is with a lot of guns.
I'm not buying a gun.
Maybe China will ship me one? /s
A lot of guns makes no difference. The qualitative and quantitative gap between the modern firepower of the state vs what ordinary citizens can obtain is overwhelming.
In 1791, the date of the 2nd amendment, difference in the firepower available to the government and what an organized citizen's militia could assemble was not that great. The only hope now is if the military massively turns against the government, yet history suggests that outcome is seldom for the better.
I agree — the disparity in firepower is overwhelming, particularly with documented Israeli tools (paramilitary materiel) being sent to local governments. Could a Gaza-like mowing down of civilians take place in the US? That I can see it in my mind’s eye horrifies me. Even worse, there will be none in government to lament the dead or prevent it from happening again. Kent State is only a memory for the old, like myself.
"Four dead in Ohio," as somebody once said.
But even he is now a firm and sold-out apologist for the state, demanding that all around him take safe and effective injections for non existent diseases.
As for mowing people down - first you dehumanize and demonize them, then the operation is seen as merely a hygienic culling of undesirables, or deplorables as someone else once said.
I dunno, should we also remember Jackson state?
The Ludlow Massacre?
The bonus army?
MacGregor was speculating in a recent podcast that Trump is getting out of Ukraine to bring troops back to the CONUS to combat the coming protests.
Maybe then all those MAGA chants of "Freedom" will finally be stifled and I'll never have to listen to that stupid Lee Greenwald song again.
"A lot of guns makes no difference."
Respectfully disagree. You just have to stop thinking about "guns" in the old fashioned sense of taking a willfully stupid and inefficient approach to arms.
What's happening in the 21st century is that technology is moving the pendulum away from overwhelming government dominance over individuals to individuals having remarkable power over government. You just have to stop thinking about limiting yourself to ineffective weapons.
You can see that in the drone revolution. Anybody with a $500 drone that can fly a half kilo of improvised high explosive (easy to cook up in your kitchen) can kill pretty much whoever they want. If the would-be assassin who nicked Trump's ear wasn't such a dope, he would have used a drone and not a rifle. That he came so close to success despite being such a dope shows that even old-fashioned, inefficient weapons in the hands of individuals can still change history.
One might argue about the harshness of such views, but the Founding Fathers who wrote the Second Amendment into the Bill of Rights were not pansies: they were hard core revolutionaries who saw violence as a righteous means of enforcing the personal liberty they damned well intended to protect. Shooting the King's men was the least of it.
You could argue individuals have no chance against a huge government by pointing to the massive protection the President gets that individuals do not, but despite massive government outlays on the security of its apparatchiks even today pretty much any functionary of the state (other than the President) is extremely vulnerable to individuals who decide they're not going to be prey anymore.
On the larger scale, anybody of average intelligence who can scrape together around $15,000 and who has the willpower to study for a year or two can build out a basic gene splicing lab in a space about the size of an average living room in the US. That gets you into the bio-weapon business, with reasonable odds of cobbling up recombinant viruses that can kill hundreds of thousands, and even, at the tail end of the probability bell curve, some significant chance of unleashing a disease that will kill millions.
I emphasize that in the above I'm not advocating terrorism. I'm just pointing out that the reason the Founding Fathers wrote the Second Amendment still stands, that an armed citizenry is still a protection against government abuse, and that the steady evolution of technology has put very formidable weapons in the hands of individuals. It just takes willpower.
You could argue that willpower is precisely what the sheeple in the US are lacking. But I respectfully disagree with that having gone so far that Americans can just be harvested like sheep.
If the government tries a Gaza-like moving down of civilians in the US they're going to run into a gun culture that besides having a couple of hundred million firearms in private hands has also preserved an orneriness that is unwilling to allow fat-assed DEA cretins come beat up on your wife and kids. I agree there is a fat-headed laziness problem in the US, but I also strongly believe there are plenty of Americans still willing to fight for their personal liberty, just like the Founding Fathers did back in the late 1700's.
The founding father's myth is laughable. It's for the opulent against the have not. Almost literally stated like this in their writings.
As long as thousands of people are unorganized running rampant with guns, every better police force will put them to surrender in no time.
No strategy, no tactic skills, just rage and no plan is a disaster even without pushing in the military.
As long as US idiots are willing to shoot other US idiots, this country is going to be doomed for sure.
The average US citizen gives a flying F and can't be bothered as long as his Pick up truck is fueled and his filthy hamburger is done, even for above 10$ a piece now. This country has been so infantilized, brainwashed, dumbed down and made staring at their own fat belly button - there is nothing to begin with morons who think that they're the shining city on the hill while rolling in their own garbage.
