I sat down with Alexander Mercouris and Crypto Rich again the other day for a chat, which Rich has posted on his Odysee channel.
Alex was late getting to the party because he’s been burning the candle not only at both ends but from the middle as well. So, here’s the link to that one.
Rich and I did some chatting beforehand about bitcoin and how this all fits together with Russia, Ukraine and everything else.
I want to put some things now into better context since we recorded this. President Biden and his staff are clearly working overtime to force the US into an untenable situation domestically. I’ve been saying for months that the goal of Davos has been to disadvantage, however they can, the US with respect to Europe.
Biden’s announcement today of broad embargoes of Russian energy fit this bill precisely. Because while Biden is announcing these bans, Europe is saying the exact opposite. This is prima facia evidence of Davos’ plans to split the US from Europe over Russia and Ukraine while desperately trying to hold onto Europe’s domestic populations who are rightly freaking out at the cost of energy and food which is only going to accelerate regardless of what they try and do to stop it now.
Has anyone not noticed that Sec. of State Antony Blinken keeps making these pronouncements about what he’s and the Biden Administration are willing to ‘greenlight’ to support Ukraine — planes, weapons, funding an insurgency, etc. — while at the same time no one from the Pentagon is standing behind him?
Even that odious little worm NATO Sec. General Jens Stoltenberg keeps saying that this is not NATO’s fight. Stoltenberg speaks for Davos on this. So, again, this is another data point to support this.
Now Zelensky is talking about concessions on Crimea. Now he’s walking back NATO membership. He’s getting his marching orders from Klaus now. We have to avoid a full war with the Russians while the Neocons in the US try to turn Europe’s border states –Romania, Poland — into staging areas for an insurgency which Russia will be forced to deal with, i.e. surgical strikes into both countries to bring NATO into the war.
Blinken and Nuland are trying to force NATO into Ukraine and when the Russians respond in kind, which we know they will, he an be further blamed for the escalation. Poland is punting, allowing the US to be the sole belligerent here, not them, with the following announcement:
The authorities of the Republic of Poland, after consultations between the President and the Goverment, are ready to deploy – immediately and free of charge – all their MIG-29 jets to the Rammstein Air Base and place them at the disposal of the Government of the 🇺🇸 United States of America.
At the same time, Poland requests the United States to provide us with used aircraft with corresponding operational capabilities.
Poland is ready to immediately establish the conditions of purchase of the planes.
The Polish Government also requests other NATO Allies – owners of MIG-29 jets – to act in the same vein.
The separation of Europe from the US is happening and the US is being pushed into policies completely counter-productive to its needs. The Biden junta is clearly out of control, operating an agenda that further undermines US authority and competence in the hopes that the capital markets do not completely abandon the EU.
Tomorrow Biden will issue new rules on crypto, because that’s also part of the plan to set the US backwards.
As I said to Alex in the videos linked above, one of the real problems with our system of government is that there is no legal, constitutional mechanism for removing a president who is out of control if the political class on Capitol Hill do not want it.
There is no mechanism for a ‘no-confidence’ vote and new elections. We are stuck with Biden until at least the mid-terms.
This is why the EU has now ditched ‘carbon neutrality’ for ‘energy security’ today and why they are floating the idea of trillions in ‘eurobonds’ issued centrally to pay for new energy infrastructure and new military hardware.
Somewhere French weapon makers are smiling.
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Sure, but the Biden admin is fundamentally, grossly incompetent to govern. The EU has been doing exactly what the USA government want to date. No real change as yet. Russia is just getting started, and has not announced any real sanctions. What I am certain of is that Russia will accomplish their military, economic, and political mission ( when reality hits in due, Russia will have narrative control).
Agreed. The Russians are only getting started. They have so many weapons yet to be deployed
Ukraine has shown great restraint not targeting the Kremlin with a nuclear warhead.
The reason why Putin invaded was because this failed state was pursuing Nukes, you eejit.
The Kremlin showing great restraint not sending FSB agents to kill Klaus Schwab. Two can play this game.
Ukraine chose its fate. It chose to align with the West that is willing to fight to the last Ukrainian for their benefit.
Biden was always a horribly corrupt politician, as a Senator he took bribes from MBNA bank and many others. Today, the man has dementia — he has his good days and his bad days. He is either corrupt or he is in a dementia fog. He is not incompetent — he is screwing over people on purpose.
His administration is filled with people who simply don’t care about the USA, and care even less for the civilians of Ukraine.
