“Zelensky's situation can be compared to the humiliation of the King of Prussia, who in 1807 was ordered to stand on the bank and wait for Napoleon and Tsar Alexander to meet on a raft on the river in Tilsit.”
Since there are hardly any black Americans who aren't the descendants of white rapists and black people, which bit is responsible for the low IQ that you impute? I assume that it's the white bit.
Very well, the "American" space programme wouldn't exist without the money and labour stolen from Africa. Have you white Americans stopped raping black women yet?
No lie, Holmes. One investment bank can suck up more free government money than all the welfare queens ever to cash a check. Just they don't call it "welfare".
And I am not poor, but I know how the game is played.
Don't forget that Fico was more than ostracized: they tried to kill him over it, just like that whacko at the golf course - a recruiter for the AFU's foreign legion - tried to kill Trump. The later might have been worse because the guy knew Trump would be there even though to my knowledge no one had made public Trump's itinerary for that day.
I was wondering if the CIA was still body guarding Zelensky. I had heard awhile back that "military advisors" were sent by Biden, but they were obviously special ops to protect him.
Ratcliffe has to keep a close eye on the people under him. CIA is among other things a hit squad.
OK, let;s game this out. Suppose the SBU manages (with a wink and a nudge from each of the CIA, NSA, FBI and Secret Service) to assasssinate Trump and they aren't blamed.
That is a problem with NATO tactics. All equipment should be regarded as temporary and disposable as per soviet doctrine. Equipment being hoarded and saved looses its practical value.
NATO only knows how to fight one-sided wars, where they have the luxury of picking and choosing which weapon to use. If I was a Ukrainian facing a 10-1 disparity in artillery, FABs, in an undermanned unit, I would use anything I could.
This smacks of "why don't our gooks fight like their gooks? "
"It's not that our weapons are over priced and poor value for money, because of our profit driven MIC, it's because our allies are poor soldiers and can't use them. "
I don't buy it.
The Ukrainians appear to be excellent, brave tough soldiers in my opinion. If they can't get a tune out of the instrument, then it's likely a poor instrument.
“The Ukrainians appear to be excellent, brave tough soldiers, but their training has been consistently inadequate. Their use of advanced weapons has been correspondingly poor, as one would expect.
At the same time, these NATO weapons may be over-engineered for a peer war battlefield. They are built under a bureaucratic philosophy of acquisition planning and testing, rather than a philosophy based on reasonable battlefield imperatives.”
You know that Zelya is in deep shit when even the "British defense sources have accused Zelya and the AFU of wasting expensive weapons." Looks like the Ukrainian honeymoon is over, the rats compete at finger-pointing the scapegoat to hang for this surreal debacle.
Not only did they waste ammo and equipment like it grows on trees, their whole battle plan was stupid and incompetent.
Never pull back, keep feeding men into the death grinder, over and over again. Total lack of layered defense lines, and making it obvious where they would go every time they had an offensive. They treated their soldiers with no regard.
I half wonder if some of these stand and die units are not put there on purpose to help with the 'denazification' requirement from Russia. In this way it keeps those hardcore Nazi fighters from grouping to coup Kiev.
"It’s inappropriate to hold the U.S. government or the American public hostage to the war in Ukraine"
The United Snakes of 'Murica is fully responsible.
Ukraine Project was a great big "OWN GOAL".
Trump can wax as prolifically about the Curse that is zElensky, but in the end it is the
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT that is ultimately responsible to the world at large for their contribution to the Project Ukraine. The Biden admin is only responsible within the U$A for it's malfeasance.
He was something else, was he not? An amazing human, a full blown character, living a life shining the light onto the darkness, while many dare not. 🙏🏼
I am speculating with some ray of hope that we are watching just a small portion of the judgement pour out. It will get worse and worse as they try to hide. Others don't realize there is no where to go.
Jer 23:23 Am I a God who is only in one place and cannot see what they are doing? 24 Can anyone hide from me? Am I not everywhere in all of heaven and earth?
I find the *mysterious irony* that a teenager employed by Musk is taking a wrecking ball to the Western idols just in time to save teenagers in Ukraine. A remnant will remain, let us hope they live to their potential.
My God he loved to smoke, can picture him grinning away in heaven. With a smoke!
One has to admire those who have gone against the narrative. Viktor Orban suddenly goes from shit disturbing nincompoop to top of class.
Those who admire and obey Klaus Schwab and Zelenskyy suddenly emerge as what they have obviously been all along.
Abundantly self evident, where has this now instantly obsolete narrative taken us? Will the Emperor's new clothes suddenly reappear? I don't stink so!
Mattias Desmet must have a lesson on what to do with Billions of people suddenly waking up from Mass Formation. The only menu item dished out gives them cognitive dissonance. TRUTH
Is the European vision the same old paradigm? Give all the most evil Banderites sanctuary in all the obscure corners of the world, for doing such a good job blocking the "brave" Ukrainians, while sending even more Slavs to their inevitable fate. Will they ever really cancel operation paperclip?
One thing is for sure Tattoo removal stock will go up faster than big pharma is going down. Banderites love their body 'art'.
Lira🙏 the mention of his name brings up…so much, good, bad, or yet, middle path. He was a joy, to watch, his energy, the smoke, the coffee…takes me to a time beyond the “far~see; again, condolences to his loved ones. Not one to ever miss his round table gatherings; the bright bulbs, yup. The Love Revolution continues, sigh… thru the “years yet” of undeniable diving deep, shadow work is afoot, perhaps a turn of another few decades, centuries….carry on, my peeps, God Speed. The Sun will rise in the East, and… set in the West. 🌅❤️🐈⬛
I used to watch Gonzalo's round tables. He wasn't saying anything different than most of us who knew what was going on, saying, but he dared to say it from Kharkiv. I hope his family sues Nuland/DoD/StateDept into oblivion for what "happened" to Gonzalo. The Ukrainian prison guards, paid by our American taxes, killed an American! SHAME!
They are already history legends, not to mention Mosgovoy, Motorola, Givi, Zakharchenko, Castillo, Bentley and all the first hour fallen heros of the Donbass. They all died, tragically, for the good fight. Concerning Lira, I kind of agree with S. Ritter. His chutzpa was almost suicidal.
Very well said… I doubt the administration will spend DOGE energy on casting light on the atrocity and complicity of USA in “permitting his death” — if not actually ordering it… remember the black female drug using basketball player the U.S. spent lots of energy to get returned to the U.S.? There was NO effort to get a truth-teller (Lira) returned… soooo sad… RIP Gonzalo.
How to bring free speech back to life? Gonzalo is disposed of, but Gates, with so many others, live on, resplendent in glory, bought with the blood of innocents and the duped.
I stopped watching Scott Ritter after he went berserk on Gonzalo being CIA/whatever plant. It was so ridiculous/vicious trying to tear him apart without any evidence, and at the time when each voice against this war was scarce and mattered.
Who is without sin? Those who got cancelled in the early days have way more credibility. Went looking for this recently and was amazed at all the cancel devices deployed still to stop you from seeing this. Finally found it, not so obvious.
If you have never heard of Building #7 or event 201, where this clip starts, do indulge yourself. You will see what created our hesitancy. These were some of the voices shouting, he's naked!
Some of us might have gone too far. Those sources who never felt the censorship blade are no longer valid to me! Those, many now dead, who felt the sting of injustice will live forever in our minds.
There will be a new industry to erase ones errors and jump on the new bandwagon. Did you get your shots is already a loaded question? One could say, stay the hell away from my daughter, with a certain new conviction.
We have the smallest foot in the door of a return to sanity. The legacy of genetic modification and Wi-Fi interference raise valid concerns.
The eagerness to mandate proven poison and endless wars begs many questions. What else did they slip past the regulators and how many kill switches have yet to be triggered just for starters?
Is Epstein really dead? It is not a moot point. Who actually blew up Nordstream is #1! As Lavrov said on arrival to the 1st of the new talks, "and for your actions, you have to answer".
Did you catch the short (~30 second) video of the street side of Building 7 showing the damage? Only ran across it one time a week or so after, then 'never again'. That video is one of the reasons I tend to discount popular narratives.
Also, I think Simplicius has a X account. Maybe he posts there before he sends out the substack posting This would allow Cheets time to prepare his post before the substack hit. Or maybe you should just ask Cheets how he does it?
It is a silly contest to feel proud of winning. Cheetos wins for content quality. Actually reading the post gets points. Typos are frowned upon.
Anticipating Simplicius' next article and having some substantive comment or major agreement available to immediately slap down, that would deserve some honor.
Not sure if got first but near once or twice, I obviously have my silly moments.
We have now seen an irreversible turnaround from the US. Hope it lasts all the way. Feels like forces are now mobilizing to "remove" Trump. Good article, Simplicius!
I think the removal will be another means. Whenever Tulsi cuts CIA in thousand pieces and Musks autistic artists comb through Pentagons dark budgets the Deep State will strike back. 5,56, 7,62 or 9mm. Or probably a false-flag Iran drone attack.
I agree and share your hopes Mikey. The words: Feathers & Ruffled spring to mind, plus Wailing, Gnashing Teeth and Rending of Hair. Would love to be a fly on Madame Fond of Lyin's wall.
Yes. It is hard to grasp how the European leaders and especially, the unelected, EU leaders are thinking. Didnt they all hear Nuland 2014 say: F’ck Eu?
Merkel confessed that Minsk 2 was just hoax to give Ukraine time to build up its army so we know they have done dirty games for years. But it was Obama/Hillary/Nuland and then Biden who masterminded the provocations which led to Russias invasion 2022. EU stood by looking amazed and shocked. UK was of course instigating turmoil by themselves since 2014 and then the notorius operation ”Derail Peace” from Boris Johnson.
But when War broke out all the EU reacted as a herd of sheeps and now they have been running around for 3 years bleating. All of the sudden a new reality is forming and why dont they just take a deep breath and then say: Ok, we got fooled.
Is frau Leyen even thinking or is she driven by some sort of Russiahate?
there's several layers of EU, its unelected leaders being one of them. 'us plebs' don't want war and might not even see Russia as an enemy. then there are the farmers protestiing plus we're the ones trying to deal w/the consequences of unvetted immigration on a daily basis, not team Von der Leyen. so whatever Frau Ursula c.s. are thinking, it's only the top layer of the curdling.
Useless Ursula has the advantage of wasting 37 nations common taxes on whatever she wishes. I, as a deplorable taxpayer, in one of these countries cant do much other than what I am doing. Protesting without resorting to violence.
Please don't forget why Europe has so many immigrants. There are a majority from the Middle East or thereabouts thrown out of their homes by US bombs and Israeli missiles. American drones killed anyone that moved whether or not you were an enemy. Europe has the US to thank fr being overrun!
There will be a Great Power detente. If Russia returns to the dollar system they get a release of money, dropped sanctions, desired outcomes in Ukraine, and US business investment. US asks for an end to war, withdraws US troops to Western Europe, and asks for lower global oil prices to satisfy U.S. consumers on inflation. US gets the Americas, China gets Asia, Russia gets referendums in Ukraine and 4 Oblasts, plus the Eurasia Heartland. US gets a freeze on Iran pressure on Israel. Russia gets Western Africa/Sahel. Together they all destroy globalists and return to great power nationalism.
How did the Cold War detente work out in the end for the USSR?
You can never make deals with the Anglo-Saxons, all such deals are temporary ceasefires allowing them time to regroup and attack you again when you are least prepared.
The last four centuries have shown that very clearly.
>If Russia returns to the dollar system they get a release of money, dropped sanctions, desired outcomes in Ukraine, and US business investment
All of these are bad for Russia:
1) Dollar system. Why would they want to return to that? It is a mechanism of neocolonial extraction of real wealth out of other countries. Would any elite that should not be facing a firing squad for grand treason voluntarily participate?
2) Sanctions are good for the Russian economy and society -- it is forced re-shoring and forced re-industrialization, both of those badly needed. No sanctions means a reversal of those positive trends.
3) The "desired outcomes" are desired by the Russian elites. But very bad for Russia. The **necessary** outcome is to take over the whole of Ukraine. The Kremlin has been stalling for three years precisely in order to make yet another shitty for Russia deal with the next administration that will not solve anything and place the country in an even worse situation in the future (as all previous such deals did).
