Ukrainian Defense Minister Umerov and Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak—or Zermak, as the two-headed monster of him and Zelensky is jointly called—just came off their Washington begging tour, where they were tasked with selling the escalation war against Russia in order to save Ukraine:
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The good news was that Flamethrower FPV (or rather dropping phosphorus?) and the Anti-drone gadget. This will change the Combat on the ground to the better. Imagine Uki trenches in all these forest-lines drenched in fire? Hope they deploy fast and before the rains sets in. And the Anti-drone is good news for Soldiers on the ground. I have nightmares over all the suffering the guys have on the field. Could well explain why younger people are ”against” the War and positive to negotiations. Who will die at the front from a Drone?
Bad news that US cant control the Mad dogs in Ukraine. Ukraine sent 160 drones deep into Russia. They will certainly send 160 StormShadow if given the chance. UK&France has no problems with that but Germany is reluctant as is US for now. I think US dont want a escalated War until a new President is elected. All this shit about Red lines is psy-ops from the Western Perception War-abteilungs. They invent ”Russian” red lines that they cross on purpose, time after time, forcing people to believe that Russia is weak or behaving erratic. Russia and Putin is very clear (without mentioning any red lines).
So it's an AI bot. I've seen a few here. Their language appears disconnected with subtle flaws. I suspect that's the next phase of narrative control we face.
Villeicht nicht ganz grammatikalisch richtig, aber er gibt sich ja auch als Europaer aus und nicht vorwiegend Deutscher. Trotzdem sehr gut verstaendlich.
I think one of the main problems is that "the West" is leaderless and what we have is a cabal of overlapping interest groups and power centres - one of which always seems ready to do something stupid. And not necessarily the same one each time. So we drift towards WW3. I mean who would Russia actually negotiate with? And who could guarantee good faith and a controlled process absent any further provocations in the meantime?
You've raised a good point, and I've warmed to the description "blob" as another term for deep state. The senile old man called "President" has two caretakers, Jake and Blinken. The Brits are pipsqueaks trying to maintain some semblance of being a "global power" as the nation slides like the rest of Europe into becoming de-industrialised shithole. There is no good faith when states have descended into totalitarian monstrosities where priority number 1 is to have all power, everything else is secondary.
I think the fundamental problem is that the West's most important institutions (media, finance, etc) have been hijacked by the woke cult, which has led to fear and incompetence in leadership, mass migration straining society, a rise of nationalist interests to counter the cult, and an authoritarian response from the politicians in their DEI echochamber, who see ordinary concerns now as right wing. If we can get rid of the woke cult, we can bring society back to normal.
Good luck. The perception in the West has changed so much that Woke, Climate and PK are the new normal. All others are deviants. Reality is altered. Look at the election in Germany where other parties are likened to the NSDAP for only criticizing de-industrialisation, mass immigration with huge strains on the welfare system and the sanctions knocking out the EU, not Russia.
I believe the authoritarian response can only go on for so long before things break. Plus it is well known that people become more conservative with age. The youth vote of yesteryear will evaporate.
We can have a hope. But the repression will get even tougher. In a year from now we would not be able to even speak of these things as we do now. Look what happened to the Yellow Vests in France. Shot to pieces, 200 eyes poked out by rubber bullets. Look at the canadian truckers. Crushed. I am pessismist.
We will see. Eastern Europe will pull apart from the West and East Germany won't tolerate a woke Stazi, in the case Western Europe grows more authoritarian. I think some kind of zenith will be reached, not sure when.
When things like poverty and hunger swell, then we will see movement. At this point the social engineering sect is committed to projecting illusion and manufacturing consent. Once this no longer works....
30% of east germany would like to disagree. It's a well organised institution driven by crackpots from the US and quite obvious funding sources, members and approaches. If the powers that be wanted to target and destroy it they could. It is not a blob.
"Woke" is useful to the PMC, with the subtext that the populace are too bigoted and benighted to be entrusted with any real power, while We The Better Sort of People will use that power much more wisely.
At the same time, "woke" does not require the rulers to give up any part of The Goodies.
They can have it both ways. Demand more more power because of their self-evidently superior virtue, but at the same time, the distribution of wealth in their favor is obviously both just and proper.
I know what you intend to say but my experience is the situation is far more concretely sinister. It is a well organised well funded cult. It has the spineless fools in power, cowering to media and taking knees, quaking in their boots. The media does not get ad revenue unless the cult authorizes it, and HR departments fire those who disagree with it, while C suite execs fund it.
Woke is a vague nebulous term, that is used to lump political groupings together that have little or nothing to do with each other.
The term is used in the same way right wingers use the communist label, or liberals label everyone far right.
Also the term woke is used euphemistically by people to avoid calling out feminists.
I can't call feminists out in youtube. Youtube nerfs anti feminists videos via the algorithm. Youtube allows right wing midwits to spam the term woke everywhere and anti woke videos blow up.
Calling out woke is not a threat to the power structure, doing so is a culture war rabbit hole/distraction for low iq people.
Just as vague as LGBTQ. A community that also does not exist. Similarly there is no such community of feminists. What there is though is a well organised centrally controlled network of NGOs who use those labels to infiltrate and take control of institutions according to a wome ideology.
Lgbt is a political label, it is a intersectional feminist hijacking of tbe queer demographic.
There is no such thing as a lgbtq+ demographic. Gay men suffer 95 percent of queer issues. Also lgbt activists spend their time stalking and canceling gay men.
When gay men get murdered framing it as a lgbt issue is erasing the plight of gay men and hijacking their issues. Gay men are considered political pets.
People conflate lgbt a political movement with the gay demographic they are not the same.
Lgbt+ label is full of mentally damaged narcissists. They invent new sexualities all the time.
BLM is largely the same, a intersectional political movement run by black man hating lesbians
Frank. "Woke" is an irritant at most. You might not like it,but it's just window dressing.
The underlying problem is that society is now explicitly and openly run in the interests of the Corporations and the Rentier class and more and more people have no stake in society whatsoever and feel entirely unrepresented. This feeling is now commonplace even in the Middle Class.
Incidentally the UK Government is now arresting Pro-Palestinian journalists under the prevention of Terrorism Act. That's a literally astonishing level of authoritarianism
I used to follow that particular "journalist" on YouTube and gave him up long ago because he was becoming so unhinged. God knows what he ended up saying that convinced the government to step in.
