EU's imperialistic tendencies toward conquering and using other nations has to do with having had kings rather than public rule like the US. Purchasing power aside (now close to non-existent after what they've done to their individual and collective economies), their mindset is to conquer-and-use-up rather than negotiate (finagle) purchasing stuff from perceived enemies. EU is run by envious, jealous, greedy (DUH!), "light-minded" (as in they are too inbred to be highly intelligent or too brainwashed to figure it out) who would rather bully than negotiate. So, no, I don't think it's occurred to them - yet.
"EU's imperialistic tendencies toward conquering and using other nations has to do with having had kings rather than public rule like the US."
That is preposterous. The most basic function of the sovereign is to promote the nation. Next you're going to start squawking about colonialism and racism and such. I will not suffer such sanctimonious tripe nor the intended blood libel.
You have it utterly backwards. First the Bank of England was formed by foreign money to provide William of Orange with war loans and the debt bondage they incur - 6 years later, the first Parliament was formed, the beginnings of "democracy" so the citizens would pay the eternal debt bondage.
Democracy has advanced to its intended goal: greedy, rapacious hordes, envious of civilized White nations, are able to move in and vote themselves into power. All they need do is agree to share some of the loot.
That the royals were bought off with counterfeit, and then the oligarchs, and then the officials, speaks more to the ruthless moral paucity of those who made the offer, than those who took it. In this way treasonous immorality is cultivated, society is tunneled out, rotted from within, by design rather than proclivity.
I think the word we're looking for is 'predatory', like trying to establish relations with a pack of hyenas. Still, 'martial' might be better, as we've abandoned militaries that defend borders, in favor of private mercenary corps that cross them.
The most preposterous part of the preposterous RussiaGate narrative was the "truism" that a cabal of Russian trolls somehow swung the election with a few anti-Hillary Facebook posts that 99.99999 percent of Facebook users never saw.
These trolls don't even speak English as a first language and 75 million American citizens were publishing far better anti-Hillary posts on Facebook than the trolls produced.
... After Trump stops the war, I hope he might consider stopping the clot shots.
Bill, I read a story in STAT today that infuriated me. A total denial of all the research about the bad aspects of the disease and the Vaxx that sounded like a cheerleader for the mRNA project. It was in response to HHR desire to stop mRNA development.
Examples:
The mRNA is injected into the muscle so therefore does not affect other organs. A blatant lie as the IM injection places the compound directly in contact with the bloodstream where it can spread to the body. Research has shown that it can cross the blood=brain barrier.
The S proteins generated by body cells are not as bad as the virus s proteins and only last 2 weeks anyway. Another lie as research as shown s proteins and other Vaxx residue in blood and autopsies months later. Some research show that reverse transcriptase can occur in liver cells making them a factory for long term s proteins and only production. It is the S protein that damages organs, creating chronic inflammation, auto-immune reactions by continuous tweaking of the immune system. Wherever the S protein comes from, it is a very bad character.
I try to look at it logically, apolitically. We KNEW that the S proteins in the virus was what generated the pneumonias in the lungs that forced intubation and subsequent death. So why the hell did we make a Vaxx that generates S proteins into the system that will confound the immune system the same way. Am I wrong, or is that really a stupid thing that was done? I do notice that absolutely zero research is being done now to try to disprove the data about the S protein generation.
He has mandated any school still requiring the clot shot loses federal funding. He also ordered the records destroyed that were used to prove who took the shots.
The East India Company didn't like the Chinese putting a limit on their market. How dare they limit importation of opium to certain port cities? They wanted to establish trading centers in towns away from the coast, along major rivers - and cutting out the Chinese dealers whenever possible. This Chinese squawking is the "patriotic capitalism" that our boys are up against this very day. To their utter humiliation, the Chinese lost this war and lost control of their own country to the voracious Indian Jews backed by English bayonets.
Footnote: The Chinese are quick learners and have used the same "drug tactics" on other "opponents". Evidence points at the China as THE major supplier creating America's drug "issues". Cheap fentanyl anyone? Karma can be a bitch...
Why buy Russia's vast reserves of natural resources -- in real coal, real natural gas, real crude oil, real minerals, rea rare earths -- when you can just take them?
That's what this proxy war was for. Terraforming Ukraine into a direct invasion route was just a detail. This was never a Ukraine/Russo conflict. This was never a NATO/Russo conflict. (NATO is the United States.) This was always a US/Russo conflict.
Now that NATO borders are as close to Moscow as the US can get without direct invasion, it is just a "small" matter of stepping directly across these borders, directly into Russia. Now that the US has secured direct access to the Caucus oil region (Azerbaijan and Armenia) it has the fuel to power its tanks. Fuel won't be a problem like it was for Hitler in World War II.
Well, that's what they were doing. That's what the pipelines and all of the investments from Europe in Russian oil/gas infrastructure were for, and it was working well for everyone. The best way to get Russia's natural resources isn't to break it up... it was to continue that arrangement. It's pretty obviously true, and it's completely missing from the kind of analysis in this article.
In any case, that arrangement was brought to an end the day Putin officially began the invasion in Feb '22. Why did that matter?
The fundamental problem was that the EU's strategy wrt Russia relied on the notion that doing business with Russia would help its liberalization and democratization there. Of course they have been worried about Russian revanchism... but they saw their trade with Russia as a means of mitigating that risk. Of course, this is also a convenient thing to believe because hey: cheap energy! But that belief was real, even as Putin has disproved it in slow motion over the last two decades.
Edit: But even now, the strategy isn't to break up Russia. That would create a bunch for problems for eastern EU and NATO members, and an enormous nuclear proliferation risk to boot.
Hahaha! You're funny, Mr Arneal. Right. The last thing that MIC wants is "a bunch [of] problems."
Good thinking.
FYI - Breaking up Russia to loot their resources has been a known, published US neocon goal since at least 1997 (Zbigniew Brzezinski).
Hint: Just because it does not appear in your Rockefeller-funded Grade 11 text book does not mean that it does not exit.
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"Mr. Trump well understands that one way or another, Russia is going to prevail in this conflict on-the-ground. He abhors all the killing. He has already expressed a disinclination to keep backing the war with money and weapons. He must be disgusted at how the Bidens (and the Deep State) used Ukraine as a money-laundry, as a site for bioweapons labs, and how it served as a nexus for human trafficking." - James Howard Kunstler - Aug. 14, 2025
You called me a "nut" for saying the exact same things, Mr Arneal. I guess that you deem our gracious host, Jim Kunstler, a "nut" too, eh?
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"Of course they have been worried about Russian revanchism... but they saw their trade with Russia as a means of mitigating that risk."
How come you're the only one ever mentioning "revanchism"? I mean, if you are correct, why, do you think, does nobody else ever say it?
Yes, once Capitalism is entrenched, the political system is beside the point. Cue in Mayer Rothschild's axiom: Give men control of a nation's money supply and I don't care who supposedly runs it. In other words, he does - and they do.
There's also "irredentism", which is related but distinct. Both actually work for Putin, and I think both words help one to understand Putin's claims and aims.
'Revanchism' - retaliation to take back lost territory - and 'irredentism' - retaking lost territory - certainly help to explain your insightful comment, but what perplexes me is "...as Putin has disproved it in slow motion over the last two decades." That seems to turn the entire comment on its head.
You see, Ukraine was not selling its children and its women, nor organ harvesting Ukrainian children, nor operating biolabs, nor running the hacker's Black Exchange, nor money laundering for Western corruptocrats when it was a Russian province.
It was a breadbasket and industrial center, rather than a pirates' den ruled by non-Slavic criminals and their Galician praetorians. Ruled badly, perhaps, but not an existential threat to its own people.
Ukraine is White, Christian, literate, educated, with good resources, it should be one of the more powerful of European nations. Instead, its beautiful women and men are reduced to migrating as hookers or mobsters, its children sold as orphans or for things far, far worse.
I don't see why for a moderate like Putin to liberate the country is anything but a vast improvement, nor how that disproves the need for pan-European reunion.
I say that re-integration of Europa is the one thing, the greatest thing, that the powers are trying to prevent at any cost. Putin has been knocking on the door for decades.
That's why I think Trump's recent peace deal between Armenia-Azerbaijan is so important. Yes, it was a bit shady, but it's done. Trump wanted to show Putin he could "get 'er done" ahead of the meeting.
This says to Putin that he can safely dump the mullah gangster regime in Iran. A Restoration (Reza Jr.) is not a regime change; the INSTC corrider would stay in business, and fare far better under a lawful government.
Note MBS in Saudi Arabia is pursuing the same path of investment, as opposed to Arab Springs or foreign militias. A lawful Iran could also reopen its old Haifa line to the offshore gas deposits, which is what Cyprus is being prepared for. Turkey would get its cut and settle down.
This is a potential win-win-win for all involved. I think Trump may have given Putin the go-ahead, as Russia is mopping the floor with the foreign "advisors" stationed in eastern Ukraine right now.
Riots all over Iran are being suppressed - sure, Israel has a hand in, but they are professionals, these are locals tired of being fleeced, so a large helping of a powerful hand is welcome. Restorations or revolutions are never pulled off without outside support.
(All gangster Iran has to offer is steeply discounted oil, the juice is no longer worth the squeeze. A prosperous Iran would be a better customer for BRICS goods than a lazy potentate asset-stripping the country.)
i get it, I said the Israel word, we're supposed to start barking. Britain (and others) are being prepared for the Palestinian diaspora, it will be blamed on the Mandate. Eretz Ysrael wants to be as large as its neighbors, Egypt, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran - welp, this is how the sausage gets made in that part of the world.
In 1948, the UN designated a 2 nation solution, there was Arab Palestine and Israel. Israel went about the business of developing Israel and the Arabs attacked Israel instead of helping their own folks develop Palestine. It has been the same ever since. Palestinians, by their actions with their own areas, do not deserve a nation.
Is Trump any more kayfabe than Biden, Obama, the Bushes, the Clintons, Carter, the racist LBJ, Wilson, the Roosevelts (especially the philandering pig FDR), or any other?
Why buy it if you can steal it by hook or by crook? My country right or wrong, my country first. We keep repeating history as the Asian gentleman wrote because we never learn from history.
Well of course our country first. Anything else is liberal mental illness. But as was said long ago, My country right or wrong is incomplete. The corrected version is:
Finally able to stumble my way back into the computer from hell. Well at least some parts of it. Thanks for telling me the REST of that. My 9th grade teacher Quoted the My Country Right or Wrong, My country First” & then used it as a segue into what she wanted to get us to learn that day. She did use some examples of countries that acted that way. Today she would be hard pressed to find a country or many people who don’t act like “After me you come first.”
