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"The easiest would be by causing tsunami with a large nuclear bomb in the middle of Pacific. It will sink any boats at sea."

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Nope. Not how tsunamis behave in the open (deep) ocean.

Out at sea, before they "feel bottom" in the coastal shallows, a tsunami wave is barely noticable.

https://www.sms-tsunami-warning.com/pages/tsunami-features

"In the open ocean, tsunami waves are very small, usually less than 1 meter (3 feet) high, and have an extremely long wavelength, often over 100-300 km. Despite their small height in deep water, they travel at high speeds—often over 500-800 km/h—and only grow into destructive, towering waves as they approach shallow coastal water."

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Alyosha's avatar

никто не забыт, ничто не забыто

The Spectre's avatar

Russian diplomats and intelligence says further American/Israeli attack is being prepared and is inevitable. Trump is compromised by Natanyahu. Vance is too weak to oppose.

EU won't stop, they would only escalate. On false flag some of them would directly fight in Ukraine and help to take Strait of Hormuz. Russia will have to retaliate on Rzeszow airport, Iran will strike airports in European countries associated with the USA.

Israel will use dirty nuclear tacticals in Iran with mass murder and migration from the region. In Bushehr nuclear power plant in North Iran, "there are about 72 tons of nuclear fuel in the reactor's active zone, and more than 200 tons of spent elements in the spent fuel pools. The destruction of the cooling systems will lead to a meltdown of the active zone and a massive release of radionuclides." Just matter of waiting for wind from North, to cover all Iran territory with radioactive dust. That will be moving East, covering India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Malaysia. Here entry from 23.03, when Bushehr was attacked by Israelis. https://t.me/Slavyangrad/159576

So Turkey will have no choice but leave NATO and associate with Russia, China and create formal global military alliance. Turkey is being pushed to Russia for a nuclear umbrella.

American blockade of Malacca Strait (with it's 29% global oil flow) and probably Singapore (with the world's second largest container port) is the next, yet still this year. Densely populated cities in the region will be bombed.

That is just the beginning of 3 WW, will spread into many localised wars and will last several years, when the USA would have to give up.

Britain enters war on Iran

"The UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency said a military blockade on Iran’s ports remains in place, warning that it is “restricting all traffic inbound and outbound from these ports.” ...

The notice also warned that enforcement actions could include “disabling and destructive fires upon vessels who do not demonstrate immediate compliance with blockading forces.”

The agency further advised against ship-to-ship transfers and described the area as a “warning zone” where “dangerous military operations are taking place.”

https://en.royanews.tv/news/70308/Tasnim%3A-US-naval-blockade-remains-in-force-despite-Trump's-statements

Dhdh's avatar

Napoleon “In war the moral is to the physical as three to one." NO reason to fight for a jew run system that hates the white man. Captain Kirk - Let them die....

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May 2Edited

And yet, the Ukrainian men of the Azov regiment have been fighting for "Glory Nuland-Kagan!" and "Glory Stepan Bandera!"

"In December 2022, a delegation from Ukraine's Azov Regiment visited Israel, where members described their defense of Mariupol as a modern "Masada," referencing the historic Jewish stand against Roman forces."

https://www.jpost.com/international/article-725351

Budanov is adored by the Ukrainian jewry:

"In December 2025, Budanov took part in a Hanukkah candle-lighting ceremony with Rabbi Azman. The Chief Rabbi of Ukraine has publicly lauded Budanov as a "worthy son and defender of his country" and a "Hero of Ukraine".

Rabbi Yaakov Bleich, another prominent Ukrainian rabbi, described Budanov as a "dear friend" and a "fierce fighter for Ukraine's freedom..."

Budanov has attended Purim celebrations in Kyiv with Rabbi Jonathan Markovitch.

Budanov has maintained a menorah in his office reception area." - Wow! He certainly know who butters his bread.

Politugal's avatar

And yet Russia does not kill any of them...Clearly shows the priorities of the current russian leadership., that considers people like Budanov "terrorists", yet do absolutely nothing to kill them, in fact do everything to keep them alive...

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Alyosha's avatar

Lots of people do not pay attention to the Bronze Age life hacks.

Has Trump handed out 2k to his MAGA supporters?

E H's avatar

No, he didn't distribute $2000 because dollars didn't exist in the Bronze Age. He probably distributed a flint with his image on it as currency.

Alyosha's avatar

Now that is 5D chess.

abcdefg's avatar

Flint Michigan?

Tedder130's avatar

Just to be clear, bronze age city-states in Mesopotamia invented money, probably more than 3000 years ago. The temples did so because tally sticks and clay tablets became too cumbersome for convenient accounting on a large scale as populations grew. Gold was chosen as medium because it was rare, malleable, and attractive, and it was always stamped in such a way as to identify if as official temple money, and only official money was accepted for paying taxes.

Frank Sailor's avatar

What utter BS from a Communist journalist.

What do you know about communists?

Regarding Trump; his own talking disqualifies Trump as a person to be taken serious except in one way: His handlers will have to take him out soon, they just now look at the least damaging way to not expose themself too much.

To attack the messenger by avoiding to talk about the message he simply conveys is, to keep it polite, childish and lacks any value.

No one is interested in the book of Revelations since Genesis starts with seven BS contradictions already. Take your fantasy story as what it is, BS just like your comment here.

ann watson's avatar

his family has made billions $$$ since he came to office. And that's something to do with him

Denis's avatar

Trump and sons, including high-profile escort, Melania, are taking in billions and nothing will be done about it.

ann watson's avatar

we the people have not figured out yet how to capture these criminals and put them on trial.

Denis's avatar

The system protects these high-level criminals, Ann.

Not one person from the Epstein club has yet to face charges for anything—insider trading, none. Crypto scams like Trump's sons and Melania are raking in billions while their investors have lost billions, and nothing gets done about it. They are above the law. Now and then, one gets sacrificed to give the appearance of law, but that's it.

E H's avatar

Seriously, how many Epsteins are there in the West? There might even be bigger ones.

ann watson's avatar

Hi Denis - I agree with you 100% But we the people need to do something even if its just to begin to organize community gardens where if you put effort in - you can have food. What's going on now at the government/corporate level is engineered to bring about famine and depopulation - we need to start producing what the jews that bought out all the corporations back when they were only successful businesses - and are now destroying them and poisoning the products - originally created by us goy - now destroyed by sabattean vampires.

Feral Finster's avatar

Yup. A five year old boy captured by ICE has spent more time in lockup than the entire Epstein client list combined.

E H's avatar

"We the serfs" would be more appropriate. Be patient; a president who will emancipate you will come in the next millennium.

John Osman's avatar

I'm not sure Denis.

Trump isn't really part of the club, he's a parvenu, which is why the rubes love him.

But it means he is not invulnerable, and that goes double/triple for his progeny.

I'm not sure things won't end badly for the Trump family, particularly after DJT dies.

JohnOnKaui's avatar

"They" took out Lehman Brothers. Why wouldn't they do the same to Trump? Maybe we'll see a real-life Godfather ending as the "Security State" takes out the Jewish Mob.

kam's avatar

The so-called Great Financial Crisis was a simple Con Operation to steal $Trillions from the American People under the guise of Systemic Failure.

The US Congress and the Federal Reserve all rushed in to "save" the Too Big To Fail (T.M.). And the recipients laughed and danced.

A Con nearly the equal of the Kennedy operation.

Frank Sailor's avatar

Wishful thinking.

Look up Aaron Good, he explains very convincingly why that sort of hope is hopium.

There is no honour among thieves but they will always protect each others interests against you and me.

Denis's avatar

Well, John, the Trump family has already grifted enough money to last several lifetimes. The club could very well select Baron as a future Presidential candidate. Some family names are selected and endure like the Clintons, Bushes and Kennedys.

John Osman's avatar

Indeed! Stranger things have happened, Denis! 👍

Feral Finster's avatar

Interesting point. However, Trump does their dirty work, and therefore will be allowed to stay.

abcdefg's avatar

After the last article I'd say there is a campaign to smear Simplicius' reporting on the Trump Iran debacle. They must be having trouble recruiting.

SG_observer's avatar

The comments are almost the same word for word, line for line. Can't they pay for more interns to do better copywriting? tsk tsk tsk.

abcdefg's avatar

Have some compassion, they really are given an impossible assignment.

SG_observer's avatar

Well.. there is just that tad of compassion.. as they're akin to the influencers who were promoting Israel on social media and then get stiffed on their payments. Never, ever, work for someone whose intrinsic nature is to lie, steal, cheat and kill.

abcdefg's avatar

Is that what happened? lol.

kam's avatar
May 2Edited

Say it ain't so. I'm sure my $7 dollar check is in the mail.

Oh, and tell me it's not true that Laura Loomer used her fat lips on Trump persuasion pole.

tomo stojanovic's avatar

there is a diagnosis for what you describe: Psychopathy

it's a psychopath support group masqueraded as a relgion

kam's avatar

The house is burning down and the Dual-Citizen Fire Department is rushing in pour more gas on the fire.

Who Benefits from Division and Turmoil?

Think. Think hard.

pimaCanyon's avatar

"No one is interested in the book of Revelations" eh? Have you talked to any fundamentalist Christians lately? How about Hegseth?

Frank Sailor's avatar

As Machiavelli already wrote: You don't have to be religious but you need to pretend that you are since 'your people' like that.

Tim's avatar

Israel is not the Israel of the Bible.

It is the Rothschild-created Khazarael.