Thank you. Someone had to say it.
Just go onto a Cabelas and observe the folks trolling around the gun section. Overweight, diabetic, mouth breathers.
"The founding father's myth is laughable."
Nonsense. There's nothing laughable about the founding fathers. Guys like Paul Revere and Thomas Paine were ready to lay down their lives. Ben Franklin was dead serious when he remarked they'd all better hang together or they'd hang separately. Taking on the King's army was not remotely for the faint of heart. Go visit Lexington and Concord and read the details of what armed farmers did on those days against the world's most powerful army and you'll see it's no fucking Tik Tok myth. Those guys were the real deal, hard core revolutionaries.
As to whether the average US citizen gives a flying fuck about anything, if you focus on that you've missed the point of what I wrote. This isn't about averages and history changing revolutions rarely are. There were fewer than 25,000 Bolsheviks (and the majority of that number were sympathizers and not really hard core) in 1917 yet they took over the world's largest empire that had a population approaching 200 million people. Ain't no "average" in that.
The point is that given modern technology a small handful of people, even one guy (as almost happened when Trump's ear got nicked), can change history. In a country with over 350 million people there are more than enough people who can use arms.
So anybody who's patting himself on the back for not being an overweight, diabetic, mouth breather shopping for guns in Cabelas is also missing the point. It's not those guys, and I'm sure there are some just like there are plenty of overweight, diabetic liberals who can't keep their mouths off their roommate's bong, who can push back if the government really did try to start mowing people down like Israel does in Gaza.
And it doesn't have to get that extreme, like guys using drones packed with a few hundred grams of explosive to express their political dissent.
There are plenty of decent, honorable, law abiding Americans who are in better shape than most people reading this and who also have taken advantage of their Second Amendment right to bear arms to ensure they are ready to protect their liberty and that of their families and community just like those guys did at Lexington and Concord. You can mouth off all you want on Internet but I think it is profoundly stupid to fuck with American patriots in real life.
It could be I'm foolishly naive but I'm hoping there are still enough Americans out there with common sense who will speak out against the current administration's rush to world war. With any luck we'll make it to the midterms and then when the Republican party is routed in free and fair elections the pendulum may swing back to a more peaceful focus on domestic issues instead of starting a new war every week. The dems, of course, will focus on looting the state and brainless socialism, but at least that won't be a headlong rush into nuclear conflict.
Those "founding fathers" just wanted the power that previously the Brits had had, and as fully paid-up members of the Bar in most cases, they were enemies of actual American patriots, and treasonous to boot.
( Bar is the acronym "British Accreditation Registry," ie they use a British tool, aka statute law, to control and enslave the ordinary citizen, and continue to do so via the treasonous oath they swear to a foreign power, ( "The Crown," - which is not Charlie Boy in case you were wondering, or his family ) before they are unleashed to reap the financial rewards they are promised for doing so.
If you look at the actual legal definition for "Constitution," you will find it means "An oath sworn to freely pay somebody else's debts," ie the FFs wanted a Constitution not to protect their fellows, but to insulate themselves from responsibility to repay the debts they incurred to European jewish banks ( you know the names ) in pursuance of their wish to raise a republican army to expel the Brits and replace them with jewish financiers, as was the case with all the so called "revolutions" going on at that time, which just coincidentally, of course, had to do with the emergence of the Rothschilds / Bauers from Judenstrasse in Hamburg at the time.
Going back to the FFs, you have to wonder why such great American patriots allowed the Brits to remain in the US for eight years after they were supposedly defeated, and the only answer can be, so that they could take over the franchise, with the franchisees now speaking yanqui rather than the King's English.
I understand that Freemasonry too played a part.
I understand your point regarding drones, not so much when you speak of biological weapons.
One thing is to create a killing virus and another to develop one that would only kill Republicans or Democrats.
One based on genetic traits is already difficult enough.
"One thing is to create a killing virus and another to develop one that would only kill Republicans or Democrats."
The example I gave is not about killing Republicans or Democrats, it's about indiscriminate killing. The point is that technology exists to enable very small groups, individuals even, to cause extreme havoc. I gave that as a counter example to the completely false proposition that was posted, "A lot of guns makes no difference."
In point of fact "a lot of guns", whether you mean that literally as in a lot of conventional firearms or in the broader sense of widely available ability to kill, does make a difference, and there are plenty of precedents for anarchist / terrorist / anti-establishment movements who have utilized indiscriminate mass killing to achieve their ideological ends.