4) "US business investment" is another word for neocolonial subjugation. Russia doesn't need foreign investment, it is the richest country on the planet.
Stop with the negativity. You can't have the whole Ukraine because past kieve , they HATE Russians. you will probably get more than four oblasts plus Odessa. Russia won't abandon BRICS. It offers security. You are already proving to be wrong so far. So maybe instead of mouthing out, listen , watch and learn
Maybe they'll throw a curveball and announce China or North Korea will take full ownership of Ukraine to create a neutral buffer zone. Then just send in a few million single Chinese men to run the place.
The illegal Kiev government and its supporters hate the Russians and any Russians (a majority in the Eastern Oblasts) would have been second class citizens and treated with hatred and disdain. No wonder the citizens of those Oblasts voted to return to Russia. The rest of Ukraine would be nothing but a terrible trouble spot for Russia if it ever had it returned.
Something about Kissinger? My enemies, my friends…or a favorite partial quote from an author I enjoy, Klarissa Pinkola Estes, (spelling); leg trap, foot holds, beware. Women Who Run With Wolves, a great read along the good red road…❤️🐈⬛
Of course a possibility. Trump backing proposed “anti-semitism” legislation is not a good sign.
Reversing the overweening power of the jews in the west (and possibly even in Russia) is impossible now. Their power can only be contained in certain areas.
That’s why the world must bifurcate economically — into the healthy and living world, and the infected and dying west.
Clearing around a blazing forest fire…let it burn itself out while we watch.
G'day Archie, have you seen the polls done in Isreal re slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. It is very strongly supported also the removal of Palestinians from Gaza is the same. So Isreali Jews seem wedded to Zionism whilst the Jews residing elsewhere less so.
Draw from that what you will. Yet there is a strong correlation between Zionism and Judaism as their scripture are used by Zionists to support their position. Secular Jews are certainly another kettle of fish.
They will not "return to the dollar" per se. They were cut off and they're getting the ability to trade in USD back.
What that basically means is, they will be able to trade post-sanctions with the US using the USD, in the same way they're trading with BRICS nations using their own national currencies. They will continue to do that.
They pretty much said this already.
For some reason I expect Trump to get the US closer to BRICS or even try to join. Because it's good for business and, honestly, could be better for the US than to remain in their collapsing empire pretending the economy is doing well.
Russia has spent the greater part of a decade immunizing itself against the USD. Little did they (or anyone) think that the west would seize Russia’s Central Bank deposits in western banks.
Trump will be gone in four years. I expect the western banking system is planning new dirty tricks.
Imperative to follow two (non-Jewish) thinkers on this: Richard Werner and Kathleen Tyson, who’ve seen and done almost everything in banking (Werner with the Bank of Japan, Tyson with the NY Fed).
If Russia goes back to the US dollar trading system it will immediately create an inflation crisis that could potentially crash the Russian economy. Russia is on a path from which they cannot retreat without very serious consequences. What will happen to the massive amounts of Rubles created to fund the conflict by the Russian Central bank? Creating a demand for dollars in Russia would plumet the value of the Ruble and destroy faith in the currency.
Good point. The Russian economy did so well because of the sanctions. All the products that were imported had to be made in Russia; as the Oligarchs could not spend their money on crazy Western luxury products, there was enough money to build all these new facilities. It would be interesting if the Oligarchs injected the money in the form of loans or in the form of shares (bank loans were not used). It would be interesting too if these new facilities are cost-effective (this should be an easy goal, as Russia does not have the Western countries high taxes). There are numerous questions to be answered!
"All the products that were imported had to be made in Russia;" No. Most products in the world before sanctions were made in China and that continued to be the case after sanctions. The Chinese don't give a hoot about US sanctions.
It turns out that almost all European businesses don't care about US sanctions either. They continued shipping into Russia though third parties like Kazakhstan.
What sanctions did manage to do was convince oligarchs to repatriate over a hundred billion dollars of their wealth back to Russia, to re-invest into Russia. That caused a huge entrepreneurial boom. It also helped that many western firms (about a quarter of the big ones that were here) left Russia and that opened up niches. For example, once German auto makers closed up their official dealerships and gray market dealers importing through Kazakhstan and similar took over, the Chinese moved it.
The Chinese have almost totally wiped out German and other car brands with a wide array of truly spectacular Chinese cars that nobody in the west has ever heard of. But the Chinese have, and there's a brand for every quality and cost niche.
There's also been huge import substitution in things like oil and gas equipment and so on. So no, not everything Russia uses is made in Russia. It continues to buy from friends like China and other friendly countries, but yes, there have been huge import substitution niches opening up, and the flood of venture money from oligarchs repatriating billions to Russia has financed those import substitution businesses.
The new businesses are indeed cost effective, primarily because they understand Russian markets better than foreigners. For example, when McDonalds sold all 800 of their restaurants to a billionaire who was McDonalds largest franchisee in Russia, his new business took off like a skyrocket and makes more money (and profit) than McDonalds did.
The problem with not telling every detail. Everything you write is correct, but the cost of importing is high for some products. There are products that are bulky, or you have to use energy (e.g., cooling) to keep them in good shape. All these products have a nice advantage when produced close to the consumer. The railways and roads from West- to East-Europe are excellent. You can transport this more demanding good easily. Not for the connections between Russia and China (but these connections will be completed, but what happens then to these industries?).
Well, you don't need to tell every detail, but when you make general statements you should make sure they're not generally inaccurate.
For example: "There are products that are bulky, or you have to use energy (e.g., cooling) to keep them in good shape. All these products have a nice advantage when produced close to the consumer. "
As a global statement, that's wrong, in fact wildly wrong for most such products in modern times. That railways and roads from unfree Europe (the West) to free Europe (the European part of Russia) are more or less good doesn't matter. That's primarily because transport has become so inexpensive compared to the past, while cost factors such as energy and destructive government policies have become dominant.
Also, "products" in English is general understood to mean manufactured products, not agricultural commodities or specialty foods that require refrigeration, so those bear discussing as their own cases, not as part of some global statement. But even in those cases the contention that energy is required to keep some manufactured products (such as vaccines or other medicines) cool means they have a nice advantage when produced close to the consumer is also wrong.
The classic example of all the above is how China became "the world's workshop," with so many manufacturing industries moving from the US and Europe to China. It turns out that modern shipping has such extraordinarily low costs of transport that it is far cheaper to build products, even bulky products, in China and ship them to the US than it is to build in the US near to the consumer.
Another example is the ongoing deindustrialization of western Europe in general and Germany specifically. It's far cheaper to build in China and ship to Germany than it is to build in Germany and truck just a hundred kilometers to a local consumer. Why? Because the price of energy in Germany and the cost of the social welfare state is too high to be competitive, a slight advantage in transport costs not being enough to make up the difference.
It's true that utilizing globe-spanning logistics to achieve and retain extremely low transport costs requires skills. Those skills, in fact, played a key role in underpinning the export earnings of many western European economies. A good example of that were the truly superior logistics skills of Dutch companies trading in flowers or Belgian companies trading in fresh fruit. You can see any theoretical example of closeness by rail or road between Amsterdam and Moscow is not a factor in an export business that flies fresh roses from Ecuador to Amsterdam, clears them in a vast flower market, and then exports them by air to Moscow or even farther to Vladivostok.
Another example is the re-export of Conference pears from Belgium to Russia, where Belgian distributors "owned" that market in Russia, even though the pears they exported for the most part weren't grown in Belgium.
What happened when the EU committed suicide on orders from the US, foolishly trying to "cancel" Russia, was that Russia responded by canceling them. For a few weeks the usual astonishingly broad and deep variety of fresh fruits became visibly thinner. Conference pears disappeared entirely for three weeks. And then they and everything else appeared again.
What happened was that when western European superstars of export logistics and distribution were cut off from Russia they were replaced by perfectly competent businesses from other countries. EU businesses were so strong at logistics and distribution they wouldn't allow even a toe hold for other competitors, but the moment those EU businesses paused their work in Russia their competitors rushed in.
It turns out that in modern times logistics and distribution skills are a commodity. They can be purchased with plenty of experts from EU countries willing to teach those skills to businesses in South America, Africa and other centers of agricultural production. Instead of buying Conference pears through a middleman in Belgium, large Russian distribution companies started buying direct from producers in Serbia, South Africa, and South America.
It was the same with almost everything else the EU provided. They were replaced almost overnight with direct relationships with vendors in the majority of the world's countries which said "no thanks" to the US's invitation to commit economic suicide. There also was a huge rise in Russian startups, like vast greenhouses to grow specialty crops (like elite varieties of tomatoes) even in winter. Those take advantage of very low energy costs in Russia and, it is true, faster transportation links. But the issue there is transportation links within Russia, not import links.
So now when asparagus is in season I buy fresh grown asparagus locally, and when it is not in season I buy asparagus grown in Mexico, Peru, or a variety of other countries which grow it. Citrus fruit comes from all over the globe, with a lot of citrus imported from Morrocco, Egypt and other warm climates. African and South American countries are the source for many fresh fruits and veggies when it is winter in the northern hemisphere.
China is a direct neighbor of Russia with superb rail and marine transport links. The lower cost of energy in China means they are even more competitive against western European countries for products like automobiles or appliances. China is also pulling ahead in technology. Look at the new Chinese cars and they are technological marvels that make flagship German brands look outdated. Chinese e-cars are far superior to anything western Europe is producing, and at a fraction of the price.
I'm just saying, the low cost of transport by sea (and air for high value products) has made the world a far more interconnected place. With the high cost of energy and destructive government policies like you see in unfree Europe, one way that not only countries but also private citizens can break free of local idiocy is to buy from more free and more economically productive countries even when they are on the other side of the globe.
"That's primarily because transport has become so inexpensive compared to the past, "
You have obviously never shipped anything internationally. It currently costs ten times more to move a 20-foot container than it did just 5 years ago. You have absolutely no clue what you are talking about.
Remember that sanctions harm the sanctioner by cancelling foreign profit centres. Instead third parties take up where the US stepped down. Nothing like shooting yourself in the foot!
G'day Seeker I feel you have placed domestic currency creation and foreign currency purchases in one boat. Nabiullina is an oligarch plant protected by Putin due to an old agreement and she is not helping the situation with 20% plus interest rates.
The domestic economy is nigh on self sufficient due to the sanctions but exports are restricted so a boost in export sales are beneficial even if paid for in dollars that do not have to be invested in US Treasury bonds as previously was the case but be spent on gold or whatever technology components they might need.
Read about China's actions re its dollar surplus which they repatriate back to China.
Domestic and foreign currency purchases were forced into one boat because of necessity. I know the Ruble is a fiat currency that is money in Russia so it is what is used to pay domestic bills. The Russian government was forced to increase government spending because of military spending thus they had to increase their Ruble supply to cover expenses. In the beginning it was stated that Russia would run out of money which was absurd as the Russian Central bank creates the Ruble. The real issue for Russia was always inflation. So the sale of Russian exports in Rubles created a demand for Rubles outside the Russian economy. This demand outside of Russia allowed the Russian Central bank to export inflation to China and other states needing Russian exports. This is no different from the US exporting its inflation having the world's reserve trading currency and world reserve asset. The 20% increase in interest rates was intended to deter commercial bank lending and encourage loan repayment. As money is generally created through commercial bank debt issuance and destroyed when debts are repaid. The increased reinvestment of money from the Russian wealthy and the increased consumer confidence which continually increase the Russian money supply had to be controlled as eventually the consequences of the good times had to be dealt with before it got out of control. Maybe Nabulina over compensated who knows, but her being proactive was necessary. We can only wait to see how it plays out.
Putin would be an utter fool to trust the US, and betray his BRICS partners - incl Iran and China, where the main non-dollar trade is achieved. In 4 years time the situation could be reversed just as quickly.
Ritter, Johnson and McGovern talk about karkhiv and Odessa. But there are also arguments against it because it would leave Ukraine in an impossible situation where it could not provide for itself. On the other hand, Poland, Czech Republic and Romania are supposed to be in talks with Russia to see what parts of Ukraine they might gobble up. It all depends upon the Banderites Russia is happy to leave those Nazis under the control of Poland but if necessary they’re also willing to completely take them out. The USA funded these criminals even before World War II was over. They were directed to attack Soviet troops. Scandalous.