No @JustTruth, don’t let your government off so easy. This wasn’t incompetence. They knew well ahead of time what the outcome would be, and they did this on purpose.
Khruschev made a terrible mistake putting missiles into Cuba decades ago, but once confronted he realized his mistake he quickly backed down. Khruschev made a mistake (not letting him off the hook, just acknowledging he was human). No one called JFK a war criminal for protecting the USA.
Biden and the Obama foreign policy team knew (for decades) that NATO in Ukraine was a redline for Russia. They went in anyway. Once confronted, they didn’t back down like Khruschev. They doubled down and then doubled down again.
Biden caused this crisis, with help from Obama’s foreign policy ghouls. They want bribes. They want weapons contracts for Raytheon and Lockheed, who then will be expected to pay bribes to politicos in DC. They want contracts for Bursima, who then will be expected to pay bribes to Hunter Biden and politicos in DC.
As far as the Biden regime is concerned, the people of the USA exist to be exploited. The people of Ukraine are cannon fodder.
We the people just sat around and let Fauci ruin our lives for two years. We know he funded the virus. We know he lied to us for the last two years — at least. We the sissies won’t stand up for ourselves. Fauci should be treated the same as a private citizen who builds a biological weapon… that is what he did.
If we won’t even stand up for ourselves, we obviously won’t stand up for the cannon fodder in Ukraine.
He got the US nukes out of Turkey…..that was what he wanted. Ditto what Putin is doing.
CIA : Criminally Insane America….can not find a way off the rat wheel it has been spinning in for 70 years.
@Ronnie- at the time, no one thought US missiles in Turkey were a factor. After the fact, the US admitted the missiles in Turkey were due to be removed anyway. After the fact, Khruschev admitted in his diary that he asked about the Turkey missiles as a way for him to save face — it was not a consideration when he approved putting missiles into Cuba.
Kennedy really had no choice but to go to the mat on getting Soviet weapons out of Cuba. And Putin really doesn’t have any choice regarding Ukraine either.
This enter fiasco is Washington DC corruption and arrogance. It is washington DC’s fault… which means it is “we the people’s” fault. We elected Bush — who first tried to pull Ukraine into NATO. We elected Obama/Biden who staged a coup in 2015 in Ukraine. And we elected the current dementia patient who brought Obama’s failed foreign policy team back into power.
The people of Ukraine are dying because the US government has gone rogue, and the US citizenry won’t stand up.
Make ourselves pay $5/gal for gas!! That will show ’em
Hey Tom, thanks for the update. It’s is hard to believe we have a Sec of State Blinken openly encouraging the Pols meanwhile a prominent Senator in Graham is suggesting Putin gargle with broken glass. I thought heads of state were off limits by default. Guess those were the old rules.
Signed up for the Big Buck package last night. I thought I saw a link that allows one to see a demo portfolio. I cannot seem to locate that now. It’s probably right in front of me. Can someone throw me a bone here and give me a hint? Appreciate it!!
Too many unknowns. How does this info fit into the plan… https://news.yahoo.com/cia-trained-ukrainian-paramilitaries-may-take-central-role-if-russia-invades-185258008.html
In what world does arming and flying jets from a US Air Force base not become an act of war by the US?
Surely one of the aims of the Russians and their trading partner/ally, the Chinese, is to de-couple themselves from western monetary systems. They have so much of the necessary resources for commerce, tech, energy and food all they need is a monetary system to trade with. I would strongly suspect they are not going down the fiat route but would use gold and CBDC’s. If they establish this whilst the west is sinking under a mountain of worthless paper (although plastic) printed money and inflation wouldn’t many countries in the world join that new eastern monetary system?
One thing is for certain the lack of Macdonalds and KFC in Russia will improve their health immeasurably.
Malcolm Ripley: Except, the Chinese also own a mountain of America’s useless paper.
Don’t see the links. Will Alexander publish this on Duran.locals.com?
Edited… the Odysee links didn’t propagate properly…
Nuland just admitted that they are “concerned” that Russia will seize the Bio-labs (being called research labs) and may release pathogens. Sounds like another ruse that may turn out to be something even uglier.
Observer have Rubio tees up the question and Nuland points fingers at Russia…
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1501312898433433607/pu/vid/720×406/_8NrStLKjBYTHpDk.mp4?tag=12
B!tch is just mad that Fauci doesn’t get to unleash it instead.