Whether it is a Japanese cult using home-brewed nerve gas to attempt to commit mass murder on Japanese subways or a 19th century anarchist group willing to bomb gatherings of peaceful people there are plenty of precedents. Somebody who was mad about an overbearing government could cause a lot of instability by unleashing deadly viruses.
Soldiers by very definition do what they are told without question.
In Roman times, the army was thought to be a wolf which the government could only keep at bay by holding it by the ears; but those days have long gone.
Really? Seems some dress wearing, AK47 toting Afghans fought yankees for 20 years and did not lose. How about the Houthi's? Trump cried uncle because 3 fighter jets were lost and an aircraft carrier was in imminent danger. And then there is Hamas vs. the IDF.
Their lives. Their own lives, those of their kids, their parents, their spouses and their friends.
Same with the Houthis (Ansar Allah). They had everything to lose for standing up for the Palestinians and nothing to gain but honor. The poorest damn country on earth was the only one to take action against genocide.
Is that what really happened? The Taliban simply waited in the background until after the US claimed that their locally trained government and military proxy were deemed capable of managing the fort.
There is a huge advantage playing on home turf, rather than 7000 miles away.
Riiiiggght. The Afghans just sat in their caves for 20 years and let the US Military have their way inside the country.
20 Years? I dunno.
Maybe ask the native Americans.
This has been an interesting debate with several perspectives that at first appear to be in opposition to each other but on further consideration may just be looking at details of events slightly differently.
Luigi?
James T. Hodgkinson?
Shall we recall Lolita Lebrón, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Andres Figueroa Cordero, and Irvin Flores Rodríguez?
Tim McVeigh? (is he really dead?)
January 6th
I want the world and I want it .... NOOOOOWWWW
https://genius.com/The-doors-when-the-musics-over-lyrics (probably a better link somewhere.)
"Cancel my subscription to the Resurrection"
I don't believe we hear lyrics like this now. Rock is dead and taken over by "something" that doesn't sound like music at all to me.
Well, I'm rambling on and on. My point, I guess, is 20 fuckin' years? And what will change then?
I find myself rooting for BRICS. Venezuela though gives me pause.
I'll be dead before this plays out. So will everyone commenting on it. Imagine being 50 in 1760. (or even 1770) What would motivate you?
Some faction of the "Anglo-American Oligarchy/Deep State/Jewish Mob" still remains in control.
Sure they give some nice speeches about "freedom" and for a bit things get better (or FDR gives them "money" which -- one more time: isn't "real") Then they hire propagandists to tell us how great things are and we look at our meager home and think -- "YEAH!"
You -all- are right. Every single one of you.
*except for DHDH* He's an idiot.
"Venezuela though gives me pause."
Well, I've never been fond of socialism. I live in Russia and even thirty five years after they threw the stinkin' commies out there are still plenty of scars of their foul socialist ideology all around here.
I didn't like Chavez and I thought Maduro was a buffoon. But I strongly believe in the right of Venezuelans to find their own way and to make their own mistakes.
Even thought I'm a die-hard market economy capitalist I don't hate the Venezuelans for nationalizing US businesses way back when. That's part of the deal if you're a genuine capitalist, you're supposed to think of the downside risks when you invest in a place like Venezuela. Suppose one day they wake up and decide not to be the US's vassals but decide to go their own way? Maybe you'd better hedge that risk.
That can be done as plenty of well-run capitalist businesses have managed to do within socialist and even Marxist countries. But don't ask the US to come in and kill people because you didn't think ahead.
So yeah, definitely I'm rooting for Venezuela. I think that's also rooting for the US because if you really believe in democracy and self-determination you believe in the right of other nations to take the paths they want and not just the path you want them to take.
It is not always for the better, but definitely it is sometimes for the better.
All gansters are gansters, while only some military leaders are.
Take your pick after an careful analysis of the circumstances.
If the German generals had taken power in the twenties, I suppose, that they would have been more cautious than the Austrian corporal.
most of pre-war Germany's military leaders came from Prussia, elite officers from a region that shared few (cultural) similarities with the rest of Germany. intersting story, easily found through the internet. sort-of explains why the SS were feared rather than appreciated.
Things will not change until people are ready to die.
You're right about. That's why things are changing, because people are ready to die.
I live in Russia and I know guys who have been fighting in Ukraine since 2014. They're volunteers. They went there to defend their kin, they were ready to die (and some of them have), and they won't give up until their people are safe. Every one of them that's not dead has been wounded, and when they heal they get up from the hospital bed and they go back into combat.