Sorry, I wasn’t clear. I meant both systems, Russia will continue to operate with BRICs and bi-national trade and currency settlement, but also allowed to use SWIFt, US banks, offshore assets, etc, etc. they can use and access dollars and the US System as well as BRICs. Counterintuitive, but the stronger BRICS is, the less the $usd can be weapon used, and donor becomes more palpable to use in conjunction w BRICS mechanism.
"but also allowed to use SWIFt, US banks, offshore assets, etc, etc. they can use and access dollars and the US System as well as BRICs."
I live in Russia and know many Russian businessmen involved in import/export and I can't think of a single one who's interested in using SWIFT or US banks. They're a pain in the ass and the sense of not having to deal with cretins that has flowed from finding other ways to settle payments that don't involve SWIFT or US banks is so totally wonderful that nobody wants to go back to dealing with cretins.
SWIFT is an ancient, horrible system, like something designed in the last century (it was) to make business inefficient and slow. Nobody in their right minds wants to use it. Will some Russians use SWIFT, and even US banks, for some transactions? Sure, but it's going to play only a very minor role.
As for offshore assets, there are plenty of those in play for Russians, just not having anything to do with the lawless West. The whole unreliability of the West has left a bad taste in the mouths of oligarchs. They have a choice where they can spend their time and salt away their money offshore and they no longer want to do that in London, Paris, Switzerland or the US. They're also not stupid, and they know the old saying, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
Now we know Henry is a troll as well. You can't see the IP addresses of people who post here. He's either just a jerk or, just possibly, Simplicius has achieved a new level of fame, enough to warrant the attention of western "security" organizations and their wannabe groupies.
Fwiw. Some are saying the American oligarchy put Trump into the White House precisely for the complaints you list here. Not the entire oligarchy, of course, but the ones who have been identified as the tech bros. Chris Hedges had an article where he identified the corporatists and the oligarchists. He claimed the first were Democrats the second were Republicans, but we seem to have missed the fact that Maga is actually a third-party formed from the ashes of the Republicans and Democrats a group of oligarchs who are trying to clean up the mess created by the Zionists.
The thesis is fascinating. Sometimes you can see the jiu-jitsu. The Trump is performing. Other times he looks like an idiot.
I look at the compromises Trump is making with Putin and how he is attacking Netanyahu and the way he is treating Zelensky. It’s like this group of tech bros. Understands that the US lost the war the empire is collapsing. They’re doing their best to save it.
Of course this is just putting the best spin on the situation. I’m just keeping an open mind.
That's an interesting perspective, but I don't see the control of an oligarchy in play. I think it's much more chaotic than that.
I think Trump is one of those charismatic characters that comes along every now and then in history at just the right time, happenstance, to resonate with many people and a viral movement happens. I get the feeling Trumpism is a genuinely grass roots phenomenon and that when the career politicians see the power of it their instincts to glom onto whatever is the rising trend convince them to cast their lot with Trump.
Those right moments in history for such viral trends in support of a charismatic character are often very chaotic times of transition in which established patterns give way to aberrations. One of them today is the extraordinary concentration of wealth in the hands of a few tech bros, staggering wealth that was achieved outside of traditional means and at times seemingly overnight.
It's possible that in today's world the richest man in the world clearly has a screw loose here and there, who gives at least some credit for his innovation to a habit of ingesting psychedelics, which have the effect of inducing schizophrenia. (Just pointing out the technical effect of tripping is, indeed, what is described clinically as schizophrenia, not usually listed as a characteristic of successful people in pop psychology books.)
That the charismatic character himself (or, very rarely, herself) has a wide variety of flaws doesn't mean he might not be the man for the times when it comes to viral trends.
Julius Caesar was such a charismatic, deeply flawed character. Like Trump he also hit his viral stride late in life, finally rising to the consulship before using the military resources that gave him to pillage and enslave a peaceful neighbor, Gaul, to give him the money and power to become sole dictator. That reminds me of Trump's first term, when he was too generous with former enemies and left too many of them in power. In Trump's case they sabotaged his first term and in Caesar's case one day on the Ides of March they surrounded and stabbed him to death.
But when you look at charismatic characters propelled into power over an empire on a wave of popularity and luck very many of them have had trouble surviving their own attacks on external powers who weren't swayed by their viral domestic popularity. Napoleon is a good example.
A better and more intelligent man than Trump in almost all dimensions, Napoleon went from success to success, enjoying spectacular good luck in key military events that could have cut his career short. He even survived catastrophes, like the way he led an entire French army to its death in the aftermath of his invasion of Egypt. Napoleon just shrugged that off, left his army to die, and returned to France.
But that didn't work when he took on a really big power, Russia, which responded to Napoleon's invasion by first defeating him and destroying his army in Russia and then invading the French empire Napoleon had established in Europe, hunting Napoleon all the way to France before capturing him near Paris. He did have a second act, but it was just a coda before ending at Waterloo.
That could be Trump's ending as well. He might not get much pushback from the Danes over an American takeover of Greenland, but if he tries to force Russia to do things his way in Ukraine he'll find himself in the same position Zelensky now finds himself with Trump. Russia doesn't give a hoot about Trump's domestic power base in the US, and he cannot get his way by threatening Russia, not militarily and not economically.
I responded to your comment, but it showed up at the wrong level. Maybe I can fix it. Here it is I’ll leave the original in place though.
Trump is enabled by segments of the oligarchy without their support he would be nowhere. The oligarchy isn’t homogenous it makes and breaks alliances with itself and with others at a drop of a hat, they will destroy one another if they see advantage. Musk and the billionaires club (https://billionaireconspiracy.com/) saw Trump is an opportunity and they took it. Peter Thiel, for instance, sponsored JD Vance for decades before Vance became the VP. There are other examples. Trump would be nowhere without his billionaire supporters.
Trump is not Caesar and he is not Napoleon. He has some very narrow guard rails he needs to stay between. Luckily for him what he wants to do and what the billionaire Club wants him to do roughly parallel each other perfectly. (roughly perfectly.?).
I’m not disagreeing with you on the trajectory being followed just quibbling over who is in control. Trump is not a dictator. He is in partnership with members of the oligarchy.
The oligarchy very much determines the next political step.
Trump is enabled by segments of the oligarchy without their support he would be nowhere. The oligarchy isn’t homogenous it makes and breaks alliances with itself and with others at a drop of a hat, they will destroy one another if they see advantage. Musk and the billionaires club (https://billionaireconspiracy.com/) saw Trump is an opportunity and they took it. Peter Thiel, for instance, sponsored JD Vance for decades before Vance became the VP. There are other examples. Trump would be nowhere without his billionaire supporters.
Trump is not Caesar and he is not Napoleon. He has some very narrow guard rails he needs to stay between. Luckily for him what he wants to do and what the billionaire Club wants him to do roughly parallel each other perfectly. (roughly perfectly.?).
I’m not disagreeing with you on the trajectory being followed just quibbling over who is in control. Trump is not a dictator. He is in partnership with members of the oligarchy.
The oligarchy very much determines the next political step.
I don’t believe Trump sees China as a threat. It is the PNAC crowd made up mostly of Zionists who thought they forge American hegemony over the rest of the world. these are the same people Trump is ousting from office.
Today marks the first month of Trump in office and wow ! It was a frantic one. First, it is now clear that Trump didnt acted his assassination attempts. What was meant to be a public execution, as a terrifying warning for those attempting to challenge the masonic empire, turned into a public act of God, especially for Trump himself. Trump fears nothing now. He knows he has been chosen by God himself to save the USA, just as Putin was. These are providencial individuals, chosen to change history. Those claiming Trump is just another pawn of the cabal are silent now. He was attacked on any angle, both from the outside or the inside, but they could not make it, for the time being.... The work of years of meetings and political presence on the ground proved critical and decisive. History found its way again, big time, through glorious gates, but there is still a long way ahead.
The Trump crew has attacked their enemy with shocking speed and boldness and guts, having them disoriented and lost. Their whole scheme was cimented on lies. Some rays of truth have dissolve the sand castle amazingly fast. Yes, Zelensky is a dictator and a puppet, yes Europe is undemocratic and irrelevant, yes the Usaid was a fake humanitarian money-laundrying monster, yes ilegal inmigration is a major problem, and so on. Now, we see how much of the liberal NGO´s and media are in fact paid operatives. When the money faucet was closed, they were left in dispair, asking for a new master to serve. In my country, the rowdy crowds of the left are changing their speech fast, showing what they always were, a bunch of oportunists, hypocritically mimicking the good narrative, in order to grab money and ressources for their own good.
And this bring us to the increasingly dubious nature of western democracy itself. We can now state that the masses are unable to provide freedom, justice or equality. Small groups of well-teamed individuals, say from 3.000 to 5.000, can effectively rule a whole country, manipulating the people's natural insticts for security and submissiveness. Democracy is the perfect system for the rule of money, where every vote can in fact be bought off. As Jay Gould put it, “I can hire half of the working class to kill the other half”. The globalist cabal knew that they had to bring “the masses” on their side. They knew how easily they could be lied and deceived. They need agressive activism, pleople ready to die for their ideas-identity, people willing to fight for their right. Having the working class and racial communities been almost totally neutralised and assimilated, the only remaining candidates were the homosexuals, being radical feminism a brach of lesbian homosexuality.
For the Trump party, there is something that will remain still un-sorted from an historical point of view. They think they can go back in history to interprete the world in a traditional christian way. This won't be possible. The most terrifying thing about the cabal, the one that made them look invincible, is that they think in marxist terms. They are not marxists, but masonic bankers and billionaires. But they have been clever enough to hire smart marxist scholars and activists to steer their policies. Thus, they are aware of the inevitability of the creation of a unified capitalist world market without tarifs or trade barriers, just the law of the jungle. As Marx follows, this should lead to a global working class revolution which will bring down the capitalist rule for the entire planet. This is the part that they didnt like and worked to avoid, by means of a preemptive mass depopulation, once a unified government in place. The Trump team will sooner or later realize that they can't just grab Greenland, Canada or Venezuela. American businesses need mass migration in order to keep the workers wages down. The liberal homosexual masses won't just go away and disappear. Many NGO's and media which were a part of the globalist system governance, are desperately looking for a new master. And remember who owns the banks and the FED. This has just started... The masonic cabal system will need to be dismantle piece by piece. Otherwise, they will strike back with a vengeance...
I like your comment a lot. There are some strategic points. I would disagree with, but I can’t do this on the phone. The labels you use don’t match the facts you are presenting for me that is. Others might read your words and totally agree. Maybe it’s just semantics.
And Henry is the one who is delusional. Two closed minded to even consider the point. Democracy is a charade with the Zionists hide behind the curtain while they manipulate the Wizard of Oz.
May I recommend Aaron good and his new series about the Jewish mafia? He explains how Meyer Lansky formed the national crime syndicate. . How Lansky was given the presidential medal of freedom by Harry Truman in the White House. This is the same Lansky who formed murder Inc. Folks also need to find goods series called Empire and the deep state on YouTube. He shows America was founded by crooks and has been run by crooks since the very beginning. Some really cool stories.
dream on: there's far too much money to be made from weapon production, oil & gas monopolies and war. T stating that "he totally disagrees with Zelensky about Russia wanting to invade NATO countries—he’s not buying the globalist bait..." only means T's playing out his assigned role and that the globalist powerbrokers need to make us believe there will be 'peace and coöperation' between US, Russia, China.
Russia would be stupid to return to the dollar, it's a vise on ebay scrotum in the world outside of the American imperialists. The US will"lose" the Americas, no one can ever trust this country after Biden/Trump. Trump , if he lasts four years, will create utter chaos in the country and may be removed by a military coup to prevent a civil war. The man is mentally unstable, happily he's destroying the American empire from the inside.
This seems very optimistic. While I applaud Trump's efforts, I think the time for detente was back during the Donbass conflict. With all the escalation, the cementing of BRICS, etc, I think there will be a major clash regardless, but we'll see.
US Defense Security Cooperation Agency has just issued two press releases on arms "sales" to Israel totaling about $7.5 billion. Included are 13,000 guided bombs, more than half of US annual production. These "sales" are covered by loans from the US.
