Actions tell a different agenda of doctrine. Words are meaningless when it comes from the Great Empire of deceit and lies. The world (China and Russia) would be fools again.
China is not making that mistake. I'd say that China figured out in 1979 that war with Vietnam was a "loser" and that it should concentrate on taking advantage of the greed of the American Oligarchy which moved manufacturing to China.
The Chinese know that "Money is not Real". I'd suggest that the Russians have also learned that lesson when the US sanctions failed to destroy the Russian economy. What good are those pieces of paper?
Putin's admission about being naive about the West is "Old News". He figured it out in 2007 at the Munich Security Conference where John McCain and Lindsey Graham heckled him from the front row. In 2021 when he proposed separate treaties for the US and NATO to establish a new security arrangement he was turning his back on the West.
The facts you present in your article are correct, but the spin you put on it to make Putin sound like he's been "had" over and over again is wrong.
For example:
"In the Valdai Conference in Sochi of 2025, Putin stressed, a little surprisingly, that good relations with the US are his main and the Russian state’s foremost consideration in foreign affairs."
Why would this not be true? What is to be gained by cursing Trump? How do the negotiations with Witkoff and Kushner matter?
Russia was never going to accept freezing the war, that was made clear over and over again. Trump thought wrongly that Witkoff had set up "the deal". Putin politely told him "no". Trump left in a huff. Putin remains calm and in charge. Lavrov is the middle man. Medvedev is the prankster. They remain a united team working like a well-oiled machine -- keeping Trump guessing.
Russia is in no hurry to "win" the war. Russia is holding fast to the objectives it outlined when the SMO began. Denazification (and regimen change) is happening. Demilitarization is happening. NATO is disintegrating, thus retreating to its boarders before German Unification. There are even suggestions that Germany may undo that unification. The safety of ethnic Russians living in Ukraine is happening.
Yes, Russia had a minor setback in Syria, but one might look at this like "Charlie Wilson's war". Israel is playing the role of Russia in Afghanistan. Israeli society is ripping itself apart.
BRICS is coalessing. China is pressing on with the BRI. Both Russia and China are supporting Iran and Venezuela. China's construction of the Chancay port in Peru has opened (is opening) trade routes between South America and Asia almost making Trump's new NSS a joke.
Ritter (and others) completely dismiss Gilbert's claim that the Russians are becoming impatient. As Orlov reports Putin has an 80% approval rating.
What's the US threat now? Without China's Rare Earth Elements, its construction of weapons systems is seriously compromised.
Putin is doing wonderfully. He has plenty of time. The US empire is in decline. Russia and China can just sit back and let it happen.
Thanks for your comment, I generally agree with you, though I would perhaps be more nuanced. As for Putin and the others, indeed, you are right in your analysis; I wrote the piece on purpose in a way to highlight the potential and existing flaws and misunderstandings in his decisions. So yes the piece is a bit exagerated, but these points cannot be dismissed entirely.
Despite the 2007 Putin speech, the passivitiy of Russia and Putin himself during Maidan 2013-14 was astounding to watch, though they did react with the absorbtion of Crimea.
But again, they might have avoided this war, had they better managed Germany, France and Ukraine during those 7 years between 2015 and 2022. Putin even admitted that the entry into the Donbass conflict by Russia should have happened earlier. Would 150,000 Russians not have died in battle? Speculation, but never forget these victims... So this question must be posed.
Yeltsin had a mandate to integrate with the West. That was taken away in 2000 when he was told to leave by the security state. A large bloc of whom were Primakov's guys whose views live on in Karaganov (he has given some Western interviews). Losing the 1st Chechen war, the pillaging by the wall street vampires like Browder, and the bombing of Serbia was the last straw for Yeltsin. Putin was brought in and given a mandate to restore detterence. This started in 2000 and you can see the results of it today. Putin even talked about being shocked at the US's involvement in the first chechen war when the US and Russia were supposedly friendly during the Yeltsin years. So he certainly knows how duplicitous the USA can be. I would also point out I belive Putin was given a second mandate in 2014. To create an economic system independent from Western influence. The Russian economy is pointed Eastward now and I don't see it ever coming back. I think people confuse Putin's diplomacy as soft or naive towards the West but I think that is overstated. I would say he is just trying to manage difficult relationships as effectively as possible but none of this changes Putin's mandates.
Yes, I agree with you, although "mandate" is perhaps too strong a word, but regardless, what you are writing is well known. I've listened to Karganov, and I am not too impressed ; a little too much Cold War thinking and too little subtelty. His age perhaps.
It's not necessarily the US but the CIA which has been a clandestine organization from the gitgo...the people in it need to be fired and put on the "do not rehire" list for any government agency...the problem being that they then go to work for civilian agencies who advise government. People who are not intimately watching what has been going on in the US for multiple decades may be unaware of the fact that the actual real Deep State sees the President and any directions proposed as something to not bother following. They want the President to be just a figurehead...which is why the continued coup during Trump 1.0 and now again in Trump 2.0. The head of the Executive Branch became someone to get into line with what the Deep State entrenched bureaucrats desired. Anyone who has worked with Civil Service knows the attitude: "Long after you are gone, I will still be here."....The government is too big to be managed properly when it is staffed with people who do not understand that there is a chain of command and the limits of their own authority and from whence that authority was DELEGATED to them.
A lot of Ritter would help you understand the conflicting goals that Russia and Putin faced.
Russia was not ready to take on Ukraine in 2014. Even until 2022, through the Minsk agreements, Russia wanted Ukraine to remain a "Nation". They just wanted equality for the ethnic Russians in Donbas.
I forget where I heard it (probably Ritter), the Donbas population explained to the Russians around the middle of 2021, "You are going to leave and when you do, they will kill us." That was when Russia realized they were going to have to be more "positive action" and when the SMO was planned.
Yes, maybe Russia could have entered into the Donbas earlier, but it is what it is. They did it when they knew it was "right".
Then there are the diverse narratives that say Russia wanted to conquer Kiev vs Russia just wanted to get negotiations going.
I agree Russia was not AS ready in 2014, but neither Ritter (whom I do listen to of coruse), nor the two of us for that matter, know exactly to what extent Russia could have been ready. Ready for what? You see, I am not even talking specifically about a military invasion; there are many other means of coercing, pressuring, making one's voice heard (and maybe some were indeed used, but we are unaware).
Kremlin stoically accepted to be accused by Western politicians and public opinion more widely for MH17 downing, Skripal murders, Navalny poisonings, without much of a peep. This was a mistake also, as I write in my piece, in the sense that it contributed to the West poor image of Russia and its misunderstanding of Russia's willingness to draw a line in the sand at some point (namely, 22nd Feb 2024).
FWIW: no one would have believed anything Russia had to say about MH17 or Skripal or Navalny. IMHO saying nothing was much more effective because it allowed independent examination of the events without having to defend anything Russia had to say.
- The loss of Syria to ISIS was an enormous loss for Russia, and probably one of the compelling motivations for the West in provoking the Ukrainian conflict in the first place. It has enormously increased pressure on Iran, and raised the possibility of regime-change in that country. Iran is the southern anchor of the Caspian Sea, critically important to Russia. It opened the land route to instigating all kinds of turmoil on Russia's soft underbelly in the Caucusus region and the Central Asian states.
- Russia in fact has a strong sense of urgency in concluding the SMO in Ukraine. The U.S. hasn't seen a conflict of that size since WWII - and then it only entered when the outcome was certain. Russia has 700k soldiers on the line, compared to an entire force strength of the U.S.'s standing army of 450k. Russia has hundreds of thousands more in the Regular Army providing support. The cost of Vietnam nearly destroyed LBJ's "Great Society" initiatives, and the U.S. peaked at only 550k troops there from all branches. It's left Russia unable to defend its interests on its southern border - see the turmoil in Azerbijian, Armenia, Kazakhstan, and the growing efforts to carve off Uzbekistan etc.
- The rare earth shortage for the U.S. will be resolved quickly. It's not critical at this point, and the first step to fixing a problem is acknowledging it.
- BRICS isn't so much coalescing as having its fault lines exposed, which is still useful but not the same as becoming empowered.
Well, I see we view things through very different prisms.
You might want to look into Krainer's narrative about how the vote in the "Republic of Serbia" (which isn't Serbia) to declare independence from Bosnia was going to open a second front against Russia. The vote has been delayed for a year so maybe not.
Yes, I have to agree with JohnonKaui, I also can't really see your points. Also, the loss of Syria to ISIS took place end of 2024, while SMO started Feb 2022, so I don't get your point...
There's no way to know with certainty. But Russia has an important naval base in Syria, and wasn't able to do much to defend it when the internal struggle began inside Syria. If Russia wasn't tied down (economically, politically, and on the ground) in Ukraine it's highly likely they could have prevented the fall of al-Assad's government.
Hmm, the bases will stay in fact; and I think the Russians saw that from the start; that they had a chance to keep them.
And secondly, these bases are perhaps not as important as we all think (a relic of Soviet times when USSR involvement in M-E was significant for a time),
Third, with the collapse of the Syrian army through $ buy-off of many generals, I don't think the Russians could have done much to prevent the fall of the Al Assad gov, and this also, I think, was recognized early by the Kremlin.
That's why I don't consider the Syrian episode as a mistake by Russia and, thus, I didn't mention it in my article.
Russian interests in Syria and the Middle East are extremely complicated. There are thousands of Russian Jews in Israel with dual citizenship. (Another detail that makes talking about Israel so difficult). Putin can't just abandon these Russians. On the other hand, there are voices that suggest any Russian Jew in Israel is a traitor to Mother Russia and even suffer the death penalty. I take no side on that issue. I only bring it up to illuminate how complicated Israel is.
Now, if I understand Ritter correctly and the Brooklyn Jew situation where synagogues hold real estate rallies that ship Brooklyn Jews to the West Bank where they steal the homes of the Palestinians, well, I'm inclined to consider those "Americans" traitors who should be executed. But this is obviously a situation that would have to be more thoroughly investigated.
All I want is for Israel to just "go away". Whether or not the Jewish Supremacists who have inflicted so much pain on the Palestinians should be punished, I'll leave that up to others for the moment.
I think it rather strange that the posts here have never mentioned AIPAC or ADL. Even those who insist that Israel controls US foreign policy don't talk about it.
"The rare earth shortage for the U.S. will be resolved quickly. It's not critical at this point, and the first step to fixing a problem is acknowledging it."
Do you have any idea how long it will take to replace the RRE supply line? Apparently not. Most sources say 10 years minimum. Some say less, some say more. There are dozens of rare earths. There are dozens of dozens applications for those rare earths.
Then there's the question of whether or not "America" will consent to go to war.
People who just "shine on" the RRE problem make me wonder if they're in touch with reality. So ELI5. How is the US going to resolve this problem quickly? What is your definition of "quickly"? Next week? month? year? decade?
Walmsley has been reporting on this RRE problem for about 5 years at least. Yet NOTHING has been changed. Even now the "fixes" are so weak as to be risible. (Simplicius made me say that. I would have said "Fucking Stupid".) Show us something. I've been looking and I can't find it.
Russia sees weakness, not peace. Moscow reads "Flexible Realism" and hears: "We can't beat you, so we'll pretend to respect you while arming your neighbors." The document calls for "strategic stability" but demands Europe rearm and Ukraine survive as a "viable state" (i.e., NATO-aligned). Putin knows America is overcommitted; he'll wait out the Trump presidency, probe for cracks, and exploit the contradictions. The "expeditious cessation of hostilities" means frozen conflict, not resolution, exactly what Russia wants: time to rearm and digest Donbas. The document's public release removes any leverage; Russia sees the plan and can counter it.
"Upon reading the entire National Security Strategy, it is clear there is no fundamental change. The very first sentence of the introduction is a declaration of continued pursuit of global primacy. The paper lays out plans of continued war and preparations for war against all of America’s “adversaries” both directly, and through “burden sharing,” by proxy." ~ Brian Berletic (a lot more. Suggest go to his X account to read it or watch the video. Brian is always Spot-on!! 🔥)
As America has become consumed by zionism, it has taken on the zionist character over time - full of lies, deceptions, obfuscations, agreement incapable. Its NSS is just another of these. Trump, whatever he does, is just another president of a country that is ruled by forces far above the president's pay grade. What is stated as intent today is shown after this president to be just another bump in the road towards its true goals.
You seem to be confused. "100,000 million" is many times more than the entire population of the Earth. In fact, it's many times more than the total number of human beings who have ever lived.
Yes. And the best estimates are that the US portion of the "Americas" had between 3 and 8 million indigenous at the time of first contact, not this "100 million" nonsense. The left always exaggerates, and they lose credibility. And they didn't "slaughter" them all.
Does not change the fact that the entire continent was wiped off though... Americans do not realize that others remember this fact and do not want them anywhere close to their borders based on the history
This is untrue. Source: I studied the history and settling of the America West academically. The entire population at the higher estimate of the Americas, meaning South America as well, which had most of the population was perhaps 100M. Though it could also have been a handful of millions. Academics split the difference and call it about 50M. The pre-USA itself was certainly a few million at absolute most. Central America was the populated region.
It is certainly true that American Indians were ethnically cleansed and murdered many times in the American West, but saying that a 100M were slaughtered and then connecting that the Hitler (Rather than Churchill, and the British Empire for instance who actually invented the concentration camps, or the Spanish empire that destroyed the Central America Indigenous Empires) is incorrect. Its a lazy slur on Americans. Most Indigenous deaths came from disease, and accellerating collapse, which was completely inevitable from the minute contact was made between groups of people separated my millennia.
European diseases did more slaughter than European guns. Smallpox was introduced to the Americas by a man who came ashore with Cortez. The next three hundred years comprised a succession of plagues among the indigenous peoples that destroyed their force and the voices that might have carried weight in the settlement of both continents. Not that the European (especially pre-settlement phase) invaders weren't hideously and routinely awful in their behaviors toward the peoples they encountered, but the most grotesque of their excesses were abetted by the dark tide of overwhelming disease in a population with zero immunological defense.
What happened in the New World was mainly an ecological catastrophe caused by invasive species of microorganisms, not human beings, who merely served as the (unconscious) vector.
Brian thinks that America controls Israel, and not the obviously true opposite of that proposition. He's a jarhead, they get indoctrinated hard. You couldn't get him to think outside of his own operant conditioning. To him, its evil to suggest that Israel is powerful beyond his understanding, and that there is a power greater than the US "government".
Great with numbers and his defense sourcing, but he knows dick about history of the world. His head is bone white and he lives in Thailand, so he never leaves the house, obviously. I'm trying not to be disrespectful but he's such a stick in the mud about Israel that it raises serious questions. A major flaw in his world view and analysis.
Trump isn't working to end that. That's delusional nonsense. Berletic isnt anti-American, he is anti-American imperialism and against endless foreign wars. Like MAGA used to be, until Trump got elected and began to disregard his campaign promises.
The Krainer Hypothesis, which is the hottest geopol theory right now, says that Trump isworking towards ending US Imperialism. There is much evidence for that. Thinking that nobody will be the hegemon is naive. America is just doing what any rational country in its position post WW2 would do, which is to prolong its power. I could agree that Trump is beholden to power, but that is the subverted American oligarchic system, in which wealth is used to usurp the constitutional power meant for the people.
not "US Imperialism," UK/US "special relationship" imperialism / hegemony: the idea that the US and UK have the right to rule, to take resources from other countries by violence, etc.
"That's our oil so get off it." substitute "rare earths" if you wish.
once again... nobody seems to be able to comprehend that the British Fucking Empire still exists in the form of the Commonwealth.
And it is not about "imperialism" so much as "hegemony" ..... the US has some fairly worthless protectorates (location is everything) but the brits still claim a piece of Argentina, and the Rock of Gibraltar. Some cocky mofos, those limeys
Perfidious Albion is resurgent. They recently injected the Head of the Bank of England as Viceroy of Canada, having first tired of the tribulations of running two fake parties pretending not to be a Uniparty. But the campaign to return the 'Rebelled Colonies' (AKA the USA) to the fold of the crown requires some streamlining.
Mark Carney has been sent to help destabilize the USA through a regime change op. Canada is being sacrificed to that end. A failed state, and the concomitant disorder, on its northern border will help bring down the USA. So say MI6 and the Palace.
That's one way to critque them, for sure. But also, that's how Great Game politics are played. Look at the Molotov Ribbentrop Paxt, for example, or even Trump's recent sneak attacks/betrayals of Iran and Qatar.
that is a crock... Plymouth rock far preceded the Revolution.
Afterwards, america was attacked AGAIN by the brits...so if you are counting that in your timeline... FoS again.
America expanded across the continent and it BOUGHT large chunks of territory on its way. If the Spanish Empire felt itself put upon... well, tough shit Spain... go back to europe. ;o )
the US bought half of the lower 48 and took the rest fair and square: by robbing the people who robbed it first
Manifest Destiny, ain't exactly like sailing halfway across the planet to rob india and indonesia and take australia and new zealand. THAT is an empire
Maybe a pedantic point here. America (USA) didn't even exist until about 150 years after Plymouth Rock. If anything, Plymouth Rock was an outpost of the British Empire then. I see continuity of agenda since then like you do though, no matter what label we put on it.
And there exists a school of thought that the "Pilgrims" and the "Puritans" were almost fully judaized English protestants. And the modern "Christian Zionists" are just a continuation of that same thing, as is the "Prosperity Gospel".
From 1776 to 1846, how was the move westward not imperialism?
How is the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 not a declaration of "overseas imperialism"?
I know you haven't watched Good's videos on Empire and the Deep State because his theme is that the USA was founded by imperialists and men of absolute greed. He presents a counter-narrative to the socialization that we all suffered beginning in grade school. It is why so many still defend "Capitalism" even as it is destroying the nation they claim to love.
I count in that term all the families that made their fortunes dealing drugs in the triangle trade... such as the Bushes..... and all the people that FDR said "should have gone to Canada after the revolution," but didn't.
many of the 400 families for instance... Carnegies, Morgans, and above all the fucking Rockefellers who have all had one objective since John D.
These people see the grand tour of europe as their duty, they are of course welcomed in all the royal houses of europe but particularly england.
It's amazing how much time Brian devotes to letting Israel off the hook. He has not spoken out about attempts to clip the wings of The First Ammendment, or the absurd make up of Congress, with its "minders" and 50+ standing ovations.