Don’t know how long it’ll b until I stumble back into S. again. I really NEED to re-organize all my passwords & email address combinations so I can get them to agree to what the little trolls who live in the box on the desk say they are. I have started a couple of times & then look & say, “Domani! I’m too tired today.”
No, never. Why buy when you can just steal them? There is no benefit to the American people, it all accrues to the rapacious banksters of the City of London, NYC, and Washington DC.
I think you are spot on, James. Trump and Putin are on the same anti-globalist plane and this meeting is about way more than Ukraine even though the worlds(US and Britain) oil companies have purchased billions of ONG and other leases in Ukraine...
Exactly and Jim explained it perfectly the idiot Democrat narrative of Trump being a Putin puppet has set the stage where Trump has to do everything 180 degrees from that being seen in any way as reality.
Everything the Democrat cabal touches turns to crap.
I think that has some explanatory power, but I honestly don't think Trump cares about defeating the perception of him as a "Putin puppet". Generally, he's happy to bring up that perception (sarcastically) because in his view it was so decisively defeated as part of the "Russiagate Hoax". Consider that Trump flattered Putin plenty early this year, while also trashing Zelensky and Ukraine. I think the evidence clearly shows he doesn't give a crap what Dems think, and that includes the "Putin's puppet" thing.
His negative reactions to Putin wrt recent negotiations are part bluster, but they have a real basis: the deals he thought would work, that his team has proposed to Putin and his envoys since Trump was inaugurated (and perhaps before) have not worked.
It's pretty obvious to me why: Trump is happy to, in some form or fashion, offer a ceasefire along the current front lines, and to condition support for Ukraine on respecting it. But he knows damn well the war won't actually be durably stopped unless Ukraine has security guarantees. Those security guarantees, not any parcel of land (except Crimea), are Putin's red line. He won't end the war without putting himself/Russia in a position where it can continue the war and seize more land. And Russia will not be in this position if Ukraine has security guarantees. Putin knew this, because he's Putin. Trump's advisors didn't know this, because they thought this was just about the Donbas and Crimea.
I find it odd that there are all these people I know who've spent the Russian Collusion years as Putin deranged as they are Trump deranged. I don't recall them obsessing about Putin at all before 2016. But when I ask about that they get serious and inform me that “Putin is a very bad man.” I'm sure he is a very bad man, but he didn't force anyone at gunpoint to go along with an attempted overthrow of our elected president. They did it willingly on their own.
Putin’s reputation as ruthless comes from some questionable assassinations and attempts, right? How come Seth Rich and Jeff Epstein’s suicides do not bring the same reaction?
The EU, Von der Devil and little Napoleon Macron, and their poodle Starmer, in particular, are the wrench in the works. And Zelensky is inextricably chained to their whims. He is nothing more than their puppet, doing their bidding by obstructing every possible advance towards some kind of settlement.
I am hoping there are “back room talks” going on with these rogues that include a list of the crystal clear consequences that will come their way should they persist in their delusional efforts to keep prolonging this war.
Ok, you have completely thrown me for a loop JHK. Got excited thinking that it’s Friday and had to check my phone to confirm that it is not.
If I am Putin I am doing this summit for one reason alone. That would be to get some quiet time with Trump to learn what he knows, or what he doesn’t, on this particular subject matter. DT has been all over the map on foreign policy as of late. He has exhibited an almost bipolar personality. There was a point a couple weeks ago when I feared that he might even be cracking up. To be fair I certainly couldn’t blame him if that be the case.
At this point I can’t see any nation trusting us now. Sure we can make deals, but can we actually honor our commitments? Recent history points to no we cannot.
Yup. You exhibit some intellectually honest skepticism about djt and you're immediately a TDS-deranged crybaby liberal.
As opposed to the Trump Savior Syndrome (TSS) koolaid guzzlers that put a religion-like faith in the foibles of a man exhibiting less-than-professional behavior with peer nuclear powers.
American exceptionalism at its finest. There's nothing wrong with caring about THE WAY something is done, and how it reflects on the country.
Hey, how many of those “professional” nuts in the Deep State have done anything for world order and peace. You TDSers are magnificent in your media driven constant criticism of the best POTUS of the 21st century and some of the 20th.
Clinton. Balkans. Bush 1. Kuwait, Bush 2, Iraq, Afghanistan, Obama/Clinton, Libya, Syria, Iran buy off, Biden open border, cartels, Ukraine, Israel, Somalia,. Trump, ISIS.
I voted for and support Trump. Mine (our) objection is people who reflexively defend and justify bad behavior just because you support him.
The man often acts like an impatient child on the world stage when he'd be much better served by acting presidential. Everything he's doing, he could do while maintaining considerably more dignity for himself and our country.
America has much to fix, and many of us are interested in being the best country and world citizens we can be.
Nope. The reason why we are where we are s all the time”presidential”, dignified bullshit artists we have had for POTUS over the past 40 years.
Compared to the rest of the world, the USA is a paradise, ever wonder why veterans that have “been there”, consider the US a wonderland.
If you consider him with bad behavior, you must have thought Biden was ideal, everything done under the table, quietly, no accountability and so-o-o Namby-Pamby.
Man I hate to tell you this but all things point to DT being in cahoots with the DS. Hell going into the election 2024 I was ready to fight a war if there was a repeat of 2020. Now it looks like I’m afraid it was never on the menu because a bargain had been struck.
One must consider the times. In 2020 the elites (DS is their enforcers) had no natural enemies on their minds. Trump had to be removed at all costs. Between 2021-24 two a war emerged which is existential for all parties. West elite’s goal was to force UK & Russia to fight. That and sanctions would eventually tear Russia apart. But the real target was China and they would have bent the knee if Russia was not able to hold. Both China and Russia pose a serious long term threat to Western financiers global hegemony (esp combined).
Well it didn’t work out like that. Russia is completely in the drivers seat and have now allied with China. The elite knew they must get the left out and replace it with Patriotism and nationalism (cough, cough). DT became the solution as he could increase recruiting in the .mil and get the right to go fight it.
Does DT know this? I really don’t know. I assume he probably does. Like I said I have seen NO dropoff of foreign policy between DT & JB.
Guess we shall see what happens tomorrow tho we probably will not be privy to the truth (I certainly understand that). I think Putin’s main goal will be to determine just what DT knows, and what he doesn’t. DT has repeated some numbers about casualties that are NOT in line with what I hear and see on the battlefield. It’s a chance for Putin to educate Trump if he’s mistaken, not lying.
How can the Western World possibly win a war if we don't have access to the rare earth elements to make the weapons? Doesn't this imply that the WEF/2030 Agenda power grab didn't end with the election of Trump? Isn't this justification for Trump's nonsense?
All you TDSers crack me up. You are all the same, all the problems of the world are Trump’s fault, no matter the causes. I guess that is easier than having to really understand all the counter-currents that go into the deal making. Like Trump has to. I imagine you are all having a ball with he DC crime situation, blaming Trump for all the crime increases across the country.
Sir you have me totally wrong. For starters don’t care about what Trump does in DC. I refuse to believe anyone worked as hard as I did all 3 times to get him elected. I know he was cheated in 2020.
But he has been erratic last couple months. I am done attributing it to 4D chess. Example he tells Iran we are trying diplomacy and then sets them up to be bombed by Israel. He did boast about it a day or so after.
And he seems to know next to nothing about the situation in Ukraine. Now I do suspect he’s being lied to perhaps. If that be the case, he should be wary about it by now. I can’t make excuses for him anymore.
The main purpose of this summit in Putin’s eyes is to gauge just what DT knows; or doesn’t. Honestly I don’t think he really does. Perhaps Putin sees it as a chance to teach him? Either way, on the foreign policy front not much dropoff between Biden and Trump. On domestic matters I am certainly pro Trump.
Crazy how thoughtful people concerned about the deportment of our president, but support him doing the best for America, are immediately accused of being lying, cheating liberals.
Trump drew a red line, no nukes. When Iran was getting close, weeks reported, Trump ended it, and that is all. In his words, obliterated the nuke plants. Israel has done the rest, with some help from us. I will not argue the right or wrong of the Israelis, it makes no difference.
He doesn’t know Ukraine? Wrong in all ways. He knows what is needed to appease two egotistical leaders to get a cease fire. He also knows when to stop. Right now, Russia wants East Ukraine, no NATO, and recognition of Crimea. Putin is in the driver’s seat and will bargain tough to get these three. He has to answer to the Russian public and bureaucracy for his demands. Z has to answer to NATO and the USA, although to get a truce Trump will give in some to Russia as they are dominant. If Z acts like an ass, Russia will eventually take it all.
Putin will not teach Trump anything and vice versa. So far, ceasefire in Middle East and peace between Armenian and Azerbaijan after decades. Trump makes deals, even for others. He has access to tariffs now to quell foreign asshats. IMO, he has done more and better than any other POTUS for decades.
I don’t believe it went down like Trump is saying. In fact I think Iran might have just whipped some ass. Only 35% of Israel’s AD was actually successful (per Stars and Stripes). I think this unnerved Trump and Netanyahu to be honest.
If you recall immediately after Israel took out Iranian commanders (Trump with the assist) DT got pretty braggadocios about it. A couple days later Iran launched their retaliatory response. After a couple days of it Trump pre agreed with Iran to let both nations do a face saving show of force. Iran bombed a US base (Qatar I think) and the US bombed the military sites. Not certain if there was irreparable damage.
Look around Blackbird, much of the Trump criticism corps is exactly as you describe.
The big problem is that most of the Ult-Leftist crowd is just plain anti-American wanting to destroy the common culture of this country. Thanks to these folks, the kids, not being educated, are not even understanding what an American is or stands for.
On Dec. 8, 1941, tens of thousands of American youth joined up to fight for America. Today, ha, all they would do is protest against Trump and Israel.
Whew! 2 minutes, and what a hoot. I've heard the same on my many regular trips to New York. Working joes at the site, on the street, or in the office LOVE this guy.
Trump had a bad habit of calling some complete nobody on the phone, or of sending a personal check that day to some other nobody he felt got shorted.
He might have gold fixtures in his house, but he was perfectly comfortable sitting on a milk crate and bullshooting with the guys. Always telling people how great they were, lavish with the praise. And with kids? Fugedaboutit, don't even.