It's worse than that. Firstly, the system running the western world is described in Leviathan and it's Enemies by Francis. Its and ideology called Managerial Liberalism. It's everywhere, we're all part of it, and it can't be stopped.
The second issue is depletion of hydrocarbon and mineral resources. Search Michaux and Bryce on YouTube channel Financial Sense. In 30 years we wont have any affordably recoverable copper (for one). This is the real reason for all the wars.
It's going to keep getting worse and probably will never get better. We're just being lied to about the real issues behind our problems. There are no oligarchs. It's not about money or people being bought off. If you don't buy into the system (the ideology) you're kicked out and working in a factory. Every level of society has to participate. Mike Benz talked about it on Tucker Carlson on August 28. At 34 min he says they call it the "Whole of Society Framework". It was implemented in 2016.
Exactly what must frustrate Lavrov and Putin beyond the narrative the West has managed to spread about the origins of the war and the outcome it must lead to; a total defeat for Russia.
Some Western leaders are willing victims and allow themselves to be led by the narrative whipped up by the large clique of warmongers that exist in the various countries. Scholz is an example. Too many are afraid to question the narrative. Orban an exception. Still other, unelected "leaders" such as StoltenbergNATO and von der LeyenEU play foreign policy without a mandate from the governments (or people) of the respective countries. Wanna-bee idiots like those in the Baltics and Poland play foreign policy in a self-destructive way. Little UK is one of those sabotaging, as they have always done to keep mainland Europe divided. They are even not members in EU anymore and can do whatever suit their perverse interests. Completely in line with big brother US (that special bond) whose policy has always been to prevent a rapprochement between Europe and Russia. No matter how senile Biden is, he cannot negotiate anything that goes against the entire US ultimate goal.
Can anyone in the WEST be trusted anymore? No.
Who will have authority to negoiate with the Russian after the fall of Bankova-reegime? No one.
The War can be won by the Russians but there is no Peace on the horizon.
And that is the point isn't it. There will be negotiations ultimately but it will be the "sign here or else type". The other outcome will be Russian regime change and the chance of that is vanishingly small. I guess it is possible that a Trump Presidenecy might have better negotiating credentials but he might again be one man versus a "blob" of interests. This would depend on whether the so called blob somehow managed to form a consensus that a bad negotiated peace now was a better outcome than a much worse imposed one later?
The Orange man called Stumpf will, if sworn in as President, show the World that he is important, a strong man with power. How could he blow $200 Bln and let Russia celebrate a Victory? It is not going to happen. He will only worsen the crisis. The laughing horse is no alternative either. Ruled by others.
The presidential election doesn't matter in terms of America's Global politics.
The US is a plutocracy, not a democracy, and it's tragic.
Too many people rely on the war economy, too many vested interests. There is no genuine threat to the USA, so it's all about the money that can be made.
You GUESS that its possible? It is possible-- is it possible with the group that is in there now (Wiken, Bliken and Nod) ? ah no. Amazing what can happen if you remove all the Neocons controlling this because of an ancient beef against Russia and basically a love of war.
This is where I align very much with the likes of Mike Benz. He has a great 30,000ft view of what is happening wrt to "democracy"; in that it has shifted from "will of the people" to "democratic institutions" which means you now only need a few thousand people to align rather than millions. And thats the Blob
Democracy, as a practical matter, is basically an exercise in passing the buck, in avoiding responsibility. The technical term for this is a "beard".
Everyone in power claims to answer to and derive their authority from someone else, going ultimately back to "the people" who themselves do not directly exercise power, and who would find it difficult to exercise as a collective action problem, even if they had the formal authority to do so.
What this means is that real power is often in the hands of unelected bureaucrats, who typically don't even want to stand for election because they don't want the voters to know what their programs are, much less to exercise any oversight. Robert Moses is the classic example here. (Apparently, Moses did run for governor of New York, lost and then returned to his sinecure.)
Even that minimal level of scrutiny is too much for some, and real power is often exercised by people not formally part of any government structure. Corporate lobbyists or Robert Kagan come to mind.
Taking into account how wildly unpopular most western politicians and their policies are with their respective publics, "democracy" as it is practiced is basically a cover for rulers to do what they want.
After all, your elected representatives approved this. If you don't like it, you can vote for a different carefully vetted corporate imperialist muppet, so until then, shut up and fall in line!
I came to this conclusion a while back. Various lobby groups and special interests, not to mention the proverbial star chamber seem to set the agenda. Red vs Blue is so much pro wrestling
The difference is that Team D is the political manifestation of the PMC, with various grievance groups as junior partners, while Team R fulfills a similar role for Local Gentry, with white evangelicals as sidekicks.
So true and right. It's why over the last couple of years I find myself favoring the idea of a monarchy again, or some form of 1-man rule, despite all the inherent problems that comes with it. The current trajectory is literally bolshevism-lite.
The one advantage to one-man rule that I can discern is that, when one's man's portrait is on everyone's wall, everyone knows where the buck ultimately stops. Of course, smart monarchs are good at using "bad advisors", "national enemies" and the like as a cover.
At the same time, what we have is a far cry from "Bolshevism". Let me know when they shut down the stock market.
But everybody gets behind it or they're out of a job. Mike Benz sats all institutions including universities are part of it. That means all faculty. That right there would be over 100,000. It's everywhere. Every bank. Every corporation. You don't get behind it, you lose access to financial services and can't make payroll.
Nice summary of where we are today. Many of my American associates don't realize that there are wars going on or are beyond disinterested. Impossible to even have a conversation about the present reality. People here are completely brainwashed. The couple of college teachers I know are the worst of the bunch. Ignorance on steroids. It is beyond depressing. At 10:30 this morning I'm getting a root canal and even doing this is a creaky hand hold on my rapidly diminishing optimism. No pain now, as a driver. Cynical me thinks, "why bother?" The weather appears, in the near term, to be cloudy with a chance of nukes. Why fix the teeth when the curtain looks to be coming down on this shit-show.
Hope all goes well by the Dentist. To be a westerner and see things with clarity is indeed very depressing. Most people are ignorant and basically sleep-walking along their sheepish leaders into WW3. Therefore this Substack is a candle of light in the dark.
All previous "red lines" crossed by the West were invented by the West itself. But an attack with long-range missiles deep into pre 2014 Russian territory is a real red line, voiced by Putin himself. And I very much doubt that the US is ready to cross it, because it will lead to uncontrolled escalation.
I dont think I heard any russian say the word ”red”. It is a western innovation, as you say.