Israel literally never has to pay for these weapons. They borrow the funds to pay for them from us, and those loans are automatically forgiven. We are just sending Israel more than half of our yearly munitions production for free. What a disgusting joke.
Let's see which of the 3 world powers collapse - It is clear that the dollar system is a trap - returning stolen money is a minimum imperative of decency - lifting sanctions that have harmed those who imposed them the most? - Ukraine returns to Russia - Investments in China - Lowering oil prices? - For whose benefit? To the detriment of whom? - have the Americas? like the planned invasion of Mexico? The return to a Westphalian multipolar world based on mutual respect and cooperation instead of wars of destruction and plunder - is inevitable -
"Was it Russia that destroyed Nord Stream? Last I checked, European intel services had all but concluded it was a Ukrainian initiative under command of Zaluzhny himself."
BULLSHIT!!!!@@@%%%####!!!! The USSA ship BRIBEM did it!!! For fucks sake he was on video admitting as much!!!! Quit letting these fuckers off the hook!!!! Chip
I believe it was most likely the USS Jimmy Carter which is a Seawolf Class nuclear attack submarine specifically modified to conduct this type of sabotage. It could just sit on the bottom next to the pipeline and divers could work directly from it. The U.S. spent some $800 million dollars making the modifications some years ago.
I believe the actual ship was the USS Kearsarge, which sat in the immediate neighborhood of the blast for a week until about 48 hours before the blast. It had abruptly sailed off thru the Danish straits, across the North Sea and thru the English Channel out into the open Atlantic by the time the blast timer ran down. The Wikipedia page for the ship helpfully explains it was doing underwater demolitions training and drills in the Baltic in the months preceding.
The great Seymour Hersh did a report on the destruction of Nordstream with detailed info re special US military divers trained in Norway, Bidens last minute decisiin 2 add remote detonation 2 the task etc. Worth a read.
>While the US continues to believe Russia will still exchange Kursk or simply freeze the conflict in exchange for only Crimea, etc.—this is not an adequate negotiating common ground for Putin to even bother wasting his time on
As we have endlessly discussed, Putin has control over firepower that would allow him to make Ukrainian defeat certain and irreversible within hours of him deciding to do so, and then have the Russian army at the Polish border within a couple months later (mopping up would take some time).
That hasn't happened in three years, exactly the opposite, he didn't even make any effort to secure his own borders, as a result of which the frontlines have been moving into Russia itself.
So yeah, that assumption on the part of the US looks pretty spot on.
Because they understand the internal weakness of the Russian state, which is the oligarchic model. The oligarchs want things to go back to how they were before 2022, with them and their money being welcome everywhere in the West, and they do not want to win the war for a number of reasons:
1) Proper mobilization means a wartime economy, and a wartime economy is a command economy. Even the US was a command economy during WWII, but that was temporary. Russia, however, has a proper tradition of being a permanent command economy, so any such precedent is extremely dangerous for the oligarchs, because you cannot have a command economy and Russian-type oligarchy in the same time. And they will need a proper mobilization even if tactical nukes are finally used to isolate Ukraine and then there is just the clean up left to do. A couple million will be needed for that.
2) The Russian oligarchy does not want a return to economic autarky, which would have to be done if Russian sovereignty is to be restored and if the kind of military-technical measures needed to defeat Ukraine are applied (which could result in political isolation of the country for some time after that). The whole basis of their power is to be the middlemen that hand over Russian raw resources to the West for pennies on the dollar. But economic autarky means new centers of power associated with domestic technology development and manufacturing emerging, which would automatically erode the relative power of the resource extraction oligarchs. It would also redirect those resources towards internal consumption, and then they would not be middlemen between anything. Can't have that.
3) They don't want to pay for Ukraine's restoration. That country was a wreck even without the war, and will need massive investments into its infrastructure and its reintegration with Russia. Who will pay for that? Well, most Russians don't have much you can tax, it is one of the most unequal societies on the planet, so you would have to tax the rich. Can't do -- building roads in Poltava at the expense of having fewer limousines and private jets for the Russian elite? What sort of a sacrilege is that?
4) The Ukranians are Nazis and they have made this into a rerun of WWII in their minds, but it works for the other side too. If there is a WWII-style total victory, it will inevitably lead to a resurgence of the latent communist sentiments in the Russian population. We in fact already saw that in the first months of the war -- one of the rarely spoken about aspects of those first months was how much of a return communist symbols made. You had hammer and sickle flags and GPW symbolic everywhere. The Kremlin had to work very hard to re-instill total apathy towards what is happening into the population, because things were getting really dangerous.
Remember, the grand imperative of Russian politics since 1991 has been to never allow communism to return, because of how much fertile ground still remains for it to do so, as it was not overturned because the people wanted it in the first place, it was a coup by the elite. The Ukrainians Nazis and American nukes in Europe are seen as much lesser threats by the Russian elites in comparison.
Etc. etc. etc.
So with Putin being the errand boy for the oligarchs, it is no wonder he has been fighting hard NOT to win the not-war for three years now, soon entering a fourth.
2) The example of what happened to Assad — they tricked him into thinking everything is good now, then they stuck the knife in his back — is very recent
3) The established facts are that the US gave itself permission to invade, bomb and launch missiles into Russia, then actually did those things, and nobody has paid any price for it. A detente might happen, but it will not overturn that established precedent, and in a few years someone else might be in power in DC and it will all start all over again.
Then what?
The only way the Kremlin establishes detente without coming out of this at a loss is if Trump agrees on a few Russian missile strikes into the continental US. Take out some of those responsible for starting the war and so much death and destruction. Zircons on the Kagan/Nulands mansions? Sounds good to me. Then Putin comes out and says “we are even now and can be friends“, Trump does not retaliate, and we can have genuinely good relationships.
But without that happening, Russia has been diminished as a great power and its security has been permanently compromised.
So later on when the next aggressor emboldened by the refusal on the part of Putin to defend the country tries to start some shit, it will be the same calculus — either extreme force will have to be used to make sure nobody else dares do anything like that again, or a lot more Russians will once again die.
Lol stop listening to Igor. He is leading you astray. Assad wasn't betrayed. New things are happening in the Middle East. And you have no idea what it is because your narrow obsessions gets in the way. Inceldom is destroying your mind and reality.
Stop with the BS. Even the oligarchy won't trust the USA. They know how the West including Americans see them. Why do you think they have pushed for brics? Plus you have misunderstood the state of the war. Anyway you have been wrong from day one Gurkin errand boy
>They know how the West including Americans see them.
This is where you are mistaken.
Partly because you are missing one very important aspect of the Russian oligarchy -- more than half of it is not Russian. It is in fact to a greater extent captured by the same people who have captured the US. You know who we are talking about.
The dehumanizing rhetoric about Russians does not phase these people, because they do not see themselves as Russian. And they aren't, they are one and the same with the Nulands and Kagans of the world.
>Why do you think they have pushed for brics?
They haven't though.
Plus BRICS is a catastrophic failure so far. What has BRICS achieved? India has been sending artillery shells and missiles to Ukraine...
So you hate Jews? I really don't take you seriously. Idealogues such as yourself always get it wrong because you are obsessed instead of rational. Number two, because of Gaza Jews have no safety. They are hated around the world. And I suspect that it will get worse. So stop seeing them as the know-all be-all. It is poor logic
More spam to be removed. These are regular spam postings, always leading to a Telegram link selling stuff. There is always one 'like'.
Simplicius, please stop this spam being posted ...
lets see how america survives when it is full of low iq brownoids....
Immigration is the best thing that's happened to England since the end of the Second World War.
Didn’t say that. The Jew is dumping brownoids in all white countries.
Since there are hardly any black Americans who aren't the descendants of white rapists and black people, which bit is responsible for the low IQ that you impute? I assume that it's the white bit.
Squeeth the Jew continues his defense of the Jew and the negro.
How’s that African space program going ?
Very well, the "American" space programme wouldn't exist without the money and labour stolen from Africa. Have you white Americans stopped raping black women yet?
Whites do not rape blacks. Look at the stats Jew.
Do your homework, skive boy.
I remember two decades (or more) ago DNA testing showed Caucasian genes in Negroes from the southern states. The whites lost their mind LOL.
Great great Grandpappy had been raping his female slaves.
I really enjoyed their discomfiture but rather regretted what their victims went through.
The welfare state for rich bastards dwarfs the puny welfare state for us poor.
No lie, Holmes. One investment bank can suck up more free government money than all the welfare queens ever to cash a check. Just they don't call it "welfare".
And I am not poor, but I know how the game is played.
Did Musk ever do a day's work? No, he slurps up subsidies.
I would say that the flip answer is that stupid people work. Smart people grift.
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Confucius pointed out that in a good system, it is shameful to be poor. In an evil system, it is shameful to be rich.
Honest people work, other people manage and the worst administer.
The way I understood it, upper management are sociopaths, middle management are clueless and the staff are losers.
The attached is long, but there is not a dull word in it.
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/
yeah, i think he also has holdings in Switzerland and the emirates.
An ashkeNAZI Jew handing money over? That goes against their impulse.
Don't forget that Fico was more than ostracized: they tried to kill him over it, just like that whacko at the golf course - a recruiter for the AFU's foreign legion - tried to kill Trump. The later might have been worse because the guy knew Trump would be there even though to my knowledge no one had made public Trump's itinerary for that day.
These weenies are exposed and they know it. Nobody cares about their dumb insults, it just makes them look more pathetic.
Maybe they could come up with a serious response or idea. Nah, they'll just call anyone who hurts their little feelings a big meanie who loves Hitler.
Dana Carvey should do a new church lady. "Hmmm..who does that remind you of? Could it be....Hitler?!!
I was wondering if the CIA was still body guarding Zelensky. I had heard awhile back that "military advisors" were sent by Biden, but they were obviously special ops to protect him.
Ratcliffe has to keep a close eye on the people under him. CIA is among other things a hit squad.
OK, let;s game this out. Suppose the SBU manages (with a wink and a nudge from each of the CIA, NSA, FBI and Secret Service) to assasssinate Trump and they aren't blamed.
Who becomes president? Vance.
That is a problem with NATO tactics. All equipment should be regarded as temporary and disposable as per soviet doctrine. Equipment being hoarded and saved looses its practical value.
NATO only knows how to fight one-sided wars, where they have the luxury of picking and choosing which weapon to use. If I was a Ukrainian facing a 10-1 disparity in artillery, FABs, in an undermanned unit, I would use anything I could.
nato and US military are just for defending that Illegal jew state... no chance against a real military
Hmm. Not convinced myself.
This smacks of "why don't our gooks fight like their gooks? "
"It's not that our weapons are over priced and poor value for money, because of our profit driven MIC, it's because our allies are poor soldiers and can't use them. "
I don't buy it.
The Ukrainians appear to be excellent, brave tough soldiers in my opinion. If they can't get a tune out of the instrument, then it's likely a poor instrument.
Proxies never take notes. They busk in their 5 minute of the US attention span, as a silly girl courted by a sociopath.
How about this:
“The Ukrainians appear to be excellent, brave tough soldiers, but their training has been consistently inadequate. Their use of advanced weapons has been correspondingly poor, as one would expect.
At the same time, these NATO weapons may be over-engineered for a peer war battlefield. They are built under a bureaucratic philosophy of acquisition planning and testing, rather than a philosophy based on reasonable battlefield imperatives.”
Probably closer to the truth than I was Joe. You can't train a civilian in 6 weeks.
You know that Zelya is in deep shit when even the "British defense sources have accused Zelya and the AFU of wasting expensive weapons." Looks like the Ukrainian honeymoon is over, the rats compete at finger-pointing the scapegoat to hang for this surreal debacle.
Not only did they waste ammo and equipment like it grows on trees, their whole battle plan was stupid and incompetent.
Never pull back, keep feeding men into the death grinder, over and over again. Total lack of layered defense lines, and making it obvious where they would go every time they had an offensive. They treated their soldiers with no regard.
I half wonder if some of these stand and die units are not put there on purpose to help with the 'denazification' requirement from Russia. In this way it keeps those hardcore Nazi fighters from grouping to coup Kiev.
If you have poorly trained troops and no concern for casulaties, Ukrainian strategy makes perfect sense.