Trump is all over the place on Ukraine. He contradicts himself on the subject every 24 hrs and he's given free reign to his necon foreign policy crew to issue reckless statements and hold meetings with deluded European NATO-crats willing to start WWIII over this fiasco.
What he says in public playing the games that adversaries demand is not the same thing as what he is going to do. I do not let myself get distracted. Read The Art of the Deal...I puts out feelers and puts out stuff to throw people off the scent of what he is really going to do.
Yeah remember Reagan joke that WW3 had just started? Russia scrambled its planes and went on high alert. So no. You can't just say anything you want to get an advantage. It's not just another real estate deal, duh.
Read Trump's "Art of the Deal" and "How To Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie, "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, "The Prince" by Machiavelli, and get back to us with what you have learned.
It's not Trump Deity Syndrome to look at Trump's long record of diplomatic successes—including that of restoring deterrence—and declaring him successful. "By its fruits—"
Trump has been badly served by General Kellogg, a neocon who wants forever wars. Witkoff has been more forthcoming to Trump. Trump will hear directly from Putin things that Kellogg has hidden from Trump.
Putin has always stated his enemy is not the American people, it is the CIA. The lack of trust in the U.S. is well deserved, as no U.S. president has been able to deliver what was promised to Putin and Russia, as the deep state/neocons had control.
The massive flow of intelligence from Gabbard and Patel is to show Putin that Trump is gaining control of the bad actors in the intelligence complex.
If Trump can rebuild that trust, the world has a chance at real peace. The price is that Clinton, Obama, Brennan, Comey, McCabe, et al, will walk. The official public disclosures during a grand jury investigation has undermined a grand jury investigation from ever seeing indictments.
I wish he would sack Kellogg. I’m just reading the tea leaves and I’ve learned not to underestimate Trump. He gives scraps to the neocons (for example, Waltz at the UN) to keep them in check from an open revolt. He has and will continue to do things that make no sense and drive me nuts. He literally has the entire western elite against him at home and abroad as he tries to reshape the geopolitical map in a multi-polar world. He may not succeed, but I sure am happy we have a president willing to try.
What happened to Waltz? I suspect he’s been vaporized since Tammy Bruce is now UN Ambassador. I agree with your opinion of Kellogg. He lacks substantive authority and seems very much like CIA.
Oh yeah. CTH, a site, has explained in depth the byzantine fortress the Deep State has built. Trump also appointed special envoys like Witkoff to bypass that fortress, strait diplomacy between him and leaders like Putin with no one to leak or subvert the message.
I say that's why he shoots the breeze so much. He knows the media is going to try to distort what he's saying anyways, so he happily ties them up chasing their own tails.
Couldn’t find your, or my, original post about Tammy Bruce but…
“I am pleased to announce that I am nominating Tammy Bruce, a Great Patriot, Television Personality, and Bestselling Author, as our next Deputy Representative of the United States to the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador. Since the beginning of my Second Term, Tammy has been serving with distinction as Spokesperson of the State Department, where she did a fantastic job. Tammy Bruce will represent our Country brilliantly at the United Nations. Congratulations Tammy!”
Trump does give her the rank of Ambassador on his Truth Social post…as well as Deputy Representative
I mentioned this in my comment below. The US already has severe trust issues. One would need to have their proverbial head examined to believe anything we say at this point. It’s not helpful that Trump completely contradicts himself almost on a daily basis. Sure I would like to believe it is 5D chess but I don’t have much faith in that myself.
Looking back at WWII--and, specifically, Germany's decision to invade the Soviet Union--you can easily conclude that, at that precise moment, Germany lost the war. When Zelensky decide to take NATO money and act as a battering ram against Russia, he lost that war.
The Russians were massing on the Polish border. It was attack or wait to be attacked. They did the only thing they could do. With the forces of both Capitalism and Communism (one system in fact) against them, their chances were never very good. Their only chance was to invent a weapon of mass destruction and use it against Capitalism/Communism. But they didn't have enough time.
the accepted historical narrative about the german invasion of the soviet union in barbarosa has been challenged substantially by Victor Suvarov with his book Icebreaker. the soviets were positioned offensively, meaning they planned to violate molotov ribbentrop, and attack germany. the german pivot away from britain was a monumental strategic shift, but shown, with plenty of documentation revealed after the fall of the ussr, that it was forced by the soviets. that they suffered greatly in germany's attack is testament to the fact that they had virtually no defensive posture - it was offensive.
An excellent analysis. Despite what some may say, having absorbed the anti-Russia objective we have all been surrounded with for 40 years, Mr. Putin has essentially been the only adult in the room for at least the past 3 years .during the Ukraine military action. The absurdity of the idea that Russia wants to ‘conquer Europe’ is just another attempt at ensuring that Russia is the bogeyman in international politics. The fact that European leaders continue to spew this, in the face of the loss of cheap energy (at the hands of the Biden administration) is beyond understanding. I do believe that Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin get along quite well, understand each other’s domestic and international efforts, and will come to a logical and livable conclusion, despite whatever kabuki theatre is necessary.
"Upstairs, the second floor where they took the children...it was like a slaughterhouse," said the grizzled Russian soldier, about one of the remote farmhouses where the organ harvesters had been at work. "Blood, limbs, body parts...scattered everywhere."
The Zelensky regime is burning the bodies of dead soldiers, rather than burying them in cemetary, so they can deny paying out the death benefit of 250,000 hryvnia to their families. The soldiers are listed as MIA. The newbies being rounded up for duty are lasting only hours on the front lines.
The US, under the Trump administration, and Russia are the last nation states refusing to give up their national identities to the Globalist Elites. Under Biden/Obama, the US was a captured state. Russia was in the bullseye as the last hold out.
You are correct. I should have qualified US and Russia as last major powers attempting to retain national identities. Argentina and Hungary are trying but will be easily subdued by Globalists IMHO.
Excellent summary ... although I suspect the Japanese might view your use of the words 'carefully and gracefully' with reference to the end of WWII rather differently.
Come on, JMB. Read some history. Average Japanese had been brainwashed into believing that the hairy foreign monsters were going to invade with horrors of rape and pillage but they got chewing gum and joking with little kids instead.
My own take is that the Occupation came off so well because the Imperial military forces had been humiliated so thoroughly and shown to be fantasists and liars to boot. The Japanese, an eminently practical folk, were never ashamed of what horrors they had committed across East Asia: in fact, they were scornful of the quixotic adventurism that was always doomed to fail, as Admiral Yamamoto explicitly told his military counterparts. Copilot: "Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto studied at Harvard University as a special student from 1919 to 1921. During his time there, he immersed himself in American culture, became fluent in English, and even developed a reputation as a formidable poker player—an experience that reportedly shaped his strategic thinking and understanding of American psychology.
"He later served as naval attaché to the Japanese embassy in Washington, D.C., further deepening his insights into U.S. military and political dynamics."
His pessimism about dragging the USA into the war nearly got him assassinated by the foaming-at-the-mouth crew, who were ridiculed and silenced after August 1945.
Yes, they were amazed at how well they were treated, considering the horrors they had inflicted on the rest of East Asia. Their fears of mass rape were completely justified. That's what the Germans got after all. You really didn't know that?
Now ask yourself why. Let's let into it more deeply.
"You really didn't know that" - Vlad, you assume a great deal. I was in Occupied Germany in 1946 and again in 1948, so I likely know a great deal about the subject - from the viewpoint of a child, which does not invalidate the matter.
As Churchill was supposed to have quipped: "...at your feet or at your throat".
Not saying the atomic bombs were unjustified - but have you ever seen the brilliant talk by the historian AJP Taylor on the entry of the Japanese into WWII?
His conclusion was that the Japanese were pushed and goaded into the war by the actions of the USA, amongst others.
So the 'carefully and gracefully' strikes a bum note with me.
The A.J.P. Taylor pointer is most appreciated. I just completed my second reading of his volume on the First World War. I have to stop and cool down occasionally because I get so enraged at the stupidity and careless cruelty of the officer corps ... particularly the British: German high command appraised the English forces as "lions led by donkeys", and none of that old boys' club were punished for sending a whole generation of English youths to their deaths.
It is a fact that the energy embargo imposed by the USA on Japan was a major impetus for going to war, but it did follow years of imperial expansion on the part of an over-confident Imperial Japanese Army and Navy.
Many think they should have invited Hirohito to a special necktie party - even his own brother was so disgusted by his lack of leadership that he said he should swing.
Having lived and worked in Japan many years since 1962, I appraise them as likely the stubbornest people on the world. Tough titty.
You obviously have a great deal of experience with the culture and the history of Japan.
This erudite 'article' (very long) linked below has a comprehensive description of the interactions between the main powers and shows the impetus for Japan to expand and take part in WWII:
The United States required total surrender from Germany and Japan, which included regime change from both nations. Surrender under these terms has resulted in peace from these nations for the past 80 years.
Yeah, no kidding. Thus they bombed Kosovo for more than seventy days in order to set up another Muslim state in the Balkans. Putin was flying to the US to talk to Clinton, presumably about the situation. But when the bombing started he turned around and went back to Russia. The only answer was to make Russia stronger. Would the EU get away with it today? I doubt it.
I don't think much will come out of this meeting, other than Trump grand standing & bloviating about some nebulous "great deal". Trump can not agree to the goals of the SMO. He has been boxed into a corner by the Deep State and the western Allies. Trump had a great opportunity to cut off the Ukraine regime on day 1 of his administration. It's 8 months in, and that's now not happening. What can Trump threaten Putin with? It's all nonsense. More weapons? They are burning in the Donbass. More sanctions? Of whom? China and India? Not happening.
Putin understands all this. The Russian military is winning the war. He doesn't need to negotiate anything. Odessa? Russia will retake it, if it wants. The same goes with a bridge to reunite Transnistra.
When this war first started I prognosticated that Russia will take most of Ukraine, except for Galicia. I still stand by that.
Russia will never again accept a Nazi, western military alliance on its borders ever again.
Absolutely true. Russia, to be secure into the future, must at least have military control over every square inch of Ukraine. If they do not, they only have words on a piece of paper that future Western powers will not restock it with NATO missiles and arms. History has shown these words are not worth the paper they are written on.
The Azovs must have their own rump state. You can't kill a great idea like survival of the White race - even if Putin has contempt for it. That's why so many Azovs were/are Russian.
Yeah, they're going to have enemies on their borders unless and until things fundamentally change. Letting the Azovs get something would freak out the EU and the entire Western World. Putin is a judo master and this would be a throw to end all throws.