True. If they are so dumb to send StormShadows or Atacms with boosts into mainland Russia we are in for a bumpy ride. Those drones that damaged Ballistic missile detection centers were grave enough. A missile could well be a prelude to a first strike. So how are Russia supposed to answer such a threat? And if they dont answer in a massive way, those idiot warmongers, will see that as an invitation to push Russia even further.
I am sure US has assets in Kreml that give them information of exactly were the imaginary lines are. I am not sure if Russia has inside believable inside information due to the erratic formal command of US forces.
The dark horse is UK. They may very well trigger their 3rd World War in a row.
The political class loves to pretend it's still 1924 and that we matter.
We don't.
We can't do anything without the US' permission.
The country isn't being run in the interests of the people.
What we spend on Defence and the Foreign Office is absurd. And all to zero benefit for ordinary people. Our embassy in Washington costs more than the entire Civil List, but we have no money to keep pensioners warm in Winter.
Dont underestimate your goverments Deep State and those who control City of London. That people suffer in UK is unquestionable but not the hidden (or official) elite. They prosper.
Yermak is single and has no children. How do Ukrainian parents allow him to send their kids to die, while he steals from American taxpayers? Macron, Starmer, and Scholz are pathetic. Western Europe is returning to the dark ages. Jail for peasants who speak out against mass migration, deindustrialization through ESG degrowth, and mass third world migration are suicidal - the beatings will continue until morale improves.
The deindustrialization is even worse than they report. If you look at charts such as the one in the sitrep titled "The striking decline of corporate Europe - Top 100 companies by market capitalization" that grossly underreports deindustrialization because the top companies by market cap aren't industrial companies: they are internet companies like Fakebook that don't manufacture anything but lies. A chart showing the locations of the world's top 100 industrial companies would show the US share as being far lower.
The economic and financial numbers are fakes designed to keep the rubes in awe of the brilliance of the financial "engineers" who bamboozle themselves with complex maths that mask daylight robbery.
All that guy does are videos like this. He did one saying China had "First Mover Dominance" or some such, in fusion energy. Fusion energy will never happen, no way, no how.
Yermak is Jewish and just doing what the Khazar Jews are asking of him. This war is the continuation of a ware between Khazar Jews and Russians that began in 965 AD.
I doubt the part that they are the true origins of the modern Ashkenazi. I searched through books far and wide to try to find out if this was true (among other things). Most of the books claiming this read like crazy conspiracy theory books. Nothing but far out assertions made by emotionally unhealthy people and probably funded by the national security state.
By far the most credible book of all was by an academic containing references galore. They've done more DNA testing of the modern Israelies and Palestinians then any other people on earth. They're brothers. European Jews have about a 30% mix of European blood from having lived there. Also, 200 Years Together by Solzhenitsyn reads like it's probably the most accurate description of the true history of the Jews in Ukraine although it admittedly is more authoritative about more recent history. We can only know what we know. The further back in history, the more uncertain our knowledge becomes. I don't know anything with absolute certainty. Everything is a "balance of probability" estimate. Notice I never say such and such is true. I only ever say such and such is nonsense. Only disconfirmatory evidence carries weight.
But I have read most of the famous conspiracy theory books and I believed all of it at the time. But just like with the fake Trump assassination attempt I gradually started to notice the patterns, inanities and inconsistencies and started digging deeper. I'm convinced that almost all conspiracy theory books are written by our governments and are intentionally written very poorly. I'm not certain if that is to mock us or to single out people according to their specific type of poor reasoning. I believe normies also are really bad at reasoning. Even the world's leading experts on critical thinking are some of the worst thinkers imaginable. It's been known for 100 years by political philosophers that people don't think rationally. They decide their beliefs instantly based on intuition and then invent a post hoc rationalization to justify their beliefs.
To me it appears that there are 2 camps in the world. It's like an onion. The first and largest camp are the normies who believe everything the powers that be tell them. Their priorities are being party of the crowd and self soothing emotionally. The second camp are the conspiracy theorists. They intuitively grasp that most everything is a lie but settle on the first explanation they find, the mainstream conspiracy theories. They look no future and it's impossible to convince them to look further. They're problem is they possessed by a spirit of rebellion, think they're light years smarter the anyone else in spite of the evidence they have below average intelligence and they're welded to their false certainty. They're attempting to assuage their fears and bring safety by detecting everything that's wrong so they can defend against an attack. It all comes down to non integrated non conscious emotional brain systems. They need to deal with their emotions before they can change their mind and they're never going to do that so it's futile arguing with them.
What I do is when I find my sources have been lying to me or misinforming me somehow, I drop them. Eventually I find newer sources, fewer in number. This way I find the next layer. I've gone through several layers so far and still have no idea what's really true. But I have a really good idea what's bullshit.
I should explain that the newest science explains that from a most basic description there are 3 basic non conscious brain systems. Safety, seeking and soothing. Normies are on the soothing end. Notice they are calm and bring up useless evidence about why they think the jab is a good thing, or whatever the disagreement is about. Electric cars and windmills are going to save mother earth while making is rich. Take you pick of their idiotic beliefs.
The conspiracy theorists are in fear mode all the time so they're constantly using all their seeking capacities to scan for a solution so they can feel safe for once. Notice that they're more hyper and aggressive, especially when you don't agree with them 100%. Anf they don't know when to stop. They're like scientists. Collecting confirmatory evidence as if it means something. They believe viruses don't exist, the moon is hollow, the earth is flat, today's weather is caused by chemtrails, outer space doesn't exist, banking and finance is the power that rules the world, everyone is bought off and stupid, the Nazi's are living under Antarctica with alien technology and alongside real life aliens. I could go on. I work with these people. They won't spend 5 seconds investigating any of these things. One told me last week that he doesn't believe jet engines exist. He doesn't see how they could possible work. I told him YouTube is full of videos explaining all of it but he'll never look into it because it's really about his emotional issues.
I'd recommend reading Leviathan and it's Enemies by Francis, The Secret War Against the Jews by Loftus, A Century of War by Engdahl and The Sleeper Agent by Finnegan. That would get anyone started on understanding how the world really works. Anyone who thinks the Jew bankers control the world is a lost cause. You can't eat money and you can't bomb a nation into submission with it either. Power is still old fashioned. Hydrocarbon and mineral resources and the land and food to have a large enough population that's wealthy enough to make things properly. Being a huge country with a large population and producing an unlimited supply of coconuts doesn't cut it. You need to be sufficiently advanced to have a formidable military. That's the only real power.