Either he's oblivious to this chicanery, or he's up to no good.
I've followed him from his Tony Cartoluchi days. Before he even posted under his own name. I still watch quite a lot of his videos, even though they are all largely identical. I did watch the last one a couple of days ago, when he did his Zio deflection routine. Yet again!
Two days ago he was claiming Hamas are on the same side as Israel. I wonder if the fighters in the tunnels and Israeli torture centres are aware of this?
You are a very unique guy. I wonder why you hate Berletic so much. You call yourself a "self-hating Jew". Anyway, most here don't know your extremely colorful history of gonzo-style activism, so I will post one link so others can be informed of your background of activism and political ambitions...
"A homeless taxi driver who unsuccessfully ran to unseat San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom this month has been charged with a misdemeanor for allegedly playing guitar naked while atop his purple van outside the San Mateo Expo Center two weeks before the election."
There is zero chance that Brian has not examined how many America oligarchs are Jewish and or Zionists, unless he is morally afraid to do so due to his America military indoctrination. Its possible that he views even the act of reseacrhing Jewish power as "anti-semitic" and just won't do it. But anybody with internet can figure it out in a few hours by cross referencing Forbes with wikipedia, and then just looking at the ethnic background of anybody in power or prestige (or notoriety like the Sackler family, Sassoons, Resnicks, Kagans Rothschilds, Warburgs, etc etc etc...) that hey hear about. Most of the time the person will be a Jewish Zionist. Its actually incredibly shocking how much power they have. Basic research. Start here, Brian:
As one who has repeatedly gone down that rabbit hole and found it so complicated that it becomes unproductive, I totally support Berletic's apparent decision to not "blame the Jews".
Often the people that insist on "blaming the Jews" come across as Nuts. Congratulations.
Finkelstein told me once that Jews are over represented in the class of people we're trying to talk about here. But that isn't helpful at all. Heck we can't provide a label that is useful. I mean "Anglo-American Oligarchy/Deep State/Jewish Mob".... WTF? And that isn't even broad enough (or narrow enough)
Jewish people are highly represented among wealthy people in America; true. As a minority interest with a 2,000-year history of abuse and cyclic destruction of their wealth and their minority enclaves, they take great pains to protect themselves and their comity as best they can, in every way they can.
If folks would like to do some shocking research, a good place to start would be with the representation of Jews in literary, scientific, and creative endeavors of all kinds. A tiny, tiny demographic minority in the west has given rise to a truly shocking percentage of what we call the modern world. Most of the hatred proceeds from envy, which is extremely embarrassing for me to watch, as a nominally Christian white person of European extraction.
Now let us think for a second why the Israelis seem to have become sociopaths.
Let's go back to the Old Testament and the many, many passages where God blesses Genocide and other outright crimes.
There is a "Chicken/Egg" problem in acknowledging this cycle.
• The Jews murder entire cities
• Cities unite to murder Jews
• Jews destroy a civilization
• that civilization rises again to destroy the Jews.
I'm not claiming to be a scholar. But IIRC my bible stories, Israeli kingdoms would be established and hardly last for even 5 decades followed by centuries of God's punishment in Babylon, or Persia, or Syria, or Egypt, or under the Romans.
We are seeing the same thing happening again in Israel. There have been many commentators who have explained how Israel has become a terrorist state which is devouring itself as well as the Palestinians.
A web search on "Jewish psychosis" leads to a lot of discussion.
Aaron Good's videos and articles on Meyer Lansky (founder of Murder Incorporated) expands on this cycle of violence.
Neutrality Studies posted this video today on the German state's weaponization of guilt which may lead to Germany starting another European wide war. At 44 minutes the discussion is German "Guilt Pride" (Schuldstolz) and Moral Superiority. TLDR: German society is acknowledging the holocaust and because they do they are morally superior to the rest of the world -- especially (right now) the Russians.
IMHO Schuldstolz is infecting the entire West. BRICS, and especially Putin, (secondarily Xi) seem to understand this psychosis spread across the West. They are doing what they can to protect themselves from this craziness.
Nothing here should be taken to mean that I disagree with you about "envy". But for some "envy" comes from not being willing to be as violent as the Jewish Mob has been. That violence accumulates a lot of wealth which is then distributed within the "Tribe" to create "legitimate" outlets. It is complicated.
Have you ever tried to have a debate with Brian on this subject? You could comment on his videos, especially on those where he openly invites proponents of the "Israel controls the US" to support their claim. This would be way more useful than name-calling. And this would bring us all closer to the truth.
I could cold debate Brian at any time on this issue. I am completely confident in my opinion, and could provide more evidence than we could discuss in several days of debate, just off the top of my head. And there are millions of people like me, we are just the most heavily censored people on earth. Which, again, just proves our point.
You are absolutely wrong to think the "tail wags the dog".
Berletic totally gets the idea of the "Anglo-American Oligarchy/Deep State/Jewish Mob" that has formulated the "continuity of agenda" that he continuously exposes. How else could this paradigm exist without a "power greater than the US government"?
I find your characterization of Berletic to be silly and naive.
I guess you don't understand the "Anglo" in "Anglo-American Oligarchy". I am looking for a better label that is more compact, but those all lead to misunderstandings. Even this rather long "thing" seems to confuse people.
• Anglo: Britain, often more focused on the City of London
• American: The USA of course. I grant that the Americas cover half the globe. I'm not finding myself caring to debate such a triviality when "everyone knows" what is meant.
• Oligarchy: Look it up. If you don't like that Plutocracy works
• Deep State: usually members of intelligence agencies who might be considered "rogue", meaning they do what they want. Ollie North and his importing of Cocaine into LA to finance the Nicaraguan Contras is an example. Alexander Vindman is another. It is that group that continues to define the "continuity of agenda". It is RAND financed by the Oligarchy.
• Jewish Mob. It perhaps isn't fair to concentrate on just the Lansky operation. There are plenty of other ethnic organized crime societies. The Italians are the most popular in Hollywood, but Hollywood is run by Jews who don't want to expose the Lansky mob.
Hey, feel free to expand on this or critique it. Identifying these people is not going to be easy. It is a "vast <something> wing conspiracy" that we have hardly begun to identify. It is the result of end-state capitalism.
Back to what I thought was the thread about Israel controlling American Foreign policy.
I'm just guessing here because you seem to have changed the "Tail" from Israel to Britain. Britain is an empty shell, but the City of London is still a very powerful financial center. But, here's the rub, "MONEY IS NOT REAL". It is a mass fantasy that people think is real. Money is very useful. "imaginary numbers" (sq root of -1) are very useful. Both create real physical objects in our 3-dimensions (or is it 4). But it is "just paper".
Apparently we aren't even talking about the same thing.
Brian’s analysis is second to none. He’s been correct about everything since I’ve been following him - nearly 4 years. And, yes - you are being disrespectful.
He's incorrect about America controlling Israel. That is clearly not the case. America gets zero benefit from Israel, and a ton of trouble and cost. There is not American verrsion of AIPAC, and America does not control Israel or its politicians, or media. America did not complain when Israel stole its nuclear material and technology, and shares intel with Israel. There is zero benefit to America from Israel. Israel also gets America to use UN veto power all the time, even if it makes the world furious and costs America massive amounts of soft power. Any bases in the Middle East could easily be in Arab countries instead of Israel. It is not needed as a "beachhead".
It’s true that the US/Israel relationship is much less obviously clear-cut than most other international relationships. I used to be a tale-wags-dog thinker, like you. Mearshiemer (max respect) still subscribes to that paradigm. Whilst Israel obviously doesn’t serve the interests of ordinary Americans (and that’s understatement of the year), it must serve the interests of US elites, or it wouldn’t exist. The situation is further complicated by the opaque (deliberately so) reality of so very many US Oligarchs being dual-loyalty Zionist Jews, and so much of the media space (digital and legacy) being Zionist aligned. On balance, I regard an Israel as a 52nd state (Britain is the 51st). I also believe that when the coming US financial crisis arrives (AI bubble burst and sovereign debt implosion most likely), and collapses The Empire, global retrenchment at warp speed will be required, and the Zionist entity could be left high, dry, and defenceless.
Steve, what percentage of the US elites do you think are Jewish, Israel-America, or Zionist? The US elites ARE Jewish. They replaced the WASPS steadily since the 1960's. They now occupy almost every key position.
King Chuck of Fuckingham Palace recently flapped his ears until he reached Canada to read the Throne Speech within view of the USA almost - something that has not happened in almost half a century.
"What foul beast slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" W B Yeats
The people who took over the UK centuries ago use zionism as a tool to manage both the US and israel. They rule israel through the US military and economic power, but have at the same time, in order to insure that America holds to its responsibility toward israel and does not falter, polluted America at all levels with zionists and Jewish money. So yes, in that sense israel manages America, but America remains the Empire and maintains its own agenda with regards to the rest of the world (also under the direction of those who can not be named).
Every great power seeks global primacy. That has to be your goal for planning's sake. You have to plan for every contingency, so that always looks like global primacy in toto. Completely unsurprising. Even China would say this, they would just say that they pursue it through financial and economic power. This is not deep analysis.
Not when you are a great power. A great power would theoretically have the ability to rule the erath, but for other great powers and the balance of power politics that are a natural result. Any of the truly great nations of the 20th Century- Britain, Russia, Germany, France, USA, could have ruled the entire world, left unapposed. Some basically did.
That's silly, himmelhund. Britain, Russia, America all tried precisely to rule the entire world. So did Alexcander the Great, Persia, Rome, or the Mongols. Germany allegedly tried, too. That's engrained in pop culture.
Most of the countries never knew what the whole world was. The Spanish empire maybe, Napoleonic France, the British empire, nazi Germany... did Russia or the USSR ever set out to run the world? Not sure I ever really saw that. They were obsessed with creating buffer zone after WW2... for obvious reasons. The USA's stated goal from the Pentagon was Full Spectrum Dominamce after the collapse of the USSR. So it certainly was the goal of the US empire
Russia never left contiguous Eurasia in its period of expansion. And it was not colonial it was multi-ethnic. Alaska was not much more than a trading post and they abandoned that readily though they could have claimed the Pacific coast down to California. Except, they were not that kind of Europeans. Nor did they ever commit genocide against the natives the way the Anglo US US arguably did.
the "Indian empire" if by that you mean the Moghul Empire, it has long since vanished, first it was overthrown and completely dominated by ENGLAND, then india revolted and STILL couldn't shake off the parasite, became a "Dominion" of england, sent its soldiers to die in EUROPEAN WARS FOR THEIR KING.
India is STILL a member of the fucking Commonwealth.
There never was an INDIAN empire, but they were subjected by the persian moghuls
Exactly. "Every great power seeks global primacy." ? No , not at all. That sounds like the "realism" of Mearsheimer... of course not correct if you consider different geographies, cultures and histories.
Nonsense. Powers that did not seek global primacy simply did not reach the level where that was possible. China, too, will seek global primacy, once it reaches a certain threshold where that is possible. It will probably never happen in a military or physical empire sense though, because other nations have power, and because of the nuclear deterrant. But they could do it with economics and diplomacy.
SoakerCity actually shows how indoctrinated he is by the US system, about how the world 'works' or should work. Real history is totally disregarded... Perhaps the fact that the US has no real culture to speak of, implies they can't understand that other societies/countries may have more of a unifying and underlying understanding of it means to be part of their culture. Sure, not everyone in said countries would agree and that's pretty normal... and they would be in the minority.
During Obama's term Biden told Putin he needed to get in line. That Russia wasn't powerful enough to resist the US. Putin reportedly admitted that Russia may not be powerful enough to take on the US but they didn't have to be. They just needed to tilt the balance of power (which I took to mean China...or maybe with China?)
In a world of imbeciles, becoming the best analyst in everything is remarkably easy. Alternative channels have only one purpose: to provide a living for those who claim to be analysts through the social network that monetizes them. Those incapable of analyzing and drawing their own conclusions should be banned from social media and television to preserve their mental health. The Germans adhered to Nazism, the Russians to Bolshevism; you would have adhered to one or the other.
I wouldn't go that far, but I do agree that Berletic is an outstanding analyst.
TBF though, it may be that I see this because I combine his analysis with that of Hudson, Wolff, Norton, Ritter, Wamsley and the many analysts who continuously debunk the "Tail Wags the Dog" theory. (especially Good)
I see the Billionaires like Soros and Adelstein manipulating the US public, keeping us at one another's throats declaring that Trump is satan incarnate -- except when it is Biden. I see the facade of Money as Ellen Brown so clearly lays out in "Web of Debt".
Economists who provide rationals for the existence of money are paid quite well, as "Democracy in Chains" reveals.
Economics is merely a new religion that promises wealth and salvation to those who adhere to it.
Arguably, Hudson is absolute top shelf and Wslmsley is as excellent in analysing China business. The Ritters have been predicting the end of Nato for yonkers now, which is unlikely as all relevant governments are controlled by the US. The US will want to carry on with Nato as it is a source of regular income. Eg. Finland, population 5.5m, ordered 64 F-35s (as everybody knows, a turd of an aircraft, built to be expensive at the expense of everything else).
Berletic's analysis iprovides a tool to forecast the future, the others provide largely opinions which do not stand the test of time. All what Nato member say is irrelevant, as they adjust their opinions within short periods to be in line of what the US, even under the much maligned genocider Trump, demands.
See how they gave in to the economically suicidal demands of Trump back then in Scotland, see Nexperia, etc. The 100% dependent Zelensky in the White House; an act by a trained actor.
I guess NATO's survival comes down to whether or not the EU will hold together. We'll just have to see what happens. FWIW, there's no timeline on these predictions so 1 year 12 years, just waiting to see the " cliff eroded so the house falls into the ocean."
The whole Western system will collapse under its accelerating economic decline, but for no other reason. Not because of anything emotionally related to Ukraine. Ukraine per se, or European "security" are irrelevant. I remember 2013, when suddenly articles appeared in the European broadsheets about what a wonderful country in the heart of Europe it is supposed to be. That build up happened well before the "Maidan". Ukraine has never mattered for Europeans. It always was anarse-end even in the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. I have read plenty of material of the time through the excellent online Austrian ANNO library. Europenas don't take an economic flooring for Ukraine, unless forced.
Ukraine is a symptom of the economic decline you mention. Certainly the amounts invested in Ukraine matter and hasten that decline. But it would have happened anyway.
Absolutely ridiculous. BB studies weapons manufacturing, basically. He has no geopol chops other than to point at the obvious Imperial nature of America. The Duran and many others are far better at geopol and economics and diplomacy that he is. He's good at a specific thing. He's really bad at geopolitical analysis, though. I guess he's always getting better. He basically is undeucated in history and politics. He's a jar head, a marine, and probably also too young to really know much. Ritter has decades of good geopol analysis on him. So does Larry Johnson, or most people that appear on Judge Nap, for instance. Does he ever really cite historical or political books, or political theory? Nope. He does arms manufacturing data. Nothing wrong with that, but he's not a true geopol analyst, let alone one of the best. He could be one day.
I watch Duran daily, and Berletic often. He's great at what he does. But he's not great at politics. He knows production data and can point at America and scream. He's a great source for the Duran. He's just not himself the analyst that Mercouris for example is, and he's delusional about Israel.
I am totally tired of hearing Mercouris hem, haw, repeat himself, apologize that he is not a military expert BUT.... and then he can't resist a thinly disguised smirk from time to time.
he's right most of the time, but he takes 10 times longer than needed to say what he has to say... I count Mb right now so I quit listening to him
Turn down to 144 res, or download podcasts what you are in a wifi spot. Also, you can listen at 1.25 or 1.5x speed. Mercouris is the best geopol analyst I've ever heard, its unwise to stop listening IMHO.
>> Ritter has decades of good geopol analysis on him. So does Larry Johnson, or most people that appear on Judge Nap, for instance. Does he ever really cite historical or political books, or political theory? <<
They don't have histories of geoploitical analysis. The methodology of Berletic is rather quite similar to Mearsheimer, just he has a broader information view window.
Also he does not bother with the Trump wants peace, but Rubio, Hegseth, or whoever does not. nonsense. Trump loaded his first and second administrations with zionist warmongers. Trump wants to have a place in history, whatever the cost. He is no humanitarian. Mearsheimer, Ritter, Johnson & Co. rant on endlessly here.
They absolutely do have histories of geopol analysis. Many decades of. Berletic interprets arms production data. He's not an academic. He's a military trained technician to the best of my knowledge that is applying what he learned to data he understands. He is by no means a political or diplomacy expert, or really qualified or educated at all in that field. He dabbles. Nothing wrong with that, but he's a chicken and you are expecting milk.
It is obvious Brian has found his "core audience". In my opinion it is never a good idea to turn a person into a "hero" or an analyst who is 100% on any and all subjects. The world is a big place, and as someone here remarked, Brian lives in Thailand and outside a few years in the Marines he has never been anywhere else. He thinks the U.S. is all powerful, and he also believes that the entire US Govt. runs as a well oiled machine, with a single minded determination, when it actually is ruled from above the Govt. and it is ordered in a hundred different directions at once by the "bankers" and Oligarch special interests. This leads to the Chaos and confusion. Brian also thinks that somehow he knows more about the relationships between the U.S. and China and Russia. The last thing I will say is he admits that everything he "knows" comes from articles in corporate media, now how can you really think you know all the facts when you rely on a media whose job is to lie to the public. Just some things to ponder, I like a bunch of different views on any subject.
To be fair , he does read the think tank papers and listens to the public Senate hearings. But you struck the nail on the head when you wrote that the US Govt "is ruled from above the Govt. and it is ordered in a hundred different directions at once by the "bankers" and Oligarch special interests.
If you take that to mean America controls Israel, and not the other way around rather than physically and productively powerful, it makes sense. If you take it to mean overall hegemonic power, and agency. Then yes, America would in that formulation be extremely powerful. But its not, its controlled by Israel.
However, there are huge interests in the USA that support Israel that have to be satisfied.
Finkelstein says that if you have enough money in your pocket to get to Israel and you don't go, you aren't a Zionist. That leaves me with a problem of trying to figure out who these people are. Meyer Lansky wasn't a Zionist. He certainly supported Israel, but he didn't live there.