POTUS DJT, is not a "Putin puppet. On the contrary, this man is mostly a puppet of Israel. Just observe the Israel first foreign policy, going back on campaign promise to not make war, and going back on campaign promise to release ALL the Epstein materials. DJT has always thought of Russia as competitors.
What if the "Epstein materials were completely doctored during the four years that "Joe Biden's" admin had possession of them? What if they are worthless?
Ok Jim, so we are to believe Epstein killed himself over a hoax??? Come on brother, you can do better. You know as well as I do, the Biden installed head of the SDNY FBI office was fired, for hiding those materials originating from the NY Epstein mansion. Lutnick, our illustrious trade secretary was neck deep in with Epstein. There is a gigantic, ongoing blackmail operation being hidden here from the people, as part of the greater backdrop of national secrecy. Acosta was told to leave it alone, it was above his paygrade when Epstein was popped in Florida, the premise of that being that Epstein was in the intel community.
The jailhouse video, promised as "raw footage" was clearly doctored and shows someone in orange jumpsuit approaching his cell, after people in orange jumpsuits were supposed to be locked down.
With the revelation Epstein was an FBI asset we might believe he did no more than host the parties and the FBI was doing the recording etc? He may have never had possession of the material himself?
Secondly, any evidence actually being withheld may relate to the possible prosecution of Hillary Clinton. Epstein's financial connection to Buzzfeed which was the Deep State's portal to release disinformation about Trump may have tied him to that intrigue as well. All the politicians screaming for the release of all documents, especially grand jury transcripts may have an ulterior motive. They may want to know exactly what and how much evidence they do or do not have on them. The possibilities for twisting this tale into more configurations than an Origami master are seemingly endless.
Is it almost certainly a convenient lie told by the Trump admin to deflect criticism? Yes.
We genuinely should not be surprised about Trump at least appearing (in an unflattering way) in the Epstein materials. We know the men had a history, we know it involved women, and we know that Trump knew Epstein liked women "on the younger side".
I think anyone who believes Trump totally on this... is just credulous.
Yet why is it that Les Wexner is an unmentionable here? Never even questioned? No one even speaks of what is going on in his neighborhood in Ohio? Huge swathes of land, expensive homes and farms being sold and turned into industrial nightmares. And the beat goes on, I guess
I am really tired of hearing how complicated the issues are in the Russia-Ukraine/Nato conflict. NATO was created to combat the expansion of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union has been defunct for more than 30 years. NATO should be disbanded. The United States should close down all overseas military bases. End of problem.
Thank you. It is frustrating to read and listen to material put out by non-interventionists and rarely see or hear anyone espouse either of those two simple steps that would start us back in the right direction.
The Monroe Doctrine clearly stated that European countries were to stay out of the Americas and, in turn, the USA would keep its nose out of the Eastern hemisphere.
The USA is notorious for reaping the benefits of a deal before reneging on its obligations of the deal.
So why would the present Republican administration negotiate a "peace" deal with Armenia and Azerbaijan on the southern border with Russia that includes the provision that the US has exclusive development rights in this region? That would be a little like Putin negotiating a deal with Mexico for the oil in the Gulf of NAFTAlite. This latest move confirms Putin's claim that Russia is being encircled. Thoughts?
MTG argues that AIPAC should have to register as a foreign-country lobby ... because AIPAC is a foreign-country lobby.
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It is ... strange that Israel enjoys universal health care and free university educations while receiving billions of dollars annually from the USA who has its citizens go into massive debt for their health care and higher education (such as it is).
Seriously, it's always been about the Nationalists vs the Globalists via Operation Gladio - whereupon duly elected governments have been taken out or taken down to be replaced by those wanting control of the world using literally any and all means necessary.
ANY and ALL means necessary!
Benghazi.
Afghanistan.
Libya.
To name a few.
EVERY war has been a banksters war, funding both sides to obtain the objective.
Control.
FULL Control.
Of EVERYTHING
And EVERYONE
Need I remind anyone of the American Revolution and the British controlled "tea tax" here?
To completely bake your noodle, DO research Operation Gladio. (Colonel Tower-Watkins)
Then humbly thank God for President Trump, Sun Tzu's "Art of War," (whereby the war is already won before it begins), the actual War Manual, Military Laws and Orders (that came BEFORE government), Agenda 47, the Founding Fathers, the REAL Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the "Art of the Deal" and verily, the True Allies to America.
Hint: NOT NATO, NOT 5vey.
Every Leader of Every Country who fights for True Sovereignty, governed by no other BUT that country and its People, is a winner by my standards.
To make my point, look no further than El Salvador and Argentina right now, as well as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE.
Then compare to Britain, Canada, Australia, Germany, etc.
President Trump and President Putin are indeed Nationalists who love their country and countrymen.
America is once again becoming Sovereign under President Trump (see Washington DC), and Russia always has been
Zelensky is a puppet being controlled by the Globalists, and as one can see by the latest presser, not winning.
Then add the upcoming Alaskan meeting, the forensic audit of the Smithsonian looming, the latest on the Vatican using the Skeleton Key to manipulate actual IBAN's (International Bank Account Numbers), the "Federal Reserve" issue, and Trump's Sept 17-19 SECOND visit to the British "Royals"...AFTER his literal royal visits to SA, Qatar and UAE...on top of the Trump/Kennedy (whoops) - Kennedy Center.
WE of the World, are LITERALLY watching the MOST historical events take place since Jesus walked the earth.
ANYONE who thinks they know more than the Greatest President that ever was, his MI, and his TEAM, are deluding themselves, cuz they indeed do NOT!
We can either choose to witness it all to BE witnesses of it all, or we can choose to be debbie downer doom gloomers who miss the entire show!
The choice to KNOW has always been yours to make.
My suggestion: Choose wisely
For God, Country, Family and Freedom - TRUE and REAL Freedom.
If the primary objective of many is to get at Russia's raw, natural resources, I wonder if it has occurred to anyone to buy them.
EU's imperialistic tendencies toward conquering and using other nations has to do with having had kings rather than public rule like the US. Purchasing power aside (now close to non-existent after what they've done to their individual and collective economies), their mindset is to conquer-and-use-up rather than negotiate (finagle) purchasing stuff from perceived enemies. EU is run by envious, jealous, greedy (DUH!), "light-minded" (as in they are too inbred to be highly intelligent or too brainwashed to figure it out) who would rather bully than negotiate. So, no, I don't think it's occurred to them - yet.
If only the EU possessed the moral clarity of the US (deep state), where perpetual war is a profit center for the envious, jealous, and greedy.
Too funny! I'm not sure the DS knows how to spell "moral clarity."
One would have to have a "moral compass" to start with.
well said. thanks
"EU's imperialistic tendencies toward conquering and using other nations has to do with having had kings rather than public rule like the US."
That is preposterous. The most basic function of the sovereign is to promote the nation. Next you're going to start squawking about colonialism and racism and such. I will not suffer such sanctimonious tripe nor the intended blood libel.
You have it utterly backwards. First the Bank of England was formed by foreign money to provide William of Orange with war loans and the debt bondage they incur - 6 years later, the first Parliament was formed, the beginnings of "democracy" so the citizens would pay the eternal debt bondage.
Democracy has advanced to its intended goal: greedy, rapacious hordes, envious of civilized White nations, are able to move in and vote themselves into power. All they need do is agree to share some of the loot.
That the royals were bought off with counterfeit, and then the oligarchs, and then the officials, speaks more to the ruthless moral paucity of those who made the offer, than those who took it. In this way treasonous immorality is cultivated, society is tunneled out, rotted from within, by design rather than proclivity.
I guess you just described the USofA. Kings, conquer and use up, run by envious jealous and greedy, light-minded who bully. Perfect description!
Lol...Sorry...historically, Europe has always wanted to break up Russia....for many reasons...that is the latest..
kim, that link takes me directly to what may be malware-laden spam, please remove it.
This is why clicking random links is bad.
As the driving forces of the West are today 110% martial in nature, from hybrid to hot, diplomacy does not compute.
I think the word we're looking for is 'predatory', like trying to establish relations with a pack of hyenas. Still, 'martial' might be better, as we've abandoned militaries that defend borders, in favor of private mercenary corps that cross them.
Buy some fish, catch a boat and do away with the middle man.
(Source: Three Stooges)
The most preposterous part of the preposterous RussiaGate narrative was the "truism" that a cabal of Russian trolls somehow swung the election with a few anti-Hillary Facebook posts that 99.99999 percent of Facebook users never saw.
These trolls don't even speak English as a first language and 75 million American citizens were publishing far better anti-Hillary posts on Facebook than the trolls produced.
... After Trump stops the war, I hope he might consider stopping the clot shots.
Bill, I read a story in STAT today that infuriated me. A total denial of all the research about the bad aspects of the disease and the Vaxx that sounded like a cheerleader for the mRNA project. It was in response to HHR desire to stop mRNA development.
Examples:
The mRNA is injected into the muscle so therefore does not affect other organs. A blatant lie as the IM injection places the compound directly in contact with the bloodstream where it can spread to the body. Research has shown that it can cross the blood=brain barrier.
The S proteins generated by body cells are not as bad as the virus s proteins and only last 2 weeks anyway. Another lie as research as shown s proteins and other Vaxx residue in blood and autopsies months later. Some research show that reverse transcriptase can occur in liver cells making them a factory for long term s proteins and only production. It is the S protein that damages organs, creating chronic inflammation, auto-immune reactions by continuous tweaking of the immune system. Wherever the S protein comes from, it is a very bad character.
I try to look at it logically, apolitically. We KNEW that the S proteins in the virus was what generated the pneumonias in the lungs that forced intubation and subsequent death. So why the hell did we make a Vaxx that generates S proteins into the system that will confound the immune system the same way. Am I wrong, or is that really a stupid thing that was done? I do notice that absolutely zero research is being done now to try to disprove the data about the S protein generation.
He has mandated any school still requiring the clot shot loses federal funding. He also ordered the records destroyed that were used to prove who took the shots.
The East India Company didn't like the Chinese putting a limit on their market. How dare they limit importation of opium to certain port cities? They wanted to establish trading centers in towns away from the coast, along major rivers - and cutting out the Chinese dealers whenever possible. This Chinese squawking is the "patriotic capitalism" that our boys are up against this very day. To their utter humiliation, the Chinese lost this war and lost control of their own country to the voracious Indian Jews backed by English bayonets.