Noah prophesied that Japheth would dwell in the tents of Shem, and here they are doing it.

pimaCanyon's avatar

"Kill them all, even the sheep and goats." THAT is the Israel of the Bible. The chosen people. But chosen by whom? What "god" demands so much blood, blood at the altar constantly flowing, blood on the battlefield until every man, woman, and child, and even the sheep and goats have been slaughtered?

tomo stojanovic's avatar

what they have been chosen for remains to be seen

Tim's avatar

Destruction.

Read Malachi 4.

Or the passage about the wheat and the tares.

Tim's avatar

The Israel of the Bible, initially placing themselves under an unforgiving Law, was replaced when the Son of God came to earth, according to prophecy.

Now, forgiveness is possible - but you are still stuck in the BC era.

Tim's avatar

This God you refer to never demanded human sacrifice, as you should have noted, but the blood of sheep and goats.

But when His Son paid the true price, all of that ceased too.

The earthly Temple was torn down, never to be reconstituted.

pimaCanyon's avatar

God told them to Kill them All, every man, woman, and child, and even the sheep and goats! If that's not demanding human blood, I don't know what is!

As I said, the real question is: what god? What god would it be that would demand that kind of blood flowing? Not the true God that is Love, that's for sure. It's some kind of lesser god, a god of war, a god of storms, a god that drinks blood and revels in death.

Hussein Hopper's avatar

Um, communists died out around 1990. It is safe to take your head out of your ass now and have a look around.

himmelhund's avatar

news for you, there are people openly promoting communism everywhere today.

It has never died out.. stupid philosophy has a bad tendency to take root and flourish in academia

Hussein Hopper's avatar

It is no where near as prevalent in academia now as it was in the 1970’s when I did my time. All western Academia now is just a woke sewer. “communism” and woke are not the same at all, the focus is completely different. I knew many communists, affiliated with both Russia and China , they were hard core revolutionaries and wouldn’t piss on the current woke wimps.

Frank Sailor's avatar

Very true!

Gabriel Rockhill's book "Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?" explores how U.S. intelligence agencies and ruling-class foundations promoted Western Marxist theories, particularly through the Frankfurt School, to align with imperial interests.

This is where the so called contemporary 'Left' comes from.

Communist despise this phony 'leftism'.

Hussein Hopper's avatar

One of my high school friends(we both became communists aged 16, but in my case it only lasted 6 months) was a genuine communist. He was affiliated with the Australian Communist Party(soviet controlled) and dedicated his life to it. He was an agitator among wharf workers in Malaysia when communists got the death penalty. Remained a true believer until the fall of the Soviet Union, when disillusioned he gave up and became a “labor relations consultant” to various unions.

The current crop of “left” effete academics don’t bear comparison, they are milk sops and as Rockhill’s book states, explicitly or implicitly part of the system.

The western system such as it is , is rapidly collapsing under it’s own weight of internal contradictions and moral bankruptcy. Perhaps it will finish up like Louis XIV ‘s decrepit regime. Who knows the leaders in western Europe, the EU , the US and it’s various satraps, may meet a similar end, however unlikely this seems at the current time.

Frank Sailor's avatar

Thanks for your reply.

I am the grand son of a communist who spent 9 of the 12 dark years of German history in two German concentration camps and was one of the few survivors due to sheer luck and the communist solidarity of his comrades of many nations inside the camps.

At the age of 16/17 I thought it wise to rebell against it until I realized that I've been a dumb idiot. Since then I've learned about it and now at the age of 63 I am still learning.

E H's avatar

If the EU isn't Bolshevik, is it a drag queen cabaret?

Frank Sailor's avatar

Gabriel Rockhill's book "Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?" explores how U.S. intelligence agencies and ruling-class foundations promoted Western Marxist theories, particularly through the Frankfurt School, to align with imperial interests.

It's a drag queen cabaret show for morons indeed.

To spread lies and discredidt communism is daily practice in the West.

Must be a hell of a danger if those people never get tired of fighting an idea that puts humanity and commune first instead of capital and war.

They beat Rosa Luxemburg to death and throw her into the Landwehrkanal, just because communism is so ridiculous, I assume.

She was a leading theorist of the Social Democratic Party of Germany and later co-founded the anti-war Spartacus League, which evolved into the Communist Party of Germany...

Hussein Hopper's avatar

Will have a look at the book , thanks

Frank Sailor's avatar

He's done a few things on Youtube as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqCKCKZah-A&pp=ygUXZ2FicmllbCByb2NraGlsbCBkZWJhdGU%3D

To get an impression before spending on the book.

The book is quite good though.

Hussein Hopper's avatar

I got an AI to summarize it , as it is not an area of sufficient interest to me to wade through 500 pages. Lazy I know.

LJ MacKay's avatar

I think the EU is much closer to Nazism, than to Bolshevik practice and theory.

Simplicius's avatar

Though I'm neither, it's better to be a communist than a journalist.

USIBARIS's avatar

communism is so out of date

BillLawson's avatar

Really?! Capitalism is a crisis ridden system, of which incessant wars are an integral part, that cannot solve the many pressing needs of humankind.

pimaCanyon's avatar

Neither can communism. Bolsheviks killed 60 million Russian Christians in the 1920's thru the early 1950's. How many Ukrainians were starved to death during that same period? How many died in gulags in Siberia due to the paranoia of the communist leader? And how do those numbers compare to the number that Mao killed?

himmelhund's avatar

MAO, STALIN, POL POT

great examples of communist revolutionary thinkers.

somehow the revolutions always require murdering millions of people

Frank Sailor's avatar

Dumb western lies doesn't become truth from repeating.

Gabriel Rockhill's book "Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?" explores how U.S. intelligence agencies and ruling-class foundations promoted Western Marxist theories, particularly through the Frankfurt School, to align with imperial interests.

To think other peoples thoughts implanted into your brain is usually not a sign of being really a thinker.

BillLawson's avatar

Absolute nonsense, you are spewing the worst kind of US cold war propaganda as put forward by reactionaries such as robert conquest. Famine swept the USSR in the early 1920s because of the imperialist armies which invaded the country, 14 in total in support of the monarchist forces, and ravaged the nation. In the early 1930s famine swept several regions of the USSR not just Ukraine. How uneducated you are. Go back to school and learn some history.

pimaCanyon's avatar

even if you discount the millions who died from starvation, you can't discount the 60 million Russian Christians who were murdered by the Bolsheviks. That number is staggering! 10 times worse than the Jewish holocaust, but the only holocaust we ever hear about is the Jewish holocaust. Why is that?

himmelhund's avatar

I am well aware of the russian civil war, you don't need to lecture me on THAT, either.

How does the russian civil war explain the Great Leap Forward, or Pol Pot's murderous little adventure in Cambodia?????

How does the russian civil war explain the gulags?

How does the russian civil war explain Stalin's paranoid purges of any suspected opponents????

Tim's avatar

The history is simple.

Stalin decided that those kulaks opposed to collectivisation and to the export of grain to fuel the five year plans with foreign currency would be sacrificed en masse.

Hence the Holodomor of the early thirties, when millions were starved to death

Perhaps it is you who need the history lesson.

Frank Sailor's avatar

60 million Russians? Russian Christians even!

You must be very behind in simple arithmetic since your numbers alone don't add up. Repeating BS doesn't make it truth suddenly.

Did you ever ask yourself from where do you have those numbers?

Obviously from the Epstein-class because communism/socialism is the only thing their fear for real.

himmelhund's avatar

bullshit.

communism is no threat to the globalists.

what they fear and hate is the mass of humanity itself

pimaCanyon's avatar

okay, you can argue about the number killed, but the number of churches destroyed, the number of seminaries destroyed, the number of priests killed, those numbers are much harder to dismiss. so I guess you believe the writer Solzhenitsyn was lying about all this, right?

Robert Lindsay's avatar

The 60 million Christians figure is made up bullshit. Most Soviet citizens were atheists from early on. The nation was Orthodox Christian and the state killed people so of course Christians were killed. But many of those killed were communists who were not religious.

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May 3Edited

This 60 million figure is derived from looking at population growth dynamics in the Russian Empire in 1917 and extrapolating the line up to 1953, then seeing how much under that point the population was. It is not the number of people killed by the Bolsheviks, Christian or otherwise. It is number of people killed by the Bolsheviks + number of people killed by the enemies of the Bolsheviks + people who fled the country + children these people supposedly would have had but didn't + the result of a declining birth rate -- the reduction in child mortality.

LJ MacKay's avatar

I would be very interested in your sources for these figures and statements. I suspect they are all propaganda sources, with very little facts to back them up

USIBARIS's avatar

Oh yes !!!

What is needed is common sense help without being a nanny state run by unproductive bureaucrats (except this that provide decent roads, proper regulatory services, military based security against external fiends, ...)

Danf's avatar

The only thing close to capitalism operating in the world to day is probably happening in China in certain sectors of the economy.

What we have in the US is corporatism in partnership with Government. It's actually a classic definition of Fascism, but that word is so loaded now as to be useless.

The US model will eventually fail. Our best hope is that it fails in the same way as so-called communism failed in the Soviet Union. It will simply collapse from it's own weight. Enterprising people and gangsters will signal start of recover. Order and production will slowly be restored through free markets and free enterprise. Capitalism as we know it today is simply a degenerate form of free enterprise - it's what happens when capital stops being mainly about funding production and enterprise and becomes more about rent-seeking and refinance.

himmelhund's avatar

the problem with capitalism is simply that it does require a certain amount of regulation, because it can create very rich people who then use their wealth to corrupt politics and government... always intervening to stack the deck on their own behalf.

But that problem is endemic to any political / control system.. .excess wealth in the hands of individuals always leads to corruption

Danf's avatar

I have to agree. Some superior power is required otherwise the logic of free enterprise leads to monopoly and rent seeking. Nobody has figured out how to manage the regulation to strike the right balance between too much and too little.