Mike: Greenwald’s article on the biolabs is full of stats….
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/victoria-nuland-ukraine-has-biological?s=w
“The separation of Europe from the US is happening and the US is being pushed into policies completely counter-productive to its needs.”
I cannot see this as a bad thing. I’m fine with US NOT being the “leader of the free world”
What I begin to see is the Davos globohomos really trying to decouple the US from Europe and get their “regions” they seek: A European economic region, an Americas region (in which the US, Canada, and Mexico glom together into a formless, cultureless, historyless mass). That is why Biden has been so obstinate in keeping the southern border wide open and letting on all comers. The goal is the North American Union where we lose our rights and sovereignty t ok the mashed together region, no more Constitution, no more dollar, replaced by a new regional currency (I keep thinking Monero but am thinking I’m mixing it up with the cryptocurrency by the same name). This is also why the full court press to end our 2d Amendment rights because that won’t go well with the cratering of the USA and forced diversity of a less free North American Union under some new dictatorial “Constitution”.
Dementia Joe screwed over Canadians trying to sell crude oil from a stable country next door to the US by unilaterally cancelling the Keystone XL pipeline
Dementia Joe has pretty much declared war against domestic (USA) oil producers
Dementia Joe is now begging on his knees for Saudi Arabia and Venezuela — two unstable countries — to increase
In 2015, Dementia Joe and the Obama regime launched a coup in Ukraine using crazy people who self-identify as Nazis
This year, Dementia Joe tried to expand NATO despite dozens of actual experts stating (for decades) that this would trigger a military response from Russia
This same alleged “democratic leader” sent his SS trooper / Atty General to attack parents in NC who wanted to keep their kids from being indoctrinated with Marxist CRT dogma
This same alleged “democratic leader” supported violent antifa riots, with people getting killed and buildings burned. But he wants to lock up for YEARS people who peacefully protested on January 6th, some of whom committed minor vandalism — a crime that usually gets community service.
This same alleged “democratic leader” has kept the country under lockdown for a disease funded and spread by the NIH / NIAID by the war criminal Anthony Fauci… any private citizen who funded and created a biological weapon would face execution but under our legal system a government bureaucrat is above the law.
And now this same loser wants to start WW3 and send **YOUR** child into combat while his drug addict son collects millions in bribes
F#ck Joe Biden
Tom, you seem to imply that there is this grand masterplan being rolled out by the wizard of Davoz, which of course is true up to a point. But I just see complete chaos everywhere, as if the Russians have sent firefoxes into the enemy camp. Everywhere things are falling apart. A complete derivative contagion is not unforseeable at this point. The virulent Western media campaign is having unforseen consequences, like Shell backing out of Russian oil deals. And suddenly we see the ghost of 2014 having to fess up about biolabs. It’s just an ugly crazy mess. They are now saying that the bioweapon formerly known as Covid, even in asymptomatic cases, causes brain damage. Frankly, looking at certain behaviours, that fits.
We now hear calls from political bottomfeeders for the assassination of Putin, which would probably just enable a hardline military General to step in, something akin to replacing a brain surgeon with a sawbones.
Ironically, given the gravity of the global turmoil we are now witnessing, military coups in various other countries can not be ruled out.
A week ago all the talk (from both sides) was of nuclear confrontation.
Now it’s biological.
All just stepping us down mentally to the real event.
CyberTonkin.
Switch off the global financial system, blame it on a Russian cyberattack, and wait for us to beg for their Great Reset.
Once we agree to enter the technogulag, the lights come back on, we get our UBI, they outlaw private crypto, and Putin and Davos are BFF.
Peace in our time, crafted by “global statesmen”.
Ivor….just got this….do not know author…
https://alt-market.us/a-large-scale-false-flag-cyber-attack-is-now-imminent/
Thanks Sheryl. Yes I think Brandon Smith understands the situation well – his perspective on the false east/west paradigm was really helpful for me:
http://www.kenniemann.com/brandon-smith-false-eastwest-paradigm-putin-is-a-globalist/
This is the base of most of my disagreements with Tom, who doesn’t believe that Putin is controlled opposition and thinks the Davosian scheme is on the brink of failure.
We are about to see which of them is right.
Interestingly, despite Tom and Brandon being at odds on what is happening, their libertarian clarity leads them both to essentially recommend the same response. Get prepared, become independent, ungovernable, your own central bank etc.