Footnote: The Chinese are quick learners and have used the same "drug tactics" on other "opponents". Evidence points at the China as THE major supplier creating America's drug "issues". Cheap fentanyl anyone? Karma can be a bitch...
Yes, they like money and beyond that - payback.
Exactly, strike, this is the difficulty in assigning blame: while the originators are yet still at fault, their methods are so deucedly easy to copy.
Why buy Russia's vast reserves of natural resources -- in real coal, real natural gas, real crude oil, real minerals, rea rare earths -- when you can just take them?
That's what this proxy war was for. Terraforming Ukraine into a direct invasion route was just a detail. This was never a Ukraine/Russo conflict. This was never a NATO/Russo conflict. (NATO is the United States.) This was always a US/Russo conflict.
Now that NATO borders are as close to Moscow as the US can get without direct invasion, it is just a "small" matter of stepping directly across these borders, directly into Russia. Now that the US has secured direct access to the Caucus oil region (Azerbaijan and Armenia) it has the fuel to power its tanks. Fuel won't be a problem like it was for Hitler in World War II.
Why would they want to buy them when stealing them would be cheaper?
Well, that's what they were doing. That's what the pipelines and all of the investments from Europe in Russian oil/gas infrastructure were for, and it was working well for everyone. The best way to get Russia's natural resources isn't to break it up... it was to continue that arrangement. It's pretty obviously true, and it's completely missing from the kind of analysis in this article.
In any case, that arrangement was brought to an end the day Putin officially began the invasion in Feb '22. Why did that matter?
The fundamental problem was that the EU's strategy wrt Russia relied on the notion that doing business with Russia would help its liberalization and democratization there. Of course they have been worried about Russian revanchism... but they saw their trade with Russia as a means of mitigating that risk. Of course, this is also a convenient thing to believe because hey: cheap energy! But that belief was real, even as Putin has disproved it in slow motion over the last two decades.
Edit: But even now, the strategy isn't to break up Russia. That would create a bunch for problems for eastern EU and NATO members, and an enormous nuclear proliferation risk to boot.
Hahaha! You're funny, Mr Arneal. Right. The last thing that MIC wants is "a bunch [of] problems."
Good thinking.
FYI - Breaking up Russia to loot their resources has been a known, published US neocon goal since at least 1997 (Zbigniew Brzezinski).
Hint: Just because it does not appear in your Rockefeller-funded Grade 11 text book does not mean that it does not exit.
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"Mr. Trump well understands that one way or another, Russia is going to prevail in this conflict on-the-ground. He abhors all the killing. He has already expressed a disinclination to keep backing the war with money and weapons. He must be disgusted at how the Bidens (and the Deep State) used Ukraine as a money-laundry, as a site for bioweapons labs, and how it served as a nexus for human trafficking." - James Howard Kunstler - Aug. 14, 2025
You called me a "nut" for saying the exact same things, Mr Arneal. I guess that you deem our gracious host, Jim Kunstler, a "nut" too, eh?
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"Of course they have been worried about Russian revanchism... but they saw their trade with Russia as a means of mitigating that risk."
How come you're the only one ever mentioning "revanchism"? I mean, if you are correct, why, do you think, does nobody else ever say it?
Yes, once Capitalism is entrenched, the political system is beside the point. Cue in Mayer Rothschild's axiom: Give men control of a nation's money supply and I don't care who supposedly runs it. In other words, he does - and they do.
The strategy is to cause collapse, but not to rule openly.
This avoids the perception of taking territory.
A facade of "democracy" will continue, with elections being held, but foreign interests will be able to take what they can get.
This is the pattern pursued across multiple countries - we may think of Iraq or Syria - but the Ukraine and the EU are primary examples.
Exactly! Collapse, chaos, anarchy, fiefdoms, puppets, bankers prosper.
Excellent word: revanchism. Possibly factual in content here.
There's also "irredentism", which is related but distinct. Both actually work for Putin, and I think both words help one to understand Putin's claims and aims.
'Revanchism' - retaliation to take back lost territory - and 'irredentism' - retaking lost territory - certainly help to explain your insightful comment, but what perplexes me is "...as Putin has disproved it in slow motion over the last two decades." That seems to turn the entire comment on its head.
You see, Ukraine was not selling its children and its women, nor organ harvesting Ukrainian children, nor operating biolabs, nor running the hacker's Black Exchange, nor money laundering for Western corruptocrats when it was a Russian province.
It was a breadbasket and industrial center, rather than a pirates' den ruled by non-Slavic criminals and their Galician praetorians. Ruled badly, perhaps, but not an existential threat to its own people.
Ukraine is White, Christian, literate, educated, with good resources, it should be one of the more powerful of European nations. Instead, its beautiful women and men are reduced to migrating as hookers or mobsters, its children sold as orphans or for things far, far worse.
I don't see why for a moderate like Putin to liberate the country is anything but a vast improvement, nor how that disproves the need for pan-European reunion.
I say that re-integration of Europa is the one thing, the greatest thing, that the powers are trying to prevent at any cost. Putin has been knocking on the door for decades.
That's why I think Trump's recent peace deal between Armenia-Azerbaijan is so important. Yes, it was a bit shady, but it's done. Trump wanted to show Putin he could "get 'er done" ahead of the meeting.
This says to Putin that he can safely dump the mullah gangster regime in Iran. A Restoration (Reza Jr.) is not a regime change; the INSTC corrider would stay in business, and fare far better under a lawful government.
Note MBS in Saudi Arabia is pursuing the same path of investment, as opposed to Arab Springs or foreign militias. A lawful Iran could also reopen its old Haifa line to the offshore gas deposits, which is what Cyprus is being prepared for. Turkey would get its cut and settle down.
This is a potential win-win-win for all involved. I think Trump may have given Putin the go-ahead, as Russia is mopping the floor with the foreign "advisors" stationed in eastern Ukraine right now.
Riots all over Iran are being suppressed - sure, Israel has a hand in, but they are professionals, these are locals tired of being fleeced, so a large helping of a powerful hand is welcome. Restorations or revolutions are never pulled off without outside support.
(All gangster Iran has to offer is steeply discounted oil, the juice is no longer worth the squeeze. A prosperous Iran would be a better customer for BRICS goods than a lazy potentate asset-stripping the country.)
i get it, I said the Israel word, we're supposed to start barking. Britain (and others) are being prepared for the Palestinian diaspora, it will be blamed on the Mandate. Eretz Ysrael wants to be as large as its neighbors, Egypt, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran - welp, this is how the sausage gets made in that part of the world.
In 1948, the UN designated a 2 nation solution, there was Arab Palestine and Israel. Israel went about the business of developing Israel and the Arabs attacked Israel instead of helping their own folks develop Palestine. It has been the same ever since. Palestinians, by their actions with their own areas, do not deserve a nation.
Is Trump any more kayfabe than Biden, Obama, the Bushes, the Clintons, Carter, the racist LBJ, Wilson, the Roosevelts (especially the philandering pig FDR), or any other?
And that's certainly not an option that the neocons have ever considered, apart from buying processed uranium out of necessity...
Why buy it if you can steal it by hook or by crook? My country right or wrong, my country first. We keep repeating history as the Asian gentleman wrote because we never learn from history.
Well of course our country first. Anything else is liberal mental illness. But as was said long ago, My country right or wrong is incomplete. The corrected version is:
My country right or wrong.
If right, to be kept right.
If wrong, to be put right.
Finally able to stumble my way back into the computer from hell. Well at least some parts of it. Thanks for telling me the REST of that. My 9th grade teacher Quoted the My Country Right or Wrong, My country First” & then used it as a segue into what she wanted to get us to learn that day. She did use some examples of countries that acted that way. Today she would be hard pressed to find a country or many people who don’t act like “After me you come first.”
Don’t know how long it’ll b until I stumble back into S. again. I really NEED to re-organize all my passwords & email address combinations so I can get them to agree to what the little trolls who live in the box on the desk say they are. I have started a couple of times & then look & say, “Domani! I’m too tired today.”
Mahalo! kat
No, never. Why buy when you can just steal them? There is no benefit to the American people, it all accrues to the rapacious banksters of the City of London, NYC, and Washington DC.
they make that difficult by putting on economic sanctions, so they then have to obtain them by force ; )
And Russia blew up its own pipeline.
BTW, did we ever learn who planted those two pipe non-bombs on J-6?
Ukrainians set the charges using American tech and resources.
I think you are spot on, James. Trump and Putin are on the same anti-globalist plane and this meeting is about way more than Ukraine even though the worlds(US and Britain) oil companies have purchased billions of ONG and other leases in Ukraine...
Explain Trump's incendiary rhetoric replete with threats.............
Hyperbole to set a negotiation point.
Exactly and Jim explained it perfectly the idiot Democrat narrative of Trump being a Putin puppet has set the stage where Trump has to do everything 180 degrees from that being seen in any way as reality.
Everything the Democrat cabal touches turns to crap.
If you were to use the term uniparty you might be making a better point.
I think that has some explanatory power, but I honestly don't think Trump cares about defeating the perception of him as a "Putin puppet". Generally, he's happy to bring up that perception (sarcastically) because in his view it was so decisively defeated as part of the "Russiagate Hoax". Consider that Trump flattered Putin plenty early this year, while also trashing Zelensky and Ukraine. I think the evidence clearly shows he doesn't give a crap what Dems think, and that includes the "Putin's puppet" thing.
His negative reactions to Putin wrt recent negotiations are part bluster, but they have a real basis: the deals he thought would work, that his team has proposed to Putin and his envoys since Trump was inaugurated (and perhaps before) have not worked.
It's pretty obvious to me why: Trump is happy to, in some form or fashion, offer a ceasefire along the current front lines, and to condition support for Ukraine on respecting it. But he knows damn well the war won't actually be durably stopped unless Ukraine has security guarantees. Those security guarantees, not any parcel of land (except Crimea), are Putin's red line. He won't end the war without putting himself/Russia in a position where it can continue the war and seize more land. And Russia will not be in this position if Ukraine has security guarantees. Putin knew this, because he's Putin. Trump's advisors didn't know this, because they thought this was just about the Donbas and Crimea.
By threatening and publicly embarrassing the negotiating partner?
Lame
Who said they are negotiating partners?
Really? That's some guess.
I find it odd that there are all these people I know who've spent the Russian Collusion years as Putin deranged as they are Trump deranged. I don't recall them obsessing about Putin at all before 2016. But when I ask about that they get serious and inform me that “Putin is a very bad man.” I'm sure he is a very bad man, but he didn't force anyone at gunpoint to go along with an attempted overthrow of our elected president. They did it willingly on their own.