It’s all in USD which we know is highly inflated. Also the main focus of China is not the stock market and most households don’t own equity directly or indirectly (through pension funds/plans).
A better metric would be production value in PPP, in which case U.S. would look much worse, China MUCH better and Europe about the same.
They make sense to me : the questions are not identical and quite astute in their combination. They show that people (women and men) are about equal numbers in favoring either options but will overwhelmingly support the decision taken by the government.
An instructive piece of evidence if the survey itself is not flawed.
It seems to me that the main goal of NATO/Z is to destabilise Russia to the point that it suffers regime collapse and thus a more pro-western ruling class can be installed – notwithstanding [if successful] this cunning plan risks the opposite occurring. This seems the only explanation for the Kursk operation, long range pin prick strikes, cross border attacks on civilians and the on-going “Tik Tok” propaganda war. It must now be obvious to even the most die-hard Russophobe that there is no military route to achieve victory for NATO and the sanctions have strengthened Russia and brought about catastrophic economic damage to Europe [which may have been part of the plan].
It is important therefore to take account of the polling data as this might provide us with some evidence about whether this effort of destabilisation is being successful and so to what extent. I found this article which I found useful despite routinely describing the Russian regime as “Autocratic” [in comparison to “our democracy”??]. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/russia-opinion-polls-war-ukraine/
I recommend you read it but cutting a long story short, poll results depend on who you ask and how you ask. Much like any other polls. And they can be used as a weapon – and we see that everywhere with “fake” polls used to garner support for a person/policy as opposed to reflecting it. And then the poll results themselves require interpretation which can then again be weaponised.
I think it is inevitable that the Kursk adventure has created some dent/dip in the Russian general public mood/morale and we see that in the polls. But I doubt that Russian policy will alter much as a result of this change of public opinion. In fact like most here, I think the official stance now will have hardened. No doubt various western experts will see this as evidence that the “Putin Regime” is unstable and all it takes is one more push [aka dangerous escalation] before it is toppled.
Maybe the poll question should be “Do you support negotiating on the basis of Z’s 10 point peace plan, surrendering tens of millions of now Russian citizens to murderous neo-Nazi regime, losing Crimea to NATO, impoverishing yourself to pay reparations to corrupt Ukrainian oligarchs, having your leaders tried by western kangaroo courts - replacing them with Wall Street bankers, and suffering international humiliation?” If no please continue to support the Government’s policy. If yes, please bend over….
I learned from Brian Berletic to always check the organizations that support these organizations. They all sound pro democracy and anti autocracy. That makes me a little suspicious
VVP knows better. It's simple as that. As a person with a great track record and access to much better information than general populace, if he chooses so, then it must be the best course of action. This is how 75% approval rating looks in practice.
Will never happen, even EU technos will not accept 95 millions Muslims at once, it will mean AFD everywhere, complete regime change even in wokeistan. Don't forget that Macron for exemple did not even reach 17 % of the population in the two last elections. SPD Greens are collapsing, same situation in many countries except Poland + Baltics untill there is EU money available..
A wound should close pretty quick if treated properly and not in a person with a problem with healing - say a diabetic foot ulcer or whatever. He obviously was only grazed.
Ironically proper wound care goes completely at odds with commercialized crap. Soap and water and wash it out good, avoid abrasions by bandaging only as necessary and let it heal itself. Most of the wound treatments you find on the market are cytotoxic, killing cells, which actually slows healing.
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The good news was that Flamethrower FPV (or rather dropping phosphorus?) and the Anti-drone gadget. This will change the Combat on the ground to the better. Imagine Uki trenches in all these forest-lines drenched in fire? Hope they deploy fast and before the rains sets in. And the Anti-drone is good news for Soldiers on the ground. I have nightmares over all the suffering the guys have on the field. Could well explain why younger people are ”against” the War and positive to negotiations. Who will die at the front from a Drone?
Bad news that US cant control the Mad dogs in Ukraine. Ukraine sent 160 drones deep into Russia. They will certainly send 160 StormShadow if given the chance. UK&France has no problems with that but Germany is reluctant as is US for now. I think US dont want a escalated War until a new President is elected. All this shit about Red lines is psy-ops from the Western Perception War-abteilungs. They invent ”Russian” red lines that they cross on purpose, time after time, forcing people to believe that Russia is weak or behaving erratic. Russia and Putin is very clear (without mentioning any red lines).
And suddenly West will see the response.
I know you were gunning for first, Mikey. (sneaky devil) lol
I don't think he is human.
So it's an AI bot. I've seen a few here. Their language appears disconnected with subtle flaws. I suspect that's the next phase of narrative control we face.
"Abteilung", do I detect a fellow German?
Jawohl, geehrter Frau. European I am.
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Naja. Richtiges Deutsch spricht er aber nicht, "sehr geehrter Frau" Gisela! 🫤
Villeicht nicht ganz grammatikalisch richtig, aber er gibt sich ja auch als Europaer aus und nicht vorwiegend Deutscher. Trotzdem sehr gut verstaendlich.
I think one of the main problems is that "the West" is leaderless and what we have is a cabal of overlapping interest groups and power centres - one of which always seems ready to do something stupid. And not necessarily the same one each time. So we drift towards WW3. I mean who would Russia actually negotiate with? And who could guarantee good faith and a controlled process absent any further provocations in the meantime?
You've raised a good point, and I've warmed to the description "blob" as another term for deep state. The senile old man called "President" has two caretakers, Jake and Blinken. The Brits are pipsqueaks trying to maintain some semblance of being a "global power" as the nation slides like the rest of Europe into becoming de-industrialised shithole. There is no good faith when states have descended into totalitarian monstrosities where priority number 1 is to have all power, everything else is secondary.
Well the masks certainly have come off....reminds me of the quote by Frank Zappa about the brick wall behind the cutrain.
I think the fundamental problem is that the West's most important institutions (media, finance, etc) have been hijacked by the woke cult, which has led to fear and incompetence in leadership, mass migration straining society, a rise of nationalist interests to counter the cult, and an authoritarian response from the politicians in their DEI echochamber, who see ordinary concerns now as right wing. If we can get rid of the woke cult, we can bring society back to normal.
Good luck. The perception in the West has changed so much that Woke, Climate and PK are the new normal. All others are deviants. Reality is altered. Look at the election in Germany where other parties are likened to the NSDAP for only criticizing de-industrialisation, mass immigration with huge strains on the welfare system and the sanctions knocking out the EU, not Russia.
