He is in type. He is read. Now and then I will laugh and say AND? I figured this shit out at 10 in 1967 during Vietnam which until 1975 next to atomic war obsessed me. My main observation is Pundit class is the least reliable interpreter of fast moving events due to their Pundit bias. None of the heavy hitters even reflect that everything they KNOW arises from the cognitive stance. A bit like a hard Newtonian never having interest in Goethe and white light.
I have mentioned elsewhere the curious nature of some professionals shilling. Now and then the contradictions crack their truthiness. Dr. Alexander instantly reminded me of good ole Dr. Tim Leary. And staying thoughtful I acknowledge he may well deeply believe in nonsense and has no other thoughts other than toe the party line. And so he gleefully pimps Trump and Wellness Co. Making money perhaps is not an issue as he worked in the murky bureaucracy during Covid time for free as I guess a rubber stamp.
Joel, here is one example. Nuland had a job to do. She did it flor her team Globalist. And Mr. Putin as well had his job of letting the Ukraine get armed and very dangerous when he could and did not act with his failed SMO. Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs “Toria” Nuland was the “mastermind” behind the Feb. 22, 2014 “regime change” in Ukraine, plotting the overthrow of the democratically elected government of President Viktor Yanukovych while convincing the ever-gullible US mainstream media that the coup wasn’t really a coup but a victory for “democracy.”
Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland, who pushed for the Ukraine coup and helped pick the post-coup leaders.
To sell this latest neocon-driven “regime change” to the American people, the ugliness of the coup-makers had to be systematically airbrushed, particularly the key role of neo-Nazis and other ultra-nationalists from the Right Sektor. For the US-organized propaganda campaign to work, the coup-makers had to wear white hats, not brown shirts.
And of course Putin also works for Team Global but like Mr. Kunstler, Mr. Roberts as Pundit has two good eyes but he still don't see. .Putin’s Strategic Blunder
Paul Craig Roberts
The blunder began years before February 2022. Putin failed to realize that the US was preparing the overthrow of the Ukraine government. When the overthrow began, Putin took no action to prevent the overthrow. Instead, Russia permitted Washington to take over the former province of the Russian state.
A hostile Ukraine is an existential threat to Russia. Why did Russia stand aside and permit Washington’s takeover? Why did Russia sit for the next 8 years on its hands, rejecting the votes of the independent Donbas republics to be reunited with Russia from which they were torn by Soviet leaders and stuck in Ukraine? The culprit in these strategic blunders was the Kremlin’s lack of realism. Putin relied on diplomacy despite the fact that Washington relies on threats, bribes, and coercion. The Kremlin simply did not understand that with the Minsk Agreement it was saddling a dead horse that could go nowhere.
When Putin was finally forced to intervene by the prospect that the inhabitants of Russian Donbas were about to be slaughtered like Palestinians in Gaza today, Putin failed to respond decisively. Still playing all by himself a diplomatic game, he insisted that there be no Russian invasion of Ukraine, only a “special military operation” to clear hostile Ukrainian forces from Donbas. Lost in a diplomatic world that no longer exists, Putin failed to realize that regardless of what he said or did, Western propaganda would present the intervention as a reconstruction of the Soviet Empire that would extend to all of Europe.
It was immediately obvious that the limited and slow-paced “special military operation” would provide Washington and its NATO puppets abundant time to become involved in the conflict, thus endlessly widening the conflict until the conflict became an existential issue for Russia. This is what has occurred.
Still the Kremlin thinks unrealistically. Putin is on the verge of succeeding with his purpose of driving Ukrainian forces out of, and away from, the Russian populated areas, and the assumption is that the war will be over and Russia’s success will be acknowledged in a negotiated settlement.
This delusion persists despite Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov’s acknowledgement that Washington intends Russia’s destruction. Both Lavrov and Putin continue to stress that they are willing to negotiate with Washington Washington’s intention to destroy Russia. It would be hilarious if it were not so deadly.
Thinking Russia’s intervention to be limited, Putin was unprepared for war. He has done very little to hamper the Ukrainian government’s ability to conduct war. Rather than shutting down Ukraine, Putin chose a long drawn-out village by village conquest. The West interpreted this as limited Russian military capability, and this provided both encouragement and time for the West to involve itself in the conflict.