America is controlled by the "Anglo-American Oligarchy/Deep State/Jewish Mob". The participants are at the same time allies and enemies. If they did not exist, neither would Israel.
Israel is in the process of destroying itself. The "Oligarcy" will still be here in the US.
This is fair, I agree. Berletic would beenfit from a formal education in history at University level, it would help him to be something that right now he just is not. He needs to hit a lot of books, especially those outside of the American perspective. He should also listen to alt-right/dissident right type people describe power. There is a reason that they are heavily censored, but have the fastest growing audeince despite that. He should probably read Applied Elite theory, as a basic attempt to learn another (better) perspective.
Berletic actually analyzes the entire document and shows exactly why it is just repackaged Wolfowitz Doctrine. He doesn't just cherry-pick selected fragments that sound good out of context, which then confused many people who haven't read the entire document.
He proves convincingly, with extensive facts showing actual US actions and the wording in the document itself, that the US is and will continue to pursue global primacy and hegemony by force, and that this new NSS is not meant to change that in any meaningful way. It is an excellent and detailed analysis .
I would be interested to see, specifically, the objections that others may have to Berletic's "Deep Dive" analysis of this new NSS from yesterday.
The video is 1 hr and 15 minutes long. Well worth it.
Yes, agreed. Regarding Israel, I do think though he could be a little more nuanced and acknowledge ALSO the Zionist semi-control of US Gov in particular regarding M-E strategy.
Sounds to me like Berletic is 100% congruent with Simplicius/Norton/Orlov/Diesen/MoA
Yes, he says "US does this" and "US does that" but what other label should he apply? "Anglo-American Oligarchy/Deep State/Jewish Mob" is cumbersome. It should be quite obvious that "continuity of Agenda" isn't a function of the US government but of the "Oligarchy" (fronted by the "Jewish Mob" financed by AIPAC) that actually controls the USA.
Here's the "money ball". This is what the USA has done for decades now. The most obvious example is Soros funding of "Indivisible" for the "No Kings" protests which accomplished exactly NOTHING! Just a continuation of the plot to get MAGA to hate the Woke while the Oligarchy steals the wealth created by Labor.
How is it that something this obvious is overlooked by so many here?
"And the purpose of this rhetoric is to convince especially the European public
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that the United States is abandoning Europe and siding with Russia, maybe even siding with China, forcing Europe
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to divert huge sums of its own national resources to now confronting containing
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Russia, possibly even China. "
Berletic doesn't hate "America". He, like me, hates the criminal capitalists who have destroyed the American dream and implemented the "K-economy".
Those who disparage Berletic must be con-men paid by the Oligarchy to keep up the fraud. Or they are just stupid because they want to believe something about the USA that hasn't ever been true.
I used to be in that group. I was proud to be an American. I truly believed that America was good. I was on a friend's houseboat in Honolulu Harbor attending a party when his professor (or someone) brought up the 9/11 coup in Chile. To my tremendous embarrassment, I insisted that the USA would never have overthrown the Allende government. It took Sissy Spacek and Jack Lemon in the movie "Missing" to get me to think about it again. It took another decade for me to realize that was precisely what happened. America just destroyed a nation to enrich the Oligarchy.
This is happening right now, today, everyday, in the USA.
China's last war was in 1979, a minor skirmish with Vietnam. China's last recession was in 1979. China has raised 800m people out of poverty. China has grown its economy in excess of 5%/year since 1979.
Now, watch as some ignoramus brings up the non-existent NED sponsored "genocide" in Xinjiang. Or publishes a photo of Tiananmen Square from 30+ years ago.
Folks better pay attention to Wamsley's "Inside China Business" channel. The USA empire is so screwed. But don't worry, the American Oligarchy will be more than happy to steal your wealth so they can maintain their position of privilege.
I largely disagree about MoA though. To me, it appears that he doesn't understand the continuity of agenda, and he focuses far too much on individual politicians
I agree, Berletic hammers the "continuity of agenda" angle but looking at US history, it makes sense. The US is a settler country, the result of progressive invasion by Europeans who drove the indigenous populations off the land. After ethnically cleansing the natives during the Indian Wars, US turned its attentions to adjacent countries including Mexico and Canada, then applied the Monroe Doctrine to the hemisphere. Following WWII, it became increasingly aggressive internationally. In short, at no time has it ever changed direction on its dominant tendency to dominate, invade and exploit other nations. It is addicted to it. Any promise to reform I would take with the same confidence I would a drug addict swearing to go cold turkey.
There are some changes - they acknowledge that the Europe is almost lost and they seem to try to suck up ever last drop of juice of this dying body. The war in Ukraine continues or not depending on the Europeans who scared of and angered by the Hegemon scream in agony. They hate Russia for all it is as it did not fall for any of the multiple religions that the West has fallen for - mass migration without integration, politization of all institutions, CO2 cult. Whom the elites in Europe serve is difficult to say but certainly not the people of Europe. Whether the US lost control or is just playing the Europeans is not that important as long as the Estonization of Europe is not stopped. I thought originally that its germanization would be bad but it seems silly Estonians are even worse.
It is not a multi polar power world. RUSSIA is not a super power. It struggles to be a near peer. We live in a uni polar world. USA is it seems going to be a selective world power. No long entrenched in Post WW2 compacts.
Trump is kissing Putin’s arse, meanwhile China won’t even let him kiss theirs.
Go try invading Venezuela. Your candy arsed military will get the same treatment they got in Korea, Vietnan, Iraq, Afghanistan and soon Ukraine( where you entirely lacked the guts to put any troops at all, apart from a few drug addled spooks).
Russis and the US are natural allies as anti-woke globalist ideology. China and the EU now share totalitarian values. I suspect China is heavily involved in woke globalism but for others, not for themselves.
I suggest you actually read Ken's comment. He did not suggest China is woke. He suggested it has encouraged that insanity in other countries.
A good example is the "green" scam, which China has encouraged in Western countries, strangling their economies of cheap energy and de-industrializing them, while China has built a huge fleet of modern coal-fired power stations and become the monopoly supplier of wind turbines, solar panels and batteries to countries mired in the woke "green" scam.
it was first dreamed up by the Rockefellers, broached in "Limits to Growth" and immediately injected into UN agendas for future policy.
the United Nations is like cancer and anybody who doesn't realize that the Commonwealth has 56 fucking votes in the general assembly and the UK is STILL on the Security Council needs to do a LOT MORE READING and a LOT LESS POSTING
It seems you know very little about China's #1 status as the biggest generator of renewable energy as well as the biggest installer of wind and solar. Have you been to China? Everywhere they have installed EV chargers. 50% of new cars are EVs. I can guarantee they aren't planning on running them on coal power. Their policies on polluting energy changed once the life expectancy began to drop. China used to be massively polluted. They are turning this around.
Any idea how many green electricity production is installed in China daily? They build 1 nuclear power plant every 68 days. Investigating heavily in fusion. Installing gigawatts of solar every month, build a super efficient high voltage transport system, allowing the transport of electricity without much loss over thousands of kilometers.
You seem like the typical urban environmentalist who worships the green god. I know environmental science, not ecology, a term once used to describe someone who sorted their waste at home. Sustainable development doesn't exist; development is an unpredictable evolution that only unfolds to address unforeseen situations. I'm a scientist, an engineer, and I challenge the science of publications by academics who fiddle with vials and pipettes in a lab according to an agreed-upon protocol, completely detached from nature. My publications are merely technical reports of industrial achievements, not fairy tales. The environment is my job and my passion; I despise the prophets and cult-like gurus who bamboozle the weak-minded like you. The planet is in no way disturbed by the petty antics of humankind. The planet terraformed itself and generated life through chaos. Humans have evolved for hundreds of thousands of years with the sole purpose of adapting and surviving, yet in 2025, humans, like you, are regressing and whining. Excuse my tone, but I loathe ignorant and simple-minded people.
we should avoid pollution at all costs, clean it up when it happens,
and protect species
Yep, the climate changes all the time, and we simply have to adapt.
And it would be VERY clever if we prepare for the next micronova as we adapt... we could get our grid taken down at any time and then it could be back to the stone age..it's apparently happened before
It isn't a scam. Enormous amounts of power were required to move forward.
What gives it away is "modern". IOW, less pollution while China develops a Thorium reactor that can provide the earth with power that will last 65000 years.
"imaginary beef?" The EU has been leeching off america since the Cold War, letting the US pay for their defense, and now is (once again) trying to involve the US in ANOTHER shooting war in europe.
Nope, it is time for NATO to go away and the EU can plead all it wants as it swirls the drain. I live in europe and their is steady encroachment of freedom of speech. the government of the UK is totally against its own citizens in favor of illegal immigrants, and the rest of europe seems to be only slightly less so.
It was Victoria Nuland and her idiot State Department that organised the coup in Ukraine, not the EU.
Now the Russians have given them a lesson in FAFO and the Americans are falling over themselves to bail out. They are right to do so, but let's not pretend it's not their mess.
Your characterisation of the UK Government, which is admittedly hopeless, is fucking ridiculous. The idea that illegal immigrants are given preferential treatment is actually pathetic. It's a classic example of idiots punching down. Dhdh is a nutter, but at least the people he demonized do exercise considerable power, what power do fucking Somalis have? The latest proclamation from our government is that they are going to confiscate any valuables that Asylum seekers have, and you think that's preferable treatment?
If all the illegal immigrants disappeared tomorrow your life wouldn't improve one iota! We would still have a neo-Liberal political establishment, including the thickies' favourites Reform, that puts Corporations before people.
The billionaires have paid millionaires to persuade you that the problem is the poor. It's actually pathetic!
Russia and China are essentially non-expansionist and want a co-operative world, whereas the USA can't keep its nose out of other people's business.
"Anti-woke Globalist ideology" is utterly meaningless in terms of international relations.
What possible benefit to Russia is there in replacing a rock solid, mutually beneficial alliance with China, with a subservient relationship with the USA?
Oh, you both hate transpeople? Not nearly enough mate.
The US thinks every other country should want to be It's plaything. First it was India, now it's Russia. But sadly for Washington, no one trust's you any more.
We have bona fide Nazis on here and you've somehow managed to out-dumb them. Astonishing.
agree with your statement, except I would prefer to refer to the UK/US Axis... as the UK has been steering american foreign policy for the better part of 100 years.
China, blah blah blah. You should go see a vet to get your leaves trimmed; absorbing too much noise disrupts the flow of neurons. No Western country can boast the same high levels of public satisfaction regarding democracy, freedom, etc., that China displays.
So how many alternative voices are allowed in China? If all you get it propaganda from one side it is easy to say the vast majority agree with it. As far as supporting the Chinese gov't, it has made life much better for the average Chinese. It was coming from a very bad position. I would say similar to Putin coming from the chaos of the early 90s and both the American and British industrial revolutions of a century ago. In the latter cases, yeah the cities and the jobs there sucked in many ways, but people flocked there from the rural areas because it was an improvement on starvation or back-breaking labor. People who are coming from really bad situations like it when their conditions improve and are in favor of the governments who helped improve them. Who knew? Benevolent dictators can be great -- as long as they (or their replacements) stay benevolent.
Benign dictators. This benevolence doesn't exist in Brussels, where the dictatorship truly lives up to its name, ever since the term was first used. What opposition is there in the Brussels palace? In the USA, with a single party with two names? Let's stop this nonsense, European. It was by leaving the EU that I discovered the dictatorship of the Brussels palace and its vassals, the majority of EU member states. I also had to work as a consultant for the Commission to confirm what I suspected. Athenian democracy functioned this way: democracy, then tyranny in cases of absolute emergency (war), and tyrannical towards its vassals. Imposing only binding laws on the people, while boasting of immunity, resembles the tribal rules of early times, the divine blue blood of the nobility of yesteryear, a malevolent dictatorship.
The idea that China is exporting "wokism" or any other form of cultural degeneracy to America, or to anywhere else in the world is one of the dumbest of all the dumb anti-China ideas out there today and there are a LOT of those.
Consider what that would actually take to achieve, presuming we can discount the possibility that Beijing has magical occult mind control powers.
To manipulate anyone, let alone a massive and highly complex nation like the USA, you would have to know more about them than they know about themselves.
Is that Beijing today? Are they more capable of puppet-mastering America than Washington DC, New York or Los Angeles?
Did Beijing teach Washington how to feed the USA bullshit?
Was it Shanghai that taught Wall Street how to rob dollars, nickels, dimes and pennies from widows, cripples and orphans?
Was it Shenzhen, Chengdu or Nanjing that tricked Los Angeles into snorting gigantic mountains of cocaine and producing vast quantities of mindless drivel and homosexual pornography?
Examples abound, but let me point to just one in order to elaborate my point in more detail.
"Glen or Glenda" also known as “He or She” and “I Changed My Sex!” is a movie glorifying transvestitism that was produced by the notable transvestite and pornographer Ed Wood in 1953. It was loosely based on the story of the famous transsexual Christine Jorgensen.
You may be familiar with the name “Ed Wood” from the 1994 biopic of the same name directed by the legendary director Tim Burton and starring Hollywood superstar Johnny Depp.
Who wrote, produced, made, distributed and bought any of that? Was it Mao Zedong, Xi Jinping or Fu Manchu?
It was Americans, then another group of Americans, and then a lot of the rest of the world plus some more Americans.
America has to wake up and take responsibility for the damage that Americans have done to America, and to the rest of the world, not the Chinese.
In the context of Ukraine , he is indeed doing as I said. Trump has zero leverage there and decisions in relation to it are at Putin’s discretion. Trump just wants out with a “business deal” as a fig leaf. Putin will chuck him a bone.
Your definition of "kissing Putin's arse" is very strange to me.
I have no idea what kind of "bone" Putin might give. Trump's attempts so far have met the "rock of Gibraltar". The terms have never changed. They are not going to change.
Yes Trump wants a "business deal". Putin is willing to listen to his pitch over and over and over again. He hasn't changed the terms.
I kind of find myself annoyed by people who insist that Putin is stupid. I find him to be the smartest man on planet earth since 2000.
he is dividing up the world into spheres of influence, TOGETHER with Putin and Xi
god, this is so difficult, it's like explaining quantum mechanics to my dog, except he has a better chance of understanding than the idiot armchair quarterbacks posting here
"It is not a multi polar power world. RUSSIA is not a super power."
Ha, ha, ha... how's that propaganda for morons about "Russia is so poor it has to send soldiers into combat armed with shovels" working for you in Ukraine?
Oh, wait... it's not working. The US has been so totally defeated in Ukraine it's begging for a ceasefire and has to lie to its own people about not being in the war.
The dollar has lost *half* of its value since 2023, India and China openly defy US sanctions and send US emissaries crawling back to their sewer in Washington with their limp dicks between their legs, and Russia tells the US and the entire crowd of military dwarves hiding behind the US that it's either Russia's way or the highway.
The failed state in all the above is the US, not Russia. It's been reduced from playing world hegemon to bullying banana republics in its own back yard.
The key decision in the US's upcoming wife-beating festival in Venezuela isn't the US's decision - it's Russia's decision, if Russia will send advanced air defense and hypersonic anti-ship missiles into Venezuela to wipe out fake-stealth US bombers and can't miss, easy to sink, US aircraft carriers.
Russia isn't a "near peer" in carrier-annihilation technology. It's decades ahead of the US in hypersonics as well as in stealth-defeating multispectral radar. It's the US that's struggling these days to be a near peer, too late discovering that with decades long procurement cycles just printing money is not enough to stay competitive.
"Ha, ha, ha... how's that propaganda for morons about "Russia is so poor it has to send soldiers into combat armed with shovels" working for you in Ukraine?à
Europeans will never fight against the Russians. It's a well-known fact in Europe that men get pregnant; we wouldn't want Europe, because of births linked to the front lines, to become an extension of Russia. It happens faster than you think, one shovelful, one dickful…"
If Russia is not a super power they're certainly giving a pretty fair imitation of one.
Don't call slow walking this war against NAFO "weakness". (Ukraine is a used condom-a broken battering ram) When the gloves come off and the hammer comes down on these Euro-tards, you might reconsider your "analysis". The smart Europeans have already packed it in and left this sad excuse for a home, a culture. WW1 and two...say hello to a full on WW3. The Truman Show and Idiocracy are overly charitable in their view of our current circumstances. As the BrylCreem-Fox News Warrior has said, "FAFO".
We'll see if the NSS also includes countering the globalist depopulation agenda--the "jab" and "climate change"! Both of these were powerful planks in the EU elite agenda.
I don't see these as part of a globalist depopulation agenda. I see them as expansions of government control over the populace -- and conditioning said populace to accept (even embrace) them.
‘Trump's New National Security Strategy Recasts Europe as Strategic Liability’
That is a fairly surrealistic, materialistic narrative. It is mostly reflecting on the desires of the speaker, Trump. Both continents, North America and Europe suffer from the same illnesses going back to the same sources historically. America and Europe can not run away from each other. They exist in an interrelated complex structure, like Siamese twins. One dies without the other.
No , the Euro poodles will collapse without America, America does not need Europe at all, in fact it is a liability to the US , useful only as a market for its overpriced B grade military tat and a as a holiday destination for cashed up Florida retirees.
The peoples or the present crop of rulers? The Euro rulers are going to collapse in any way as the present developments, economic and demographic, in Europe are absolutely unsustainable.
If you mean the European nations, you should refine your analysis.
The European nations had, and still have,
the possibility of an understanding with Russia, creating an economic and political power equivalent to the one of China which will soon become the first world power.
Europe has nothing to offer? Well, 450 million plus people, including some of the most highly educated people in the planet. Together with Russia that would make, 600 million people in the largest landmass controlled by any power.
Whatever the temporary circumstances, the fact is that Russians consider themselves to be a European nation. I think the Russian side is ready for this solution. The European political class of today is clearly not.
But what are the the prospects for this political class in let's say 20 years time. An Eurorussian agreement can only happen after a true revolution in Europe, but the fact is that this revolution is an absolute necessity for Europe's survival.
It may eventually happen or not, this is different question, as survival is not guaranteed. Not guaranteed for a Europe submerged by aliens, and neither for the US or Russia, which face the same problem of demographic collapse.
If Europe or Russia could not survive Islamic majorities, the US could also not survive becoming a second bigger Mexico.