Play for time until Russian unrest grows or until NATO openly and directly intervenes. It's cynical, but so what?
Maybe the training of the Ukrainian drivers/operators is far from adequate?
you do realize that Darth Vader already ran for MP in Ukraine, right? :P
"Wir tun so, als hätten wir es nicht gewusst."
will Z be able to keep his Florida properties? Zelensky’s $35M mansion in Sunny Isles, FL built by Kolomoisky and Pinchuk. $1.3B in the bank - https://www.onenewspage.com/video/20220305/14457089/let-start-with-Zelensky-35M-mansion.htm
Trump should confiscate all of Zel's US assets as a 'Payback Gesture' for the American taxpayer.
the White US people are held hostage to that illegal jew state and their genocidal plans...
Th. Massie has openly criticised AIPAC's influence - https://mronline.org/2024/06/15/house-republican-claims-every-gop-colleague-has-an-aipac-babysitter-pressuring-them-to-cast-pro-israel-votes/
the realisation has tilted my worldview considerably. thnx for mentining Maersheimer's book!
"It’s inappropriate to hold the U.S. government or the American public hostage to the war in Ukraine"
The United Snakes of 'Murica is fully responsible.
Ukraine Project was a great big "OWN GOAL".
Trump can wax as prolifically about the Curse that is zElensky, but in the end it is the
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT that is ultimately responsible to the world at large for their contribution to the Project Ukraine. The Biden admin is only responsible within the U$A for it's malfeasance.
He was something else, was he not? An amazing human, a full blown character, living a life shining the light onto the darkness, while many dare not. 🙏🏼
I am speculating with some ray of hope that we are watching just a small portion of the judgement pour out. It will get worse and worse as they try to hide. Others don't realize there is no where to go.
Jer 23:23 Am I a God who is only in one place and cannot see what they are doing? 24 Can anyone hide from me? Am I not everywhere in all of heaven and earth?
I find the *mysterious irony* that a teenager employed by Musk is taking a wrecking ball to the Western idols just in time to save teenagers in Ukraine. A remnant will remain, let us hope they live to their potential.
My God he loved to smoke, can picture him grinning away in heaven. With a smoke!
One has to admire those who have gone against the narrative. Viktor Orban suddenly goes from shit disturbing nincompoop to top of class.
Those who admire and obey Klaus Schwab and Zelenskyy suddenly emerge as what they have obviously been all along.
Abundantly self evident, where has this now instantly obsolete narrative taken us? Will the Emperor's new clothes suddenly reappear? I don't stink so!
Mattias Desmet must have a lesson on what to do with Billions of people suddenly waking up from Mass Formation. The only menu item dished out gives them cognitive dissonance. TRUTH
Is the European vision the same old paradigm? Give all the most evil Banderites sanctuary in all the obscure corners of the world, for doing such a good job blocking the "brave" Ukrainians, while sending even more Slavs to their inevitable fate. Will they ever really cancel operation paperclip?
One thing is for sure Tattoo removal stock will go up faster than big pharma is going down. Banderites love their body 'art'.
Its gonna suck to be a wannabe nazi over there. Pres Putin will insist on all their arrests. Interesting times.
They won't be arrested they will be put up against the wall.
Lira🙏 the mention of his name brings up…so much, good, bad, or yet, middle path. He was a joy, to watch, his energy, the smoke, the coffee…takes me to a time beyond the “far~see; again, condolences to his loved ones. Not one to ever miss his round table gatherings; the bright bulbs, yup. The Love Revolution continues, sigh… thru the “years yet” of undeniable diving deep, shadow work is afoot, perhaps a turn of another few decades, centuries….carry on, my peeps, God Speed. The Sun will rise in the East, and… set in the West. 🌅❤️🐈⬛
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I used to watch Gonzalo's round tables. He wasn't saying anything different than most of us who knew what was going on, saying, but he dared to say it from Kharkiv. I hope his family sues Nuland/DoD/StateDept into oblivion for what "happened" to Gonzalo. The Ukrainian prison guards, paid by our American taxes, killed an American! SHAME!
It infuriates me to think of what they did to Gonzalo. I hope he's up in Heaven smoking a cigarette and enjoying the humiliation of his murderers.
We will never forget you.
Ave Atque Gonzalo!
Your great soul will not be forgotten.
They are already history legends, not to mention Mosgovoy, Motorola, Givi, Zakharchenko, Castillo, Bentley and all the first hour fallen heros of the Donbass. They all died, tragically, for the good fight. Concerning Lira, I kind of agree with S. Ritter. His chutzpa was almost suicidal.
Very well said… I doubt the administration will spend DOGE energy on casting light on the atrocity and complicity of USA in “permitting his death” — if not actually ordering it… remember the black female drug using basketball player the U.S. spent lots of energy to get returned to the U.S.? There was NO effort to get a truth-teller (Lira) returned… soooo sad… RIP Gonzalo.
How to bring free speech back to life? Gonzalo is disposed of, but Gates, with so many others, live on, resplendent in glory, bought with the blood of innocents and the duped.
I stopped watching Scott Ritter after he went berserk on Gonzalo being CIA/whatever plant. It was so ridiculous/vicious trying to tear him apart without any evidence, and at the time when each voice against this war was scarce and mattered.
BINGO! he lost me there too.
Ooh ouch, did not follow religiously, missed that incident. Us humans mess up.
Gonzalo was great! Insightful man in so many ways.
I had the good fortune to meet him for coffee twice in Kharkiv 3 months before the SMO started.
I think he would be quite disappointed in some of those who he used to discuss the Ukraine situation with. I know I am.
It seems since God Emperor Trump returned to the white house, a spell has fallen over many.
Who is without sin? Those who got cancelled in the early days have way more credibility. Went looking for this recently and was amazed at all the cancel devices deployed still to stop you from seeing this. Finally found it, not so obvious.
If you have never heard of Building #7 or event 201, where this clip starts, do indulge yourself. You will see what created our hesitancy. These were some of the voices shouting, he's naked!
https://plandemic.com/plandemic-2-indoctornation/
The one denominator ubiquitous throughout at least the last 30 years, captured media!
A salute to all those who did not sell out!
Some of us might have gone too far. Those sources who never felt the censorship blade are no longer valid to me! Those, many now dead, who felt the sting of injustice will live forever in our minds.
There will be a new industry to erase ones errors and jump on the new bandwagon. Did you get your shots is already a loaded question? One could say, stay the hell away from my daughter, with a certain new conviction.
We have the smallest foot in the door of a return to sanity. The legacy of genetic modification and Wi-Fi interference raise valid concerns.
The eagerness to mandate proven poison and endless wars begs many questions. What else did they slip past the regulators and how many kill switches have yet to be triggered just for starters?
Is Epstein really dead? It is not a moot point. Who actually blew up Nordstream is #1! As Lavrov said on arrival to the 1st of the new talks, "and for your actions, you have to answer".
Did you catch the short (~30 second) video of the street side of Building 7 showing the damage? Only ran across it one time a week or so after, then 'never again'. That video is one of the reasons I tend to discount popular narratives.
https://www.ae911truth.org/
Architects and Engineers for 9/11 truth
"Zelya accused DJT of “living in a disinformation space” and in a “circle of disinformation”
Pot. Kettle. Black.
Time to cut Zelensky lose, elections solves this.
How did you post faster than that Cheeto guy? Kudos, mate!
You have to prepare your post in advance and hit the 'Reply' button as soon as the post appears. You have to admit, Cheets sets the standard here. 😉
Also, I think Simplicius has a X account. Maybe he posts there before he sends out the substack posting This would allow Cheets time to prepare his post before the substack hit. Or maybe you should just ask Cheets how he does it?
Good idea, Victor, I should just ask him.
His posts are great but yeah, how does he do it???
No GF. ;)
J/king, Cheets. :'D
It is a silly contest to feel proud of winning. Cheetos wins for content quality. Actually reading the post gets points. Typos are frowned upon.
Anticipating Simplicius' next article and having some substantive comment or major agreement available to immediately slap down, that would deserve some honor.
Not sure if got first but near once or twice, I obviously have my silly moments.
BTW, anyone see or hear from Gerrard? He used to pretty much live here, ranting and posting nonsense, but he seems to have disappeared.
He always was an ass to me and to others here, but I do not wish him harm.
USAID something..
That is funny.
Gerald merged with chetos
Nobody wants this solved, other than possibly Trump and Co..
Not in the Collective West...
Didn't solve Romania, or Austria, Ukraine in 2014, France, UK, Germany (we will see).
We have now seen an irreversible turnaround from the US. Hope it lasts all the way. Feels like forces are now mobilizing to "remove" Trump. Good article, Simplicius!
I think the removal will be another means. Whenever Tulsi cuts CIA in thousand pieces and Musks autistic artists comb through Pentagons dark budgets the Deep State will strike back. 5,56, 7,62 or 9mm. Or probably a false-flag Iran drone attack.
I agree and share your hopes Mikey. The words: Feathers & Ruffled spring to mind, plus Wailing, Gnashing Teeth and Rending of Hair. Would love to be a fly on Madame Fond of Lyin's wall.
Yes. It is hard to grasp how the European leaders and especially, the unelected, EU leaders are thinking. Didnt they all hear Nuland 2014 say: F’ck Eu?
Merkel confessed that Minsk 2 was just hoax to give Ukraine time to build up its army so we know they have done dirty games for years. But it was Obama/Hillary/Nuland and then Biden who masterminded the provocations which led to Russias invasion 2022. EU stood by looking amazed and shocked. UK was of course instigating turmoil by themselves since 2014 and then the notorius operation ”Derail Peace” from Boris Johnson.
But when War broke out all the EU reacted as a herd of sheeps and now they have been running around for 3 years bleating. All of the sudden a new reality is forming and why dont they just take a deep breath and then say: Ok, we got fooled.
Is frau Leyen even thinking or is she driven by some sort of Russiahate?
there's several layers of EU, its unelected leaders being one of them. 'us plebs' don't want war and might not even see Russia as an enemy. then there are the farmers protestiing plus we're the ones trying to deal w/the consequences of unvetted immigration on a daily basis, not team Von der Leyen. so whatever Frau Ursula c.s. are thinking, it's only the top layer of the curdling.
Useless Ursula has the advantage of wasting 37 nations common taxes on whatever she wishes. I, as a deplorable taxpayer, in one of these countries cant do much other than what I am doing. Protesting without resorting to violence.
Nobody of influence and authority cares what the plebes think or want.
definition of plebes.
People who do the real work
You and me?
Who are not the elites, by default, are plebs to them.
Please don't forget why Europe has so many immigrants. There are a majority from the Middle East or thereabouts thrown out of their homes by US bombs and Israeli missiles. American drones killed anyone that moved whether or not you were an enemy. Europe has the US to thank fr being overrun!
There will be a Great Power detente. If Russia returns to the dollar system they get a release of money, dropped sanctions, desired outcomes in Ukraine, and US business investment. US asks for an end to war, withdraws US troops to Western Europe, and asks for lower global oil prices to satisfy U.S. consumers on inflation. US gets the Americas, China gets Asia, Russia gets referendums in Ukraine and 4 Oblasts, plus the Eurasia Heartland. US gets a freeze on Iran pressure on Israel. Russia gets Western Africa/Sahel. Together they all destroy globalists and return to great power nationalism.
>There will be a Great Power detente
Not good for Russia.
How did the Cold War detente work out in the end for the USSR?
You can never make deals with the Anglo-Saxons, all such deals are temporary ceasefires allowing them time to regroup and attack you again when you are least prepared.
The last four centuries have shown that very clearly.
>If Russia returns to the dollar system they get a release of money, dropped sanctions, desired outcomes in Ukraine, and US business investment
All of these are bad for Russia:
1) Dollar system. Why would they want to return to that? It is a mechanism of neocolonial extraction of real wealth out of other countries. Would any elite that should not be facing a firing squad for grand treason voluntarily participate?
2) Sanctions are good for the Russian economy and society -- it is forced re-shoring and forced re-industrialization, both of those badly needed. No sanctions means a reversal of those positive trends.
3) The "desired outcomes" are desired by the Russian elites. But very bad for Russia. The **necessary** outcome is to take over the whole of Ukraine. The Kremlin has been stalling for three years precisely in order to make yet another shitty for Russia deal with the next administration that will not solve anything and place the country in an even worse situation in the future (as all previous such deals did).