I believe the authoritarian response can only go on for so long before things break. Plus it is well known that people become more conservative with age. The youth vote of yesteryear will evaporate.
We can have a hope. But the repression will get even tougher. In a year from now we would not be able to even speak of these things as we do now. Look what happened to the Yellow Vests in France. Shot to pieces, 200 eyes poked out by rubber bullets. Look at the canadian truckers. Crushed. I am pessismist.
We will see. Eastern Europe will pull apart from the West and East Germany won't tolerate a woke Stazi, in the case Western Europe grows more authoritarian. I think some kind of zenith will be reached, not sure when.
When things like poverty and hunger swell, then we will see movement. At this point the social engineering sect is committed to projecting illusion and manufacturing consent. Once this no longer works....
You mean black pill. love your magic ball 🙄
The Canadian truckers achieved all of their aims, and Trudeau backed down completely.
Try to recognise the victories!
No such thing as woke. Your analysis therefore collapses.
No such thing as woke. Ffs. 🤣
Empty appeal to ridicule. There is novsuch thing as woke, right wingers cannot accurately describe what it is. Therefore it doesn't exist.
Current pattern of behaviour of western imperialist predate the buzzword woke.
Term woke is thrown about by right wing midwits with no understanding of political science, or current political groupings in the west.
30% of east germany would like to disagree. It's a well organised institution driven by crackpots from the US and quite obvious funding sources, members and approaches. If the powers that be wanted to target and destroy it they could. It is not a blob.
What do you even mean by that?!
You don't know what phone auto correct is?
"Woke" is useful to the PMC, with the subtext that the populace are too bigoted and benighted to be entrusted with any real power, while We The Better Sort of People will use that power much more wisely.
At the same time, "woke" does not require the rulers to give up any part of The Goodies.
They can have it both ways. Demand more more power because of their self-evidently superior virtue, but at the same time, the distribution of wealth in their favor is obviously both just and proper.
I know what you intend to say but my experience is the situation is far more concretely sinister. It is a well organised well funded cult. It has the spineless fools in power, cowering to media and taking knees, quaking in their boots. The media does not get ad revenue unless the cult authorizes it, and HR departments fire those who disagree with it, while C suite execs fund it.
Since it doesn't exist and is a false label it is not a cult.
There is a powerful political movement called feminism, but you are all too distracted to notice the effects that has on society.
Circular arguments dont wash here
Woke is a vague nebulous term, that is used to lump political groupings together that have little or nothing to do with each other.
The term is used in the same way right wingers use the communist label, or liberals label everyone far right.
Also the term woke is used euphemistically by people to avoid calling out feminists.
I can't call feminists out in youtube. Youtube nerfs anti feminists videos via the algorithm. Youtube allows right wing midwits to spam the term woke everywhere and anti woke videos blow up.
Calling out woke is not a threat to the power structure, doing so is a culture war rabbit hole/distraction for low iq people.
Just as vague as LGBTQ. A community that also does not exist. Similarly there is no such community of feminists. What there is though is a well organised centrally controlled network of NGOs who use those labels to infiltrate and take control of institutions according to a wome ideology.
Lgbt is a political label, it is a intersectional feminist hijacking of tbe queer demographic.
There is no such thing as a lgbtq+ demographic. Gay men suffer 95 percent of queer issues. Also lgbt activists spend their time stalking and canceling gay men.
When gay men get murdered framing it as a lgbt issue is erasing the plight of gay men and hijacking their issues. Gay men are considered political pets.
People conflate lgbt a political movement with the gay demographic they are not the same.
Lgbt+ label is full of mentally damaged narcissists. They invent new sexualities all the time.
BLM is largely the same, a intersectional political movement run by black man hating lesbians
Frank. "Woke" is an irritant at most. You might not like it,but it's just window dressing.
The underlying problem is that society is now explicitly and openly run in the interests of the Corporations and the Rentier class and more and more people have no stake in society whatsoever and feel entirely unrepresented. This feeling is now commonplace even in the Middle Class.
Incidentally the UK Government is now arresting Pro-Palestinian journalists under the prevention of Terrorism Act. That's a literally astonishing level of authoritarianism
Society has been run in the interest of corporations long before woke became a buzz word
You are wrong. The corporate state is something JK Galbraith described well in the 1950s. The woke cult is a new phenomenon that has hijacked it.
I used to follow that particular "journalist" on YouTube and gave him up long ago because he was becoming so unhinged. God knows what he ended up saying that convinced the government to step in.
Not that I support the government's position.
Hijacked or bought off? Pharma certainly did that during " Covid" Recall that Pharma is the biggest funder of media (meds advertisement et al)
It's worse than that. Firstly, the system running the western world is described in Leviathan and it's Enemies by Francis. Its and ideology called Managerial Liberalism. It's everywhere, we're all part of it, and it can't be stopped.
The second issue is depletion of hydrocarbon and mineral resources. Search Michaux and Bryce on YouTube channel Financial Sense. In 30 years we wont have any affordably recoverable copper (for one). This is the real reason for all the wars.
It's going to keep getting worse and probably will never get better. We're just being lied to about the real issues behind our problems. There are no oligarchs. It's not about money or people being bought off. If you don't buy into the system (the ideology) you're kicked out and working in a factory. Every level of society has to participate. Mike Benz talked about it on Tucker Carlson on August 28. At 34 min he says they call it the "Whole of Society Framework". It was implemented in 2016.
Exactly what must frustrate Lavrov and Putin beyond the narrative the West has managed to spread about the origins of the war and the outcome it must lead to; a total defeat for Russia.
Some Western leaders are willing victims and allow themselves to be led by the narrative whipped up by the large clique of warmongers that exist in the various countries. Scholz is an example. Too many are afraid to question the narrative. Orban an exception. Still other, unelected "leaders" such as StoltenbergNATO and von der LeyenEU play foreign policy without a mandate from the governments (or people) of the respective countries. Wanna-bee idiots like those in the Baltics and Poland play foreign policy in a self-destructive way. Little UK is one of those sabotaging, as they have always done to keep mainland Europe divided. They are even not members in EU anymore and can do whatever suit their perverse interests. Completely in line with big brother US (that special bond) whose policy has always been to prevent a rapprochement between Europe and Russia. No matter how senile Biden is, he cannot negotiate anything that goes against the entire US ultimate goal.
Can anyone in the WEST be trusted anymore? No.