The case that the US need Europe is easier to make.
Now, people talk of the West versus the Rest. It is an apt description of the present course.
The antagonistic nature of this order of things is the responsibility of the aggresive cabals (plural) of the US, as no other great power was thinking of confrontation when the US opted for a strategy based upon the desire to become a world empire and to weaken to subordinate all others.
This is what the Wolfowitz doctrine was all about.
Now, if Europe would ever join the Rest, the US position would be untenable.
That would also not be a desirable outcome and in fact Russia and China have been offering a sane alternative which reminds of the mentality prevalent at the Congress of Viena, which
reintegrated defeated France in the concert of great powers.
Europe has some very intelligent and educated people, but we are a fractious quarrelsome bunch, led by absolute arse-holes. Is it really worth engaging with us. 100, even 50 years ago, yes definitely, but now?
I'm not sure what we offer that Russia can't get cheaper and better from China?
We have shown the Russians repeatedly in word and deed that we consider them Untermenschen, so why are we surprised if they take the hint and start playing with all the other kids that we think we are too good to play with?
Also if I am one of 150 million Russians, why do I want to share my absurdly abundant natural resources with 500 million greedy Europeans?
"Also if I am one of 150 million Russians, why do I want to share my absurdly abundant natural resources with 500 million greedy Europeans?"
Col Doug Macgregor in a recent interview, sarcastically remarked when asked about the Russian interest in taking over Europe..."Why would the Russians want to march into Paris and start paying pensions"? (paraphrased)The Colonel practices what used to be called, "Realpolitik".
"the possibility of an understanding with Russia, creating an economic and political power equivalent to the one of China which will soon become the first world power." Ojala'
But the US will never allow it. If it is to happen, then the US must first be taken down a notch through a real crisis. It might be coming:
I think that the existence of the present crop of euro”leaders” that apparently Trump so much hates is contingent on the ability of the US to project power. We have the leaders the US desired us to have, all these arguments seem to me American self justification for whatever they’re planning next.
There’ll be a revolution in Western Europe (not a bottom up one of course) when the elites realise the game’s up and a realignment of loyalties is the healthiest course of action. New names and faces will appear miraculously (all coming from junior branches of the same political families) and the relationship with the US will be toned down. The same parties Trump seems so hopeful for might actually be the ones that provide the transition. It’s survival time baby.
How Spain’s gonna fit in all this is a bit of a mystery to me but not as big as the why the country is still going along with this.
'But what are the the prospects for this political class in let's say 20 years time. An Eurorussian agreement can only happen after a true revolution in Europe, but the fact is that this revolution is an absolute necessity for Europe's survival.'
They are both short of something that is more critical than rare earth minerals: Common Sense. Maybe as time goes on they could build the Coalition of the Blind and the Sightless and somehow find their way to half way normal.
Euro poodles of course is directed at their rulers, politicians , all of the EU and the military in Europe.
European culture and values however appears to have been completely undermined by the aforesaid leadership. Europe is and will remain a very minor player in world affairs. It is a caricature of what it once was. Individual countries may recover some of their character, but-the EU is an utterly failed experiment.
I’m a bit confused. I thought you were sympathetic to maga not miga. Why would you quote Steinlight extremely arrogant essay without serious criticism . I thought you were critical of America’s blank support for Israel’s massacres.
Given trump’s complete betrayal of the maga agenda, I don’t see why you are suddenly praising Trump. His attacks against immigrants are performative, they aren’t focused on significantly reducing immigration
I get the impression that this is a different person writing this article. The quality has really gone down.Was there a change of staff at simplicious?
I don't think Steinlight's views were the major point of this post.
It's just very interesting to see an American Jew making essentially the same points in 2001 as MAGA is today, minus the "how does this effect Jews and Israel" angle.
Last paragraph was too harsh on Simplicius. He gets abuse from the Trump-is-infallible crowd when he criticizes Trump, which is not rare at all. But I agree 100% with your first two paragraphs.
What matters is what you can impose. The US can impose Monre Doctrine 2025 because, in the Western Hemisphere, there is nobody who can mount any form of resistance, and American strengths are magnified (2 oceans for navy to operate, plentiful air bases), combined with extremely weak potential adversaries.
America continues to enjoy natural advantages - those 2 oceans continue to offer incredible natural defense.
Russia tried to impose its own and unfortunately found that Europe is a crowded place full of strong adversaries.
What drivel, try Invading Venezuela , it will be worse than Vietnam, when you had some semblance of political and military competence (not much but). And the yapping Euro poodles are strong adversaries for Russia- hilarious.
Your incredible natural defence nonsense is easily disproved by the fact that millions of unarmed people , just walked in via Mexico.
There is also the small matter of Russia’s hypersonic nuclear capability to which oceans provide zero defence at all. Useful though for Russian subs to get closer to NY before launching.
Like, "normal" to every century in history, anywhere in the world until five minutes ago... mutual beneficial, peaceful exchange without the strong tang of population replacement and fifth columns.
workers-turned-immigrants, that's how it started in Europe in the 1960s: import cheap labour, followed by extending immigration laws that allow for family reunification. cultural, socio-economic consequences, well now, that's beyond the sitting political elite's pay check.
It has been obvious for some time now that the EU is woke globalist and the US rejected woke globalism by throwing out the Biden regime. Still this aggressive totalitarian ideology of woke globalism is actively at work subverting the very foundation of the American Republic and its Constitution, Bill of Rights and principle of will of the people. The EU and the US are now grave threats to each other.
The US can destroy woke globalism and woke globalism can destroy the US. There is already a deadly serious, political war ongoing in the US between globalist woke and the Republic. Today, the EU is no longer compatible as allies unless the American woke globalist left somehow seizes power again.
Swatting one fly does not stop the maggots hatching, the movement of the carcass is just the indication of the sheer numbers of maggots under the skin.
Your hero Donald Trump willingly appointed Scott Bessent, who was George Soros' right-hand man and is a homosexual "married" to another man, as the Secretary of Treasury. I'm afraid you have fallen for the WWE kabuki theater. Scott Bessent is the very epitome of "woke globohomo", and he was appointed by Trump.
"The US can destroy woke globalism and woke globalism can destroy the US. There is already a deadly serious, political war ongoing in the US between globalist woke and the Republic. Today, the EU is no longer compatible as allies unless the American woke globalist left somehow seizes power again."
I appreciate what you are saying but you overestimate the threat to the US - the EU is destroying itself and the US is going to kick it into the dustbin of history if the europeans don't change their ways
ARC - America, Russia, China... those are the three superpowers and they are carving up the world into spheres of influence already.
Needless to say, they don't consult John Q. Public or any of the loudmouth posters here (and I am not talking about you. ;o ) just saying that the EU is not a threat to the US
I think you underestimate the extent to which this is personal for Trump. European leaders with a handful of exceptions were vocal "never-Trumpers" and continued criticism after he was elected.
So he has delivered an even bigger "fuck the EU" to them than Victoria Nuland.
Agree with Simplicius, I don't expect this document to last beyond his term.
There's always somebody that thinks the entire US policy is based on Trump's emotional fragility. That's very unlikely. Victoria Nuland was motivated to destroy Russia due to ancient racial/religious hatreds. Gonzalo Lira was murdered for unearthing this when he psycho-analyzed her. She was the heart of the US effort vs Russia, and when she was cashiered, the war was basically over. Here is Lira shortly before his death. Sorry no timestamp.
Its more like Britain insisted on continuing to play The Great Game and America just wasn't hard for it, especially when they saw Russia eat every haymaker and just laugh and spit out a tooth.
If by we you mean Britain, you are an oligarchy, and so is the States. They decide for either case, but they don't seem to be on the same page anymore, ie over Ukraine which seems to have been a British baby. A continuation of the "Great Game".
Ukraine has been a CIA / MI6 project since the late 40s. A lot of guys snuck over the border from Ukraine and the Baltics and were never heard from again
The Jewish and Zionist hand-wringing and teeth-gnashing over their loss of political advantage and media mind control here in Canada has been something to behold in recent months.
Even those Canadians who don't recognize that Oct 7 was, at least in part, a false flag operation are majority outraged by Israel's disproportionate response.
I had said decades ago is the only way Palestine wins is if they migrate to "the west", become successful and outbid the Zionists for political control. It looks as if we are now on the verge of that.
Even in Israel, the disparity in birth rates meant that Palestinians could outvote Jews under a fully democratic one state solution. Bibi repeated this week that there will never be a 2 state solution. So the genocidal apartheid state will continue until some force steps up to stop it.
Jews in America on the way out? I see Europeans not marching in, Europeans are all Russians now, there’s a witch hunt not even seen during the Inquisition, all are suspects all are enemies within and spies are everywhere. Conspiracy terrorist and misinformation must harden European unity that only exist by chasing anti-Eurocons. Never seen Macron kissing his wife the way he kisses Zel or even Xi, do hope I get the peace Noble price.
"Does it matter that the majority non-European immigrants have no historical experience of the Holocaust or knowledge of the persecution of Jews over the ages and see Jews only as the most privileged and powerful of white Americans?"
A self-admission of the truth about Jews - that they are the most privileged and powerful of white Americans? If they are so privileged and so powerful, how can they possibly claim to be victims of discrimination? But we who are full of 'guilt' over the so-called 'Holocaust' can not seem to connect the dots, can we? They claim israel and the US are allies and support each other, but I have never seen for myself in all my years where israel has ever supported the USA, or any other country for that matter. However, I have seen on multiple occasions where israel has acted against the US - the attack on the Liberty, JFK, RFK, 9/11, getting America into Middle East wars, stolen security secrets, lies, deceptions, etc. That country is not an ally - it is a calloused parasite living off its host, the Western Alliance, and inflicting harm on any country, including and especially the US, that it believes crosses it for any reason.
Here here. I found that letter to be an incredible, if not unintentional, self exposure of the inherent elitism of some parts of the Jewish intelligentsia.
There are obvious and manifold reasons to oppose the actions/existence of Israel, for those who have a strong instinct for truth and justice.
And I say this with no sour grapes for any religious/ethnic group.
Except jews aren't white, as any jew that isn't trying to get something out of you will gladly inform you. And the racism towards the latino menials? As if no latino could ever ascend to their heights of court stenographer for the Empire, when if latin América is distinguished in any art, more than jews, in fact, it's literature.
Future?
Indeed, see here:
https://finnandreen.substack.com/p/europes-eclipse-of-intelligence-immigration?r=ewq2s
Haha was bound to happen.
Actions tell a different agenda of doctrine. Words are meaningless when it comes from the Great Empire of deceit and lies. The world (China and Russia) would be fools again.
Exactly, that is why we need to listen to Berletic's video to get a better sense of what is going on. Russia (and China) must not make the same mistakes again: https://finnandreen.substack.com/p/putins-old-and-recent-mistakes-in?r=ewq2s
China is not making that mistake. I'd say that China figured out in 1979 that war with Vietnam was a "loser" and that it should concentrate on taking advantage of the greed of the American Oligarchy which moved manufacturing to China.
The Chinese know that "Money is not Real". I'd suggest that the Russians have also learned that lesson when the US sanctions failed to destroy the Russian economy. What good are those pieces of paper?
Putin's admission about being naive about the West is "Old News". He figured it out in 2007 at the Munich Security Conference where John McCain and Lindsey Graham heckled him from the front row. In 2021 when he proposed separate treaties for the US and NATO to establish a new security arrangement he was turning his back on the West.
The facts you present in your article are correct, but the spin you put on it to make Putin sound like he's been "had" over and over again is wrong.
For example:
"In the Valdai Conference in Sochi of 2025, Putin stressed, a little surprisingly, that good relations with the US are his main and the Russian state’s foremost consideration in foreign affairs."
Why would this not be true? What is to be gained by cursing Trump? How do the negotiations with Witkoff and Kushner matter?
Russia was never going to accept freezing the war, that was made clear over and over again. Trump thought wrongly that Witkoff had set up "the deal". Putin politely told him "no". Trump left in a huff. Putin remains calm and in charge. Lavrov is the middle man. Medvedev is the prankster. They remain a united team working like a well-oiled machine -- keeping Trump guessing.
Russia is in no hurry to "win" the war. Russia is holding fast to the objectives it outlined when the SMO began. Denazification (and regimen change) is happening. Demilitarization is happening. NATO is disintegrating, thus retreating to its boarders before German Unification. There are even suggestions that Germany may undo that unification. The safety of ethnic Russians living in Ukraine is happening.
Yes, Russia had a minor setback in Syria, but one might look at this like "Charlie Wilson's war". Israel is playing the role of Russia in Afghanistan. Israeli society is ripping itself apart.
BRICS is coalessing. China is pressing on with the BRI. Both Russia and China are supporting Iran and Venezuela. China's construction of the Chancay port in Peru has opened (is opening) trade routes between South America and Asia almost making Trump's new NSS a joke.
Ritter (and others) completely dismiss Gilbert's claim that the Russians are becoming impatient. As Orlov reports Putin has an 80% approval rating.
What's the US threat now? Without China's Rare Earth Elements, its construction of weapons systems is seriously compromised.
Putin is doing wonderfully. He has plenty of time. The US empire is in decline. Russia and China can just sit back and let it happen.
Thanks for your comment, I generally agree with you, though I would perhaps be more nuanced. As for Putin and the others, indeed, you are right in your analysis; I wrote the piece on purpose in a way to highlight the potential and existing flaws and misunderstandings in his decisions. So yes the piece is a bit exagerated, but these points cannot be dismissed entirely.
Despite the 2007 Putin speech, the passivitiy of Russia and Putin himself during Maidan 2013-14 was astounding to watch, though they did react with the absorbtion of Crimea.
But again, they might have avoided this war, had they better managed Germany, France and Ukraine during those 7 years between 2015 and 2022. Putin even admitted that the entry into the Donbass conflict by Russia should have happened earlier. Would 150,000 Russians not have died in battle? Speculation, but never forget these victims... So this question must be posed.
Yeltsin had a mandate to integrate with the West. That was taken away in 2000 when he was told to leave by the security state. A large bloc of whom were Primakov's guys whose views live on in Karaganov (he has given some Western interviews). Losing the 1st Chechen war, the pillaging by the wall street vampires like Browder, and the bombing of Serbia was the last straw for Yeltsin. Putin was brought in and given a mandate to restore detterence. This started in 2000 and you can see the results of it today. Putin even talked about being shocked at the US's involvement in the first chechen war when the US and Russia were supposedly friendly during the Yeltsin years. So he certainly knows how duplicitous the USA can be. I would also point out I belive Putin was given a second mandate in 2014. To create an economic system independent from Western influence. The Russian economy is pointed Eastward now and I don't see it ever coming back. I think people confuse Putin's diplomacy as soft or naive towards the West but I think that is overstated. I would say he is just trying to manage difficult relationships as effectively as possible but none of this changes Putin's mandates.
Yes, I agree with you, although "mandate" is perhaps too strong a word, but regardless, what you are writing is well known. I've listened to Karganov, and I am not too impressed ; a little too much Cold War thinking and too little subtelty. His age perhaps.
It's not necessarily the US but the CIA which has been a clandestine organization from the gitgo...the people in it need to be fired and put on the "do not rehire" list for any government agency...the problem being that they then go to work for civilian agencies who advise government. People who are not intimately watching what has been going on in the US for multiple decades may be unaware of the fact that the actual real Deep State sees the President and any directions proposed as something to not bother following. They want the President to be just a figurehead...which is why the continued coup during Trump 1.0 and now again in Trump 2.0. The head of the Executive Branch became someone to get into line with what the Deep State entrenched bureaucrats desired. Anyone who has worked with Civil Service knows the attitude: "Long after you are gone, I will still be here."....The government is too big to be managed properly when it is staffed with people who do not understand that there is a chain of command and the limits of their own authority and from whence that authority was DELEGATED to them.
So the Soviet Union dissolved: the cold war came to an end.
The current administration situation of the Russian Federation
is that of a Managed / Directed Democracy.
Just like with us in the west. #tadaa
The target is europe. Camouflaged by the Ukraine.
Key element: Nordstream.
The internet is not our friend: 5th Generation Warfare.
A lot of Ritter would help you understand the conflicting goals that Russia and Putin faced.
Russia was not ready to take on Ukraine in 2014. Even until 2022, through the Minsk agreements, Russia wanted Ukraine to remain a "Nation". They just wanted equality for the ethnic Russians in Donbas.
I forget where I heard it (probably Ritter), the Donbas population explained to the Russians around the middle of 2021, "You are going to leave and when you do, they will kill us." That was when Russia realized they were going to have to be more "positive action" and when the SMO was planned.
Yes, maybe Russia could have entered into the Donbas earlier, but it is what it is. They did it when they knew it was "right".
Then there are the diverse narratives that say Russia wanted to conquer Kiev vs Russia just wanted to get negotiations going.
Possibilities fan out from there.
I agree Russia was not AS ready in 2014, but neither Ritter (whom I do listen to of coruse), nor the two of us for that matter, know exactly to what extent Russia could have been ready. Ready for what? You see, I am not even talking specifically about a military invasion; there are many other means of coercing, pressuring, making one's voice heard (and maybe some were indeed used, but we are unaware).
Kremlin stoically accepted to be accused by Western politicians and public opinion more widely for MH17 downing, Skripal murders, Navalny poisonings, without much of a peep. This was a mistake also, as I write in my piece, in the sense that it contributed to the West poor image of Russia and its misunderstanding of Russia's willingness to draw a line in the sand at some point (namely, 22nd Feb 2024).
For the rest of your text, I fully agree.
FWIW: no one would have believed anything Russia had to say about MH17 or Skripal or Navalny. IMHO saying nothing was much more effective because it allowed independent examination of the events without having to defend anything Russia had to say.
Keeping quite "won".
Some nitpicks:
- The loss of Syria to ISIS was an enormous loss for Russia, and probably one of the compelling motivations for the West in provoking the Ukrainian conflict in the first place. It has enormously increased pressure on Iran, and raised the possibility of regime-change in that country. Iran is the southern anchor of the Caspian Sea, critically important to Russia. It opened the land route to instigating all kinds of turmoil on Russia's soft underbelly in the Caucusus region and the Central Asian states.