4) "US business investment" is another word for neocolonial subjugation. Russia doesn't need foreign investment, it is the richest country on the planet.
Stop with the negativity. You can't have the whole Ukraine because past kieve , they HATE Russians. you will probably get more than four oblasts plus Odessa. Russia won't abandon BRICS. It offers security. You are already proving to be wrong so far. So maybe instead of mouthing out, listen , watch and learn
Look who is talking!
I'm talking
You wrong!
😂 we will see soon
All their men are fucking dead or fled, russia could just pull a tibet and send tons of its own immigrants into that territory.
Whats Europe gonna do, complain about replacement immigration? Hahahahaha.
Maybe they'll throw a curveball and announce China or North Korea will take full ownership of Ukraine to create a neutral buffer zone. Then just send in a few million single Chinese men to run the place.
That would be an incredible troll from Beijing.
in that case i say norks. entertainment value for sure.
The illegal Kiev government and its supporters hate the Russians and any Russians (a majority in the Eastern Oblasts) would have been second class citizens and treated with hatred and disdain. No wonder the citizens of those Oblasts voted to return to Russia. The rest of Ukraine would be nothing but a terrible trouble spot for Russia if it ever had it returned.
Why would they hate their brethren unless your refer to Jews and don’t care about those chicken swinging sin merchants.
Please leave the "Jews" out of it. Any trouble in the World may be caused by Zionists, not "Jews".
why should I ? are you just defending your sin merchant tribe?
What a foolish response to a Southern Baptist.
Why do you have the same ip as the great moron? Are your cubicles side by side?
Something about Kissinger? My enemies, my friends…or a favorite partial quote from an author I enjoy, Klarissa Pinkola Estes, (spelling); leg trap, foot holds, beware. Women Who Run With Wolves, a great read along the good red road…❤️🐈⬛
A return to the dollar system is suicidal — and Russia knows it very well.
but what ZION Don is ordered to do by his jew masters....
Of course a possibility. Trump backing proposed “anti-semitism” legislation is not a good sign.
Reversing the overweening power of the jews in the west (and possibly even in Russia) is impossible now. Their power can only be contained in certain areas.
That’s why the world must bifurcate economically — into the healthy and living world, and the infected and dying west.
Clearing around a blazing forest fire…let it burn itself out while we watch.
Russia lit a back fire. Those often go awry. Trump proposals are often bravado to gauge reaction or win the house.
Please cease the "Jew" thing. The Jews are not responsible for the mess the World is in, but I don't say that about Zionists.
G'day Archie, have you seen the polls done in Isreal re slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. It is very strongly supported also the removal of Palestinians from Gaza is the same. So Isreali Jews seem wedded to Zionism whilst the Jews residing elsewhere less so.
Draw from that what you will. Yet there is a strong correlation between Zionism and Judaism as their scripture are used by Zionists to support their position. Secular Jews are certainly another kettle of fish.
Stop your attempts to police others to defend your Jew tribe
It's a good bargaining chip for Russia.
They will not "return to the dollar" per se. They were cut off and they're getting the ability to trade in USD back.
What that basically means is, they will be able to trade post-sanctions with the US using the USD, in the same way they're trading with BRICS nations using their own national currencies. They will continue to do that.
They pretty much said this already.
For some reason I expect Trump to get the US closer to BRICS or even try to join. Because it's good for business and, honestly, could be better for the US than to remain in their collapsing empire pretending the economy is doing well.
yep, getting T & the US closer to BRICS or even try to join is part of the globalists' trying to gnaw at the independence the BRICS system offers.
Russia has spent the greater part of a decade immunizing itself against the USD. Little did they (or anyone) think that the west would seize Russia’s Central Bank deposits in western banks.
Trump will be gone in four years. I expect the western banking system is planning new dirty tricks.
Imperative to follow two (non-Jewish) thinkers on this: Richard Werner and Kathleen Tyson, who’ve seen and done almost everything in banking (Werner with the Bank of Japan, Tyson with the NY Fed).
The fact that the West stole Russian national assets lodged in Western banks is reason enough never to use the US dollar again!
I think Merkel's admission on the Minsk Accords says it all. Once burned, twice shy!
If Russia goes back to the US dollar trading system it will immediately create an inflation crisis that could potentially crash the Russian economy. Russia is on a path from which they cannot retreat without very serious consequences. What will happen to the massive amounts of Rubles created to fund the conflict by the Russian Central bank? Creating a demand for dollars in Russia would plumet the value of the Ruble and destroy faith in the currency.
Who said that they are returning to dollar system
I merely stated a possible outcome many people may expect and probable consequences of that outcome.
So your from the ifs and buts tribe?
If you are not omnipotent and cannot see all things from all perspectives and all times. What else do you have other than ifs and buts?
I have heard more hints about Trump moving closer to BRICS nothing has been said requiring Russia to go back to the dollar, that’s all conjecture
Good point. The Russian economy did so well because of the sanctions. All the products that were imported had to be made in Russia; as the Oligarchs could not spend their money on crazy Western luxury products, there was enough money to build all these new facilities. It would be interesting if the Oligarchs injected the money in the form of loans or in the form of shares (bank loans were not used). It would be interesting too if these new facilities are cost-effective (this should be an easy goal, as Russia does not have the Western countries high taxes). There are numerous questions to be answered!
"All the products that were imported had to be made in Russia;" No. Most products in the world before sanctions were made in China and that continued to be the case after sanctions. The Chinese don't give a hoot about US sanctions.
It turns out that almost all European businesses don't care about US sanctions either. They continued shipping into Russia though third parties like Kazakhstan.
What sanctions did manage to do was convince oligarchs to repatriate over a hundred billion dollars of their wealth back to Russia, to re-invest into Russia. That caused a huge entrepreneurial boom. It also helped that many western firms (about a quarter of the big ones that were here) left Russia and that opened up niches. For example, once German auto makers closed up their official dealerships and gray market dealers importing through Kazakhstan and similar took over, the Chinese moved it.
The Chinese have almost totally wiped out German and other car brands with a wide array of truly spectacular Chinese cars that nobody in the west has ever heard of. But the Chinese have, and there's a brand for every quality and cost niche.
There's also been huge import substitution in things like oil and gas equipment and so on. So no, not everything Russia uses is made in Russia. It continues to buy from friends like China and other friendly countries, but yes, there have been huge import substitution niches opening up, and the flood of venture money from oligarchs repatriating billions to Russia has financed those import substitution businesses.
The new businesses are indeed cost effective, primarily because they understand Russian markets better than foreigners. For example, when McDonalds sold all 800 of their restaurants to a billionaire who was McDonalds largest franchisee in Russia, his new business took off like a skyrocket and makes more money (and profit) than McDonalds did.
The problem with not telling every detail. Everything you write is correct, but the cost of importing is high for some products. There are products that are bulky, or you have to use energy (e.g., cooling) to keep them in good shape. All these products have a nice advantage when produced close to the consumer. The railways and roads from West- to East-Europe are excellent. You can transport this more demanding good easily. Not for the connections between Russia and China (but these connections will be completed, but what happens then to these industries?).
Well, you don't need to tell every detail, but when you make general statements you should make sure they're not generally inaccurate.
For example: "There are products that are bulky, or you have to use energy (e.g., cooling) to keep them in good shape. All these products have a nice advantage when produced close to the consumer. "
As a global statement, that's wrong, in fact wildly wrong for most such products in modern times. That railways and roads from unfree Europe (the West) to free Europe (the European part of Russia) are more or less good doesn't matter. That's primarily because transport has become so inexpensive compared to the past, while cost factors such as energy and destructive government policies have become dominant.
Also, "products" in English is general understood to mean manufactured products, not agricultural commodities or specialty foods that require refrigeration, so those bear discussing as their own cases, not as part of some global statement. But even in those cases the contention that energy is required to keep some manufactured products (such as vaccines or other medicines) cool means they have a nice advantage when produced close to the consumer is also wrong.
The classic example of all the above is how China became "the world's workshop," with so many manufacturing industries moving from the US and Europe to China. It turns out that modern shipping has such extraordinarily low costs of transport that it is far cheaper to build products, even bulky products, in China and ship them to the US than it is to build in the US near to the consumer.
Another example is the ongoing deindustrialization of western Europe in general and Germany specifically. It's far cheaper to build in China and ship to Germany than it is to build in Germany and truck just a hundred kilometers to a local consumer. Why? Because the price of energy in Germany and the cost of the social welfare state is too high to be competitive, a slight advantage in transport costs not being enough to make up the difference.
It's true that utilizing globe-spanning logistics to achieve and retain extremely low transport costs requires skills. Those skills, in fact, played a key role in underpinning the export earnings of many western European economies. A good example of that were the truly superior logistics skills of Dutch companies trading in flowers or Belgian companies trading in fresh fruit. You can see any theoretical example of closeness by rail or road between Amsterdam and Moscow is not a factor in an export business that flies fresh roses from Ecuador to Amsterdam, clears them in a vast flower market, and then exports them by air to Moscow or even farther to Vladivostok.
Another example is the re-export of Conference pears from Belgium to Russia, where Belgian distributors "owned" that market in Russia, even though the pears they exported for the most part weren't grown in Belgium.
What happened when the EU committed suicide on orders from the US, foolishly trying to "cancel" Russia, was that Russia responded by canceling them. For a few weeks the usual astonishingly broad and deep variety of fresh fruits became visibly thinner. Conference pears disappeared entirely for three weeks. And then they and everything else appeared again.
What happened was that when western European superstars of export logistics and distribution were cut off from Russia they were replaced by perfectly competent businesses from other countries. EU businesses were so strong at logistics and distribution they wouldn't allow even a toe hold for other competitors, but the moment those EU businesses paused their work in Russia their competitors rushed in.
It turns out that in modern times logistics and distribution skills are a commodity. They can be purchased with plenty of experts from EU countries willing to teach those skills to businesses in South America, Africa and other centers of agricultural production. Instead of buying Conference pears through a middleman in Belgium, large Russian distribution companies started buying direct from producers in Serbia, South Africa, and South America.
It was the same with almost everything else the EU provided. They were replaced almost overnight with direct relationships with vendors in the majority of the world's countries which said "no thanks" to the US's invitation to commit economic suicide. There also was a huge rise in Russian startups, like vast greenhouses to grow specialty crops (like elite varieties of tomatoes) even in winter. Those take advantage of very low energy costs in Russia and, it is true, faster transportation links. But the issue there is transportation links within Russia, not import links.
So now when asparagus is in season I buy fresh grown asparagus locally, and when it is not in season I buy asparagus grown in Mexico, Peru, or a variety of other countries which grow it. Citrus fruit comes from all over the globe, with a lot of citrus imported from Morrocco, Egypt and other warm climates. African and South American countries are the source for many fresh fruits and veggies when it is winter in the northern hemisphere.
China is a direct neighbor of Russia with superb rail and marine transport links. The lower cost of energy in China means they are even more competitive against western European countries for products like automobiles or appliances. China is also pulling ahead in technology. Look at the new Chinese cars and they are technological marvels that make flagship German brands look outdated. Chinese e-cars are far superior to anything western Europe is producing, and at a fraction of the price.
I'm just saying, the low cost of transport by sea (and air for high value products) has made the world a far more interconnected place. With the high cost of energy and destructive government policies like you see in unfree Europe, one way that not only countries but also private citizens can break free of local idiocy is to buy from more free and more economically productive countries even when they are on the other side of the globe.
"That's primarily because transport has become so inexpensive compared to the past, "
You have obviously never shipped anything internationally. It currently costs ten times more to move a 20-foot container than it did just 5 years ago. You have absolutely no clue what you are talking about.
Remember that sanctions harm the sanctioner by cancelling foreign profit centres. Instead third parties take up where the US stepped down. Nothing like shooting yourself in the foot!
G'day Seeker I feel you have placed domestic currency creation and foreign currency purchases in one boat. Nabiullina is an oligarch plant protected by Putin due to an old agreement and she is not helping the situation with 20% plus interest rates.
The domestic economy is nigh on self sufficient due to the sanctions but exports are restricted so a boost in export sales are beneficial even if paid for in dollars that do not have to be invested in US Treasury bonds as previously was the case but be spent on gold or whatever technology components they might need.