Who will have authority to negoiate with the Russian after the fall of Bankova-reegime? No one.
The War can be won by the Russians but there is no Peace on the horizon.
And that is the point isn't it. There will be negotiations ultimately but it will be the "sign here or else type". The other outcome will be Russian regime change and the chance of that is vanishingly small. I guess it is possible that a Trump Presidenecy might have better negotiating credentials but he might again be one man versus a "blob" of interests. This would depend on whether the so called blob somehow managed to form a consensus that a bad negotiated peace now was a better outcome than a much worse imposed one later?
The Orange man called Stumpf will, if sworn in as President, show the World that he is important, a strong man with power. How could he blow $200 Bln and let Russia celebrate a Victory? It is not going to happen. He will only worsen the crisis. The laughing horse is no alternative either. Ruled by others.
Exactly this. The orange troll is a bloviating grifter. He did stellar work draining the swamp, no? /s
The presidential election doesn't matter in terms of America's Global politics.
The US is a plutocracy, not a democracy, and it's tragic.
Too many people rely on the war economy, too many vested interests. There is no genuine threat to the USA, so it's all about the money that can be made.
No President has the power to beat the system.
You GUESS that its possible? It is possible-- is it possible with the group that is in there now (Wiken, Bliken and Nod) ? ah no. Amazing what can happen if you remove all the Neocons controlling this because of an ancient beef against Russia and basically a love of war.
This is where I align very much with the likes of Mike Benz. He has a great 30,000ft view of what is happening wrt to "democracy"; in that it has shifted from "will of the people" to "democratic institutions" which means you now only need a few thousand people to align rather than millions. And thats the Blob
I think it's called Managerial tyranny
Yep, NS Lyons "China convergence" is required reading
Techno-communism is another term … I just read that book. It’s excellent
Democracy, as a practical matter, is basically an exercise in passing the buck, in avoiding responsibility. The technical term for this is a "beard".
Everyone in power claims to answer to and derive their authority from someone else, going ultimately back to "the people" who themselves do not directly exercise power, and who would find it difficult to exercise as a collective action problem, even if they had the formal authority to do so.
What this means is that real power is often in the hands of unelected bureaucrats, who typically don't even want to stand for election because they don't want the voters to know what their programs are, much less to exercise any oversight. Robert Moses is the classic example here. (Apparently, Moses did run for governor of New York, lost and then returned to his sinecure.)
Even that minimal level of scrutiny is too much for some, and real power is often exercised by people not formally part of any government structure. Corporate lobbyists or Robert Kagan come to mind.
Taking into account how wildly unpopular most western politicians and their policies are with their respective publics, "democracy" as it is practiced is basically a cover for rulers to do what they want.
After all, your elected representatives approved this. If you don't like it, you can vote for a different carefully vetted corporate imperialist muppet, so until then, shut up and fall in line!
I came to this conclusion a while back. Various lobby groups and special interests, not to mention the proverbial star chamber seem to set the agenda. Red vs Blue is so much pro wrestling
The difference is that Team D is the political manifestation of the PMC, with various grievance groups as junior partners, while Team R fulfills a similar role for Local Gentry, with white evangelicals as sidekicks.
So true and right. It's why over the last couple of years I find myself favoring the idea of a monarchy again, or some form of 1-man rule, despite all the inherent problems that comes with it. The current trajectory is literally bolshevism-lite.
The one advantage to one-man rule that I can discern is that, when one's man's portrait is on everyone's wall, everyone knows where the buck ultimately stops. Of course, smart monarchs are good at using "bad advisors", "national enemies" and the like as a cover.
At the same time, what we have is a far cry from "Bolshevism". Let me know when they shut down the stock market.
Well that was exactly the route Roman republic devolved (evolved?) into.
But everybody gets behind it or they're out of a job. Mike Benz sats all institutions including universities are part of it. That means all faculty. That right there would be over 100,000. It's everywhere. Every bank. Every corporation. You don't get behind it, you lose access to financial services and can't make payroll.
Understanding what it is, is the first step to defeating it
Nice summary of where we are today. Many of my American associates don't realize that there are wars going on or are beyond disinterested. Impossible to even have a conversation about the present reality. People here are completely brainwashed. The couple of college teachers I know are the worst of the bunch. Ignorance on steroids. It is beyond depressing. At 10:30 this morning I'm getting a root canal and even doing this is a creaky hand hold on my rapidly diminishing optimism. No pain now, as a driver. Cynical me thinks, "why bother?" The weather appears, in the near term, to be cloudy with a chance of nukes. Why fix the teeth when the curtain looks to be coming down on this shit-show.
Hope all goes well by the Dentist. To be a westerner and see things with clarity is indeed very depressing. Most people are ignorant and basically sleep-walking along their sheepish leaders into WW3. Therefore this Substack is a candle of light in the dark.
The west only negotiates in bad faith.
Bingo!
Mikey, you are right. Russia's so called 'red lines' tend to only exist in the fevered imagination of the Western media.
All previous "red lines" crossed by the West were invented by the West itself. But an attack with long-range missiles deep into pre 2014 Russian territory is a real red line, voiced by Putin himself. And I very much doubt that the US is ready to cross it, because it will lead to uncontrolled escalation.
I dont think I heard any russian say the word ”red”. It is a western innovation, as you say.
True. If they are so dumb to send StormShadows or Atacms with boosts into mainland Russia we are in for a bumpy ride. Those drones that damaged Ballistic missile detection centers were grave enough. A missile could well be a prelude to a first strike. So how are Russia supposed to answer such a threat? And if they dont answer in a massive way, those idiot warmongers, will see that as an invitation to push Russia even further.
I am sure US has assets in Kreml that give them information of exactly were the imaginary lines are. I am not sure if Russia has inside believable inside information due to the erratic formal command of US forces.
The dark horse is UK. They may very well trigger their 3rd World War in a row.
We're not a dark horse, we're a paper poodle.
The political class loves to pretend it's still 1924 and that we matter.
We don't.
We can't do anything without the US' permission.
The country isn't being run in the interests of the people.
What we spend on Defence and the Foreign Office is absurd. And all to zero benefit for ordinary people. Our embassy in Washington costs more than the entire Civil List, but we have no money to keep pensioners warm in Winter.
Dont underestimate your goverments Deep State and those who control City of London. That people suffer in UK is unquestionable but not the hidden (or official) elite. They prosper.
why uncontrolled - who will lose control?