My own thinking is that the issue is related to the nature of the corporation. The system needs entrepreneurs - the Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Elon Musks. Often unpleasant but driven men who somehow embody a talent for creation. These are owners. I'm happy to see such men enriched. They risk their own substance. They invest themselves as owners and build great enterprises. But overtime, ownership shares disperse. Professional managers, CEO's take over. These are people who enjoy the benefits of owning but are not owners. The corporation itself becomes a life form, the ultimate artificial intelligence. Like any life form it seeks to extend itself but it is no longer human, no longer owned.

It takes great wisdom to regulate these systems. Power always seems to attract the least virtuous into positions of authority. In the end it seems inevitable that we simply end up with the worst when envy (claiming a desire to do good) rule over greed. Those who can, DO. Those who can't, TEACH. Those who can't teach, REGULATE.

JohnOnKaui's avatar

What's China?

Wolff calls it "state capitalism".

I think not.

While I agree that many of the mechanisms of managing an economy are the same, there's "something else". The CPC is that "something else".

There's a reason their last recession was in 1979.

PForty7's avatar

China calls its economic model a socialist market economy. You don't need to ask some westerner what it is.

JohnOnKaui's avatar

China says its economy is “Socialist with Chinese characteristics. “

Wolff knows this yet still applies the capitalist label.

Frank Sailor's avatar

Wolff is a smart man but no God and has his own bias since he is the 'poster boy' of the US system. He did Harvard, Stanford and Yale after all.

While he's good with Marx, I never hear him about Lenin and with China he's a little baffled as it seems to me. His promotion of worker cooperatives is very noble but to implement it in the current capitalist system is only possible in very niches of the economy. The moment they become too much of an annoyance for capital, they simply buy them out, corrupt them or burn them down.

E H's avatar

Journalist? Where?

Kon's avatar

Its better to be neither today since both are responsible for the deaths of 100s of millions

Tim's avatar

This is promoting the idea of the least-worst; better to promote the idea of the most-best, or to be a follower of Jesus Christ

Schlurpo Sneem's avatar

Do you use your brain as a seat cushion? Must still be plenty uncomfortable.

I believe we are now up to 3,426,235,782,390,752,375,073,094,629,056 dimensions on that "chess". Just two more weeks, for the 267th week in a row!

Michael's avatar

Lol…yet it is Murica who created the war.

John Osman's avatar

Bob. Do better mate. That was 🐕💩!

abcdefg's avatar

So much swirling...

'no longer view the security pacts with the US as “impregnable”. '

The Russian diplomatic corps must be doing double shifts. Also Pakistan opening overland routes from Gwadar must be an epochal move. The times they are a changin'.

The Spectre's avatar

Russian diplomats and intelligence says further American/Israeli attack is being prepared and is inevitable. Trump is compromised by Natanyahu. Vance is too weak to oppose.

EU won't stop, they would only escalate. On false flag some of them would directly fight in Ukraine and help to take Strait of Hormuz. Russia will have to retaliate on Rzeszow airport, Iran will strike airports in the other countries associated with the USA.

Israel will use dirty nuclear tacticals in Iran with mass murder and migration from the region. In Bushehr nuclear power plant in North Iran, "there are about 72 tons of nuclear fuel in the reactor's active zone, and more than 200 tons of spent elements in the spent fuel pools. The destruction of the cooling systems will lead to a meltdown of the active zone and a massive release of radionuclides." Just matter of waiting for wind from North, to cover all Iran territory with radioactive dust. That will be moving East, covering India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Malaysia. Here entry from 23.03, when Bushehr was attacked by Israelis. https://t.me/Slavyangrad/159576

So Turkey will have no choice but leave NATO and associate with Russia, China and create formal global military alliance. Turkey is being pushed to Russia for a nuclear umbrella.

American blockade of Malacca Strait (with it's 29% global oil flow) and probably Singapore (with the world's second largest container port) is the next, yet still this year. Densely populated cities in the region will be bombed.

That is just the beginning of 3 WW, will spread into many localised wars and will last several years, when the USA would have to give up.

Britain enters war on Iran

"The UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency said a military blockade on Iran’s ports remains in place, warning that it is “restricting all traffic inbound and outbound from these ports.” ...

The notice also warned that enforcement actions could include “disabling and destructive fires upon vessels who do not demonstrate immediate compliance with blockading forces.”

The agency further advised against ship-to-ship transfers and described the area as a “warning zone” where “dangerous military operations are taking place.”

https://en.royanews.tv/news/70308/Tasnim%3A-US-naval-blockade-remains-in-force-despite-Trump's-statements

GM's avatar

>Russian diplomats and intelligence says further American/Israeli attack is being prepared and is inevitable

Yes. So:

1) Why is Iran not striking pre-emptively? The planes are once again parked on the ground very conveniently for cluster warhead munitions

2) What is Russia going to do about it other that licking some more orange American ass?

Hussein Hopper's avatar

Well the answer to your usual General Melschitt level dumbass questions is that the Iranians strategise, and the strategy is multifaceted, military, economic, political and communications.

Unlike you they can think and have no use for pompous drivel . You sound like Trump.

Still got the pics of shirtless Putin on his horse eh (pant , pant).

mary-lou's avatar

LOL, General Melschitt. it'll be up to the Baldricks among us to save the day.

Hussein Hopper's avatar

Indeed, in my comments I humbly aspire to emulate baldrick’s mouse trap, which involves lying on the floor and waiting for a mouse to scurry in

mary-lou's avatar

which, for some at first unimaginable reason, will precisely lead to some weird solution (and complete humiliation for said Melschitt and his sabre-rattling sycophants).

JohnOnKaui's avatar

You are a vicious soul.

Maybe you need to watch a few more Karate Kid movies or Clint Eastwood movies. The "final showdown" has to come at a time so obvious that no one can dispute it.

Russia and Iran (and China) are still clinging on to a slim hope that Americans will come to their senses and remove Trump (and Obama et. al.) from power.

They don't want to kill. The 5th commandment means something to them.

Of course, I could be full of shit.

Cotra's avatar

Russia is desperately week. Most of the Russian are eager to start licking some more orange American ass. They are afraid now.

Alyosha's avatar

Good morning, Serbia.;)

Pavle Kodak's avatar

Dobro Jutro Brate, Beograd ovde, Vračar, Kalenića pijaca, Kursulina, bliže opštini...

Cotra's avatar

Afraid of Ukraine, EU, USA and the war in general.

TheRepublicIsDead's avatar

That makes no sense.

taukey's avatar

If only your pathetic trash talk could win wars. But it's not. It has an effect of leaving a pile of crap on a sidewalk. But at least, you've relieved yourself.

Cotra's avatar

Well, there is no discontent in Arab countries.

From Mauritania to Syria, they seem to be quiet and happy.

TheRepublicIsDead's avatar

Because Iran waits to see what is hit and then reciprocates. Pay attention.

What is Russia supposed to do about it? You mean besides arming Iran and providing it with targeting information?

The Spectre's avatar

Yes, that one is from archives, published sometimes 3 weeks ago.

War is moving sometimes slow, sometimes fast. But it has just started and will last for many years, after tens/hundreds of millions around the world will perish, several countries disappear from maps and some other countries divided into pieces. Similar to outcomes of 1 and 2 WW.

There would be civil war in West Europe and the USA, caused partly by using dirty nuclear bombs in the Middle East. It will be intifada. There are now millions of Muslims in the West. Shortly there would be 2-3x more, those escaping from ME nuclear hell.

So no one will be spared, until dust settles in 3-4 years

abcdefg's avatar

Who is going to pay? The US only had a few weeks of high intensity war in the tank. Counter insurgency is the best they have at the moment. They have announced that weapons deliveries to NATO for Ukraine are on hold.

Victor's avatar

Maybe, but I don't really believe nukes will be used.

Schlurpo Sneem's avatar

There will be civil war in the US irrespective of any outside event. The nation as currently constituted has 6 years left at best.

JohnOnKaui's avatar

Despite all the 2nd amendment noise,...

ICE is in position to immediately destroy any armed opposition to the American Oligarchy. The sentiment for civil war is here, but it cannot be realized.

Unless you know something I don't.

bemused's avatar

You sure have ICE on the brain. I know from previous posts that you consider them to be akin to Hitler's brown shirts. How about, they are law enforcement officers tasked with deporting people who are in the country ILLEGALLY. They are cops at the federal level charged with enforcing immigration LAW. Nothing more, nothing less.

The only reason they are in the news to the extent they are now (after all they've been around over 20 years) is because various communities and states are actively opposing enforcement of the law.

JohnOnKaui's avatar

ICE has doubled in size in the last year to 20,000 agents

3000 were sent to Minneapolis greatly overwhelming that MPD of only 600 officers.

How many brown shirts are needed?

It would be more accurate to equate ICE to the Gestapo which has 32,000 in 1944.

"enforcement of the law" is a cover story. The Oligarchy imports as many illegals as the government deports. States provide subsidies for refugees while ignoring the needs of citizens.

Trump's "wall" was an embezzlement fraud.

It is a scam.

John Osman's avatar

"If you haven't done anything wrong, you have nothing to fear from ICE/NKVD/Gestapo". Am I right, bemused?

Chip Worley's avatar

ICE? Ahahahahaha! Not big enough! That's funny right there I don't care who you are... Chip

JohnOnKaui's avatar

How many do you think are needed? ICE is not alone.

The FBI has only 13,000 agents, yet how often do they move in and declare they have jurisdiction over some crime only to hide the results of that crime. Charlie Kirk's murder comes to mind.

Not all FBI agents are part of "deep state".

Maybe pay more attention to Sibel Edmonds.