That's what it will take in Venezuela and Latin America for those people to be free from imperialist bullies. They need the same willingness to fight to the death for their liberty. Russians are willing to do that, the Vietnamese were willing, the Taliban were willing, Ansar Allah is willing, and that's what it will take for Mexico on south to get free and stay free.
I'm not saying that's enough to stay free of factionalism and civil wars within your society, but when you're talking about an external threat you've got to be ready to die to fight that threat off.
It's all done by their media control, which is in the hands of Black Rock, etc.
Keep telling the lies, and the more you do that, the less people will be able to even discern a different narrative.
So many want to believe that America is great, that you only need to tell them once that it is, and they will believe it, and that Trump is the Greatest President Ever.
Telling them he is a disgusting hypocritical scumbag doesn't fit easily with their preferred image of who they are.
Over on "gab," which is supposed to be a bastion of free speech and Christian values, 80% of respondents to a straw poll thought he was right to murder so called drug runners in their boats.
Evidence?
Who needs it.
Seems like the USA will take over the Western sphere while EU will have to fight it out with Russia and China over the Eastern sphere. Who knows about the middle east since most military assets are obsolete now.
EU nations have committed cultural sepulcher. They are riddled with stage 4 muzzie and african metastasizing disease. Better we, the USA, form an alliance with Russia that takes the world safely into the next century.
Alex Krainer, is that you?
😝Thank you for the compliment Mr Huizinga!
In his book "Homo Ludens" (1938), Johan Huizinga explains how people develop their cultural abilities. This model says that people do this through playing games. The game makes it possible to understand the outside world.
Surely you're joking, Mr. Huizinga!
"It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is. It doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong."
I was initially intrigued by AK — seemingly an independent thinker with some non-banal observations.
Then I became puzzled by the fact that his position on Djt was largely invariate throughout the entirety of 2025, despite the obvious chaos and evident corruption.
Then I took a closer look: what is it about his argumentation such that his end of year 2025 position on Trump is almost exactly the same as his beginning of the year 2025 position? Mine certainly isn’t.
The mechanism is this: Krainer constructs a series of distinct and intricate explanations for every administration crisis EACH OF WHICH BY ITSELF IS PLAUSIBLE. But he then proceeds to loop them into an overriding message: Djt wants to do something positive (world peace, reach an understanding with Putin, etc) but can’t because A,B or C (“because, because…the wonderful wizard of oz…because…)
Actually AK is one of the most accomplished and persistent at this kind of reasoning which ends up absolving Djt of any agency. And sometimes seems completely right about a micro detail here and there.
But he reminds me very much of a classmate who would argue (we used the case method in B-school) “if you think about it”….then proceeded to propose the most obvious data independent, counterintuitive explanation for something quite contrary to the rationally observable. The approach bears a family resemblance to “how many angels can dance on the head of a pin” and other Talmudic-style debates.
AK could be the visionary genius of our time…all I know is I’ve stopped listening to him as I expect, at some point, he is willing and capable of justifying selective use of nuclear weapons.
“Vita brevis, ars lunga”….there are too many thinkers (such as the writer of this substack) whose integrity is unshadowed for me to follow AK.
Simplicius-
Again, when are you going to do something about the Resident Alien infestation on this site?
What? Are you suggesting muzzling those who disagree with with the general opinions expressed on this site? How would that make us any better than the censors? Let people express their opinions, even if they are paid trolls or simply misinformed, or just nasty people.
Or even nice deluded people!
Gosh, that sounds a lot like me! 😉
Sorry buddy but most Germans are already cosing up to Russia much to the dismay of the US. Putin invited not only the only Opposition from Germany to Moscow but also German Citizens that want to move there. Hell German born Catherine the Great funded Odessa so it makes sense to get another re-unification going. On that note a number of Americans have already moved to Russia. You don't have to wonder why.
You listen wrong or from a point of incomplete information.
I am 110% for AFD. I want Germany to shake off the WEF and its minions and as you in Europe(if that’s home to you) are in the place that makes you front line to defend yourself from those among you who want to replace and/or destroy you. Kalergi Plan. Klaus and his slimy Uval Harari butt licker,
The EU unelected who rule you. Solzenitzen (sp) told you what needs to be done if you want to save your future for your children. Many true patriots who love their countries would die in doing so but you could save Europe.
Alas, like Solzenitzen wrote, you don’t love your freedom enough so you will cower in your homes as one by one, you are erased.