- Russia in fact has a strong sense of urgency in concluding the SMO in Ukraine. The U.S. hasn't seen a conflict of that size since WWII - and then it only entered when the outcome was certain. Russia has 700k soldiers on the line, compared to an entire force strength of the U.S.'s standing army of 450k. Russia has hundreds of thousands more in the Regular Army providing support. The cost of Vietnam nearly destroyed LBJ's "Great Society" initiatives, and the U.S. peaked at only 550k troops there from all branches. It's left Russia unable to defend its interests on its southern border - see the turmoil in Azerbijian, Armenia, Kazakhstan, and the growing efforts to carve off Uzbekistan etc.
- The rare earth shortage for the U.S. will be resolved quickly. It's not critical at this point, and the first step to fixing a problem is acknowledging it.
- BRICS isn't so much coalescing as having its fault lines exposed, which is still useful but not the same as becoming empowered.
Well, I see we view things through very different prisms.
You might want to look into Krainer's narrative about how the vote in the "Republic of Serbia" (which isn't Serbia) to declare independence from Bosnia was going to open a second front against Russia. The vote has been delayed for a year so maybe not.
Yes, I have to agree with JohnonKaui, I also can't really see your points. Also, the loss of Syria to ISIS took place end of 2024, while SMO started Feb 2022, so I don't get your point...
There's no way to know with certainty. But Russia has an important naval base in Syria, and wasn't able to do much to defend it when the internal struggle began inside Syria. If Russia wasn't tied down (economically, politically, and on the ground) in Ukraine it's highly likely they could have prevented the fall of al-Assad's government.
Hmm, the bases will stay in fact; and I think the Russians saw that from the start; that they had a chance to keep them.
And secondly, these bases are perhaps not as important as we all think (a relic of Soviet times when USSR involvement in M-E was significant for a time),
Third, with the collapse of the Syrian army through $ buy-off of many generals, I don't think the Russians could have done much to prevent the fall of the Al Assad gov, and this also, I think, was recognized early by the Kremlin.
That's why I don't consider the Syrian episode as a mistake by Russia and, thus, I didn't mention it in my article.
Russian interests in Syria and the Middle East are extremely complicated. There are thousands of Russian Jews in Israel with dual citizenship. (Another detail that makes talking about Israel so difficult). Putin can't just abandon these Russians. On the other hand, there are voices that suggest any Russian Jew in Israel is a traitor to Mother Russia and even suffer the death penalty. I take no side on that issue. I only bring it up to illuminate how complicated Israel is.
Now, if I understand Ritter correctly and the Brooklyn Jew situation where synagogues hold real estate rallies that ship Brooklyn Jews to the West Bank where they steal the homes of the Palestinians, well, I'm inclined to consider those "Americans" traitors who should be executed. But this is obviously a situation that would have to be more thoroughly investigated.
Plenty of articles showing Jewish hypocrisy.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=if+i+don%27t+steal+it+someone+else+will+meme&t=osx&ia=web
All I want is for Israel to just "go away". Whether or not the Jewish Supremacists who have inflicted so much pain on the Palestinians should be punished, I'll leave that up to others for the moment.
I think it rather strange that the posts here have never mentioned AIPAC or ADL. Even those who insist that Israel controls US foreign policy don't talk about it.
Weird. Just weird.
"The rare earth shortage for the U.S. will be resolved quickly. It's not critical at this point, and the first step to fixing a problem is acknowledging it."
Do you have any idea how long it will take to replace the RRE supply line? Apparently not. Most sources say 10 years minimum. Some say less, some say more. There are dozens of rare earths. There are dozens of dozens applications for those rare earths.
Then there's the question of whether or not "America" will consent to go to war.
People who just "shine on" the RRE problem make me wonder if they're in touch with reality. So ELI5. How is the US going to resolve this problem quickly? What is your definition of "quickly"? Next week? month? year? decade?
Walmsley has been reporting on this RRE problem for about 5 years at least. Yet NOTHING has been changed. Even now the "fixes" are so weak as to be risible. (Simplicius made me say that. I would have said "Fucking Stupid".) Show us something. I've been looking and I can't find it.
yeah well..... there is so much wrong in that post it is not really worth commenting on
Russia sees weakness, not peace. Moscow reads "Flexible Realism" and hears: "We can't beat you, so we'll pretend to respect you while arming your neighbors." The document calls for "strategic stability" but demands Europe rearm and Ukraine survive as a "viable state" (i.e., NATO-aligned). Putin knows America is overcommitted; he'll wait out the Trump presidency, probe for cracks, and exploit the contradictions. The "expeditious cessation of hostilities" means frozen conflict, not resolution, exactly what Russia wants: time to rearm and digest Donbas. The document's public release removes any leverage; Russia sees the plan and can counter it.
"Upon reading the entire National Security Strategy, it is clear there is no fundamental change. The very first sentence of the introduction is a declaration of continued pursuit of global primacy. The paper lays out plans of continued war and preparations for war against all of America’s “adversaries” both directly, and through “burden sharing,” by proxy." ~ Brian Berletic (a lot more. Suggest go to his X account to read it or watch the video. Brian is always Spot-on!! 🔥)
As America has become consumed by zionism, it has taken on the zionist character over time - full of lies, deceptions, obfuscations, agreement incapable. Its NSS is just another of these. Trump, whatever he does, is just another president of a country that is ruled by forces far above the president's pay grade. What is stated as intent today is shown after this president to be just another bump in the road towards its true goals.
America was founded on a genocide. Over 100,000 million indigenous people were slaughtered. Hitler learned from that genocide.
You seem to be confused. "100,000 million" is many times more than the entire population of the Earth. In fact, it's many times more than the total number of human beings who have ever lived.
Yes. And the best estimates are that the US portion of the "Americas" had between 3 and 8 million indigenous at the time of first contact, not this "100 million" nonsense. The left always exaggerates, and they lose credibility. And they didn't "slaughter" them all.
The Spanish empire did most of the slaughtering in the Caribbean and the Americas. The US just had a small mop up operation.
Does not change the fact that the entire continent was wiped off though... Americans do not realize that others remember this fact and do not want them anywhere close to their borders based on the history
It's OK.
He's jewish, so always confuses numbers like six million with 1/4 million.
( According to the ICRC, anyway. )
You probably need to take a 360 degree turn over that 100,000 million number.
Nope. 😤
100,000,000,000.🤔
Doubling down on fact-free exaggerated assertions?
His name will only be Annalena after the last stitch is removed.
This is untrue. Source: I studied the history and settling of the America West academically. The entire population at the higher estimate of the Americas, meaning South America as well, which had most of the population was perhaps 100M. Though it could also have been a handful of millions. Academics split the difference and call it about 50M. The pre-USA itself was certainly a few million at absolute most. Central America was the populated region.
It is certainly true that American Indians were ethnically cleansed and murdered many times in the American West, but saying that a 100M were slaughtered and then connecting that the Hitler (Rather than Churchill, and the British Empire for instance who actually invented the concentration camps, or the Spanish empire that destroyed the Central America Indigenous Empires) is incorrect. Its a lazy slur on Americans. Most Indigenous deaths came from disease, and accellerating collapse, which was completely inevitable from the minute contact was made between groups of people separated my millennia.
The Spanish empire decimated native populations well before the US was even a nation.
"Most Indigenous deaths came from disease", just as I'm sure most indigenous deaths in Gaza will eventually come from disease.
Ask the Navajo whether all that walking improved their health.
And yet the US proudly picked up where the Spanish and Portugese left or rather were forced to leave the Americas.
You misspelled Spain.
Good idea to look over your comments before hitting ‘reply’.
European diseases did more slaughter than European guns. Smallpox was introduced to the Americas by a man who came ashore with Cortez. The next three hundred years comprised a succession of plagues among the indigenous peoples that destroyed their force and the voices that might have carried weight in the settlement of both continents. Not that the European (especially pre-settlement phase) invaders weren't hideously and routinely awful in their behaviors toward the peoples they encountered, but the most grotesque of their excesses were abetted by the dark tide of overwhelming disease in a population with zero immunological defense.
What happened in the New World was mainly an ecological catastrophe caused by invasive species of microorganisms, not human beings, who merely served as the (unconscious) vector.
If people want to know who is in charge, Aaron Good is the man.
Brian thinks that America controls Israel, and not the obviously true opposite of that proposition. He's a jarhead, they get indoctrinated hard. You couldn't get him to think outside of his own operant conditioning. To him, its evil to suggest that Israel is powerful beyond his understanding, and that there is a power greater than the US "government".
Great with numbers and his defense sourcing, but he knows dick about history of the world. His head is bone white and he lives in Thailand, so he never leaves the house, obviously. I'm trying not to be disrespectful but he's such a stick in the mud about Israel that it raises serious questions. A major flaw in his world view and analysis.
he's simply anti-american
he sees an american "drive for empire" without the big picture
trump is working to end exactly that mindset
he has a big job because the US government is full of royalists and neocons
Trump isn't working to end that. That's delusional nonsense. Berletic isnt anti-American, he is anti-American imperialism and against endless foreign wars. Like MAGA used to be, until Trump got elected and began to disregard his campaign promises.
The Krainer Hypothesis, which is the hottest geopol theory right now, says that Trump isworking towards ending US Imperialism. There is much evidence for that. Thinking that nobody will be the hegemon is naive. America is just doing what any rational country in its position post WW2 would do, which is to prolong its power. I could agree that Trump is beholden to power, but that is the subverted American oligarchic system, in which wealth is used to usurp the constitutional power meant for the people.
not "US Imperialism," UK/US "special relationship" imperialism / hegemony: the idea that the US and UK have the right to rule, to take resources from other countries by violence, etc.
"That's our oil so get off it." substitute "rare earths" if you wish.
once again... nobody seems to be able to comprehend that the British Fucking Empire still exists in the form of the Commonwealth.
And it is not about "imperialism" so much as "hegemony" ..... the US has some fairly worthless protectorates (location is everything) but the brits still claim a piece of Argentina, and the Rock of Gibraltar. Some cocky mofos, those limeys
The Krainer hypothesis that Britain is an undead empire seems sound to me, yes.
Perfidious Albion is resurgent. They recently injected the Head of the Bank of England as Viceroy of Canada, having first tired of the tribulations of running two fake parties pretending not to be a Uniparty. But the campaign to return the 'Rebelled Colonies' (AKA the USA) to the fold of the crown requires some streamlining.
Mark Carney has been sent to help destabilize the USA through a regime change op. Canada is being sacrificed to that end. A failed state, and the concomitant disorder, on its northern border will help bring down the USA. So say MI6 and the Palace.
Krainer and Luongo seem like Q-anon though. "5D chess" and shit.
That's one way to critque them, for sure. But also, that's how Great Game politics are played. Look at the Molotov Ribbentrop Paxt, for example, or even Trump's recent sneak attacks/betrayals of Iran and Qatar.
Trump is working to end "what" exactly.
The American "drive for empire" has existed since Plymouth rock. The US has been at "peace" for only 16 years since 1776.
Putting faith in any president or political party is not going to accomplish anything.
that is a crock... Plymouth rock far preceded the Revolution.
Afterwards, america was attacked AGAIN by the brits...so if you are counting that in your timeline... FoS again.
America expanded across the continent and it BOUGHT large chunks of territory on its way. If the Spanish Empire felt itself put upon... well, tough shit Spain... go back to europe. ;o )
"Plymouth rock far preceded the Revolution"
Yes and so?????
so you're basically talking shit
the US bought half of the lower 48 and took the rest fair and square: by robbing the people who robbed it first
Manifest Destiny, ain't exactly like sailing halfway across the planet to rob india and indonesia and take australia and new zealand. THAT is an empire
Maybe a pedantic point here. America (USA) didn't even exist until about 150 years after Plymouth Rock. If anything, Plymouth Rock was an outpost of the British Empire then. I see continuity of agenda since then like you do though, no matter what label we put on it.
And there exists a school of thought that the "Pilgrims" and the "Puritans" were almost fully judaized English protestants. And the modern "Christian Zionists" are just a continuation of that same thing, as is the "Prosperity Gospel".
Good's point would be that the psychology (psychosis?) of American Hegemony came with the Pilgrims. IOW, your second paragraph.
American overseas Imperialism began with Cuba and the Spanish American War. That was fairly recent, 1898.
What was 54'40' or fight?
What was the Mexican war of 1846?
From 1776 to 1846, how was the move westward not imperialism?
How is the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 not a declaration of "overseas imperialism"?
I know you haven't watched Good's videos on Empire and the Deep State because his theme is that the USA was founded by imperialists and men of absolute greed. He presents a counter-narrative to the socialization that we all suffered beginning in grade school. It is why so many still defend "Capitalism" even as it is destroying the nation they claim to love.
Royalists? Explain, please.
I count in that term all the families that made their fortunes dealing drugs in the triangle trade... such as the Bushes..... and all the people that FDR said "should have gone to Canada after the revolution," but didn't.
many of the 400 families for instance... Carnegies, Morgans, and above all the fucking Rockefellers who have all had one objective since John D.
These people see the grand tour of europe as their duty, they are of course welcomed in all the royal houses of europe but particularly england.
So you mean oligarchs. Royalty is different.
no, I mean american royalists who would like to see the United States return to the empire, as Cecil Rhodes wished
It's amazing how much time Brian devotes to letting Israel off the hook. He has not spoken out about attempts to clip the wings of The First Ammendment, or the absurd make up of Congress, with its "minders" and 50+ standing ovations.
Either he's oblivious to this chicanery, or he's up to no good.
I do not think you've ever read anything Berlitic has written or watched a single video he's made.
I have he's an america hater and full of crap
Fool.
fuck off
I've followed him from his Tony Cartoluchi days. Before he even posted under his own name. I still watch quite a lot of his videos, even though they are all largely identical. I did watch the last one a couple of days ago, when he did his Zio deflection routine. Yet again!
To match the timeline you suggest that would have to be this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVKcjUQN0Fk
What in the world are you talking about? "Zio deflection"
You keep making a ridiculous claim and point at some source that doesn't come close to backing you up.
You're a troll. A saboteur. A propagandist.
Begone!
Two days ago he was claiming Hamas are on the same side as Israel. I wonder if the fighters in the tunnels and Israeli torture centres are aware of this?
You are a very unique guy. I wonder why you hate Berletic so much. You call yourself a "self-hating Jew". Anyway, most here don't know your extremely colorful history of gonzo-style activism, so I will post one link so others can be informed of your background of activism and political ambitions...
"A homeless taxi driver who unsuccessfully ran to unseat San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom this month has been charged with a misdemeanor for allegedly playing guitar naked while atop his purple van outside the San Mateo Expo Center two weeks before the election."
https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/S-F-cabbie-fails-to-show-up-in-court-for-showing-3300259.php
I salute you, sir, for trying to unseat the evil Gavin Newsom. Your tactics were probably counterproductive. I disagree with you about Berletic.
There is zero chance that Brian has not examined how many America oligarchs are Jewish and or Zionists, unless he is morally afraid to do so due to his America military indoctrination. Its possible that he views even the act of reseacrhing Jewish power as "anti-semitic" and just won't do it. But anybody with internet can figure it out in a few hours by cross referencing Forbes with wikipedia, and then just looking at the ethnic background of anybody in power or prestige (or notoriety like the Sackler family, Sassoons, Resnicks, Kagans Rothschilds, Warburgs, etc etc etc...) that hey hear about. Most of the time the person will be a Jewish Zionist. Its actually incredibly shocking how much power they have. Basic research. Start here, Brian:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_American_businesspeople
Does any other ethnic group have even a fraction of this power, and wield it aggressively? Not even close.
As one who has repeatedly gone down that rabbit hole and found it so complicated that it becomes unproductive, I totally support Berletic's apparent decision to not "blame the Jews".
Often the people that insist on "blaming the Jews" come across as Nuts. Congratulations.
Finkelstein told me once that Jews are over represented in the class of people we're trying to talk about here. But that isn't helpful at all. Heck we can't provide a label that is useful. I mean "Anglo-American Oligarchy/Deep State/Jewish Mob".... WTF? And that isn't even broad enough (or narrow enough)
Jewish people are highly represented among wealthy people in America; true. As a minority interest with a 2,000-year history of abuse and cyclic destruction of their wealth and their minority enclaves, they take great pains to protect themselves and their comity as best they can, in every way they can.
If folks would like to do some shocking research, a good place to start would be with the representation of Jews in literary, scientific, and creative endeavors of all kinds. A tiny, tiny demographic minority in the west has given rise to a truly shocking percentage of what we call the modern world. Most of the hatred proceeds from envy, which is extremely embarrassing for me to watch, as a nominally Christian white person of European extraction.
I agree with you.
Now let us think for a second why the Israelis seem to have become sociopaths.
Let's go back to the Old Testament and the many, many passages where God blesses Genocide and other outright crimes.
There is a "Chicken/Egg" problem in acknowledging this cycle.
• The Jews murder entire cities
• Cities unite to murder Jews
• Jews destroy a civilization
• that civilization rises again to destroy the Jews.
I'm not claiming to be a scholar. But IIRC my bible stories, Israeli kingdoms would be established and hardly last for even 5 decades followed by centuries of God's punishment in Babylon, or Persia, or Syria, or Egypt, or under the Romans.
We are seeing the same thing happening again in Israel. There have been many commentators who have explained how Israel has become a terrorist state which is devouring itself as well as the Palestinians.
A web search on "Jewish psychosis" leads to a lot of discussion.
Aaron Good's videos and articles on Meyer Lansky (founder of Murder Incorporated) expands on this cycle of violence.
Neutrality Studies posted this video today on the German state's weaponization of guilt which may lead to Germany starting another European wide war. At 44 minutes the discussion is German "Guilt Pride" (Schuldstolz) and Moral Superiority. TLDR: German society is acknowledging the holocaust and because they do they are morally superior to the rest of the world -- especially (right now) the Russians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMS1hEG_Qho
IMHO Schuldstolz is infecting the entire West. BRICS, and especially Putin, (secondarily Xi) seem to understand this psychosis spread across the West. They are doing what they can to protect themselves from this craziness.
Nothing here should be taken to mean that I disagree with you about "envy". But for some "envy" comes from not being willing to be as violent as the Jewish Mob has been. That violence accumulates a lot of wealth which is then distributed within the "Tribe" to create "legitimate" outlets. It is complicated.