Read about China's actions re its dollar surplus which they repatriate back to China.
Domestic and foreign currency purchases were forced into one boat because of necessity. I know the Ruble is a fiat currency that is money in Russia so it is what is used to pay domestic bills. The Russian government was forced to increase government spending because of military spending thus they had to increase their Ruble supply to cover expenses. In the beginning it was stated that Russia would run out of money which was absurd as the Russian Central bank creates the Ruble. The real issue for Russia was always inflation. So the sale of Russian exports in Rubles created a demand for Rubles outside the Russian economy. This demand outside of Russia allowed the Russian Central bank to export inflation to China and other states needing Russian exports. This is no different from the US exporting its inflation having the world's reserve trading currency and world reserve asset. The 20% increase in interest rates was intended to deter commercial bank lending and encourage loan repayment. As money is generally created through commercial bank debt issuance and destroyed when debts are repaid. The increased reinvestment of money from the Russian wealthy and the increased consumer confidence which continually increase the Russian money supply had to be controlled as eventually the consequences of the good times had to be dealt with before it got out of control. Maybe Nabulina over compensated who knows, but her being proactive was necessary. We can only wait to see how it plays out.
Putin would be an utter fool to trust the US, and betray his BRICS partners - incl Iran and China, where the main non-dollar trade is achieved. In 4 years time the situation could be reversed just as quickly.
Putin has never struck me as a fool.
Russia already got 4 oblasts, it's a fait accompli. Russia repeatedly said it's not up for debate. What other referenda do you see happening?
Ritter, Johnson and McGovern talk about karkhiv and Odessa. But there are also arguments against it because it would leave Ukraine in an impossible situation where it could not provide for itself. On the other hand, Poland, Czech Republic and Romania are supposed to be in talks with Russia to see what parts of Ukraine they might gobble up. It all depends upon the Banderites Russia is happy to leave those Nazis under the control of Poland but if necessary they’re also willing to completely take them out. The USA funded these criminals even before World War II was over. They were directed to attack Soviet troops. Scandalous.
What is your definition of "a return to the dollar system"?
This would be closing the barn door after the horse already ran away.
or your old girl friend seeing you with a new girl after she repeatedly cheated on you and she now wants you back.
BRICS is way too far along to go back to the sanction prone SWIFT/IMF/World Bank system.
When the USA weaponized the dollar they sabotaged its use as a world reserve currency.
Sorry, I wasn’t clear. I meant both systems, Russia will continue to operate with BRICs and bi-national trade and currency settlement, but also allowed to use SWIFt, US banks, offshore assets, etc, etc. they can use and access dollars and the US System as well as BRICs. Counterintuitive, but the stronger BRICS is, the less the $usd can be weapon used, and donor becomes more palpable to use in conjunction w BRICS mechanism.
"but also allowed to use SWIFt, US banks, offshore assets, etc, etc. they can use and access dollars and the US System as well as BRICs."
I live in Russia and know many Russian businessmen involved in import/export and I can't think of a single one who's interested in using SWIFT or US banks. They're a pain in the ass and the sense of not having to deal with cretins that has flowed from finding other ways to settle payments that don't involve SWIFT or US banks is so totally wonderful that nobody wants to go back to dealing with cretins.
SWIFT is an ancient, horrible system, like something designed in the last century (it was) to make business inefficient and slow. Nobody in their right minds wants to use it. Will some Russians use SWIFT, and even US banks, for some transactions? Sure, but it's going to play only a very minor role.
As for offshore assets, there are plenty of those in play for Russians, just not having anything to do with the lawless West. The whole unreliability of the West has left a bad taste in the mouths of oligarchs. They have a choice where they can spend their time and salt away their money offshore and they no longer want to do that in London, Paris, Switzerland or the US. They're also not stupid, and they know the old saying, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
""Fool me once etc." Tell that to GW Bush, he couldn't remember how it goes.
If you live in Russia why does your ip show you are in California?
VPN
Now we know Henry is a troll as well. You can't see the IP addresses of people who post here. He's either just a jerk or, just possibly, Simplicius has achieved a new level of fame, enough to warrant the attention of western "security" organizations and their wannabe groupies.
Fwiw. Some are saying the American oligarchy put Trump into the White House precisely for the complaints you list here. Not the entire oligarchy, of course, but the ones who have been identified as the tech bros. Chris Hedges had an article where he identified the corporatists and the oligarchists. He claimed the first were Democrats the second were Republicans, but we seem to have missed the fact that Maga is actually a third-party formed from the ashes of the Republicans and Democrats a group of oligarchs who are trying to clean up the mess created by the Zionists.
The thesis is fascinating. Sometimes you can see the jiu-jitsu. The Trump is performing. Other times he looks like an idiot.
I look at the compromises Trump is making with Putin and how he is attacking Netanyahu and the way he is treating Zelensky. It’s like this group of tech bros. Understands that the US lost the war the empire is collapsing. They’re doing their best to save it.
Of course this is just putting the best spin on the situation. I’m just keeping an open mind.
That's an interesting perspective, but I don't see the control of an oligarchy in play. I think it's much more chaotic than that.
I think Trump is one of those charismatic characters that comes along every now and then in history at just the right time, happenstance, to resonate with many people and a viral movement happens. I get the feeling Trumpism is a genuinely grass roots phenomenon and that when the career politicians see the power of it their instincts to glom onto whatever is the rising trend convince them to cast their lot with Trump.
Those right moments in history for such viral trends in support of a charismatic character are often very chaotic times of transition in which established patterns give way to aberrations. One of them today is the extraordinary concentration of wealth in the hands of a few tech bros, staggering wealth that was achieved outside of traditional means and at times seemingly overnight.
It's possible that in today's world the richest man in the world clearly has a screw loose here and there, who gives at least some credit for his innovation to a habit of ingesting psychedelics, which have the effect of inducing schizophrenia. (Just pointing out the technical effect of tripping is, indeed, what is described clinically as schizophrenia, not usually listed as a characteristic of successful people in pop psychology books.)
That the charismatic character himself (or, very rarely, herself) has a wide variety of flaws doesn't mean he might not be the man for the times when it comes to viral trends.
Julius Caesar was such a charismatic, deeply flawed character. Like Trump he also hit his viral stride late in life, finally rising to the consulship before using the military resources that gave him to pillage and enslave a peaceful neighbor, Gaul, to give him the money and power to become sole dictator. That reminds me of Trump's first term, when he was too generous with former enemies and left too many of them in power. In Trump's case they sabotaged his first term and in Caesar's case one day on the Ides of March they surrounded and stabbed him to death.
But when you look at charismatic characters propelled into power over an empire on a wave of popularity and luck very many of them have had trouble surviving their own attacks on external powers who weren't swayed by their viral domestic popularity. Napoleon is a good example.
A better and more intelligent man than Trump in almost all dimensions, Napoleon went from success to success, enjoying spectacular good luck in key military events that could have cut his career short. He even survived catastrophes, like the way he led an entire French army to its death in the aftermath of his invasion of Egypt. Napoleon just shrugged that off, left his army to die, and returned to France.
But that didn't work when he took on a really big power, Russia, which responded to Napoleon's invasion by first defeating him and destroying his army in Russia and then invading the French empire Napoleon had established in Europe, hunting Napoleon all the way to France before capturing him near Paris. He did have a second act, but it was just a coda before ending at Waterloo.
That could be Trump's ending as well. He might not get much pushback from the Danes over an American takeover of Greenland, but if he tries to force Russia to do things his way in Ukraine he'll find himself in the same position Zelensky now finds himself with Trump. Russia doesn't give a hoot about Trump's domestic power base in the US, and he cannot get his way by threatening Russia, not militarily and not economically.
I responded to your comment, but it showed up at the wrong level. Maybe I can fix it. Here it is I’ll leave the original in place though.
Trump is enabled by segments of the oligarchy without their support he would be nowhere. The oligarchy isn’t homogenous it makes and breaks alliances with itself and with others at a drop of a hat, they will destroy one another if they see advantage. Musk and the billionaires club (https://billionaireconspiracy.com/) saw Trump is an opportunity and they took it. Peter Thiel, for instance, sponsored JD Vance for decades before Vance became the VP. There are other examples. Trump would be nowhere without his billionaire supporters.
Trump is not Caesar and he is not Napoleon. He has some very narrow guard rails he needs to stay between. Luckily for him what he wants to do and what the billionaire Club wants him to do roughly parallel each other perfectly. (roughly perfectly.?).
I’m not disagreeing with you on the trajectory being followed just quibbling over who is in control. Trump is not a dictator. He is in partnership with members of the oligarchy.
The oligarchy very much determines the next political step.
Trump is enabled by segments of the oligarchy without their support he would be nowhere. The oligarchy isn’t homogenous it makes and breaks alliances with itself and with others at a drop of a hat, they will destroy one another if they see advantage. Musk and the billionaires club (https://billionaireconspiracy.com/) saw Trump is an opportunity and they took it. Peter Thiel, for instance, sponsored JD Vance for decades before Vance became the VP. There are other examples. Trump would be nowhere without his billionaire supporters.
Trump is not Caesar and he is not Napoleon. He has some very narrow guard rails he needs to stay between. Luckily for him what he wants to do and what the billionaire Club wants him to do roughly parallel each other perfectly. (roughly perfectly.?).
I’m not disagreeing with you on the trajectory being followed just quibbling over who is in control. Trump is not a dictator. He is in partnership with members of the oligarchy.
The oligarchy very much determines the next political step.
The Russians tend to honour agreements.
Trump is flirting with Russia because he sees China as the bigger threat.
I can't see the Russians abandoning BRICS, China, Iran and de-dollarisation for the favours of the USA that will likely be reversed in 4 years.
Also why do the Russians want West Africa/the Sahel?
Longterm strategic planning. What natural resources are there? What benefits would having control of them provide to Russia?
I don’t believe Trump sees China as a threat. It is the PNAC crowd made up mostly of Zionists who thought they forge American hegemony over the rest of the world. these are the same people Trump is ousting from office.
Today marks the first month of Trump in office and wow ! It was a frantic one. First, it is now clear that Trump didnt acted his assassination attempts. What was meant to be a public execution, as a terrifying warning for those attempting to challenge the masonic empire, turned into a public act of God, especially for Trump himself. Trump fears nothing now. He knows he has been chosen by God himself to save the USA, just as Putin was. These are providencial individuals, chosen to change history. Those claiming Trump is just another pawn of the cabal are silent now. He was attacked on any angle, both from the outside or the inside, but they could not make it, for the time being.... The work of years of meetings and political presence on the ground proved critical and decisive. History found its way again, big time, through glorious gates, but there is still a long way ahead.
The Trump crew has attacked their enemy with shocking speed and boldness and guts, having them disoriented and lost. Their whole scheme was cimented on lies. Some rays of truth have dissolve the sand castle amazingly fast. Yes, Zelensky is a dictator and a puppet, yes Europe is undemocratic and irrelevant, yes the Usaid was a fake humanitarian money-laundrying monster, yes ilegal inmigration is a major problem, and so on. Now, we see how much of the liberal NGO´s and media are in fact paid operatives. When the money faucet was closed, they were left in dispair, asking for a new master to serve. In my country, the rowdy crowds of the left are changing their speech fast, showing what they always were, a bunch of oportunists, hypocritically mimicking the good narrative, in order to grab money and ressources for their own good.
And this bring us to the increasingly dubious nature of western democracy itself. We can now state that the masses are unable to provide freedom, justice or equality. Small groups of well-teamed individuals, say from 3.000 to 5.000, can effectively rule a whole country, manipulating the people's natural insticts for security and submissiveness. Democracy is the perfect system for the rule of money, where every vote can in fact be bought off. As Jay Gould put it, “I can hire half of the working class to kill the other half”. The globalist cabal knew that they had to bring “the masses” on their side. They knew how easily they could be lied and deceived. They need agressive activism, pleople ready to die for their ideas-identity, people willing to fight for their right. Having the working class and racial communities been almost totally neutralised and assimilated, the only remaining candidates were the homosexuals, being radical feminism a brach of lesbian homosexuality.