J. Lashley's avatar

Even without ICE, the people most likely to use the 2nd Amendment for anything at all now sit on the side of the King's court - if America collapsed tomorrow they would spend the next 20 years trying to rebuild it, brick for brick. Everyone else performs protests for their identity, and any possible alternative has no organization power, unifying ideology, or Will to Act. America, Britain, and the West in general have been Given Over to their Sins and will burn in it.

Cotra's avatar

Well, do not expect any rebellion form Arabs. They are happy as they achieved their life goal, to live together with their white masters.

JohnOnKaui's avatar

https://www.asiaticglobalorder.com says you're wrong.

I have no position on the question.

Victor's avatar

Interesting perspective. I believe what we have in front of us are the birth-pangs of a new world order operating under new rules - multi-polar governance, new monetary system, new financial structure, new trade rules. And his analysis is correct, I think - that it's over - the Western alliance under the uni-polar Empire, the dollar-based monetary system under SWIFT and the petrodollar, central banks nationalised and removed from the power of Basel - the remaining clean-up only has to work itself out. The Rothschild/zionist dream of world rule dashed and flushed. There will be much chaos and confusion, and it will take some years (global transitions always will) but in the end and already, it's over.

abcdefg's avatar

Once the Chinese made their CBDC convertible into gold, and paying interest, the Rothschild's were in a tricky position. Diversify or perish. It will be interesting to see if the UAE link in with the Chinese oil bourse now they have slipped the OPEC petrodollar cage?

Victor's avatar

Well, Iran is still OPEC and they insist on non-dollar payment, so not sure if that is relevant. In any case, UAE lips are hugging israel's dick and can not be counted on for anything but perhaps increased oil flows. They will do whatever Bibi tells them to until Iran finally destroys them.

JohnOnKaui's avatar

Bibi is the frontman. He's not "in charge" of anything. He does do what he wants though. His job is to create chaos. He is quite good at it.

The UAE seems to have made a strategic error. It will be "interesting" to see how Iran responds.

TheRepublicIsDead's avatar

Wait...the CBDC is convertible to gold?

I read somewhere that the UAE is leaving BRICS and the Belt and Road to get the swap-line from the US.

abcdefg's avatar

Yep, digital Yuan is converatble for gold. And with the UAE, who really knows where that will go. Certainly looks like a win for Empire but there is so much disinformation.

TheRepublicIsDead's avatar

I am pretty sure the UAE is trying to ride two horses headed in two different directions.

The more I consider the currency swap scheme the more it appears to me like a bail-out, at least in the short-term.

Simon Robinson's avatar

I admire your optimism and +ve outlook re: World affairs Victor, perhaps I'm a glass half empty type and believe the Night is going to get Darker before the Dawn, but I do hope for a brighter Dawn, and better days ahead, with some big dollops of Karma and summary Justice delivered upon the heads of the vile miscreants.

Victor's avatar

Yeah, that statement probably had an overoptimistic slant to it.

But please note the last sentence? Chaos? Confusion? Years to get there?

But on the other hand, in recent decades we have looked to the skies and beheld swarms of black swans flying in. So perhaps that glass is actually an empty illusion.

DAVID Goldman's avatar

Thank you for bringing that to my attention. I think it's brilliant.

abcdefg's avatar

Yes I found it quite unique and the argument is compelling.

JohnOnKaui's avatar

Wait a minute, I've been posting ChinArb's articles here for weeks now.

DAVID Goldman's avatar

Thanks for posting them.

abcdefg's avatar

All credit to you John, sorry to steal your thunder.

Tony Leibbrandt's avatar

An annoyingly over-wrought style stating what has been obvious for anybody paying attention the last few years. How long has Putin been telling us the changing world order is inevitable?

Chip Worley's avatar

Do you have links to the follow on segments of that post? I don't disagree with the thesis but I do disagree that it is "over" and finished. I would expect a lot more lashing out by the disgruntled JUSA before it's all said and done... Chip

Tony Leibbrandt's avatar

Not 'over' in the sense of finished or ended - that could be decades of lashing out away - but rather that the end result is inevitable.

The Spectre's avatar

yes, just from the last few days

https://asiatimes.com/2026/04/strait-of-malacca-could-be-next-hormuz-like-flashpoint/

https://defencesecurityasia.com/en/malacca-strait-us-indonesia-defense-pact-china-energy-chokepoint-crisis/

"China has been disturbed by the fact that the vast majority of its energy imports and European-bound exports must squeeze through the Strait of Malacca, centering around a once-considered-unlikely scenario in which the US might leverage its naval supremacy to blockade the strait and starve China’s industrial economy of the fuel it needs to run."

https://asiatimes.com/2026/04/toll-the-malacca-strait-and-price-out-american-hegemony/

JohnOnKaui's avatar

Oh, com'on!

Berletic has been explaining this for years.

The Marines were restructured to get rid of their tanks and replace them with mobile anti-ship missile systems.

Several "pundits" have raised questions on the viability of these units.

What do you think that Chinese pipeline across Myanmar was all about. 1/2 under government control, 1/2 over Rohingya control. China doesn't care as long as the oil flows.

You guys need to pay more attention to Berletic. He's been years ahead.

abcdefg's avatar

Empire ran a 47 year psyop before the Iran attack. How will they present an attack on Singapore? I'd say the Japanese and S Koreans would be more than a little worried. It's a totally preposterous idea.

The Spectre's avatar

Over history there were very many blockades and very many battles in Strait of Malacca. All the coastal cities were bombed and destroyed many times over, even if they were fortresses.

I did only mention possibility of Singapore port blockade.

Japan and South Korea might very much participate in those blockades and bombings, as much as European countries are already assigned by the USA to help taking over Hormuz. Sometimes is will be called "humanitarian aid" and such, but for purpose of military supplies and logistics. Similar what is happening now in Ukraine.

Those up to 70 American battleships in just one Japanese base are occupational forces, but now welcomed by Japanese government. They are free to do any action in the region, the last known position of USS Higgins was in Singapore and moving through Strait towards India. Where is she now and where are the other ships sailing with her?

The 2 WW started with salvos from a German destroyer paying a courtesy visit on Westerplatte, a Polish garrison. The October Revolution started with Aurora bombing on Winter Palace. The Vietnam War with a fictional attack on USS Maddox.

There will be regional wars, as part of the 3 WW, even without direct the USA participation. They might just come in to finish off, with effects on large populated cities comparable to a strong earthquake.

abcdefg's avatar

You must have come from the future to be so sure that the US would blockade (act of war) three peaceful ASEAN countries territory. All I'm getting from my clairvoyant is there is a major psyop to convince people of such.

abcdefg's avatar

Did you read the 5 parts?

abcdefg's avatar

"Just matter of waiting for wind from North, to cover all Iran territory with radioactive dust."

Just to be clear, Bushehr isn't in the north. It's on the Gulf coast. Nuclear fallout moving south would affect all Gulf states bar Kuwait. Are you sure of your arguments?

Mikey Johnson's avatar

Yes, should be wind from South.

The Dissident Voice's avatar

There doesn’t appear to be an easy off-ramp Trump will take, which makes further escalation feel almost inevitable — even if it’s broken up by temporary ceasefires. It's a genuine powder keg. Any nuclear plants in the region only adds to the severe dangers.

https://voicet.substack.com/p/when-storage-runs-out-regional-shut

Alfred Brown's avatar

Turkey wants to be Russia, doesn't have the resources or ideological character (not to be confused with willingness) to achieve this. They can masquerade in the shadows with their Turan project but they are just as weak as a Nippon or Germania trying to stoke its ancient aspirations as a once great empire. They don't have the girth. Once Erdogan or Santanyahou kilts, the world will realign. I feel sorry for these nations, they will be less trusted much less so for Turkey but for Israel and EVEN Indian there is a reckoning. Saudi even, infact entire GCC. Once OPEC breaks up.

Robert's avatar

The closest US base to the Malacca Strait is in the Philippines or Australia. How is the US going to convince Indonesia and Malaysia to close the Malacca Strait? These countries are fiercely independent, unwilling to see a major war start in SE Asia, and are not puppets like the Gulf Monarchies.

The Spectre's avatar

USS Higgins was just near Malacca some 68 days ago, just before Iran war started. Was heading towards India. It's base is Yokosuka, Japan, where there are up to 70 other US warships, airport base with 150 airplanes and 27000 soldiers.

Electrical fire and any other false flag can close Strait of Malacca. Just one fully armed destroyer will do. Any moving ship will be bombed. Nobody will dare to attack it.

Indonesia just signed with the USA in April Defence Cooperation Agreement. In 2023 Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. That is against China and Malaysia.

Robert's avatar

Indonesia is neutral - it is also a member of ASEAN and BRICS+, and gains what it can from the major states. The US agreement allows them to buy more US military equipment, and they denied US overflight access, which the US requested. One fully armed destroyer will be sunk by land based missiles as Iran demonstrates. The Malacca Straits was plagued by pirates, because the islands offered so many strategic opportunities to attack shipping. Indonesia and Malaysia's military would destroy any naval based blockade that does not have their approval. Bases in Japan might as well be in Hawaii for supporting a naval blockage of the Malacca Straits.

abcdefg's avatar

Exactly, and how would the Japanese respond to such a provocative move. Even the US aren't that stupid.

Chip Worley's avatar

"Even the US aren't that stupid."

I wouldn't be my paycheck on that Sir (LOL)... Chip

abcdefg's avatar

Blockading Malacca during wartime I can understand, but at the moment, it would be the end of Empire by year's end. No one wants to collapse the world economy totally, just shape for advantage.