Have you ever tried to have a debate with Brian on this subject? You could comment on his videos, especially on those where he openly invites proponents of the "Israel controls the US" to support their claim. This would be way more useful than name-calling. And this would bring us all closer to the truth.
I could cold debate Brian at any time on this issue. I am completely confident in my opinion, and could provide more evidence than we could discuss in several days of debate, just off the top of my head. And there are millions of people like me, we are just the most heavily censored people on earth. Which, again, just proves our point.
Berletic states his opinions as if they were facts
Soaker City would be Salt Lake City, I take it?
No, I'm in Canada. The name has nothing to do with the US corporation or whatever. Its my own terminology. I should sue them.
then you evidently are not aware of the mormon term "soaking"
it's okay, I was just reminded of it myself recently
I condole you. On your location I mean.
You are absolutely wrong to think the "tail wags the dog".
Berletic totally gets the idea of the "Anglo-American Oligarchy/Deep State/Jewish Mob" that has formulated the "continuity of agenda" that he continuously exposes. How else could this paradigm exist without a "power greater than the US government"?
I find your characterization of Berletic to be silly and naive.
It's a parasitic power that is not greater than the host, but has its hooks in pretty deep, nonetheless
the british empire is not a tail
the brits have a huge network of offshore tax havens
London is still at the center of precious metals and commodities trading and recently made a bit to be a clearinghouse for US treasuries
London is a financial pole of the US/UK axis
London's MI6 has a huge, extensive spy network
London is about to go down the toilet now and I for one will not miss it one bit
I guess you don't understand the "Anglo" in "Anglo-American Oligarchy". I am looking for a better label that is more compact, but those all lead to misunderstandings. Even this rather long "thing" seems to confuse people.
• Anglo: Britain, often more focused on the City of London
• American: The USA of course. I grant that the Americas cover half the globe. I'm not finding myself caring to debate such a triviality when "everyone knows" what is meant.
• Oligarchy: Look it up. If you don't like that Plutocracy works
• Deep State: usually members of intelligence agencies who might be considered "rogue", meaning they do what they want. Ollie North and his importing of Cocaine into LA to finance the Nicaraguan Contras is an example. Alexander Vindman is another. It is that group that continues to define the "continuity of agenda". It is RAND financed by the Oligarchy.
• Jewish Mob. It perhaps isn't fair to concentrate on just the Lansky operation. There are plenty of other ethnic organized crime societies. The Italians are the most popular in Hollywood, but Hollywood is run by Jews who don't want to expose the Lansky mob.
Hey, feel free to expand on this or critique it. Identifying these people is not going to be easy. It is a "vast <something> wing conspiracy" that we have hardly begun to identify. It is the result of end-state capitalism.
Back to what I thought was the thread about Israel controlling American Foreign policy.
I'm just guessing here because you seem to have changed the "Tail" from Israel to Britain. Britain is an empty shell, but the City of London is still a very powerful financial center. But, here's the rub, "MONEY IS NOT REAL". It is a mass fantasy that people think is real. Money is very useful. "imaginary numbers" (sq root of -1) are very useful. Both create real physical objects in our 3-dimensions (or is it 4). But it is "just paper".
Apparently we aren't even talking about the same thing.
Oy vey, must six million more die, so that your antisemitism can flourish?
Zero evidential basis for that number. That's called historiography, not antisemitism.
6 million? Divide by 20 and none of those were gassed, but don't let facts get in your way and keep spinning the debunked fairy tale.
My comment was entirely ironical.
Six million!? Six million??? Why should 156 thousand more die?
Brian’s analysis is second to none. He’s been correct about everything since I’ve been following him - nearly 4 years. And, yes - you are being disrespectful.
He's incorrect about America controlling Israel. That is clearly not the case. America gets zero benefit from Israel, and a ton of trouble and cost. There is not American verrsion of AIPAC, and America does not control Israel or its politicians, or media. America did not complain when Israel stole its nuclear material and technology, and shares intel with Israel. There is zero benefit to America from Israel. Israel also gets America to use UN veto power all the time, even if it makes the world furious and costs America massive amounts of soft power. Any bases in the Middle East could easily be in Arab countries instead of Israel. It is not needed as a "beachhead".
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/49-times-us-has-used-veto-power-against-un-resolutions-israel
It’s true that the US/Israel relationship is much less obviously clear-cut than most other international relationships. I used to be a tale-wags-dog thinker, like you. Mearshiemer (max respect) still subscribes to that paradigm. Whilst Israel obviously doesn’t serve the interests of ordinary Americans (and that’s understatement of the year), it must serve the interests of US elites, or it wouldn’t exist. The situation is further complicated by the opaque (deliberately so) reality of so very many US Oligarchs being dual-loyalty Zionist Jews, and so much of the media space (digital and legacy) being Zionist aligned. On balance, I regard an Israel as a 52nd state (Britain is the 51st). I also believe that when the coming US financial crisis arrives (AI bubble burst and sovereign debt implosion most likely), and collapses The Empire, global retrenchment at warp speed will be required, and the Zionist entity could be left high, dry, and defenceless.
Steve, what percentage of the US elites do you think are Jewish, Israel-America, or Zionist? The US elites ARE Jewish. They replaced the WASPS steadily since the 1960's. They now occupy almost every key position.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_American_businesspeople
Warren Buffet isn't a Jew.
Jeff Bezos isn't a Jew.
Elon Musk isn't a Jew.
Donald Trump isn't a Jew.
Marco Rubio isn't a Jew.
Hillary Clinton isn't a Jew.
"almost" is a very important word.
You ignore it and make yourself look foolish.
56 Member states in the UN General Assembly
that's (potentially) 56 votes for FucKing Chuck
15 of those states recognize Chuck as their Head of State
if that is not a fucking EMPIRE I don't know what is
many states in the Commonwealth are among the poorest in the world
they get nothing but exploitation from the Commonwealth
Dropping the f and s bomb all the time just makes you look dumber than you actually are.
King Chuck of Fuckingham Palace recently flapped his ears until he reached Canada to read the Throne Speech within view of the USA almost - something that has not happened in almost half a century.
"What foul beast slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" W B Yeats
The people who took over the UK centuries ago use zionism as a tool to manage both the US and israel. They rule israel through the US military and economic power, but have at the same time, in order to insure that America holds to its responsibility toward israel and does not falter, polluted America at all levels with zionists and Jewish money. So yes, in that sense israel manages America, but America remains the Empire and maintains its own agenda with regards to the rest of the world (also under the direction of those who can not be named).
Every great power seeks global primacy. That has to be your goal for planning's sake. You have to plan for every contingency, so that always looks like global primacy in toto. Completely unsurprising. Even China would say this, they would just say that they pursue it through financial and economic power. This is not deep analysis.
you're right, it is not "deep" analysis
global primacy and security are two very different concepts
Not when you are a great power. A great power would theoretically have the ability to rule the erath, but for other great powers and the balance of power politics that are a natural result. Any of the truly great nations of the 20th Century- Britain, Russia, Germany, France, USA, could have ruled the entire world, left unapposed. Some basically did.
"A great power would theoretically have the ability to rule the erath,"
A truly great power would understand that it can NEVER rule the entire fucking planet... the planet is too big.
that doesn't stop idiot dick taters from trying, though
That's silly, himmelhund. Britain, Russia, America all tried precisely to rule the entire world. So did Alexcander the Great, Persia, Rome, or the Mongols. Germany allegedly tried, too. That's engrained in pop culture.
Most of the countries never knew what the whole world was. The Spanish empire maybe, Napoleonic France, the British empire, nazi Germany... did Russia or the USSR ever set out to run the world? Not sure I ever really saw that. They were obsessed with creating buffer zone after WW2... for obvious reasons. The USA's stated goal from the Pentagon was Full Spectrum Dominamce after the collapse of the USSR. So it certainly was the goal of the US empire
Keyword: "tried". Next keyword: "failed".
no shit and they all FAILED.. get it??????
Russia never left contiguous Eurasia in its period of expansion. And it was not colonial it was multi-ethnic. Alaska was not much more than a trading post and they abandoned that readily though they could have claimed the Pacific coast down to California. Except, they were not that kind of Europeans. Nor did they ever commit genocide against the natives the way the Anglo US US arguably did.
I'm not sure that's 100% true. Neither is it 100% false though obviously, but for centuries neither the Chinese nor Indian empires sought expansion.
What about the Congress of Vienna after 1815? When European powers committed to working together as essentially equals?
yeah that was a tremndous success, and where are thoser empires all now?
the british empire outlasted or destroyed them all
and it still exists under a different brand.
Well if you look at a map you will see that both the Chinese and Indian empires are still largely intact.
Certainly they are far more cohesive than the British Empire.
Which isn't.
Are you new to this?
the "Indian empire" if by that you mean the Moghul Empire, it has long since vanished, first it was overthrown and completely dominated by ENGLAND, then india revolted and STILL couldn't shake off the parasite, became a "Dominion" of england, sent its soldiers to die in EUROPEAN WARS FOR THEIR KING.
India is STILL a member of the fucking Commonwealth.
There never was an INDIAN empire, but they were subjected by the persian moghuls
I kinda think India is an empire, because of its Brahmin caste system. Its ruled from like, Punjab, ethnically.
This 'Hound of Heaven' seems new to the pits. But he make make a decent oarsman one day.
"Every great power seeks global primacy."
No, it doesn't. Only Americans think like that.
Exactly. "Every great power seeks global primacy." ? No , not at all. That sounds like the "realism" of Mearsheimer... of course not correct if you consider different geographies, cultures and histories.
Nonsense. Powers that did not seek global primacy simply did not reach the level where that was possible. China, too, will seek global primacy, once it reaches a certain threshold where that is possible. It will probably never happen in a military or physical empire sense though, because other nations have power, and because of the nuclear deterrant. But they could do it with economics and diplomacy.
" Only Americans think like that"
that comment is so wrong that it completely disqualifies you from any intelligent discussion of anything.
WRONG
but americans and brits sure do
NO "China does not say this."
You're making the same error Mearscheimer always makes. China (and Russia) is not the USA. It is motivated by a very different culture.
SoakerCity actually shows how indoctrinated he is by the US system, about how the world 'works' or should work. Real history is totally disregarded... Perhaps the fact that the US has no real culture to speak of, implies they can't understand that other societies/countries may have more of a unifying and underlying understanding of it means to be part of their culture. Sure, not everyone in said countries would agree and that's pretty normal... and they would be in the minority.
not to mention the fact that most americans have 0 interest in history and are dumber than a box of rocks
What box? Just rocks.
This is true of most nations.
I'm Canadian with a history degree. I understand geopolitics and imperium.
During Obama's term Biden told Putin he needed to get in line. That Russia wasn't powerful enough to resist the US. Putin reportedly admitted that Russia may not be powerful enough to take on the US but they didn't have to be. They just needed to tilt the balance of power (which I took to mean China...or maybe with China?)
Brian Berletic is full of baloney
He was trained to look at arms production data, and he does that very well. He's a data guy.
Sorry but you are obviously just a Trump-cuck. You love Lindsey Graham and Ben Shapiro and you hate Thomas Massie, because your deity told you to.
Brian Berletic is the best geopolitical analyst by a mile and then some. He leaves Mersheimer and the rest far behind.
In a world of imbeciles, becoming the best analyst in everything is remarkably easy. Alternative channels have only one purpose: to provide a living for those who claim to be analysts through the social network that monetizes them. Those incapable of analyzing and drawing their own conclusions should be banned from social media and television to preserve their mental health. The Germans adhered to Nazism, the Russians to Bolshevism; you would have adhered to one or the other.
I wouldn't go that far, but I do agree that Berletic is an outstanding analyst.
TBF though, it may be that I see this because I combine his analysis with that of Hudson, Wolff, Norton, Ritter, Wamsley and the many analysts who continuously debunk the "Tail Wags the Dog" theory. (especially Good)
I see the Billionaires like Soros and Adelstein manipulating the US public, keeping us at one another's throats declaring that Trump is satan incarnate -- except when it is Biden. I see the facade of Money as Ellen Brown so clearly lays out in "Web of Debt".
Economists who provide rationals for the existence of money are paid quite well, as "Democracy in Chains" reveals.
Economics is merely a new religion that promises wealth and salvation to those who adhere to it.
Arguably, Hudson is absolute top shelf and Wslmsley is as excellent in analysing China business. The Ritters have been predicting the end of Nato for yonkers now, which is unlikely as all relevant governments are controlled by the US. The US will want to carry on with Nato as it is a source of regular income. Eg. Finland, population 5.5m, ordered 64 F-35s (as everybody knows, a turd of an aircraft, built to be expensive at the expense of everything else).
Berletic's analysis iprovides a tool to forecast the future, the others provide largely opinions which do not stand the test of time. All what Nato member say is irrelevant, as they adjust their opinions within short periods to be in line of what the US, even under the much maligned genocider Trump, demands.
See how they gave in to the economically suicidal demands of Trump back then in Scotland, see Nexperia, etc. The 100% dependent Zelensky in the White House; an act by a trained actor.
A facade of pluralism
Agreed save for NATO.
The cracks are everywhere.
I guess NATO's survival comes down to whether or not the EU will hold together. We'll just have to see what happens. FWIW, there's no timeline on these predictions so 1 year 12 years, just waiting to see the " cliff eroded so the house falls into the ocean."
The whole Western system will collapse under its accelerating economic decline, but for no other reason. Not because of anything emotionally related to Ukraine. Ukraine per se, or European "security" are irrelevant. I remember 2013, when suddenly articles appeared in the European broadsheets about what a wonderful country in the heart of Europe it is supposed to be. That build up happened well before the "Maidan". Ukraine has never mattered for Europeans. It always was anarse-end even in the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. I have read plenty of material of the time through the excellent online Austrian ANNO library. Europenas don't take an economic flooring for Ukraine, unless forced.
Ukraine is a symptom of the economic decline you mention. Certainly the amounts invested in Ukraine matter and hasten that decline. But it would have happened anyway.
Europeans understandably and naturally hate each other. Why should that change once they wake up from the Dollar-induced slumber?
Hudson and Wolff both being proud, unabashed COMMIES
fucking MARXISTS
AND they admit to it
They aren't commies, they are marxists.
And they make sense.
The US is suffering from end-state capitalism.
China's last war and last recession was in 1979.
I'd be happy to participate in an economy that didn't go to war and didn't have recessions.
Why do you hate poor people?
I don't even hate you, although you are pretty poor on history
Absolutely ridiculous. BB studies weapons manufacturing, basically. He has no geopol chops other than to point at the obvious Imperial nature of America. The Duran and many others are far better at geopol and economics and diplomacy that he is. He's good at a specific thing. He's really bad at geopolitical analysis, though. I guess he's always getting better. He basically is undeucated in history and politics. He's a jar head, a marine, and probably also too young to really know much. Ritter has decades of good geopol analysis on him. So does Larry Johnson, or most people that appear on Judge Nap, for instance. Does he ever really cite historical or political books, or political theory? Nope. He does arms manufacturing data. Nothing wrong with that, but he's not a true geopol analyst, let alone one of the best. He could be one day.
Gee, Brian gets invited to the Duran all the time.
Mercouris and Diesen have a lot of respect for him.
But then, you don't watch Berletic so what do you know.
I watch Duran daily, and Berletic often. He's great at what he does. But he's not great at politics. He knows production data and can point at America and scream. He's a great source for the Duran. He's just not himself the analyst that Mercouris for example is, and he's delusional about Israel.
I am totally tired of hearing Mercouris hem, haw, repeat himself, apologize that he is not a military expert BUT.... and then he can't resist a thinly disguised smirk from time to time.
he's right most of the time, but he takes 10 times longer than needed to say what he has to say... I count Mb right now so I quit listening to him
Turn down to 144 res, or download podcasts what you are in a wifi spot. Also, you can listen at 1.25 or 1.5x speed. Mercouris is the best geopol analyst I've ever heard, its unwise to stop listening IMHO.
>> Ritter has decades of good geopol analysis on him. So does Larry Johnson, or most people that appear on Judge Nap, for instance. Does he ever really cite historical or political books, or political theory? <<
They don't have histories of geoploitical analysis. The methodology of Berletic is rather quite similar to Mearsheimer, just he has a broader information view window.
Also he does not bother with the Trump wants peace, but Rubio, Hegseth, or whoever does not. nonsense. Trump loaded his first and second administrations with zionist warmongers. Trump wants to have a place in history, whatever the cost. He is no humanitarian. Mearsheimer, Ritter, Johnson & Co. rant on endlessly here.
They absolutely do have histories of geopol analysis. Many decades of. Berletic interprets arms production data. He's not an academic. He's a military trained technician to the best of my knowledge that is applying what he learned to data he understands. He is by no means a political or diplomacy expert, or really qualified or educated at all in that field. He dabbles. Nothing wrong with that, but he's a chicken and you are expecting milk.
"Brian Berletic is the best geopolitical analyst by a mile"
the best geopolitical analyst YOU know
It is obvious Brian has found his "core audience". In my opinion it is never a good idea to turn a person into a "hero" or an analyst who is 100% on any and all subjects. The world is a big place, and as someone here remarked, Brian lives in Thailand and outside a few years in the Marines he has never been anywhere else. He thinks the U.S. is all powerful, and he also believes that the entire US Govt. runs as a well oiled machine, with a single minded determination, when it actually is ruled from above the Govt. and it is ordered in a hundred different directions at once by the "bankers" and Oligarch special interests. This leads to the Chaos and confusion. Brian also thinks that somehow he knows more about the relationships between the U.S. and China and Russia. The last thing I will say is he admits that everything he "knows" comes from articles in corporate media, now how can you really think you know all the facts when you rely on a media whose job is to lie to the public. Just some things to ponder, I like a bunch of different views on any subject.
He went to China on holiday for a couple of weeks and thinks he's an expert 🙄
To be fair , he does read the think tank papers and listens to the public Senate hearings. But you struck the nail on the head when you wrote that the US Govt "is ruled from above the Govt. and it is ordered in a hundred different directions at once by the "bankers" and Oligarch special interests.
"He thinks the U.S. is all powerful"
Bullshit. Such a ridiculous claim can only be made by someone who doesn't pay attention to what Brian is saying.