The West is so involved now and the Western political leaders are so certain that Russia intends more aggression that they are preparing for war against Russia. Still, Putin and Lavrov speak of negotiation. After a decade of the West’s rejection of negotiation, how can the Kremlin still see negotiation as a solution?
What needed to be done was to knock Kiev out of the war, install a Russian friendly government in place of the American puppet regime, and present the West with a fait accompli before the West had time to get involved. It is Western involvement that presents the danger of the conflict widening into a war between Russia and the West.
Possibly the solution is still viable. It would leave a neutral Ukrainian state west of the Dnieper River with no Black Sea access. It is highly unlikely that such an outcome can be achieved by negotiation. It can only be imposed by force.
By restraining Russia’s use of force, Putin has opened the road to nuclear Armageddon.
I had created with most of this. I’m not a big fan of Putin slamming missiles into civilian areas in Ukraine, and then double tapping to kill the emergency responders. Along with about 150,000 other war crimes.
2014 and Victoria Nuland triggered the conflict and keep it going. Without the US wishing to regime change Russia no one cares about the Ukraine. However, there is as well a different view which for my money is much more in play. "Communism" never ended. Globalist from the outset it can never die. The Cambridge 4 had #5 said to be Victor Rothschild. "The scandal of the Cambridge 5 is probably the most prominent and damaging intelligence disaster the United Kingdom has ever had. This group of 5 graduates of Cambridge University, recruited while students and traitors to their country, passed on vital information to the Soviet Union from the end of World War II and into the early stages of the Cold War."https://www.historicmysteries.com/history/cambridge-5/21245/.
Then in regards to the fall of the USSR-n his book Wedge: The Secret War between the FBI and CIA (Knopf, 1994), Mark Riebling stated that of 194 predictions made in New Lies For Old, 139 had been fulfilled by 1993, 9 seemed 'clearly wrong', and the other 46 were 'not soon falsifiable'.[23]
According to Russian political scientist Yevgenia Albats, Golitsyn's book New Lies for Old claimed that "as early as 1959, the KGB was working up a perestroika-type plot to manipulate foreign public opinion on a global scale. The plan was in a way inspired by the teachings of the 6th-century BC. Chinese theoretician and military commander Sun Tsu, who said, "I will force the enemy to take our strength for weakness, and our weakness for strength, and thus will turn his strength into weakness." Albats argued that the KGB was the major beneficiary of political changes in Russia, and perhaps indeed directed Gorbachev. According to her, "one thing is certain: perestroika opened the way for the KGB to advance toward the very heart of power" in Russia.[24] It has been said that Mikhail Gorbachev justified his new policies as a necessary step to "hug Europe to death", and to "evict the United States from Europe".[25]
According to Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, "In 1992 I had unprecedented access to Politburo and Central Committee secret documents which have been classified, and still are even now, for 30 years. These documents show very clearly that the whole idea of turning the European common market into a federal state was agreed between the left-wing parties of Europe and Moscow as a joint project which Gorbachev in 1988–89 called our 'common European home'." (interview by The Brussels Journal, February 23, 2006).
On 8 June 1995 the British Conservative Member of Parliament Christopher Gill quoted The Perestroika Deception during a House of Commons debate, saying: "It stretches credulity to its absolute bounds to think that suddenly, overnight, all those who were Communists will suddenly adopt a new philosophy and belief, with the result that everything will be different. I use this opportunity to warn the House and the country that that is not the truth"; and: "Every time the House approves one of these collective agreements, not least treaties agreed by the collective of the European Union, it contributes to the furtherance of the Russian strategy."[26]
According to Daniel Pipes, Golitsyn's publications "had some impact on rightist thinking in the United States".[27]
Golitsyn's views are echoed by Czech dissident and politician Petr Cibulka, who has alleged that the 1989 Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia was staged by the communist StB secret police. "The dialectic of this offensive," wrote KGB Major Anatoliy Golitsyn, "consists of a calculated shift from the old, discredited Soviet practice to a new, 'liberalized' model, with a social democratic facade, to realize the communist planners' strategy for establishing a United Europe." Golitsyn predicted that the Communists would launch "a variation of the 1968 Czechoslovakian 'democratization.' At a later phase," added Golitsyn, "they will shift to a variation of the Czechoslovakian takeover of 1948."