And I agree with that, but I part ways with both of them on whether the Great Reset is stoppable – the Davosians and their brownshirts have won this one. So we need to become Browncoats.
Or for the fans of 20thC trash, Edgar Friendly.
Thanks for the link Sheryl. I am familiar with Brandon’s writings as he usually makes very good observations. He and Tom fundamentally disagree regarding what is behind Putin’s motivations. Both are good arguments but here’s why I come down on Tom’s side on this one. Just watch Western Civ politicians and their media. Their usual outlandish behavior has gone full cuckoo batshit crazy. You get a sense that is indeed organic. Putin caught them asleep at the wheel. Their actions out of desperation and fear of losing control. I think some of it may come from a sense of not being as powerful as they thought only 2 weeks ago. And Anything or anyone who upsets this Apple cart gets my vote.
The Marxist Biden junta could possibly be removed soon if republicans win the house and also the senate by enough seats to create a 60 vote majority. This may not be as impossible as one might think. With the new majorities a new house speaker would be selected and it could be Trump or another MAGA republican. Then impeach both Biden and Harris and remove them from office. The speaker of the house is third in line and would become the new President. The Biden junta is criminal and has willfully ignored the border crisis and deserves to be impeached and removed.
Yes, that could happen… but it’s 7 months away. They can do a LOT of damage between now and then, that’s what I’m worried about.
Tom — Is Joe Biden trying to do a scorched earth policy? And how does that help him?
Biden is literally a dead man walking. As with all dementia patients, he no doubt has good days and bad days. During his good days, he has to realize he is unlikely to finish his term. Joe was corrupt in his prime, not stupid. Biden will not live to see the consequences of his actions.
Joe on his good days probably realizes Hunter is not up to the task. Corrupt yes, but Hunter is stupid. The world that Joe is trying to create will not be kind to Hunter.
The Biden regime will be the president with an even lower approval rating than Nixon. His own party is distancing themselves from him.
Joe’s only real legacy will be collecting lots of bribes, failing on foreign policy, dividing the country against itself, and a surviving son who is a drug addict who knocked up a stripper. And the stripper shows more class than Hunter.
How does wrecking the country help Joe in his last days? How does it help Hunter, since that’s all Joe has left?
It doesn’t Chris. Biden is owned and operated. If anything their strategy now of extending this war beyond any reasonable cost for Ukraine is to try and keep a lid on the corruption there by delaying the post-war presentation of evidence. It’s what I said to The Duran yesterday morning.. “what’s the one thing these people never want to do… get to discovery in a lawsuit.”
Same here with Ukraine… and since Davos is trying to liquidate the US as much as possible and Joe takes his orders from them and Obama, what do you think he’s trying to do?
Go scorched earth knowing that’s the best option after you know you’ve lost the war. The political battle in DC is over. We won, Davos will use what time they have left to leave as many poison pills behind as possible.
One problem with that scenario is that the Democrats do what they did in 2020: commit enough systematic fraud to throw the election. The only thing that stops easy election fraud is the one or two Democrat Senators who refuse to stop the filibuster or pack the Supreme Court. Otherwise, the voter fraud act would be passed, the Supreme Court possibly packed, making a free and valid election impossible to enforce.
Another thing the Democrats could do is gin up another crisis requiring relaxed voting rules. It could be as easy as letting one US plane fly over the Ukraine, which would get shot down, and generate all the US war hysteria you would ever care to see. That would run a non-trivial chance of nuclear war, but what’s that to a Democrat progressive in trade for a few more steps towards utopia? Democrats are not very good at calculating consequences anyway, so their grift works until it doesn’t work.
I think Southfront may be down for the count. No DNS?
It’s back. https://southfront.org/germany-based-webhosting-censored-southfront/
Why did Victoria Nuland spill the beans? (Hubris – She probably still lives in the ‘we create the narrative’ matrix, and therefore believes this can be spun as a Russian aggression).
But isn’t it the most catastrophic political blooper which heralds a turning point in history?
The media dog and pony show is over now. Kaput. Empty. Hollow.
The shock has been administered and Western populaces can now only awake from their induced catatonia. So I really see from here on in a complete breakdown of the global reset.
Putin’s invasion… um, I mean special operation… seems to be on track despite the miseducated mumblings in western media. Two weeks in, the Russian military has taken more territory and seized key more points of terrain than the US military had at similar points in Afghanistan or Iraq.