If you take that to mean America controls Israel, and not the other way around rather than physically and productively powerful, it makes sense. If you take it to mean overall hegemonic power, and agency. Then yes, America would in that formulation be extremely powerful. But its not, its controlled by Israel.
No. Israel does not control US policy.
However, there are huge interests in the USA that support Israel that have to be satisfied.
Finkelstein says that if you have enough money in your pocket to get to Israel and you don't go, you aren't a Zionist. That leaves me with a problem of trying to figure out who these people are. Meyer Lansky wasn't a Zionist. He certainly supported Israel, but he didn't live there.
America is controlled by the "Anglo-American Oligarchy/Deep State/Jewish Mob". The participants are at the same time allies and enemies. If they did not exist, neither would Israel.
Israel is in the process of destroying itself. The "Oligarcy" will still be here in the US.
I would argue that Israel absolutely and obviously controls US policy, and there is overwhelming evidence for that.
And I'll say "show me". I believe any such evidence would on thorough examination show that the primary players are actually in the USA.
This is fair, I agree. Berletic would beenfit from a formal education in history at University level, it would help him to be something that right now he just is not. He needs to hit a lot of books, especially those outside of the American perspective. He should also listen to alt-right/dissident right type people describe power. There is a reason that they are heavily censored, but have the fastest growing audeince despite that. He should probably read Applied Elite theory, as a basic attempt to learn another (better) perspective.
Berletic actually analyzes the entire document and shows exactly why it is just repackaged Wolfowitz Doctrine. He doesn't just cherry-pick selected fragments that sound good out of context, which then confused many people who haven't read the entire document.
He proves convincingly, with extensive facts showing actual US actions and the wording in the document itself, that the US is and will continue to pursue global primacy and hegemony by force, and that this new NSS is not meant to change that in any meaningful way. It is an excellent and detailed analysis .
I would be interested to see, specifically, the objections that others may have to Berletic's "Deep Dive" analysis of this new NSS from yesterday.
The video is 1 hr and 15 minutes long. Well worth it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IBny7B--uE0
Yes, agreed. Regarding Israel, I do think though he could be a little more nuanced and acknowledge ALSO the Zionist semi-control of US Gov in particular regarding M-E strategy.
Sounds to me like Berletic is 100% congruent with Simplicius/Norton/Orlov/Diesen/MoA
Yes, he says "US does this" and "US does that" but what other label should he apply? "Anglo-American Oligarchy/Deep State/Jewish Mob" is cumbersome. It should be quite obvious that "continuity of Agenda" isn't a function of the US government but of the "Oligarchy" (fronted by the "Jewish Mob" financed by AIPAC) that actually controls the USA.
Here's the "money ball". This is what the USA has done for decades now. The most obvious example is Soros funding of "Indivisible" for the "No Kings" protests which accomplished exactly NOTHING! Just a continuation of the plot to get MAGA to hate the Woke while the Oligarchy steals the wealth created by Labor.
How is it that something this obvious is overlooked by so many here?
"And the purpose of this rhetoric is to convince especially the European public
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that the United States is abandoning Europe and siding with Russia, maybe even siding with China, forcing Europe
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to divert huge sums of its own national resources to now confronting containing
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Russia, possibly even China. "
Berletic doesn't hate "America". He, like me, hates the criminal capitalists who have destroyed the American dream and implemented the "K-economy".
Those who disparage Berletic must be con-men paid by the Oligarchy to keep up the fraud. Or they are just stupid because they want to believe something about the USA that hasn't ever been true.
I used to be in that group. I was proud to be an American. I truly believed that America was good. I was on a friend's houseboat in Honolulu Harbor attending a party when his professor (or someone) brought up the 9/11 coup in Chile. To my tremendous embarrassment, I insisted that the USA would never have overthrown the Allende government. It took Sissy Spacek and Jack Lemon in the movie "Missing" to get me to think about it again. It took another decade for me to realize that was precisely what happened. America just destroyed a nation to enrich the Oligarchy.
This is happening right now, today, everyday, in the USA.
China's last war was in 1979, a minor skirmish with Vietnam. China's last recession was in 1979. China has raised 800m people out of poverty. China has grown its economy in excess of 5%/year since 1979.
Now, watch as some ignoramus brings up the non-existent NED sponsored "genocide" in Xinjiang. Or publishes a photo of Tiananmen Square from 30+ years ago.
Folks better pay attention to Wamsley's "Inside China Business" channel. The USA empire is so screwed. But don't worry, the American Oligarchy will be more than happy to steal your wealth so they can maintain their position of privilege.
Well said.
I largely disagree about MoA though. To me, it appears that he doesn't understand the continuity of agenda, and he focuses far too much on individual politicians
and the daily he-said-she-said theater too much.
You are right, it's a brilliant video.
I agree, Berletic hammers the "continuity of agenda" angle but looking at US history, it makes sense. The US is a settler country, the result of progressive invasion by Europeans who drove the indigenous populations off the land. After ethnically cleansing the natives during the Indian Wars, US turned its attentions to adjacent countries including Mexico and Canada, then applied the Monroe Doctrine to the hemisphere. Following WWII, it became increasingly aggressive internationally. In short, at no time has it ever changed direction on its dominant tendency to dominate, invade and exploit other nations. It is addicted to it. Any promise to reform I would take with the same confidence I would a drug addict swearing to go cold turkey.
There are some changes - they acknowledge that the Europe is almost lost and they seem to try to suck up ever last drop of juice of this dying body. The war in Ukraine continues or not depending on the Europeans who scared of and angered by the Hegemon scream in agony. They hate Russia for all it is as it did not fall for any of the multiple religions that the West has fallen for - mass migration without integration, politization of all institutions, CO2 cult. Whom the elites in Europe serve is difficult to say but certainly not the people of Europe. Whether the US lost control or is just playing the Europeans is not that important as long as the Estonization of Europe is not stopped. I thought originally that its germanization would be bad but it seems silly Estonians are even worse.
It is not a multi polar power world. RUSSIA is not a super power. It struggles to be a near peer. We live in a uni polar world. USA is it seems going to be a selective world power. No long entrenched in Post WW2 compacts.
You pretty much summed it up. And the US knows...
Delusional “born in the Usa” drivel.
Trump is kissing Putin’s arse, meanwhile China won’t even let him kiss theirs.
Go try invading Venezuela. Your candy arsed military will get the same treatment they got in Korea, Vietnan, Iraq, Afghanistan and soon Ukraine( where you entirely lacked the guts to put any troops at all, apart from a few drug addled spooks).
Russis and the US are natural allies as anti-woke globalist ideology. China and the EU now share totalitarian values. I suspect China is heavily involved in woke globalism but for others, not for themselves.
So China is woke now?
Your palpable fear of China has scrambled your ability to think logically. Comparing the EU and China in those terms is dumb beyond redemption.
In any event China has already defeated the US, they are just to stupid to realise it yet as are you it seems.
I suggest you actually read Ken's comment. He did not suggest China is woke. He suggested it has encouraged that insanity in other countries.
A good example is the "green" scam, which China has encouraged in Western countries, strangling their economies of cheap energy and de-industrializing them, while China has built a huge fleet of modern coal-fired power stations and become the monopoly supplier of wind turbines, solar panels and batteries to countries mired in the woke "green" scam.
Complete bullshit either way, like our China conspiracy fantasies do we?
Ah, another sore loser.
Sorry Bazza, how has China foisted the Green scam on the West.
Didn't we dream it up all by ourselves and then foist it on the rest of the Planet?
WE didn't dream up the Global Climate Crisis
it was first dreamed up by the Rockefellers, broached in "Limits to Growth" and immediately injected into UN agendas for future policy.
the United Nations is like cancer and anybody who doesn't realize that the Commonwealth has 56 fucking votes in the general assembly and the UK is STILL on the Security Council needs to do a LOT MORE READING and a LOT LESS POSTING
It seems you know very little about China's #1 status as the biggest generator of renewable energy as well as the biggest installer of wind and solar. Have you been to China? Everywhere they have installed EV chargers. 50% of new cars are EVs. I can guarantee they aren't planning on running them on coal power. Their policies on polluting energy changed once the life expectancy began to drop. China used to be massively polluted. They are turning this around.
Generation
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-renewables?tab=discrete-bar&time=latest&country=IND~BRA~CHN~USA~CAN~DEU~AUS~GBR~FRA
Installed solar
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/installed-solar-pv-capacity?country=CHN~IND~ESP~AUS~USA~DEU~BRA~FRA~GBR
Installed wind
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-installed-wind-energy-capacity-gigawatts?time=2000..2024&country=DEU~IND~ESP~AUS~CHN~USA~GBR~BRA~FRA
The Chinese know which way the wind is blowing. It's blowing through their 500+ GW of installed wind turbines.
Any idea how many green electricity production is installed in China daily? They build 1 nuclear power plant every 68 days. Investigating heavily in fusion. Installing gigawatts of solar every month, build a super efficient high voltage transport system, allowing the transport of electricity without much loss over thousands of kilometers.
What is a green machine? Is it a question of the machine's color? You are all complete lunatics.
1 nuclear power plant every 68 days, huh?
I call BULLSHIT on that.
provide ANYTHING to support that ridiculous claim
You seem like the typical urban environmentalist who worships the green god. I know environmental science, not ecology, a term once used to describe someone who sorted their waste at home. Sustainable development doesn't exist; development is an unpredictable evolution that only unfolds to address unforeseen situations. I'm a scientist, an engineer, and I challenge the science of publications by academics who fiddle with vials and pipettes in a lab according to an agreed-upon protocol, completely detached from nature. My publications are merely technical reports of industrial achievements, not fairy tales. The environment is my job and my passion; I despise the prophets and cult-like gurus who bamboozle the weak-minded like you. The planet is in no way disturbed by the petty antics of humankind. The planet terraformed itself and generated life through chaos. Humans have evolved for hundreds of thousands of years with the sole purpose of adapting and surviving, yet in 2025, humans, like you, are regressing and whining. Excuse my tone, but I loathe ignorant and simple-minded people.
FWIW: I think your point is that the "Climate Changes". It has for millennium. This is just another transition.
I can accept that. I kind of came to the realization that Al Gore was selling his "Inconvenient Truth" to make money.
But, let's not say that the climate isn't changing.
Humanity has some really difficult choices to make.
somebody gets it
we should avoid pollution at all costs, clean it up when it happens,
and protect species
Yep, the climate changes all the time, and we simply have to adapt.
And it would be VERY clever if we prepare for the next micronova as we adapt... we could get our grid taken down at any time and then it could be back to the stone age..it's apparently happened before
It isn't a scam. Enormous amounts of power were required to move forward.
What gives it away is "modern". IOW, less pollution while China develops a Thorium reactor that can provide the earth with power that will last 65000 years.
People just want to hate China, Why?
China, EU and WEF share totalitarian and technocratic values
many american oligarchs do, as well, and many within the US military and government complex
The EU wishes it was one tenth as technocratic as China.
The two societies have absolutely nothing in common, except the US has imaginary beef with both of them.
"imaginary beef?" The EU has been leeching off america since the Cold War, letting the US pay for their defense, and now is (once again) trying to involve the US in ANOTHER shooting war in europe.
Nope, it is time for NATO to go away and the EU can plead all it wants as it swirls the drain. I live in europe and their is steady encroachment of freedom of speech. the government of the UK is totally against its own citizens in favor of illegal immigrants, and the rest of europe seems to be only slightly less so.
It was Victoria Nuland and her idiot State Department that organised the coup in Ukraine, not the EU.
Now the Russians have given them a lesson in FAFO and the Americans are falling over themselves to bail out. They are right to do so, but let's not pretend it's not their mess.
Your characterisation of the UK Government, which is admittedly hopeless, is fucking ridiculous. The idea that illegal immigrants are given preferential treatment is actually pathetic. It's a classic example of idiots punching down. Dhdh is a nutter, but at least the people he demonized do exercise considerable power, what power do fucking Somalis have? The latest proclamation from our government is that they are going to confiscate any valuables that Asylum seekers have, and you think that's preferable treatment?
If all the illegal immigrants disappeared tomorrow your life wouldn't improve one iota! We would still have a neo-Liberal political establishment, including the thickies' favourites Reform, that puts Corporations before people.
The billionaires have paid millionaires to persuade you that the problem is the poor. It's actually pathetic!
Ken that is sheer nonsense!
Russia and China are essentially non-expansionist and want a co-operative world, whereas the USA can't keep its nose out of other people's business.
"Anti-woke Globalist ideology" is utterly meaningless in terms of international relations.
What possible benefit to Russia is there in replacing a rock solid, mutually beneficial alliance with China, with a subservient relationship with the USA?
Oh, you both hate transpeople? Not nearly enough mate.
The US thinks every other country should want to be It's plaything. First it was India, now it's Russia. But sadly for Washington, no one trust's you any more.
We have bona fide Nazis on here and you've somehow managed to out-dumb them. Astonishing.
agree with your statement, except I would prefer to refer to the UK/US Axis... as the UK has been steering american foreign policy for the better part of 100 years.
China, blah blah blah. You should go see a vet to get your leaves trimmed; absorbing too much noise disrupts the flow of neurons. No Western country can boast the same high levels of public satisfaction regarding democracy, freedom, etc., that China displays.
So how many alternative voices are allowed in China? If all you get it propaganda from one side it is easy to say the vast majority agree with it. As far as supporting the Chinese gov't, it has made life much better for the average Chinese. It was coming from a very bad position. I would say similar to Putin coming from the chaos of the early 90s and both the American and British industrial revolutions of a century ago. In the latter cases, yeah the cities and the jobs there sucked in many ways, but people flocked there from the rural areas because it was an improvement on starvation or back-breaking labor. People who are coming from really bad situations like it when their conditions improve and are in favor of the governments who helped improve them. Who knew? Benevolent dictators can be great -- as long as they (or their replacements) stay benevolent.
Benign dictators. This benevolence doesn't exist in Brussels, where the dictatorship truly lives up to its name, ever since the term was first used. What opposition is there in the Brussels palace? In the USA, with a single party with two names? Let's stop this nonsense, European. It was by leaving the EU that I discovered the dictatorship of the Brussels palace and its vassals, the majority of EU member states. I also had to work as a consultant for the Commission to confirm what I suspected. Athenian democracy functioned this way: democracy, then tyranny in cases of absolute emergency (war), and tyrannical towards its vassals. Imposing only binding laws on the people, while boasting of immunity, resembles the tribal rules of early times, the divine blue blood of the nobility of yesteryear, a malevolent dictatorship.
I was referring to China, not Brussels, as a benevolent dictatorship.
The idea that China is exporting "wokism" or any other form of cultural degeneracy to America, or to anywhere else in the world is one of the dumbest of all the dumb anti-China ideas out there today and there are a LOT of those.
Consider what that would actually take to achieve, presuming we can discount the possibility that Beijing has magical occult mind control powers.
To manipulate anyone, let alone a massive and highly complex nation like the USA, you would have to know more about them than they know about themselves.
Is that Beijing today? Are they more capable of puppet-mastering America than Washington DC, New York or Los Angeles?
Did Beijing teach Washington how to feed the USA bullshit?
Was it Shanghai that taught Wall Street how to rob dollars, nickels, dimes and pennies from widows, cripples and orphans?
Was it Shenzhen, Chengdu or Nanjing that tricked Los Angeles into snorting gigantic mountains of cocaine and producing vast quantities of mindless drivel and homosexual pornography?
Examples abound, but let me point to just one in order to elaborate my point in more detail.
"Glen or Glenda" also known as “He or She” and “I Changed My Sex!” is a movie glorifying transvestitism that was produced by the notable transvestite and pornographer Ed Wood in 1953. It was loosely based on the story of the famous transsexual Christine Jorgensen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_or_Glenda
You may be familiar with the name “Ed Wood” from the 1994 biopic of the same name directed by the legendary director Tim Burton and starring Hollywood superstar Johnny Depp.
Who wrote, produced, made, distributed and bought any of that? Was it Mao Zedong, Xi Jinping or Fu Manchu?
It was Americans, then another group of Americans, and then a lot of the rest of the world plus some more Americans.
America has to wake up and take responsibility for the damage that Americans have done to America, and to the rest of the world, not the Chinese.
you overall comment isn't "wrong" but when you say "Trump is kissing Putin's arse", that's total crap.
Trump is not beholding to Putin in anyway.
Trump is a total dick and I hate his guts, but there is no way he works for Putin.
I didn’t say he worked for Putin.
In the context of Ukraine , he is indeed doing as I said. Trump has zero leverage there and decisions in relation to it are at Putin’s discretion. Trump just wants out with a “business deal” as a fig leaf. Putin will chuck him a bone.
Your definition of "kissing Putin's arse" is very strange to me.
I have no idea what kind of "bone" Putin might give. Trump's attempts so far have met the "rock of Gibraltar". The terms have never changed. They are not going to change.
Yes Trump wants a "business deal". Putin is willing to listen to his pitch over and over and over again. He hasn't changed the terms.
I kind of find myself annoyed by people who insist that Putin is stupid. I find him to be the smartest man on planet earth since 2000.
Agreed
I have visited the Rock of Gibraltar twice... somehow it is still in british hands.
the spaniards are not pleased
trump is not kissing anybody's ass,
he is dividing up the world into spheres of influence, TOGETHER with Putin and Xi
god, this is so difficult, it's like explaining quantum mechanics to my dog, except he has a better chance of understanding than the idiot armchair quarterbacks posting here
"It is not a multi polar power world. RUSSIA is not a super power."
Ha, ha, ha... how's that propaganda for morons about "Russia is so poor it has to send soldiers into combat armed with shovels" working for you in Ukraine?
Oh, wait... it's not working. The US has been so totally defeated in Ukraine it's begging for a ceasefire and has to lie to its own people about not being in the war.
The dollar has lost *half* of its value since 2023, India and China openly defy US sanctions and send US emissaries crawling back to their sewer in Washington with their limp dicks between their legs, and Russia tells the US and the entire crowd of military dwarves hiding behind the US that it's either Russia's way or the highway.
The failed state in all the above is the US, not Russia. It's been reduced from playing world hegemon to bullying banana republics in its own back yard.