For the Trump party, there is something that will remain still un-sorted from an historical point of view. They think they can go back in history to interprete the world in a traditional christian way. This won't be possible. The most terrifying thing about the cabal, the one that made them look invincible, is that they think in marxist terms. They are not marxists, but masonic bankers and billionaires. But they have been clever enough to hire smart marxist scholars and activists to steer their policies. Thus, they are aware of the inevitability of the creation of a unified capitalist world market without tarifs or trade barriers, just the law of the jungle. As Marx follows, this should lead to a global working class revolution which will bring down the capitalist rule for the entire planet. This is the part that they didnt like and worked to avoid, by means of a preemptive mass depopulation, once a unified government in place. The Trump team will sooner or later realize that they can't just grab Greenland, Canada or Venezuela. American businesses need mass migration in order to keep the workers wages down. The liberal homosexual masses won't just go away and disappear. Many NGO's and media which were a part of the globalist system governance, are desperately looking for a new master. And remember who owns the banks and the FED. This has just started... The masonic cabal system will need to be dismantle piece by piece. Otherwise, they will strike back with a vengeance...
You watch way too much TV and are completely delusional.
I like your comment a lot. There are some strategic points. I would disagree with, but I can’t do this on the phone. The labels you use don’t match the facts you are presenting for me that is. Others might read your words and totally agree. Maybe it’s just semantics.
And Henry is the one who is delusional. Two closed minded to even consider the point. Democracy is a charade with the Zionists hide behind the curtain while they manipulate the Wizard of Oz.
May I recommend Aaron good and his new series about the Jewish mafia? He explains how Meyer Lansky formed the national crime syndicate. . How Lansky was given the presidential medal of freedom by Harry Truman in the White House. This is the same Lansky who formed murder Inc. Folks also need to find goods series called Empire and the deep state on YouTube. He shows America was founded by crooks and has been run by crooks since the very beginning. Some really cool stories.
dream on: there's far too much money to be made from weapon production, oil & gas monopolies and war. T stating that "he totally disagrees with Zelensky about Russia wanting to invade NATO countries—he’s not buying the globalist bait..." only means T's playing out his assigned role and that the globalist powerbrokers need to make us believe there will be 'peace and coöperation' between US, Russia, China.
Russia would be stupid to return to the dollar, it's a vise on ebay scrotum in the world outside of the American imperialists. The US will"lose" the Americas, no one can ever trust this country after Biden/Trump. Trump , if he lasts four years, will create utter chaos in the country and may be removed by a military coup to prevent a civil war. The man is mentally unstable, happily he's destroying the American empire from the inside.
You are right but always look for the silver lining. In this case the possibility of the Ukraine war ending.
This seems very optimistic. While I applaud Trump's efforts, I think the time for detente was back during the Donbass conflict. With all the escalation, the cementing of BRICS, etc, I think there will be a major clash regardless, but we'll see.
The illegal Jew criminal HQ state is all the jewSA is concerned with -
Show me on this doll where the Jews touched you.
Typical Jew response to make reality about sexuality and that pervert Freud.
You seem to be the resident expert on perversion.
US Defense Security Cooperation Agency has just issued two press releases on arms "sales" to Israel totaling about $7.5 billion. Included are 13,000 guided bombs, more than half of US annual production. These "sales" are covered by loans from the US.
Israel literally never has to pay for these weapons. They borrow the funds to pay for them from us, and those loans are automatically forgiven. We are just sending Israel more than half of our yearly munitions production for free. What a disgusting joke.
The Zionists are takers, not givers and they ridicule the US for being their very own patsy.
That is a complete lie.
You are the only disgusting thing here.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-state-department-approves-military-sales-worth-74-billion-israel-2025-02-07/
readit and weep
Henry the Jew. Defending his tribe
Israel was founded as a secular state!
lol Jew. Is that why they use dna testing for citizenship ?
Great comment. Thank you
They will NEVER go back to the dollar. They're not that stupid.
A thousand times bitten, twice shy.
The chances of Russia returning to the dollar system are as remote as them giving up all of the land they have taken in Ukraine. Not going to happen.
Let's see which of the 3 world powers collapse - It is clear that the dollar system is a trap - returning stolen money is a minimum imperative of decency - lifting sanctions that have harmed those who imposed them the most? - Ukraine returns to Russia - Investments in China - Lowering oil prices? - For whose benefit? To the detriment of whom? - have the Americas? like the planned invasion of Mexico? The return to a Westphalian multipolar world based on mutual respect and cooperation instead of wars of destruction and plunder - is inevitable -
@Oregonian ….Excellent post
"Was it Russia that destroyed Nord Stream? Last I checked, European intel services had all but concluded it was a Ukrainian initiative under command of Zaluzhny himself."
BULLSHIT!!!!@@@%%%####!!!! The USSA ship BRIBEM did it!!! For fucks sake he was on video admitting as much!!!! Quit letting these fuckers off the hook!!!! Chip
"European intel" sources - that should tell you all you need to know.
good job.
They know who did it, and everyone knows they know who did it.
This is how humiliating a position they have put themselves in. Nobody respects them, because they don't even respect themselves.
It was the USS Kearsarge during BALTOPS22
I believe it was most likely the USS Jimmy Carter which is a Seawolf Class nuclear attack submarine specifically modified to conduct this type of sabotage. It could just sit on the bottom next to the pipeline and divers could work directly from it. The U.S. spent some $800 million dollars making the modifications some years ago.
Oh okay European Intelligence if it is even possible worst than our own corrupt United States intelligence services…..
US Navy was at scene of Nord Stream blasts: Danish media
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/us-navy-was-at-scene-of-nord-stream-blasts--danish-media
I believe the actual ship was the USS Kearsarge, which sat in the immediate neighborhood of the blast for a week until about 48 hours before the blast. It had abruptly sailed off thru the Danish straits, across the North Sea and thru the English Channel out into the open Atlantic by the time the blast timer ran down. The Wikipedia page for the ship helpfully explains it was doing underwater demolitions training and drills in the Baltic in the months preceding.
https://www.vesselmarinefinder.com/vessels/USS-Kearsarge-(LHD-3)/CURRENT-LOCATION/1/368702000
I stopped reading the article after that whopper!
The great Seymour Hersh did a report on the destruction of Nordstream with detailed info re special US military divers trained in Norway, Bidens last minute decisiin 2 add remote detonation 2 the task etc. Worth a read.
Read it... Chip
Conscript the girls. Women can do everything men can, after all. Let's expand that to include dying in trenches for their country.
>While the US continues to believe Russia will still exchange Kursk or simply freeze the conflict in exchange for only Crimea, etc.—this is not an adequate negotiating common ground for Putin to even bother wasting his time on
As we have endlessly discussed, Putin has control over firepower that would allow him to make Ukrainian defeat certain and irreversible within hours of him deciding to do so, and then have the Russian army at the Polish border within a couple months later (mopping up would take some time).
That hasn't happened in three years, exactly the opposite, he didn't even make any effort to secure his own borders, as a result of which the frontlines have been moving into Russia itself.
So yeah, that assumption on the part of the US looks pretty spot on.
Because they understand the internal weakness of the Russian state, which is the oligarchic model. The oligarchs want things to go back to how they were before 2022, with them and their money being welcome everywhere in the West, and they do not want to win the war for a number of reasons:
1) Proper mobilization means a wartime economy, and a wartime economy is a command economy. Even the US was a command economy during WWII, but that was temporary. Russia, however, has a proper tradition of being a permanent command economy, so any such precedent is extremely dangerous for the oligarchs, because you cannot have a command economy and Russian-type oligarchy in the same time. And they will need a proper mobilization even if tactical nukes are finally used to isolate Ukraine and then there is just the clean up left to do. A couple million will be needed for that.
2) The Russian oligarchy does not want a return to economic autarky, which would have to be done if Russian sovereignty is to be restored and if the kind of military-technical measures needed to defeat Ukraine are applied (which could result in political isolation of the country for some time after that). The whole basis of their power is to be the middlemen that hand over Russian raw resources to the West for pennies on the dollar. But economic autarky means new centers of power associated with domestic technology development and manufacturing emerging, which would automatically erode the relative power of the resource extraction oligarchs. It would also redirect those resources towards internal consumption, and then they would not be middlemen between anything. Can't have that.
3) They don't want to pay for Ukraine's restoration. That country was a wreck even without the war, and will need massive investments into its infrastructure and its reintegration with Russia. Who will pay for that? Well, most Russians don't have much you can tax, it is one of the most unequal societies on the planet, so you would have to tax the rich. Can't do -- building roads in Poltava at the expense of having fewer limousines and private jets for the Russian elite? What sort of a sacrilege is that?
4) The Ukranians are Nazis and they have made this into a rerun of WWII in their minds, but it works for the other side too. If there is a WWII-style total victory, it will inevitably lead to a resurgence of the latent communist sentiments in the Russian population. We in fact already saw that in the first months of the war -- one of the rarely spoken about aspects of those first months was how much of a return communist symbols made. You had hammer and sickle flags and GPW symbolic everywhere. The Kremlin had to work very hard to re-instill total apathy towards what is happening into the population, because things were getting really dangerous.
Remember, the grand imperative of Russian politics since 1991 has been to never allow communism to return, because of how much fertile ground still remains for it to do so, as it was not overturned because the people wanted it in the first place, it was a coup by the elite. The Ukrainians Nazis and American nukes in Europe are seen as much lesser threats by the Russian elites in comparison.
Etc. etc. etc.
So with Putin being the errand boy for the oligarchs, it is no wonder he has been fighting hard NOT to win the not-war for three years now, soon entering a fourth.
1) There is no detente yet
2) The example of what happened to Assad — they tricked him into thinking everything is good now, then they stuck the knife in his back — is very recent
3) The established facts are that the US gave itself permission to invade, bomb and launch missiles into Russia, then actually did those things, and nobody has paid any price for it. A detente might happen, but it will not overturn that established precedent, and in a few years someone else might be in power in DC and it will all start all over again.
Then what?
The only way the Kremlin establishes detente without coming out of this at a loss is if Trump agrees on a few Russian missile strikes into the continental US. Take out some of those responsible for starting the war and so much death and destruction. Zircons on the Kagan/Nulands mansions? Sounds good to me. Then Putin comes out and says “we are even now and can be friends“, Trump does not retaliate, and we can have genuinely good relationships.
But without that happening, Russia has been diminished as a great power and its security has been permanently compromised.
So later on when the next aggressor emboldened by the refusal on the part of Putin to defend the country tries to start some shit, it will be the same calculus — either extreme force will have to be used to make sure nobody else dares do anything like that again, or a lot more Russians will once again die.
Lol stop listening to Igor. He is leading you astray. Assad wasn't betrayed. New things are happening in the Middle East. And you have no idea what it is because your narrow obsessions gets in the way. Inceldom is destroying your mind and reality.
Stop with the BS. Even the oligarchy won't trust the USA. They know how the West including Americans see them. Why do you think they have pushed for brics? Plus you have misunderstood the state of the war. Anyway you have been wrong from day one Gurkin errand boy
>They know how the West including Americans see them.
This is where you are mistaken.
Partly because you are missing one very important aspect of the Russian oligarchy -- more than half of it is not Russian. It is in fact to a greater extent captured by the same people who have captured the US. You know who we are talking about.
The dehumanizing rhetoric about Russians does not phase these people, because they do not see themselves as Russian. And they aren't, they are one and the same with the Nulands and Kagans of the world.
>Why do you think they have pushed for brics?
They haven't though.
Plus BRICS is a catastrophic failure so far. What has BRICS achieved? India has been sending artillery shells and missiles to Ukraine...
So you hate Jews? I really don't take you seriously. Idealogues such as yourself always get it wrong because you are obsessed instead of rational. Number two, because of Gaza Jews have no safety. They are hated around the world. And I suspect that it will get worse. So stop seeing them as the know-all be-all. It is poor logic
No, I don’t hate Jews, I hate Nazis, and Zionists and Nazis are the exact same thing these days, just different symbols are used.
The Ukraine war was started by Zionists Jews in the US.
But the Russian oligarchs are Zionist Jews too.
And yet for three years podcasters, Substackers and various dummies in the comments are completely ignoring those two facts.
So Zionists run the world?!?!
Simple questions:
Who runs the world?
Are those people Zionists?
What follows from 1) and 2)?