Say it isn’t so
Lee, with respect, did you intend to write Seppukku rather than Sepulchre ?
My Japanese is lacking. Although my wife is a lovely mixed japanese, Spanish Filipina, I try not to mention that gruesome ast of self destruction when she’s chopping chicken in the kitchen and I forget to take out the trash 😵💫😳😜
America + Russia? Unstoppable. Take a hike, China.
Never going to happen. American and Russian mindsets are poles apart.
Israel wants it real bad. Why is the question, they already own the west.
Unlikely. The non US Western hemisphere counts more than 600 million people who do not speak English and most of those hate the Yanks.
One cannot sit on bayonets.
This indecent, vulgar and thuggish way of Trump, as Prof. Sachs describes this recent bout of stupidity, is not conducive to anything good for the US.
The EU in conflict with Russia and China for the control of the rest of the world? I rather see the European in conflict with some North African governments for the control of European cities.
Oh man, the shit piled up so fast in Venezuela you needed wings to stay above it.
I didn't understand the end. But I heard that Maduro himself knew and that yeah, it was all arranged. But I also heard there was a silver heist - watch the ( AI ) video at the end https://anthonyjhall.substack.com/p/us-armed-forces-steal-847-tons-of?publication_id=1274843&post_id=183529845&isFreemail=true&r=dg5y1&triedRedirect=true
There is always the occasional uptick in conspiracy theories about silver floating around on alt media. This despite the obvious fact there is no change in availability, demand or supply. Neither is there a significant change in price. Yet the stories all flare up every once in a while usually in connection with some totally unrelated geopolitical event.
I remember years ago that a couple of oil rich brothers (the Pickets if I remember correctly) lost most of their billions trying to corner the entire silver market pursuing a then prevalent myth about silver floating around in what was called in financial circles "the pink sheets." A limited precursor to the current wild west part of the internet.
Most of theories revolve around a variation of ....silver is in everything significant, we are going to need a lot more of everything significant, there is only so much silver and importantly, someone(s) are making the situation worse in a noteworthy way. Silver doom is just around the corner. Some individuals are in the know and want to pass this information on for a variety of reasons, often unstated.
For me, at my age, like many things really.....been there, done that.
<<<<<<you have not seen anything like what has just happened in the silver market <<<<<
But my point is simply .....no cares except people who care specifically about silver.
But nobody gives a crap about silver. Nor do they care that some people playing the futures market and running shorts got their fingers burned. We do notice that you are surprised that the minute the biggies might get burned as well, they change the rules to make sure it doesn't happen.
Why should I care about silver prices impacting green b.s. when it's on the way out anyway? Why should I care about silver being used in chips when the whole economy based on chips is starting to unravel? Data centers ....what data centers? You mean the ones that need massive amounts of water and electricity which doesn't exist, couldn't for years and wouldn't anyway because people don't want to pay for it.
Jeez....you call us ignorant because we don't think the world revolves around this weeks silver fluctuations.
Ron - you are so far out.... it kind hints that MSM financial programming governs your understanding of the financial markets. First, it was the hunt brothers who cornered the silver markets.. and they were super successful. So what does comex do? they literally change the rules over night, to force long liquidation with crazy high margin requirements. Just like that... you don't get to game the gamekeepers, was what the hunt brothers found out.
As for what's been happening in the silver market... it;s been in a huge physical deficit for 5 years. yes... the physical vaults are literally being emptied out as silver is now used in many new critical applications. But most of the silver is already produced and used by China.... and both Samsung and Apple have developed a new battery which require much more silver for the anodes... but hey, they bought the paper contracts on COMEX.. but what happens when COMEX no longer has the silver to deliver, not just this cominng month, but for the years ahead? The whole house of cards come down.
5 years of huge physical deficits.... that's what brought silver to here... but here, more than doubling in less than a year doesn't tell you something is going on.....
You are correct. It was the Hunt brothers not the Picketts. As I recall from the time, they were spectacularly successful at first and then they were equally spectacularly unsuccessful. In fact, their failure ended up causing a fifty percent drop in the price of silver in one day. They took a lot of people with them including many who had no connection to the scheme or were even aware of it.
The rule change you refer to was simply requiring the Hunt brothers to show some money behind their claim of owning a silver contract. They were buying up billions of dollars worth of contracts simply on the basis that they could pay for it if asked. When they and everybody else were required to put a substantial amount of money into paying for a contract before saying you owned it, the market collapsed.
Mexico and Peru are the main producers of silver. It is freely available on the market and they have plenty of it. However, it is like with oil. When the price is high it is all doom and we are going to run out entirely next year. When the price drops down to low levels, all of a sudden we have enough for centuries.