JohnOnKaui's avatar

There are at least 6 or 7 possible scenarios to consider. There have been numerous war games that all concluded that Hormuz would be closed. The USA always “lost “. So the objective was always to try to cripple China. Again Berletic has explained this countless times. The people I listen to all concur. Obama said as much when he declared the “pivot to Asia”. The people who run America don’t care about Japan or any other nation.

One of the possible outcomes is the “Golden Billion “ where Earth’s population is reduced to under 1B.

I wrote up an article on it. A transcript of Krapivnik. Is that the ultimate goal? Can’t rule it out considering the billionaires building secret shelters in New Zealand.

You really need to listen to more Aaron Good. You don’t seem to grasp how evil the “Jewish Mob” is.

Alyosha's avatar

US and Indonesia signed a defense partnership this month, though.

"Secretary of War Pete Hegseth welcomed his Indonesian counterpart — Defense Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin — to the Pentagon today, where the two men announced the establishment of the Major Defense Cooperation Partnership between the two countries."

https://id.usembassy.gov/hegseth-indonesian-counterpart-announce-defense-partnership/

We will have to wait and see what this means.

Robert's avatar

It means Indonesia can buy more US military equipment, some exercises and training - they are hedging their bets, not being too reliant on any major power. The US didn't get overflight by aircraft they wanted.

6 months ago, Indonesia was improving relations with North Korea. They deal with everyone.

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/indonesia-makes-quiet-return-pyongyang

Alyosha's avatar

They apparently already had 170 exercises a year. That is one every 2 days almost.

"The US didn't get overflight by aircraft they wanted." They did not? Sweet.

mary-lou's avatar

balancing act. Prabowo visited Putin last month and in return was invited to participate in two international events (May, June) in Kazan and Ekaterinburg - https://www.anews.com.tr/world/2026/04/15/putin-invites-prabowo-to-visit-russia-again-following-kremlin-talks

this coincided with Indonesian Defence Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin's meeting with Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth - https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3350002/why-indonesias-prabowo-russia-and-what-he-needs-putin

Mikey Johnson's avatar

Your ”vision” is interesting and could very well come true. If no one can put a choke-hold on Bibi, the ME will erupt in fire. And if Trumpie is allowed to go full Pirate and even attacking Cuba then China and Russia cant sit this out. Or can they? A couple of weeks more of blockade the effects will run through Europe and Japan due to shortage of oil and fertilizer. That is something that can benefit Russia and China. I really doubt Russia and China will act because they havent expected a liberal democracy act worse than some of our historys dictarors. Like the little brits sitting out in North Atlantic and terrorizing the World for centuries, US can do whatever they want with weaker opponents because nothing can hit them at home. US can put more pressure and provoke China&Russia in the certainty that no one wants to start a nuclear war.

Yoni Reinón's avatar

Vance is too weak to oppose... LOL. Not a clue.

Victor's avatar

The Child-killer zionists are not going to nuke Iran's Bushehr NPP, mainly because they know if they do, Iran will destroy Dimona leaving the satanic organ-snatching, child trafficking criminal occupation regime a nuclear waste site for generations to come. Unfortunately, the Palestinians will suffer as well, which is probably why it hasn't been done as yet.

Yoni Reinón's avatar

you must read this. Its not about what muppet Trump have, CNN or the NYT have to say. Its about chaos. https://richardmedhurst.substack.com/p/how-the-us-pulled-off-an-armed-robbery?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=fxp2h

abcdefg's avatar

Great article and 100% true. But the thing is how much of the wealth generated goes to the 0.01% and how much goes to reduce the massive US deficit? Ramping up this operation will cost a LOT. $500 billion per year going by the proposed budget increase mooted. The system is the problem, not the policies. Will this lead to people in the US becoming more satisfied or less? Empires always collapse internally when the oligarchy no longer consider the needs of the society which supports them.

Yoni Reinón's avatar

Yes youre right..We can START guessing on this article premises, not Simplicius' CNN and NYT reporting. He still reports on Trumps daily stunts which have the people away of.the inner layers of the war. For example, he is clearly for declaring a US defeat and, whereas it is very likely that they just a snap gran of Irans oil after a flash regime change and that failed, that was the beginning and not the end of this new phase of WWIII. Now there are some unknowns like if they really wanted the GCC to sink or it was a collateral damage. Frankly, I am increasingly disappointed with Simp's views and almost suspicious.

Yoni Reinón's avatar

I mean they just wanted a snap grab of the oil.

abcdefg's avatar

Yep, and I was thinking. It's a move to shore up the bond market. Remember that oil exec meeting after Venezuela. I'd say there was an agreement to support Treasuries much like the 73? agreement with SA.

JohnOnKaui's avatar

There is nothing wrong with Simplicus’ reporting.

You are free to have an opinion on the nature of these wars. But the USA is not going to win in the traditional sense. Crooke suggested that the goal is to lay waste to the world’s economy so the US remains the “last man standing “ like at the end of WWII. The “true” goal remains hidden from us. This is just one of at least 6 possible scenarios. All equally valid.

The only “sure” thing is that China is the ultimate target. That and to remain the hegemony. Which is slipping away.

Victor's avatar

Is the "Let them eat cake" moment appearing on the horizon?

abcdefg's avatar

My crystal ball is offline, but at a guess the likelihood of trouble is high and increasing. 50% of the US population have zero savings. It's a bonfire waiting for a match and the Hormuz sparks are flying.

Victor's avatar

I think what Medhurst's analysis lacks is a bit on what formidable forces are arrayed against the US Corp's plans. BRICS and its alternative international payment and monetary system that is daily gaining ground on the Western system of control, its supremely powerful economic/industrial base, its military prowess, its massive sources of natural resources to draw on, it's intelligent and highly educated populations, its exceptionally strong and strategically oriented leadership, and its ancient, resolute and resilient cultures. He also leaves out probably the most formidable foe of all - its internal widespread and massive corruption leading to overpriced and substandard equipment and weaponry and an accelerating deterioration of its neglected infrastructure. The ship-building project he mentions as core to their plans for a global blockade is doomed for failure for this very reason. It's national and personal debt levels are eating away at the core foundations of its society and positioning it for financial and monetary collapse if nothing is done to correct it (it might have already passed the point of possible corrective measures). It's navies are seen now to be extremely vulnerable to modern weaponry and when (not if) the Axis of Resistance chooses to employ those weapons against their ships, there would be no contest.

So, in my opinion, it is just a matter of time before those chickens come home to roost, grandiose plans or no.

JohnOnKaui's avatar

FWIW Medhurst also has a YouTube covering this.

Victor's avatar

This, in my opinion, is an extraordinary analysis - one I would hope would be presented to the likes of Simplicius for comment. Rothschild's pirate (to use the analyst's own phrase) military and economic arm, the American Corporation, to capture global energy flows has long been a multi-generational project. What Medhurst only eludes to, however, is the combined response to all this by the Russia/China/Iran axis. You know full well that they are quite aware of this strategy and are themselves working on a response. The article very nicely sets out the Western objectives and strategy for achieving its ends, and I would love to see someone address the opposing responses being put in place to fight this.

I totally agree with his conclusion, however, that until America is directly confronted in some way, the pirate strategy will continue - why wouldn't it? In my opinion the US navy (and its mini-navies from NATO vassal states and other colonial assets) is not large enough to accomplish this ambitious goal, esp as modern ship-killing weaponry that the US does not yet possess can be used to cripple such an effort should the Resistance Axis (Russia/China/Iran and allies) choose to use them in an effective manner that will discourage ultimate US success.

Don't think the Resistance will not provide its own response to this with their own economic, monetary and military plans to accomplish the unification of the Eurasian/African landmass trade-ways and establish a new multi-polar world order. Don't think for a moment that they will accept this so-called global blockade without a fight.

The game is not over. We certainly live in interesting times.

JohnOnKaui's avatar

"Trump is compromised by Natanyahu"

JUST STOP THIS!

Netanyahu is merely the face of the Jewish Mob. Were he to disappear tomorrow, there would be a new face. Trump is indeed compromised, but the cabal behind that is hugely different than just one man.

Stein Bauge's avatar

US is very likely incapable of blockading Malacca now, and this would signal an active Chinese intervention - end of any attempt to keep business going.

Cotra's avatar

I think Indonesia and USA have already blocked Malacca.

JohnOnKaui's avatar

You can not say that. The Marines were specifically reconfigured to do just that. See Berletic.

Cotra's avatar

"EU won't stop, they would only escalate. On false flag some of them would directly fight in Ukraine and help to take Strait of Hormuz."

This is really an excellent conclusion. The current criticism of USA in Europe is fake.

The Europeans like when brown people die. They went to Afghanistan without any problem. The combined west loves war while the Eastern Europeans hate Russians. Even so called Russian ally has increased the production of 122mm ammunition for Ukraine.

The problem is the capitalism. The Western world is mentally deformed by capitalism. As one Indian chief said: "We consider everything to be alive: rivers, stones, sky, forests... the white people (Americans) consider everything is dead, they see even themselves as dead things."

And that was true. The capitalism turns living entities into dead one.

That is deeply in our minds, in the minds of us, Europeans.

Tony Leibbrandt's avatar

I do not often agree with your views but concur with your opinion of the problem. I would however define it slightly differently; the problem is greed, the lust in a tiny minority of malformed human beings for wealth and power; vainglorious, psychopathic, sociopaths who want only to benefit themselves. Capitalism, that it may be argued has brought certain benefits to the world, is merely a tool for them to achieve their hollow goals. Indeed, these people are dead. Wise, profound words from your Indian chief.

Cotra's avatar

Well, capitalism somehow made greed popular (almost good).