But instead of one country falling, all of Europe would be taken. It would be the ultimate reversal, accomplished by strategic deception and disinformation. Today, in 2002, nearly everyone accepts the changes the Communist Bloc as genuine. In fact, Golitsyn's predictions were ridiculed even as they were coming to pass. And now we look to the East and see the Czech Republic, a member of Nato, a member of the "democratic club." But something is wrong. We discover testimony that confirms Golitsyn's predictions. There are voices in the East -- voices that have been systematically ignored in the West -- that tell us of false democracy and hidden totalitarian structures.
One such voice is Petr Cibulka, born in 1950 in the city of Brno, in the province of Moravia. As a five-time political prisoner, Mr. Cibulka did hard time in the toughest communist prison camp in Czechoslovakia. He was repeatedly jailed between 1979 and 1989 and conducted a 31-day hunger strike in 1979.
In 1991 Mr. Cibulka began publishing his paper, "Uncensored News," so he could oppose the "official" informational and ideological blockade organized by the Communists through control of the mass media. In 1992 Mr. Cibulka acquired and published data from secret police files. He published over 200,000 names of communist officers and collaborators. Subsequently he became a target of aggressive attacks from "former" Communist officials.
Mr. Cibulka had to go through countless police interrogations and home searches. He suffered numerous court trials because he named names. But he always won. The most famous trial involved Czech President Vaclav Havel, who publicly denounced Mr. Cibulka as a shameful disgrace and declared Petr's "Uncensored News" to be "garbage."
JHK, obviously on the TV rump ticket but nevertheless opening some synapses? No?
He is in type. He is read. Now and then I will laugh and say AND? I figured this shit out at 10 in 1967 during Vietnam which until 1975 next to atomic war obsessed me. My main observation is Pundit class is the least reliable interpreter of fast moving events due to their Pundit bias. None of the heavy hitters even reflect that everything they KNOW arises from the cognitive stance. A bit like a hard Newtonian never having interest in Goethe and white light.
The commentariat... Of which we are all guilty to a degree. Paid shills operating at 100%. Sliding scale from there.
I have mentioned elsewhere the curious nature of some professionals shilling. Now and then the contradictions crack their truthiness. Dr. Alexander instantly reminded me of good ole Dr. Tim Leary. And staying thoughtful I acknowledge he may well deeply believe in nonsense and has no other thoughts other than toe the party line. And so he gleefully pimps Trump and Wellness Co. Making money perhaps is not an issue as he worked in the murky bureaucracy during Covid time for free as I guess a rubber stamp.
I’m adding this Republican Zionist attempt to cater to their Zionist base of funding https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/gop-bill-would-give-israeli-soldiers-us-job-and-financial-protections
Joel, here is one example. Nuland had a job to do. She did it flor her team Globalist. And Mr. Putin as well had his job of letting the Ukraine get armed and very dangerous when he could and did not act with his failed SMO. Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs “Toria” Nuland was the “mastermind” behind the Feb. 22, 2014 “regime change” in Ukraine, plotting the overthrow of the democratically elected government of President Viktor Yanukovych while convincing the ever-gullible US mainstream media that the coup wasn’t really a coup but a victory for “democracy.”
Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland, who pushed for the Ukraine coup and helped pick the post-coup leaders.
To sell this latest neocon-driven “regime change” to the American people, the ugliness of the coup-makers had to be systematically airbrushed, particularly the key role of neo-Nazis and other ultra-nationalists from the Right Sektor. For the US-organized propaganda campaign to work, the coup-makers had to wear white hats, not brown shirts.
And of course Putin also works for Team Global but like Mr. Kunstler, Mr. Roberts as Pundit has two good eyes but he still don't see. .Putin’s Strategic Blunder
Paul Craig Roberts
The blunder began years before February 2022. Putin failed to realize that the US was preparing the overthrow of the Ukraine government. When the overthrow began, Putin took no action to prevent the overthrow. Instead, Russia permitted Washington to take over the former province of the Russian state.