China is the main processor of silver because they can do it at scale cheaper than most people just like almost all manufactured goods. People who were holding silver as a store of wealth for the last decade have seen the market price double from the extreme low and are making up deficit you refer to by selling into that demand.
L.O.L. This is the first time I ever heard the Hunt brothers presented as humanitarians simply on a mission to point out the folly of then existing silver market.
At any rate, there are two issues about the silver market in this thread. Silver as a tradeable commodity. Silver as a significant factor in geopolitics.
I do not believe for an instant that decisions to invade Venezuela complete with credible threats to do the same to Mexico, Colombia, Cuba, Greenland, or hit Putin's residence with missiles .....is impacted in the slightest by gyrations in the silver market. That is what I am talking about. I mentioned the Hunt brothers (clearly misnamed by error as I was operating from memory of the era since I dismissed them then and now) to demonstrate why the people who make such geo political decisions know little and care less about what things like the Shanghai market rule changes might mean.
As a subject of interest for investment which is what everybody is starting to get into here, it is beyond me. I can't deal with something where the conspiracy theorists might even be right.
Trump wants Greenland because getting it would be a Presidential History bright object. Not because there may or may not be just the right mix of rare earth concentrations suitable for the American defense industry, to make their extraction worth while. Or silver or cotton fields or anything. It's because it would demonstrably make make America great(er) again, just like the old days when America just did sh*t or so it seems to him.
Ron iirc it was the Bunker-Hunt bros that tried to corner the Silver market.
True that
Wasn’t it the Hunts who tried to corner the silver market. Be a little circumspect before dismissing silver. Silver is solidly in the lead as the best conductor of electricity so may be particularly valuable to those manufacturing planes, missiles, drones, DATA CENTERS….
Sigh.....they will just pay extra for the small amount of silver used in their operations not that they use it but the gear they buy will contain some. If it gets too expensive they will simply use a slightly inferior product.
Silver is far and away the best product around because it is the best in half a dozen different ways. So yes, it is the best conductor but not the best conductor by far. It is just that any alternative to silver as the best conductor is not also the best reflector which of course is of little interest to most data center operations.
Not to mention that the cost of the silver in building things like a hypersonic maneuverable multi warhead intercontinental missile is the very least of your concerns.
Sometimes good enough is actually good enough. If you have plenty of silver lying around because because you don't care how much it costs, that's great . If not, use something else and take a fraction of a percent loss of performance. In modern times fortunes may be made or lost with silver. But no one will start a war over silver.
The Hunt Brothers.
"Pink sheets" refers to something entirely different, namely over the counter trading in securities not listed on an exchange.
The Pink Sheets eco system is where todays equivalent of you tube financial markets influencers hung out. Clearly the Hunts would *not* have been doing silver stuff on the Pink Sheets. It wasn't set up for that. Selling shares in a vehicle to corner the silver market would have been possible but not the purchase of silver contracts themselves. Or at least not as I understand how it worked.
Conspiracy theorists had a field day in those circles. If you wanted to catch up on the latest sure thing flowing from some otherwise unknown factors just ask anybody playing there. And I'm not saying that there weren't real companies presenting genuine opportunities in the Pink Sheets.
"I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right."
-Frederick the Great
DoJ, very understandably, erroneously identified Maduro as "ringleader of the ‘Cartel of the Suns'" when, in fact, Maduro was ringleader of the ‘Cartel of the Moons' :-)
Considering the US Senate was based on the legislative body of an empire which named the Mediterranean Sea 'mare nostrum', nothing is out of character. After all, we even already have a Gulf of America. DJT is a modern Tiberius.
A modern Tiberius is what he would probably want to be. I see little chance of it. Some late Emperor at the end of the
third century is more probable.
Tiberius was paranoid, and a pedophile, so there is that. He also lived to be elderly, few emperors did.
Venezuela is mobilizing the military. What military, the traitors that stand down when attacked. No ones cares.
It might be a little early to accuse the military. This all smells like theatre to me. A deal was made. We just don't know yet who made it, or why. Maduro seems awfully relaxed and friendly with his captors. His wife was take with him. Delcy Rodriquez has always been a committed revolutionary. Perhaps all this was arranged by a deal between Trump and Maduro in which Trump could save face and walk away from the Venezuela trap he walked into, Maduro could save his country from devastation of US air assaults and Rodriquez could hold together the country and continue to resist the US. Whatever the real situation, it is, imo, all theatre at this point - we just don't know enough yet.