If any of these ill-informed people refer to Trump as “Putin’s Puppet”, ask them why then Putin invaded Ukraine on Bai Den’s watch & not Trump’s.
You watch- they’ll change the subject real fast.
I've seen it!
Putin’s reputation as ruthless comes from some questionable assassinations and attempts, right? How come Seth Rich and Jeff Epstein’s suicides do not bring the same reaction?
The EU, Von der Devil and little Napoleon Macron, and their poodle Starmer, in particular, are the wrench in the works. And Zelensky is inextricably chained to their whims. He is nothing more than their puppet, doing their bidding by obstructing every possible advance towards some kind of settlement.
I am hoping there are “back room talks” going on with these rogues that include a list of the crystal clear consequences that will come their way should they persist in their delusional efforts to keep prolonging this war.
Remember JHK's comment that "both Russia and the USA intend to relieve Volodymyr Zelenskyy of his duties". I believe this to be the pathway to peace.
So very well said.
Ok, you have completely thrown me for a loop JHK. Got excited thinking that it’s Friday and had to check my phone to confirm that it is not.
If I am Putin I am doing this summit for one reason alone. That would be to get some quiet time with Trump to learn what he knows, or what he doesn’t, on this particular subject matter. DT has been all over the map on foreign policy as of late. He has exhibited an almost bipolar personality. There was a point a couple weeks ago when I feared that he might even be cracking up. To be fair I certainly couldn’t blame him if that be the case.
At this point I can’t see any nation trusting us now. Sure we can make deals, but can we actually honor our commitments? Recent history points to no we cannot.
Yup. You exhibit some intellectually honest skepticism about djt and you're immediately a TDS-deranged crybaby liberal.
As opposed to the Trump Savior Syndrome (TSS) koolaid guzzlers that put a religion-like faith in the foibles of a man exhibiting less-than-professional behavior with peer nuclear powers.
American exceptionalism at its finest. There's nothing wrong with caring about THE WAY something is done, and how it reflects on the country.
Great comment, Luke.
Hey, how many of those “professional” nuts in the Deep State have done anything for world order and peace. You TDSers are magnificent in your media driven constant criticism of the best POTUS of the 21st century and some of the 20th.
Clinton. Balkans. Bush 1. Kuwait, Bush 2, Iraq, Afghanistan, Obama/Clinton, Libya, Syria, Iran buy off, Biden open border, cartels, Ukraine, Israel, Somalia,. Trump, ISIS.
Will you call me a lieberal next? A marxist?
I voted for and support Trump. Mine (our) objection is people who reflexively defend and justify bad behavior just because you support him.
The man often acts like an impatient child on the world stage when he'd be much better served by acting presidential. Everything he's doing, he could do while maintaining considerably more dignity for himself and our country.
America has much to fix, and many of us are interested in being the best country and world citizens we can be.
Nope. The reason why we are where we are s all the time”presidential”, dignified bullshit artists we have had for POTUS over the past 40 years.
Compared to the rest of the world, the USA is a paradise, ever wonder why veterans that have “been there”, consider the US a wonderland.
If you consider him with bad behavior, you must have thought Biden was ideal, everything done under the table, quietly, no accountability and so-o-o Namby-Pamby.
Man I hate to tell you this but all things point to DT being in cahoots with the DS. Hell going into the election 2024 I was ready to fight a war if there was a repeat of 2020. Now it looks like I’m afraid it was never on the menu because a bargain had been struck.
One must consider the times. In 2020 the elites (DS is their enforcers) had no natural enemies on their minds. Trump had to be removed at all costs. Between 2021-24 two a war emerged which is existential for all parties. West elite’s goal was to force UK & Russia to fight. That and sanctions would eventually tear Russia apart. But the real target was China and they would have bent the knee if Russia was not able to hold. Both China and Russia pose a serious long term threat to Western financiers global hegemony (esp combined).
Well it didn’t work out like that. Russia is completely in the drivers seat and have now allied with China. The elite knew they must get the left out and replace it with Patriotism and nationalism (cough, cough). DT became the solution as he could increase recruiting in the .mil and get the right to go fight it.
Does DT know this? I really don’t know. I assume he probably does. Like I said I have seen NO dropoff of foreign policy between DT & JB.
Guess we shall see what happens tomorrow tho we probably will not be privy to the truth (I certainly understand that). I think Putin’s main goal will be to determine just what DT knows, and what he doesn’t. DT has repeated some numbers about casualties that are NOT in line with what I hear and see on the battlefield. It’s a chance for Putin to educate Trump if he’s mistaken, not lying.
If you want to make some sense of Trump's nonsense, I would suggest that you read/watch some of Prof. Gilbert Doctorow's recent discussions/videos.
https://www.kunstler.com/p/suspicious-minds/comment/142145841
His wife is Russian, he lives in Brussels, and he follows matters related to Russia/Ukraine on a daily basis from various perspectives.
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The following is an example of the nonsense you discuss:
https://www.kunstler.com/p/suspicious-minds/comment/142121865
... and a subsequent post points out the current predicament that Trump/USA/Western World are confronted with:
https://www.kunstler.com/p/suspicious-minds/comment/142800687
How can the Western World possibly win a war if we don't have access to the rare earth elements to make the weapons? Doesn't this imply that the WEF/2030 Agenda power grab didn't end with the election of Trump? Isn't this justification for Trump's nonsense?
Your overactive imagination has negated the effect of the American voters, those who operate with wisdom, insight, and awareness.
All you TDSers crack me up. You are all the same, all the problems of the world are Trump’s fault, no matter the causes. I guess that is easier than having to really understand all the counter-currents that go into the deal making. Like Trump has to. I imagine you are all having a ball with he DC crime situation, blaming Trump for all the crime increases across the country.
Sir you have me totally wrong. For starters don’t care about what Trump does in DC. I refuse to believe anyone worked as hard as I did all 3 times to get him elected. I know he was cheated in 2020.
But he has been erratic last couple months. I am done attributing it to 4D chess. Example he tells Iran we are trying diplomacy and then sets them up to be bombed by Israel. He did boast about it a day or so after.
And he seems to know next to nothing about the situation in Ukraine. Now I do suspect he’s being lied to perhaps. If that be the case, he should be wary about it by now. I can’t make excuses for him anymore.
The main purpose of this summit in Putin’s eyes is to gauge just what DT knows; or doesn’t. Honestly I don’t think he really does. Perhaps Putin sees it as a chance to teach him? Either way, on the foreign policy front not much dropoff between Biden and Trump. On domestic matters I am certainly pro Trump.
Crazy how thoughtful people concerned about the deportment of our president, but support him doing the best for America, are immediately accused of being lying, cheating liberals.
Trump drew a red line, no nukes. When Iran was getting close, weeks reported, Trump ended it, and that is all. In his words, obliterated the nuke plants. Israel has done the rest, with some help from us. I will not argue the right or wrong of the Israelis, it makes no difference.
He doesn’t know Ukraine? Wrong in all ways. He knows what is needed to appease two egotistical leaders to get a cease fire. He also knows when to stop. Right now, Russia wants East Ukraine, no NATO, and recognition of Crimea. Putin is in the driver’s seat and will bargain tough to get these three. He has to answer to the Russian public and bureaucracy for his demands. Z has to answer to NATO and the USA, although to get a truce Trump will give in some to Russia as they are dominant. If Z acts like an ass, Russia will eventually take it all.
Putin will not teach Trump anything and vice versa. So far, ceasefire in Middle East and peace between Armenian and Azerbaijan after decades. Trump makes deals, even for others. He has access to tariffs now to quell foreign asshats. IMO, he has done more and better than any other POTUS for decades.
I don’t believe it went down like Trump is saying. In fact I think Iran might have just whipped some ass. Only 35% of Israel’s AD was actually successful (per Stars and Stripes). I think this unnerved Trump and Netanyahu to be honest.
If you recall immediately after Israel took out Iranian commanders (Trump with the assist) DT got pretty braggadocios about it. A couple days later Iran launched their retaliatory response. After a couple days of it Trump pre agreed with Iran to let both nations do a face saving show of force. Iran bombed a US base (Qatar I think) and the US bombed the military sites. Not certain if there was irreparable damage.
Look around Blackbird, much of the Trump criticism corps is exactly as you describe.
The big problem is that most of the Ult-Leftist crowd is just plain anti-American wanting to destroy the common culture of this country. Thanks to these folks, the kids, not being educated, are not even understanding what an American is or stands for.
On Dec. 8, 1941, tens of thousands of American youth joined up to fight for America. Today, ha, all they would do is protest against Trump and Israel.
Patriotism? What the heck is that?
Same. I though I had missing time. Read Chesterton's "The Man Who Was Thursday".
You forget who’s in charge. Go back to the Forbes article link about Trump, and read it. It’s quite short.
This: https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2016/08/19/the-day-i-went-head-to-head-with-donald-trump/
Whew! 2 minutes, and what a hoot. I've heard the same on my many regular trips to New York. Working joes at the site, on the street, or in the office LOVE this guy.
Trump had a bad habit of calling some complete nobody on the phone, or of sending a personal check that day to some other nobody he felt got shorted.
He might have gold fixtures in his house, but he was perfectly comfortable sitting on a milk crate and bullshooting with the guys. Always telling people how great they were, lavish with the praise. And with kids? Fugedaboutit, don't even.
Trump is all over the place on Ukraine. He contradicts himself on the subject every 24 hrs and he's given free reign to his necon foreign policy crew to issue reckless statements and hold meetings with deluded European NATO-crats willing to start WWIII over this fiasco.
What he says in public playing the games that adversaries demand is not the same thing as what he is going to do. I do not let myself get distracted. Read The Art of the Deal...I puts out feelers and puts out stuff to throw people off the scent of what he is really going to do.
This isn't a real estate deal. It's negotiating with a nuclear power that can vaporize you and that stupid book you read in an instant.
It actually is a real estate deal.
Indeed it is just a high stakes negotiation.
in the end, Russia was always going to end up with a land bridge to Crimea
Yeah remember Reagan joke that WW3 had just started? Russia scrambled its planes and went on high alert. So no. You can't just say anything you want to get an advantage. It's not just another real estate deal, duh.
You are an ignorant TDS afflicted leftist fool. Do you even read above a 3rd grade level?
I can only imagine how you respond to your patients, if, indeed, you are actually an ‘MD’.
That's why Witkof is in over his head. He's a freakin real estate lawyer where diplomacy is unheard of.