A proposed insurgency in western Ukraine can be isolated because Russia will have full control over the Dneiper river. Small arms might swim across, but large weapons and explosives will need to go over bridges with checkpoints. Western Ukraine may not have much left after the war in any case.
Iran has worked around US sanctions for decades, and is keen to show Russia how to as well. The two countries already have a working relationship, and shared dislike for the USA.
China continues to buy oil from Iran and Russia. For face saving reasons and economic reasons, China will continue to do so. India continues to buy gas, weapons and fertilizer from Russia — and Modi says this will continue no matter what Washington has to say. The trade will happen in rupees or possibly rubles/gold.
Most critical of all to a regime that runs perrenial trillion USD deficits, the US government blew its “nuclear” financial weapon — access to SWIFT — on a rather pointless bit of posturing. Russia will demand Germany pay in rubles at a Russian bank. Big whoop. Other Russian customers wanted to ditch the USDollar even before Ukraine, now they will. The mighty petro-dollar and the borrowing advantages it brings has been mortally wounded.
Russian oligarchs have forfeited a number of big yachts, as in “A boat is a hole in the water into which you pour money”. Annoying, but hardly crippling. Meanwhile BP, Shell and Exxon lost $50 billion in energy assets — which China and India have both expressed interest in buying. As in they will pay Russia for assets that used to belong to western companies.
India has 1.3 billion population. China 1.4 billion. Iraq, Iran, Syria, Turkey, all the ‘stans, Belarusso, and Egypt have all announced they will continue trading with Russia (oil, natural gas, weapons, fertilizer, and possibly food stuffs depending on Ukraine’s existence). No doubt others will join. Saudi Arabia and UAE are absolutely livid at Biden, and the crown prince of Saudi Arabia was called an international pariah by Biden… why would he want to play along?
The EU has 350 million (one third of a billion). The US is about 330 million. Throw in Japan and a few others…. maybe 1 billion in total?
A far larger population of the world supports Russia. They just aren’t represented on western media outlets. Russia is winning the global “popular election”.
Zelensky is far more affable than Putin, especially to a western audience indoctrinated with anti-Russia sentiment. But even without the propaganda, Zelensky is more likable to western viewers. But war is not a popularity contest. Ukraine is being destroyed.
The US military is demoralized after a humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan. Americans know the military problem is not the rank and file, it is the corrupt leadership. The same group running things now. There is no stomach for going to war against another nuclear power while the US military is under inept command.
The rest of NATO, as the world learned in Kosovo, is irrelevant.
NATO will not, and realistically cannot, save Ukraine from destruction. Ukraine has been under Russia’s sphere of influence since 1702, and the corrupt group in Washington is not capable of changing that. Russia will prevail.
What message will the Chinese get from this failure of foreign policy, regarding Taiwan? The situation is different (neither Taiwan government nor CCCP existed in 1702, or even 1902), but in other ways it isthe same. Importantly the US has bad leadership that is incapable of protecting US interests much less protecting allies
Under French Law, denying a crime against humanity is in itself a criminal offence, so I will be very interested to see how the bioweapon scandal plays out here-on-in in the French elections.
Effectively, the only question on Eric Zemmour’s (& other anti-Globalist) lips will be:
‘Are you denying the biolabs, are you denying a crime against humanity?’
And once admitted, it will be time to name names.
This will be the sole subject of the French elections here-on-in.
Tom could you please elaborate your thought on this. Would that act (US bill) force Russia to go ahead with selling its oil/gas on discount using gold as exchange (as you mentioned several times), sooner than later? https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-tees-stop-russian-gold-act-triggering-lbma-and-comex-eject-russian-refiners
I’ve got a lot to work on now Matthiew. I will try, but I will be out of the spotlight for a few days as I begin working on this month’s GGnG Newsletter… 3 big articles to write for it starting today.
From Canada. The “opposition Conservative” party here in Canada, outside of a some “rally the troops” parliamentary babbling, did sweet damn all to really physically support the freedom truckers. But, when it’s Ukraine, that’s a different can of worms. Huzzah Huzzah. Huzzah.
So, in the USA, from 2016 to 2020, four years, what did not happen, that was voted for and supposed to happen? Would a Republican election victory be followed by walking the election talking? Doubt it. In my most humbled opinion, the USA is occupied territory, same as Canada. That issue is so entrenched, it is not fixable.
Here is the easy way to build an economic alliance.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-considers-temporary-ban-agricultural-products-countries-outside-eurasia
If you aren’t in the EurAsian Economic Union, you can’t get Russian fertilizer this year. If I were Egypt, I would get on the phone immediately and see if it couldn’t get turned into a North African-EurAsian Economic Union.