We also know 'royal' Putinz has not broadcast anything since the attempts on his head (bounty disclosure?) over a week now. No rebuttals, moral speeches, must be too busy killing ethnic Russians, ah yes because all objections of the missions must be met, forth to 100 years and going.
So if Moscow becomes a radioactive crater on the 29th of December 2026 due to a NATO nuclear attack, Russia will wait for the 7th of January 2027 to retaliate because it wouldn't want to ruin the Christmas holidays that only it and Serbia celebrate and the rest of the world knows nothing about?
Meanwhile today we had a GRAU ammo depot blown up by NATO in Kostroma (!!!; look at the map for where that is), which in Soviet times would have meant the immediate erasure from the map of all of Western Europe and all US bases in Eurasia, but it doesn't even register these days as an event, so much has Russian security been destroyed by the wise leadership of the 5D chess grandmaster.
You may be right. Trump had at least one conversation with Maduro. Colonel MacGregor said Trump would offer Maduro the money it would cost to take him out if he would step down, and Maduro could retire in wealth and luxury anywhere outside the country. But this deal couldn't be made, because Maduro would be regarded as an abject traitor throughout Latin America. So that seemed a dead end. But lo and behold, where there's a will, there's a way. Maduro gets the deal, and hero status as a martyr. Everyone's happy
Precisely. And Trump saves face by capturing the most evil drug lord on the planet - and it buys him time to reassess what to do with Venezuela.
Based on evidence that seems the most likely scenario. Ofc we all know anything can happen regardless of agreements. Word is the Interior minister has returned from Cuba so let's see how this plays out. TBH I doubt the US will get too much out of Venezuela with their virtual warfare. We only have to remember what happened when Chavez was kidnapped all those years ago.
He looks relaxed but the wife’s face is covered in bruises.
interesting take on Morgan's SS: "...The staged Maduro capture fits the same production style as the rest of these spectacles. Nothing about it is subtle. The hero role was assigned instantly, the villain label slapped on just as fast, and Trump's press conference plays like a cartoon version of statecraft. It’s the same template they use whenever they need the public to accept something unhinged as normal..." - https://substack.com/home/post/p-183386178
That is the point. We don't know many things.
Will the Venezuelan authorities cooperate with US oil companies? If they do cooperate, it is treason and bribery or a logical desire to avoid the destruction of the country? We don't know.
If they do, will chavismo develop a militant branch following the model of the FARC? We don't know.
How successful woukd be their sabotage actions against US interests in Venezuela? We don't know.
How would China respond? We don't know.
The only thing that we do know is that the US government has violated all rules of International Law, including treaties signed and ratified by the US, and also the provisions of the US Constitution.
It has also violated the rules of any religion and non religious rules of rational morality, incurring in an arbitrary killing spree in and around Venezuela.
Here is an even added possibilty which might explain technically why the military did not respond - they couldn't:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHn_hyW1ksM
According to this video, the US very effectively used various levels of Electronic Warfare to completely smother Venezuelan military efforts opening a safe path to Maduro's home in a well coordinated attack and preventing a response. So there might well be no military traitors or any deal made.
I don't know if the video is true, but it has the ring to my mind.
It might well have been simply a well played kidnapping.
It is a wild rollercoaster ride but we already know the end results: The Venezuelan population and the US taxpayers will be thrown under the wheels at the top.
I think it too early to make that assessment re: the Venezuelan people (US taxpayers have already been thrown under the bus).
it won't be the Venezuelans who'll get the control over the oil back.
I've seen no evidence that that Venezuela has ever lost control of the oil. Have you? All we hear is Trump's blathering over it.
The (formerly) Hess refinery on St Croix was being remodeled as much as 2 years ago. This refinery can "crack asphalt". It is one of the 10 largest in the world. It has a "man camp" to house all the employees.
"They" knew this was coming.
Berletic's "continuity of agenda" reigns.
I'd be happy to have anyone with better investigative skills than myself look into this.
HESS was GW Bush company. Still is? The Bushes, especially Jeff Bush, seemed to hate Trump... Something is missing
"Hess". How appropriate...
Looks to me like it was closed in 2022...
Port Hamilton Refining and Transportation LLLP (PHRT) won the bankruptcy auction with a bid of $62 million in June 2022.[14][15] The new owner says it will reopen it when it is safe to do so.[12] PHRT sued the EPA regarding which permits will be needed to reopen.[16]
For two weeks in August, 2022, a fired burned in the petroleum coke conveyor loading system, prompting an EPA inspection. The company agreed to sell off and remove from the site ammonia, liquefied petroleum gas, and an amine solution, which presented safety hazards...