I think you underestimate how much diplomacy is involved in lawyering.
How long are people going to point at the "art of the Deal" to justify Trump's deceit?
Read Trump's "Art of the Deal" and "How To Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie, "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, "The Prince" by Machiavelli, and get back to us with what you have learned.
You might also re-read "1984" and "A Brave New World," which were excellent instruction manuals for future world and Deep State leaders.
Oh, please........LoL.
We need a term for the opposite of TDS.
Trump Savior Syndrome?
Trump "second coming of the Christ" Syndrome?
Trump can do no wrong Affliction?
Trump is playing 5D chess and you're a nincompoop Malady?
It's not Trump Deity Syndrome to look at Trump's long record of diplomatic successes—including that of restoring deterrence—and declaring him successful. "By its fruits—"
Trump Dicksucker Syndrome.
That's just how Trump talks. He always has people guessing what the next move is. JHK has the correct analysis as usual.
Karoline Leavitt, official fluffer, said he's resolved 7 conflicts in short time.
Jeez, he must be terrible at this job.
But me? I know he's a tyrant. He won't let Karoline have a No-Bra Friday.
Free the Nips, Trump!
Trump has been badly served by General Kellogg, a neocon who wants forever wars. Witkoff has been more forthcoming to Trump. Trump will hear directly from Putin things that Kellogg has hidden from Trump.
Putin has always stated his enemy is not the American people, it is the CIA. The lack of trust in the U.S. is well deserved, as no U.S. president has been able to deliver what was promised to Putin and Russia, as the deep state/neocons had control.
The massive flow of intelligence from Gabbard and Patel is to show Putin that Trump is gaining control of the bad actors in the intelligence complex.
If Trump can rebuild that trust, the world has a chance at real peace. The price is that Clinton, Obama, Brennan, Comey, McCabe, et al, will walk. The official public disclosures during a grand jury investigation has undermined a grand jury investigation from ever seeing indictments.
Kellog is a problem TRUMP HAS THE POWER TO SOLVE. Why doesn't he. BS.
I wish he would sack Kellogg. I’m just reading the tea leaves and I’ve learned not to underestimate Trump. He gives scraps to the neocons (for example, Waltz at the UN) to keep them in check from an open revolt. He has and will continue to do things that make no sense and drive me nuts. He literally has the entire western elite against him at home and abroad as he tries to reshape the geopolitical map in a multi-polar world. He may not succeed, but I sure am happy we have a president willing to try.
He's controlled by Israel as are the Neo-Cons. That's why.
What happened to Waltz? I suspect he’s been vaporized since Tammy Bruce is now UN Ambassador. I agree with your opinion of Kellogg. He lacks substantive authority and seems very much like CIA.
Oh yeah. CTH, a site, has explained in depth the byzantine fortress the Deep State has built. Trump also appointed special envoys like Witkoff to bypass that fortress, strait diplomacy between him and leaders like Putin with no one to leak or subvert the message.
I say that's why he shoots the breeze so much. He knows the media is going to try to distort what he's saying anyways, so he happily ties them up chasing their own tails.
Couldn’t find your, or my, original post about Tammy Bruce but…
“I am pleased to announce that I am nominating Tammy Bruce, a Great Patriot, Television Personality, and Bestselling Author, as our next Deputy Representative of the United States to the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador. Since the beginning of my Second Term, Tammy has been serving with distinction as Spokesperson of the State Department, where she did a fantastic job. Tammy Bruce will represent our Country brilliantly at the United Nations. Congratulations Tammy!”
Trump does give her the rank of Ambassador on his Truth Social post…as well as Deputy Representative
I mentioned this in my comment below. The US already has severe trust issues. One would need to have their proverbial head examined to believe anything we say at this point. It’s not helpful that Trump completely contradicts himself almost on a daily basis. Sure I would like to believe it is 5D chess but I don’t have much faith in that myself.
You were right over the target when you dropped this truth bomb.
It’s called strategy.
Oh, ye of little insight!
Perfect.
T'is! Diplomacy is the art of saying, "nice doggy," while picking up a rock.
Looking back at WWII--and, specifically, Germany's decision to invade the Soviet Union--you can easily conclude that, at that precise moment, Germany lost the war. When Zelensky decide to take NATO money and act as a battering ram against Russia, he lost that war.
The Russians were massing on the Polish border. It was attack or wait to be attacked. They did the only thing they could do. With the forces of both Capitalism and Communism (one system in fact) against them, their chances were never very good. Their only chance was to invent a weapon of mass destruction and use it against Capitalism/Communism. But they didn't have enough time.
the accepted historical narrative about the german invasion of the soviet union in barbarosa has been challenged substantially by Victor Suvarov with his book Icebreaker. the soviets were positioned offensively, meaning they planned to violate molotov ribbentrop, and attack germany. the german pivot away from britain was a monumental strategic shift, but shown, with plenty of documentation revealed after the fall of the ussr, that it was forced by the soviets. that they suffered greatly in germany's attack is testament to the fact that they had virtually no defensive posture - it was offensive.
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Capitalist/communist/zionist cabal?
Gurl, you cray cray.
An excellent analysis. Despite what some may say, having absorbed the anti-Russia objective we have all been surrounded with for 40 years, Mr. Putin has essentially been the only adult in the room for at least the past 3 years .during the Ukraine military action. The absurdity of the idea that Russia wants to ‘conquer Europe’ is just another attempt at ensuring that Russia is the bogeyman in international politics. The fact that European leaders continue to spew this, in the face of the loss of cheap energy (at the hands of the Biden administration) is beyond understanding. I do believe that Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin get along quite well, understand each other’s domestic and international efforts, and will come to a logical and livable conclusion, despite whatever kabuki theatre is necessary.
MILLIONS DEAD.
PUTIN IS A PSYCHOPATH MIRED IN A WAR HE DID NOT ANTICIPATE.
EU AND UK LEADERSHIP MAKE HIM LOOK LIKE A GOOD LEADER.
HE IS A TREACHEROUS, DANGEROUS, MURDEROUS
PSYCHOPATH.
Are you OK?
OK.
DANGEROUS TO SPEAK AGAINST PUTIN.
FLYING OUT WINDOWS, PLANES CRASHING, EXOTIC POISONS, HARSH PRISON CONDITIONS
I suggest you try to get your information from different sources than what you are using. You are seriously misled.
THE DEAD OF BOTH SIDES DECLARE YOU A LIAR
"Upstairs, the second floor where they took the children...it was like a slaughterhouse," said the grizzled Russian soldier, about one of the remote farmhouses where the organ harvesters had been at work. "Blood, limbs, body parts...scattered everywhere."
The Zelensky regime is burning the bodies of dead soldiers, rather than burying them in cemetary, so they can deny paying out the death benefit of 250,000 hryvnia to their families. The soldiers are listed as MIA. The newbies being rounded up for duty are lasting only hours on the front lines.
LOL. Zing!
Some say tulips on an organ is far better than roses on a piano.
The US, under the Trump administration, and Russia are the last nation states refusing to give up their national identities to the Globalist Elites. Under Biden/Obama, the US was a captured state. Russia was in the bullseye as the last hold out.
Trump is playing the long game to get sell us out by means of the right instead of the left.
RUSSIA HAS DONE A GOOD JOB OF DEALING WITH INTERNAL SUBVERSION.
INVADING UKRAINE WAS A MONUMENTAL MISTAKE.
HUBRISTIC EXPANSIONIST GREED AND A DESIRE FOR GRANDEUR ARE QUALITIES A PSYCHOPATHIC LEADER NEEDS TO CONTOL.
All-caps nuts need to control themselves too. Just sayin'.
You are correct. I should have qualified US and Russia as last major powers attempting to retain national identities. Argentina and Hungary are trying but will be easily subdued by Globalists IMHO.
Orban talks a good game but intends to bring in massive numbers of 3rd world workers in - as if economics has nothing to do with politics.
There are 6000 Nepalese in Poland, they have their own community.
WTF relation do they have, what benefit do they bring, for Poles?
Excellent summary ... although I suspect the Japanese might view your use of the words 'carefully and gracefully' with reference to the end of WWII rather differently.
Come on, JMB. Read some history. Average Japanese had been brainwashed into believing that the hairy foreign monsters were going to invade with horrors of rape and pillage but they got chewing gum and joking with little kids instead.
My own take is that the Occupation came off so well because the Imperial military forces had been humiliated so thoroughly and shown to be fantasists and liars to boot. The Japanese, an eminently practical folk, were never ashamed of what horrors they had committed across East Asia: in fact, they were scornful of the quixotic adventurism that was always doomed to fail, as Admiral Yamamoto explicitly told his military counterparts. Copilot: "Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto studied at Harvard University as a special student from 1919 to 1921. During his time there, he immersed himself in American culture, became fluent in English, and even developed a reputation as a formidable poker player—an experience that reportedly shaped his strategic thinking and understanding of American psychology.
"He later served as naval attaché to the Japanese embassy in Washington, D.C., further deepening his insights into U.S. military and political dynamics."
His pessimism about dragging the USA into the war nearly got him assassinated by the foaming-at-the-mouth crew, who were ridiculed and silenced after August 1945.
Yes, they were amazed at how well they were treated, considering the horrors they had inflicted on the rest of East Asia. Their fears of mass rape were completely justified. That's what the Germans got after all. You really didn't know that?
Now ask yourself why. Let's let into it more deeply.
"You really didn't know that" - Vlad, you assume a great deal. I was in Occupied Germany in 1946 and again in 1948, so I likely know a great deal about the subject - from the viewpoint of a child, which does not invalidate the matter.
As Churchill was supposed to have quipped: "...at your feet or at your throat".
Not saying the atomic bombs were unjustified - but have you ever seen the brilliant talk by the historian AJP Taylor on the entry of the Japanese into WWII?
His conclusion was that the Japanese were pushed and goaded into the war by the actions of the USA, amongst others.
So the 'carefully and gracefully' strikes a bum note with me.
The A.J.P. Taylor pointer is most appreciated. I just completed my second reading of his volume on the First World War. I have to stop and cool down occasionally because I get so enraged at the stupidity and careless cruelty of the officer corps ... particularly the British: German high command appraised the English forces as "lions led by donkeys", and none of that old boys' club were punished for sending a whole generation of English youths to their deaths.
It is a fact that the energy embargo imposed by the USA on Japan was a major impetus for going to war, but it did follow years of imperial expansion on the part of an over-confident Imperial Japanese Army and Navy.