Yes
The WEF took down its cyber polygon page. I’m sure it’s nothing….
https://strangesounds.org/2022/03/world-economic-forum-removes-cyber-polygon-from-its-webpage-are-you-ready-for-cyber-war.html
Yes, this is the final warning I think.
The Davosians have spent decades building their surveillance state, and are about to usher us into it with a controlled demolition of the global financial system.
Like a man who sets a fire in a crowded theatre and then stands by a door marked “Fire Exit” waving people to safety. Who then find that it wasn’t a Fire Exit at all, but the door to his private dungeon.
In our case, a technogulag.
If my memory is right (questionable at best), the term “Anarcho-tyranny” was being used as far back as 2015 or so to describe the way the West had started operating…probably before 2015.
Seems that term is more relevant today than ever before; “Anarcho-tyranny” IS the operating model of the West. It’s shameful.
After forfeiting all their projects / assets in Russia, BP has some financial issues. The secondary effect of this is on royalties and taxes BP pays to the British government, effectively subsidizing their NHS “free” health care. The North sea fields have peaked (not saying peak oil everywhere, just saying peak oil happened in the British part of the North Sea).
England will need to divert resources from elsewhere to prop up NHS,or cut service and lengthen wait times. More and more wealthy Brits are turning to concierge doctors and/or engaging in health tourism (Thailand, India, etc).
Now Russia is talking about closing the “Russian corridor”… for those not aware, the fastest, shortest and cheapest way to get from Europe to China, Japan, and South Korea is by going through Russian airspace. This turned out to be a huge win for big airlines at the end of the cold war.
Of course, Europe’s airlines can resort back to flying south to the middle east, refueling, then flying to India or Singapore, refueling again, before flying to China/Japan/Korea. This is a MUCH longer route, more costly, and the middle east can be politically unstable at times.
Look for British Airways and Luftansa to lose money for the next few months as they take the long way to Asia for already booked flights. After that, look for fewer flights as businesses re-evaluate the more expensive trips.
The airlines face a much longer route, higher fuel costs, etc. Businesses face sales and executives being out of commission for longer periods — flying that many hours is exhausting, and requires a longer recovery time (longer hotel stay before meeting clients). The costs add up quickly.
This all matters if one believes Asia’s economies will continue to grow faster than Europe’s. Losing access to the Russian air corridor may be a secondary effect, but its a big one.
Loss of fertilizer and drastically higher energy costs will hurt Europe domestically, but moving “further away” from Asia (in flight time/costs) will damage Europe’s foreign trade
Currencies are proxies for energy. Tom, I know that you do not agree with this statement. Your previous arguments have been noted. Jus’ want to remind you as events unfold.
No amount of currency creation, digital or otherwise, will replenish depleting energy resources.
The resource wars began with the GFC and are a long way from being over.
Cheers.
H.
I would rather the dems restore themselves with Tulsi, but this also recognizes tulsi as the queen while shitcanning obama/clinton. We have to align under a leader or all is potentially lost. Even if we are lost under Tulsi, it is a better position then where we are at right now. I also side with Tom(if this his intention)in being faithless with trump.
Jeff, Tulsi is a trojan horse and should not be allowed to run for any high office. She’s a Schwab acolyte who is being positioned for a significant (and treasonous) role in US government.
MSM modis operandi is to paint Tulsi as a rational voice in the wilderness. In reality, she’s a trojan horse. A sheep in wolf’s clothing. That’s why she was granted the stage during the Dem presidential primaries. Bringing her into the public focus, as part of grooming the voters towards believing she might be the best candidate.
Here’s Tulsi’s profile on the WEF Young Global Leaders website:
https://www.younggloballeaders.org/community?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=tulsi
The DoJ Southern District of New York finally has HARD EVIDENCE on Tulsi Gabbard:
Accused Russian Agent Gave to One Politician: Tulsi Gabbard
That agent—dual Russian-American national Elena Branson, also known as Elena Chernykh—stands accused of illegally pushing pro-Russia policies in the United States for nearly a decade, at the direction of top Kremlin officials, without registering under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), according to a criminal complaint federal prosecutors filed this week in the Southern District of New York.
But, in all her time lobbying for Russian goals, she gave money to just one federal candidate: Gabbard.