The key decision in the US's upcoming wife-beating festival in Venezuela isn't the US's decision - it's Russia's decision, if Russia will send advanced air defense and hypersonic anti-ship missiles into Venezuela to wipe out fake-stealth US bombers and can't miss, easy to sink, US aircraft carriers.
Russia isn't a "near peer" in carrier-annihilation technology. It's decades ahead of the US in hypersonics as well as in stealth-defeating multispectral radar. It's the US that's struggling these days to be a near peer, too late discovering that with decades long procurement cycles just printing money is not enough to stay competitive.
Brilliantly well said, John.
But mmm maybe there can be a Grand Alliance because both countries think a Woman should have a womb?
I'm sure the Russians think that's more important than the West's history of broken promises?
"Ha, ha, ha... how's that propaganda for morons about "Russia is so poor it has to send soldiers into combat armed with shovels" working for you in Ukraine?à
Europeans will never fight against the Russians. It's a well-known fact in Europe that men get pregnant; we wouldn't want Europe, because of births linked to the front lines, to become an extension of Russia. It happens faster than you think, one shovelful, one dickful…"
Mr Oreshnik enters the chat
we got a NEOCON here, folks
Sounds like the GM work experience neo-con , still got the trainer wheels on.
There seems to be a new one pop up every week.
What is a superpower? Once that's defined, we can start talking about what comes next.
" RUSSIA is not a super power."
If Russia is not a super power they're certainly giving a pretty fair imitation of one.
Don't call slow walking this war against NAFO "weakness". (Ukraine is a used condom-a broken battering ram) When the gloves come off and the hammer comes down on these Euro-tards, you might reconsider your "analysis". The smart Europeans have already packed it in and left this sad excuse for a home, a culture. WW1 and two...say hello to a full on WW3. The Truman Show and Idiocracy are overly charitable in their view of our current circumstances. As the BrylCreem-Fox News Warrior has said, "FAFO".
"Russia is not a superpower"
please send your coordinates and I will refer them to Moscow for a visit from Mr. Oreshnik
a little experience with Risk does not qualify you as a strategist, Mr. Big Board
fucking dumbass... russia is still busily kicking NATO's ass and proud of it.
We'll see if the NSS also includes countering the globalist depopulation agenda--the "jab" and "climate change"! Both of these were powerful planks in the EU elite agenda.
I don't see these as part of a globalist depopulation agenda. I see them as expansions of government control over the populace -- and conditioning said populace to accept (even embrace) them.
‘Trump's New National Security Strategy Recasts Europe as Strategic Liability’
That is a fairly surrealistic, materialistic narrative. It is mostly reflecting on the desires of the speaker, Trump. Both continents, North America and Europe suffer from the same illnesses going back to the same sources historically. America and Europe can not run away from each other. They exist in an interrelated complex structure, like Siamese twins. One dies without the other.
No , the Euro poodles will collapse without America, America does not need Europe at all, in fact it is a liability to the US , useful only as a market for its overpriced B grade military tat and a as a holiday destination for cashed up Florida retirees.
Dunno mate, it'll be lonely at the UN, with only Israel and American Samoa voting with you. 😁
Gets worse American Samoa isn’t in the UN , maybe in the international food aisle in Walmart.
What happened to Pulau?
Abcdefg. I was showing my ignorance mate. 🙁
I know there's always a tiny South Pacific country that votes with the US and Israel on every issue, but I couldn't remember the name.
I was trying to continue your joke. Fell flat...
No not at all mate. It's on me, I wasn't sure I had named the right micro-state. 👍👍👍
Voting at the UN is similar to betting by drunks in a bar.
And about as consequential.
What do you mean when you say "Euro poodles"?
The peoples or the present crop of rulers? The Euro rulers are going to collapse in any way as the present developments, economic and demographic, in Europe are absolutely unsustainable.
If you mean the European nations, you should refine your analysis.
The European nations had, and still have,
the possibility of an understanding with Russia, creating an economic and political power equivalent to the one of China which will soon become the first world power.
Europe has nothing to offer? Well, 450 million plus people, including some of the most highly educated people in the planet. Together with Russia that would make, 600 million people in the largest landmass controlled by any power.
Whatever the temporary circumstances, the fact is that Russians consider themselves to be a European nation. I think the Russian side is ready for this solution. The European political class of today is clearly not.
But what are the the prospects for this political class in let's say 20 years time. An Eurorussian agreement can only happen after a true revolution in Europe, but the fact is that this revolution is an absolute necessity for Europe's survival.
It may eventually happen or not, this is different question, as survival is not guaranteed. Not guaranteed for a Europe submerged by aliens, and neither for the US or Russia, which face the same problem of demographic collapse.
If Europe or Russia could not survive Islamic majorities, the US could also not survive becoming a second bigger Mexico.
The case that the US need Europe is easier to make.
Now, people talk of the West versus the Rest. It is an apt description of the present course.
The antagonistic nature of this order of things is the responsibility of the aggresive cabals (plural) of the US, as no other great power was thinking of confrontation when the US opted for a strategy based upon the desire to become a world empire and to weaken to subordinate all others.
This is what the Wolfowitz doctrine was all about.
Now, if Europe would ever join the Rest, the US position would be untenable.
That would also not be a desirable outcome and in fact Russia and China have been offering a sane alternative which reminds of the mentality prevalent at the Congress of Viena, which
reintegrated defeated France in the concert of great powers.
Hi Luis.
Europe has some very intelligent and educated people, but we are a fractious quarrelsome bunch, led by absolute arse-holes. Is it really worth engaging with us. 100, even 50 years ago, yes definitely, but now?
I'm not sure what we offer that Russia can't get cheaper and better from China?
We have shown the Russians repeatedly in word and deed that we consider them Untermenschen, so why are we surprised if they take the hint and start playing with all the other kids that we think we are too good to play with?
Also if I am one of 150 million Russians, why do I want to share my absurdly abundant natural resources with 500 million greedy Europeans?
"Also if I am one of 150 million Russians, why do I want to share my absurdly abundant natural resources with 500 million greedy Europeans?"
Col Doug Macgregor in a recent interview, sarcastically remarked when asked about the Russian interest in taking over Europe..."Why would the Russians want to march into Paris and start paying pensions"? (paraphrased)The Colonel practices what used to be called, "Realpolitik".
Share, no. Sell to, yes.
The peoples or the present crop of rulers? Both.
"including some of the most highly educated people on the planet." Reading your words, a great deal of doubt, even a certainty of doubt, sets in.
"the possibility of an understanding with Russia, creating an economic and political power equivalent to the one of China which will soon become the first world power." Ojala'
But the US will never allow it. If it is to happen, then the US must first be taken down a notch through a real crisis. It might be coming:
https://finnandreen.substack.com/p/the-on-going-decline-of-the-us-empire?r=ewq2s
I think that the existence of the present crop of euro”leaders” that apparently Trump so much hates is contingent on the ability of the US to project power. We have the leaders the US desired us to have, all these arguments seem to me American self justification for whatever they’re planning next.
There’ll be a revolution in Western Europe (not a bottom up one of course) when the elites realise the game’s up and a realignment of loyalties is the healthiest course of action. New names and faces will appear miraculously (all coming from junior branches of the same political families) and the relationship with the US will be toned down. The same parties Trump seems so hopeful for might actually be the ones that provide the transition. It’s survival time baby.
How Spain’s gonna fit in all this is a bit of a mystery to me but not as big as the why the country is still going along with this.
'But what are the the prospects for this political class in let's say 20 years time. An Eurorussian agreement can only happen after a true revolution in Europe, but the fact is that this revolution is an absolute necessity for Europe's survival.'
Right on the core of the issue.
Europe has nothing America needs - or have you seen something I haven't?
They are both short of something that is more critical than rare earth minerals: Common Sense. Maybe as time goes on they could build the Coalition of the Blind and the Sightless and somehow find their way to half way normal.
Euro poodles of course is directed at their rulers, politicians , all of the EU and the military in Europe.
European culture and values however appears to have been completely undermined by the aforesaid leadership. Europe is and will remain a very minor player in world affairs. It is a caricature of what it once was. Individual countries may recover some of their character, but-the EU is an utterly failed experiment.
How could this be...
"In many ways, it signals another final death knell for globalism, though not necessarily—in the case of the US—neocon-ism."
...IF "there’s increasing chance for Democrats to eventually seize back power and reverse virtually all of Trump’s initiatives."?
Are the neocons gonna go liberal?
I’m a bit confused. I thought you were sympathetic to maga not miga. Why would you quote Steinlight extremely arrogant essay without serious criticism . I thought you were critical of America’s blank support for Israel’s massacres.
Given trump’s complete betrayal of the maga agenda, I don’t see why you are suddenly praising Trump. His attacks against immigrants are performative, they aren’t focused on significantly reducing immigration
I get the impression that this is a different person writing this article. The quality has really gone down.Was there a change of staff at simplicious?
I don't think Steinlight's views were the major point of this post.
It's just very interesting to see an American Jew making essentially the same points in 2001 as MAGA is today, minus the "how does this effect Jews and Israel" angle.
Last paragraph was too harsh on Simplicius. He gets abuse from the Trump-is-infallible crowd when he criticizes Trump, which is not rare at all. But I agree 100% with your first two paragraphs.
What matters is what you can impose. The US can impose Monre Doctrine 2025 because, in the Western Hemisphere, there is nobody who can mount any form of resistance, and American strengths are magnified (2 oceans for navy to operate, plentiful air bases), combined with extremely weak potential adversaries.
America continues to enjoy natural advantages - those 2 oceans continue to offer incredible natural defense.
Russia tried to impose its own and unfortunately found that Europe is a crowded place full of strong adversaries.
What drivel, try Invading Venezuela , it will be worse than Vietnam, when you had some semblance of political and military competence (not much but). And the yapping Euro poodles are strong adversaries for Russia- hilarious.
Your incredible natural defence nonsense is easily disproved by the fact that millions of unarmed people , just walked in via Mexico.
There is also the small matter of Russia’s hypersonic nuclear capability to which oceans provide zero defence at all. Useful though for Russian subs to get closer to NY before launching.
They arent going to invade Venezuela.
Hubris destroys empires.
Used by dates, destroy empires.
Trump clearly insinuates so, but no balls and no capability to do so. Maybe try invading California, there are more drug traffickers there anyway
"there is nobody who can mount any form of resistance...combined with extremely weak potential adversaries."
China can, will, and has
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/xi-jinping-opens-huge-port-peru-funded-china-rcna180289
“Russia ready to welcome ‘unlimited number’ of Indian workers – senior official” from https://www.rt.com/india/629121-official-russia-ready-welcome-indian-migrants/
Workers. Not immigrants.
Like, "normal" to every century in history, anywhere in the world until five minutes ago... mutual beneficial, peaceful exchange without the strong tang of population replacement and fifth columns.
workers-turned-immigrants, that's how it started in Europe in the 1960s: import cheap labour, followed by extending immigration laws that allow for family reunification. cultural, socio-economic consequences, well now, that's beyond the sitting political elite's pay check.
Because that is how it started in Europe in the 1960s does not mean that the path they followed is inevitable.
we're 60 years further in time, yet the same pattern of unfavourable, misery-laden labour migration is repeated. world-wide.
Only if the host country lets them become part of the citizenry rather than simply being employed as guest workers with no right to remain.
It has been obvious for some time now that the EU is woke globalist and the US rejected woke globalism by throwing out the Biden regime. Still this aggressive totalitarian ideology of woke globalism is actively at work subverting the very foundation of the American Republic and its Constitution, Bill of Rights and principle of will of the people. The EU and the US are now grave threats to each other.
The US can destroy woke globalism and woke globalism can destroy the US. There is already a deadly serious, political war ongoing in the US between globalist woke and the Republic. Today, the EU is no longer compatible as allies unless the American woke globalist left somehow seizes power again.
Anyone who uses woke globalism without irony has brain worms. Go get your head checked dude.
Swatting one fly does not stop the maggots hatching, the movement of the carcass is just the indication of the sheer numbers of maggots under the skin.
Woke ideology is ultimately of no relevance to the geopolitical situation, it’d not the cause of anything of significance. It fulfils to functions:
1. Branding one half of the uniparty structure so the illusion of democratic renewal can be maintained.
2. Keep the people divided and prevent the development of a third class based option.
Nothing else.
Your hero Donald Trump willingly appointed Scott Bessent, who was George Soros' right-hand man and is a homosexual "married" to another man, as the Secretary of Treasury. I'm afraid you have fallen for the WWE kabuki theater. Scott Bessent is the very epitome of "woke globohomo", and he was appointed by Trump.
"The US can destroy woke globalism and woke globalism can destroy the US. There is already a deadly serious, political war ongoing in the US between globalist woke and the Republic. Today, the EU is no longer compatible as allies unless the American woke globalist left somehow seizes power again."
I appreciate what you are saying but you overestimate the threat to the US - the EU is destroying itself and the US is going to kick it into the dustbin of history if the europeans don't change their ways
ARC - America, Russia, China... those are the three superpowers and they are carving up the world into spheres of influence already.
Needless to say, they don't consult John Q. Public or any of the loudmouth posters here (and I am not talking about you. ;o ) just saying that the EU is not a threat to the US
So … America pushes Europe down a ditch and blames it for falling?
A bit rich if you ask me.
I think you underestimate the extent to which this is personal for Trump. European leaders with a handful of exceptions were vocal "never-Trumpers" and continued criticism after he was elected.
So he has delivered an even bigger "fuck the EU" to them than Victoria Nuland.
Agree with Simplicius, I don't expect this document to last beyond his term.
There's always somebody that thinks the entire US policy is based on Trump's emotional fragility. That's very unlikely. Victoria Nuland was motivated to destroy Russia due to ancient racial/religious hatreds. Gonzalo Lira was murdered for unearthing this when he psycho-analyzed her. She was the heart of the US effort vs Russia, and when she was cashiered, the war was basically over. Here is Lira shortly before his death. Sorry no timestamp.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzR---YDDIQ&t=1234s
RIP to the good man Gonzalo. He was the one that truly opened my eyes to what was going on in this conflict.
"There's always somebody that thinks the entire US policy is based on Trump's emotional fragility.§
It's called "orange man bad". Very primitive stuff from primitive people
too late, the damage has been done
this document may only last three more years, but it has given notice that Paul Wolfowitz is and always was an asshole
Its more like Britain insisted on continuing to play The Great Game and America just wasn't hard for it, especially when they saw Russia eat every haymaker and just laugh and spit out a tooth.
We don't get to decide things. We are just a willing lap dog
If by we you mean Britain, you are an oligarchy, and so is the States. They decide for either case, but they don't seem to be on the same page anymore, ie over Ukraine which seems to have been a British baby. A continuation of the "Great Game".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Game
Yes I do mean the UK.
We have made a much bigger bet on the Ukraine and so we're chasing our losses.
But We will be back in line soon enough ready to be given our orders.
The Great Game, never made any sense at all. The Russians wanted Istanbul, not India.
Ukraine has been a CIA / MI6 project since the late 40s. A lot of guys snuck over the border from Ukraine and the Baltics and were never heard from again
fuck the EU, they made their own (collectivist) bid and now they can lay in it.
In that sense, I have to agree with that Nuland bitch, demon that she is
The Jewish and Zionist hand-wringing and teeth-gnashing over their loss of political advantage and media mind control here in Canada has been something to behold in recent months.
Even those Canadians who don't recognize that Oct 7 was, at least in part, a false flag operation are majority outraged by Israel's disproportionate response.
I had said decades ago is the only way Palestine wins is if they migrate to "the west", become successful and outbid the Zionists for political control. It looks as if we are now on the verge of that.
Even in Israel, the disparity in birth rates meant that Palestinians could outvote Jews under a fully democratic one state solution. Bibi repeated this week that there will never be a 2 state solution. So the genocidal apartheid state will continue until some force steps up to stop it.
I think Canada's Laurentian Elite keep the worst impulses of the Kosher Mafia at bay up here.
Jews in America on the way out? I see Europeans not marching in, Europeans are all Russians now, there’s a witch hunt not even seen during the Inquisition, all are suspects all are enemies within and spies are everywhere. Conspiracy terrorist and misinformation must harden European unity that only exist by chasing anti-Eurocons. Never seen Macron kissing his wife the way he kisses Zel or even Xi, do hope I get the peace Noble price.
"Does it matter that the majority non-European immigrants have no historical experience of the Holocaust or knowledge of the persecution of Jews over the ages and see Jews only as the most privileged and powerful of white Americans?"
A self-admission of the truth about Jews - that they are the most privileged and powerful of white Americans? If they are so privileged and so powerful, how can they possibly claim to be victims of discrimination? But we who are full of 'guilt' over the so-called 'Holocaust' can not seem to connect the dots, can we? They claim israel and the US are allies and support each other, but I have never seen for myself in all my years where israel has ever supported the USA, or any other country for that matter. However, I have seen on multiple occasions where israel has acted against the US - the attack on the Liberty, JFK, RFK, 9/11, getting America into Middle East wars, stolen security secrets, lies, deceptions, etc. That country is not an ally - it is a calloused parasite living off its host, the Western Alliance, and inflicting harm on any country, including and especially the US, that it believes crosses it for any reason.
even a parasite originates from somewhere.
Congratulations, Sir Victor - SPOT ON!
A masterful comment summary of REALITY - DaSynagogue of Satan rules daUS - it might as well be named USRAEL!
Here here. I found that letter to be an incredible, if not unintentional, self exposure of the inherent elitism of some parts of the Jewish intelligentsia.
There are obvious and manifold reasons to oppose the actions/existence of Israel, for those who have a strong instinct for truth and justice.
And I say this with no sour grapes for any religious/ethnic group.
And the casual 🤡 racism towards the latino menials, wow
Except jews aren't white, as any jew that isn't trying to get something out of you will gladly inform you. And the racism towards the latino menials? As if no latino could ever ascend to their heights of court stenographer for the Empire, when if latin América is distinguished in any art, more than jews, in fact, it's literature.
I have small hat fatigue. 🤔🐸🐸
They are mostly Europeans - not a drop of semitic blood in them. Only a relative few have any ME blood.
it makes no difference, for they consider themselves "chosen". discriminating, bullying and playing God over everyone else. such nice neigbours (not).
'small hat fatigue': a very poetic way of expressing it ;-)
My ancestors and their inquisition were very lax is another way to put it. 😁