When the number of greedy or malformed human beings is above certain percentage,that society flips, or there is no society any more as Margaret Tatcher liked to say (only market and individuals). That is a triumph of neoliberalism we now live in. The malformed people are new standard, new normality.

The world is today, all about buying, about status and status anxiety. As the situationists saw long ago the human existence in the technologically developed society is just stage, theater appearance. We are acting, executing our roles. We are not real. We would maybe like to "go home" to exit, to eat the red or the blue pill, but there is no choice, nothing but the bare stage.

Only, at the edges of the world, where the main (western( capital flow is challenged, where the ability to rob is limited by other capitalists (Russia, China), or by some inconvenient doctrine (Iran), the death is still real.

Even in the west, we see now, concentration camps, gallows and firing squads were always somewhere here, hidden in reserve, but if needed their existence shall be revealed to the light of day.

Tony Leibbrandt's avatar

Not sure popular is the right word but I know what you mean. I have heard the purpose of advertising is to make us unhappy with our lot; we are brainwashed into believing we must have more. I guess I am peculiar in only ever wanting enough.

Your words are sad but true, especially the final paragraph. It is becoming more visible with each passing day.

Montefrío the Curious's avatar

I agree with all but one part of your comment: "the lust in a tiny minority of malformed human beings for wealth and power; vainglorious, psychopathic, sociopaths who want only to benefit themselves." My nearly 80 years on this planet in a wide variety of settings have led me to the conclusion that it's far from a "tiny" minority, if indeed it's a minority at all.

Tony Leibbrandt's avatar

I was thinking specifically about those individuals, the 'movers and shakers', who create all the problems we see in the world - wars, terrorism, financial and commodity crises, etc. - absolutely careless to the death, pain and suffering they leave behind them. Perhaps you are right, we all are prey to the sin of greed to some extent, but these people are on a different level, totally consumed and driven by child-like urges that can never be satisfied.

JP McEvoy's avatar

Supposing the Israeli does Iran dirty with an attack on their nuclear reactors, there would be enough Iranians left to repay them with their own dirty bombs and missiles that are likely already on the launch pad and targeted.

Fin Israel.

GordM's avatar

Vance is opposed only inasmuch as he would rather see the USA blowing its ordinance was on “China-men” rather than wasting it on “A-rabs” (yeah I know…Persians, but does he?)

Earl Baum's avatar

I’d like to say that you’re wrong.

I *hope* that you are wrong.

And I’ve also heard others advocating exactly those same events and possibilities

None of this would produce a guaranteed outcome - rather more chaos, costs, disruption, suffering on a global scale and an emergent world that bears little resemblance to what exists today

And still that is a path that some people actively *advocate*

I hope with every fiber of my being that this becomes the path-not-chosen

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Earl Baum's avatar

That sounds very much like the script behind “Fallout”

Not exactly a happy future vision, but also sufficiently plausible to be worrisome

Denis's avatar
May 2Edited

Trump won't be a concern much longer.

Trumpster likely suffers from frontal lobe dementia, and there are other ailments.

His condition is deteriorating as attempts are made to cover it up.

He is living on borrowed time and less borrowed time mentally.

He will be replaced and likely die before his term is up.

Bank on it.

Ismaele's avatar

The problem is not Trump. The problem is not the "king", but the "throne", i.e. "the machinery of power that continues to function perfectly even without the Subject who embodied it" - https://geopolitiq.substack.com/p/no-kings-same-throne

Denis's avatar

I agree, Ismaele.

I'm just commenting on a fact about Trump's health.

SG_observer's avatar

Biden also also 100% senile, yet was pumped full of drugs and trotted out occasionally so the apparatus kept running.

Alec's avatar

I shall include your prediction in my daily prayers

Nick's avatar

As far as the Middle East is concerned, it's irrelevant who's in the White House. Netanyahu is in charge, and will remain in charge for the foreseeable future (unless he's forced out of office by local Israeli politics - but then he would be replaced by Smotrich or Ben-Gvir. If you think that would be an improvement, you need to find out more about both of them. Ben-Gvir makes Netanyahu look like a moderate).

ASensibleMan's avatar

A delusional Canadian. Enjoy life as your destroyed nation circles the drain. At least you can get a curry.

Denis's avatar
May 4Edited

You ain't sensible ya darn snowbilly.

If ya were, ya'd know every country is cirlin da drain, fool.

😂

The Phoenix's avatar

It’s not over. We all know that.

Don’t think Trump will walk away. Bibi won’t let him.

The Israelis are happy though because they can do whatever they want in Lebanon and Gaza while still pretending the cease fire is over. Iran is also playing along.

By Trump starting it up again he gives Iran the pretext to do what needs to be done. Which will escalate things and bring in ground troops.

The Israelis will milk this for as long as they can but their goal of destroying Iran has not been forgotten.

Which is why it is not over and will not be over until Iran has a nuclear weapon and Israel has no AD.

Then the real negotiations begin.

Mikey Johnson's avatar

By ignoring the Bibi factor and the Israeli strategic ”milking”, Simplicius misses what drives this and other Wars in the ME. If Trumpie is complaining about a disjointed leadership in Iran, the blame should be put on Israel who targeted all sorts of leaders&command. This was actually confirmed during the initial attacks on Iran, US is targeting military installation and Israel the leadership. US cant achieve anything until Israel is quiet.

Alec's avatar

"it's not over" and never will be until Jews are banned from public life and finance

werner hillinger's avatar

Maybe it is the other way around? When hearing Bennet, I am not so sure that Israel is able to fight any longer. Netanyahu is facing court trials, and as we heard lately, he has cancer; maybe Bibi has to focus on more pressing personal matters. And then there is Trump. Congress wants the war to end; such a move would lead to a crushing media defeat for Trump, because if Trump keeps the war going, impeachment on a very solid basis is waiting for him after the midterms, but to end the war without "victory" is even worse. Why not send Kushner and Witkoff to Israel and bribe the Israelis into "something"? Then the US is being attacked, and Congress (and the world) has lost the game.

Chevrus's avatar

I think old six fingers might’ve used up his ninth life

The Phoenix's avatar

You’re off on many points.

Majority of congress don’t mind this war going. The democrats don’t want be the ones to start it but they’ll pretend they want to stop it - while doing nothing. If they did they would have stopped Trump in the last vote.

Trump wants the war to stop - Bibi won’t let him.

Bibi might have cancer but he doesn’t care, and neither does most of Israeli leadership and people - they have no issue with this war, especially that it’s America paying the price for it.

Witkoff and Kushner don’t work for Trump - they work for Bibi.

With that you should have the correct framework.

Chip Worley's avatar

"Which will escalate things and bring in ground troops."

There will be no ground war/invasion. BOTH logistically and tactically IMPOSSIBLE... Chip

Chevrus's avatar

I concur

Most of us have seen what a modern combined arms battlefield looks like on the planes of eastern Ukraine

It is nearly impossible to move more than three or four infantry around at a time

What do you suppose would happen to an entire US battalion that’s bunched up in one place ??

Add to that the fact that high ground would be all around them

Despite all the death and mayhem, it would be quite amusing to watch it happen, but I sincerely doubt it’s going to

The Phoenix's avatar

Out of what I wrote in this post, this was only thing I assigned to a probability of less than 1.

But then, what does starting again means? Standoff strikes? Will go no where.

The blockade? Not fully enforceable, not fully effective, and not sustainable.

Some Hollywood special forces op? To do what?

Either admit defeat or ground troops.

Chip Worley's avatar

You're not wrong. But Trump will never admit defeat but he also cannot commit ground troops in any meaningful fashion. As I said, being a 24 year army vet and formerly involved in the planning of such operations, it is logistically and tactically impossible. We have no place to stage an invasion force like we did in the original Iraq war, don't have the time to assemble such a force, and don't have that many people on active duty. Any staging area for masses of troops will be a huge target for Iranian missiles.

And yes, then add Bibi on top of this dilemma. That's why Trump is stuck. I don't know what path he will take. But none of them are good, won't satisfy his ego, won't go over well with the American people, and won't keep Bibi/Israel on the sidelines. Even if Bibi is incapacitated the Israeli's will carry on. They've gone too far this time. They are all in, in poker terms. Then there is still the possibility of nukes, especially from Israel... Chip

Denis's avatar
May 2Edited

All countries share the same agenda.

I'll be clear and concise. Agenda 2030 is global.

There are no good guys.

Let's revisit my comment in 2030.

We'll see if the East is, shall we say, more noble than the West. lol

Remember, I told you so.

😂

Alyosha's avatar

You are too old to see 2030 ;)

Denis's avatar

I'm not biting, Mr. Alyo.

When you get to Russia, sign up with the army and get us some front-line coverage.

Paratrooper would suit you well.😂

Alyosha's avatar

You won't listen anyway :D

Denis's avatar

You go to the front as a paratrooper and report,

I'll listen to it all.

Come on, Aly, the army needs you.

You might be the one who changes the balance in the war.

Think big, comrade.

Alyosha's avatar

I'll share my Telegram channel, if you'll listen.

Denis's avatar

I will.

And now I give you full salute, captain comrade.

The motherland awaits you.

abcdefg's avatar

I doubt the Trump administration could organise a Sunday picnic, let alone have a plan for 2030.

abcdefg's avatar

Not at all. Just an observer. Which of Trump's initiatives is succeeding?

Denis's avatar

Making money.

If you only knew all the grifting of money Trump and his sons are getting away with.

Frank Sailor's avatar

Let's see if they can eat their stolen money or Gold.

If the things you need are physical absent, what's your money buying you?

And since they are unable to get a nail into the wall straight, they have to ask and pay one to do that for them. It's getting tricky if the one with the hammer uses the hammer on them instead of the nail.