While the combined total of those donations isn’t colossal by any means—a whopping $59.95—they do raise questions about why an alleged Russian agent, tasked with currying favor with U.S. politicians, would zero in on Gabbard, and only Gabbard.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/accused-russian-agent-elena-branson-gave-to-one-politician-tulsi-gabbard
And the US corporate media wonders why it is losing viewers to Joe Rogan a sites like this? (sigh)
Tom Luongo wrote on here about their being a schism between her and davos. Just search her name on this blog and you will find a variety of articles. She even trashed the Ukrainian President Zelensky in a youtube video. Zelensky is definitely a Davos stooge. I clicked on your link btw, pretty interesting. She comes across to me at least as being a genuine christian. My other concern is that Trump is simply too much of a lightning rod for the opposition. His own justice department literally spent 4 years investigating him. Their are many rubicons that need crossing, and alot of them simply involve shutting down various chaos monkeys(government agencies) like the state department. This country’s government literally needs some form of open heart surgery performed on it. My guess is that this is where you need someone like Gabbard to help the country through some difficult choices, and can also delegate as well.
There seems to be a schism as wide as the Grand Canyon opening up in the Jewish world. Naftali Bennett is the first Torah observent Jewish Prime Minister ever, as far as one can discern. (Yes, wrap your head around that one).
I cannot imagine it happening, but if he stood up and questioned why the entire Western world, and in particular the oh-so enlightened Western Europe, is banqueting at a Nazi love-fest, it would surely send tremors around the globe. As it stands, I wonder if Nuland’s frank and open admissions, under oath, reflect some kind of seismic shift in the Jewish world. Put another way, I think Israel here have the capacity, more than any other nation, to corral the wild horses and end this conflict.
My fear in the immediate is that the burlesque rhetoric coming out of London turns to a hot war.
@Jeff, I’m not buying the Tulsi schism. Are we also claiming a schism between Russia and WEF, when everything Russia is doing is resulting in advancement of WEF goals? Same schism between Trump and the establishment? Trump gave us Operation Warp Speed and placed Goldman Sachs in charge of the US Treasury. Are we really that gullible? God help us.
Completely agree with you regarding operation warp speed. He was actually boasting about that on the NELK boys podcast that got banned from youtube, which just made me roll my eyes, along with being tough with Vladimir Putin, which felt like listening to professional wrestling. I pretty much agree with everything that your saying in your post here. I might still take issue regarding tulsi, she comes off as an adult without sounding like a feminist totalitarian that cites muh feelings and generalities(pretty much our current elites). These days when I am listening to something, if someone leaves out specifics or conveniently turns a blind eye to something is usually the minute I tune out. Great post btw. Beyond Tulsi, I really do not know whom we have for actual leaders. I heard Jon Stewart the comedian is running, but probably the last thing we need is another entertainer or someone whom just merely acts the part. He is definitely another hardcore muh feels leftist feminist midwit.
One thing I still don’t understand is how Russia receives payment for the oil and gas it sells to Europe. Its central bank is sanctioned and its reserves are frozen. Jim Rickards writes on ZeroHedge: “The main loophole is that Russia may still receive dollar payments for oil and natural gas. Those payments may be frozen inside the central bank, but they can still be received and added to Russia’s reserves.” But why would Russia continue to send oil and gas to Europe if the money they receive ends up in a frozen account, and Russia probably can’t ever spend it? Can Russia actually still somehow receive payments in dollars/euros, and for example convert these to yuan, or buy gold with them at the Shanghai Gold Exchange?
Because they can be on their balance sheet to expand the domestic supply of Rubles to pay out to the companies, crediting them against the reserves.
These are bargaining chips the US is accumulating now, to use in the settlement of Ukraine, IMO.
I see. Admittedly not the answer I was hoping for, but it fits.
But I wonder how long the Russians will accept those “terms”, essentially exchanging real and limited energy assets for dollar obligations that maybe will be released some time in the future (basically, if Russia surrenders). For what it’s worth, there is for example this tweet from Pepe Escobar: https://nitter.net/RealPepeEscobar/status/1498223813951201282
“By a Deep State high-level dissident:
‘Russia has all they need to be self-sufficient and do not need SWIFT. It is CHIPS that is significant – the international bank clearing house. If Russia don’t get paid, they shut off natgas and oil exports. They could demand gold.'”
Tom, I don’t think that is correct. What you wrote **would be** correct in a functioning payment system, but that is exactly the problem. G7 sanctions have rendered the historical system inoperable, so the guidelines you sited no longer apply.