Chip
So now they learned Irak lesson “do not send to unemployment the former Junta, use them as your puppets and maintain them occupied” and put aside nation building, now go for the complete grab.
The Orange thug has turned most sane people firmly against the US. To think that the US uses other peoples' money to wage wars of conquest is abhorrent. My personal committment is BDS = Boycott, Divest, Sanction as far as possible. No more new US products and wean off US AI products...
Woke globalist communists, LGBQT++ deviant crowd and useful idiots definitely hate Trump. And no, they are not sane people.
Your infantile comment is not worth a sane, wise response.
The phrasing in your comment wasn't much better. Only insane people could agree with what Trump has done in Venezuela. Only deviants could oppose it. Seem pretty similar to me.
You seem to have missed the point. Ironically, you'll find a lot of US nuts agreeing with the Orange Thug. Ken was trying to equate people who find the Orange Thug abhorrent with sexual deviants, useful idiots and insane people. Pure projection.
LGBQT, whatever that is, and communists don't like a shit pizza for dinner. I suppose that you are about to order one this evening, to show how sane you are.
Based on what we know so far, in my opinion Trump made an arrangement with Delcy Rodriguez, as I wrote soon after Trump's press conference in the 2nd update of my article on US attack on Venezuela: https://geopolitiq.substack.com/p/the-outlaw-us-empire-attacks-venezuela?r=25fc37
Also, it is worth mentioning that Venezuela's gold in the Bank of England may have a played a role in this affair too: https://geopolitiq.substack.com/p/venezuelas-gold-neocons-remain-the?r=25fc37
You might well be correct, but I think it too early to assess as it could also well be that Trump made an arrangement with Maduro himself who then made an arrangement with Rodriquez and the military - all to prevent severe damage to Venezuela and to save face for Trump when he realised he had stepped into serious shit with Venezuela.
Time will tell.
That's also another possibility, given Maduro's photos appearing online, assuming they are not AI-generated.
They don't appear to be, but you are right - that is a possibility.
Maduro made the offer to Trump a month or two back. It's in the record. Perhaps it wasn't rejected, perhaps it was, but it was made and it came to be (this far at least).
Yes, I am aware of that. Just why spend all this US taxpayers' money for such a theatrical abduction? Sure, it serves as a show of force for lesser countries, though I am pretty sure that others (e.g. Russia and China) were not impressed.
neither are the Europeans, so far reacting very carefully.
They know they could be next, if need be, though Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni expressed support yo Trump’s move.
It's all about Trump's ego. He needs to win. And violence is the US preference.
It could be.
Money means nothing to the US. It was certainly meant as a message to all in the Western hemisphere.
All what money? Personnel are paid anyway. Fuel and maintenance amount to no more than a training mission. I don't see much additional costs.
If you are happy with US government spending a HUGE amount of money on "defense" (read: "war on other countries thousands of miles away which never bothered the US") and only a tiny fraction on national health service, while asking you to pay private health insurance... well, fine by me!
A possibility.
I mean the arrangements between Maduro and Rodriguez to avoid destruction of Venezuela, not about AI generated photos
The Gold that UK has taken hostages as the US has with Germanys gold?
Interesting.
Your comment : The Gold that UK has taken hostages as the US has with Germanys gold? is spot on. Nobody knows if the German Gold is actually still physically there in Fort Knox. German Gov. Representatives were not allowed to see it. Perhaps it's mostly only on paper now and The City of London may be a similar picture. Perfect Heist.
The docility of Germans regarding their masters is
unique.
Not "THE Germans"! It's the leadership group that has been groomed for decades through programs like "Young Global Leader" or the so-called "Atlantic Bridge," funded by NGOs and foundations (Soroz, Rockefeller, Gates...) and fueled by the mainstream media. They are, of course, now indebted to the "Lord."
Maduro was willing to concede just about everything to the U.S. However, he did require his personal safety and continued presence as President. This was a sticking point for the U.S. Those around Maduro concluded ..... we are going to give the Americans everything they want then why get ready to fight an overwhelming military force just to preserve him. What do we need him for? Best to concede him first as well and we live to fight another day. The U.S. even promised to let us live if we cooperate.
The gold the U.K. seized is worth about eight billion dollars. Very small potatoes considering everything going on. It is enough for some individuals to fantasize about getting their hands on it but the U.K. has it and won't be releasing it any time soon.