In the end the worker wins - he creates value. Your Money makers only steal, hoard and consume the value that others create. Not a strong position in the long run.

abcdefg's avatar

So you're saying Trump is corrupt? TDS much?

Denis's avatar

Nice work, Sherlock.

Literally Mussolini's avatar

The Trump plan seems to be to just keep blasting away, so long as there are still any weapons to blast with. A simple plan for a simple mind.

Soyelcaminodelfuturo's avatar

Ooh look at all those explosions and stuff. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

Denis is, IMO, 100% correct.

Denis's avatar

You are a brilliant man, Soy.

😂

Montefrío the Curious's avatar

Off topic, but I've been meaning to ask you: el camino (path or way) del (of the) future or al (to) the future? "Caminante, no hay camino,/se hace camino al andar" (Machado). Please explain your reason for choosing as you did, it would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Sorry, never mind, I just read your English translation.

Soyelcaminodelfuturo's avatar

Hola Montefrío. You are indeed curious! You’re the first person who has ever asked and I post across a lot of forums and X.

I’m not going to make it easy for you, you’ll have to work for it!

Está tomado de la música industrial, pero lo que me importó fue la idea que contiene - el sentido de dirección que implica, más que su origen en sí.

Cheryl Shepherd's avatar

Agree with Denis, although Iran might be the exception which proves the rule. Russia and China are heading full speed towards the technocratic WEF dystopia, and with greater success than the woke and dumbed down west. The headlong rush into AI, a technology with a higher risk of human extinction than any other, says it all.

abcdefg's avatar

Never take a knife to a gun fight.

Chevrus's avatar

Event 201 combined with operation lockstep was a resounding success

I see no reason why the great reset cannot be achieved by 2030 onward and upward

Kennewick Man's avatar

The simple fact that American leaders and the general public keep arguing about if the ongoing wars they are winning or losing is a substantial sign of disorientation. They are like teenagers, hesitating at the front of their high school bathrooms; ‘Which door should I take?’ The underlying reason is loss of clarity and purpose, disorientation.

mary-lou's avatar

the military have been testing ways to achieve just that. long(ish) read on the military-funded technology designed to push sound, suggestion, emotion and physiological state directly into the human nervous system using the same electromagnetic infrastructure now wired into every wall, pocket and lamppost...' - https://normanjamesemf.substack.com/p/silent-sound-microwave-hearing-and

Kennewick Man's avatar

Thank You for successfully separating ashes from diamonds and offering us an ostrich egg sized diamond with that link.

mary-lou's avatar

LOL, well, it is what it is, isn't it... I like the way this author presents these subjects, but I'm wary when he hangs the discussion up on one, over-arching causal agent. a bit like dr. Ardis' snake venom story. after all, a complex event (such as a 'pandemic', 9/11, heck, even JFK, etc etc) involves multiple actors/agents. but the biochemstry aspects described here, which are usually too abstract for my level of comprehension, make a compelling case.

Kennewick Man's avatar

This whole field just keeps growing from the 1950s on and is expanding in the last two decades extremely rapidly. Few realize the full weight of the subject. With covid they are out in the open now and their goals are unmistakable.

abcdefg's avatar

"The fire knocked out electricity and propulsion on the destroyer"

Cyber attack anyone?

Scarlett's avatar

It was not us. Russian hackers are all on the frontlines in paratrooper units following Denis The Wise Advise.

abcdefg's avatar

The Russians would be too well mannered, my guess would be the DPRK with a little help from their friends.

Scarlett's avatar

I beg you pardon. North Korea is very much capable of little clandestine activities here and there on her own. Like sacrificing her sons to liberate Kursk oblast'. A friend in need is a friend indeed.

On another note did Blumenthal senator get a face lift or something, he surely looks great on TV considering his autumn of the years age?

abcdefg's avatar

Would the Russians let the DPRK have all the fun?

Scarlett's avatar

The logical thing would be to proclaim Houthis, the peaceful nomads, our brotherly nation and ship them Oreshnik just in time for the Mother's Day. It's either this or a wrath by Denis who called me a Scarface on one occasion, therefore, WWIII in style here we go.

abcdefg's avatar

At least he didn't call you Joey Gallo. And my advice is to avoid the Wrath of Denis. You have been warned! Angels fear to tread 🤣

No's avatar

Lizard people shed their skins for tight, fresh new ones.

Denis's avatar

Thank you, Madam.

You are too kind.

Shagbark's avatar

🤣🤣👍🏻

Chris Collier's avatar

That's a serious allegation.

werner hillinger's avatar

No need for drama. Remember WWII, the US submarine crews were amazed by the "German Diesels" unbelievable endurance. But the US engines were of even better quality. After the war, no one wanted to hear the reason for all the breakdowns: crew quality!

Mikey Johnson's avatar

Das Boot will live in eternity…

Chevrus's avatar

If only their demand for more breadfruit had been taken, seriously, we wouldn’t be in this mess

Schlurpo Sneem's avatar

Somebody flushed too much toilet paper.

werner hillinger's avatar

Engine breakdown is something normal, resulting in the loss of most electricity. As the quality of the US workforce is in steep decline, I prefer a mechanical (fire can be the result) or electrical (fire as a result would be the norm) failure due to bad maintenance and bad handling because of low-quality sailors. Of course, knowing the quality of nowadays software, a simple bug could lead to similar effects, but typically the system can be restored quickly; any physical breakdown will need much more time.

Asgard2208's avatar

If this was an event in isolation I would agree with you. However, it's just the latest in a string of similar events which would make you think that there's something more deliberate and sinister in play.

Can't say I blame the navy personnel for their sabotage (if that's what it is). Nothing sucks like dying in defense of a pedo elite that doesn't give 2 shits about you, your family, or your future. (Well, unless your family is under 5, of course, and can be raped, eaten, or drained of adrenochrome perhaps.)

werner hillinger's avatar

Because this has become a regular pattern, I anticipate low morale and very low educational levels as a reason. We saw a lot more! Ships bumping into other ships, a sign that the commanding personnel were not really doing their job. Breakdowns of equipment. Major incidents in the harbors, like fires. A submarine touching the ground off the Chinese Coast. Other ships could not sail, because the crews did not pass fitness/quality tests. And again and again, the problems were on the human side. The combination of diversity, gender considerations, and a focus on wokeness, along with the poor treatment of veterans, seems to deter capable individuals from joining. As a result, the workforce is often filled with individuals from lower socioeconomic backgrounds who may lack a strong educational foundation. While these individuals might possess certificates, their achievements are not necessarily due to rigorous academic effort; rather, race and gender factors increasingly play a significant role in the education system in the United States.

Asgard2208's avatar

Fair comment.

Personally, I still think these fires are deliberate since they all seem to have the same MO. Perhaps I'm being too charitable.

Chevrus's avatar

If you could throw in some stem cells, I might be convinced

Ismaele's avatar

Meanwhile Hegseth and Trump have come up with an idea to circumvent the War Powers Resolution, since yesterday (1st May 2026) marked the 60th day of their war of choice on Iran: https://geopolitiq.substack.com/p/the-war-that-is-not-a-war

Paul Jurczak's avatar

"They [MIC] believe you can “buy” your way into victory against anyone"

No they don't. Victory against everyone would be like curing all diseases: bad for business. They want a permanent conflict and cost plus contracts.

abcdefg's avatar

They need the odd victory for the brochure.

Paul Jurczak's avatar

Rather a mild failure they propagandize as a great victory.

Schlurpo Sneem's avatar

Not really, they can always use "you would've won last time if only you bought more from us!" as a sales pitch, because nothing gets a politician's nipples hard like pissing away someone else's money.

janet's avatar

Wars won't stop until the greedy rich stop trying to steal the resources of weaker nations. It doesn't matter what their ideology is or what weapons they use. Wealth and power will always obsess the ruling class.

Tim's avatar

The ruling class is jewish, hence their secular obsessions.

J Huizinga's avatar

One person with basic pattern recognition skills drifts through.

werner hillinger's avatar

Go back in history. Caesar's Bellum Gallicum starts with a war against the Helvetii, which is not exactly in the Gaul Lands. All about gaining resources!

Aelwed Bell's avatar

Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran. All lost. Millions of deaths, disrupted lives and human misery... billions in property damage... trillions of dollars wasted on warfare. GO AMERICA! What a great history you have. Doesn't matter who the President is, or what the composition of Congress is... it's always war war war. Insanity.

Tim's avatar

Congress and the President are entirely in the hands of jews.

Hence the insanity.

Stan Sylvester's avatar

"If my sons did not want war, there would be none." Gutle Schaper, wife of Mayer Amschel Rothschild, mother of his 5 sons.

....the family business lives on.....

Horace the Menace's avatar

Most certainly a true statement. Another one of those quotes with no source though. They create these smoking gun quotes just because they know that honest people will leap on them and use them - that's why they make up. Landmines.

pimaCanyon's avatar

yep. Since JFK every President and every Congress does what Israel wants. Trump, however, takes it to a new level. As bad as all those Presidents have been, none was stupid enough and arrogant enough to attack Iran. Until Trump.

Meridian's avatar

You just answered who assassinated JFK

Nick's avatar

Wrong. And weird.

Tim's avatar

Tell us your surname Nick.

One famous one comes to mind - Rockefeller.

So not so weird, and certainly not wrong.

Nick's avatar

Definitely weird, certainly wrong.

A fitting epitaph for your tombstone

abcdefg's avatar

When you spend a trillion a year on your military what else can you do but fight wars?

Alyosha's avatar

We must not forget that nuclear weapons financing is split between DoW and Department of Energy. Cute, isn't it?