Simpliticus never stops.
Andriy Yermak - Jew - look at that side view of that creature. He is truly a quintessential
example warned about in Der Giftpilz
https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/images/giftpilz/scan6.jpg
Very true, once you are aware of this... you don't even have to look up early life.
A report states that Zelensky said the following at a NATO convention:
https://youtu.be/ayGkA-vxrMc
Biden and comma la see Afghanistan redux and want it to continue until after the election.
Nov-Jan will be a dangerous time
NATO will keep Ukraine afloat until; the US election in November, after which the open and direct NATO intervention will happen.
Crap - you wearing those pinchy pants again
Fire up the svinopyok!
Huge, the colours of the thumbnail map figure illustrating this new Simplicius' piece are way more vivid than usual!
This is indeed the sign of built-up heightened tensions, and a full explosion of contents is just waiting for the reader to uncover!
I cannot wait to burrow myself in reading
This new more regular format is great. Means fresh updates all the time.. keep it up simp.. 😍😍😍
Yermak is single and has no children. How do Ukrainian parents allow him to send their kids to die, while he steals from American taxpayers? Macron, Starmer, and Scholz are pathetic. Western Europe is returning to the dark ages. Jail for peasants who speak out against mass migration, deindustrialization through ESG degrowth, and mass third world migration are suicidal - the beatings will continue until morale improves.
Critically speaking, Yermak is a childless cat lady
Makes one yearn kind of for KK, I miss her and her nonsensical
The deindustrialization is even worse than they report. If you look at charts such as the one in the sitrep titled "The striking decline of corporate Europe - Top 100 companies by market capitalization" that grossly underreports deindustrialization because the top companies by market cap aren't industrial companies: they are internet companies like Fakebook that don't manufacture anything but lies. A chart showing the locations of the world's top 100 industrial companies would show the US share as being far lower.
The economic and financial numbers are fakes designed to keep the rubes in awe of the brilliance of the financial "engineers" who bamboozle themselves with complex maths that mask daylight robbery.
To confirm your point, this report from China on who will "own" auto mfg going forward.
Not a pretty story for the West.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zxOdnr7YuY
Interesting video... thanks for sharing.
All that guy does are videos like this. He did one saying China had "First Mover Dominance" or some such, in fusion energy. Fusion energy will never happen, no way, no how.
Do you think the farmer cares about the feelings of veal calves?
back to the grave with one liner trash
Yermak is Jewish and just doing what the Khazar Jews are asking of him. This war is the continuation of a ware between Khazar Jews and Russians that began in 965 AD.
https://henrymakow.com/2024/08/august-23---israel-is-hidden-h.html
https://henrymakow.com/2023/09/russia-khazaria-ukraine.html
Henry Makow is nuts and the Khazarian mafia is a myth. I read 20 real books looking into this. How far and wide did you search?
What part exactly do you claim is a myth? The Khazars are real historical Jews ✡️ that were defeated by the Rus in the 10th century.
Bolsheviks ✡️
Rothschilds ✡️
Zelensky ✡️
Denys Shmyhal ✡️
Oleksii Resnikov ✡️
Igor Kolomoisky ✡️
Victoria Nuland ✡️
Anthony Blinken ✡️
Larry Fink ✡️
I doubt the part that they are the true origins of the modern Ashkenazi. I searched through books far and wide to try to find out if this was true (among other things). Most of the books claiming this read like crazy conspiracy theory books. Nothing but far out assertions made by emotionally unhealthy people and probably funded by the national security state.
By far the most credible book of all was by an academic containing references galore. They've done more DNA testing of the modern Israelies and Palestinians then any other people on earth. They're brothers. European Jews have about a 30% mix of European blood from having lived there. Also, 200 Years Together by Solzhenitsyn reads like it's probably the most accurate description of the true history of the Jews in Ukraine although it admittedly is more authoritative about more recent history. We can only know what we know. The further back in history, the more uncertain our knowledge becomes. I don't know anything with absolute certainty. Everything is a "balance of probability" estimate. Notice I never say such and such is true. I only ever say such and such is nonsense. Only disconfirmatory evidence carries weight.
But I have read most of the famous conspiracy theory books and I believed all of it at the time. But just like with the fake Trump assassination attempt I gradually started to notice the patterns, inanities and inconsistencies and started digging deeper. I'm convinced that almost all conspiracy theory books are written by our governments and are intentionally written very poorly. I'm not certain if that is to mock us or to single out people according to their specific type of poor reasoning. I believe normies also are really bad at reasoning. Even the world's leading experts on critical thinking are some of the worst thinkers imaginable. It's been known for 100 years by political philosophers that people don't think rationally. They decide their beliefs instantly based on intuition and then invent a post hoc rationalization to justify their beliefs.
To me it appears that there are 2 camps in the world. It's like an onion. The first and largest camp are the normies who believe everything the powers that be tell them. Their priorities are being party of the crowd and self soothing emotionally. The second camp are the conspiracy theorists. They intuitively grasp that most everything is a lie but settle on the first explanation they find, the mainstream conspiracy theories. They look no future and it's impossible to convince them to look further. They're problem is they possessed by a spirit of rebellion, think they're light years smarter the anyone else in spite of the evidence they have below average intelligence and they're welded to their false certainty. They're attempting to assuage their fears and bring safety by detecting everything that's wrong so they can defend against an attack. It all comes down to non integrated non conscious emotional brain systems. They need to deal with their emotions before they can change their mind and they're never going to do that so it's futile arguing with them.
What I do is when I find my sources have been lying to me or misinforming me somehow, I drop them. Eventually I find newer sources, fewer in number. This way I find the next layer. I've gone through several layers so far and still have no idea what's really true. But I have a really good idea what's bullshit.
I should explain that the newest science explains that from a most basic description there are 3 basic non conscious brain systems. Safety, seeking and soothing. Normies are on the soothing end. Notice they are calm and bring up useless evidence about why they think the jab is a good thing, or whatever the disagreement is about. Electric cars and windmills are going to save mother earth while making is rich. Take you pick of their idiotic beliefs.