The US has no bargaining chips. Washington DC needs the world to accept dollars if Uncle Sam hopes to continue running perpetual deficits.
If the IMF collapses like SWIFT, it damages the USD status as a reserve currency. Much of the world would like to bypass the dollar regardless of Ukraine,
The US government (including IMF etc) will be forced to pay Russia, or to default. If they pay, no bargaining chip. If they don’t pay, everyone — not just Russia — stops using US dollars.
Many people around the world have been storing wealth in $100 USD bills. Those are going to get “cashed in” (traded for something fungible) because the US dollar is only fungible in limited situations.
The US still needs to buy Russian oil, or else to buy Canadian oil (see keystone pipeline).
I don’t think Rickards answer was entirely accurate, and it was definitely incomplete.
For practical reasons, payments for the current month are mostly still in USD and EUR. Those monies can and are being used to pay favored creditors.
US and European banks are being paid in rubles. They can accept them or go stuff it. Blackrock has admitted they are looking at serious losses in their ETFs. JPMorgan, as a major trust bank (that handles payments for many other ETF families) will also suffer losses. The big European banks will be paid in rubles and suffer losses too.
Some USD and EUR trades might settle via Asian banks (not China) who will pretend not to know if Russia is in the payment chain. Russia can keep buying products from Asia, Africa and South America — payments settled in Asian or middle eastern banks.
If this chaos goes on for any extended period of time, its going to get ugly for Germany. All the gas contracts are up for review and renewal by 2024. If the G7 is still playing games then, Germany will be forced to pay in gold or in a fungible currency… which means Germany will be forced to buy gold, rubles, Yuan or a currency that is actually accepted around the world.
Since USD and EUR are no longer accepted currencies, the Germans can’t use them. Germany will be a huge bid for rubles and gold, and a huge seller of EUR.
There are steps Germany can take in the intermediate term (4-5 years out) to reduce Russian gas usage, but 2024 will happen first. And even 4-5 years out, they can only reduce Russian dependence not eliminate it.
The sanctions will destroy Germany, not Russia
No, the opinions of English major dropouts so they took communications / journalism instead do not matter. Germany is in trouble, which means the EU is in trouble.
Tom, you got it “upside down” when it comes to Polish Mig 29 that supposed to be given to Ukraine.
You see, all you get is neocon propaganda in US.
Things are totally different on this issue.
Here it is how it really went….
Zelensky got a hint from his US controllers to ask for Polish planes.
So he demanded “help” from my country knowing fully well what this would implicate.
At the same time “polish” government that is controlled by the same american powers was VERY STRONGLY pushed to give it to Ukrainians.
This could entail extending Ukrainian war to Poland.
This was the REAL AIM on both, US and Ukraine. Several old Polish planes could carry no real weight in Ukrainioan war. But getting to fight russkies on polish land was the real aim and perfect solution for both american and ukrainian sides.
Neocons want WWIII Ukrainians want NATO fighting for their cause.
So “polish government” found itself in a tight corner….it could hardly refuse american “behind the scene” demands. Poland was promised many things in return like extra planes that would be sold/given to Poland only if it would agree to transfer.
But “polish government” has come with perfect solution….you want Polish planes, you got them.
We give them for FREE and fly them to US base in Ramstein, Then you do as you please. BUT YOU AMERICANS have to give it to Ukrainians themselves.
YOU want WWIII do it yourself…
This was perfect solution as it put US not Poland in tight spot.
US OF COURSE played dumb, what was to be expected. They were “shocked” with their own hubris….to give Mig’s to Ukrainians, yet at behest of NATO not Poland alone
This was masterful move on Polish side yet you will never hear that in neocon controlled media.
This way Poland has avoided unnecessary conflict on its land. I can see future headlines if that happened.
“POLAND AGAIN STARTED WWII”!!!
btw I use colons when quoting “polish” government because I do not think they work for Poles.
Other powers get precedence over polish interest in many cases.
Great comment …thank you!!
Russia and Poland could both win in this whole thing. Russia should just push on through and erase Ukraine as a country (a country that never really existed anyway). They would take the eastern half of Ukraine either as independent republics or just reabsorb them back into Russia where they originally derived. The WESTERN Ukraine, before the Soviet Union, belonged to Poland, Romania, and Hungary. The Russians could simply let them know that they are free to reclaim THEIR historic territories.