"Finances for U.S. nuclear weapons are split between both the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Energy (DOE). The DoD funds delivery systems (missiles, bombers, submarines), while the DOE, through the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), manages the warheads themselves."

Robert's avatar

There are parallels between the US military and Germany's military is 1939. These videos cover how German funded their secret rearmament (ponzi style bonds), and how the decision to take Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland was made to stave off a ponzi collapse when the bonds issued in 1933/34 came due 5 years later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pM4T31yhCs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj0iLXCU-wM

Tim's avatar

Whatever decisions were made with regards to Austria, a plebiscite showed overwhelming Austrian support for Anschluss.

Germany was thriving - and you don't do that on the back of a Ponzi scheme.

In fact it was this very prosperity that forced the jew controlled western nations to all club together to destroy her.

They knew that if the world understood that you do not have to borrow money at interest from jews, but can base your currency on work done, as Germany did, then the jewish stranglehold would be smashed for good.

This is the basic reason for WW2; it had nothing to do with "Nazism" so called.

All wars are banker wars.

Hans Kloss's avatar

There is a sad truth in what you say. On e you spent so much you have to use it.

Joseph Adam-Smith's avatar

OK, I am naive, at times, but, I seriously hoped that Trump was going to be (somewhat) different. He campaigned on an end to wars; The Establishment and the MSM was against him so......

Ah well, as The Who said, Come meet the new boss, same as the old boss......

Stan Sylvester's avatar

"Whenever the people need a hero, we shall supply him." Albert Pike, 33rd Degree Freemason.

.......indeed........

pimaCanyon's avatar

Indeed. We got fooled again. Gotta give Trump some credit for the fooling. People were saying, well in his first term at least he didn't start any new wars. That alone made it easier to believe he would do the same in his second term. Instead he's had the stupidity and arrogance to attack Iran which no other President had done, even though they've all been controlled by Israel since JFK.

Susan Rockefeller's avatar

Actually many of us were not fooled. We knew/know exactly who he is. He is only in this for his own gain. He is a tiny little man nub whose ego is so bad he has to name everything after himself. He took us into an unnecessary war while ruining our economy and making life harder for us regular folks. Billions of dollars wasted while people can’t afford basic necessities. He is a crook.

pimaCanyon's avatar

we were faced with two bad choices. Many of us voted for what we thought would be the lesser evil. We'll never know how bad it would have been if Harris had won. I suspect she might not have attacked Iran, but they're all controlled by Israel, so maybe she would have. O-bomb-uh offered "hope and change" but what we got was expansion of the Middle East wars into 4 new countries, he out bombed Bush by 56,000 bombs, he bailed out his banker buddies while letting millions of American lose their homes. Oh, and his net worth increased from less than 2 million when he took office to nearly 100 million today. They're all the same and they're all crooks.

Guy Fhawkes's avatar

~ It is a 'false-dichotomy' (and feeble excuse) to 'choose the lesser-evil'.

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-- Walk away from BOTH,... and create a HUNG** government - until a more moral & favorable option/solution presents itself ~

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~ For 'they' rely on the naivete of the 'common man to make the choice of the 'lesser evil' statement. !!!

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**LITERALLY that's what they need - 'hanging' !!!

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Guy Fhawkes

Feral Finster's avatar

I had it figured out a week into his first term - Trump is weak, stupid and easily manipulated.

Joseph Adam-Smith's avatar

Looking back, I agree that, very shortly into his term(s) in office he showed weakness. Yet, this time, he seemed to get off on the right foot - Kennedy, Gabbard, DOAG seemed to give hope......

But, those apart, AND, Gabbard has really disappointed me, yes, you are right. But, Harris? Good luck for the future.

Feral Finster's avatar

It's not like a 76-year old human ever was going to change. Trump certainly was not suddenly going to get smart.

Trump always was going to dance like a puppet on Netanyahu's string, and his cult was always going to make excuses for him.

Note that I uttered not a syllable of praise for Harris. That's another way humans console themselves.

pimaCanyon's avatar

we were faced with two bad choices. Many of us voted for what we thought would be the lesser evil. we'll never know how bad it would have been if Harris had won. I suspect she might not have attacked Iran, but they're all controlled by Israel, so maybe she would have. O-bomb-uh offered "hope and change" but what we got was expansion of the Middle East wars into 4 new countries, he out bombed Bush by 56,000 bombs, he bailed out his banker buddies while letting millions of American lose their homes. Oh, and his net worth increased from less than 2 million when he took office to nearly 100 million today. They're all the same and they're all crooks.

Hans Kloss's avatar

He closed the borders, cut on the green energy policies and mutilation of the kids popularized at US schools. So he is not all evil. I think he has a rabid case of US exceptionalism and is also very corrupt. Maybe only corrupt. We do not know as the shiny city on the hill is so far away from us all that we have no clue what is going there.

Tim's avatar

Hope is no substitute for knowledge.

John Osman's avatar

To be fair they did beat Grenada!

BJ's avatar

And then of course you have all the imbeciles displaying the American Flag who’ve absolutely no idea what it truly represents. One even better, the parades and floats or people singing the National Anthem at sporting events!

J Garbo's avatar

Deaths? Only poor folks, not voters. Who cares. Did we get the stuff? That's the game. No we didn't ...directly...but we improved the US economy, as you well now, sir.

TheRepublicIsDead's avatar

"Whoever you vote for, you get John McCain.'

kam's avatar

Oh, but it is a Great Success.

As the guiding hand of the US Political and Banking System pushes the United States further and further into endless, unwinnable wars, the remaining wealth/hard assets of the declining income and resources of the American People, mysteriously ends up into fewer and fewer hands.

Paper Billionaires use their ill-gotten scrip to buy up land and hard assets, quietly wash-trading paper and electronic "assets" for the illusion of the replacement of a real economy.

Oh, no. This is a Great Success. For the very few.

Hans Kloss's avatar

Indeed and yet the majority of the USians are convinced about their right to bomb whoever their leadership selected for bombing.

The whole west is now preparing for war not only by building more equipment but also by means of propaganda. In Germany of all nations there are not commercials for the military. Bundeswehr officers visit schools on regular basis now and asking a wrong question may have string legal consequences for the pupils.

The war seems to be inevitable.

kam's avatar

With the exception of the 250 year old Revolutionary War and the160 year old Civil War, the vast majority of Americans have no real personal losses from War.

Germany...Germany...ffs...just like the Brits, they lost millions of young men - the very future of their countries...squandered. I'm not convinced they can fight an external war, but they might well spark an internal war.

Aelwed Bell's avatar

Any death (murder or killing) is a personal loss to everyone.

UpgradeToFounding's avatar

Name another country you wish to rule the world, you must pick one for there will always be one.

wraith67's avatar

International banksters think they'll do it through proxies in the UN.

Academicworth's avatar

The us military is in control of the few who are from many different countries. The whole of the USA are not tyrants. This narrative needs to stop

Robert Lindsay's avatar

Why won’t the people stop the tyrants?

Alastair Kendall's avatar

That is absolutely fine ... just make sure you nice Americans stay on your side of the Atlantic and leave Europeans to the Europeans. We seriously do not want you here. Those of you who are here ... go home to your paradise and American dream. Just go!

Tedder130's avatar

It is the psychology of the pirate. These people grab, grab, grab, and they live off the sweat of others labor. Thorsten Veblen said long ago of people like this that they have "the pecuniary mindset of the barbarian." Within that logic, people, foreign or domestic, don't count for much more than gun-toting bodies.

Tedder130's avatar

In very short terms, yes, but not in the long term. I cannot recall any pirate that did not end his life badly. The difference between the 'pecuniary mindset of the barbarian' like Donald Trump's and a leader of people's wellbeing like Xi Jin Ping tells the whole story. The US is a mess and China prospers.

Feral Finster's avatar

I believe that successful pirates are called "governments".

“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”

― Frédéric Bastiat

Tedder130's avatar

Well, we surely can see that in many historical governments, from the Romans to William the Conqueror. But that is not how the world works. Michael Hudson's DESTINY OF CIVILIZATION shows the constant antagonism between kings and other forms of good governance and oligarchs who run the State for personal profit. The latter die off quickly, leaving disaster in their wake, while the former leave a legacy of people's prosperity.

I cannot tell precisely when the 'takeover' happened, but for decades the US has been run for the benefit of oligarchs by some kind of PMC minion. Trump is the first outright oligarch to take Presidential power, bypassing the middleman.

Feral Finster's avatar

Learn well The Iron Law Of Oligarchy. All systems, however well-intentioned, eventually become oligarchies, as power is to sociopaths what catnip is to cats.

Yes, the US has been an oligarchy for a long time now, if not since its founding.

Alastair Kendall's avatar

America only understands killing and destruction. They have always been like this since the days of genocide against America's first nations peoples and the enslavement of Africans. What they cannot own or control, they destroy. They then tell of the American Dream with no sense of irony.

Alastair Kendall's avatar

Good comment.

"It works" ... so far, a bit like your urinary and colorectum system; until your children have to clean you up in the weeks before death. Just been there in the past three weeks and American is the same. The World tries to clean up America's bleeding shit encrusted rectum as the great empire dies.

All hail Pax Americana.

Feral Finster's avatar

People here are looking for a nice moral to the story.

There is no moral.

Alastair Kendall's avatar

I agree .... just rivers of shit.

Tim's avatar

The best military strategy is to live at peace with one's neighbours, something that the jew can never do.

The US being jew- ruled exposes it to ongoing catastrophe.

A final solution to the problem is required.

Shagbark's avatar

Who let the Nazi in?

Nick's avatar

Fake “Christian”

Nick's avatar

You are the proof 🤣

Tim's avatar

Thinkest thou that those who infest Israel are Israelites?

So why drop the "t"?