Many think they should have invited Hirohito to a special necktie party - even his own brother was so disgusted by his lack of leadership that he said he should swing.
Having lived and worked in Japan many years since 1962, I appraise them as likely the stubbornest people on the world. Tough titty.
You obviously have a great deal of experience with the culture and the history of Japan.
This erudite 'article' (very long) linked below has a comprehensive description of the interactions between the main powers and shows the impetus for Japan to expand and take part in WWII:
https://www.hudson.org/national-security-defense/asian-shadows-the-hidden-history-of-world-war-two-in-the-pacific
Perhaps it supports your theories regarding Japan?
It's a fascinating read, anyway!
Pushed and goaded no they had no oil and wanted to be an imperial power.
The only way to get oil was take it or buy it.
The ending in the Pacific Theater could have been much worse...
The United States required total surrender from Germany and Japan, which included regime change from both nations. Surrender under these terms has resulted in peace from these nations for the past 80 years.
Wouldn't you credit the evolution of the EU with some of the control exerted over Germany?
Yes, as well as with other EU nations through our membership in NATO.
and footing the NATO bill allowing all of europe to become a 'humanitarian superpower'
Yeah, no kidding. Thus they bombed Kosovo for more than seventy days in order to set up another Muslim state in the Balkans. Putin was flying to the US to talk to Clinton, presumably about the situation. But when the bombing started he turned around and went back to Russia. The only answer was to make Russia stronger. Would the EU get away with it today? I doubt it.
No because Trump would say no way.
I don't think much will come out of this meeting, other than Trump grand standing & bloviating about some nebulous "great deal". Trump can not agree to the goals of the SMO. He has been boxed into a corner by the Deep State and the western Allies. Trump had a great opportunity to cut off the Ukraine regime on day 1 of his administration. It's 8 months in, and that's now not happening. What can Trump threaten Putin with? It's all nonsense. More weapons? They are burning in the Donbass. More sanctions? Of whom? China and India? Not happening.
Putin understands all this. The Russian military is winning the war. He doesn't need to negotiate anything. Odessa? Russia will retake it, if it wants. The same goes with a bridge to reunite Transnistra.
When this war first started I prognosticated that Russia will take most of Ukraine, except for Galicia. I still stand by that.
Russia will never again accept a Nazi, western military alliance on its borders ever again.
Absolutely true. Russia, to be secure into the future, must at least have military control over every square inch of Ukraine. If they do not, they only have words on a piece of paper that future Western powers will not restock it with NATO missiles and arms. History has shown these words are not worth the paper they are written on.
The Azovs must have their own rump state. You can't kill a great idea like survival of the White race - even if Putin has contempt for it. That's why so many Azovs were/are Russian.
That won't secure a Russian future they still have Poland to deal with and the strip of countries from Finland all the way down to Ukraine.
Any of those countries could host missile systems and ways to poke the bear in the eye.
The absolute best possible out come is to pull Russia into the west if only the west would STOP self destructing.
Yeah, they're going to have enemies on their borders unless and until things fundamentally change. Letting the Azovs get something would freak out the EU and the entire Western World. Putin is a judo master and this would be a throw to end all throws.
smoke and mirrors. bread and circus. while the ultimate surveillance slave state marches on with trumps full support in the background
They won't let Israel and/or its puppet, the United States, invade Iran.
Invade Iran why would the US bother to do that?
Iran is a powder keg ready to go off as it is.
Look for some kind of color revolution in the next three years or simply Iran runs out of water and the people revolt naturally.
POTUS DJT, is not a "Putin puppet. On the contrary, this man is mostly a puppet of Israel. Just observe the Israel first foreign policy, going back on campaign promise to not make war, and going back on campaign promise to release ALL the Epstein materials. DJT has always thought of Russia as competitors.
What if the "Epstein materials were completely doctored during the four years that "Joe Biden's" admin had possession of them? What if they are worthless?
I believe that the Mossad has everything connected with Epstein
I don’t especially trust Israel
Ok Jim, so we are to believe Epstein killed himself over a hoax??? Come on brother, you can do better. You know as well as I do, the Biden installed head of the SDNY FBI office was fired, for hiding those materials originating from the NY Epstein mansion. Lutnick, our illustrious trade secretary was neck deep in with Epstein. There is a gigantic, ongoing blackmail operation being hidden here from the people, as part of the greater backdrop of national secrecy. Acosta was told to leave it alone, it was above his paygrade when Epstein was popped in Florida, the premise of that being that Epstein was in the intel community.
You can rest assured any files have been doctored and the chain of custody for them is not secure.
Any really important names have been removed and those set as a target have been added.
The picture of the body given was not that of Epstein. Totally different nose, etc.
The jailhouse video, promised as "raw footage" was clearly doctored and shows someone in orange jumpsuit approaching his cell, after people in orange jumpsuits were supposed to be locked down.
With the revelation Epstein was an FBI asset we might believe he did no more than host the parties and the FBI was doing the recording etc? He may have never had possession of the material himself?
Secondly, any evidence actually being withheld may relate to the possible prosecution of Hillary Clinton. Epstein's financial connection to Buzzfeed which was the Deep State's portal to release disinformation about Trump may have tied him to that intrigue as well. All the politicians screaming for the release of all documents, especially grand jury transcripts may have an ulterior motive. They may want to know exactly what and how much evidence they do or do not have on them. The possibilities for twisting this tale into more configurations than an Origami master are seemingly endless.
I think we can all make a 100% accurate summation that they are mostly pedophiles and monsters regardless of the paper trail
Is it possible? Yes.
Is it almost certainly a convenient lie told by the Trump admin to deflect criticism? Yes.
We genuinely should not be surprised about Trump at least appearing (in an unflattering way) in the Epstein materials. We know the men had a history, we know it involved women, and we know that Trump knew Epstein liked women "on the younger side".
I think anyone who believes Trump totally on this... is just credulous.
Yet why is it that Les Wexner is an unmentionable here? Never even questioned? No one even speaks of what is going on in his neighborhood in Ohio? Huge swathes of land, expensive homes and farms being sold and turned into industrial nightmares. And the beat goes on, I guess
I am really tired of hearing how complicated the issues are in the Russia-Ukraine/Nato conflict. NATO was created to combat the expansion of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union has been defunct for more than 30 years. NATO should be disbanded. The United States should close down all overseas military bases. End of problem.
Amen, Sir.
Thank you. It is frustrating to read and listen to material put out by non-interventionists and rarely see or hear anyone espouse either of those two simple steps that would start us back in the right direction.
The Monroe Doctrine clearly stated that European countries were to stay out of the Americas and, in turn, the USA would keep its nose out of the Eastern hemisphere.
The USA is notorious for reaping the benefits of a deal before reneging on its obligations of the deal.
You illuminate the darkness of mediocrity.
So why would the present Republican administration negotiate a "peace" deal with Armenia and Azerbaijan on the southern border with Russia that includes the provision that the US has exclusive development rights in this region? That would be a little like Putin negotiating a deal with Mexico for the oil in the Gulf of NAFTAlite. This latest move confirms Putin's claim that Russia is being encircled. Thoughts?
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/08/13/pcr-and-larry-sparano-discuss-on-target-if-putin-is-being-set-up/
Russia is 100% encircled.
And, Ben, Russia is our Arctic neighbor as masses of climate refugees move to higher latitudes.
Climate refugees
Hardee har har.
Ben, you might be interested in this 2007 report by two national security think tanks, Age of Consequences: https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/files.cnas.org/hero/documents/CSIS-CNAS_AgeofConsequences_November07.pdf We are now at 1.5 degrees C above preindustrial temperatures and the report warns that things will become dire at about 2.7 degrees C temperature rise, about 30 years away. But the changes are here now...
Here's another YouTube short of the escalating spat between MTG and AIPAC:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FybbfIVzN10
MTG argues that AIPAC should have to register as a foreign-country lobby ... because AIPAC is a foreign-country lobby.
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It is ... strange that Israel enjoys universal health care and free university educations while receiving billions of dollars annually from the USA who has its citizens go into massive debt for their health care and higher education (such as it is).
Does that seem right to you?
SPOT ON James.
SPOT ON.
Seriously, it's always been about the Nationalists vs the Globalists via Operation Gladio - whereupon duly elected governments have been taken out or taken down to be replaced by those wanting control of the world using literally any and all means necessary.
ANY and ALL means necessary!
Benghazi.
Afghanistan.
Libya.
To name a few.
EVERY war has been a banksters war, funding both sides to obtain the objective.
Control.
FULL Control.
Of EVERYTHING
And EVERYONE
Need I remind anyone of the American Revolution and the British controlled "tea tax" here?
To completely bake your noodle, DO research Operation Gladio. (Colonel Tower-Watkins)
Then humbly thank God for President Trump, Sun Tzu's "Art of War," (whereby the war is already won before it begins), the actual War Manual, Military Laws and Orders (that came BEFORE government), Agenda 47, the Founding Fathers, the REAL Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the "Art of the Deal" and verily, the True Allies to America.
Hint: NOT NATO, NOT 5vey.
Every Leader of Every Country who fights for True Sovereignty, governed by no other BUT that country and its People, is a winner by my standards.
To make my point, look no further than El Salvador and Argentina right now, as well as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE.
Then compare to Britain, Canada, Australia, Germany, etc.
President Trump and President Putin are indeed Nationalists who love their country and countrymen.
America is once again becoming Sovereign under President Trump (see Washington DC), and Russia always has been
Zelensky is a puppet being controlled by the Globalists, and as one can see by the latest presser, not winning.
Then add the upcoming Alaskan meeting, the forensic audit of the Smithsonian looming, the latest on the Vatican using the Skeleton Key to manipulate actual IBAN's (International Bank Account Numbers), the "Federal Reserve" issue, and Trump's Sept 17-19 SECOND visit to the British "Royals"...AFTER his literal royal visits to SA, Qatar and UAE...on top of the Trump/Kennedy (whoops) - Kennedy Center.
WE of the World, are LITERALLY watching the MOST historical events take place since Jesus walked the earth.
ANYONE who thinks they know more than the Greatest President that ever was, his MI, and his TEAM, are deluding themselves, cuz they indeed do NOT!
We can either choose to witness it all to BE witnesses of it all, or we can choose to be debbie downer doom gloomers who miss the entire show!
The choice to KNOW has always been yours to make.
My suggestion: Choose wisely
For God, Country, Family and Freedom - TRUE and REAL Freedom.
*Tips hat
Much Love
Pawns in the Game by William Guy Carr.
All the answers.