A hostile Ukraine is an existential threat to Russia. Why did Russia stand aside and permit Washington’s takeover? Why did Russia sit for the next 8 years on its hands, rejecting the votes of the independent Donbas republics to be reunited with Russia from which they were torn by Soviet leaders and stuck in Ukraine? The culprit in these strategic blunders was the Kremlin’s lack of realism. Putin relied on diplomacy despite the fact that Washington relies on threats, bribes, and coercion. The Kremlin simply did not understand that with the Minsk Agreement it was saddling a dead horse that could go nowhere.
When Putin was finally forced to intervene by the prospect that the inhabitants of Russian Donbas were about to be slaughtered like Palestinians in Gaza today, Putin failed to respond decisively. Still playing all by himself a diplomatic game, he insisted that there be no Russian invasion of Ukraine, only a “special military operation” to clear hostile Ukrainian forces from Donbas. Lost in a diplomatic world that no longer exists, Putin failed to realize that regardless of what he said or did, Western propaganda would present the intervention as a reconstruction of the Soviet Empire that would extend to all of Europe.
It was immediately obvious that the limited and slow-paced “special military operation” would provide Washington and its NATO puppets abundant time to become involved in the conflict, thus endlessly widening the conflict until the conflict became an existential issue for Russia. This is what has occurred.
Still the Kremlin thinks unrealistically. Putin is on the verge of succeeding with his purpose of driving Ukrainian forces out of, and away from, the Russian populated areas, and the assumption is that the war will be over and Russia’s success will be acknowledged in a negotiated settlement.
This delusion persists despite Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov’s acknowledgement that Washington intends Russia’s destruction. Both Lavrov and Putin continue to stress that they are willing to negotiate with Washington Washington’s intention to destroy Russia. It would be hilarious if it were not so deadly.
Listen to Lavrov’s speech. He understands the threat to Russia but is incapable of matching a Russian response to the threat. https://informationclearinghouse.blog/2024/05/19/the-west-has-decided-to-sort-things-out-on-the-battlefield-russia-is-ready-lavrov/13/
Thinking Russia’s intervention to be limited, Putin was unprepared for war. He has done very little to hamper the Ukrainian government’s ability to conduct war. Rather than shutting down Ukraine, Putin chose a long drawn-out village by village conquest. The West interpreted this as limited Russian military capability, and this provided both encouragement and time for the West to involve itself in the conflict.
The West is so involved now and the Western political leaders are so certain that Russia intends more aggression that they are preparing for war against Russia. Still, Putin and Lavrov speak of negotiation. After a decade of the West’s rejection of negotiation, how can the Kremlin still see negotiation as a solution?
What needed to be done was to knock Kiev out of the war, install a Russian friendly government in place of the American puppet regime, and present the West with a fait accompli before the West had time to get involved. It is Western involvement that presents the danger of the conflict widening into a war between Russia and the West.
Possibly the solution is still viable. It would leave a neutral Ukrainian state west of the Dnieper River with no Black Sea access. It is highly unlikely that such an outcome can be achieved by negotiation. It can only be imposed by force.
By restraining Russia’s use of force, Putin has opened the road to nuclear Armageddon.
.https://youtu.be/1TkzjLu12HQ
Siri, can you say I had agreed with most of this
I had created with most of this. I’m not a big fan of Putin slamming missiles into civilian areas in Ukraine, and then double tapping to kill the emergency responders. Along with about 150,000 other war crimes.
2014 and Victoria Nuland triggered the conflict and keep it going. Without the US wishing to regime change Russia no one cares about the Ukraine. However, there is as well a different view which for my money is much more in play. "Communism" never ended. Globalist from the outset it can never die. The Cambridge 4 had #5 said to be Victor Rothschild. "The scandal of the Cambridge 5 is probably the most prominent and damaging intelligence disaster the United Kingdom has ever had. This group of 5 graduates of Cambridge University, recruited while students and traitors to their country, passed on vital information to the Soviet Union from the end of World War II and into the early stages of the Cold War."https://www.historicmysteries.com/history/cambridge-5/21245/.