The conspiracy theorists are in fear mode all the time so they're constantly using all their seeking capacities to scan for a solution so they can feel safe for once. Notice that they're more hyper and aggressive, especially when you don't agree with them 100%. Anf they don't know when to stop. They're like scientists. Collecting confirmatory evidence as if it means something. They believe viruses don't exist, the moon is hollow, the earth is flat, today's weather is caused by chemtrails, outer space doesn't exist, banking and finance is the power that rules the world, everyone is bought off and stupid, the Nazi's are living under Antarctica with alien technology and alongside real life aliens. I could go on. I work with these people. They won't spend 5 seconds investigating any of these things. One told me last week that he doesn't believe jet engines exist. He doesn't see how they could possible work. I told him YouTube is full of videos explaining all of it but he'll never look into it because it's really about his emotional issues.
I'd recommend reading Leviathan and it's Enemies by Francis, The Secret War Against the Jews by Loftus, A Century of War by Engdahl and The Sleeper Agent by Finnegan. That would get anyone started on understanding how the world really works. Anyone who thinks the Jew bankers control the world is a lost cause. You can't eat money and you can't bomb a nation into submission with it either. Power is still old fashioned. Hydrocarbon and mineral resources and the land and food to have a large enough population that's wealthy enough to make things properly. Being a huge country with a large population and producing an unlimited supply of coconuts doesn't cut it. You need to be sufficiently advanced to have a formidable military. That's the only real power.
That market cap % chart is misleading.
It’s all in USD which we know is highly inflated. Also the main focus of China is not the stock market and most households don’t own equity directly or indirectly (through pension funds/plans).
A better metric would be production value in PPP, in which case U.S. would look much worse, China MUCH better and Europe about the same.
Worse than that, The US market cap is *vastly* inflated by the tech stocks (Nvidia. Apple, Microsoft et al) take them away and you have.. not much.
The NTV article with Merkel has a 2020 date?
“Watch the other parties desperately try to mount a democratic resistance”
That German broadcast is unreal.
The people voted and chose the AFD and Sarah’s parties but the losers are the ones who are “democratic”?!
Up is Down 🤡
It's called fascism.
Thanks for calling it out and stating the obvious.
Supplying arms to Ukraine through European Peace Fund should've given a clue.
As long as they control the narrative, they can tell us that black is white and tyranny is democracy.
No they can not neither can you jumbo dumbo
These graphs don’t make sense.
For example, the first question which asks whether they support the SMO to continue has men supporting to continue by a large margin.
But the second graph which basically asks the same question (but with VVP deciding) has the men support STOPPING by a large margin.
Huh??
They make sense to me : the questions are not identical and quite astute in their combination. They show that people (women and men) are about equal numbers in favoring either options but will overwhelmingly support the decision taken by the government.
An instructive piece of evidence if the survey itself is not flawed.
It seems to me that the main goal of NATO/Z is to destabilise Russia to the point that it suffers regime collapse and thus a more pro-western ruling class can be installed – notwithstanding [if successful] this cunning plan risks the opposite occurring. This seems the only explanation for the Kursk operation, long range pin prick strikes, cross border attacks on civilians and the on-going “Tik Tok” propaganda war. It must now be obvious to even the most die-hard Russophobe that there is no military route to achieve victory for NATO and the sanctions have strengthened Russia and brought about catastrophic economic damage to Europe [which may have been part of the plan].
It is important therefore to take account of the polling data as this might provide us with some evidence about whether this effort of destabilisation is being successful and so to what extent. I found this article which I found useful despite routinely describing the Russian regime as “Autocratic” [in comparison to “our democracy”??]. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/russia-opinion-polls-war-ukraine/
I recommend you read it but cutting a long story short, poll results depend on who you ask and how you ask. Much like any other polls. And they can be used as a weapon – and we see that everywhere with “fake” polls used to garner support for a person/policy as opposed to reflecting it. And then the poll results themselves require interpretation which can then again be weaponised.
I think it is inevitable that the Kursk adventure has created some dent/dip in the Russian general public mood/morale and we see that in the polls. But I doubt that Russian policy will alter much as a result of this change of public opinion. In fact like most here, I think the official stance now will have hardened. No doubt various western experts will see this as evidence that the “Putin Regime” is unstable and all it takes is one more push [aka dangerous escalation] before it is toppled.
Maybe the poll question should be “Do you support negotiating on the basis of Z’s 10 point peace plan, surrendering tens of millions of now Russian citizens to murderous neo-Nazi regime, losing Crimea to NATO, impoverishing yourself to pay reparations to corrupt Ukrainian oligarchs, having your leaders tried by western kangaroo courts - replacing them with Wall Street bankers, and suffering international humiliation?” If no please continue to support the Government’s policy. If yes, please bend over….
The elites use fake polls here in the US all the time about elections and other issues.
I learned from Brian Berletic to always check the organizations that support these organizations. They all sound pro democracy and anti autocracy. That makes me a little suspicious
I know, but hard to check sometimes as searches block things. So take all reports with a pinch of salt.
Any 'site' or 'blog' starting with ''open'' = Soros
Have you tried Yandex to search?
VVP knows better. It's simple as that. As a person with a great track record and access to much better information than general populace, if he chooses so, then it must be the best course of action. This is how 75% approval rating looks in practice.
Algeria in the BRICS makes sense. They should have been included instead of Argentine.
The other two don’t.
One has no control over any territory.
The other is part of NATO.
If Turkey wants to be a part of BRICS then it needs to leave NATO.
As for Palestine, well maybe one day ..
Right. Turkey is trying to dance at two weddings.
Turkey is using this as leverage to get into the lucrative EU (for them anyway).
Will never happen, even EU technos will not accept 95 millions Muslims at once, it will mean AFD everywhere, complete regime change even in wokeistan. Don't forget that Macron for exemple did not even reach 17 % of the population in the two last elections. SPD Greens are collapsing, same situation in many countries except Poland + Baltics untill there is EU money available..
"It’s just sour grapes that the US has nothing, and isn’t capable of making anything, like it."
I think it's also so the hoi polloi don't panic.
That first video with the moustached American looks weird.
You’re telling me he couldn’t get away from a woman and some fat man holding him? Just stood there yelling help??
The second one is interesting.
What was weird was Trump's 2 cm ear wound healing up perfectly in 7 days. In a 78 year old man.
A wound should close pretty quick if treated properly and not in a person with a problem with healing - say a diabetic foot ulcer or whatever. He obviously was only grazed.
Ironically proper wound care goes completely at odds with commercialized crap. Soap and water and wash it out good, avoid abrasions by bandaging only as necessary and let it heal itself. Most of the wound treatments you find on the market are cytotoxic, killing cells, which actually slows healing.
Oh please. He obviously wasn't injured or even shot at. The entire thing was a pathetic fake. The worst crisis actors ever.