Then in regards to the fall of the USSR-n his book Wedge: The Secret War between the FBI and CIA (Knopf, 1994), Mark Riebling stated that of 194 predictions made in New Lies For Old, 139 had been fulfilled by 1993, 9 seemed 'clearly wrong', and the other 46 were 'not soon falsifiable'.[23]
According to Russian political scientist Yevgenia Albats, Golitsyn's book New Lies for Old claimed that "as early as 1959, the KGB was working up a perestroika-type plot to manipulate foreign public opinion on a global scale. The plan was in a way inspired by the teachings of the 6th-century BC. Chinese theoretician and military commander Sun Tsu, who said, "I will force the enemy to take our strength for weakness, and our weakness for strength, and thus will turn his strength into weakness." Albats argued that the KGB was the major beneficiary of political changes in Russia, and perhaps indeed directed Gorbachev. According to her, "one thing is certain: perestroika opened the way for the KGB to advance toward the very heart of power" in Russia.[24] It has been said that Mikhail Gorbachev justified his new policies as a necessary step to "hug Europe to death", and to "evict the United States from Europe".[25]
According to Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, "In 1992 I had unprecedented access to Politburo and Central Committee secret documents which have been classified, and still are even now, for 30 years. These documents show very clearly that the whole idea of turning the European common market into a federal state was agreed between the left-wing parties of Europe and Moscow as a joint project which Gorbachev in 1988–89 called our 'common European home'." (interview by The Brussels Journal, February 23, 2006).
On 8 June 1995 the British Conservative Member of Parliament Christopher Gill quoted The Perestroika Deception during a House of Commons debate, saying: "It stretches credulity to its absolute bounds to think that suddenly, overnight, all those who were Communists will suddenly adopt a new philosophy and belief, with the result that everything will be different. I use this opportunity to warn the House and the country that that is not the truth"; and: "Every time the House approves one of these collective agreements, not least treaties agreed by the collective of the European Union, it contributes to the furtherance of the Russian strategy."[26]
According to Daniel Pipes, Golitsyn's publications "had some impact on rightist thinking in the United States".[27]
Golitsyn's views are echoed by Czech dissident and politician Petr Cibulka, who has alleged that the 1989 Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia was staged by the communist StB secret police. "The dialectic of this offensive," wrote KGB Major Anatoliy Golitsyn, "consists of a calculated shift from the old, discredited Soviet practice to a new, 'liberalized' model, with a social democratic facade, to realize the communist planners' strategy for establishing a United Europe." Golitsyn predicted that the Communists would launch "a variation of the 1968 Czechoslovakian 'democratization.' At a later phase," added Golitsyn, "they will shift to a variation of the Czechoslovakian takeover of 1948."
But instead of one country falling, all of Europe would be taken. It would be the ultimate reversal, accomplished by strategic deception and disinformation. Today, in 2002, nearly everyone accepts the changes the Communist Bloc as genuine. In fact, Golitsyn's predictions were ridiculed even as they were coming to pass. And now we look to the East and see the Czech Republic, a member of Nato, a member of the "democratic club." But something is wrong. We discover testimony that confirms Golitsyn's predictions. There are voices in the East -- voices that have been systematically ignored in the West -- that tell us of false democracy and hidden totalitarian structures.
One such voice is Petr Cibulka, born in 1950 in the city of Brno, in the province of Moravia. As a five-time political prisoner, Mr. Cibulka did hard time in the toughest communist prison camp in Czechoslovakia. He was repeatedly jailed between 1979 and 1989 and conducted a 31-day hunger strike in 1979.
In 1991 Mr. Cibulka began publishing his paper, "Uncensored News," so he could oppose the "official" informational and ideological blockade organized by the Communists through control of the mass media. In 1992 Mr. Cibulka acquired and published data from secret police files. He published over 200,000 names of communist officers and collaborators. Subsequently he became a target of aggressive attacks from "former" Communist officials.
Mr. Cibulka had to go through countless police interrogations and home searches. He suffered numerous court trials because he named names. But he always won. The most famous trial involved Czech President Vaclav Havel, who publicly denounced Mr. Cibulka as a shameful disgrace and declared Petr's "Uncensored News" to be "garbage."
https://www.tldm.org/news4/cibulka.htm
Interesting but you need to fill in more of the dots for how Victoria Dan single-handedly started the war in 2014
Mmm... Cookies.
Excellent satire.